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Just to let you know

Speedy deletions don't have to go through afd: you can just add the {{delete}} tag to the article and it will be deleted by an available admin. However you need to make sure it meets the criteria for speedy deletion. --Francs2000 00:18, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. --Xaosflux 01:29, 13 November 2005 (UTC)


Cleanup

I cleaned up your user page. While you ponder things (my own user page has a buttload of categories and infoboxes you might want to borrow), please consider Wikipedia:Multi-licensing your contributions. --Maru (talk) Contribs 06:36, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Image:WikiThanks.png Hi there! Thanks for your work with stub sorting - it's really appreciated. I wonder if you could add an extra set of square brackets to your edit summaries related to stub sorting? That way, they show up as interwikilinks on the recent changes page. :-) --HappyCamper 01:48, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

ooops! fixed by copy-paste key! Xaosflux 01:51, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Awesome. Keep up the great work! --HappyCamper 01:52, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Do They Know Its Christmas?

Hey, I noticed you reverted the redirect. All the content on Do They Know Its Christmas? is duplicated in Band Aid, and I merged what wasn't. It is, after all, "just a single." What do you think? --CDN99 15:54, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

It looked like a dulicate at first to me too, there certainly is some duplication, and some non encylopaedic information on the song article (e.g. the complete lyrics are non-notable IMHO), but the song article does have infomration that is not in the band article, perhaps the duplicated information could be edited out?
I read the entirety of both articles ... twice :P . If we take out the duplication, there will be no article left. The part I merged with Band Aid I also had doubts about (encyclopedic?...--CDN99 16:20, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Guess there wouldn't be much left..The sections Public release and Charity records immediately inspired dont' appear to be duplicated, and deserve merit, IF their claim to fame is that it was an inspriration for other charity albums, and not POV praise, if those were secs were merged there would be no reason to keep the other articles as it would be all dupe Xaosflux 16:24, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Public release and Charity records immediately inspired are duplicated (see the sections Related Projects and Original Band Aid in Band Aid) --CDN99 16:33, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
I must be going blind! I reverted it back to your #REDIR, thanks for talking about it civily! Xaosflux 16:37, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, thanks for helping with the stub sorting of these pages: Kutsinhira, Kushaura, moving Hosho, and other stuff (that I may be yet to notice ;)). Alex Weeks 04:55, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

NP! Recently came on to the Stub sorting Project, and came by them. --Xaosflux 04:58, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Cool, I'll have to look at that. --Alex Weeks 16:35, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

List of modern day dictators

Thank you for reverting User:172's blanking of the page. He behavior is becoming very difficult. He claims the right to blank the page on the basis that to describe someone as a dictator violates WP:NOR. He has refused to engage in substantive debate.

Basically, he wants to delete the article, but cannot do so because he had his sysop powers removed and he knows he could never get it through a AfD - so he blanks it adds a totally inappropriate redirect to delete it by the back door. He seems to use this technique a lot. I appreciate your support.jucifer 13:31, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

(from Articles Talk) 172, regarding my edit description: (rv edit by 172 to prior version by Juicifer | #redir causes sig data loss) and your question "Talk:List of dictators. btw, i am not what the point about sig data loss in the last edit means"
This article is a List, to make fingind other articles easy. I am NOT here to debate the merits of the list; but your changing this to a #REDIR caused a signifigant loss of data in that the article you were redirecting this one to did not contain the information that you were effectively deleting, prior to removing large ammounts of information, a consensus would be helpful. Xaosflux 13:56, 25 November 2005 (UTC)


Bad stub sorting

Please don't add {{vocab-stub}} to articles. Especially, please don't add it to articles that are not about vocabulary. It is not a catch-all stub category. Uncle G 19:22, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

  • I'm assuming this is regarding Excellence. Few replies: Don't add {{stub}} to articles either, it is a deprecated category. That article (prior to expansion) appeared to be about the definition of a word. You ARE marking the article as a stub, to attract mroe editos, to better attract them please use one of the Stub Types that you feel is more approriate. Xaosflux 19:31, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
    • It's marked as a generic stub because there is no specific stub category for this type of article. The stub types are far from exhaustive. Uncle G 19:42, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
      • I certainly don't want to get in to an edit war about stub categories! As the article has grown, but there is obviously a desire for more input I moved it from stub to {{expand}} This way the next person working on stub sorting won't hit it the same way. Xaosflux 19:47, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
        • {{expand}} is the wrong tag. The article has not been listed on requests for expansion. {{stub}} is the correct tag, given that there is no appropriate stub category. You are only doing half the job of stub sorting. Uncle G 19:52, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
    • The article was never about the definition of a word, by the way. Please familiarize yourself with the differences between dictionary articles and encyclopaedia articles. You can start by comparing the Wikipedia article with the Wiktionary article. Uncle G 19:52, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
      • I am aware of the dif's, and in this articles infancy it was little more then a defnition, as others in the AfD comments agree, it still appears confusing as to if this is about what the definition of excellence is, if it is about an ideology, or about a philosopy, hopefully categorization, or continued expansion of the article will make this clear. Xaosflux 20:02, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
        • You have clearly not read the history of the article. Your description of the article's infancy is utter rubbish. At no point in the article's history was it ever "little more than a definition". In its infancy, it was something quite different to a definition. And from the fact that you are espousing the opinion that an article talking about excellence and its pursuit was appropriate for a dictionary, you are plainly not aware of the differences between dictionary articles and encyclopaedia articles. I recommend reading use-mention distinction and encyclopedic dictionary, which will provide you with at least some foundation in the differences between encyclopaedia articles and dictionary articles. Uncle G 20:37, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
          • I had not read every page of the history, but have now. When I originally edited the article it had one short paragrap that was a definition, and some paragraphs that seemed to be off-topic, refreing to The Pursiut of Excellence. I had also already modified my vote of AfD from MOVE to KEEP contigent on continued expansion. The article seems to be turning more and more in to an article about the pursuit for excellence, but I'm not really concerning myself with it anymore, my primary editorial goal of dealing with the article was stub-sorting it; as you mentioned previously there are not stub categories for EVERYTHING yet, although we are working on expanding the heirarch of stub cats to make things easier to classify in stub world; the entire point of stub sorting is to attract more constructed editors to articles that other editors feel need much expansion. To that end I was rash in moving it to vocab stub, as it seems to be now more of an ideological category. The edit history does show that i was not the first editor to think vocab-stub was approriate, and the AfD vote contributors are currently got a 5/2/1 delete/keep/(my edge) going, so if nothing else, confusion is the community voice, not just mine.

Playboy Enterprises expansion

Don't you think the Playboy Enterprises article should add more info about the company's products, such as the magazine? The article would be improved if it contained throughly information about Playboy Magazine, Playboy TV, and other brand products. --Alberto msr 01:28, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Not really. The Playboy Magazine article is rather large already, nad has been in existance for many years. A merger would also lead about 100 internal links only needing to be edited to not have to go through the rediretor, not to mention external links. Most major magazine articles are standalones already, and not sections of their parent holding companies. I also notice that noone is proposing merges on all of the other listed divions for which their are wiki articles. I do think that the enterprises article has room for expansion, perhaps expansing on its charity and community functions. I am but one voice though, and certainly not a consensus! Xaosflux 02:03, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Yes I think you are right. Merging Playboy Magazine with Playboy Enterprises would yeld in an enormous and giant article. What I think I'm gonna do instead, is to create a disambiguation page. When you search for "Playboy", you are redirected to Playboy Magazine article, and the first time I searched for it, I was looking for corporate info, not magazine info. It took me some days to discover that there was an article called "Playboy Enterprises" in addition to "Playboy Magazine". So I think the best option would be to create a disambiguation page for the term "Playboy".--Alberto msr 02:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Sounds Great! That would allow a search for Playboy to find any of their articles, as well sa any about palyboys in general! Currently Playboy is a #REDIR, and a disambig sounds better, some might complain, in wich case you could make a playboy disabig page and put the 'this article is about the magazine, for other uses see....' flag on the magazine, web site, enterprise, etc articles. Xaosflux 02:29, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Exceptional newcomer award

You've been wonderful. Keep up the good work!
You've been wonderful. Keep up the good work!

--Nlu 06:56, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

The Orginal Barnstar

For beating me to vandalism numerous times I KnowledgeOfSelf award you this barnstar. Keep up the good work!
For beating me to vandalism numerous times I KnowledgeOfSelf award you this barnstar. Keep up the good work!

KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 05:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

I must give you an orginal barnstar, you already had a Anti-Vandalism one. lol sorry for the confusion!

Thanks!!

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Fair enough re Neo-ninja

re: Neo-ninja. I rv'ed this article back to the last coherent version, it was vandalism. Please do not blnak the rticles if suggestinog for AfD or CSD. Xaosflux 16:55, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

(Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SAMAS") I guess I got carried away. You did leave the deletion request, though?

It really doesn't look like a CSD to me, please re-add it if you would like, this article has been around for 10 months though, probally an AfD would be more approriate. Xaosflux 17:01, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

As it is now as of your revert, it can stay. The one before my edits, on the other hand, highjacked the article to make a personal attack on a website.

Great, Thanks for your help! Xaosflux 17:06, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Controvery Section of Orkut

Hello. Thanks for letting me know about all the reversion on that page. I went there just now to take a look, and looks like it isn't happening anymore. I'll try to keep an eye there and see if it happens again, because that section is legitimate and has no reason not to be there.--Kaonashi 17:23, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Crescent College

Thank you for helping with this article, I agree with you that this information is suitable for inclusion. Unfortunately, it seems that much of the material that was blanked was actually a copyvio from [1]. So it can't be included verbatim in the article.

Regards,

Demiurge 13:47, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Glad to help, if the blanking would have had a copyvio summary, or a copyvio template would have been put on the article it wouldn't have been rv'd; Summary lines are very helpful, THANK YOU for using them on your edits! I stub sorted that article to also have {{University-stub}}, hopefully it will help attract more contrinutors. xaosflux T/C 16:47, 28 November 2005 (UTC)


Who are you?

And why do you insist on referring to my editing as vandalism? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.108.159.41 (talk • contribs).

Because they are? --Nlu 01:15, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia articles are written with a Nuetral Point Of View (NPOV). Changing an article to a tone that does not refect this is considered vandalism. xaosflux T/C 02:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

What's causing this?

