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Covers
Brought it up on the main page, but it belongs here. We should link all covers back to the original song, and then have links to the various covers of songs from the original. Could uberbot compare the lyrics, see how similar they are, and if in a certain range automatically do this based on the date of the album? Or, at the least, he could create a list of songs with the same name that we can methodically go through. Casualsax 05:03, 15 April 2006 (PDT)
I think trying to do it based on the content of the songs might get it wrong a lot of the time. Not sure though. I could definitely have ÜberBot make a list of identical titles though. I'll get on that soon (added it to Future Work). -Sean Colombo 12:26, 15 April 2006 (PDT)
Done with the list of potential covers. Check it out at LyricWiki Possible Song Covers. -ÜberBot 11:28, 16 April 2006 (PDT)
Lyric Formatting
Would be great to get support for scandic letters (äöå), if filename has scand, link doesn't seem to work and file is missing scands, its too much work to fix it by hand. For example: Eppu Normaali --84.250.78.87 08:24, 2 May 2006 (PDT)
- Works fine, it's just the bot that mucked up the formatting. Try looking at Kaizers Orchestra - you just have to go fix the 'wrong' encoding. --Jan
- NM, I completely misinterpreted the request. --Jan 11:58, 13 May 2006 (CET)
It would be great if we could come up with some standard formatting that the bot could automatically do for us. Like capitalizing the first letter of every line. Casualsax 23:50, 13 April 2006 (PDT)
Yeah, that's a good idea. I've put it in ÜberBot's future work. I was thinking it would be dangerous since there might be cases where capitalizing the first letter would be wrong, but as long as more pages are fixed than are broken by the change (which it seems like there def. would be), then the overall quality of the site goes up. I'll make a page for standards and plop a link to it on your talk page in case you have other ideas for what the formatting should be like. -Sean Colombo 04:33, 14 April 2006 (PDT)
- Something to worry about on the script for ÜberBot is pages that have already been manually changed to the standard format by users compared pages that haven't been. - LeVirus Watts 20:33, 28 June 2006 (MNT)
Note: See history for discussion with Db0 regarding the other site. It was getting long and appears to be complete.
Avatar
Wouldn't it be nice to have an avatar for every user? I am new to writing stuff in wiki-style and don't know if it's common to have such things on your user page. Or should you use simply the regular way to upload the file? Maybe it's better to setup an image in preferences so that you don't mix it up with the other images of covers? Eagle 20.06.2006
Foreign Artist Names
Some foreign artist names don't follow the "The" naming scheme either. Examples are "Aerzte, Die" which should be "Die Ärzte" and "Toten Hosen, Die" which should be "Die Toten Hosen". It would be great if those could be converted automatically just like artist with "The" in their name. I don't know if you can do something about umlauts in an automated fashion, but it would be cool to at least have some way to tell ÜberBot to "batch rename" pages -Florob 09:40, 18 September 2006 (PDT)
- ÜberBot already has this functionality. You can request batch moves at Requests For Moves. However will probably need to nudge Sean Colombo to get it moved.
- - Teknomunk 11:41, 18 September 2006 (PDT)
- Ah thanks, I didn't see this before.
- - Florob 13:02, 18 September 2006 (PDT)
Second Batch of lyrics
After looking over the lyrics being inserted by uberbot, I found a formatting error. When the song is part of an album, uberbot correctly added a {{Song|<<album name>>|<<artist name>>}} to the song page, but if the album is not known, no such tag is added when it should have a {{Song||<<artist name>>}} so that a link back to the artist is provided. Just letting you know. - Teknomunk 16:49, 2 October 2006 (PDT)
- Wow, good catch :). It's fixed now so all songs from here out should work with that. -Sean Colombo 17:03, 2 October 2006 (PDT)
- No problem. This was why I wanted the automatically inserted songs flagged, so that this type of thing could be found.
- - Teknomunk 18:32, 2 October 2006 (PDT)
Formatting Issues again
Hi, i just recently joined here and have been trying to format songs i include in the proposed format (with lyric-tag and footer). I also edited some songs when i found them to be formated incorrectly. Now i stumbled upon lyrics created by this fine little bot - but they don't comply to the format rules. Check it out on this example: compared versions Any chance to fix that? --Aylorion 08:59, 18 October 2006 (PDT)
- It looks like that was ÜberBot's first batch of lyrics which was done before getting the current formatting hammered down. For now we have to update the formatting manually. A bot script may be written to update the formatting, but it probably won't happen for a while.
- And welcome, it's always good to see new people around here.
- - Teknomunk 09:14, 18 October 2006 (PDT)
- Thanks for the welcome :) I guess i will leave those older ÜberBot pages untouched, because it might be easier to get another bot to change the format then. See you around --Aylorion 01:14, 19 October 2006 (PDT)
a bot?
No way, iu cant be a bot. --Walter Humala Image:Crystal Clear app korganizer.png|wanna Talk? 13:28, 21 November 2006 (EST)
- Check my contributions... there's no way I can be a human! ;)
- -ÜberBot 15:40, 21 November 2006 (EST)
- Come On, we all no you are a human with no social life! --84.77.36.29 17:16, 21 November 2006 (EST)
- The problem (In my opinion) is that Überbot performs both human edits and bot edits. I know this isn't Wikipedia, but anyway at Wikipedia that's discouraged. Bots should do bot edits only. 213.65.243.16 11:11, 15 December 2006 (EST)
- Come On, we all no you are a human with no social life! --84.77.36.29 17:16, 21 November 2006 (EST)
Varius Manx, not Manx Varius ;)
Pls. mass-fix ;) it.
