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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. - Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
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[edit] summaryPlease use an edit summary that inspires a bit more confidence than "clean up - bother me at my talk if I mess up". A simple explanation of what you are doing is normally best. Martin 10:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bot Edit ErrorYour bot recently edited Class 5 telephone switches and incorrectly deleted a closing bracket. I have corrected the error, and (I hope) improved the link anyway. Mmccalpin 18:31, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DowneyWould you like to explain to me what 'Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism'. Am I being excused of vandalism if you look at the page Ringwood Town F.C. I have added more information I have in no way added nonsense or done any vandalism to it!
[edit] Hinduism in AzerbaijanI saw your reply by looking in your archive. The article has been changed, and the contradictory sentence has been removed, with 5 references added, including a historical narrative.Bakaman Bakatalk 21:40, 15 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Your botYour bot is changing the infoboxes for Canadian MPs, changing to which is messing up the boxes. Please see changes for David Christopherson to see what I mean. -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:24, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your bot indiscriminantly removes newlines.You recently edited block cipher modes of operation and then removed some double blank lines. Those double blank lines were put into that page by human editors to make the article more readable and keep tables and maths from getting to cloose to other text. Just as many other bot "drivers" you seem to be indiscriminantly removing blank lines and/or double blank lines without checking what result that has for the page layout and readability. --David Göthberg 08:00, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Astronomical objects revertPlease do not revert without discussion. Mrwuggs 16:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] STBot edit: Elliot StablerHello. STBot editted the article Elliot Stabler and removed a relevant category. The edit, which I reverted, can be found here. Any explanation would be helpful. Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 01:41, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Signpost updated for October 16th.
[edit] New UserHi, my name is RyGuy. I am a newly registered user to wikipedia. I am looking for people who can help me on my User page (User: RyGuy). I was thinking that you have some pretty good things on your page, so mabye you could help. Just drop by User Talk: RyGuy if you want to help. Thanks! RyGuy 18:22, 17 October 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the help! It.... um... helped.
RyGuy 16:40, 18 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Your botI don't know how to say this without being rude, but I am not sure of how useful your bot is. The default AWB edits are nice I guess, but I don't think they really are worth making if they're the only edit being made. It takes up server resources and human resources (bloating people's watchlists) that I don't think are really justified by extremely minor fixes to link formatting or where a stub tag is positioned. Besides, most articles are touched quasi-regularly by AWB as people fix typos, disambiguate links, and so on. Again I hope you don't take this the wrong way, just a hopefully constructive criticism. --W.marsh 02:25, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
The General fixes AWB has are designed to be minor things that can be done while doing some other task, to make the edits more worthwhile than normal bots. Doing only general fixes is not really going to be worth it. Though some of the general fixes are quite important, simplifying links and similar jobs aren't generally important enough to be done on their own. Martin 09:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] opinion: wastefulI'd like to register my opinion of this bot, having just encountered it; I find it rather wasteful, and I believe you should seriously re-consider running it. I met it on an extremely minor article that nonetheless I have on my watchlist (no, I'm not going to turn off bot notifications) and it made extremely minor edits. At what cost, and why bother? It removed an underscore and moved a couple of s's. Is there really a need for a bot to change that kind of stuff? It has no impact on the day-to-day use of wikipedia as a resource; and for anyone who's contributing to an article, if there are enough misplaced s's and _'s to make their underpants dance, then they can just go ahead and fix it themselves (using AWB, even) while making their other changes. --Dthatcher 14:37, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
But it IS hurting people. It's annoying people by changing formatting, often inappropriately, and forcing them to come to you as some sort of self-proclaimed authority on piddly little things. And it's draining Wikipedia server resources by doing things that don't need to be done mechanically. Do I need to repeat the arguments that everyone else on this page have made, too? For christ's sake, at least talk to somebody else about it. Start a forum or something and shut it off til you get some qualified opinions. --Dthatcher 03:31, 28 October 2006 (UTC) And do you feel you're following the guidelines that were laid out in letter and spirit? And is the database load really worth editing entries that are (for example) a couple paragraphs long and have 4 stray hyphens and 2 pipes? Is -your- time really worth running a bot for that? Constructive criticism: What if you put in an edit minimum of, say, 6 or 8+, to fix just the most butchered articles? --Dthatcher 22:58, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bot edits on MathematicaJust FYI, the STBot messed up a few computer algebra examples, and failed to notice that "Pocket pc" was a redirect to "Pocket PC". Everything is fine now, but you may want to look at the page to see how you could improve the bot, and you may also want to prevent the bot from running again on this page until it is improved. Thanks, Four Dog Night 16:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Source order--templates before catsAs far as I know, stubs and other templates should be placed above categories, not the other way around. 24.19.35.187 01:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] LaylaWhy did you revert my edits to Layla Williams? Hmrox 15:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] HustleWhy did you revert my edit to Hustle (TV series)? --84.64.51.100 19:25, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A very Californian RfA thanks from Luna Santin
[edit] Signpost updated for October 23rd.
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 06:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] BlocksI'm not sure how the blocking system works. Whenever I try to edit from work (a school) the IP address is blocked. How can I get around this? I requested it be unblocked but still no joy. Ozdaren 00:18, 25 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Anaraug! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof. 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 and please note this is VP 1.3 not 1.2.2 see this for the approved list. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 00:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Luka (song)You seem to be away on IRC, check Talk:Luka (song) if you have the time, I think the article is not a copyvio after all :) See you! -- lucasbfr talk 01:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] RfAI answered the questions on RfA (sorry, I forgot). SupaStarGirl 19:23, 29 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] WP:BITEIf I see you violating WP:BITE just once more, I will ask a fellow administrator on ANI to literally block you. This was one of the worst biting incidents in my entire Wikipedia career. PLEASE - reread BITE, CSD, and treat other people's work seriously. You're not doing the project any favors with edits such as those. - crz crztalk 16:53, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] unblock autoIn regards to [2], please note that you can use {{unblock-auto reviewed}} without a decline reason to do the same thing. Thanks -- Netsnipe ► 05:52, 31 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Signpost updated for October 30th.
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