Take a look at this edit or this one. As you can see, in addition to reverting the vandalism you are at the same time altering the syntax of these pages in a way that causes it to display incorrectly. This is obviously a problem. What do you think is causing it? Canderson7 (talk) 21:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've fixed the damage. I am assuming that the problem is caused by your "godmode-light". I recommend that you either alter or disable it. Canderson7 (talk) 21:53, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing those, I did see a few oddities, but thaught it was a display problem on my browser (was in the middle of some other browser changes), but it was due to a bug in that .js file; I've updated the file, again Thanks! xaosflux T/C 23:05, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Happy to help. Canderson7 (talk) 23:37, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

About my rfa

I'm sorry about that- when I said I had around 1000+ edits, I was refering to my contributions as an anon before (and sometimes after) I made my acount, as well as MegamanZero. :) Anywho, sorry for the misconception, and I very much thank you for your advice, as well as your compliment on my pictures. Thanks! Regards, MegamanZero 2:46 6.December 2005 (UTC)

I didn't even think about those! Wasn't accusing you of being misleading, your current count is:

  • Category:4
  • Image:202
  • Talk:96
  • Template:2
  • User talk:297
  • User:50
  • Wikipedia talk:11
  • Wikipedia:27
  • mainspace:460
  • Total:1149

I did notice you have lots of minor edits, I did not look them up, are they really minor, or just marked that way?

In any event you do have good edits, even though I oppose your RfA right now, many other may not, so good luck! xaosflux T/C 00:43, 6 December 2005 (UTC)


Barnstar

xaosflux is hereby awarded the Barnstar of Reversion for his tireless efforts in reverting vandalism on Wikipedia(from Izehar)
xaosflux is hereby awarded the Barnstar of Reversion for his tireless efforts in reverting vandalism on Wikipedia
(from Izehar)

Here's a Barnstar for you, thanks for reverting vandalism on my userpage. You deserve it anyway - there have been countless times while I have been on RC Patrol, I have spotted vandalism, and you have beat me to it in reverting it. Izehar 13:01, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Glad to be of assitance. Xaosflux 16:33, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

BBE

I'm not experimenting, i'm adding a redirect. You catch me just before i can finish it!. --Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias 18:38, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

"Experimentnig" is boilerplat on the {{test-n}} template, didn't realize it was a cut-n-paste move attent. Looks like its good now after User:JoanneB finished the move. At the part I got it a #REDIR destoryed the history leading to my revert. All looks good now! Xaosflux 21:54, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

930 Porsche

Dear sir, Would you please revert to my last saved version and lock the article? The anon user is hammering the article. Thanks 0waldo 22:30, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

I am not an admin, but even if I were this doesn't need protection IMHO. You ARE currently in an Wikipedia:Edit war with someone else over the article, and that can certainly be frustrating. You may want to get a third party involved by going to Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution, and if you do want to try to get the article locked please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection. If your edit war is still going on, the page version HERE looks like a good compromise, there's no reason you can't have both pictures IMHO. Xaosflux 23:59, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your positive response and help... bravo my friend :) 0waldo 01:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

P.S. BTW, I just loved the banners you had on the left side of your page - especially the No BS and No Dumbass :) So cool! 0waldo 01:37, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Microsoft

Thank you for your note. Yes, I do realize that and I fully expect to see it reverted. However, this editor is a newbie and he might not be entirely familiar with Wikipedia procedures. Anyway, just trying to be helpful here. Cheers Jbetak 20:50, 4 December 2005 (UTC) very

Great -- thanks for fixing the template text. I realize that your are quite busy, but for the record - I was not experimenting. I reverted the very same POV text you mistakenly credited to me earlier today. The anon user who has contributed it then returned with a much improved version which seemed to be a copy & past job.
Someone else has reverted it w/o giving proper explanation. I put it back in as a comment (note the XML-style comment marks around it: <-- and -->) so that this user has a chance to understand what happened. He seems to be editing from an AOL IP address, there is not much chance that he'd read a message if you or I or someone else left him one. Anyway, hope this is settled, I appreciate your antivandalism work but I believe I might have been around long enough to know a thing or two ;-) Best Jbetak 21:11, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Ah, the dangers af reverts! I've rv'ed somthing before and ended up bringing back sneaky vanadlism, then had to go remove it again, looks like you were cleaning it up and got caught in the crossfire! Microsoft is a heavily edited and vanadlized article, thanks for contributiing positively! xaosflux T/C 21:16, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Point taken - enjoy your day! Jbetak 21:18, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

saddam hussein

so ur telling me i dont have proof of saddam hussein being a dictator?, lets see here he ruled with an iron fist, made his countrymen kill thousands of kurds, was for years and years the only available person to run for office, that doesnt seem like a president thats a dictator, stop being politically correct, i dont like bush or kerry i hate both, but cmon u know he was a dictator —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.239.14.176 (talk • contribs).

While he very well may have been a dictator in the common sense, his title of president was recognized by most world governments. If you have references that show that this is not so, please add them many people would be interested in them. xaosflux T/C 04:47, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

"Counter Vandalism Unit"

I am learning quickly, Mr Heah.

After you attempted to lable me as a "sock puppet" earlier tonight, you have now somehow reported me as a "vandal", and my pages are apparently being monitored by the "Counter Vandalism Unit".

You play dirty -- especially considering that I am a total newbie.

Once again, heah, you have attempted to sabatoge my efforts to add to the body of knowledge on the subject of Poppers/alkyl nitrites, as you have been doing from my very first contribution two nights ago.

Anyone who reads my contributions to the subject, can readily dessearn that I am not a "sock puppet", that I am not a "vandal", and that the information I am adding is credible. I can fully support anything I add.

I ask that you halt your attacks on me personally, and instead, read what I am adding to the subject, and become more knowledgeable about it yourself. I thought that's what Wikipedia is all about. I'm certain the Internet community at large believes that's what Wikipedia is all about. It will be disturbing if it turns out Wikipedia is controlled by people such as "heah", who attacks those with whom he does not agree. If this turns out to be the case, and as the larger community learns about it, Wikipedia's image will be sullied, and it's perceived integrity diminished.

Allabout2006 07:27, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

I do not know who Mr Heah. is. I DID list your account Allabout2006 as a possible sock puppet of an IP you appeared to contribute under (209.248.254.66) in that it appears that you contributed in discussions regarding edits by your username, under that anon IP. Being listed as a sock puppet is not nesicarily a bad thing, and if it is correct makes your edits less confusing to other editors and readers. As listed on the sockpuppet info for your tag,"This may be more cluelessness then sockpupetry, but this user is using anon ips to discuss articles they started. xaosflux T/C 02:15, 8 December 2005 (UTC)" all constructive edits are welcome by anyone at anytime!
I do do work on the C.V.U. project, but there is NOT a consortium of people out to monitor or attack you personally as an editor.

you left before it happened!

[04:00:26] <Vilerage> computer wl add Xaosflux
[04:00:27] <Computer2> User:Xaosflux is now a member of the whitelist federation...

It didn't recog. your entry since you're not whitelisted, but you are now! enjoy! --VileRage (Reply|C|Spam Me!*) 09:01, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, glad to help with WP:CVU

Thanks

Yay, my very first Barnstar! Thanks! Bmdavll 05:20, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert

Just wanted to thank you for the vandalism revert on my user page. I appreciate it! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 05:36, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

NP! Happy to help! xaosflux T/C 23:47, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

User Categorisation

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians by D&D alignment page as being associated with the Lawful Good alignment. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians by D&D Alignment for instructions. --Cooksey 15:59, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Ack LG, must have had alligment creep! Updated to TN with the cat. xaosflux T/C 17:21, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my discussion page. I find it quite amusing that someone decided to proclaim their love for me there.  :) --Yamla 05:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Anytime! xaosflux T/C 23:51, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for reverting the vandalism of my user page today. It got popular for vandals today.Thanks again.--Dakota t e 20:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC) I'm sure you'd do the same for me, happy editing! xaosflux T/C 23:51, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


RE: Talk:George_W._Bush#RESTORE

The Bush page had to be deleted temporarily as part of the process of deletion defamatory edit histories. That will happen every time that idiot who posts them comes back. It is not a matter of debate but a requirement laid out by Jimbo to protect WP legally. A non-vandalised version of the page will be available shortly. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 01:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification, any chance that if a highly visible page has to be deleted for any maintenance purposes that a {{Inusefor|}} template could be slapped in the article space pending corrections, or at the least, a message in the Talk section? I fully understand the need to perform operations that may take articles off-line, but do support any notification system to readers and editors that could be used. xaosflux T/C 04:41, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

comment

Enough with the nonsensical vandalism! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drdeath (talk • contribs).

regarding me reverting your removal of AFD templates. This is not allowed. Please see the links on the template for information. xaosflux T/C 05:14, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Max Hardcore

he's so disgusting. How can you endorse that sort of behaviour? --J7 04:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I have no feelings for the subject of that article one way or the other, however blanking of other editor's contributions, adding POV material, and adding material without sources is not allowed. xaosflux T/C 04:51, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I think you just don't like me because im Jewish--J7 04:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't know you, and you don't even have a userpage, how would I know your religion? xaosflux T/C 04:59, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Maybe you have a machine in your basement which determines people's religions from their Wikipedia usernames? --J7 05:00, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I was not aware I deleted any text

Xaosflux,

I was not aware that I had deleted any text (I'm almost certain I didn't). As for my edit on the first paragraph, the small change that has been made completely changes the meaning on my sentence. I'll be more careful with my edits. Can I register as a user? I usually do small edits as an anonymous, but would like to have an account so they can be traced back to me. Thanks! Ignacio ----—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.154.179.138 (talk • contribs).

Anyone can register, just click on the Login Link to get a prompt to sign up, it is free. See Here for where it shows your removal. xaosflux T/C 05:29, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

whitelist/bot

I never actually use the IRC room, but the reason I wasn't on the whitelist may be that I just changed my account name from User:Christopherparham to User:Christopher Parham. Christopher Parham (talk) 01:46, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah tricky tricky! xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:50, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Comment

I didn't post nonsense. I posted facts. I know a lot more about this stuff than you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.51.97.185 (talk • contribs).

Adding non-existent categories to articles such as Anti Nazis is nonsense in my book e.g.
Category: Red-Skinheads
Category: Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice
Category: RASH
Category: Anti-Racist Action
Category: Antifa

xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

message from vandal

Shut up. You aren't cool. Wikipedia SUCKS. The Seigenthaler incident has proven its falbility, and now I'm going to expose it by taking advantage of its holes. Now shut up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.133.205.8 (talk • contribs).

N.B. this is in response to reversion of uncited additions to an article by this anon xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
DUDE SEIGENTHALER WILL DESTROY WIKIPEDIA IF WE DONT SLANDER HIS NAME, DON'T YOU SEE THAT?
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re: Unidentified flying object

I thought there was some sort of "freedom of speech" on Wikipedia. Why did you choose to consider my editing as "vandalism"? Please leave me and my editing ability alone! You're a bad person! User:4.155.30.102

Removing all the context of the article is considered vanadlism, as Your_Talk page shows, you (or someone from your ip) have recieved numerous warnings already. Xaosflux 06:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Are you from somewhere that prohibits freedom of expression? I am guessing that you are, as you have found it to be intolerable. This is a characteristic of someone who has a totalitarian outlook on life. Why have you made it your own personal resposibility to edit other people's self-expression?

