User talk:Tawker/archive4

Template

OK, just wondering what it is, thats all.

I'm still confused.

Supercool Dude 03:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

New information concerning proposed deletion

On February 20th you cast a "delete" vote: "copyvio + non-notable" at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Brian_Wowk. The original article on Dr. Wowk was lifted from another website by User:Cardsplayer4life. If you revisit Brian Wowk and see my notes on the deletion page, you will see that the page has now been re-written. Thus, the copyvio objection is no longer valid. Also, I have presented considerable evidence that Dr Wowk is very notable, in the re-written article itself and in the last section of Talk:Brian Wowk. I request that you reconsider your vote in light of the fact that the article has been re-written and that substantial evidence of notability has now been provided. --Ben Best 15:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

You wrote:"Thanks for the re-write, it looks a lot better than the previous one. I have changed by AfD vote accordingly"

This change is appreciated, however, the way you expressed it was somewhat obscure -- a strikeout looks like vandalism without checking the history log. If you could change your vote to "keep", it would be appreciated. Certainly, there are no grounds for copyvio with the re-write, and the documentation of Dr. Wowk's recognition by others is extensive. --Ben Best 23:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

MY MISTAKE, YOU DID WRITE KEEP AT THE BOTTOM. THANK YOU !!--Ben Best 23:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Bible Broadcasting Network mediation

Greetings, I am the mediator working on the BBN disagreement. Please join us at the talk page where we will get together and talk our way to solution. Thank you. --Cyde Weys 21:46, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism at User:Jkelly

Thanks for reverting the vandalism of my userpage. You beat me to reverting this page. Jkelly 23:00, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Bot

I just hate bots. Dan 01:35, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Ariele

Hi. I no longer am User:Ariele. There's no need to revert. The account is under the somebody else's control.

My RfA

With apologies for the impersonal AWB-ness of the message... Thanks for your support on my recent request for adminship. It passed at 91/1/0, and I hope I can continue to deserve the community's trust. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you, and if I make a mistake be sure to tell me. My talk page is always open. (ESkog)^(Talk) 02:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:Antaragni 2004.jpg

Hi, I found an image uploaded by me tagged. Please instruct me how I can add source information. Thanks for pointing out the omission. Saksham 02:44, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Ariele

We noticed you've been reverting the former user page back and forth after the original account holder cleaned it up for anyone to use. We do not understand your behavior. Is it your intention to keep Ariele's identity intact?

subst:bot

um yeah, your bot seems to be subst:ing templates that are inside of <no wiki> brackets, should it be doing that? Seeing as how it's replacing a non template, such as {{test2}}, with the actual content of template:test2, only inside of a pair of no wiki brackets--205.188.117.11 04:38, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

{{AfD}}

Especially since people sometimes create headers like this one, only they get turned into.. =={{AfD}}==Can't really reply personally to an AOL IP so I'll reply here. I've been working on some regex's to catch only the template and hopefully not include the nowiki content. It's tricky to prevent it from happening and there is no way I or anyone else here would want to do that task by hand (28,000 instances of welcome alone that needed to be subst'ed -- Tawker 05:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

replaceExceptNowikiAndComments in wikipedia.py looks to be made for exactly this problem. (On the other hand, I don't actually run pywikipedia myself, and the installation of pywikipedia that I'm looking at is several months old.) —Cryptic (talk) 15:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I did a CVS update before running this job, I'll look into it and possibly file a bug request. Tawker 18:27, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandal

71.146.35.238 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)Is really acting like a fool, you notice?--Vercalos 07:16, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean Heber

Thank you for your vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean Heber. If you have time could you find a link to the post on slashdot of digg, as nto everything posted there is necesarily notable. Also note that there are three articles listed here, so you might want to quantitize your vote to "weak keep all" or "weak keep after merging". Cheers, —Ruud 22:15, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

My Bot

I am and will keep a special eye out to make sure I don't replace regional spellings. As my bot will be user-assisted at all times (as no spell check bot is 100% accurate), and I will be frequently monitoring for feedback, there should be no friction. Thanks for the warning. JoeSmack ^Talk 00:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)==My alleged vandalism==

Where is this supposed "vandalism"? And why do I get redirected to "practical joke" when it says "new messages"?

You can find evidence from the 9/11 truth movement--I'm taking that if I cite them, that will be legitimate?

How do I make a User template for Anti-American??

I was looking at how to create user template {babels} about political opinions.Although I found out about how to show I support the US how do I add a template to indicate I dont support America?If there isnt such a template please add one.

