User talk:Primefac

My Kitchen Rules UK (series 2)

Sorry to bother, but can you see the Round 7 table on top? Psephguru (talk) 03:36, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Way too many colspan issues. I've rearranged the table to make it a bit easier to read. I don't really have the interest in doing so myself, but I am somewhat concerned that almost every table is different from every other table; there is zero consistency between different rounds. Primefac (talk) 10:01, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

deleting blp=no

I can't figure out why blp=no was removed from Isaac Asimov and Kofi Annan. the linked TFD seems unrelated but I might be missing something. Kspiers (talk) 00:50, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

It's part of AWB's genfixes, which I run on all bot tasks. Primefac (talk) 01:03, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Ok, I see it on the list of genfixes. I've been trying to shrink

Category:Biography articles without blp parameter. Is there a reason people want to remove blp=no from pages? Kspiers (talk) 04:27, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

it's been discussed on the AWB talk page before, and it's meant to have been fixed for the "next revision". Either that hasn't been issued yet, or it wasn't fixed. Any update User:Rjwilmsi?

BTW Kspiers, I have a PetScan that splits that Category:Biography articles without blp parameter category up by project. Feel free to use/modify it as you want. The-Pope (talk) 04:51, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Change was in AWB release in Feb 2025 - see here. Previous AWB release is still enabled, so users/bot owners could still be using previous release that doesn't have that change. Rjwilmsi 22:03, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Well that's awkward... I updated when 6.4.0.0 was released, but I missed a device. I will make sure to rectify that. Apologies for the hassle. Primefac (talk) 23:54, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Given that it has been removed from AWB, can you please re-add blp=no from the thousand or so articles the bot removed it from today? Kspiers (talk) 06:06, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

I have been extremely busy the last few days, but was genuinely planning on answering this in the affirmative when I had some time (given it was my mistake) but I will note that the category size has more than doubled in the last five days; I have not run the bot since this post was first made, so clearly there are other mechanisms (from a quick look, other bots adding WPBS to new articles) that are also causing this "issue". Primefac (talk) 11:59, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

It actually hasn't doubled in the last few days. it normally sits at around 1800 (the bands i wasn't sure still have an alive member). There are normally around 10 that get added a day, that i try to fix daily. I still have a few hundred left from the bot run so it's been harder to see them. Kspiers (talk) 17:03, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Recent PrimeBot edits

PrimeBot is removing "blp=no" from WikiProject Banner shells, see this. I'm stumped as to why. - Shearonink (talk) 21:41, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

The answer is in the section immediately above this one; I have made this section a subsection as a result. Primefac (talk) 00:41, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

I'm a little confused by that answer, or at least I'm wondering which version of AWB PrimeBot is using and when it started using that version. Per @Rjwilmsi's response above, AWB should no longer be removing "blp=no" since version 6.4.0.0, released in February 2025. (If I'm understanding correctly, this means the genfix description is out of date.) But clicking on a few arbitrary pages in Category:Biography articles without blp parameter, it looks like almost all of them most of the biographies of individuals in the category (though not the ones on bands) were added as a result of an edit by PrimeBot sometime in the last three days. Has something about the bot's behavior changed in that time? Opus 113 (talk) 05:07, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Reducing protection

Hi, since you protected {{Cent/core}}, i wanted to ask if you could lower it to semi-protection, which is the same level as {{Cent}} (both templates are transcluded in the exact same number of pages). The reasoning can be found in the main template's protection log:

let's try bumping this back down to semi: ECP wouldn't have stopped the mistake that prompted the protection, and a
review of the history shows helpful edits by autoconfirmed-but-not-extended-confirmed editors (e.g. WMF staff). This is a special case where the logic of WP:HRT doesn't apply

No need for TP if part of the protected template is semi-protected. FaviFake (talk) 00:15, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Sure. Primefac (talk) 19:35, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

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Conversation over Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants

Dear Primefac,

You mentioned 'various concerns, especially G12 conversations while refusing review rights to me. I trust your wisdom and have no qualms about your decisions. I was however wondering what are these various concerns. And I have no clue as to what is the G12 conversations you mentioned. I am new here and do not know many things, but to my conscience I have not done anything with any malicious intent. I believed in Lee's idea of Intercreativity (about which I created an article) and was trying to do my bit. Pls feel free to refuse the rights because you know better but mentioning 'concerns' without explaining details might have the effect of a mild form of casting an aspersion though you I know do not mean any of that. Kindly explain what you mean, when you get time. Postbox 2 (talk) 06:50, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Apologies for any miscommunication, and my delay in replying (have been extremely busy lately), I will respond at your AFCP thread. Primefac (talk) 11:59, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

No problem. I can understand. Postbox 2 (talk) 12:01, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

My Kitchen Rules UK series 3

For the table in round 8, I tried using the visual editor to sort most stuff, but when I try to add another row for a new team it gets messed up. Can you check it out plz? Psephguru (talk) 19:32, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. I seem to recall that VE is really not good for editing complex tables (which sucks!) but I do suggest editing the code directly from now on (though I am always happy to help out if there are issues). Primefac (talk) 12:11, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Template talk:Template link general

