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Contents 1 report related?? 2 Barnstar 3 Humanbot bugs 4 Oops 5 PlayStation and Xbox 6 VfD closing semi-automator 7 allpages report 8 SQL query... 9 Just an idea for Humanbot... 10 Thank you for your support 11 Removal 12 General bot question 13 >_> 14 Oops 15 Book Of Esdras 16 Wikipedia:Mind Benders 17 Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs 18 Hot 19 source code for linkbot, wiki syntax project, missing redirects now online 20 Spelling 21 Congratulations! 22 wpvfdhide? 23 Year zero 24 Any help? 25 Quick question for ya 26 Orphaned talk pages 27 Need for a bot 28 COTW vs. Improvement Drive 29 Wikipedia:Mind Benders 30 Menudo members 31 Welcome to the Computer help desk 32 Glacier proposal 33 age 34 Table namespace 35 Orphan talk pages 35.1 Old deletion discussions 36 wpvfdhide: now AfD, not VfD 37 Most common grammar problem 38 Ido Wikibooks 39 Temporary test 40 Wikipedia:Stressbusters 41 Bots... 42 moved conversation 43 Maoririder 44 Image deletion 45 Sauce Money 46 Humanbot 47 Ahem! 48 Hey about my image. 49 Hold (grappling) 50 Speedy keep on Paul Crowley? 51 Justin Smith 52 Deletion tool 53 delaid feature request 54 Hi R3m0t! 55 speedy deletion 56 Copyvio problem and delation of talk page??? 57 Speedy Deletes 58 Max Beesley 59 Image:Over-Issaquah.jpg 60 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daily Collections + others 61 Bot help? 62 Speedy delete update 63 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magic Kingdom (band) 64 Monobook speedy bot 65 User:Cool Cat/monobook.js 66 Monobook, part II 67 Reposting Deleted Material 68 Article Removed 69 Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion 70 User:Pilotguy 71 PPL script 72 Yo! 73 Image Tagging Image:Shodo.JPG 74 Script 75 User:Humanbot 76 Edit summary script 77 Orphaned talk pages 78 Switch from speedy to proposed deletion on Historical comparison of economy cars 2006 79 Welcome to VandalProof! 80 Removed PROD tag from Newtown High School (New York City) 81 Wal-Mart 82 VandalProof 1.2 Now Available 83 CAT:CSD 84 Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3 85 Change to Common.css 86 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Gimpsylogo.gif) 87 Deletion Review

[edit] report related??

You have a heading that says "report related stuff". Is it telling people to report stuff that is related? Or does it mean "report-related stuff"? You see how magnificently efficiently a modest little hyphen can disambiguate. Michael Hardy 00:55, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. r3m0t 07:10, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Moved to User:R3m0t

[edit] Humanbot bugs

Hi, I caused some damage via humanbot; it removes/mangles some puntuation, like "+" and dashes. I manually checked my edits and reverted many. Please check out User talk:Humanbot; I'm worried others may unwittingly be mangling pages.

Econrad 02:33, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Oops

Oops – I remember doing that one. I did think I had only done one correction, but it would seem that I was wrong... Sorry, and cheers! smoddy 10:11, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about the update. Well done: Humanbot is great! Keep up the good work. Cheers, smoddy 09:59, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] PlayStation and Xbox

Humanbot seems to want to replace the words "PlayStation" and "Xbox" with exactly the same words (see my contributions for an example).

Also, you mention not to use more than one instance of humanbot in firefox, is it ok to have two, but open in different instances of firefox, as opposed to just different tabs of the same instance? I tried, and it seems to work, but i dont want to screw it up. that way i can double my productivity! p.s. great work - thanks Bluemoose 21:44, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] VfD closing semi-automator

Sounds like a good idea, though I rarely close VfDs -- too many trolls out for my head. RickK 00:01, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] allpages report

See this bug for the allpages report speedup method.Jamesday

[edit] SQL query...

I notice you say on the pages related to Humanbot (for which, many kudos) that you're finding duplicates in your SQL queries. You don't give an example, so I'm not 100% sure, but is SELECT DISTINCT ... what you're looking for? If not, could you give some more detail, I might be able to help. Alai 04:30, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Actually, that's outdated info. I don't need to remove duplicates. Thanks anyway. :) r3m0t ^talk 05:50, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Just an idea for Humanbot...