I am certainly not the authority on UFO's, if you think my revert was uncalled for revert it back...but I've got a feeling plenty of others will agree that your page blanking is not constructive. Xaosflux 06:37, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks so much for the revert on my user page, I hadn't even noticed it had been vandalized you were so vigilant in your fix.GreatGatsby 23:11, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

NP it hit the radar in a CVU monitor, some AOLuser (sic) xaosflux T/C 00:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Merging the POPPERS/NITRITES page

Dear sir or madam,

Would you kindly let me know why you're suggesting a merge of my page POPPERS/NITRITES with another?

As a newbie, I'm unclear on the rules.

Kind regards, 209.248.254.66 05:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC) Allabout2006

There is already an article posted for Alkyl nitrites, IMHO if this article contains information not in that article including it in the existing would make for a better encylopedia. We also already have a redirect to that article for Poppers to make people searching for subject matter on it easy to find. A merge suggestions is not a personal attack on the editor, it is just a suggestino, certainly open for comment on the Talk page listed.

Also, Please LOG IN if you want to make comments as a username, that is the only way to authenticate that the comments are really yours, and not just somone claiming to be you. All comments are welcome, even from anonymous editors, but speaking authoritatively for someone else is generally not warranted.

xaosflux T/C 02:22, 8 December 2005 (UTC)


Gentlemen,

I hope you'll be more kind to other newbies. I apologize for anything I may have done that you may have thought was inappropriate, but like anyone who's new to something like Wikipedia, I am attempting to get my 'water wings', and can be expected to not know how to use this wonderful service as well as do you all, who are experienced posters here.

So I ask that you please extend me the courtesy of being able to learn, before you again accuse me of being a "sock puppet", or post other nasty and erroneous descriptions of my efforts (As "Heah" has done from the very first time I posted here three days ago). Like others here, I am only trying to add valuable and timely information to the already-existing body of data on the subjects I hope to post on.

Respectfully, Allabout2006 07:15, 8 December 2005 (UTC)


Initial D

You reverted the initial D page while it was in the middle of a transition to a multiple page format that has been in the works for at least a week. Please read talk pages before you make reversions so that ongoing projects are not disturbed. If you are interested in my project feel free to drop me a line on the Initial D talkpage or my own talk. I could use all the hands I can get.--Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk|@ 05:11, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion, showed up as article blanking ona RC feed; please use edit summaries especially when removing large ammounts of data at a time. xaosflux T/C 05:15, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
No problem, but here's something I just recently figured out myself. Its pretty important to check histories and probably do a comparison before making a reversion, especially when it is by a logged in user. A lot of times when someone is making a series of associated edits within a larger scope they will only comment once or twice. Sometimes when a user or group of users is collaborating towards substantial edits, they will limit it to the user page too. But a history comparison is usually the best as it will reveal if the article was edited or simply blanked or such.--Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk|@ 05:58, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
It certainly is! Just missed it on that one, there was a flood of blanking all at once right then, missed that one, glad it's all back in order though, have a great day. xaosflux T/C 00:07, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
If you dont mind, could you tell me where to use the feed, because I want to get involved but I can only protect a select few articles without the feed. I feel since joining CVU I haven't really done anything to make it worthwhile.--Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk|@ 02:31, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

ahem...

I see your reversions are being questioned as well. When will it all end? Will the vandals win? Izehar (talk) 00:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

It comes with the game, sometimes the rv's are mistakes (like the one Oni Ookami Alfador mentioned above, the RC feed gets hectic sometime as you probally know, generally before I rv something more then once on the same article I read in to it a bit, but some people like the one a few sections up just don't get it! xaosflux T/C 00:20, 10 December 2005 (UTC)


Recent blocking

I blocked that IP for 24 hours, taking into account the warnings that were already there before today. --HappyCamper 03:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the swift action! xaosflux T/C 03:06, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
No problem. I am usually not so keen on blocking that quickly, but when I read those edit summaries, well...to say the least they were quite inappropriate! See you around! --HappyCamper 03:08, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Policy Pump

I don't remember erasing anything! Did I accidentally do that? --anon —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.105.0.87 (talk • contribs).

I posted teh link to the history dif on your talk page. Hopefully it was an accident! xaosflux T/C 05:08, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I guess it was, but I still reallly don't think I did anything! --anon —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.105.0.87 (talk • contribs).

Could have been a browser issue, and everything is back in order xaosflux T/C 05:12, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Okay, that's good. But how come I keep getting —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.105.0.87 (talk • contribs).? I'm writing --anon! And what's a browser issue?

By the way, I just wrote:

What's a user space page? Whatever it is, it doesn't sound good. Why would anybody want to ban anonymous users? They shouldn't because:

1)Some anonymous users contribute greatly.

2)Wikipedia is supposed to be the free encyclopedia.

3)There are many good articles started by anonymous users that may have not be created at all without them.

4)Logged in users vandalize just as much as anonymous users.

5)It is not a good first experience and would not encourage people to log in and use Wikipedia regularly.

6)People should have the right to choose whether to get a username or not. Wikipedia shouldn't force people to get a username to make articles.

7)When you ban out the anonymous users, you ban the good ones as well.

8)It doesn't take much work just to erase vandalized info.

Therefore, this policy should end! Instead, or you could:

1) Whenever an anonymous user wants to make an article, they have to go here (or some other place) to debate whether they want it or not.

2)If an anonymous user vandalizes more than five times, ban that person from making articles.

These are better, but I rather have no policies at all. So, if you can, please get rid of the policies. If not, please do either number 1 or number 2. --anon

I was going to change "Instead, or you could:" to "Or you could" when I got an edit conflict. So I had to change that instead thing to the could thing again. But I didn't erase anything! --anon —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.105.0.87 (talk • contribs).

Sometimes things get messy when you hit an edit conflict, when I do I usually copy all the text I was adding to my clipbaord, go back to the article or talk page, then edit it and put my info in again. BTW, to sign your Talk page comments put four tilde's at the end of the line, like this: ~~~~ xaosflux T/C 04:10, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Someone's altering my edit

Hi, I was not vandalizing a page, I typed a formal edit and somebody has been changing the wording in a manner that changes the meaning of the sentence. I have been trying to leave it the way it states the correct facts. Thanks Ignacio Feito Mexico —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.154.179.138 (talk • contribs).

Editing is GREAT, but removing large ammounts of content are not, like in this edit: Click Here xaosflux T/C 05:16, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


Request for RfC Comment

Having been a past participant in the User:Braaad / User:68.112.201.90 "incident", I was hoping you could take a second and add any input you might have to an RfC I've written at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Braaad. Thanks. McNeight 05:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I had very little dealings with this IP, but did put my response on the Talk Page of the RfC. xaosflux Talk/CVU 03:43, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your response, but the user removed your sock puppet warnings on the user pages. McNeight 00:22, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm really not entrenched in the problems with that user, the puppet flags will stay in the history, if someone else wants to revive them they can. xaosflux Talk/CVU 00:43, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Fair enough. Thanks again! McNeight 00:57, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/EdwinHJ (3rd try)

Did I correctly understand your question with my answer? I think you were trying to ask about what I would do if there was a POV dispute on a page I contributed to. Is that right? Let me know if I can clarify my positions for you. Thanks for the feedback! EdwinHJ | Talk 11:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for answering, I was really getting at the POV issue, I've struck my neutral and added a Support, hope you get it! xaosflux Talk/CVU 23:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Your signature

Xaosflux, I noticed that your signature has an image (that of the CVU) in it. Generally, images in signatures are frowned upon because they cause additional server strain because of the amount of transclusion required; see Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages, which also addresses images in signatures. Would you be willing to remove the image from your signature? Thanks a lot! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:54, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Wow, I was just working on some layout stuff and wasn't really liking that image in there just hadn't gotten around to pulling it yet, but it should be gone now. xaosflux Talk/CVU 04:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 19:20, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Big Brother Loves you

Worship conformity. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.77.215.89 (talk • contribs).


Thanks

For the revert on my user page :) Alf melmac 12:54, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

NP! xaosflux T/C 02:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Early RFA thanks

Hi Xaosflux/Archive0,

Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. It has done very well and is currently at 67/0/2. As such, I am posting this in advance of its closure. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know. Thank you once again! – NSLE (T+C+CVU) 01:07, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Dear Xaosflux,

I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. Even though it failed with a with the final tally of 55/22/6, I want to thank you anyways. I don't want to be one a admin anymore until I reach 10,000 edits now that it's over with. Thanks --Jaranda wat's sup 02:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/POPPERS/NITRITES

Merge and delete are not compatible votes. When you finish a merge you are required to redirect the article so the edit history is retained so the contributor is attributed per GFDL requirements. Please read Wikipedia:Guide to deletion and change your vote if you want it to count. If you have any questions feel free to drop me a note. - Mgm|(talk) 19:27, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I think that there is usually something salvageable from most edits, and would not want to simply delete in it's entirety (I was the suggester of Merge in the first place). I do think that the naming context alone for that article is bad, and should be removed from the index alltogheter, but do understand the need to keep GFDL attributations. I changed my vote to Smerge on the AfD. xaosflux T/C 22:46, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

A Jaffa Cake for you from CLW!
A Jaffa Cake for you from CLW!

Many thanks for your support during my RfA – following a 30/0/0 vote I’ve now been made an admin. Do have a Jaffa Cake! Cheers, CLW 13:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

woot! congrats! xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:32, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

SpongeBob SquarePants

I was not blanking the article; I was replacing the overblown episode list with a simple wikilink (using {{main}}) to another article containing the exact same information. --Apostrophe 04:58, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Agree 100%, I had already reverted, but thaught it may have been erroneus, thus the extra note I left on your talk page. Apologies for causing you the extra edit, but glad it got resolved so quickly! xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Note, I stiked-out the test marker on your talk page, feel free to delete it if you want. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:03, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

thank you for deleting my page

I don't understand why you would delete someones hard work, if they hadn't done anything to you. I guess that's how you get off, but next time someone decides to take time out of their life to create something try not to delete it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.10.134.196 (talk • contribs).

N.B. this is in response to This message is regarding the page User:Jaxl. Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. left on their page. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Er...guess that message was intended for me ;-). Thanks for reverting his vandalism to my page, xaosflux. Robert 23:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Anytime xaosflux Talk/CVU 23:48, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Misc vandal note

You are annoying. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.133.205.8 (talk • contribs).

