User talk:Voice of All

[edit] The Prisoner edit

Having created a Wikipedia article for the Shattered Visage comic book, containing a summary, I removed that same summary from the The Prisoner article. This change was reverted as vandalism. Can anything be done? user name ireact

[edit] Category deletion

You deleted Category:Unassessed Georgia Institute of Technology articles; mind restoring it, please? WP:TECH is kinda using that :) —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 04:23, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. Voice-of-All 16:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hi VoA. Thanks for your scripts, and for your post which reminded me that RfA does not require essaying. Rest assured that I heard every voice loud and clear during the discussion, and will strive to use the mop carefully and responsibly. Thanks for your support, and please don't hesitate to give me constructive criticism anytime. Xiner (talk, email) 02:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Unassessed importance hurricane articles

Please restore the maintenance category Category:Unassessed importance hurricane articles. Thanks! --Ajm⁸¹ 04:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. Voice-of-All 06:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Daylight Saving Time and the UTC Clock

I've been using your script for the UTC clock/purge function but because I live in an area effected by Daylight Saving Time in the US, the clock now reads 1 hour fast. If I copy/paste the full code into my monobook.js, is there a way for me to modify the coding so that the clock reads correctly? auburnpilot talk 07:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Script problem

I added your admin script today and it disables popups within popups. Is this a standard bug? Would you mind taking a quick look at my monobook and see if I messed something up? John Reaves (talk) 11:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, how does the "revert all edits" function work? Mainly, what do I put in the box for the secondary confirmation? John Reaves (talk) 00:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category deletion

Hi, you appear to have deleted Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the East Riding of Yorkshire for some reason. Is there a reason for this?

It is a category for people to request photos to be created for articles. It is normally empty and only has entries when a photo has been requested for an article by placing the tag on the article's talk page. This is in line with all of the other category entries for counties of England. Ok I know technically the East Riding of Yorkshire is not a county, but there are similar categories for West Yorkshire Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in South Yorkshire.

Keith D 13:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Any chance of this being restored? Keith D 15:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Restored for now, but these categories are way to specific. Voice-of-All 17:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the restore. Keith D 09:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your Bot un-did a typo correction.

I wasn't logged in when correcting a typo on the page Toshio_Mori. My IP address is neither dynamic, nor was the edit wrong. Which tells me your bot is probably fouling up a great deal of correct edits.

Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 166.70.244.108 (talk) 17:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Assessment category deletion

I notice that you deleted Category:Unassessed Intelligent design articles, Category:Non-article Intelligent design pages and Category:GA-Class Intelligent design articles. As working categories for article assessment, the fact that they are empty at some point in time doesn't mean that they aren't "in use", just that they are empty at this point in time. Guettarda 18:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I am aware of that. I deleted a list of 3700 pages based of a list of pages that were supposed to be unused or overcategorized. A few of them should not have been listed. Sorry for the inconvenience. Voice-of-All 18:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. It's no problem. I was really trying to figure out whether you were saying that cats like these should be deleted when empty. 3700 deletions, huh? Wow. I don't envy you that task. Guettarda 20:34, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Please be more careful next time. The number of cats you deleted which have effected me personally and where I've had to restore is now well into double figures. My experience is likely to be the tip of the iceberg. --kingboyk 12:36, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

As an affected party, I think you should cut him some slack. Restoring a dozen or two categories is annoying, but deleting 3700 (by hand! unless someone is running an unauthorised admin bot) deserves an award. Guettarda 14:15, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Monobook.js question

I've been trying to add/customize the user warning tabs that your script adds to user talk edit screens but haven't been able to succeed. Is there any chance you could give me a real brief tutorial or is there documentation available somewhere that I haven't been able to track down? Many thanks in advance! — PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 02:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Emptied stub categories

I notice you deleted a couple of stub categories on your recent empty-cat purge. Bear in mind these are template-populated, and in such cases it's worthwhile checking if they were depopulated via vandalism (or clueless edits) to the associated templates. This was indeed the case in both these instances. (Cat:South American sports venue stubs and Cat:United States science fiction writer stubs) Alai 05:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yisroel Dovid Weiss

hi. wonder if you would consider re-sprotecting the above page? it was initially protected because of anon libel about paedophilia. a registered user (DavidCharlesII (talk • contribs)) who is still intermittently active on the page has even made insinuations about such [1]. so there is some reason to think it may reccur. if you think it should be left to see whether still a problem, no need to reply, i will assume that is your reasoning. thnx, ben  ⇒ bsnowball  10:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contributions of IP-Range