Moved to User talk:Humanbot

[edit] Thank you for your support

Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 14:42, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removal

Hi. I left a message at User_talk:Humanbot because I was just getting an 'update' message when I tried to use the script. You've removed my questions without comment - do you not want anyone else to join this project? Paul Tracy_\talk

OK thanks. Paul Tracy_\talk

[edit] General bot question

Hi R3m0t, I'm wondering how easy it is to set up a bot that does specific text substitution. I had the idea of changing the stub sorting system on the Spanish wikipedia, but to do that it would require doing thousands of specific substitutions of text like {{stub about|math}} to {{math-stub}} and {{stub about|biographies}} to {{bio-stub}}. I have no clue how to write bot programs, but I do know a bit of C++ =). Probably doesn't help one bit. But if you could, let me know about how easy it would be to do that, and perhaps where I could learn how =). Thanks. --Spangineer (háblame) 15:13, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Very easy. Honest. :) I will be able to run it for you. Just write up a list of substitions and get it signed by many people (say 20) on a Spanish wikipedia page, and I will be able to run it. r3m0t ^talk 15:44, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC) PS I am quite happy to teach you something about bot-writing if you really want.

Cool, thanks alot. I'm talking with them about it now; we'll see how long it takes for people to agree, vote, etc. And yeah, I think it would be cool to learn something about those bots. Is there source code somewhere that I could peruse? How high a level of programming language is it done in? --Spangineer (háblame) 16:32, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] >_>

User talk:Humanbot#Humanbot--Fito 20:25, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Oops

Sorry, didn't know signatures shouldn't have pictures. :) Will change ASAP, thanks! Flcelloguy Give me a note! Desk 21:44, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) (I probably should sign this after I've changed my sig, but oh well...)

How's this? Flcelloguy| Give me a note! | Desk 21:47, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've shortened it. Thanks for your input. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 17:35, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Book Of Esdras

I took the extraordinary liberty of turning this page, which you had marked for speedy deletion, into a disambig page, and in the process removed the speedy notice. Just wanted to give you a heads-up about this. If you think that I did wrong, you or someone is sure to let me know. Smerdis of Tlön 15:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Mind Benders

Hello! I've noticed your past interest in Wikipedia:Mind Benders and wanted to share the following announcement with you! I've taken over the responsibilities of Mind Benders, and the page will now be regularly updated. Right now, the pre-round is open (it's more of a creative artistic competition), and round one will open soon (the questions are done, we just need to wait for the pre-round to begin/finish)! So why not check it out? I'll keep you updated! Thanks, Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 01:29, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to pass this news on to other Wikipedians.

[edit] Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs

I know you're good with this kind of stuff, so I was wondering if you could find the time to update Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs. I think it would be a good resource for what should be our priorities. Thanks for your help. --Dmcdevit 07:51, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hot

It doesn't get any hotter than annoyance. Mike Halterman (Talking is hot) 18:34, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] source code for linkbot, wiki syntax project, missing redirects now online

Source code for Wiki Syntax project, missing redirects, and LinkBot is now available. May or may not be of use to you (you have Wiki Syntax project & missing redirects listed as possible projects on your user page). Also you do the phpmediawikibot, so this may or may not contain anything that's useful for that. The code is a bit of a mess, sorry! (had been meaning to clean it up, but work has been nuts, so I figured better to release it as a bit of a mess than to not release it at all). All the best, Nickj (t) 02:33, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling

Hello. I note that you are correcting the spelling of colouration to coloration. I noticed it at the New Zealand Bellbird article. Here in New Zealand both versions are acceptable. Alan Liefting 28 June 2005 11:37 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 1 July 2005 15:27 (UTC)

[edit] wpvfdhide?

Someone just pointed me to your script for wpvfdhide. Where would a rookie like me go to find out more about scripts - specifically, the instructions for how to save and activate this script? Thanks. Rossami (talk) 4 July 2005 04:59 (UTC)

Would I be correct in saying that this script only works with the default skin (Monobook)? I tried flipping to a couple of other skins and couldn't see the link anymore. Rossami (talk) 4 July 2005 08:32 (UTC)

I added a wildcard (*) after the "Votes for deletion" in the applicable pages. I assume from the Greasemonkey write-up that was a required step. Is that correct? Rossami (talk)

[edit] Year zero

Thanks for having moved properly this article. But the talk page is always buggy by a redirect. By trying move, you get:

The page could not be moved: a page of that name already exists, or the name you have chosen is not valid. Please choose another name, or use <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves">Requested moves</a> to ask an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators">administrator</a> to help you with the move. Alternatively, post a request at the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard">Administrators' noticeboard.</a>

Do you know a solution? Help me, please. --John H. Victor 5 July 2005 20:04 (UTC)

Not any more. Problem is fixed. Thanks however. Have a good day.

[edit] Any help?