Well, I'm not going to add one as per the userbox "issue" debate as I think such a userbox would be seen as an attack on our many American based editors. Tawker 05:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

The short answer is, you shouldn't. We're building an encyclopedia here, not attacking other editors. I can pretty much guarantee that any anti-(any country) userbox is going to be deleted within hours of its creation under T1. --Cyde Weys 05:44, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Asia minor roman power.jpg

Thanks for your message, but please read the courtesy statement (as per Wikipedia:Public_domain_resources#History) on the upload page, before you tag a file as violation of copyright next time. It is public domain. I changed the tag accordingly. Ben ^T/_C 05:37, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I should have tagged it properly in the first place. So, thanks for your message. Ben ^T/_C 05:47, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikistress

Hope you calm down... what exactly does he say is libel? CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 08:20, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

You mean he was upset he was working for Wikipedia and not getting paid? CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 08:26, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Request

Hi Tawker - please see Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Would you be able to block the vandal that I listed? I have to go soon. Thanks. --Khoikhoi 08:34, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, the user has been blocked. --Khoikhoi 08:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah, so you got the rollback script too. Happy editing. ;) --Khoikhoi 08:44, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey if you ever run for admin let me know, I'll add a "strong support". :) --Khoikhoi 08:49, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I have a policy of no self nominations, so who knows when it will be. Tawker 08:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I meant if someone else ever nominates you. --Khoikhoi 08:52, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok thanks. The user was already blocked tho. --Khoikhoi 08:55, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Why would you from Canada return the page about Kosovo from an ultra-nationalistic Albanian point of view. What do you know about Kosovo

Wow, you really don't know what I'm talking about. I'm complaining about the page about Kosovo. I thought, but maybe I was wrong, that you put the old version of the page which is sooo biased.

Regex for test templates

Hey Tawker. Per our discussion on IRC, this is a regex pattern that will match most or all test templates. Specifically, it matches selftest, test-n, test2-n, test2a, test2a-n, test2b, test3-n, test4a, test4-n, test, test0, test1, test2, test2a, test3, test4, test5, and test6, and takes into account the use of deprecated syntax {{msg:test}} and {{template:test}}. It also matches any parameter or parameters. It won't match similar templates that might be subst-averse.

Search:

{{(?:msg:|template:)?((?:self)?test(?:-n|2-n|2a|2a-n|2b|3-n|4a|4-n|0|1|2|3|4|5|6)?)(\|?[^}]*?)}}

Replace:

{{subst:\1\2}}

I suggest you watch the first few edits to make sure the regex is working correctly, but it works properly in my tests. // Pathoschild (_admin / ^talk) 00:45, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage! :) Hbackman 06:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Asw28.jpg

Please delete this image. The image is not used by any article and has been replaced by the same picture with full copyright permission Thanks JMcC 12:24, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism with you as target

Hi Tawker- I just reverted some vandalism on the Raymond Samuels article for deletion page- it was all about "you" (whether the real you or not, who knows), just wanted to let you know. Don't know if it's freaking you ot or not, but if you ever need his home address and phone for the police I have access to it. I might go to the police myself (I'm not freaked out, but he's been slandering me and has placed my home phone number in usenet sex groups and in my opinion that crosses the line) but not for a few days, so if you do make a complaint you won't be alone. Technicalglitch 18:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks Tawker. Wow, that was rather short... Moe ε 06:32, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

commons:Astronomi

Hi Tawker, do you have any idea what this is?! Very odd. pfctdayelise (translate?) 11:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Editing talk archives

Hi Tawker. I would appreciate it if you would not edit comments left by others on my talk page archives (or anywhere else in my userspace for that matter). Using a bot to make uninvited edits to edits by third-parties on fourth-parties talk page archives is little more than needs to be done. Thanks. -Splash^talk 17:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Time based bot

I have a solution worked out. Come and talk to me on IRC joshbuddy^talk

Sorry

Sorry for reverting you on User talk:Ajblakeney. I guess you fixed the blanking right before I tried to. :) --Krashlandon (e) 02:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I like the practical joke on your userpage. That's a good idea for April Fool's Day. *wink* ...Even though it's hard to fool someone who uses popups. --Krashlandon (e) 02:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

User page vandalism

Thanks for saving my user page! -- Jjjsixsix ^(talk)/_(contribs) @ 08:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

IP talk pages

See also Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#IP talk pages Femto 12:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion tagging by Tawkerbot

It appears that your bot is tagging talk pages for deletion which are under 90 days old, but from the looks of User:Tawkerbot#Stale_IP_talk_pages it should only be going after pages which have been inactive for 6 months. Can this be remedied? Best regards, Hall Monitor 19:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm changing it back to 180 days, what happened was we were having an IRC discussion on the length of the timeline for "stale" status, I think we had decided on 30 days there but you're right, 180 days is probally better.

We've had a discussion on blanking vs deleting the old pages, seeing that doing just the 1.2 to 128. IP's we've had 2500 pages, it might be easier just to blank the pages as its going to be a fair bit of work for an admin to delete each one. See Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#IP_talk_pages for the discussion.

On another note, do you mind if I request temporary unblocks / blocks on the IP 207.216.137.194 - It's a BC education system shared IP and I sometimes have some spare time and being able to edit from it would be an asset. Tawker 19:37, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Not at all (with regards to the unblocks), but for the record, I show no contributions nor do I show any record of a block [1] for the IP address you're referring to.  :) Best regards, Hall Monitor 19:41, 3 March 2006 (UTC)