User talk:Edward Z. Yang

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After encountering some users who opt to reply on their own talk pages (and for some very good reasons), I have come to a conclusion: a compromise. If you initiate a discussion on my talk page, I will reply on my talk page, but, I will notify you on your talk page via a short statement (ex. ==RE: Subject== See reply on my talk page) and will do this every time a post a reply. This way, not only are conversations not fragmented, but you will know if I've acknowledged your comment. This will not be done if the conversation will probably only consist of a question and a reply. Promote good etiquette on talk pages! (Archives: 2004, 2005)

I reserve the right to remove images/templates/unnecessarily complex markup from this page. Automated notices may not be moved to archive pages.

Contents 1 Database normalization 2 LinkFix bot request 3 Talk Page 4 Congratulations 5 Re: Deja Vu 6 Anime Pictures 7 Protected? 8 Anime DVD cases help (updated)... 9 defence of edit to Cowboy Bebop 10 Linkspamming 11 FullMetal Alchemist Episode List 12 Protection of anon IP talk page 13 Vandalism of Salem Witch Trials 14 Re: Use on talk page 15 Maintaining Fullmetal Alchemist talk page 16 Requesting Help 17 Vandal 18 Wikisource Annotations 19 Shhh its a secret 20 Root page 21 Golden Gate bridge 22 Band Site 23 RV on pH[2] 24 Thanks for the suggestion 25 Stroop effect 26 LinkFix bot 27 Talk:T'ai Chi Ch'üan 28 Deja Vu, Synchronicty, Carl Jung 29 Fan Fiction nominated for an Article Improvement Drive 30 Wikipedia email - An answer of sorts to your post 31 Please don't bite the newbies... 32 Link fix 33 Timur 34 Afghanistan 35 Linkfix bot - Request 36 Spambots on your status site 37 jrsey@hotmail.com 38 writingpot vandals at it again 39 Noxious SPAMs again 40 Arr maytey! 41 Banned from the wikistatus 42 Wikipedia's Status 43 Possible doppelganger

[edit] Database normalization

Thanks for the welcome. I've commented about the changes to Database normalization on the talk page. Jjjjjjjjjj 02:14, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LinkFix bot request

Hi Edward, would you mind running your LinkFix bot on Yagan please? I will be happy to take responsibility for fixing any link problems the bot turns up. Drew (Snottygobble | Talk) 05:18, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem. The bot is crunching the page right now. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 23:10, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks heaps. I'm on it. Drew (Snottygobble | Talk) 02:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk Page

Now, this isn't a slight, but a genuine question: Why doesn't Wiki have some kind of PM service? Or even a Wiki forum? Seems to me it'd be easier to get a good Invisionfree or even phpBB forum than to use these editable Talk pages. Tom 13:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

Hi, Edward Z. Yang, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop

Hey there. Congratulations, you've just been made a sysop! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except junk like "LALALALAL*&*@#@THIS_SUXX0RZ"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun!

PS: I'm happy I got to be the one to promote you ;) — Ilyanep (Talk) 00:50, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Hehe No problem :) Have fun (but not Too much fun) with your admin powers ;) — Ilyanep (Talk) 01:36, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Deja Vu

No problem. I'm not sure if that Turkish band is notable.—jiy (talk) 03:49, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anime Pictures

Beat me to it.. I was about to remove it as I couldn't even view anything without installing an activex control. Shiroi Hane 17:54, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Protected?

Hello, Ambush Commander, I thought I'd let you know I've left a comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) (and copied it to the MediaWiki talk page) regarding the "protected" and "unprotect" and reverted your changes for now. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 22:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anime DVD cases help (updated)...

I got your note and I don't know why the linked added was removed, but I can understand why. Anyways, Wikipedia doesn't seem to have an article about, well, DVD cases and I have written one up. I was wondering if it is possible to, well, since it's mostly related to Anime, can help me code it for Wikipedia. Thanks.

http://www.otakuanime.com/article-dvdcases.htm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TuxedoInferno (talk • contribs).