Hey there, you've got quite a reputation for being a technical computing whiz. Just wondering if I could ask you for some help. The software update broke my transwiki bot, and boy the backlog is growing again. I don't know anything about bot making, nor do I have the code, (it was made by someone else for me, as an executable). So it'll have to be made from scratch. If you're interested, there's a detailed description at Wikipedia:WikiProject help desk/20050702 Dmcdevit (oh yeah, and you might want to think about joining that new WikiProject). Thanks. --Dmcdevit July 6, 2005 19:49 (UTC)

Never mind, this has been taken care of, thanks for your quick response :) --Dmcdevit July 8, 2005 08:05 (UTC)

[edit] Quick question for ya

On the talk page delete page, you give instructions on how to delete the pages but then you say you are using speedybot to put a db tag on each page. Is it ok to just delete the pages if they are shown to link to nothing or would you rather that I just put the db tag on? I'm new to this admin thing and I don't want to mess up :) Thanks. --Woohookitty 6 July 2005 23:04 (UTC)

I suggest you do not work on it. At first I was deleting the pages myself, then I realised it would be faster if they just go into the speedy deletion category. You can help me add the db tags because I'm actually just logging into that account and using humanbot. Catch me on IRC for the password and instructions. r3m0t ^talk July 7, 2005 08:41 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned talk pages

I have a question about this project. I think we still have quite a few (very) old VfD discussions that are archived in talk pages. The admins were instructed at some point to either not delete the talk page or move it to a subpage (eg, "Talk:Article/deletion"). Has this been taken care of to ensure that orphaned talk pages with VfD discussions or orphaned talk page subpages with discussions on them will not be deleted? See for example Talk:Md. Ahiduzzaman Liton which was deleted, but the orphaned talk page remains for good reason. You may want to take a look at Wikipedia talk:Archived delete debates to see the old debate on keeping the talk pages. This may or may not have been the procedure for templates, categories, etc.; I don't know about that. --Dmcdevit July 8, 2005 08:15 (UTC)

[edit] Need for a bot

There is a page in wikitionary that includes requests for articles, when the articles (defitions) are created, the links turn blue, and can be deleted because they are "live". I think it would be a good idea to have a bot that does that automatically. However, I don't know how to program, nor do I know who to ask. [1] is the page.--whicky1978 00:30, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] COTW vs. Improvement Drive

I am just wondering what makes you discriminate the Improvement Drive vs. the COTW? The projects are pretty much identical.--Fenice 17:27, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

You mean Wikipedia:Template locations. I accidentally put my vote in the wrong section, as the comment "Not useful for readers" suggests. r3m0t ^talk 17:30, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Mind Benders

Hello! I've noticed your past interest in Wikipedia:Mind Benders and wanted to let you know that round one is now officially open! Consisting of ten challenging, puzzling questions, it is sure to be tons of WikiFun! In addition, take a look at all 9 of our great artistic entries and vote for one of them! Hope to see you there! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 15:55, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Menudo members

Dear R3: Hello! I want to thank you for your comment on my proposal. Any comments are welcome, and I like hearing the opinions of others, after all, thats why I put the page on proposal.

But, talking of opinions, most of us here dont know the Menudos is actually an opinion, not a fact. Menudo sold more that 20 million albums in Europe, the Latin American countries, Asia and the United States, where they even had a television show, just as in Puerto Rico their home country. While certainly not a phenomenom as huge like my favorite all time group, (four certain guys from Liverpool that called themselves The Beatles), there was even a time when music critics compared them to that group, coining the term Menudomania, which also became a medicla term for girls who came to the hospital after seeing one of their concerts.

One thing, however. Most people about your age haven't heard from them, but, trust me, in fifteen years, most people that are fifteen probably will not have heard about Green Day or Britney either! It always goes that way. Just today, I learned in a Beatles diary book that they helped popularize a band named Murdock in England during 1969!...Murdock??!!..lol

Anyways, thanks for your imput and God bless you! Best of the day to you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio British Airwaves Martin

[edit] Welcome to the Computer help desk

Hi R3m0t, thanks for joining! It was getting lonely there all by myself =) Nice stuff on that Dmcdevit ticket, it seems like you know your way around the Mediawiki internals. Sadly I don't but I'm getting pretty good at coaxing Perl into doing good stuff on the database dumps. Right now the primary limitation on the help desk is getting the word out but once that is accomplished I think the help desk will be a great way to help out. Triddle 01:47, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Glacier proposal

I understand your concern regarding our translation method at Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week. I have proposed a solution here. I would appreciate your input in creating a solution. — J3ff 01:40, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] age

are you really 15? i don't mean to sound like an old fogie but man, you need to spend less time on the computer and more time chasing girls.

