Archive of February 2007

Request talk page restoration

Misza13, is it possible to get User talk:Rememberkigali restored?[1] That particular user was one appearance of a formerly anonymous editor who pops up from time to time to harass me, (see his contribution list) and I would like to have the talk page history available if necessary to show previous warnings and dispute resolution.

This had previously come up on the Administrator's noticeboard - my understanding from that discussion was that we agreed to blank the talk page but leave it so that the history was still available. Should I have tagged the page as something to keep it live?

Thanks! TheronJ 22:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

The main reason why the page was deleted is that it lingered in the CAT:TEMP category for too long. Every now and then, some admins may delete pages fro mthat category, unless they are tagged with some other specific tags, like sockpuppets. If it is an incarnation of another user, you may use one of the Sockpuppet templates. Alternatively, substitute the indef template and remove the category by hand (although this doesn't guarantee that someone won't delete pages via backlinks of the octagon image). Cheers, Миша13 22:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, done. (RK is not quite a sockpuppet - he had previously edited from an IP, and he never created another name, so he doesn't quite qualify). TheronJ 00:26, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes

Say I want to makes my own userboxes, such as:

This user is a resident of the third planet from Sol (the blue one).

Just like you did. That looks like a userbox allright. Can you expand what you mean? Миша13 20:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

For example, {{Wdefcon|prefix=User:Misza13/}} makes

If I understand you correctly now, what you want to do is edit User:SuperLuigi31/Userboxes/User earth and put the code {{subst:userbox|black|blue|[[Image:Solar_sys2.jpg|50px]]|This user is a resident of the third planet from Sol (the blue one).}} there (it will get expanded to the full wikicode). Then, to actually put the userbox on a userpage, use the code {{User:SuperLuigi31/Userboxes/User earth}}. Миша13 22:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, thank you! --SuperLuigi31 22:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Why wasn't User:SuperLuigi31/Userboxes/User vulcan philosophy convertd into WikiCode? --SuperLuigi31 17:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Because you wrote ((userbox|...}} instead of {{subst:userbox|...}}. Please read WP:SUBST. Миша13 18:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Lol after all of this, you had might as well adopt my WP account! Anyway, I have just a few more questions. I did the Wikipediholic test and came to wonder: what are bots, how do they work, and how would I go about making one? I am by no means planning on jumping up and making a bot (I'm still rather new, dispite my general proficiency at WP.), however I feel that that would be a good thing to learn about. Thanks!

PS: Nice geek code! --SuperLuigi31 01:58, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi Misza13, can you help me make a user page? Chunchuan 08:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm to busy at the moment (mostly in real life) to engage in more projects. I suggest that you try out putting the {{User FixMyPage}} template on your userpage and visit Wikipedia:WikiProject User Page Help to find people volunteering to overhaul people's userpages. Good luck, Миша13 12:16, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Гаврилов Сергей

Hello Misza13

What for you have blocked me in Wikipedia I there am registered - Gavrilov Sergey (Гаврилов Сергей) I live in Russia. Has written in discussion some amendments on a theme football. I was more than anything bad did not write. You of me are exact with whom that have mixed, or who that has written that that bad from my name. I to anybody bad did not make anything

Gavrilov Sergey (Гаврилов Сергей) Saint Petersburg Russia

[2] Your account or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Misza13 for the following reason (see our blocking policy):

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.204.219.100 (talk • contribs) 22:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

Hello. I have blocked your account citing our policy WP:USERNAME, which encourages users to register accounts which are transliterations of the non-latin (cyrylic in your case) characters. In your case, a best solution would be to register and use the account User:Gavrilov Sergey. Миша13 22:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Гаврилов Сергей

Hello Миша. Thank. I have understood all. I should change Username. It is necessary to write Gavrilov Sergey Because of bad knowledge of English, I tried to make it, but nothing it turns out. Миша, the big request explain to me in Russian as it to make Or if probably change mine Username on necessary. Or completely remove me, I registration again. On all attempts the computer gives out all the same mine Username - Russian letters.

Username: Gavrilov Sergey —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.204.219.100 (talk) 10:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC).

Sorry, but I'm not Russian, but Polish and don't speak russian well enough. Anyway, I have unblocked the account User:Гаврилов Сергей. Please log on it, go to WP:CHU and post a request to change your username (to Gavrilov Sergey, for example) by following instructions given there. Миша13 15:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:Henrygale2.jpg

You deleted Image:Henrygale2.jpg because it was "an unused fair use image". This is incorrect. Its been present, as far as I can tell, in the Benjamin Linus article this whole week, which can be verified by examining the history. It hasn't been removed. I would appreciate it if you undeleted the picture. Thanks.--CyberGhostface 23:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Very strange. I have undeleted it now, but the image page still doesn't say it is being used (and the article doesn't display the image). Must be some rare glitch or not updated cache. :-O Cheers, Миша13 23:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