Well... posting a link on Anime for the sole purpose of explaining DVD cases doesn't make much sense at all. A new article about DVD cases? I'm not sure how encyclopedic that is. It may be interesting and factual, but remember, you need to keep a neutral point of view and the article has to be licensed under the GFDL in order to be eligible for inclusion on Wikipedia. If you have any more questions, please ask. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 02:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick reply. Well, I was looking around for some information of type of DVD cases around (you know, there are so many hooks that hold the DVD cases), but not much information about them, like what the names called it, who makes those cases, are they bad, are they good? Advantage or not? Oh, that article below is actually what I wrote and I would like to put something on Wikipedia that somehow seem a little new. That's why I ask for a little help here, want to get things right.

By the way, the edit issue I got with, well with Brossow, is a little bit of misunderstanding, nothing more. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TuxedoInferno (talk • contribs).

I believe that you could be a little bit more general in the title, like Disk case, because these cases don't have to store DVDs. Since it's your article, you probably want to state on the website that it is licensed under the GFDL. But please understand the implications of this license (such as the granting of perpetual rights) before you start stamping it on your stuff. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 03:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, my article written on my site is just for that site. I'm just gonna used that as a base if I can rewrite one here at Wikipedia (to look more of an information here rather then a POV on my site). Since I worked with Anime companues, my article is pretty much reflected that. I don't know what you mean about the GFDL part, but I'll look into it. (TuxedoInferno 03:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC))

Okay. What you can do (also good for experimenting with Wikitext) is start a personal userpage like User:TuxedoInferno/Disk case and create the article there, then move it to Disk case when you're done and copyright issues are cleared up. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 03:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Good idea and I hope I can ask you to help me on my little English, too.  :) By the way, what copyrights are you asking for? Pictures, images, texts? I'm not good with these kinda things. (TuxedoInferno 04:04, 25 January 2006 (UTC))

Basically, everything that is on Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL. While this prevents blatant cut and paste plagiarism incidents, it also prevents contributors from writing text for Wikipedia and saying "Only Wikipedia can use it" (because that's not what the GFDL is all about: we're all about free content). So if we want to use your pictures/images on Wikipedia, they must be licensed under GFDL. Regarding text, well, it's probably better to play the safe side and license that in GFDL too (even if you're not directly copy-pasting it to Wikipedia). P.S. Your English is fairly good, methinks. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 04:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Is it my site that I need to sign up for the GFDL? If so, how do you do that? Well, those pictures of those disc cases, it's me who made them and took them with my camera, so not really an issue with the copyrights. Boy, it's confusing.

No, GFDL is not a service you sign up for ;-) When you create something, the US government automatically assigns you copyright. These give you exclusive rights to the stuff you make. When you see stuff on the web, you sometimes see "All Rights Reserved", that means that the creator retains all these exclusive rights.

A license gives people permission to do things: in effect, you are granting the user certain rights, such as the right to reproduce the file, to make changes to it and redistribute those changes, etc. GFDL is one such license. The most salient points are that "it stipulates that any copy of the material, even if modified, carry the same license". The license grants perpetual rights, so it is sort of irrevokable (although, as long as you retain the copyright, you may grant other rights to other people under different licenses, or cease granting GFDL licenses (even though anyone who originally "got" the license still has the right to redistribute)).

You may be interested in reading about the open source movement, which explains quite a bit of the rationale for such a system even though it is more pertinent to code.

As to how to license you stuff, you simply follow the instructions on the GFDL page, which basically requires you to add a snippet to the end of your text as well as a copy of the license. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 22:15, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] defence of edit to Cowboy Bebop

Hi. I've seen your edit comment after I removed the deprecated {{background}}. In my defence, I didn't remove an important link, as it was already linked (and still is) in the next sentence. If you feel that it also needs the link at the top of the section, {{details}} might be better than {{main}}, as it is also used for several other sections of the article. Cheers. --Scott Davis ^Talk 03:35, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Linkspamming

I notice that you remove a lot of links that you regard as linkspam. I understand that you want to keep Wikipedia's content in high respects, but some of this is overkill. Many of the sites that you have removed are deserving of a spot under links on that page. I would like you to think twice before removing a site like.

