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Why have you deleted and redirected the entire page of Mariah Carey Almost home? Fidel 10:16, 19 February 2013 (UTC) its a brand new single and a current one!

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Hi Avicennasis/MainArchive, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

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I just had a problem with AvicBot ignoring Template:nobots at Bainki.  I've tried adding Template:Bots|Deny=all.  This redirect should redirect to Bairiki, not South Tarawa#Bairiki.  FYI, Unscintillating (talk) 01:39, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

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I noticed AvicBot is fixing double redirects, and in looking up whether I was boneheaded or not (I am) I noticed it's not on this list of bots that fix double redirects - you may wish to fill out its entry at your convenience. -- stillnotelf is invisible 18:40, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

my bad, I meant this to be to "la" not "a" but my keyboard stuck on the 'l' key didn't notice until just now. Redirect now in way of fixing this myself. Please fix thanks.Skookum1 (talk) 09:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Dear, Saraiki is a language, it is not a dialect. Riasti dialect, Shah puri dialect,Multani dialect, Multani language, Thalochi dialect, Thalochi ,Derawali dialect articles. I suggest merging these articles , as the all these are same. And also be Redirected to Saraiki language. Also Jhangvi dialect is dialect of Saraiki. Kindly See these External Links #1 and #2.

• Department of Saraiki, Islamia University, Bahawalpur was established in 1989^[1] and Department of Saraiki, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan^[2] was established in 2006. Saraiki is taught as subject in schools and colleges at higher secondary, intermediate and degree level. Allama Iqbal open university Islamabad,^[3] and Al-Khair university Bhimbir have their Pakistani Linguistics Departments. They are offering M.Phil. and Ph.D in Saraiki. Five TV channels and Ten Radio Stations are Serving Saraiki language. 182.186.116.104 (talk) 12:49, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

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This is a feature request, not a bug report; I've not spotted any misbehavior. The "How to use sandbox" section of Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions has a question regarding a userspace sandbox: a page was created in userspace, moved to AFC space, moved to mainspace, and AvicBot correctly fixed the double redirect. Is there any way to tell the bot not to fix double redirects from userspace to mainspace, since confusion can arise for new users? Nyttend (talk) 04:28, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

{{Bots|deny=AvicBot}}should do it. There are other bots that fix redirects, though, so {{nobots}} might be better. ^Avic_ennasis @ 04:54, 28 Iyar 5773 / 04:54, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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4		Caralluma burchardii (talk)						Add sources
76		Large milkweed bug (talk)						Add sources
346		Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell (talk)						Add sources
19		Modern recession of beaches (talk)						Add sources
29		Accretion (coastal management) (talk)						Add sources
22		Beach morphodynamics (talk)						Add sources
26		Bulgarian hip hop (talk)						Cleanup
2		Quercus diversifolia (talk)						Cleanup
392		Konkani language (talk)						Cleanup
0		Turritella banksii (talk)						Expand
6		Didymelaceae (talk)						Expand
1		Chicoreus banksii (talk)						Expand
161		Xavier: Renegade Angel (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
24		Walter Gibbons (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
10		Morelia carinata (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
36		Beach evolution (talk)						Merge
13		Blackstrap Ski Hill (talk)						Merge
17		Merenrap (talk)						Merge
4		Dischidia ruscifolia (talk)						Wikify
41		Life's a Bitch and I'm Her Pimp (talk)						Wikify
12		Fundus (seabed) (talk)						Wikify
4		The Imperial Sovereign Rose Court of Oregon (talk)						Orphan
4		Solenostemma argel (talk)						Orphan
2		Ceropegia dinteri (talk)						Orphan
17		Akmon (talk)						Stub
11		Asclepias purpurascens (talk)						Stub
126		Newsreaders (talk)						Stub
12		Cliff stabilization (talk)						Stub
6		Asclepias amplexicaulis (talk)						Stub
2		Asclepias involucrata (talk)						Stub

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Hello; I'm not sure if AvicBot2 can still do category merges to multiple targets, but here there are bunch that could be done by a bot. (There are also some listed that have to be done manually, not by bot.) Thanks. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 05:14, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi, is AvicBot still processing CFD outcomes? The regular bot has been down all day but it doesn't seem to have noticed the control is set to enable. Timrollpickering (talk) 21:57, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Apparently not... Something has changed and the code is now broke. I'll see if I can get a patch on it soon. Thanks for the heads up. ^Avic_ennasis @ 08:11, 7 Tamuz 5773 / 08:11, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
14		Modern recession of beaches (talk)						Add sources
31		Beach evolution (talk)						Add sources
280		Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell (talk)						Add sources
28		Accretion (coastal management) (talk)						Add sources
4		Caralluma burchardii (talk)						Add sources
26		Beach morphodynamics (talk)						Add sources
2		Quercus diversifolia (talk)						Cleanup
18		Volumetric concrete mixer (talk)						Cleanup
455		Konkani language (talk)						Cleanup
7		Didymelaceae (talk)						Expand
6		Insubordination Fest (talk)						Expand
0		Turritella banksii (talk)						Expand
180		Xavier: Renegade Angel (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
19		Walter Gibbons (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
31		Malaysian hip hop (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
3		Douglas-Hart Nature Center's Plant Registry (talk)						Merge
11		Blackstrap Ski Hill (talk)						Merge
15		Merenrap (talk)						Merge
4		Dischidia ruscifolia (talk)						Wikify
39		Life's a Bitch and I'm Her Pimp (talk)						Wikify
12		Fundus (seabed) (talk)						Wikify
2		The Imperial Sovereign Rose Court of Oregon (talk)						Orphan
6		Solenostemma argel (talk)						Orphan
1		Ceropegia dinteri (talk)						Orphan
12		Asclepias purpurascens (talk)						Stub
7		Asclepias amplexicaulis (talk)						Stub
1		Asclepias involucrata (talk)						Stub
14		Akmon (talk)						Stub
13		Cliff stabilization (talk)						Stub
10		Asclepias verticillata (talk)						Stub

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

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Content

Is more content needed?

Headings

Does this article have an appropriate section structure?

Images

Is the number of illustrative images about right?

Links

Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

Sources

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Greetings. Please change the redirect on Left of Center (song) from Left of Center (Sirius) to Left of center, because:

1. The Sirius page is about a radio station, not a song;
2. The Sirius page is mentioned on the disambiguation that is Left of center;
3. There are at least two actual songs called "Left of Center" with references already (Suzanne Vega, Serj Tankian)
4. It could probably be argued successfully that the Sirius station was named because of the Suzanne Vega song.

I have attempted to fix this myself, only to be undone. So I try this route.... -- Hooperswim (talk) 21:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done Redirects can be repointed easily - but you shouldn't point a redirect at a redirect, which is why AvicBot fixed it again. this edit should solve the problem and show the difference. ^Avic_ennasis @ 05:17, 14 Tamuz 5773 / 05:17, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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The bot has twice reversed my redirect (for the talk page but not the article). There is no double redirect, something seems to have gone wrong with the bot. In the mean time I have blanked the page - the Talk page is empty anyway. Thanks.--Mhockey (talk) 14:51, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) This edit by you points the page to Talk:St Jude's Church which itself is a redirect to Talk:St Jude's Church, Kensington. There is no problem with the bot. ^Avic_ennasis @ 21:27, 15 Tamuz 5773 / 21:27, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I see the problem now - actually two problems. 1. My redirect should have been to Talk:St. Jude's Church, not Talk:St Jude's Church. 2. After an old move of St Jude's Church the original page was correctly redirected to the dab page here, but the original Talk page was not redirected, so it was left as a redirect to the wrong page. Now if someone could do a bot to check that talk pages follow article pages...--Mhockey (talk) 23:12, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Please see this contribution page: [1].  This was used to attack a politician at 2013-06-15T17:56:13.  The edit was reverted at 2013-06-15T18:53:57.  But by 2013-06-15T18:44:19, AvicBot was spreading the BLP violation. 

It is my technical understanding, perhaps flawed, that double redirects are entirely ok.  So would it be possible to not "fix" a double redirect until at least 24 hours has elapsed?  Thank you, Unscintillating (talk) 21:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

AvicAWB tagged a number of Scouting images with {{Non-free logo}} that already used {{non-free Scout logo}}. Since | was not set on {{Non-free logo}}, all these images are now in the categories Non-free images with NFUR stated Non-free images for NFUR review. --  Gadget850 ^talk 10:53, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Ah. Sorry, I did not know about that template to scrub against. I'll get that fixed for future page edits. ^Avic_ennasis @ 11:45, 16 Tamuz 5773 / 11:45, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

This edit of AvicBot has replaced a perfectly correct redirect to an article by a buggy redirect to a dab page, asserting that the old redirect was a double redirect, which was wrong. D.Lazard (talk) 17:10, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

No bug - the page Axiom (computer algebra system) was a redirect, briefly, per this edit. At the time AvicBot made his edit, the page was a double-redirect. ^Avic 00:29, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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3		Caralluma burchardii (talk)						Add sources
213		Apocynaceae (talk)						Add sources
263		Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell (talk)						Add sources
101		Large milkweed bug (talk)						Add sources
16		Stapelia grandiflora (talk)						Add sources
2		Napaea (plant) (talk)						Add sources
3		Quercus diversifolia (talk)						Cleanup
5		Kamarupa of Bhaskar Varman (talk)						Cleanup
84		Tezpur University (talk)						Cleanup
66		Meitei language (talk)						Expand
0		Turritella banksii (talk)						Expand
1		Chicoreus banksii (talk)						Expand
10		Morelia carinata (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
10		Stretch-o-Vision (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
504		Life (magazine) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		Modern recession of beaches (talk)						Merge
32		Beach evolution (talk)						Merge
4		Douglas-Hart Nature Center's Plant Registry (talk)						Merge
4		Dischidia ruscifolia (talk)						Wikify
11		Fundus (seabed) (talk)						Wikify
8		Thomson Reuters Realized Volatility Index (talk)						Wikify
5		Solenostemma argel (talk)						Orphan
1		Ceropegia dinteri (talk)						Orphan
1		Erica plukenetii (talk)						Orphan
13		Asclepias purpurascens (talk)						Stub
9		Cliff stabilization (talk)						Stub
1		Asclepias involucrata (talk)						Stub
12		Akmon (talk)						Stub
9		Asclepias amplexicaulis (talk)						Stub
23		Accretion (coastal management) (talk)						Stub