You said that you re-committed the code. Any idea when it will be active? Agathoclea 11:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

When MW 1.10a is more so ready at least. I've added IPv6 and revisiondelete stuff and other devs have done a lot already. A number of bugs have been cleanup already and I wan't to make sure thats the last of them. Voice-of-All 14:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] VoABot and rejected Usurpation archiving

Could you take a look at this diff and figure out whether something went wrong? There may have been a previous time when this happened as well. Thanks --Philosophus ^T 20:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I suspect the problem was that the second request used the wrong template and had the wrong level heading. On a related point, I notice that when the Bot archives rejected requests (as here [2]) it does not then add them to Wikipedia:Changing_username/Usurpations/Rejected/1. Is that an error or are rejected requests no longer supposed to be archived? WjBscribe 05:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Occassionally, things would not archive as they should. I fixed that bug very recently. Voice-of-All 18:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot approvals process

Just in case any of you haven't seen the new bot request to track the bot approvals process, this is just a reminder to use the correct templates at {{BAG Admin Tools}} so the bot can correctly identify the stage of bot approval. Also, the approved requests section has been moved to a separate page at Wikipedia:Bots/Approved bot requests for the Bureaucrats to watchlist. When approving a request, make sure you remove it from the main page and place it on that page so that a bureaucrat can flag it. Thanks. MetsBot 16:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regular Expression Assistance

Hi, VoA! I wonder if you could take a moment to help me with a regular expression that will undoubtedly be easy for you, though stumps me.

I'm programming User:SatyrBot in PHP. I have a function that reads a page and interprets the templates on the page, including the parameters sent to each template. So to find them, I have the regexp:

"@([^\{]*)(\{\{[^\}]*\}\})@"

However, I've run in to a situation where templates are within templates, like {{WikiProjectBanners}}, where the wiki content looks like:

{{WikiProjectBanners
|1={{WikiProject Computer science|class=GA}}
|2={{WPBiography|class=GA|priority=High|s&a-work-group=yes}}
|3={{maths rating|class=GA|importance=high|field=mathematician}}
|4={{LGBTProject|class=GA}}
|5={{philosophy|class=GA}}
|6={{CryptographyProject|class=A|small=yes}}
|7={{WPLondon|class=GA}}
}}

What I'd like to do is expand the regexp to match both the outer template and the inner templates. I'm pretty sure that's possible, but my regexp knowledge doesn't extend that far :) Any help you could give would be appreciated! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 22:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that is possible to do using regexps because the only thing that lets you know which "{{" goes to which "}}" is the position relative pairing relationship. Instead, try using this function someone made to get all string position info for each string match in an array (with the count # as the keys) with the start/end position. Do this on "{{" and "}}". Iterate through each Xth (from rightmost matches -> leftmost ones) {{ match and find the Xth }} that is past the position of of the {{. For each, use the start index for the {{ and the end index plus 2 (the length of two brackets) for the }} and extract a substr( start, end + 2 - start ). That should give things like "{{hello|{{moo|yes}}}}" as well as "{{moo|yes}}". Hope that helps. Voice-of-All 16:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Ahh - now *that* looks promising! Thanks for the link - both the strpos and the following pre_pos look good - I'll play with those a bit and see if I can get it to work. Thanks much!!! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 17:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Admin Coaching

Hi! I'd like to be an admin coachee(?), and I saw your name on the list. I'm a freshman in high schoo, and I haven't created amny new articles, but I've done a lot of maintenance, especially on The Times of India, and Durham School of the Arts. I would really like to become more fluent in wikijargon, as well as be able to use the programming language to create more advanced articles. Jonwilliamsl 00:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. John Vandenberg 05:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Restored. Voice-of-All 18:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your bot's edits to Umayya Abu-Hanna

Your bot has falsely reverted edits to Umayya Abu-Hanna as vandalism. The edits were quite legitimate, and were apparently added by a close associate (family member, friend, or party colleague) of Abu-Hanna herself. Please try to keep your bot in control. Thanks. JIP | Talk 16:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect Contributor Information on Dorm Daze 2 Reversion

I recently received a message saying that my edits to the National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2 page had been reverted due to inclusion of a MySpace link. However, the history shows that the reverted MySpace edit was actually one by Ridpath. The page was reverted back to the revision I had made, which was removing an inappropriate comment. The edit summary reads: (BOT - Reverted edits by Teratron {information} to revision #113408978 by "Teratron".) Your bot seems to be slightly malfunctioning. Teratron 19:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] VOA bot on CHU