Also, for instance, the Fullmetal Alchemist page contains many links to non-FMA sites.24.28.119.202 05:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FullMetal Alchemist Episode List

I noticed that the page was edited, I was wondering if you did it if i'd be able to add a bit more to the summaries if I could Find more? I'm not sure how you get answers onto other's pages but if you could get an answer onto Crimson Alchemist page A.S.A.P so I can know if I can start —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.34.35.5 (talk • contribs).

I have the knowledge to verify the summaries, but, unfortunantely, not the time. I'm interested in seeing what you anons and new users can come up with, so I'll make some edits here and there concerning stylistic matters, but you're doing a great job getting the content out. I hope I answered your question... (not really sure what your last sentence is about). — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 02:23, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Protection of anon IP talk page

Unprotected for now. Just for reference: a block does not prevent an IP user from tampering with messages left on his/her own talk page. --BorgQueen 08:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism of Salem Witch Trials

Hi, I think your idea about dropping the lists is a good one. You might consider taking an interest in Institut Le Rosey as well. It has exactly the same problem. A lot of anons add names to the list of people who supposedly attended that school, and I'm sometimes not sure whether it's a valid edit or deliberate vandalism. AnnH ^(talk) 23:38, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Use on talk page

Well IANAL, but I'm sure it could qualify for fair use (at least in some cases) speaking from a strictly legal perspective. The problem in this case is that Wikipedia policy explicitly doesn't allow fair use images outside articles (feel free to link to existing used fair use images though). If you need a fair use image as "proof" for whatever I would suggest uploading it somewhere else (like Photobucket or whatever), unless it already appear online and then link to it off-site instead. Fair use images on the Wikipedia servers will as a matter of policy get deleted if they do not appear in actual articles, so this would be a better long term solution anyway IMHO. --Sherool (talk) 22:14, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maintaining Fullmetal Alchemist talk page

Hi there! I'm fairly new around here, maybe about 6 months into it, but I was looking over the Fullmetal Alchemist talk page, and I was wondering if I could help out in any way. I have seen a copy of the entire series, Japanese, and almost all English episodes. I'm a reliable source, but I'm having trouble getting my user page started. I'm usually on 4-5 times a week, and more than willing to help out. I'm excited to become a bigger part of Wiki, and would like to get better at fixing articles, and starting them too. If you need, help, please let me know!Aeris of Iniquity 01:36, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• State Military characters of Fullmetal Alchemist is currently being peer reviewed. Your input on the page and its needed improvements would be apreciated. TomStar81 00:33, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Unfoutunatly I could not find a templete to this effect (probably do to my poor spelling) so I created one on the spot. If you find a templete that says something to this effect drop me a line and I will switch out mine for yours. TomStar81 02:57, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks! I am making the switch right now. I apreciate your help in finding the templete ;) TomStar81 03:40, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requesting Help

Hey Ed, I made a page on the roll step we preform in Marching Band but was a little vague on the detail as I cannot preform an accurate one ;). Please feel free to add additional information. Ram32110 04:25, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal

Hi. I found you at random from the list of admins. There is a user that keeps deleting the Shi'a Muslim pov from a article. Could you take a look and see if the actions are appropriate? [1]

I was thought that Wikipedia wanted to represent all views. In case the user says it is not relevant as a view, then the user is removing it as a simple fact, also a violation so far i have learned.

Simply put: No mater how the user argues, that information can not be removed in its entirety--Striver 03:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikisource Annotations

Hi! You've been absent from Wikisource for a while. But you once got a good discussion going about annotations.

That discussion is back in action and I invite you to take part.