After the image was deleted the picture was removed off the page, but part of it was after I had added it back to the page I had never bothered to remove the template. Anyway, thanks for your help in this matter, I appreciate it.--CyberGhostface 03:05, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

admin actions bot

By any chance, are you using a bot to rapidly delete/protect/block, or do you just have a lot of open tabs on your browser? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.162.111.249 (talk) 13:30, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

A mixture of both. Completely obvious cases go away automatically, and the rest I handle personally. Миша13 13:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Do you have bot aproval for this?Geni 16:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

According to WP:RBOT, "there are no bots currently authorized to run with sysop rights". Миша13 19:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

On know this. One what basis are you then running this bot?Geni 21:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

If I wanted to keep this conversation amusing, I'd say "on a daily basis". :) But I guess your question is more of a philosophical nature, i.e. "what the f*** do you think you're doing?" Well, I must say I was conflicted here - on one hand, there is our WP:BOT policy (which is majorly flawed and outdated, but that's beside the point) which requires me not only to get an approval for something that's perfectly fine to do, but also, quite possibly to go through a silly process of RfA, unless I didn't want to run it off a different account (but then I'd probably get shouted at for bypassing RfA using BRFA). On the other hand, I have the Prime Directive, as well as some serious copyright law to consider. Having weighted all factors, I have decided to apply WP:IAR selectively, help keep Wikipedia legally-safe and help some folks clean up the 3-day backlog of 1000s of images on CAT:ORFU. So far I have deleted something in the range of 10000 images in the span of 3 days (so that other admins can attend to more mind-involving issues), I have received a total of 1 (one) "complaint" (thread above), which wasn't even caused by an error on my side.

And now that we're speaking seriously, I'd like to ask you a question: Is this a problem for you? Do you question any of my deletions or just the fact that I did them automatically, saving others' (and my) time? Do you want me to release the source code so that you "know what's it doing" or do you want me to stop and go through torments of having to explain myself to the unfortunately-still-zomg-adminbot-paranoid community? (And given ProtectionBot's failure (and that was a mild adminbot, unlike this "crazy" rapid deletion script) I lean to doubt it'd get an approval.) Миша13 22:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Question: is the bot just going through the per-day sub-cats of Category:Orphaned fairuse images or is it actually verifying on a per-image basis that each image is not presently being used in article space? If it's not checking this, should it? --Cyde Weys 00:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'll be posting the code shortly. But here's what it does. It goes through the given CAT:ORFU subcategory and deletes every image that satisfies the following conditions:

• Image is orphaned, i.e. not used in article namespace
• The image page has been edited no earlier than 7 days ago (sometimes I shorten it to 6 days to finish off a day's category before the end of day)
• The last editor of the page was one of: User:BJBot, User:Fritzbot, User:OrphanBot.

Suggestions are welcome, though I think it's quite safe a setup. Миша13 00:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

PS: User:Misza13/Scripts/catorfu.py - okay, so I lied. :) I have added one non-bot to the list of authorized taggers (a very active one). Миша13 00:21, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Status Switcher

I can't seem to get you status switcher to work. I'm running FireFox and have cached the browser. Do you know what's wrong? --TeckWiz^ParlateContribs_@ 23:04, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

You had a stray comment closing tag, which I have removed. WP:PURGE if necessary, but it should work now. Cheers, Миша13 19:32, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiThanks

Just wondering

Hey, what is that AAAAAAAAAAAAA thing that shows up behind the wikiglobe on your user and talk pages? Aditya Kabir 08:47, 14 February 2007 (UTC) - Please, answer to my talk page

Thanks. Aditya Kabir 10:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Two images unfortunately deleted by you, can you help?

It seems that you have deleted two images I uploaded (Image:Chaltikanaam.gif and Image:Gangulybros01.jpg), along with all the painstaking work that went into rationalizing fair use and citing sources and authors, because they were lying about quite orphaned and were tagged as such by BJBot. Very unfortunate, because I was busy at the time and could not check on WP much, if at all.

They were not orphans to begin with, but rather was a part of the Ganguly family (films) article. A certain user (User:Prince Godfather) removed them from the article and reinstated a completely copyvio image gallery removed much earlier from the page. This amazing deed was reverted by another user (User:Yamla), but it was too late for the two images I mentioned.

Please note, that this particular user...

• has been accused of sockpuppetry
• has broken all civility guidelines
• contributes a great deal without any regard for verifiability or citation policies
• practices vandalism
• was blocked from WP once or twice, is engaged in quite a few edit wars
• ...and has responded very unfavorably when I questioned his behavior about the images in discussion.

I am checking this user as much as I can, though without the tools available to admins it's quite an arduous task. But, whatever happens to this amazing user, I'd very much like to have those images back on Wikipedia. I have learned the ropes for fair use policies the hard way, and am weary of the task of reinstating the info and rationales that are required.

