User talk:cyberpower678

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• Hello!! I am Cyberpower678. I am your typical run of the mill user here on Wikipedia.
• I specialize in bot work and tools, but I lurk around RfPP, AfD, AIV, and AN/I, as well as RfA. If you have any questions in those areas, please feel free to ask. :-)
• I also serve as a mailing list moderator and account creator over at the Account Creation Center. If you have any questions regarding an account I created for you, or the process itself, feel free to email the WP:ACC team or me personally.
• At current I have helped to create accounts for 2435 different users.
• Disputes or discussions that appear to have ended or is disputed will be archived.

All the best.—cyberpower

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Current AfD list

This very useful sortable listing of current AfDs, made by Cyberbot I, has not been updated since 29 August. May we have it back please?: Noyster (talk), 16:28, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

I'll into it when I get the chance.—^cyberpower_Chat:Online 14:18, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot creating error messages

When the Bot is archiving references it creates "Check |url= value" error messages (see Category:Pages with URL errors). Is it possible to modify the Bot to prevent this from happening, for example by having it add just the deadlink, archiveurl and archivedate parameters rather than the whole cite web template. EdwardUK (talk) 17:48, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Looks like a bug.—^cyberpower_Chat:Online 14:18, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Dead link fix?

This edit by Cyberbot II, with Edit summary 'Rescuing 1 sources, flagging 0 as dead, and archiving 0 sources. #IABot' doesn't seem to have provided anything of incremental use for the citation. The wayback machine url goes nowhere; to 404; and looks identical to the dead link url; and the date looks scrambled at best too. Background: I had reestablished the dead link template already, today, when I looked back at an earlier edit and came upon this Cyberbot edit; finding in the process that I was the one who did the last dead link template a year ago. Thanks in advance. Swliv (talk) 01:15, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

This is way too old to act on. Please report bugs from the current version, being 1.2.4.—^cyberpower_Chat:Online 14:19, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	For your well-programmed bot which has fixed countless sources and improved reliability everywhere Jjjjjjdddddd (talk) 00:50, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

IABot is archiving links to a non-dead PDF

Several times in the last few days, InternetArchiveBot has archived links to this non-dead PDF. The website that the file is on does not appear to have problems (note that the bot does not modify other links to the same domain). See edits here, here, and here. I would appreciate if you could fix whatever bug is causing these unnecessary edits. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 05:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

There live_states were set to the dead state. Once there it requires manual intervention to reset.—^cyberpower_Chat:Online 14:36, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Ok. So when this happens, is there any way to fix it other than informing you here? Pi.1415926535 (talk) 15:00, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

I am working on that solution as we speak. This will allow users to directly manage IABot's memory themselves. :-)—^cyberpower_Chat:Online 15:06, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot

Please could you tell me why the IAB is changing the short "WebCite" URLs with the long version? Also why is it changing date formats to be inconsistent? What is the empty parameter "df =" it is adding? Why is it altering the layout of refs? It was brought to my attention by this edit. SagaciousPhil - Chat 06:01, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

For this edit [1] See Wikipedia:Using_WebCite#Use_within_Wikipedia and the RfC. -- GreenC 14:25, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Evidently my mind reading powers are not up to scratch then? I always add an archive URL when inserting a ref to a website so will in future add the long WebCite URL instead as now very recently dictated by about a dozen people. However, that does not answer why the date format and layout were changed; I also cannot see what the empty "df=" parameter is supposed to be. SagaciousPhil - Chat 14:56, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

The df parameter is a date format parameter. You can set it to dmy-all or mdy-all to have the cite template format the dates in the output. It gets filled by the bot when there is a date format template on the page. If the bot detects a newline in the wiki-markup if the segment it's modifying, it switches to multiline formatting. On a last note, I'm not appreciative of your seemingly sarcastic tone on my talk page. I appreciate a sense of humor, and frustration, but not sarcasm.—^cyberpower_Chat:Online 15:14, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, I do not appreciate being spoken to in the tone you are assuming either, especially when I am simply trying to ask about errors your bot has introduced. SagaciousPhil - Chat 15:24, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Evidently my mind reading powers are not up to scratch then?

Struck as sarcasm to me. I have no issues with questions and am happy to answer them.—^cyberpower_Chat:Online 16:03, 10 October 2016 (UTC)