User talk:KingpinBot/Archive2013/February

UWCOI

I am usually quite good at cleaning up {{uw-coi-username}} when I block someone. So this edit came as a surprise. I have done this edit. Please: confirm that removal of CAT:UWCOI when a user is blocked is now the policy and, if you know, remind me of any other templates which might need changed. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:14, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

You might be interested in the thread at the top of this page (and the BRFA is linked to from the bot's user page, which should in turn link to the discussion leading up to the BRFA), where the removal is discussed. Basically having blocked accounts listed (and there are a lot which go through that category) makes it very difficult to find problem users who might need dealing with. When the account is blocked, Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names should be added instead (which you have correctly done). This allows us to track if there are any problems with block evasion etc. In any case, the categories are so large these days that they are a bit unwieldy despite this. I don't know of any other tracking categories which should be removed upon blocking a user, the main thing however, is to add the appropriate blocking category. Also, thank you very much for updating the comment inserted by that template, I should have thought of that. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 16:22, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Chronologically ?

This isn't chronologically, any clue why it did that? -- Cheers, Riley 15:41, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, technically it is chronological, just from bottom-to-top :D. Historically the account creator page was done in that order. The "add request" link used to take the user to edit the section "T-1", just like the AWB permissions page. However, unlike that it was expected for users to add requests to the top. I never really understood why (since all other discussion threads on Wikipedia are top-to-bottom), but the bot was programmed just to work with it. Anyway, I guess it got changed at some point (probably when the add request link was taken out of the section title). Funny that it never got noticed until now, but it's only a single bit of code to get the bot to sort it in the other direction. I'm half-heartedly re-writing the bot at the moment, but I'll make that change to the current bot, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 16:10, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Y Done - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 16:44, 27 February 2013 (UTC)