Hi! I noticed a backlog at WP:CHU where quite a number of complete requests are waiting to be archived. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Also in relation to the Bot's archiving of this page, when it removes comments it leaves the text: "== Instructions to bureaucrats ==undefined" at the bottom of the page (see [3]). Is that easy for you to fix? WjBscribe 19:21, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Should be fixed. Voice-of-All 19:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, could you also look at a related issue at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations (see [4]) where there is an instructions to bureaucrats section, but the Bot deleted it and replaced it with "undefined". WjBscribe 01:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] attnetion all admins!

please keep an eye put on these pages:they have been named as users in a steroid scandal and edit wars and vandalism seem likely.

the list:MLB • Gary Matthews Jr. • Jose Canseco • John Rocker • Jerry Hairston Jr. • David Bell

Boxing • Evander Holyfield

NFL • Richard Rydze (Steelers doctor)

Bodybuilding • Victor Martinez

Pro wrestling • Kurt Angle • Randy Orton • Adam Copeland (Edge) • Shane Helms (Gregory Helms) • Oscar Gutierrez (Rey Mysterio) • Eddie Guerrero

[edit] Mediawiki - nice work.

Re: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-20/Technology_report, nice work, that's some really valuable stuff you've put in. Any idea on when the oversight extension will be useable? The writeup implied it was just the underlying functionality, not the interface/use of it. - Taxman ^Talk 00:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Interface looks complete to me. I don't know though. If I am right it will be usable as soon as the database is updated. Prodego ^talk 01:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Note that these changes are to core code, not an extension. At any rate they were removed from svn trunk due to a backlog in the review process. They will instead be in MediaWiki 1.11, so the next update won't include them. Voice-of-All 07:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Ethnic groups articles needing merge action

Dear Voice of All,

I'm feeling more than a little perturbed. Why did you feel you have the right to delete Category:Ethnic groups articles needing merge action???? How many other Ethnic groups cats did you take it upon yourself to delete? Where did you announce this deletion?

--Ling.Nut 18:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

• I just read posts above. This is not heroic. No slack cut. It is not OK. It violates WP:Consensus for starters... I can think of at least one other essay it violates, but that one is considered bad form to invoke--Ling.Nut 18:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Betacommand made a large list of empty categories that could be deleted and needed help executing the deletions, so I did so. I asked the user if everything there was OK to delete on IRC. Since it's now apparent that too much of it actually was not deletable, I'll just avoid huge deletion lists in the future. Voice-of-All 19:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Huge deletion lists are generally to be avoided — yes — but the inexcusable part would be lack of notification.. ummm... was there any notification? --Ling.Nut 19:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, VoA, I'm another member of WikiProject Ethnic groups, and the category was one in use by the project. Regardless of whether or not there was consensus for the deletion, could you kindly restore the category? It assists in article maintainence and improvement. Thank you. -Fsotrain⁰⁹ 20:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Square (slang)

The IP address vandal came back today. I reverted him once. If you persists, you might have to semi-protect again. Wahkeenah 00:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sidebar

The recent changes at MediaWiki:Sidebar seem to have disabled the links that are there as part of your admin JS script. Also, I have a question above. John Reaves (talk) 03:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot / usurpations

Does the bot archive rejected requests? How long does it wait? I don't think it needs to be more than two or three days. — Dan | talk 01:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can you make that script?

Can you make the AddTab script in archiving? IsuzuAxiom1007 (talk • contribs) 01:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] VoABot trashed unsigned RFPP request

I made a request at WP:RFPP which was well-formed except that I forgot to sign it. VoABot "archived" it, probably because it failed to find a timestamp. While Hangermanbot should probably be assigned to fix missing signatures on that page, perhaps your bot should be modified to not touch requests missing a timestamp. —dgies^t_c 16:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding "You have new messages" bug

Hi, I was directed here by User:Prodego and was wondering if you know what is causing the You have new messages notification to malfunction. For me, I have seen several instances where the offending vandals' talk page had warnings posted but the orange notification bar does not pop up. If the You have new messages bar does not pop-up or is stuck at either "on" or "off", then warning the IP addresses would be a waste of time. Could you look in to the problem? -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 05:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_user_warnings#Do_Warnings_show_up_on_anonymous_IPs.3F
• Bug Report:[5]

By repeatable you mean several different IP addresses? Current IP address is 71.121.170.104. I respond if I get it. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 01:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Has the problem been fixed or looked at? My current IP address is 71.113.91.31 if you want to send a test message. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 01:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] requesting help with Checkuser