It would be very helpful if you could tell me what do I have to do in getting those two images back along with the rationale and info back to the article I mentioned. Please, bear in mind that none of these two images had gone through any trouble with fair use (never tagged or reported at that). The orphan state was a misunderstanding brought about by a decadent user, not a fault of the uploader (which happens to be me). Can you help, please? Aditya Kabir 14:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC) - Please, respond to my talk page

See also, may be

• Discussion at User talk:Prince Godfather#Did you really have to do this?.
• Discussion at User talk:Aditya Kabir#Please help.

Resource persons

On the conduct of User:Prince Godfather:

• User:Yamla
• User:Anwar saadat

User Page

Hi, how do you do so the user page code is flipped? And, can i copy your page? Dvyjones^t·c·e 15:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Some magic with the special unicode RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE (U+202E) character. And copy freely if you wish; my contributions are PD-licensed, unless otherwise noted. Миша13 17:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry and thanks

Sorry to write such an epic. Well, this was the first time I requested to have images back, and probably the 50th time I got images deleted. Babbled too much... it's the nerves, I guess. And, thank you very much. Cheers. Aditya Kabir 20:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Hahahahahhahaha hahahahahhahahahahha hahahahhahahah oh my god hahahahahhahahahah. Aditya Kabir 07:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

image undeletion

Dear admin. You are one of the admins that deleted one of the around 70 images that became unlinked due to a change in an Infobox. This resulted in many of these images to become orphaned and subsequently deleted because they are not Free images. It took a while before the less experienced authors understood there was a problem and informed more experienced authors to look into the problem. Because these images would not be deleted if the template change had gone without problems, I ask they be undeleted. kindly -- 20:50, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

The swiftness...

My god you're fast! You've beaten me to that Longcat username three times :P. How I envy you...¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 02:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Y'know, brain-computer neural interface and all... :-D Миша13 08:41, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 04:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Speedy-deleted image has been uploaded under another name

The uploader of an image you have speedy-deleted per CSD i5 (Unused unfree copyrighted images) has uploaded the same image again as Image:Goguryeo 1.jpg. The user seems to have uploaded it mainly for display at their user page, i.e. outside article space, so it is not covered under the fair use doctrine.

The uploader says the image can be found on many South Korean websites, but I doubt that makes it public domain. I have not tagged the new upload – perhaps you can decide what to do with it? Wikipeditor 13:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Right now, the image is being used on an article, so I have tagged it with {{fairusein}} and with {{fairusereview}} additionally, because I'm not a licensing expert in general. Additionally, I have removed the image from the user's page. Миша13 17:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiDefcon Question

Hello, I was wondering how you made your WikiDefcon thing? I would like to make one as well....would you mind giving me a couple pointers and a blank template (I won't copy yours...that would be rude), I would greatly appericate it. Thanks! Take care....SVRTVDude ^{(Yell - Toil)} 18:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, there's nothing rude in that - go ahead and copy freely. :-) My contributions are licensed PD unless otherwise noted. The simplest way is to create User:Orangemonster2k1/Wdefcon, make it a copy of User:Misza13/Wdefcon, for example, and adjust the layout and look&feel to your wish. Миша13 15:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

WP:AIV

Misza, WP:AIV is undergoing a heavy backlog. I notice that you maybe the only admin online, but could you help clear the backlog, because there is a HEAVY increase in vandalism. Thanks. Real96 23:41, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism warnings

Hi. I noticed that you had to revert the Jim Carrey article a couple of times today. I wanted to let you know that I placed a Level 2 warning on the User's talk page. I thought about going straight to Level 3, but wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.--Vbd | (talk) 01:01, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

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Deletions

I would invite you to comment on this thread where your activities are mentioned. Dragons flight 20:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Soonish

Thanks, you beat me by a second. ~ trialsanderrors 21:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Stop it

Don't revert my edits to the MJ article. That's as much as I'm saying. Noogster 22:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, for some reason edits like this look to me like if the article in question has been completely butchered (and in fact, the intro has been completely stripped of references). Finally, I don't like the tone of "That's as much as I'm saying." Миша13 22:25, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I didn't make that edit, Avraham did. The article does look a bit butchered, and for very good reason: the subject matter is extremely controversial. Both Christians and Rabbinic Jews completely misunderstand our religious beliefs and on Wikipedia apparently believe that they are much more qualified to define the finer points of our religion than we are. Edits or creation of Messianic Judaism articles. It is no surprise that the articles look torn. Noogster 22:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Is this the edit that Avraham did? Миша13 22:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Reverting User Talk Page

Dont revert my page anymore. Its mine. I want it blank. No more touch. Its very easy.--Kanekutter05 23:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

No, it's not - please see WP:OWN. Also, removal of legitimate warnings is also prohibited. Миша13 23:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)