It's band name. Something like Talking Modern or Girls Spice ;) --Severson 16:03, 29 November 2006 (EST)
- Added to Category:Requests For Moves... thanks!
- -Sean Colombo 23:01, 29 November 2006 (EST)
Automated Creation Comment
Your additions to the LyricWiki database, if they are songs that link to a multiword artist, have underscores in said links. Can you not do that? It looks kind of, frankly, dumb. --Tuvok^Talk|Contribs 22:49, 8 December 2006 (EST)
- Eventually Sean, the bot's creator, will read this and this will not be a problem with lyrics when (if) more lyrics are added automatically. If you come across pages formatted the way you described, you are more than welcome to fix them.
- - teknomunk 22:57, 8 December 2006 (EST)
- Any time UberBot sees a page with those underscores, he removes them now. That should make the whole site fairly uniform and make everything much less confusing (and ugly) for everyone. The more intimidating markup there is on the pages, the less likely newcomers are to feel comfortable editing methinks.
- Thanks for bringing this up,
- -Sean Colombo 23:29, 17 October 2007 (EDT)
Neil Diamond:Hooked On A Feeling
This page needs to be deleted because Neil Diamond never did this song. He didn't even write it. It was done by B.J. Thomas, who already has a page for this song at B.J. Thomas:Hooked On A Feeling. The song was written by Mark James, best known for writing Suspicious Minds. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RSLitman (talk • contribs) .
- Marked for deletion and explained to RSLitman how to mark for deletion --Unaiaia (talk) 14:58, 24 December 2006 (EST)
Ashlee Simpson:L.O.V.E.
Hi, I saw this song listed in Category:Review Me. I think I should credit this bot because when I fixed it, very few errors were found! ~~•Sean•gorter• 05:30, 28 December 2006 (EST)
SOTD October 17, 2007
Hi ÃberBot! I'm just here to tell you that your nomination of Jonathan Coulton:Still Alive has won Song of the Day for October 17, 2007!
Thanks for nominating a song and for contributing to LyricWiki!
-ÜberBot 02:19, 17 October 2007 (EDT)
- Errr, this must be a mistake? 03:28, 17 October 2007 (EDT) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mischko (talk • contribs) .
- Haha, what a n00bie! You messed up the encoding on your own self-congratulatory notice! Whoever wrote you should be ashamed.
- Oh wait,
- -Sean Colombo 23:31, 17 October 2007 (EDT)
Capitalization
Okay, ÜberBuddy, what's up with the capitalization? I had to rollback your edits to Cage because you uncapped a letter that was supposed to be capped and capped another that there was no need to, since it was in the visual display section. If you need capitalization guidelines, there's always LW:PN to look at, or you can ask me on my talk page! :- ] Kiefer talk contribs admin 23:22, 17 October 2007 (EDT)
A Change in Tack About Other Songs?
I noticed Uberbot stopped removing the linked Other Songs pages, and instead marked them for simple deletion, warning that the user must also delete the link. I'd have to say I thought the old way (sending the Other Songs page to the orphaned pages, and deleting the link) worked just fine. Any reasons for the change?
King_Nee1114lyrics 01:14, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- I don't think this is an UberBot task, if I recall, that's something Janitor is taking care of.
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 13:21, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- I have had nothing to do with any changes in the past week, I've been to busy to even think about making changes to Janitor (dead week). I think this was being done by The Light6 (talk • contribs). When I have a chance, I need to to a major overhaul of Janitor (make it fix any and all mistakes for pages it comes across, including this type of thing.
- - teknomunk (talk,E,歌) 15:01, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- I don't think that the template has changed the way Janitor removes Other Songs page links from Artist pages, has it? The template has just been changed to include the Other Songs page to a listing under Category:Requests For Deletion/Other Songs pages. Usually, I think the pattern goes like this:
- ÜberBot grabs new lyrics that go onto the Orphaned list
- Janitor takes the new, orphaned lyrics and slaps them onto the artist's Other Songs list
- If the Other Songs list has a link in the header, Janitor removes the link
- This sends the Other Songs list to the Orphaned list
- This newly orphaned Other Songs page gets deleted by an admin
- But if ÜberBot never finds lyrics by these incredibly minor artists, then the Other Songs link is never removed by Janitor. I think The Light6 (talk • contribs) is trying to add the template to all of these Other Songs pages so that they are listed under Category:Requests For Deletion/Other Songs pages and can eventually be dealt with. Kiefer talk contribs admin 15:47, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- I don't think that the template has changed the way Janitor removes Other Songs page links from Artist pages, has it? The template has just been changed to include the Other Songs page to a listing under Category:Requests For Deletion/Other Songs pages. Usually, I think the pattern goes like this:
- If it would save some time, and someone has sufficient interest in it, I could do a database-query to find all of the "Other Songs" pages and create a list of them which either UberBot or someone else could go through and delete.
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 15:54, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- This particular week is bad for me to do anything, with this being the final 2 weeks of school. But if someone would want to go through writing a bot to remove the link from artists, I would delete songs from lonelypages. I have some minibots of my own that make that part a lot quicker.
- King_Nee1114lyrics 17:09, 7 December 2007 (EST)
SOTD May 01, 2008
Hi ÃberBot! I'm just here to tell you that your nomination of Daft Punk:Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger has won Song of the Day for May 01, 2008!
Thanks for nominating a song and for contributing to LyricWiki!
-ÜberBot 02:58, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
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