Hello, Primefac. Did you have the chance to look at the two proposals: Template talk:Template link general#Suppress categorization with show result=yes and Template talk:Template link general#brace=on causes a documentation glitch at Template:Template link code (i.e. Special:Diff/1265037681/1316797818)? As a reminder: suppression of categorization is a nice to have feature; the other change is fixing three bugs while also streamlining the affected Lua function linkTitle. —⁠andrybak (talk) 17:05, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

I have not, been dealing with a lot of life stuff recently. I'll try to give it a look as soon as I can. Primefac (talk) 18:52, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Bumping this for myself. Primefac (talk) 00:38, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Hyde Park Barracks

The exact text in the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney article is: "Today the museum tells the stories of the thousands of men, women and children held or housed there, and the Aboriginal communities profoundly impacted by colonial expansion."

The exact text on the museum web site is: "Today this immersive museum tells the stories of the thousands of men, women and children held or housed there, and the Aboriginal communities profoundly impacted by the relentless push of colonial expansion."

Except for removing the word "immersive" from the sentence, this is a verbatim copy-and-paste. OCNative (talk) 18:40, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, the copyvio check (for whatever reason) did not turn that up as a match. Primefac (talk) 18:51, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Bot flag for GraphBot

GraphBot (BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights)

Hi Primefac! Hope you are doing well. I am wondering if you could extend GraphBot's bot flag? The bot task is still ongoing, but your grant expired in September.

Reading through the BRFA, it is a strange OTR: human edits are required for the bot to activate (you need to supply a |name= parameter, which is used as the chart's page title at Commons), sort of like Citation bot. It will eventually be done once {{Graph:Chart}} is completed, but it is the world's slowest OTR. I think an indefinite grant, to be revoked once {{Graph:Chart}} is deleted (unless GraphBot 2 is approved), would be best, but I wouldn't be upset with a temporary one. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:51, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

I've been trying to not grant indefinite bot flags for finite tasks, mainly to avoid the hassle of keeping track of inactive bots, but I have no issue extending for another year (and have no issue extending further if need be). Thanks for the note. Primefac (talk) 21:40, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Works for me—thank you so much :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:41, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BunnysBot 8

Hi Primefac! I was wondering if you would approve a small change of running it 4 times a day (changed from thrice) in the above task, so I can run it every 6 hours. I believe that 4 times will be more helpful for the participants as well as re-reviews. Thank you for your time! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 09:37, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

That's fine. Primefac (talk) 09:44, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Old, large set of pages needing copyvio revdel

Hi, I recently found this category when browsing and I got reminded of a widespread copyright issue related mostly to AU/NZ fish articles, which I found on Talk:Contusus richei and requested revdel for a while back. Apparently this was just one entry in a very large series of articles. The copyrighted text has been removed, but it doesn't appear to have been revision-deleted from many, if any, other articles. You can at least seemingly check which articles had text removed from by checking what links to the original 2009 copyright cleanup WikiProject page. This is a pretty old issue by now and most of the articles I've checked seem to be pretty short species stubs, but I figured it should probably get some administrator attention, since this is outside my usual areas of editing. Thanks, ScalarFactor (talk) 07:21, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

New task, maybe?

Starting a new cleanup project (discussion here). Once it fully populates in a few days, would you be able to run PrimeBOT to clean out Category:Pages using infobox venue with deprecated parameters (0)? Happy to provide you with the list of params to replace, though I'm sure you can quickly figure it out from the code at the bottom of {{Infobox venue}}. Whatever is easiest for ya. Thanks in advance! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:53, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

It meets the threshold, sure. Primefac (talk) 23:55, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Many thanks. I'll leave it to you. If you need any additional info or if I can help in any way, just let me know! Hope you have a great holiday season! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:57, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

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REVDEL

Howdy. Hoping you might be able to help me. About 7 years ago, I was accidentally blocked for a period of about 12 seconds... I know this was an accident and hold no grudge, but this has always been a black mark on my record. If anyone checks my block log, they will see that I technically have been blocked (even though it is clear that was a mistake). I've been doing some research and it appears that it is technically possible for an admin to expunge the block from my log with a REVDEL of the block.

Saw you listed in Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests and since we've interacted before I thought you might be willing to help me out with this. To be clear, this is an accidental block, not a case where I am looking for expungement of a past mistake. Had I been legitimately blocked (even if it were 20 years ago) I understand that would need to stay. Let me know if you have any thoughts! Thanks -- Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 21:34, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

You can disregard that. It got escalated and pretty firmly rejected at the admin notice board. Didn't mean to have 2 different threads about this going at once, just got sidetracked. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:21, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Aye, no worries. Primefac (talk) 09:55, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Odd bot edit

What happened with Special:Diff/1327370139? Anomie⚔ 01:42, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