(unsigned 01:10, August 20, 2005 User:Vega007)

That's OK. r3m0t ^talk 19:45, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Table namespace

Hi! I'm leaving this message because you're one of the people who supported (in full or in part) the Table namespace proposal. I've entered a feature request for the first part of this proposal, under Bug 2194. It would help draw some attention if you could enter a Bugzilla vote for it.

This particular feature request only covers three specific things:

1. Set up the software to recognize a distinct Table: namespace
2. Allow inserting tables into articles using the same markup as images:
   • Simple: [[Table:World population by country]]
   • Advanced: [[Table:Chart of test symbols|right|framed|This would create a right-floated table with a caption and frame around it]]
3. All such tables will get an Edit this table (or [edit]?) link associated with them, equivalent to the page that is brought up when you click on an image.

Any other changes like the dedicated table editor will be brought up at a later date (since this would need to be implemented first, anyway). If you have any comments or concerns you could leave a message on Bugzilla or on the proposal page. — Omegatron 01:07, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Orphan talk pages

I'm finally winding down with deleting the orphaned talk pages... I just have to go through the Wikipedia namespace pages, then it's all done. Coffee 05:37, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

And... finished! *collapses* I guess it should be removed from Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects if you don't plan to generate a new report. Coffee 15:03, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Old deletion discussions

Somewhat belated I know, but I note that this issue has been raised before. I have just come across this which is actually the record of a failed VFD nomination. I don't think it should have been deleted, or indeed the other similar pages I suspect suffered the same fate. What's to be done? —Phil | Talk 12:44, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] wpvfdhide: now AfD, not VfD

Since VFD moved to WP:AFD, you just need to change one line in your wpvfdhide script:

if(document.title.indexOf("Wikipedia:Articles for deletion")

I changed it on the WP:TOOLS page for you. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 16:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Most common grammar problem

I think I've found the most common grammar problem on Wikipedia: "considered to be" (about 298,000 occurrences). According to any grammar reference (such as [2]), "Consider to be" should be replaced by just "Consider", or less commonly "Consider as". — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-26 07:15

[edit] Ido Wikibooks

Hi, this is mithridates, a sysop from the Ido Wikipedia. I left a message on your Wikibooks talk page but then I noticed that your last edit over there was a number of months back and it might be best to leave a note here as well. It was regarding the creation of a Wikibooks in Ido. Regards, Mithridates 23:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Temporary test

Are you still using this? Gazpacho 05:48, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot about that. I deleted all related pages. r3m0t ^talk 18:29, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Stressbusters

Hi there R3m0t, Im SWD316. I was contacting you over your project called Wikipedia:Stressbusters. I was going to suggest merging this project with Wikipedia:Esperanza. Esperanza is a similar project that has lots of members already and has a well organized system. I was also going to suggest that members of Esperanza; namely listed under the Stress Unit; join your project and stem-off Esperanza. What do you think? SWD316 03:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bots...

I am running a wiki or two elsewhere, and have no knowledge of perl or any of these other deadly-sounding languages (I do HTML and some simple PHP but that's it) - as an experienced bot-man, could you perhaps walk me through writing a simple bot and using it? Do I have to host a bot locally or is there a way to install and run one only through PHP (forgive me if I sound stupid). I was thinking of starting with something as simple as deleting every article marked with a {terminate} template (which puts it in a Category:Terminated Articles if that helps or makes it easier) - I was hoping you could help... -- SilverSide (I forgot my login password forever ago and don't want to use another name)

[edit] moved conversation

How about being able to plug into a webservice or something like that which then corrects the fixes (and also stores the list)? Indeed, then it would be User:Humanbot! Seriously though, the User:Humanbot script needs a major rewrite and if your program could be a better interface, perhaps integrating them would be the way to go. :) r3m0t ^talk 10:58, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

(sorry for delayed response) I think it would be difficult to intergrate them, my program would probably work more easily from a list of articles with typos generated from the database, with the spelling correction code built in to the program. While on the subject, are you planning on running Humanbot again soon? Martin 21:18, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

There's no point - a recent Greasemonkey release did good things in general, but broke my script. I could modify it but the interface wouldn't be very good. I seriously think that Humanbot and this could go well together - didn't you know that Humanbot worked with a list of articles on a central server? :) Perhaps the correcting function can be at the client-side, but that isn't always a good idea. Consider, for example, automatically adding links (which requires a lot of data), and... well... maybe that's about it. But I would like it anyway! ;) r3m0t ^talk 21:34, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I would be happy to share the source code with you, but I have my doubts if it would be possible to integrate. At the moment the code is pretty messy, I need to clean it up and add some notation, it isnt particularly complicated but I dont think anyone could follow it until I tidy it up. Do you know c#? Martin 22:23, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maoririder

We've agreed not to block him indefinitely. But thanks for watching out! BCorr|Брайен 00:43, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image deletion

"17:24, 18 December 2005 R3m0t deleted "Image:BlueAnchorPasty.jpg" (copyrighted, "non-commercial use only" is not enough!)"