N.B. this was from an anon who didn't like me reverting their vandalism. xaosflux Talk/CVU 23:45, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

oops

sorry it was an accident :( --Yamamoto Ichiro 03:18, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey, hey

Per this dude;

We got in edit conflicts to both try to revert him!

Image:Barnstar2.png

Take care, εγκυκλοπαίδεια*(talk) 04:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Dang vandals! xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

RFA

Thank you for your vote, one of 64 in support of my adminship. What I really need, since you mentioned it, is to copy somebody's test1-5 javascript tool for talk pages and customize it. Cheers. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 06:13, Dec. 17, 2005

You can copy from my monobook, just skip the godmode light stuff since you've got the real buttons now ;) xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:21, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for supporting me at my recent RfA, which passed 30-0. Let me know if I can ever help you in any way.--File Éireann 14:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for voting on my RfA! The final result was (36/1/1), so I'm now an administrator! Woohoo!Shanel 19:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Another RFA thanks

Hi xaosflux, thanks for your support on my recent RFA. The request was successful, with a final tally of 33/0/0. I'm delighted that you decided to support it and I hope that I can live up to your expectations. Leithp (talk) 10:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar for good work...

You performed well in my random acts of vandalism test, well done, 202.180.83.6 03:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
You performed well in my random acts of vandalism test, well done, 202.180.83.6 03:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

For obvious reasons, my true identity will remain a mystery.... 202.180.83.6 03:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I am no ordinary vandal. Just a person on a quest to get good response times, you have passed... 202.180.83.6 03:43, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I hope your test is over :) xaosflux Talk/CVU 03:44, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
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Please STOP abusing vocab-stub

You are still abusing {{vocab-stub}}. Please stop. Wikislap is an article about an action, a wikislap, not an article about vocabulary and usage. {{vocab-stub}} is not a miscellany. Please stop treating it as if it were. Uncle G 05:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

  • ABUSE seems a bit harsh... This is a stub about a neologism, specifically the use of this word or phrase, as is indicated in the stub marker. {{vocab-stub}} is not listed as a category template about etymologies or social acceptance of words, it is specifically about definitions or usages of words or phrases, which is all this article is at this time. Had this been an article about the history of wikislaping, its popular use, or anything other then talking about its definition I'd agree that a better place for this would be in {{WWW stubs}} but it simply lacks material for that. I think that this article will grow one day and no longer be a stub, as it is specific to this site. I am certainly not going to get in to an edit war about this, but would appreciate further commentary from you on this. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:57, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
    • No, it's not harsh. Abuse of the category is exactly what this is. Wikislap is a encyclopaedia article about an action, a wikislap. It's not a dictionary article about a word at all. A dictionary article about a word or phrase would give the etymology, usage, translations, synonyms, antonyms, related words, pronunciation, part of speech, inflections, and so forth of the word or phrase. (Indeed, see the dictionary article hyperlinked to at the start of this paragraph.) Wikislap is an article about wikislaps. That the article lacks information on the history of wikislapping doesn't magically make the article into an article about the word. It just makes it a stub. A stub encyclopaedia article about an action and a dictionary article about a word or a phrase are two quite different things. See use-mention distinction. That the word used to name the action is a neologism doesn't magically make the article an article about a word or phrase, either. It just makes it an article that is probably original research.

      {{vocab-stub}} isn't a miscellany, and articles that are simply short are not articles about words or phrases. Uncle G 06:39, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

      • I agree that {{vocab-stub}} should not be used for misc. dumping of articles that don't have other homes. I also agree that this is not a (potential) dictionary article. Obviously we disagree on what a vocabulary stub is, I take it to be any short article about meanings and usages of words and phrases, in this case the article is so short that it would be hard for anyone to tell where it will end up, as currently it is simply a definition, and other then the notion that I think it will grow to something else, I would have flagged it for a move to Wiktionary and been done with it. This article could grow to be large, and depending on the editors could end up being more about the usages and definitions of the word; or could be more about the act, its use, it's history etc. It will probably have more potential as the later, so I'm retagging it, but as {{Web-stub}}, in the only effort of the stub sorting process: to attract more potential editors. xaosflux Talk/CVU
        • Wikislap is not a "short article about meanings and usages of words and phrases". And it is not "about the usages and definitions of the word". It's a short article about wikislaps. The fact that you cannot tell what stub category an article about wikislaps belongs in does not magically make the article one about the meanings and usages of words or phrases. An article that only contains 1 sentence telling the reader what a wikislap is is not an article "about meanings and usages of words or phrases". It is a stub. Articles are not articles about words or phrases simply because they are short. Uncle G 07:28, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
          • Again, I agree that this is a stub, but perhaps your crystal ball is working better then mine, and know that this stubs development cycle will not end up being an article about the phrase, or usage of it. Stub sorting is more of an art then a science when the original editors don't give much to work with, and cleary we disagree on what constitutes a vocabulary stub, we are not building a dictionary, so the lack of dictionary typing information on a stub doesn't disqualify it as a vocab-stub in my book. xaosflux Talk/CVU 07:34, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
            • A crystal ball isn't needed to see that it isn't about a word or a phrase as it stands right now. It is about an action. we are not building a dictionary, so the lack of dictionary typing information on a stub doesn't disqualify it as a vocab-stub in my book. — That's a very odd book, then. If we aren't building a dictionary, then it follows that stubs won't grow into dictionary articles. A different book seems to be in order. ☺ Uncle G 12:13, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
      • We will have to continue to disagree on your use of abuse here, I feel that abuse denotes motive, where a word such as misuse , or a differently phrased comment, may have been more civil. I am not looking at dumping articles into a category where they will get lost. This may not have been your intention, but hopefully it is obvious that we are both working to build a better encyclopedia here. xaosflux Talk/CVU 07:10, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
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Uncyclopedia Vandalism

RE: This message is regarding the page Wikipedia:Vandalism. Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. -- xaosflux Talk/CVU 02:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

The nonsense is your reversion of my entry. I am an administrator at Uncyclopedia, and if you understood our policy you would know that we do not allow 'silly vandalism', except in designated areas. Feel free to discuss this with us further in our IRC channel should you need additional clarification. - T.L. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.29.78.88 (talk • contribs).
By wikipedia's definition of vandalism, Uncyclopedia allows this type of editing on most pages, your notations may be more constructive on the Uncyclopedia article, then on the wikipedia project page. xaosflux Talk/CVU 02:53, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Parody does not equal Vandalism. We hate crap as much as you do. :) Inaccuracies such as the information contained in your link directly contribute to making our jobs more difficult. Wikipedia = Truth = "Uncyclopedia: A Silly Vandalism Site" = Tons of reverts each day for us. If my corrections to this link aren't welcome on a Project Page, then I would suggest that the Uncyclopedia link doesn't really belong there either. You have a standing invitation to our channel, anytime. Same goes for any admins here. Cheers. - T.L. talk
After some additional looking, I would have to agree that the absence of factual material != vandalism, and that you must have your share of mindless vandals as well. I have removed that external reference from our article, but please look over our article on your site and make any edits for accuracy ;) xaosflux Talk/CVU 03:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Very much obliged. I'll look the article over now. If there's anything specifically troubling that I miss, leave me a message about it on my talkpage @UN. - T.L.

Anon note

The stuff I put on is true while the stuff you put on is misleading. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.1.97.22 (talk • contribs).

This was regarding this un commented large deletion by this ip. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:47, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Huntington Beach High School

Thanks for the revert on those, for whatever reason the changes didn't catch up to my watchlist. Hm. I'm still a new users around here so I'm getting used to all the formatting. WesleyPinkham 02:01, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Looks like you got off to a good start! When I check my watchlist if there are any entries for my watched articles I go and check the entire article history to make sure everything is OK. xaosflux Talk/CVU 03:28, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for voting on my RfA! The final result was (36/1/2), so I'm now an administrator! The correct title of this section is "thank you1". The use of the shift key is due to technical restrictions. Mo0[talk] 06:40, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Abraham Lincoln

Why did you take off my Lincoln quote? It was just a quote from a speech. I also posted the original speech manuscript. Please do not take it off again. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JJstroker (talk • contribs).

My only recent contrinution to that article was This one where I removed a POV edit by anonymous editor 70.22.71.242, reverting the article to the edits that you put in. My edit summary stated: (Reverted edits by 70.22.71.242 to last version by JJstroker). Please re-review the article history and let me know if I have removed any content that you feel is approriate to the article. {Please reply on My Talk Page} xaosflux Talk/CVU 15:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Adminship EdwinHJ

You may wish to review your vote in the light of today's opposition.Phase1 23:58, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the message, but I'm sticking with Support, hopefully this would be one of the situations mentioned in question 3b; if not that's why there are multiple admins and the arbcom. xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:12, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

my RfA

Thank you!
Xaosflux, thanks for your support on my RFA. I was rather suprised at the overwhelming support I received. Thank you for your confidence in me. I hope that I'll live up to your expectations in the future as well. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 04:37, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Hey Xaosflux! Thanks for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was an unanimous (45/0/0), so I am now an administrator. If you need help, or have a question, please don't hesitate to let me know! Again, thanks! :D --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 03:22, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 17:37, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Counter vandalism CFD notice

Regarding this edit, in which you posted the CFD notice on my user page. Next time, would you mind posting that on my talk page instead? ;) Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 18:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I was stuggling with where this should go when used in userspace, and almost put in on the Talk pages, but the direction said it should go on the main page (assuming the page where the category up for deletion is located). I am generally warry about putting anything on anyone's User: pages. xaosflux Talk/CVU 18:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Message from a warned vandal

It's funny not vandalism, vandalism is like haxoring (I am a haxor btw) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CaptainUnderpants (talk • contribs).

You're right, you are not funny. xaosflux Talk/CVU 21:58, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Please STOP abusing vocab-stub

Moved to User_talk:Xaosflux/Archive4, if there are new issues regarding this please post them here though. xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:13, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

have something against big font?

do you?--Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz 07:28, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Reply on your talk page. xaosflux Talk/CVU 07:38, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

hey, answer me in sand box 2

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 142.161.218.81 (talk • contribs).

Because this is a wiki, and editors respect eachother, article protection is generaly not required. xaosflux Talk/CVU 07:38, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Pre-emptive thanks

I just saw that you are taking a wikibreak from watching my watchlist. So firstly enjoy your break, and have a great holiday. Now to my heading thanks for your vote on my RfA it is appreciated! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 08:26, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Izehar's RfA

Hi xaosflux,

I would like to thank you for your kind support on my RfA. I'll do my best to be a good administrator. If you need anything or if I ever do something I shouldn't have, please, don't hesitate to drop me a line. Izehar 16:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

BD2412's RFA

Thanks for supporting my RfA, xaosflux - I'll do my best as an admin to help make the dream of Wikipedia into a reality! BD2412 T 22:02, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism

I apologize the vandalism I posted. I did so not to create havoc but rather to prove a point to many groups of people who did not believe it could be done. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.57.119.176 (talk • contribs).

