User talk:Adamdaley/Archives/2020/November

Mark WikiProject Linux as inactive?

Hi! I was directed to your talk page by the participants list on WikiProject Linux. I've started a discussion whether we can keep it running, or mark it as inactive.– Abuluntu ( talk 06:50, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

I've used linux in the past. I don't know why you were directed to me. Adamdaley (talk) 06:53, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Your name is on the participants list.– Abuluntu ( talk 16:25, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Blanking Milhist assessments

Hi Adam, a human is better at assessing articles than the bot. If you don't think the assessment is right, can you assess it yourself please, and stop blanking the existing assessments? Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

So I can't utilise a bot for MILHIST? Could you just let me do this cause I know no one else who works so hard on MILHIST. Someone always seems to find something wrong with whatever I do, no matter what it is. So many times that has happened and each time, I feel like giving it all away period. So much is ignored in the already assessed articles, I'm giving them a go so they are never forgotten. Adamdaley (talk) 09:15, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

I was about to come here to ask the same thing. If you think the article's rating should change then please make an assessment of the article against the criteria. Every article assessed by the bot is then double-checked by a member of MILHIST (usually the coords). A blanket blanking of existing assessments seems to be making a lot of work for no gain. Take Daniel Keighran‎ for example, I have just assessed it as B against the criteria whereas the bot assessed it as Start (and you removed the existing B-Class criteria). Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions. Woody (talk) 17:05, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for running MilHistBot

Dear AdamDaley. It seems you are running MilHistBot. My watchlist contains some articles marked WikiProject Military History that get from time to time rated by MilHistBot. This morning, for example, I saw that the article James Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Strabane was rated by MilHistbot during the night. It had been rated Start by User:BrownHairedGirl for the Biography Project in 2018, manually as it seems. Now it has been rated for the Military History Project as C-Class after I had done some work on it. I am glad to see the progress. One cannot thank the MilHistBot, but I can thank you. Johannes Schade (talk) 09:39, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Johannes Schade: -- I do not run the MilHistBot, that is done by @Hawkeye7: as he is the owner of the Bot. I tend to make a WP:MilHist banner blank to it can be assessed by the MilHistBot. As you can see on my talkpage that I have been requested in ceasing the "blanking" of assessments for WP:MilHist Banner by @Peacemaker67:, however, I do acknowledge that I do not get enough positive encouragement for my behind-the-scenes work for WP:Milhist. Adamdaley (talk) 10:31, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Dear Adamdaley. Thanks for your explanations. I looked around and found the page User:MilHistBot, which states "In November 2019, the Bot began automatically assessing articles with incomplete MILHIST assessments." This is why you have to trigger a reassessment by blanking the existing one. Of course people who did a manual assessment might not like to have their assessment blanked and then overwritten by a bot. I also found Rater, a script that gives a mw:ORES ratings, which seem to differ from the MilHistBot assessments and are perhaps more sophisticated. Not so easy. With thanks, Johannes Schade (talk) 12:46, 29 November 2020 (UTC)