Why not? Sbz5809 10:22, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I really don't know. It seems quite stupid to me, but there it is. See also {{noncommercial}}. Of course, if you want to license your image into something even less restrictive, see Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#Creative_Commons_Licenses and Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#For_image_creators. :) r3m0t ^talk 17:25, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

So my preferred option - that no-one may profit from the image - is not permitted, but another option - that anyone may profit except me - is permitted? That hardly seems a realistic way of encouraging participation. Sbz5809 19:38, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, you are still allowed to profit from it, whatever license you choose. You have to license it for commercial use (to everybody), and you have to allow people to make derivative works - which can be licensed similarly. I'm afraid I can't really change that. r3m0t ^talk 21:16, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to keep going on about this, but while I'm actually attempting to help out here by providing Wikipedia with a no-cost image, I'm not prepared to arbitrarily give up all rights to anything I upload, particularly when that includes allowing anyone else to profit financially from something which I must donate. It says here "This image is copyrighted. The copyright holder allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that /insert conditions here, excepting non-commercial, etc/", which might be an acceptable compromise, but this is not an option on the image upload page, and I find nothing on the labyrinthine "help" pages to elaborate. Are you able to indicate where I might look?

Incidentally, it's acknowledged here that "It is harder to create decent images than decent text", but then Wikipedia attempts to deny protection for anyone who has taken the time and trouble to produce an image. I find this to be extremely irrational. On top of that, the message on what should be the image page implies that I misrepresented the copyright status of the image, and it was summarily deleted without me being informed. Hell of a way to run a railroad. Sbz5809 08:56, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

while I'm actually attempting to help out here by providing Wikipedia with a no-cost image, I'm not prepared to arbitrarily give up all rights to anything I upload, particularly when that includes allowing anyone else to profit financially from something which I must donate - perhaps you could consider uploading a scaled-down version of the image (under one of the licenses allowed) and keeping the full version to yourself, if you do not want to license it?

The scale is not the issue - in fact, this particular image is not the issue. What concerns me is that if I were to expend significant time and effort creating, say, a detailed image to describe a complex mechanical system, which I then uploaded to Wikipedia, I would be required to donate it free of charge (and give up all rights to it), while permitting anyone else to use it for any (including commercial) purposes. Sbz5809 12:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

It says here "This image is copyrighted. The copyright holder allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that /insert conditions here, excepting non-commercial, etc/" Well, if you write {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat|attribution is provided}} that is basically {{cc-by-2.0}} and if you add on any of the clauses "non-commercial use only", "no derivatives are allowed" you are adding {{cc-by-nc-2.0}} and {{cc-by-nd-2.0}}, none of which are allowed.

Yes, that's my point - I must give up all rights to anything I upload. Sbz5809 12:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

On top of that, the message on what should be the image page implies that I misrepresented the copyright status of the image, and it was summarily deleted without me being informed. Firstly, the message merely noted that the license you had given was non-commercial ...

No, the message (now missing, with no history) implied that I had misrepresented the copyright status. Sbz5809 12:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

... and that therefore, if the image was uploaded after May 19 when the new policy was put in place, it would be deleted immediately. With people making derivative works of Wikipedia all the time, we have to be careful that all our material is under the GFDL or a compatible license.

If a third party makes a copy of something, surely it should be their responsibility to ensure that they comply with whatever copyright restrictions are in place, rather than for Wikipedia to disallow any copyright at all. Sbz5809 12:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Secondly, I will be sure in future to inform the image creator when an image is deleted to provide them with an opportunity to re-upload the image.