Please see WP:POINT regarding that. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry

hey, thanks for pointing me the right way. I am new here and was just experimenting before I started to work on some proper articles InToTouch 05:11, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Welcome aboard then! xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:12, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

D&D Templates

Seeing as how this is your baby, I don't want to rob the cradle, but I do have a suggestion. When you go to set up the template, were I you, to simplify things, I'd use a Case-style template a la Template:user religion. That way, you could do something like {{user alignment|tn}} or {{user alignment|ce}} as opposed to something fangly like {{user alignment_chaoticgood}} and have fifty bazillion (er...nine ^_^) userbox templates dangling about in the Template namespace. Then you could have an extra template, {{user alignment|unaligned}} that you could use that says something like, "This user has no alignment (or would rather not disclose it, or prefers not to associate themselves with an alignment)."</nowiki>

Just suggestions. You want any help, anything at all, drop me a talk line. I'd normally be bold, but this was your idea, and contributions are contributions. ^_^ Happy hunting! Cernen 12:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

In fact that was what I was planning on doing, just dumped those three samples out there all in raw code as layout samples for color, wording, and link review. xaosflux Talk/CVU 16:03, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. I am not quite convinced that I like all the boxes, and I am not quite happy with my D&D alignment - I did the quiz, it put me as LG, but I am not quite convinced. I never had any interest in playing paladins. Guettarda 18:35, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
LG isn't only for paldins ;) Do you think other colors might work better? xaosflux Talk/CVU 18:37, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Colours palette works for me. Also, I can't be anti-statist and call myself lawful. Ok, maybe I'm the problem, not the quizes :) Guettarda 19:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Looks nice, but I don't like/use userboxes for now. Might do in the future. — Sverdrup 02:31, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the D&D Thing

Although I am not much into D&D, I wish to thank you for your recommendation. I just added that for people to get to know my personality, and for a lot of categories. Thanks anyway, again. Эйрон Кинни 22:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

D&D alignment boxes

Maybe you should subst out the userboxes in your D&D boxes, unless you think there might be changes to the template that you'd want to be automatically incorporated? You know, server caching and all.

Also, when you do that, I think the CSS attribute "clear: left;" would be in order. That way, if you put it next to another left-clinging box, it will drop below it and stay out of the way on the side rather than hogging tons of horizontal space. Without clear:

!! ?????????
!! ?????????



With clear:

!! ?????????
!! ?????????



Just a pair of suggestions. :) —Simetrical (talk) 05:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the input, I am planning to subst out the embeded tempaltes on the templates once I make sure all the link, font, colors are good, because they become a real pain to work with after becoming all subst'd out! As for using clear, I've never put it in to any boxes before, but haven't had problems with them, what other non-expected effects would come of that? xaosflux Talk/CVU 08:00, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
  • For some reason, Clear snipes out all the space and doesn't give you anything to play with. If people want the userbox to drop down below, they can shove the wikicode snippet {{clear}} right next to the userbox entry. I've had so many problems with userboxes stealing space on my userpage. (Prolly why I got involved in the userbox project to begin with...) Cernen 08:37, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

True, the end user can just use clear themselves if they want. Most won't know how to, though, and may get frustrated. —Simetrical (talk) 03:36, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida.

I noticed from Category:Wikipedians in Florida that you are a floridian and I have created a state wikiproject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida. So far is it very small but it could be expanded later. Join it if you want and help set tasks etc. Thanks --Jaranda wat's sup 06:08, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Random quibble: multi-licensing

You can't multi-license into the public domain. If you release something into the public domain, it's no longer yours to release under the GFDL. Of course, anything in the public domain can be used on Wikipedia anyway, and it never makes any actual difference whether the stuff is multi-licensed or just in the public domain, but I'm a pedant by nature, so sue me. ;) —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 03:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm guesing you are referring to the Category:Public domain minor edit license category that I am in? If this is an invalid licensing type, there are over 90 other people using it, and talk over retiring the Template:MultiLicenseMinorPD has failed before, but I am all for having my minor edits be open to anyone's use, at any time. Perhaps it can be worded that I agree to license my minor edits in to GFDL, THEN license them in to the public domain. From what I've heard some people to not accept that you can acutally grant a license to the public domain, as it is actually a release of licensing, but IANAL. Please feel free to bring that template and category to VP, or TFD/CFD to disucuss this, if you believe it is invalid, if you do I would appreciate you droping me a note that you have done so. Thank you! xaosflux Talk/CVU 04:11, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Maybe I will sometime. For now, however, it's a rather trivial issue. :) —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 04:46, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

You liar

QUIT FALSELY ACCUSING ME OF POSTING VANDALISM ANYWHERE YOU EVIL LIAR AND DISTORTER OF THE TRUTH! YOU ARE A LIBERAL LIARMAN! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.133.205.8 (talk • contribs).

No comment needed, see their contribs.
Those contribs are not mine and you know it. You're hacking me to make it look that way because you lie and deceit and hate America. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.133.205.8 (talk • contribs).
Note-This user was blocked for vandalism. xaosflux Talk/CVU 04:28, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

REGARDING COOL

This is User 66.17.116.148. You recently made an edit on my talk page telling me to stop vandalizing the page Cool. I have never edited this page before. Look in the history if you don't believe me. It is very upsetting to me to be issued this warning. I demand that you appologize IMMEDIATELY. I feel violated. I hate you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.17.116.148 (talk • contribs).

My greatest apologies, I palced the wrong page name on the 'regarding' line, and have since updated the message on your page, that message was actually reagrding this edit of anoth er user's User Page. Editing of other users User Pages is against the guidelines. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:53, 29 December 2005

(UTC)

YOU BASTARD

I wasn't editing another user's page. I was editing MY page, however, I didn't sign in, so it appeared as my IP address. Rot in hell. 66.17.116.148

Apologies for any confusion, as you can clearly see User talk:66.17.116.148 that anon IP has caused repeated editorial problems in the past, including needing to be blocked from editing. Were these your edits, if so you may want to try to be a little more civil. I was attempting to protect YOUR page from vandalism by an anon address known to have caused issues before. xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

SORRY

Sorry for making the 'YOU BASTARD' edit. Jim16

It's alright, hope everything makes more sense now. I posted some helpful links on Your Talk Page to help you out as well. xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

LINKING

How do you link a certain word, etc. to an article other than the word. Jim16

Like this: [[Article_name|word]]

I realize this, but how do you get the vertical line between name and word? Jim16

That is the pipe symbol, it is in diferant places on many keyboards, but on most standard keyboards it is shift and backslash (\) it proabally appears as a verticle line with a slight space between it. xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:16, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

HELLO

Hello Jim16 06:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks.


Medical controversies

It didn't surprise me the medical editors removed that page, they have to keep that pandoras box well closed whale.to/a/hoaxmed.html. john 13:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi xaosflux, now that I'm an administrator, I just wanted to thank you for your support on my RfA. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 02:28, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello Xaosflux/Archive0,

I wish to thank you for your vote on my RfA. It has passed with a final tally of 59/0/0. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 03:49, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
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IMAGES

How do you paste an image onto your user page? Jim16 07:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

You can't but you can link to an image with [[Image:imagefilename.png]] from Images that are [[Special:Upload|uploaded] already. xaosflux Talk/CVU 07:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Your Welcome

Yea I'm already in it. LOL. Cobra 04:37, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Cool, I think I'll get on now actually. Cobra 04:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for undoing the vandalism to my user page.Mike 05:34, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Anytime! xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Shrimp_on_the_Barby

He did it again.... I have reverted his changes to Australia Fosnez 5:31, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I've listed them all on WP:AIV xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


User page vandalism

Thanks for rescuing my user page! Cyberevil 04:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Email

Hey, Xaos. Did you get my email? I don't really want to discuss its contents on Wikipedia in case you decline, but if you received it, develop a code, then write on my talk page in the code about the email, and proceed to graduate from spy school :-). Anyway, a few other things I wanted to say. Since you have about 10,000 categories on your user page already, what's 10,001 going to pain you? Check this one out: Category:Wikipedians with 4000-10,000 edits. Also, who do I have to kill to get you to make me one of those top-o-the-page menus? JHMM13 (T | C) 05:10, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the email. Yeh, can I have User, Talk, Contributions, Email in that order? Thanks a lot, JHMM13 (T | C) 05:30, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I copied it over, and left some brief notes, if it causes you any issues jsut remove the top line of your talk and user page. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:46, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Wow, thanks! I owe you one :-D. JHMM13 (T | C) 05:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

Hello Xaosflux. Thank you for supporting my Rfa! :) I will try my best to be a good administrator. Please ask me if you need any help. --a.n.o.n.y.m t 17:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Many thanks for your support on my request for adminiship, I'm sure you'll be glad to know the final result was 92/1/0. I am now an administrator and (as always) if I do anything you have issue with, please talk about it with me. --Alf melmac 09:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Pgk's RFA

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (80/3/0), so I am now an administrator. I was flattered by the level of support and the comments, so I'm under real pressure not to disappoint, thus if you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as an admin then please leave me a note --pgk(talk) 10:08, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Reply to RfA question.

