User talk:B
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Season Greetings
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Merry Christmas B
Hi B, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
May next year be prosperous and joyful.
–Scopecreep Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 10.43, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
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B-bot is flagging an article despite the fact that it is used on an article
[edit]Good morning sir. B-bot is tagging the image https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Logo_of_the_Group_Union_for_Europe.png&diff=prev&oldid=1274075952 despite the fact it is used on the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_for_Europe . Please wag your finger at B-bot until it stops doing it. Kind regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 23:17, 8 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Anameofmyveryown: it looks like a different version of that image is being used on that article currently - File:Logo of the Union for Europe.svg, and so this one was (correctly) being tagged as an orphaned fair use image. I'm not sure which country the organization was legally incorporated in - Italy or France - but either way, it is probably correct that this image is not sufficiently complex to be copyrightable, and so I have edited the image description page to reflect that. This low-resolution PNG version isn't really needed - it can be moved to Commons if you want to keep it or nominated for deletion if you don't. Either way, it's probably not copyrightable, so it shouldn't be deleted as an orphaned fair use image. --B (talk) 00:36, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
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Happy First Edit Day!
[edit] | Happy First Edit Day! Hi B! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! Worgisbor (congregate) 20:20, 22 April 2025 (UTC) |  |
Suspension of autopatrolled permission due to inactivity
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Hello B. Following a request for comment in May 2025, the community has decided to implement an activity requirement for the autopatrolled permission. Because your account has not edited in the last three years, the autopatrolled permission has been removed from your account. This action is purely procedural and does not affect your ability to create articles; if you return to actively creating articles, you may request that the permission be restored through the normal process. When returning, please consider taking some time to re-familiarize yourself with common practices and how they may have changed over the past few years if you wish to request the permission back. Thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and we hope to see you again soon. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:19, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
Always precious
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Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
B-bot tagging orphaned for blocked users
[edit]Just a suggestion that it might be a good idea to revise B-bot to not tag users who are currently blocke (or perhaps just indef block only). For example see diff and its rollback by an admin at diff. Beyond their in ability to participate, as a blocked user, it might actually encourage disruptive users to circumvent their block by inappropraite means. It is better to not poke the bear. TiggerJay (talk) 19:30, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Tiggerjay: The easiest way to block a bot from a page is to add the {{Nobots}} template to it. You can also do
{{bots|deny=B-bot}}to block B-bot in particular. (I will also skip pages with {{Deceased Wikipedian}}.) --B (talk) 20:14, 20 August 2025 (UTC)- Just curious, from a procedural / best-practice standpoint: should adding that template be done proactively or reactively to a talk page? It seems to me that it should be automatically applied (or always check by bots) to all blocked users to avoid provoking a user to consider block-avoidance behavior. But perhaps there is a reason/perspective I'm not considering? TiggerJay (talk) 20:33, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
- I was thinking about the difficulty in programmatically ascertaining, "is this user banned and never coming back, no way, no how", are they "banned, but allowed to appeal after six months", or are they "blocked for right now, but if they ask really nicely to come back and promise to behave, they will be given a second chance". I think that yes, it would definitely make sense to add {{nobots}} as a matter of course for users who are "banned and never coming back, no way, no how" (or just protect their talk pages). For anyone else? If someone has a really strong opinion about denying this person notifications, they can add {{nobots}} to their talk page. And, of course, this is just my opinion - if the community decides at WP:BAG or after a discussion (maybe at WP:VPT) that bots should always skip over indefinitely blocked users, then we can certainly do that. --B (talk) 21:39, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
- Yep, I can see the difficulty in a bot discerning what the nature of the block is and the risk of them receiving notifications. Just trying to be helpful, and thank you for the work and efforts of your bot! This is situation has probably only occurred a handful of times (to me) in the last 18 years for me, so I don't think it's a big problems, but enough to make me ask the question. Thanks again. TiggerJay (talk) 04:17, 21 August 2025 (UTC)
- I was thinking about the difficulty in programmatically ascertaining, "is this user banned and never coming back, no way, no how", are they "banned, but allowed to appeal after six months", or are they "blocked for right now, but if they ask really nicely to come back and promise to behave, they will be given a second chance". I think that yes, it would definitely make sense to add {{nobots}} as a matter of course for users who are "banned and never coming back, no way, no how" (or just protect their talk pages). For anyone else? If someone has a really strong opinion about denying this person notifications, they can add {{nobots}} to their talk page. And, of course, this is just my opinion - if the community decides at WP:BAG or after a discussion (maybe at WP:VPT) that bots should always skip over indefinitely blocked users, then we can certainly do that. --B (talk) 21:39, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
- Just curious, from a procedural / best-practice standpoint: should adding that template be done proactively or reactively to a talk page? It seems to me that it should be automatically applied (or always check by bots) to all blocked users to avoid provoking a user to consider block-avoidance behavior. But perhaps there is a reason/perspective I'm not considering? TiggerJay (talk) 20:33, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
B-bot query
[edit]Hi B. Can you think of a reason why this IP is altering the dates of {{ornfud}} templates added to non-free files by B-bot? Is there an issue with B-bot? That's all the IP did for about ten minutes after editing for the first time earlier today. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:11, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
- Good morning @Marchjuly:, that is not my IP address. An IP lookup says it is from the Philippines. I am in the United States. The edits are all tagged as mobile edits, so I assume it's a human doing it manually for some reason. I couldn't even begin to guess why. B (talk) 13:34, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for takng a look. At first, I thought it might be a test edit, but the same edit was made to so may files over such a short period of time that a "test edit" seems unlikely. If it was a registered account, the edits could've been an attempt to reach WP:AUTOC, but that wouldn't matter to an IP. I can't think of any reason for the change from a policy standpoint, but it only adds a date to the WP:F5 countdown that started when B-bot tagged the files; so, I guess it's not a huge deal. If the IP account comes and does something similar or looks like they're trying to game dates, I'll bring it up for discussion at AN. Thanks again for taking a look. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:08, 30 September 2025 (UTC)