See the more recent sections at s:Wikisource talk:Annotations. I would like to see this matter settled once and for all (hopefully my way of course, but regardless :-). Dovi 20:29, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shhh its a secret

--mitrebox 22:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] is the president of Iran. Appartenly he has decided to nuke you and perhaps everyone else in your general vicinity. --mitrebox 01:57, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I removed w:Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_front_view.jpg.jpg from your talk page because fair use images are not allowed on talk pages. joturner 02:40, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Root page

Thanks for updating the template syntax. I don't claim to understand this at present, and am happy to have others help. Trying to introduce Root page has involved a lot of work trying to understand various detailed issues people have raised regarding policy and procedures, and I'm getting a bit weary of it, but would be dissapointed to see it fail after so much effort. Like Light current I really just want to get on an use it - I like writing best. --Lindosland 12:38, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Ambush,in your rather cryptic post to Lindosland did you mean put the backlink in the text as opposed to standing alone like a sore thumb?--Light current 03:07, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Golden Gate bridge

That's my photograph, one I'm quite pleased with. I originally set it in the "suicides" section, because I figured that it had a sort of "golden end" quality about it, but i didn't want to be too insensitive. Somebody else moved it up when they put in a more suicide-related photograph.

The article is quite long and can take quite a few photographs without looking cluttered, otherwise I'd opt for a Gallery approach, as in Tower Bridge. No need to reply to this. --Jumbo 03:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Band Site

I uploaded a video of the concert band performance in Epcot to Google Video. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2795754657366073372 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.196.235.75 (talk • contribs).

[edit] RV on pH[2]

You've reverted to a previous version. The one you reverted from was the correct one. One uses square brackets [] to indicate concentration of a chemical. The superscript of the + is also correct (it is H ⁺ Ions, not H ₊ Ions. These should anyway be converted to mathematical formulas, using <math>...</math>. I won't revert as that might be seen as an edit war, however I urge you to considder reverting the article yourself, or give me green light for doing so. I believe you edited in good faith, so no problem really :) Thanks, -- vidarlo 22:31, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, please read the context that the formula is in, and note that we're not describing the concentration of the ions, but rather the activity of the ions (the definition given on the Wikipedia page is somewhat deficient, but [3] and [4] should help clear things up.) If this is unclear, we should fix things in the text to make it more so. The more common (but incorrect for high concentrations) formula for pH is supplied immediately below the more accurate definition.

Regarding the particular revert you posted, note that I did have to merge in a few changes, so that revert is not completely representative of the work I did on the article: I suggest checking out this diff. I looked over the text and could not find any instances where the ion's charge was incorrectly subscripted, however, note that elements are not italicized, and H ⁺ is the proper way to express elements (this also needs to be fixed throughout the entire article). I think you may be talking about , which, I assure you, is superscripted properly (it's just that it's a superscript in a subscript).

Finally, even if I did make some mistakes in my revert, I also did many positive things (such as reinstate a deleted section, clarify about the literal meaning of pH and add a reference section). Thank you for not reverting immediately. If you have any more concerns, it would probably be a better idea to air them on the article's talk page. If you still think I'm wrong, blast away. :-) — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 00:07, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I saw that you did a lot good with that revert, but I merely wanted to tell that not anything was perfect ;) For the italicized stuff in <math>...</math> I suggest using \text{foo}^+ to avoid that. IMHO, the mathematical mode should be used in such cases, as it is easier and quicker to write. Anyway, I see your point :). vidarlo 11:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd just like to add that the rv seemed a bit bogus to me, but after reading the diff you provided, I get some more context. Not a perfect revert, but hey, you where bold at least:) vidarlo 11:59, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I use LaTeX outside of Wikipedia, so I understand \text{} is the ideal method, but due to Wikipedia's filtering mechanisms, it isn't accepted: Some text.

pH needs a lot of cleanup, yeah, it isn't a perfect revert. There really is no reason why pH shouldn't be a featured article. It's so high up there in Google. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 21:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Ah, ok I was not aware of that. It should be easy to patch that so \text works though? I guess it is a filter before the TeX is forwarded to the inteprenter...

And yes, pH should be a featured article. Maybe one should go trough the proper channels for Featured status after some cleanup, fixing errors and such. vidarlo 08:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the suggestion

I think I will get an account.