Thanks very much for your vote of support! I'm sorry about the delay in replying to your question, this weekend has been a bad one for me - traveling 800 miles down the east coast with 4 dogs, 2 cats, and an entire car full of stuff to pack and unpack. At least I'm done now. Whew. - Trysha (talk) 05:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Help needed with godmode-light

Hello Xaos, as you are one of the most prolific on RC Patrol, I thought I'd ask you for help: I am trying to get the above script by Sam Hocevar to work. But everytime I try to revert something, I get "Getting article history (/w/index.php?title=Sam_Allardyce&action=history&limit=50)... Failed to parse XML data returned by the server. Hint: try to disable both "Enable section editing by right-clicking on section titles (JavaScript)" and "Edit pages on double click (JavaScript)" in your editing preferences until a proper fix is found." Of course, I have disabled those two JS functions, but to no avail. And I am using the latest version of the script. So what goes wrong? Could it be my browser? I am using Firefox 1.5. Thanks! Cyberevil 19:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Reply on your talk. xaosflux Talk/CVU 00:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Xaos. Well, still doesn't work. Apparently it is the browser. So I either have to wait for Sam to come up with something or go back to FF 1.0.7 :( But thanks for your help! Cyberevil 02:11, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Correction, I got it to work. I was probably too excited to flush the browser cache after I tried your version of the script. I think I'm going to cry now :) Cyberevil 02:19, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks from rogerdRfA thanks from rogerd

Hi Xaosflux- Thanks for your support on my RfA. I appreciate the kind words that you used in your comments. If I can be of any service please leave me a message --rogerd 01:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

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3RR BLOCK

I had my first experience with being BLOCKED today :( The edits were in use were regarding a current event that was being very heavily edited by numerous editors. Depending on the viewpoint of an outside observer, I may or may not be in violation of 3RR on this. I have documented my edits and notes below, in the even this is needed in the future. Fortuantly my block was recinded by the sysop who placed it about 20 mins later. I very strongly oppose edit warring, and believe that the 3RRule is a Good Thing. Hopefully by my edits below it can be shown that I was not edit warring with anyone, and that the ammount of edits were only related to the article being a curent event. xaosflux Talk/CVU 04:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

My edits on Super Bowl XL are:

Vandal Cleanups

  • 2006-02-06 02:25:59 Xaosflux m (Reverted edits by 70.179.8.217 to last version by Xaosflux)
REMOVAL OF VANDALISM
EXEMPT
  • 2006-02-06 02:12:11 Xaosflux m (Reverted edits by Jessten95 to last version by 216.147.237.189)
REMOVAL OF VANDALISM
EXEMPT

Normal Edits

  • 2006-02-06 01:59:24 Xaosflux m (Reverted edits by 65.1.75.246 to last version by ADman)
syntax correction
NOT A REVERT
  • 2006-02-06 01:46:56 Xaosflux (→Game summary - wfy table links)
addition of wiki links
NOT A REVERT
  • 2006-02-06 01:25:43 Xaosflux (→Game Summary - re factor, grammar)
grammar editing
NOT A REVERT
  • 2006-02-06 00:38:49 Xaosflux m (→Game Summary - rm whitespace)
Cleanup whitespace
NOT A REVERT
  • 2006-02-06 00:24:40 Xaosflux (note)
html notes
NOT A REVERT

Edits with removals

Syle Edits

  • 2006-02-06 02:21:44 Xaosflux (→Game summary - "0" indicates the scoring for the qtr is complete)
score style
  • 2006-02-06 00:20:56 Xaosflux (Current score not needed here)
rm score in wrong area
  • 2006-02-06 00:42:45 Xaosflux (→Game Summary - 6 2nd qtr)
table corrections

Content Edits

Speculative, misc edits
  • 2006-02-06 01:47:56 Xaosflux (→Game summary - rm pov)
rm one word sentance
  • 2006-02-06 01:12:12 Xaosflux m (Reverted edits by 68.216.29.70 to last version by Aranda56)
rm speculative data

Non-notable Plays
  • 2006-02-06 02:25:42 Xaosflux m (Reverted edits by 70.137.107.119 to last version by Pilotguy)
remove non-notable play
  • 2006-02-06 01:48:32 Xaosflux m (Reverted edits by EKN to last version by Xaosflux)
remove non-notable play

Block Lift

Special:Logs/Block/User:Xaosflux

  • 2006-02-06 03:08:31 WikiFanatic unblocked Xaosflux (contribs) (Overruled)
  • 2006-02-06 02:45:18 WikiFanatic blocked "Xaosflux (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (3RR violation)

Edits to Super Bowl XL within 24 hours after being unblocked

  • 2006-02-06 04:14:44 Xaosflux m (Reverted edits by 24.86.153.56 to last version by Thunderbrand)
Revert Page blanking VANDAL
EXEMPT
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Jimboothfan69

Thanks for the quick reverting -- you're very fast on the draw! bikeable (talk) 06:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

NP, I'm sure you'd do the same for me! xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

User: Turboboom and an Edit war

I saw you warned TurboBoom on his talk page earlier about the 3RR and his reverts of a section on the Xbox 360 page. I believe he made another account "GorbaLor" and is using it to get around the 3rr, on both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. If you look at the history on both pages GorbaLor (new user) just simply reverts to what TurboBoom had. On the Xbox 360 page it was blatant vandalism where he was blanking a section and when asked to move it to where he believes it to go he blanks it and says "you move it". Now it's been blanked again without any comment on the discussion page section I made for commenting on the issue, and I don't think i'm allowed to add it back due to 3rr.

I'm kinda new here and really don't know how to deal with stuff like this so i'm posting a not here since I saw you looked at him. If I need to post to someone else or somewhere else please let me know :) Thanks SeraphimXI 07:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

See the reply on your user talk. xaosflux Talk/CVU

Arigato :p Seraphim 00:18, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Oscar images

Hey, I just wanted to ask your opinion about something. 81.240.202.11 and Special:Contributions/NWill (the same user, I'm sure) has been making some useful additions to List of Academy Award winning movies, but this user has also added an Oscar image to many pages in a format that doesn't seem to be useful to pages such as Pulp Fiction, Kramer vs. Kramer, and L.A. Confidential. The image is set at the top of the page, is left-aligned, and is not explained, but beside that, there are categories to describe things like that. I left a note on his talk page, and he has since stopped adding the images, but he also hasn't responded, so I'm asking you for your opinion on the matter. Thanks, JHMM13 (T | C) 20:28, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

This doesn't look usefl for anything at all, and seems to disrupt the pages. Buutttttttttttt......It may have some use:BUt it would require some work, and maybe this person would be up for it, I'm thinking an Oscar award winning movies sub category of oscars by year, and include something like this as part of a non-intrusive navigational type tempalte, probally best located in the same place (I'd suggest the bottom center) of the articles. xaosflux Talk/CVU 04:28, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Yeh, that's what I thought. So do you think I should revert all these pages, then? I will leave a message for the user involved (quoting what you say, if that's ok), and I'll guide him to categories and other such things. JHMM13 (T | C) 04:34, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I think removing these images seems fine, but I wouldn't get in to an edit war about it, it will probally become apparent, as many other editors of these popular will probally remove them as well. It would be polite, but not required, to message them about removing their contributions, be careful not to remove any other contributions in between (might want to just edit it off rather then trying to revert per se). You are more then welcome to link to what I posted above, but I am in no way an authority of content; but am an outside view on these. xaosflux Talk/CVU 04:40, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the information, and I wouldn't get in an edit war about anything, I don't think I've done that in the past :-). I usually just make a revert if it seems clear, and then if it is debated, I discuss the issue. Then sometimes, like in this issue, I ask for a third opinion from a user I know to be respectable. Thanks again, and I'll drop you a line if anything strange happens. JHMM13 (T | C) 04:43, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


No prob, If it comes to an RFC let me know, I'll copy my 'Third Party Opinion' up. xaosflux Talk/CVU 04:47, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Yup...very good idea. I'm not going to put the notice on the page though - I'm going to be patient and stick around for the next 15 minutes and remove it. --HappyCamper 03:58, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:WikiThanks.png No problem...I should thank you too - for your diligent work on Wikipedia. Glad to see someone who knows how to keep on top of things :-) Here's a WikiThanks for your hard work well done! --HappyCamper 04:13, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Question regarding the page Oceanic Flight 815

Hello I have cleaned up the page and after asking the original deletion notifier about my changes he viewed it and removed his deletion request and suggested a move. I am hoping to move the page to "Oceanic Airlines flight 815" as I think it is for the best yet I am a new member so I can not do so. Do you think you could take another look at "Oceanic flight 815" and see if you think I have improved the article enough for it to stay. User:Jezabelda

Thanks for the note, I've updated my comments on the AfD to Speedy Keep. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:15, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

User page - menu

Hello, your doing some quality patrolling there, I apologize for distracting you with this message; but your User page is ... um, aethetically challeged. :"D If you'd like I can try to rearrange it for you. Less important, but a personal project of mine is to keep Wikipedia 800x600 compliant, your menu is too wide for my ol' monitor. Anyway, keep up the great work! - RoyBoy 800 06:36, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer. I have put some time in to my userpage, but I'm not married to it. I generally have my resolution set to 1280x1024 or higher, just switched down to 800x600 and cringed! I just copied my page over to My Sanbox 4 feel free to suggest any changes in there, then leave me a talk note. Thanks! xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:45, 8 January 2006 (UTC)


Please use {{rail-stub}}, not {{train-stub}}

Please use {{rail-stub}}, not {{train-stub}}. The latter is a redirect to {{rail-stub}}. Thanks. Slambo (Speak) 11:57, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Good point, I've done my share of work with stubs, and didn't consult The List first, assuming I guessed correctly by the blue link in preview mode. However, if you don't want people using redirected stub templates, instead of taking it up one editor at a time, why not bring it up for deletion? -- xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:05, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/JzG

I note your comments and (ever one to learn from my mistakes) have added the "force edit summary" js to my monobook.js, to stop me forgetting in future. Thanks for the heads-up. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] RfA! 13:00, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't going to give you an Oppose for it, as your other edits seemed ok though. xaosflux Talk/CVU 00:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
And as your edit summaries have now greatly improved, I changed to support, keep up the good work! xaosflux Talk/CVU 17:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


Thanks!

Wow, in almost three years, RC patrol and 10,000 edits, this is my first ever barnstar. That's one item I can strike from my set of Wikipedia stories. Thanks! -- Fuzheado | Talk 06:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I was sure you had them hid away somewhere, but not even in your talk archives! Should have given you the 'missing barnstar' one! xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:21, 12 January 2006 (UTC)


Meta RfA

Thanks for voting!
Thanks for voting on my Meta RfA; I'm happy to annouce I was promoted!. I look forward to being able to do more good work for Meta, and if there is anything I can do for you, let me know.

Again, thanks! Essjay Talk • Contact 20:03, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Vandalism Tips

Thank you for the information. I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and although I did realize I was only supposed to post on users' talk pages, it seems I have confused the two in a few instances. I will make the appropriate changes and also "subst: the templates."


Thanks again, CopperMurdoch 01:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

More checkuser?

Good idea, I've added that. Radiant_>|< 12:47, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Reverting

Why do you keep reverting Wikipedia:Introduction? RexNL 01:10, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Never mind. RexNL 01:10, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

need to talk about you (irc stuff)

well, you may notice that the main cvu irc channel is now being locked (there were good reasons for that) and I'd like to talk with you and about the possibility locking the 2nd channel as well, or you may also talk with essjay -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 07:43, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

It's me 71.57.53.128, hey its my first time, edititing and I didnt kno you could actually do it. So dont block me you explitive removed —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.57.53.128 (talk • contribs).