Hell of a way to run a railroad. Sad to say that while in general things tick along nicely, Wikipedia does have its problems and glitches, and copyright paranoia is one of them. r3m0t ^talk 12:54, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I fail to see why paranoia comes into it. The image in question is mine; I explicitly gave permission for its use on Wikipedia. If I, personally, gave you, personally, a portrait that I had painted, would you refuse the gift simply because I specified that you were not permitted to sell copies? Sbz5809 12:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sauce Money

Hi, I noticed you seem to have deleted this. Was there a reason? Considering that Sauce Money has won a grammy I think we need an article on him. Also I don't understand why you speedy tagged WANR (AM). Thanks. -- JJay 02:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

The original article does not mention that they won a grammy, merely that they were "legendary". I think the original contains no useful content. I don't see why a radio station is considered notable (the article does not assert notability), but I will AFD it instead. r3m0t ^talk 02:28, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. Sauce Money is not a they- it's a rapper. The article aserted notability once it mentioned Jay Z. Please restore it and I'll clean it up. Nominating the radio station is a mistake in my view. -- JJay 02:32, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Humanbot

I know this is elsewhere but I dont know if youve seen it or not, but Humanbot isn't working. The box on the left isn't ther even after Greasemonkey. If you put this answer somewhere else then sorry but I havent seen it. American Patriot 1776 05:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ahem!

• Stephen Humby (AfD discussion)

Uncle G 01:00, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

That script didn't make the page! Ah well. r3m0t ^talk 01:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hey about my image.

Hey i got your message i dont think my image should be deleted personally. I think i think my image shows a general NPOV of where Spanish is spoke. That is why i put Brazil in some other people dont agree with me I have some who do but it image on the page keeps being reverted so instead. Please do not delete my image for this reason and i would like your support to put it back on the page. Thanks (XGustaX 19:38, 1 January 2006 (UTC))

I have nothing to do with it. Somebody marked it for speedy deletion and I noticed it wasn't eligible, so I moved it to its proper place - images for deletion. r3m0t ^talk 20:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

So what can i do to stop it? (XGustaX 00:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC))

Try commenting at WP:IFD, saying that you think the image is accurate, etc. Also respond to objections at Image_talk:Spanish_Speaking_Map.PNG - people say that the USA doesn't qualify. Ideally, you should show that you used a strict criteria (e.g. 10%+ Spanish speakers) combined with a reliable source such as the CIA Factbook to make the map. r3m0t ^talk 00:22, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hold (grappling)

Hi, the db-author tag was put in Hold (grappling) because its sole editor (who is new here) did not enter the deletion notice under the Redirects for deletion page. Shawnc 05:20, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy keep on Paul Crowley?

You can't go to sleep around here. How come that was a speedy keep? — ciphergoth 11:50, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I am never asleep. Ask User:Brian0918, who removed the AFD notice "to save everyone some time". I mentioned in #wikipedia that I was bumping from speedy to afd to follow process, even though the person was clearly notable, and he said "process wastes time" - which is pretty true in this case. :) r3m0t ^talk 15:00, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Could you help me understand why they are clearly notable? Thanks! — ciphergoth 13:05, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Justin Smith

Good save on that entry; I forgot to check the history before I db-bio'd it. Thanks, Ohnoitsjamie 23:03, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion tool

Frankly, I'm not sure I understand how this thing works. Thought it was automatic...no matter. Taking a loooong break. I'm deleting more than I'm adding and I'm driving myself nuts. It's worse now that people have to register; this site is becoming a playground for one-time users, not to mention idiots like Willy on Wheels and that clown who keeps hammering on Curps. See you 'round. - Lucky 6.9 07:11, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, ha! Missed your instructions on my talk page. I'll use it better when I get back. Best, Lucky 6.9 via 71.102.89.240 08:21, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] delaid feature request

Love the script. Really. However, I think a few things might make it even better. One would be have an optional edit summary box. A second would be to have an optional "don't return to CAT:CSD" key or something. Perhaps if you have ALT-CLICK the speedy criterion it would bring up a dialog box for the edit summary (with the default value being whatever you were going to put in there anyway). Likewise, SHIFT-CLICK would not return to you to CAT:CSD (helpful when doing RC patrol). ALT-SHIFT-CLICK would then do both. My Javascript is a bit rusty (and I'm doing this code from an old version of The Javascript Bible), but I think it can work something like this:

function DelAidDo(msg, evt)
{
    if (evt) // Netscape handling
    {
       if (evt.modifiers & Event.ALT_MASK)
           // do stuff
       if (evt.modifiers & Event.SHIFT_MASK)
           // do stuff
    }
    else if (event) // IE handling -- event is a global variable
    {
       if (event.shiftKey)
           // do stuff
       if (event.ctrlKey)
           // do stuff
    }
}

Anyway, think about it. Regards, howcheng {chat} 16:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I implemented a modifier key (alt). User talk:R3m0t/delaid.js. r3m0t ^talk 15:05, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi R3m0t!