Sincerely,

64.107.172.130 -- 68.253.220.26 15:51, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Erm... who are we talking about? (I don't seem to have seen you before...) — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 19:49, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I seem to have found the issue: User talk:64.107.172.130#Thanks for reverting vandalism -- Jokes Free4Me 14:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Haha. Posting from a different IP... ah well. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 18:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stroop effect

It wasn't really an edit war, since i had never edited that page before, and the fact is that the flash in the second link explicitly contained 'b3ta.com' in its lower right part... -- Jokes Free4Me 12:29, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... I guess the comment wasn't directed at you. A while ago, there were some anons fighting over which link was the "real" one to link to, so I assumed that changing it was part of that old conflict. The link really doesn't belong there at all: while it is "identify the color", it bears little resemblance to the original Stroop experiment. Thanks for asking though. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 19:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LinkFix bot

Hi, do you still run that LinkFix bot? If so, would you mind running it on Banksia brownii for me? Snottygobble 03:07, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I do, although I haven't run it for a while. I'll see if I still remember how to operate it. ;-) — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 03:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Accidentally performed the check on Banksia, however, it's working great, so I'll have Banksia brownii done in no time. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 03:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Done. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 03:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Snottygobble 03:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

My thanks as well, the Banksia article is useful as well Gnangarra 03:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, glad to see someone handled that one too! — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 12:59, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:T'ai Chi Ch'üan

Greetings! I'm pretty sure what happened is that some other editors changed the name of the article, possibly twice, without making a redirect from the old name(s). So I think we may have had Talk:T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Talk:Tai Chi Chuan archived, either of which could have become redlinked when the name was recently changed to Talk:T'ai Chi Ch'üan? I was aware that the name had been changed recently, but I wasn't too involved with the change. I didn't remember to subsequently check up on the archives afterwards, my bad... --Fire Star 火星 14:17, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

That's definitely it. Well, not too much harm done, we'd just have multiple copies of the archives floating around. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 15:41, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deja Vu, Synchronicty, Carl Jung

Hello, you blocked my IP address due to my correction of the date of publication of Jung's On Synchronicity on the Deja Vu page. The 1966 date that was there is the date of publication of a collection of works and not the original paper. I know the paper is not from 1966 because I've seen it in the bookstore with a 50's copyright date. Also, Jung died in 1961. Also, the bibliography on the Carl Jung page lists 1952, so I edited the Deja Vu page to match. This is the only edit I've ever made to Wikipedia, and it is hardly vandalism, please unblock my IP.

Thanks, Aaron —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.19.25.224 (talk • contribs).

While I did rollback your edit and posted a warning on your talk page, I did not block your IP address (after all, you can still edit!)

It's good that you're disputing this, I did a casual online search, found two sites that referenced 1966 and figured that was the correct date. The fact that he died in 1961 is quite convincing, and I believe you.

However, it would still be nice if you could find an online source that gave the correct date, as I'm sure another casual Wikipedian may see that and think it's the incorrect date.

Once again, your IP was not blocked (I'm not as block-happy as some of the other admins) but subtle misinformation is a problem around here, so when you do changes like that, make sure you give rationale in your edit summary and source your claims. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 14:46, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I didn't think you had blocked me, but I went to the sandbox and it gave me a message that I couldn't edit since I was blocked. It may have been for some other reason, but I just assumed. :) Obviously, I was able to edit this page, and I'm not seeing the message now, so I don't know what that was about.

Anyway, like I said, the Carl Jung page in Wikipedia lists 1952, so I just made it match. I'll see if I can find an additonal source.

Thanks,

Aaron

[edit] Fan Fiction nominated for an Article Improvement Drive

I figured you'd want to know that the fan fiction article has been nominated for an Article Improvement Drive. :) Runa27 22:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia email - An answer of sorts to your post

In template talk:indent you said:

Indenting This doesn't apply to spacing. Why not use the CSS text-indent? — Edward Z. Yang(Talk) 18:46, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

What's Zat?

