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AutoWikiBrowser

Thank you for your recent application to use AutoWikiBrowser. Regrettably, I have declined your request as you do not have 500 mainspace edits. You are welcome to apply again at a later time. Feel free to contact me with any questions, alphachimp. 08:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Username change

As you requested, your username has now been changed from DarthVader1219 to Dycedarg. If you haven't done it already, please remember to move your user page and your talk page using the "move" tab on the upper right-hand side of your screen. Redux 11:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for the quick reversion of the vandalism to my user page. I do appreciate it. --JFreeman (talk) 18:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

user page vandalism

Thanks for fixing mine. To repay you, I've fixed yours. Cornell Rockey 02:11, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I've already listed him. He just hit us both again. Cornell Rockey 02:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Refinancing

Hi Dycedarg. Scot184 is removing the content at refinancing based on a conversation at my talk page. In short, he's claiming copyright on the text - he added it based on a misunderstanding of how it would be attributed. I'm going to look for alternate sources and rewrite the content, but I'm going to remove it (as unverifiable) if I can't find anything useful. Thanks for watching the page! Kuru talk 00:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense. I was kind of confused, because he removed the text without an edit summary and marked the edit as minor, which seemed like vandalism, but had a number of edits beforehand that definitely weren't. I left a note on his talk page asking him to leave edit summaries if he's going to go deleting stuff, but it's nice to know why he did it. Dycedarg ж 01:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Yup, it looked like a textbook random deletion. I've fixed up the article a little - it looked like most of the material he added was kind of already mentioned, so I removed the text and added a few cited mentions in the other paragraphs. The article still seriously undersourced and probably needs a complete makeover. Again, thanks for your great work on RC patrol. Kuru talk 02:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

IQ by race

I need a second opinion, so I'll bug you for one. Does this article belong in an encyclopedia? Cornell Rockey 16:14, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Race & Intellegence

Stop removing the table or I will report it as VANDALISM --Kevin Murray 02:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

  • I will agree with you that the table should be rewritten, but I'd like to see some consensus first on what it should contain --Kevin Murray 02:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  • I think that this table can be a way to introduce a broad range of objective material to the article. The suggested alterntive is more narrow focused research --Kevin Murray 02:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  • I support the deletion of the other article, but there is broad support for redirect to this article. Since redirect is not specifically the topic for discussion at the AfD, it is not a valid "vote" forum on the proper inclusion here. This is the forum at which that discussion should be held. --Kevin Murray 02:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I put a modified chart at Talk:IQ by ancestry as some work-in-progress for discussion. Of course the referencing problem remains and some of the independent entries might be ommitted. Is this getting toward an acceptable format? After spending some time looking through the references at the original chart I can see that they don't really tie to specific data, but that can be overcome. Your thoughts?

Thanks. --Kevin Murray 06:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I put a note below your nomination to offer the alternative format for discussion, along with a summary of the AfD thoughts. This is a bit unconventional, so if you object, feel free to change, move, or delete the note. Thanks. --Kevin Murray 07:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, thanks. I agree with your change and that we will see little more activity at the AfD, but I might pickup some help with the research. --Kevin Murray 07:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Refinancing

Hey there, I deleted the section about refinancing types because that was content I added originally, and after speaking with Kuru, I decided to take my information down as it wasn't from a reliable source. It is my own content from a personal weblog which he deemed inappropriate for Wikipedia. Thanks.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Scot184 (talk • contribs) 16:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

re: Eternal Decision

Shouldn't the person who puts it up for deletion give a reason as to why. It is my understanding that not every single fact on wikipedia needs to be sourced, only if it is considered controversial and I see nothing on the article that would qualify it as such.--E tac 09:45, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Revert bug

Thanks for catching that! I was attempting to use a script found at WP:US, but apparently it's not working properly. I'm going to try changing the way it's running in my monobook.js, but if that doesn't work I'll have to remove it. -- Kesh 03:52, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

Thanks for fixing this page! futurebird 04:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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An invitation.

Hi there Dycedarg! You recently edited in the 1st world page, that Mexico is not a 1st World country and is in no way higher that South Korea in unemployment, for this I thank you! We are currently holding a 4 party talk, 2 neutral observers, myself and Cali567.

I have cited my sources in my arguements that South Korea is indeed a 1st World country, along with Hong Kong, but he seems to believe that Argentina and Mexico are ahead.

Please, you are welcome to read the posts on the discussion page in 1st world, and possibly give your insights with regards to our points.

Kind Regards, Seong.

-- Seong0980, 07:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC).

Vandalism to Jeff Boman

Hi Dycedarg.

Is there any way to get the jerk at 24.236.179.20 who vandalized my page with disgusting pornographic insults (page: Jeff Boman)? I have a hunch who it is; a guy who threatened to mess up my page on another Web forum.

I graduated from high school crap like that in 1984. This jerk needs to be taught a lesson in the law. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.57.243.142 (talk • contribs) 23:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Unfortunately, there really isn't much you can do. Wikipedia's policies only allow for punitive measures after a consistent history of abuse. If he vandalized your page or attacked you in any other way persistently he could be blocked temporarily, and if he continued to do so after the temporary block expired he could be blocked indefinitely. You can see the blocking policy for more information on that. However, there is no way to do anything to him for only one offense. There is good news though, and that is that there is very little he can do either. Any vandalism he commits will be swiftly detected by the many users that are consistently on vandalism patrol, so there really isn't any reason to worry about him. As you can see, the vandalism on your page was reverted within a minute of being posted, and you can typically expect that sort of reaction time for any sort of egregious vandalism. By the way, when you post on talk pages in the future please remember to sign your post with ~~~~ (which the software automatically translates into your signature) so other people can identify both you and the time you posted.--Dycedarg ж 00:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC)


Error in reverting

Sorry I reverted Meaning of life to a vandalized state by mistake. --Jackaranga 01:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Orac

I think I fixed all the stuff regarding Orac now, including page history and incoming links. Please verify. I moved it to Orac (Blake's 7) per common sense. Duja► 13:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, everything seems to be in order now. That is the title that the article should be in.--Dycedarg ж 21:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC) What is dycedarg talking about. I don't remember editing the IVC page.