I just wanted to let you know, in case you haven't noticed that the guy whose vanity page you just deleted (tagged for speedy by me) has just vandalized your user page. I'm adding your user page to my watchlist just in case he insists. Let me know if I can be of further assitence to you, Cheers, -- Phædriel 22:39, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] speedy deletion

Ah I see, I've been away for quite a while and I was not aware of these templates, thanks for pointing that out. Gryffindor 02:20, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio problem and delation of talk page???

I am one of editor of article ShixxNOTE LAN Messenger This talk page did not violate any copyright lows, it is original discussion - so why it is deleted??? Dear admins, 1st, when original copyowner of one program want to put text on web page, like [3] , and it is about program that in google is described on 1,160 pages, it means it is valuable something. When someone delete talk page of article, on whom it is asked for reason - that is in general a problem. page [4] was for sure not original source of info for deleted page - because similar info could be foun on more than 1000 pages on the net. The text you deleted with reason of copivio was make from scratch based on original program page - [5] and instead of deleting talk page, what is in fact vanity, admins should give reason and found out who have copyright. If for instance, original author of the program give rights to wikipedia to base text on press releases, you should explain the procedure, not speed delate talk page. IMHO. --Shixx 13:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy Deletes

Thanks for deleting those subpages for me. Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 17:56, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Max Beesley

I created a new version in the temporary sub-page section of the copyright violation notice on this page. I noticed that you were the one that put the copyvio notice in place. I though you would be the one to inform so that the temp page can replace the copyvio notice. I hope this clears the problems up. :-) (Stephen Day 15:20, 7 January 2006 (UTC))

Stupidly, I think we need to wait 7 days. Then, somebody more used to dealing with WP:CP will make the move. r3m0t ^talk 01:00, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

That does seem a little long to me. Oh well, at least I know it will eventually happen. :-) (Stephen Day 02:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Image:Over-Issaquah.jpg

Thanks, I didnt notice that :) --Admrboltz (T | C) 00:52, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daily Collections + others

Per my usual practice, I'm poking you with a sick regarding quality of nominations. It's always better to provide some evidence that you've done your homework for a couple of reasons: 1) Other people don't have to, and 2)it tends to damp down on claims "seems notable" that don't WP:CITE. - brenneman^(t)(c) 07:48, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

And again. How are you determining that these are not notable? If you're just geussing, that's bad, and if you're not, it's not that hard to provide the evidence. Please. - brenneman^(t)(c) 00:51, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot help?

Could you take a look at this: Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Nowiki_templates_in_log_archives? Thanks. Dmcdevit·t 23:22, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy delete update

Thanks much for the heads-up regarding the "speedy-bot." I plan on updating my monobook the moment I come on back to regular status. I just swung by to answer an inquiry on the admin's noticeboard and I caught your message. Actually, I saw it the other day but I didn't have time to answer. Got the new message notice when I logged in. Anyway, feel free to drop me an e-mail sometime and let me know what's going on in the world of Wikipedia anti-vandalism. :) - Lucky 6.9 07:08, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magic Kingdom (band)

Hi R3m0t. I just changed the google link in your nomination. Would you please check that it points to the search you meant to reference? Thanks. ×Meegs 22:27, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monobook speedy bot

Sorry. I just don't understand how that thing works. I hit "delete," the null notice pops up and boom! It deletes the article and skips to the "requests for speedy deletion" page. I enjoy thwarting vandals, or at least I used to. Roughly one in five new edits coming in are just garbage of the type I outlined on my user page for now. I believe in quality over quantity, so I don't write as often as I used to, hence my frustration.

Until I figure out a better way to spend my time here, I'm just going to lay low. Right now, I'm just tired of trying to help and geting in over my head. Lucky 6.9 via 67.53.212.40 22:53, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Cool Cat/monobook.js

Thanks for that is it possible to ^a instead of how it apears now? :) Also I am not whitelisted :P --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 15:43, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monobook, part II

Sonofagun, it works. :)) That's one good way to reduce the stress level. Thanks for all of your help and patience! Still laying low for now, but those tools (and instructions!) will be a big help down the road. - Lucky 6.9 00:51, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reposting Deleted Material

Wanna sue me? Get in line. The community is run by a group of Fascist dicks. So long as articles can be reposted--they will be. If you have a problem with it--change the Wikipedia structure. I believe in this article enough to fight for it. Hater. Katherinejohnson 10:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm here for the long run... whether you like it or not. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Katherinejohnson (talk • contribs) 19:45, January 18, 2006.