I can use a mentor. I'm a hardware engineer primarily with a BSCE and 2X master's but have avoid scripts and more modern CS stuff in general with some cause--we all can't be good at everything. Hence my script and HTML and wiki markup skills are on a big learning curve. While I know 'about' the existance of the Wikipedia:(Msomething).CSS file (I know how to find the name when needed-I'm in a hurry now! Forgive!) that defines things like class=sisterprojects, wikitables and such, I can even get a good sense of parts, but I'm not fluent with such, nor follow your reference. Don't know anything about Unicodes and font schemes either, save I know the order of the latter matters in some cases (Indent and Space were one such) and that is messing with those on two other sister projects.

So what do you mean. Think WikiBooks template WikiPtmp shows that ugly square box when used in text. But they don't have the info box classes either. So someone that may know someone that can lead me to who can fix that over there is a welcome asset... as is someone who could explain what you meant with such a blythe query.

Not to slam you, but do keep in mind that there are a lot of lay editors out here! (Even if I'm only half such). I'd had a longer post to you but lost it since I overwrote the thing before previewing the message on this browser window while working over in another and needed to check a URL... Normally overwriting the address bar just means backing back to the edit page and finishing... but forgot the preview.

Alas, the wife's nagging. Gotta go.

FrankB // FrankB 20:41, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

aka user:fabartus

Text indent looks like this:

The project-wide CSS stylesheet you are referring to is MediaWiki:Monobook.css. Unicode is not relevant to this situation. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 01:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please don't bite the newbies...

...especially since your userpage is semi-protected, so the actually clueless (but good intentioned) can't give you a reply and may misconstrue it as bad faith (I presume you don't watch every talk page you post on). This is a specific reference to User talk:Tip02. That being said, your work is greatly appreciated here on Wikipedia. Someone's got to do the dirty work. (vandalism on the user talk page almost certainly means you're doing something right) Signed a fellow admin. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 23:50, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. I didn't consider my comments on Rhapsody in Blue to be biting, although they may be to-the-point. Users are free to interpret as they wish, but no slight was implied or explicit in the words, tone or essential message. Regards, (aeropagitica) 23:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Your tone was fine. What frustrated the user was that there was no way to get back to you (the semi-protected talk page). Is semiprotection really that necessary? — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 00:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

On second inspection, it appears that the user was guilty with sockpuppetry. Something is up... — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 00:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I caught that too. Both Tip02 and CrookToe appear to be puppets of Mattisse (more info at User_talk:(aeropagitica)#Comment without context). If you are an admin, could you put the puppet master tag back on Mattisse? It seems she asked another admin to protect her page, then removed the tag just before it was protected. So only an admin can restore it... —Hanuman Das 01:37, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link fix

Hi, if you get a change could you run the link fix bot on Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Thanks. --Peta 23:35, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

In progress. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 23:38, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 23:49, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'd be neat if a recommendation for the link fix bot could be built into AndyZ's peer review bot.--Peta 00:30, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

What criteria would it use though? — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 01:02, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Sadly I don't know anything about bots, I just think it would be useful if people were forced to check their links more often - and the automated peer review seemed like a good time to suggest it to editors.--Peta 01:04, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Timur

IP: 85.102.187.247 is deleting sources in the above mentioned article, and keeps deleting to a wrong version. I think the page needs protection. Tājik 18:33, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Is it possible for you to have a look at the article 'Timur'? User Tajik tries to falsify the older text about his ethnicity. Furthermore you can have a look at the article 'Turco-Mongol' to be able to understand why his ethnicity was written as Turco-Mongol. I suggested to talk with him but he didn't reply. Thanks.

• Timur - Concise Britannica Online
• Timur - Encyclopaedia Britannica

--85.102.187.247 18:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Currently investigating. Note that both of you have been blocked for 3RR, which, Tajik, is quite disappointing noting that you are an experienced editor and have already been blocked previously on 3RR. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 22:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

After having reviewed the extensive talk page discussion on the subject, I believe you guys need to stop citing encyclopedias and find some primary and secondary sources, as well as come to an agreement on what the term ethnicity means, weighing in all the different aspects from the primary blood/genealogy aspect to the culture/linguistic/etc aspects. In short, make a decision! Consolidate your arguments, and present them in the article together. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 23:10, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Afghanistan