Category: Indian international schools

Hi Dycedarg, I noticed you changed a lot of entries under Category:International schools in India to Category:Indian International Schools. I actually made the same changes right before you did, and then noticed something that made me revert all the pages. The "X international schools" categories all list international schools that use the curriculum of country X, not international schools *in* country X. Look at Category:British international schools for an example of this. Few or none of the British international schools on the list are actually *in* the UK. Mapcat 05:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Please obey {{nobots}}

There is a robots.txt work-alike for Wikipedia bots; details are at {{nobots}}. Your bot violated it in this edit. Please do fix your bot to obey such notices. If I notice it violating one again, I certainly may block it, so please be aware. Thanks for your time. JesseW, the juggling janitor 22:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Userbox Migration

Your bot has mistakenly migrated an education-related userbox. Please return {{User:UBX/ISU Cyclone}} to its original location and undo the link changes. --NThurston 13:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

IVC edits

hi wat changes did i make to the indus valley civilization page? i don't remember. 71.232.92.148 19:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)shuler71.232.92.148 19:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Educational userboxes

You recently said "All the templates regarding...educational experience...are staying in template space." at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting#WikiProject Scouting Userboxes. Yet you recently userfied {{User ISU Cyclone}}. Someone complained on my talkpage about it because my bot was changing links to it, and I quite agree with him. The education-related userboxes should stay in template space. Please put it back.--Dycedarg ж 16:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

So sorry! I remember going through the list and removing boxes that should not have been userfied, and I saw and thought I removed that one. Thanks for letting me know! —METS501 (talk) 01:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Migrating nowhere

DyceBot has migrated a userbox to a non-existant location. There is no page UBX/milk2, which could present problems when transcluding. I have reverted my instance of the userbox back to user milk2.--CarrotMan 07:29, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, make sure that you check to make sure that the template that you're going to change is followed by a "}}" or "|". Otherwise you'll catch Template:user milk2 when trying to migrate User:UBX/milk. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mets501 (talk • contribs) 16:37, 24 February 2007 (UTC).

Bot bug

Check the last few changes in this diff: [1]. The bot is mishandling userboxes with an apostrophe. —METS501 (talk) 16:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

DyceBot Bug

Your bot managed to change { {Userboxtop|Edu} } to { {Userboxtop|:UBX/du} }. Which is a rather interesting, but unwelcome change to my talk page. :) -Codeczero 23:11, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Prod Script

Thank you for making the script. I have made a sub page here User:Parker007/prod. My firefox doesn't work. It doesn't let me copy and paste. Due to a virus I got earlier on. I tested it with firefox, it works fine. With IE6 only the notify function does not work, but thats probably because I have google toolbar, and yahoo toolbar installed. Also on the edit history do you think you can remove the first 3 letters "JS:", please? And Don't notify keeps coming first. And when I move my mouse to notify, the prod tab is unselected. So can you move Notify before Don't notify? --Parker007 19:34, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

It works perfectly, without any flaws; Eureka! Thnx alot. --Parker007 23:26, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

The E=mc² Barnstar
For your intelligence in creating useful scripts for other wiki users, you are awarded this barnstar. :). Parker007 20:04, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to DyceBot...

One of my userboxes is okay now, thanks to its spotting the error. Thanks Dycedarg! --Starry maiden Gazer 11:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Jooler

Please stop your bot editing my page. I choose to leave the old templates on my page as a protest. Jooler 08:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot error

Seeing as your bot did this to several hundred pages (at least) I have sent my bot to fix all instances of it that I could find.--Dycedarg ж 03:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow, I'm really sorry about this. I've now fixed it to only do that type of change in {{babel}}. Don't know why I didn't think of doing it before. Anyway, thanks for fixing it :-) —METS501 (talk) 06:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Nobots

I had Jooler's userpage on my watchlist for an unrelated reason, and I noticed that you added the nobots tag to prevent your bot from editing his userpage. He already had {{bots|deny=DyceBot,MetsBot}} on his userpage before the last edit by MetsBot, which your bot ignored. If your bot is configured to comply with the bots template in the first place (which is the only case under which the nobots tag would work anyway) than this should have stopped your bot from editing his page. I think you should reexamine your bot's exemption code if it's really supposed to be compliant with the tags. If it's running Pywikipedia there's a patch that works perfectly, that's how I got it to work for my bot. On another note, if your bot is fully compliant with the tags I would recommend you put its userpage in Category:Exclusion compliant bots so people know.--Dycedarg ж 20:10, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about the category. My bot is coded in c#, and there was an error in the code which I've fixed now to ignore pages marked with the templates. —METS501 (talk) 20:12, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

ENjoy!

Trampton has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Trampton 00:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

One problem I'm seeing with the bot

Sorry. I left this message on the bot talk page before I saw the note to leave it here. Thanks for cleaning up these changes. I hadn't even noticed! One thing to note is that I had a header on my user page that got changed unintentionally by the bot. Specifically, I had the following: {{userboxtop|Travel|right}} {{User travel}}

And BOTH instances of the word "Travel" got replaced by the bot:

{{userboxtop|:UBX/travel|right}} {{User:UBX/travel}}

(see at right)

:UBX/travel
This user is addicted to traveling.

Not a big deal, but I thought you'd want to know. Thanks again. --Robb0995 02:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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