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Contents 1 L'award 2 Question for you 3 XLinkBot 4 Happy Erwin's Day! 5 List of insurgent fatality reports in Afghanistan 6 Deletion bot 7 Bot notifying already notified users. 8 Bot missing notifications 9 Bot notifying the wrong editor? 10 Image transfer to Commons 11 Happy Holidays!

[edit] L'award

		The Wikipedia Bot Builder Award
		For your excellent bot which does what so many discourteous nominators do not. –xenotalk 01:28, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. --Erwin (talk) 09:36, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Question for you

How do I get your bot to notify all relevant parties of ths AfD? Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SEIU Local 1 Canada. Thanks for any help you can provide. - Hamster Sandwich (talk) 02:34, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

That'll happen automatically from 1:00 (UTC) the following day, so in this case tonight at 1:00 (UTC). --Erwin (talk) 09:36, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

In that case you are doing a good thing! I started to notify all the editors manually, got through six or seven, and thought, "There must be a bot doing this..." That's why I thought to ask. I don't do as much AfD stuff these days, but an IP asked me to put up an "attack page" there. It'll probably just be parsed down to what can actually be verified from (surprisingly) scant sources. Thanks again! Best regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 23:59, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Erwin (talk) 09:56, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] XLinkBot

Hi. I am not sure how, so I think I'd better ask. How can I make Erwin85Bot tell that it does not have to tell XLinkBot about deleted pages or similar (XLinkBot has due to its nature not a bot-flag, I guess that is where the problem lies)? --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:39, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi, you can just add {{bots|deny=Erwin85Bot}} to XLinkBot's talk page. From then on my bot will no longer edit it. --Erwin (talk) 11:35, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Cheers! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 15:56, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Erwin's Day!

User:Erwin has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Erwin's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Erwin! Peace, Rlevse 01:39, 6 December 2009 (UTC) A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:39, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! --Erwin (talk) 13:28, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] List of insurgent fatality reports in Afghanistan

Excuse me, but I did not create this page. Reenem (talk)

[1] states that you contributed 6 edits to the page, the first sentence states: "An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on" Ikip (talk) 15:19, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion bot

• Mentioned here: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Deletion_notifications Thanks again! Ikip (talk) 15:09, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. --Erwin (talk) 14:37, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bot notifying already notified users.

Is User:Erwin85Bot operating properly when it notifies a user who was already notified of an AfD? Example; User talk:Jacobeiler. Abductive (reasoning) 02:22, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Interesting. I noticed that on User talk:Henry Delforn, although he blanked the page twice between the notifications. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 09:08, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Usually my bot relies on the database to determine whether a user has been notified. This weekend the database wasn't up-to-date resulting in my bot using a fallback method that wasn't as good. I've now improved that fallback method. Thank you both for letting me know. --Erwin (talk) 14:37, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bot missing notifications

As discussed over at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Deletion_notifications, I want to be notified whenever any article that I have started or edited gets PRODded or AFDed. Is there some sort of opt-in process for your bot? Because I've had experiences of articles I've started or edited getting PRODded or put on AFD or even deleted without my ever finding out about it until months later, so the bot doesn't seem to always notify. —Lowellian (reply) 19:53, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Please note that my bot doesn't notify users of articles getting PRODded. I'd like to look into the missing AfDed ones though. Do you perhaps have an example of one you wasn't notified of? --Erwin (talk) 14:37, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bot notifying the wrong editor?

I was notified here, but I appear nowhere in the edit history (or in the deleted page history). Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 01:21, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. My bot incorrectly thought the page was moved due to it being a redirect when my bot treated it and a bug in checking for page moves in the log. That bug has now been fixed. --Erwin (talk) 14:37, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Image transfer to Commons

Hello Erwin! Not knowing hot often you check your talk page there, I am sending you this message here to let you know that I made a query about a couple of pictures from the same source as those previously transfered by Erwin bot to Commons. Regards. Cretanforever (talk) 07:30, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I replied at Commons:User_talk:Erwin. Regards. --Erwin (talk) 14:37, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Holidays!

MisterWiki talk contribs 03:06, 17 December 2009 (UTC)