{{Village pump page header}} transcluded {{annual readership}} (which is being deleted), but obviously the wikicode isn't actually at VPT so it should have skipped it. However, for some weird reason AWB doesn't consider fixes like that to be "genfixes" and so despite having "skip if only genfixes" enabled it still edited the page. Primefac (talk) 10:58, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Interesting. Do you know if that bug has already been reported to the AWB maintainers? Anomie⚔ 15:06, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

I went looking, the only thing I've really been able to find is this bug report; in the comments under it the point made is that the unicodify settings are not considered genfixes. I'll raise the question at the talk page. Primefac (talk) 15:31, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Anomie⚔ 15:35, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello

		The Friendship Barnstar
		I wonder if you might have time to prep the Editor of the Week Hall of Fame for 2026. Your yearly assistance is greatly appreciated. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 05:27, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Absolutely! Primefac (talk) 09:42, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rosemont Seneca Partners

Hi, kindly unprotect so MatrixBot can edit. Thanks, —Matrix _{ping me}^{when u reply} (t? - c) 21:24, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done. Primefac (talk) 22:27, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for catching all those bad CSD for XFD of mine. This is what I get for editing while tired. Forgot they were supposed to be redirected, not deleted... Will do better in the future but thanks for catching my mistakes. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:06, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

All good, I'm just glad I caught them before a trigger-happy d-batch admin nuked them all! Primefac (talk) 00:15, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 02:58, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Primefac (talk) 23:20, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Io, Saturnalia!

		Io, Saturnalia!
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth (talk) 13:56, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Primefac (talk) 23:20, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Aleyamma38 SPI

Thanks for the check and block. Is there a way to see if this is linked to the Arshifakhan61 SPI case page? I noted the connection in the SPI but I now see (I had forgotten when filing the SPI) that I had reported them back in early December as a Arshifakhan61 sock with asilvering doing a check. With their admission to being a SOCK and now with the technical evidence here, I think it is more than likely connected and may wind up with merging these two farms. --CNMall41 (talk) 21:43, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

I checked the logs from the two SPIs; based on that information I would hesitate to use anything more than  Likely but they're definitely all operating on the same range. Primefac (talk) 22:07, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I just noted it in my own logs. I'm sure they've already created another account and will eventually leave a clear trail. Thanks again. --CNMall41 (talk) 03:39, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

Happy holidays and a prosperous 2026!

Primefac, I'm sad we won't get to arb for real together, but it has been nice to be on-list with you for a time. Thank you for your past five years of service—an impressive amount of time indeed. I hope to make some more progress on the TLTs (and maybe we can also do the two-letter templates...) in the new year. You are leaving big shoes to fill on ArbCom, and I hope you find your time away to be rejuvenating. Happy holidays, and the best for you and yours in 2026!

(You are a Python package )

HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:42, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I think being off ArbCom will give me a bit more time to dedicate to TLTs (fingers crossed) and I am definitely planning on the TwLTs after that. Have a good holiday season! Primefac (talk) 23:47, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Hello there! KatnissEverdeen wishes you & yours the very best of the season!

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,
Festivus (for the rest of us!) or even the Saturnalia,
here's hoping your holiday time is wonderful and
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CHEERS! Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 15:19, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Share these holiday wishes by adding {{subst:User:Shearonink/Holiday}} to your friends' talk pages.

Thanks! Primefac (talk) 22:36, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you!

Just wanted to say thank you for fixing the div issue on all of my holiday cards yesterday! I hadn't noticed the div issue with copying the template, but I really appreciate you taking the time to fix all of them!

Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 18:42, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Not a problem! I figured it was faster/easier for me to just hit those pages than to tell you and have them sit around until you saw my message. I will say, though, thank goodness you're not one of those folks that leaves hundreds of greetings! Primefac (talk) 10:58, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2026!

Hello Primefac, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2026. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 12:01, 25 December 2025 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 12:01, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Primefac (talk) 12:14, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Hello Primefac: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:29, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

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Thanks! Primefac (talk) 10:45, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

New Years birthday world

@Primefac! Happy New Year! Wishing you a year filled with knowledge, collaboration, and meaningful contributions. Thank you for your dedication to building free, reliable, and accessible knowledge for everyone around the world. May the new year bring you inspiration, successful edits, respectful discussions, and strong community spirit. Here’s to another year of improving Wikipedia together! Warm regards, — A fellow Wikipedian (Iluziya7 (talk) 12:22, 30 December 2025 (UTC))

Thanks! Primefac (talk) 22:09, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Request for bot to clear empty deprecated parameter from Infobox musical artist

See this discussion please. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:29, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Noted, thanks. Primefac (talk) 23:11, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Wishing you a happy 2026!

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Primefac,
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Thanks! Primefac (talk) 09:53, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

card

thank you very much ~2025-44154-11 (talk) 22:37, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy new year!

	Happy New Year!
	Hello Primefac: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters. Rtpaz (talk) 15:52, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

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Thanks! Primefac (talk) 15:54, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	See you've been cleaning out the lengthy backlog at the holding cell. Thanks for taking some of the ones that have been sitting for ages! Happy New Year! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:36, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Always happy to help out, especially since I've got some time now to do it! Primefac (talk) 00:03, 2 January 2026 (UTC)