User talk:HBC AIV helperbot14

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Bot down?

Doesn't seem to be removing blocked users from AIV at the moment. Best, Spencer^T•C 21:18, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Spencer it's back to life. Mdann52 (talk) 21:59, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Purpose section

I think the purpose section of the user page was copied from the old bot, but there's a couple of things that bugged me then that still bug me now:

Clerking at WP:UAA is not mentioned, despite being the only bot responsible for doing so.
It states Multiple redundant bots are used to ensure that WP:AIV is always properly serviced. – This isn't true, unless we've got someone who has set up a backup recently since this bot was launched. When JamesR's bot was blocked following his passing the removals were all done manually until this bot got up and running.

So, in short, I'm proposing that the clerking at WP:UAA be mentioned and asking for clarification on whether there is actually multiple bots for WP:AIV now. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:46, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hey man im josh: Done as suggested :) Any more changes, feel free to let me know! Mdann52 (talk) 16:48, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot down?

Last bot edit was 09:51, 12 September 2024 (UTC), people have been manually removing reports since then. – 2804:F1...0D:400D (talk) 16:00, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be working now, hm. – 2804:F1...BE:7757 (talk) 19:44, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spacing

This is arguably a very minor issue, but the bot sometimes leaves blank lines when archiving AIV reports, like this. ⇌ Jake Wartenberg 15:56, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Down Again

Hasn't cleared reports from AIV for a couple hours. ⇌ Jake Wartenberg 21:18, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Error report

Not sure why the bot removed my comment on a different report when it removed a blocked user? Spencer^T•C 05:20, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect deletion by bot

Could the owner of this bot please review two deletions the bot made today at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism at 15:45 and 16:01 -- in each case, the bot removed a report I submitted, aparently because I _mentioned_ in my submission the name of an editor that had previously been banned. However, my submission was about a _different_ user. The bot needs to understand the difference, to avoid spurious removals. Thank you. Dmoore5556 (talk) 21:05, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dmoore5556 if you link the user (IE {{noping|example}}) rather than using the vandal template, then it handles it as you expect. Using the vandal template will trigger the bot to archive it.

This is a "feature" from the original version of the bot I've kept, partially because it's surprisingly hard to work out which user is being reported, or even accurately work out which templates are on the same line in the current codebase. It's one on the "things to improve" list, but there's a lot on there currently! Mdann52 (talk) 21:15, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thank you for the quick reply and clarification. I sort of ended up there by using "user" instead of "vandal" a few minutes ago. Thank you. Dmoore5556 (talk) 21:17, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot removed 2 reports at once

In this edit the bot removed 2 reports at once! The second report shouldn't have been removed (they're not blocked).
Perhaps it was an edit conflict? The bot's edit came in 6 seconds after the other report was made. – 2804:F1...17:EDFC (::/32) (talk) 18:13, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bot seems to be down

Hasn't removed AIV reports for hours. Jdcomix (talk) 03:15, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jdcomix I've restarted the bot. Mdann52 (talk) 05:41, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another incorrect removal

As with the recent incorrect removal of user:Tacyarg's Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention report on January 17 (see User talk:HBC AIV helperbot14#Bot removed 2 reports at once, the bot incorrectly removed a recently added report on a non-blocked user. See [1]. This was an AIV report for user:CLACM rather than a username report, and the timestamps for the addition and removal are different by 1 minute. Meters (talk) 19:42, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And it appears that user:Spencer reported the same incorrect behaviour in November [2] Meters (talk) 19:48, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Meters this is a known bug in pywikibot (see phab:T93364). I've added some logic in, evidently I'll need to revisit this again when I get the next chunk of development time. Mdann52 (talk) 19:50, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Meters (talk) 19:51, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect deletion

Here the bot removed User:Mahanagar Delhi - NCR Uttarakhand Pravashi Sangdhan, even though they were not blocked at that time. Srf123 (talk) 12:40, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]