Could you please have a look at Afghanistan. User:NisarKand is kind of vandalizing. I had to revert several vandalism-like edits. Just have a look at the history of the article: [5]. Especially this one: [6] Tājik 16:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Assume good faith! Try to talk to the user first before doing a revert. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 16:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi admin. While you are at it, could you also have a look at the articles Ahmad Shah Abdali and Ahmad Shah Durrani. I am not familiar with merging articles, but these two must be merged! Tājik 23:38, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

They're almost identical, so what you need to do is edit Ahmed Shah Abdali, copy paste Ahmad Shah Durrani over it, and then click show changes to see what's different. Then, open another edit page for Ahmed Shah Abdali and merge in the good stuff. Then, redirect Ahmad Shah Durrani to the main article. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 23:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Linkfix bot - Request

Edward in June you ran linkfix on Banksia brownii which has since become an FA. Would you kind enough to run the bot over Banksia integrifolia thank you in advance. Gnangarra 07:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 14:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

thanks for that Gnangarra 09:58, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spambots on your status site

Could you please implement some kind of anti-spam feature for your site? There have been many hits there from spammers. Thanks Naconkantari 04:29, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh dear. Hmm... I really don't want to put a captcha on there. I'll see what I can do. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 04:49, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

FYI, more (lengthy) spam on your Wikipedia status page. →James Kidd (contr/talk/email) 11:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's annoying. I've decided to keep a close eye on the status site (the quickly hacked out RSS feed helps) and ban the bots as they come. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 21:24, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] jrsey@hotmail.com

This user is linkspamming the wikistatus FirefoxMan 13:44, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

IP blocked. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 14:57, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] writingpot vandals at it again

I just reverted another SPAMming statusvandal, suggest you block the IP/see if it's an open proxy (It might be blockable here too). 68.39.174.238 14:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

IP blocked. I did a little research into some of the IPs I've blocked and it's seems most of them are open proxies or zombie computers. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 14:57, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Three more at it again... Too bad you can't just use the same blocklist as WpA. 68.39.174.238 16:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Blocked. I could, but it would be difficult getting my hands on the data. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 17:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

More of them, including "jrsey@hotmail", why not just use Special:ipblocklist? 68.39.174.238 19:31, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

It's not delivered in a machine friendly format. And as far as I know, api.php offers no facility for pulling a current blocklist. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 20:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

That sux. They're still at it, including "Dany" who made such an off topic comment I am highly suspicious. 68.39.174.238 20:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Noxious SPAMs again

Another one of the "set all symptoms to on" vandals. 68.39.174.238 23:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arr maytey!

The SPAMmers be replying to your comments now! It be casinos this time, who've escaped the privateering source of the Kentucky! 68.39.174.238 21:44, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Blocked. I used to have a bevy of spammers attacking a six month-old comment, which, ironically, was not publically readable. Hmm! — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 00:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Banned from the wikistatus

http://www.thewritingpot.com/wikistatus/

I have IP IP 84.13.57.125 and was banned for vandalism from there, for changing the status of wikipedia from "site down" to normal. I was just wondering why, since I changed it when the site came up... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jamiehd (talk • contribs) 23:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC).

You were unbanned about thirty seconds later when I realized that the site was indeed up. Sorry about that, I was a little trigger happy after another IP had vandalized the status page. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 04:06, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia's Status

I suggest you add an option for the tool server. Happy Editing by Snowolf^(talk)_CON^COI on 23:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Ooh, that's a good idea. Will do. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 00:14, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible doppelganger

Hi, I am an admin, but I'd like a little outside assistance on this case. User:67.53.78.15 appears to be posting on multiple talk pages while emulating the signatures of multiple non-existent users. Obviously something's amiss, although I'm not exactly what I should do in this case. Help requested. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 02:02, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• I told them how faking signatures is unacceptable and they should either sign so their IP appears or register an account. If they continue faking sigs, the IP can be blocked. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I will keep an eye on the IP. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 23:06, 27 February 2007 (UTC)