Hercule

Hallo Hercule,

thank you for your support. I hope that these ridiculous redirects have soon been eliminated. --BBKurt 09:03, 15. Dez 2010 (CET)

The script I use just see the 500 first redirects of the special page. So I need at least 6 page update before to delete all :p --Hercule 11:39, 15. Dez 2010 (CET)

Yes, the number of useless redirects created here seems to be much larger than I expected. Please, delete what is necessary.--BBKurt 11:44, 15. Dez 2010 (CET)

Merry X-mas and a happy new year wishes BBKurt. Thanks again for you support. --BBKurt 13:20, 24. Dez 2010 (CET)

All is clean now. There is still one page that can't be deleted. I opened a bug at bugzilla

Happy new year --Hercule 23:45, 1. Jan 2011 (CET)

You had been a great help to us. If you need our support, please, let us know. --BBKurt 01:12, 2. Jan 2011 (CET)

Remaining Redirects

Dear Hercule, some weeks ago you helped us at ksh-Wikipedia to delete redirects directing to not existing articles. In the meantime the active members of this small Wikipedia discussed the general situation of redirects and we voted how to deal with the remaining redirects. The result of the vote was surprising. The majority of the users voted to limit the redirects to the absolutely necessary number. These are just a few hundred while we currently have the unbelievable high number of approximately 500.000 redirects. Mostly they had been bot-generated to cover all possible typing errors, a method unnecessary in modern Wikipedia. Selecting the few necessary redirects among the huge number of waste is an impossible task. The easiest way to handle this problem is to delete all redirects and add the few hundred essential redirects manually. Would you be so kind and help us again.

I have tried to follow the procedures given at Pywikipedia for delete.py but it didn’t work the way it should.

Of course we, the members of ksh-Wikipedia grant the permission to delete the redirects. Thank you for your support.

If there are any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me.--BBKurt 14:38, 21. Jan 2011 (CET)

Hello,

I would be please to help you, but for such a large sysop action I will need a local sysop flag. And maybe would I aslo need a bot flag, to avoid flooding the Recent Change.

I think the best way would be to flag my bot account : HerculeBot.

Can you ask the communauty if they agree that HerculeBot receive the sysop flag ? I will ask its removal when the deletion of all redirects will be finish.

Regards

--Hercule 02:49, 29. Jan 2011 (CET)

Thank you for you responds, Hercule. In the meantime we found another solution. --BBKurt 11:29, 29. Jan 2011 (CET)

Redirects

Thank you for deleting the redirects. It helps us to find missing links. Regards --BBKurt 16:40, 26. Mäz 2011 (CET)