Not if you keep calling people fascists and dicks. You're free to edit here, but Wikipedia:Civility is a non-negotiable rule. Rhobite 21:38, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Removed

According to a search through the deletion log, "22:09, 11 January 2006 R3m0t deleted "Kawesch" (A7 || Deletion aided with delaid)". Just wondering why, because I was looking for this article.

Thanks, Reuvenk 06:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

The article did not explain why its subject was notable, and therefore falls under Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#A7. The content, however, was:

Yours, r3m0t ^talk 11:02, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion

...would be interested in your feedback. Barring significant opposition, it's going for a test run soon. Radiant_>|< 18:42, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Pilotguy

This user was blocked indefinately for vandalism accidentaly by Curps. He is not a bad user so you may want to adjust your ppl scrit :) --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 03:26, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PPL script

Is it posible for me to see the source of this. :) I want to make few modifications to the visuals :P --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 14:05, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

User:R3m0t/pplmark.js and User:R3m0t/pplmark.data.js. r3m0t ^talk 17:58, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yo!

Are you with us? Please answer yes even if you have to lie :P --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 15:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Shodo.JPG

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Shodo.JPG. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stan 14:16, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Script

Thanks, I'll give it a try, I haven't really bothered getting any admin scripts, but I guess they could be useful. -Obli (Talk)^? 13:29, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Humanbot

Hey, I noticed that User:Humanbot is down because of Greasemonkey compatibility issues. I'm sorry to hear that. I just moved my site to a different server with more space and bandwidth and I was checking in to make sure I hadn't negatively impacted your bot during the move. Do you still need the server space for Humanbot? If so, do you mind logging into your stuff to make sure your account / files / database weren't lost or otherwised screwed up in transition? Thanks. — Joey Day (talk·edits) 17:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary script

Hey, how do you do those semi-automatic edit summaries like "«blank: -(583 words)»"? --maru (talk) contribs 22:37, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

No idea.

Just kidding! Check out User:Quarl/monobook.js. An amazing group of scripts. r3m0t ^talk 16:31, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

That page frightens me! Still, I shall try the time-honored design pattern of voodo programming, and past that into my cologneblue.js... when I dare. --maru (talk) contribs 22:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned talk pages

Hi, any chance you could generate another list of orphaned talk pages? I'm in the mood for a lot of mundane admin work to put my brain in standby mode. Or perhaps you could give me the source code, and I could figure out how to generate a list? :) Coffee 04:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I just created the report and it's at User:R3m0t/Reports. I didn't realise until some time that most of my results were archive pages (in fact, I just checked and there are exactly half) but I'm not about to paste everything in again. Please organise and publicise however you like. r3m0t ^talk 21:52, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Cool, thanks! Coffee 02:20, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Switch from speedy to proposed deletion on Historical comparison of economy cars 2006

Maybe I didn't make it clear enough in the speedy template. The article Historical comparison of economy cars 2006 was just copied and pasted from Comparison of economical cars after I put the latter up for AfD. If you look at the history of Comparison of economical cars (which was edited to just a redirect) you can see it. I think this meets the speedy criteria. It may not yet be a recreation of a deleted article, but unless/until the original is deleted, it's a duplicate of an existing article. I don't think the author is intentionally "dodging" a delete, since he expressed the intention to move the article on the AfD entry, but in that case, the new page should be deleted so that the old page can be properly moved there. AKADriver 14:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, R3m0t! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:50, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed PROD tag from Newtown High School (New York City)

Hi. You tagged Newtown High School (New York City) with a PROD tag, however I think that current thought on AfD is that high schools are notable enough to be kept. I have therefore removed the PROD tag. Please feel free to add Newtown High School (New York City) to AfD if you wish. DarthVader 03:07, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wal-Mart

FYI, Just noticed despite your discussion, contributions section deleted by other editor.--Beth Wellington 00:17, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

My early discussion was perhaps a bit rash. Having read the actual section, and noted that includes charitable contributions which come from employees and consumers, it is not any use for a sane person. Or an encyclopaedia article. r3m0t ^talk 06:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

[edit] CAT:CSD

A discussion on the use of headers for the page Category:Candidates for speedy deletion is currently being discussed at Category_talk:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion#Category_Header_Information. Your input would be welcome. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3

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[edit] Change to Common.css

Per recent discussions, the way in which Persondata is viewed by Wikipedia editors has changed. In order to continue viewing Persondata in Wikipedia articles, please edit your user CSS file to display table.persondata rather than table.metadata. More specific instructions can be found on the Persondata page. --ShakingSpirit^talk on behalf of Kaldari 01:44, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Gimpsylogo.gif)

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[edit] Deletion Review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Robert Benfer. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Esn 04:53, 2 February 2007 (UTC)