This is in response to vandalism warnings on their talk page. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:55, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Halo: Combat Evolved

My removal of the fan sites from that page was intentional, as having a list of fan sites goes against the guidelines in WP:NOT and WP:EL. You may want to make a habit of having a look at the page history for an article before reverting an edit, so that you can see the reason why an edit was made before assuming that it was a mistake. I'll go ahead and re-make my edit. If there is some reason why the Halo: Combat Evolved article should go against Wikipedia guidelines and try to duplicate the effort that sites such as Dmoz and Yahoo already do so well, please discuss it with me in Talk:Halo: Combat Evolved. - Brian Kendig 15:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Whups - okay - I did screw up; I didn't mean to delete the category links as well. That was my own error. One note, though; if you're assuming good faith, it might have been better to guess that I did have a purpose for my edit beyond deleting the categories, and you should have had a closer look at what was going on. You reverted both of my edits, including one where I added a new section to the page. - Brian Kendig 15:44, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Typo in userboxes?

I notice that in your userboxes, the heading above your programming userboxes is misspelled ("progamming"). Since you specifically requested that people not mess with your userboxes, I thought I'd post here to let you know in case you wanted to fix it.

Have a good day, -Viridian 00:58, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Strip club slang

That's some good short note for the linkage and accidentally flipping the entries, I wish I'd known of em before. Prior to this I had typed out long-winded stuff like "accidentally put the wiki link in the description and vice versa and had to fix it to direct properly." Talk about inefficient. Tyciol 05:34, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

AfD Thanks

Please accept my embarrassingly belated thank you for supporting my RfA, which much to my surprise passed 102/1/1, earning me minor notoriety. I am grateful for all the supportive comments, and have already started doing the things people wanted me to be able to do. And hopefully nothing else... Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 12:48, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Pgkbot

As Drini was writing some stuff up on pgkbot and computer2 looks like he was experimenting and kicked pgkbot from the channel, even though it wasn't accepting commands in any other so it got a bit stuffed up by the looks...

Just for info if the bot gets stuck and status is saying it hasn't seen an event in quite a long time the command to use is pgkbot reader reset (as op) which causes it to disconnect and reconnect to the wikimedia RC feed. --pgk(talk) 17:48, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Forgot to add channel swapping should work, so you can easily just swap the two channels around with

pgkbot dest swap #wikipedia-en-vandalism #wikipedia-en-vandalism2

--pgk(talk) 18:04, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Hip Forums

Hi, Something went astray with my revert on the Hip Forums page. Please be assured I wouldn't make such nonsense changes, and I spend most of my time reverting vandals. It's pretty embarrassing that my name is attached to that edit. It may have been a bug in the mediawiki software, as I'm positive I was reverting to remove the vandalism. So please don't think I'm some idiot :)! Thanks --Jgritz 04:39, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Additionally, do you mind if I remove the vandalism warning off my page, as this makes me look pretty bad. --Jgritz 04:41, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
I think I've solved this - I accidently reverted to this version by anon IP 209.7.140.14. It's still a bit odd though, because I would of had to have gone back about 20 edits to get to this version. Thanks --Jgritz 08:09, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Intros

Thank you for the warm welcome, but it's not really necessary - I've been hanging out around here for over a year. I guess I'm just now starting to register on peoples' radar. As should be expected - apart from the handful of translations, all I've done is corrections. Hell, I even have the WikiGnome userbox. So let's get to it. Wareq

Your message for vandalism

I got a message on 202.68.145.230, asking me to refrain from Vandalism. I normally use this id of mine Cygnus_hansa (appearing for Magicalsaumy) for wikipedia, but sometimes I do tend to forget to log in. But whatever be the case, I have never been involved in Vandalism or deletion. I am rather confused how could you get the impressionn that the id given above is doing vandalism.

Again, note that our hostel uses our institute's or hostel's proxy servers, so it could be possible that one of my fellow hostelite is doing such vandalism. Cygnus_hansa 07:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

The vandalism type message that I sent to 202.68.145.230 was regarding This edit, removing the article. If this was not you, please disregard the message to the IP, it was probally someone else using your proxy. xaosflux Talk/CVU 21:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Star, Mississippi

Hiya xaosflux. You tagged this article for speedy deletion a few hours back. Just to keep you informed, I did a bit of research and found it's a real place, so shouldn't be deleted as long as it was expanded. I've added a bit of info to get it up to a stub, and will add some more later. Keep up the good work though ;) Proto t c 10:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

When I taged this for CSD, it did seem to qualify under CSD-A1, very short, providing no context, a substub at best. Your additions have blossomed it to a full stub, and I totally agree it does not qualify for CSD now. Thanks! xaosflux Talk/CVU 21:14, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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Fighting the good fight

Hey Xaosflux, thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page by User:Comment34343 today. I spotted the vandalism to the talk page because of the new message note, but by the time I checked the user page, you guys had already reverted it, thanks! Regards, Canley 06:03, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Anytime! xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:04, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

War has been declared

Remember me? Prepare to be taken down, you are first on my hitlist. -Wikihelper9002006--—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikihelper9002006 (talk • contribs).

Forgive me whilst I yawn. xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:13, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:Welcome

I noticed on the recent TfD you said "This is a very useful template, if for nothing else to use as a subst: starting point for people making their own personalized welcome templates." I'd like to make my own version of the welcome template - specifically, I think six links at once is overwhelming, so would like to add a brief description of each one's use and emphasise that they can always ask me or someone else instead of scouring them - but are personalized welcome templates allowed in template space - I've already made the mistake of creating an inappropriate template fork - or do they have to be copied and pasted from outside? I notice there are already 4 different wordings of the welcome message. --Malthusian (talk) 15:19, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Making more templat forks of this in Template: space might not be helpful to the project, what many editors (myself included) is make a sub userpage for a personal welcome message, subst:'ing it in to others when needed e.g. {{subst:User:Xaosflux/welcome}} ~~~~. xaosflux Talk/CVU 02:38, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. --Malthusian (talk) 09:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Adminship?

I'm in the mood for nominating someone for adminship. May I nominate you? Just give me a yes or a no :-) --Latinus (talk (el:)) 19:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Latinus would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Latinus to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Xaosflux/Archive0. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

Participant alert regarding Wikiproject on Advertising

The Wikiproject No Ads, created as a backlash against the Answers.com deal, has served an important function in providing a space for users to express their disagreement with the Foundation proposal. While the current controversies about userboxes raise questions about political and social advocacy on Wikipedia, there should be greater flexibility regarding advocacy about Wikipedia in the Wikipedia namespace. Reported and linked by Slashdot and other press sources as a unique and spontaneous occurence in Wikipedia history, it has apparently had some impact as, despite being scheduled to begin in January, not a peep has been heard about the trial and proposed sponsored link since the deal's controversial announcement months ago. Currently, however, there is an attempt to delete the project or move it off Wikipedia altogether. Since the Foundation has provided no additional information and has not attempted to answer the specific questions that participants in the project raised, it is unclear if the Answers.com deal has been abandoned or simply delayed. Until the situation becomes more clear, I believe the group should still have a place in the Wikipedia namespace. Sincerely, Tfine80 00:29, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Your RFA

I added a question. NSLE (T+C) 05:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

RfB

Thanks for the good luck wishes. :). I was already answering when you pinged my talk page. You aren't doing bad on your RFA either! :D Titoxd(?!? - help us) 05:43, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Admin questions

Sigh. I had been looking for question #4 and #5, and never thought to look for a 1.1, etc, mixed into the existing questions. Sorry for the delay in answering. I'll get to them. - TexasAndroid 07:37, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, looks like nomination's going well :-) --Latinus (talk (el:)) 17:21, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, changing that word made a *lot* of difference. I was trying to think of what you meant by changing list to article, since in a way lists are already articles. I'll get to the revised question sometime this weekend, as I said. - TexasAndroid 18:45, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

G.R.S. Mead

The author of this article has removed the AfD notice on the article. I didn't notice your official withdrawal of AfD-ness on that article, but I'm hesitant to replace it in interest of not biting the newcomers. Would you check it out? Thanks, Makemi 06:28, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I just withdrew the AFD, thanks for the note. xaosflux Talk/CVU 17:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Maranatha Campus ministries/Every Nation article

Hey... did you look at the changes I made to the Maranatha article? They were not experimental at all. There was restructuring involved. You removed a lot of good content... could you bring it back? --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.241.242.65 (talk • contribs).

I rereverted to your version, then merged in the sections you removed, marekd it as inuse by you as well. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:41, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

What do you have against RadioNickos.com?

It's about time the world know about RadioNickos.com. Why flag it for deletion? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Carpincho (talk • contribs).

reply on your page xaosflux Talk/CVU 04:36, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Xaosflux!

Thank you for posting on my RfA - I must say that I totally agree with your comment about admins being available via email. I did not really think about it at the time, but I 100% agree and have editted my preferences accordingly. Please let me know if there are any other things I might consider doing in order to improve my application - any input in greatfully received!

Regards, DJR (Talk) 13:34, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the update, I've moved by oppose to neutral pending further review for possible support. xaosflux Talk/CVU 20:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

  1. If you are an admin, please remove your name from the list.
  2. If you are currently interested in being considered for adminship, please be sure your name is in bold; if you are opposed to being considered for adminship, please cross out your name (but do not delete it, as it will automatically be re-added in the next page update).
  3. Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.

Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 02:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

We must be having caching issues, I was off that list earlier "2006-02-17 01:10:15 NoSeptember (→5,000+ edits - Xaosflux is now admin)"xaosflux Talk/CVU 02:16, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

How many times makes a vandal

I would like to know why you didn't block 207.200.116.70. This user has 4 other warnings on their talk page. How many times do we have to warn a vandal before something is done? Warnings do no good if it's not followed up by action. At least User:Loren blocked them.Rlevse 03:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, I obviously don't agree. I don't care if the IP is dynamic nor not currently active for a few minutes. A vandal is a scumbag and a repeat offender needs to be blocked, not warned repeatedly with no action taken. Dynamic IPs are more fodder for my argument that everyone on wiki should be required to have an account linked to an active email address, then we could track these pests better and be more effective at stopping them, which means us good users like you and I would have more time to do things like improve articles vice chasing scumbag vandals. Rlevse 03:25, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

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 01:06, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on your new mop! Sango123 (talk) 05:54, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations on your new mop! Sango123 (talk) 05:54, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations, xaosflux. --Latinus (talk (el:)) 01:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Congratulations on your mop and broom! NSLE (T+C) 01:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Congratulations!! Mushroom (Talk) 01:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Congratulations and you're welcome. --Dakota ~ ° 04:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • I have received your message. Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 04:52, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • May I add my congrats as well? I can? Great! :-P. Good job well deserved! KnowledgeOfSelf 05:07, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Congrats! — TheKMantalk 06:03, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Congrats! You'll be great. --a.n.o.n.y.m t 11:58, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratuations!