Hello. I want to add a request to Checkuser. But its not working and I am following the instructions. The puppeter is this user. Here are a few other accounts that I am very sure are his puppets: User:Pashtun786, User:Knoiknoi, and User:Aero stud24. Can you please tell me how to do this? --Behnam 01:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the catch

in 300. You were correcting a mistake on my part, and I appreciate it. :) Arcayne 04:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Heh, just saw the movie :) Voice-of-All 04:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot archive error on WP:CHU/U

During your bot's latest archive sweep on WP:CHU/U, it removed important information from the bottom of the page (see diff). Hopefully you can look into this. Thanks, Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 09:40, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Monobook

Hi Voice of All,

I have just thought about using you revert monobook (User:Voice of All/nolupin/monobook.js) on other projects. Of course, everything would have to be translated (messages, revert comments) etc., but do you have any idea why the main functuality does not work properly, e.g. on German Wikipedia? I can't see anything project specific in there and in the imported scripts, but nevertheless there is no rollback link on the diff view on other Wikipedia. Greetings, Pill- 17:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re 'Wog' protecttion

It would be appreciated if you could restore Protection to 'Wog'. It is vandalised quite often otherwise, most recently three days after you removed Protection. Nothing sinister, just passing kiddies. :-)
--Hartley Patterson 11:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Wishing you all the best on your birthday! From Mschel and the Wikipedia Birthday Committee. Have a great day, and have fun with your new balloons! -Mschel 03:58, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Why thanks, you're actually the first person to say that! :) Voice-of-All 04:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Here's to you on your birthday, Voice of All! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

--Paloma Walker 05:22, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bonjour, bonne anniversaire!

I brought the cake!

Wishing you all the best on your birthday! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee.

Abeg92contribs 09:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] VoABot II gone rogue!?

Very minor in the scheme of things, but you may wish to bugfix the bot code. See this diff. The bot left me a message on my talk page, but I gather from the diff itself that it meant to have User:Hayasaki in the "from" variable. --Action Jackson IV 14:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] VOABot & changing username archiving

VOABot seems to be repeatedly archiving the unfilled requests without removing them from Wikipedia:Changing username Wikipedia:Changing username/Unfulfilled/2007/April is full of duplicates. Thanks Secretlondon 17:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your Protection JS

Could you add {{pp-semi-protected}} to the list of recognized tags for removing when unprotecting? I would do it myself but I would probably mess something up in the process. Thanks in advance! -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 20:35, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:List of protected pages

Please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:List of protected pages, as it's related to VoABot. --cesarb 21:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] So why does voabot "hate" me?

I think I am following the protocol, and I added this to requests for protection

at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Current_requests_for_unprotection

   ====Ann Althouse (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)====         

- I apologize, for this is almost certainly a duplicated request, but I cannot find its resolution ANYWHERE. I don't understand why this page was protected. The edit that added the protection says it was from vandalism from anonymous users, but if you check the history you will see that a) there really has been very little vandalism in general, and b) very little of that was from anonymous users, and c) anonymous users (me!) have made good contributions. Can this page be unprotected?

And the voabot came by and deleted it, and the page wasn't unprotected, and I can't see the resolution anywhere. So, can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thank you.

The reason is here. Voice-of-All 05:04, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] need help

I am a new wikipedian who is new, to most computing terminology, and am impressed by your repertoire of computing knowledge. I wanted to ask you (as I was told to talk to you about this subject), about how, to become a member of and register as a Recent Changes Patroller (RCP).I tried to follow the links/instructions from , 'WP:RCP' (shortcut),and the page 'User:Voice of All/UsefulJS', but i tried to 'follow' but got confused as i don't know,where to edit and add tabs, i don't know, what on Earth the instructions goes on about when it talks about monobook skins and 'js', and i dont even know what a javascript is and what it does.For the monobook stuff,does it have any thing to do with the, my prefernces section at the top? I'm just getting so confused, and would like to help wikipedia,and would like maintain it as vandal free, and this is one of the best methods I could find.Please help me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wongdai (talk • contribs) 10:39, 7 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Levels of Processing Revert

Last night, for the first time, I edited an article. All I did was clarify some information in the article and add otherinformation. It was an article onLevels of Processing theory.

The edits were reverted twice as vandalism.

I am a cognitive psychology professor with some knowledge on the subject and the changes I made were accurate and factual and were not intended to be vandalism. In fact, I left some incorrect information that was in the original article as was and just placed a comment saying it was incorrect.

I am assuming that the manner in which I made the edit was tagged by your BOT as being vandalism. Could you please let me know what I need to do to make edits that will not be tagged as vandalism? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sifonis (talk • contribs) 14:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC).