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The edit summary for Task 6 reads "Task 6" but links to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Tom.Bot 5. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 05:46, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Very strange... — Tom.Bot (beep⋅boop) 13:42, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Probably some old preferences? In Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Tom.Bot 6, you said "The edit summary's link back to this discussion erroneously points back to Tom.Bot 5's BRFA, and has been corrected in the code." 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 16:22, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like the bot is just adding authority control to lots of articles, with no useful links being added to them. E.g. Angeline Murimirwa, Jitse Groen, Vashi Domínguez. None of these changes added any links, so why is the bot running to make pointless, effectively null edits to these pages? Joseph2302 (talk) 15:06, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

1. Wikidata editors that add IDs don't check Wikipedia to make sure {{Authority control}} exists on the Wikipedia article.
2. Wikipedia editors don't monitor the 10s of thousands of articles without {{Authority control}} for when an ID exists at Wikidata, as evidenced by the frequent addition of {{Authority control}} where links exist.

  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:27, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What approval is the bot running off of for this task? Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Tom.Bot_6 indicates approval only for cases where there are links displayed. Nikkimaria (talk) 22:13, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it appears to have been running off of an old settings file; now corrected.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  22:36, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Tom.Reding. I noted recent interesting and useful edits on the article Frederick Hamilton (soldier) by Tom.Bot. The edit summary was "Task 6: + ...". I have no opinion about authority control, but I noted with interest that {{infobox person}} became {{Infobox person}} and {{clear}} became {{Clear}}. However many others like {{circa|...}} and {{efn|...}} stayed unchanged. Is Tom.Bot going to settle the way how we capitalise template names? It would be a good thing. MOS always says yes and no, but bots seem nowadays to make the decisions. Somebody needs to. With many thanks, Johannes Schade (talk) 08:39, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Johannes Schade: These appear to be AutoWikiBrowser genfixes. There is no worth in doing them on their own as per WP:COSMETICEDIT. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 17:43, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰. I do not believe that

->

is done by AWB Genfixes. I think this is Tom.Bot. I just run AWB on a page with

and it did not change it. Best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 14:24, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi . You should charge the name of one of your articles. Fateme.bani (talk) 13:40, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]