I'm glad to hear that you passed your RFA, now I have this list of vandals I want blocked....... :) :) :) :) :) - Trysha (talk) 06:14, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

  • Congratuations, Xaosflux --Ugur Basak 08:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Congrats from me, too. 98/2/0 is a great score and - though we don't always see 100% eye to eye - I think you'll be a fine admin. Grutness...wha? 08:49, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • More congratulations! :D--Shanel 22:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
  • And more yet! May you use the mop with grace and equanimity...15:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

re: Dictionary words

basically its a redirect like {{disambig}}. indeed, we are not a dictionary. however, some people use wikipedia as a first reference, even thinking of it as a dictionary. anyway, these dictionary pages are segregated from the normal articles for good information management. it can even help to build wiktionary more quickly and avoid these dictionary pages from cropping up. -- Zondor 07:10, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[2] -- Zondor 07:14, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Your delete of the Category Redirect for Animal Diseases.

I wish to appeal against your deletion of the redirect for the category Animal Diseases to Animal diseases. The original content of that article was a # REDIRECT [[Animal diseases]] to cover a common spelling mistake. And if I can make that mistake, anyone can. Could you please either reinstate the redirect or alternatively, explain to me why it was deleted? Thank you. Thor Malmjursson 17:38, 19 February 2006 (UTC) Thor's pet yack

Reply on your talk page. (Restored, with notes re: fucntionality) xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:19, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Editingold

Thanks, I hope it doesn't cause too much of a ruckus. I also wanted to mention that I've proposed a similar-looking box at MediaWiki talk:Talkpagetext for that (I actually made two proposals, but I prefer the single line version). Let me know what you think. =) —Locke Cole • t • c 01:50, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

The current colors are the standardized talk page box colors (someplace in the Wikipedia namespace these colors are documented) which is why I went with those. Though, for the sake of discussion, you might want to check out User:Locke Cole/Sandbox#MediaWiki:Talkpagetext for some of my color scheme ideas (I'm thinking this message would work with the green or blue color set since it's purely informational). If you like green/blue (let me know which) I'll propose it on MediaWiki talk:Talkpagetext as an alternate to the single line talk-page-color standardized one I have there now. =) —Locke Cole • t • c 05:14, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes

Just wanted to mention, I modified User:Xaosflux/Infobox briefly (and then reverted it) to something you might consider as an alternative to straight HTML. Not that using HTML is bad of course, but it might be easier to maintain for you. =) (I also forgot to include the includeonly tags in my brief edit, so if you do decide to go with it, you'll need to re-add those). —Locke Cole • t • c 06:52, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Care to have a peek for me?

Marvel Database Project, that you had earlier put up for afd, now has a big discussion on the subject and I was hoping to get your opinion... Thanks! --JamieHari 19:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

User: 198.20.32.254

Hi, it has recently been brought my attention that user: 198.20.32.254 has been blocked for vandalism. The problem is that this IP belongs to a school board with more than 50 Schools, I believe it is unacceptable to block entire school boards from editing. When I looked at this IP edit summary there were a lot of useful contributions Wikipedia. There is no doubt that this IP was responsible for some vandalism, this is what you would expect from a IP that represents thousands of Public computers. It is in the best interest of the wiki community that these students be allowed to contribute. It would obviously be acceptable if this IP was blocked for a hour at a time when it is responsible for vandalism, but not for extended periods of time. Thanks Mjal 21:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

This IP has a history of vandalism, and blocks - most which are for 24 hours or less, consistent with Wikipedia:Blocking policy. I think you'll be hard-pressed to find even one instance of an edit made from this IP that hasn't been vandalism. Yankees76 20:01, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for voting!
Although this is a bit late in coming, I want to thank you for voting (no matter what your vote was) in my recent request for adminship. You might be aware that it did not pass due to a lack of consensus. The final tally was 21/9/10. I think I will try again this spring or summer after I have gained a bit more experience and met a few more fellow editors. Thanks again!

--MatthewUND(talk) 05:39, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

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copied from User talk:Improv

Improv, I was about to speedy restore and suggest for listing this on TFD instead, but don't want to start a wheel war: regarding Template:User flying spaghetti monster. IMHO, this is {was) a humor based user template, and not a support for either side of a religious issue. Can you please state why you feel this box is considered divisive or inflammatory? <Please respond here> xaosflux Talk/CVU 04:58, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

You can't delete the real religion templates without also deleting the fake religion templates because that would sure as hell piss off the very religious people and make them feel persecuted. --Cyde Weys 04:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
  • I am concerned that evangelical Christians especially, whom this joke religion was invented to poke fun at, will consider this to be mocking them. Are you familiar with the history of the flying spaghetti monster meme? --Improv 05:01, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
    • In other words, you certainly can't pick and choose which you think can stay and which should go, because for someone with a different strongly held viewpoints (and religious viewpoints are some of the most strongly held on this Earth) it might be construed as offensive. So the safest bet is to get rid of all of them ... which coincidentally happens to be what I and some others wanted all along anyway. --Cyde Weys 05:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
    • I am, and though I don't agree with you, thank you for your quick reply. As you seem to have something to go on, I'll drop the Speedy Restore suggestion, and consider dragging it through DR if I get motivated enough (probally not). Personally I don't really care if people have these userboxes, but understand the community issues related to them, and have tried to avoid the Great Userbox Wars as much as possible so far. I only came to notice this because I was using that userbox. I plan on making a personal userbox that utilizes some of it's elements (not all of them) for personal use, hopefully that is not going to trigger an immediate issue. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:11, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
      • Please reconsider against bringing it through DR. We are trying to get away from userboxes here, especially non-encyclopedic content in the template namespace. We are trying to get away from the bumper sticker mentality which gives the wrong impression about Wikipedia. This is all rather elegantly explained in Jimbo's statement to WikiEn-l. Thank you. --Cyde Weys 05:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
        • As I said above, probally not is most likely. I've read the statements, and they do not appear to be a definite decree of what should or should not be, to wit I've tried to avoid all of the DR or TFD debates about userboxes. I've subst'd in most of the box back to my page where I liked it, and as long as noone wants to start a userpage edit war with me over it I'll proablly never think about this again. xaosflux Talk/CVU 05:31, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, sorry for all that stuff. I was frustrated with PFHLai as he came off as condesending when he was questioning me about using the attribution tag. I was confused on how to tag this photo as a copyrighted image and didnt know about the image policies until later. My regards. S0berage 23:47, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Closing AFDs with a speedy

Hi there,

Thanks for speedily deleting some articles which were on AFD but met the CSD. Just to let you know, if you speedily delete an article that is on AFD you should close the deletion page as well. To do this, add {{subst:at}} at the top of the discussion, follow it with '''Speedy delete''' (reason) ~~~~, and put {{subst:ab}} at the bottom. Stifle 13:22, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Freemasonry semiprotect removal

I have to say that this was a very bad idea. Every sock problem we have had for months is from a new or anon user, usually the same one, and I will be very surprised if we can go two weeks without having to request admin intervention on it again. MSJapan 02:49, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

MSJapan, The semi-protection policy is not designed to quell edit wars or lock articles. I understand your concerns, as that article has suffered from much vandalism and edit conflicts, to the point of delisting it as a FA, however that is not what SPP is for. If someone starts repeatedly vandalizing the article, you should list them at WP:AIV if they have been warned, if it is getting severe you can request re-semi-protection on the approriate page, or you can leave me a Talk Message and I will look at it personally, I am usually on every day. xaosflux Talk/CVU 02:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
I agree with MSJapan's comments... while I do hope that we can all "edit nicely" as you put it... I am not holding my breath. I fully expect that this page will have to be semi-protected again very soon. Blueboar 02:54, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Well, we got more than 24 hours out of it, at least. The page has been RFPPed, but it has been totally locked rather than semi-protected. Since the problem is not with the regular editors, but new socks, semi works very nicely here (as any sock-type editing by a non-new editor will be a dead giveaway as to sleeper sock status). So, how does one go about getting the protect level changed without getting it removed entirely? MSJapan 08:42, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
I checked this page again, and the edits being added do not seem to meet the vandalism test. SPP is clear, in that it is only to be used in response to serious vandalism of a page, and for that it works pretty well. This article is having a content dispute, and is breaching 3RR in it's course. I'd agree with the full protection status until the dispute can be resolved on the talk page, as SPP is "not an appropriate solution to editorial disputes of any kind". The option I would pursue now would be to gain a consensus on the talk page as to the diputed section, then request unprotection. If I'm interperting you correctly, you feel that the vandalism is all hapening from socks, if so all of them will easily be able to be blocked under future 3RR vios if needed, withouth putting your selves in that situation, as there also seems to be a number of editors who disagree witht those changes that can do the reversions as needed. xaosflux Talk/CVU 15:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Sandbox- Confused

  • Alright, I'm seriously confused... what's goin on with my test page? pm_shef 03:27, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Alkyl nitrites

hi xaosflux, if you could re-semiprotect the page that would be great. it had actually only been 7 hours since it was protected; i think, however, that the template was just placed there by a non-admin, not actually protecting the page? i don't know, i'm not sure where that log can be found. Woohookitty did lift it a few days ago.

an employee of the rush corporation has been violating 3rr and adding linkspam and whatnot, please check out the history, talk page, the rfc filed against the guy, and the talk pages of his socks. He most recently violated 3rr yesterday, currently up to 5 rv's, though he has not yet been blocked; in effecting this 3rr violation he was evading a month long block from Nlu already in place against a sock of his, 209.248.254.66. As he now seems to be expanding beyond his old socks, using two new ones in the past 24 hours, semi-protection seems to make sense.

a look at his talk pages, the nitrites talk page, and the nitrites history should be a clear indication of what this guys up to. It can't be acceptable behavior . . . And i'm not sure what to do about it long term. the rfc didn't really get much feedback, and he blatantly ignores policies and sanctions taken against him for his actions.

thanks for your time

--Heah talk 03:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Abrotanella

Hi Xaosflux, moving Abrotanella to Cat:Flora of Antartica is not totally correct, since que Antartic Flora corresponds to floristic kingdom wich emconpasses Chile and Argentina territories. Abrotanella is not restrict to antartic continent, therefore I used Cat:Antartic Flora. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Berton (talk • contribs).

Category:Antarctic Flora

Ready for Speedy delete everything moved to properly named +cat Category:Flora of Antarctica

Closing CFD's

Regarding Category:Online_Forum_of_Sabah specifically, yes, you're right - I did not check to make sure it had been 7 days. I had checked the bottom of the page first and just forgot to check the stuff towards the top. I did notice it though right afterwards and stopped on Category:Directory of Sabah. I realize non-admins closing delete votes is a grey area, and even brought it up to one of the regular admins on CFD previously. What would you recommend? —akghetto talk 03:41, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Usually when I close out a CFD that needs a category deleted I'll tag the needed category with {{db-empty}} and the edit summary "delete cat per CFD". The cat's have been getting deleted fine... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AKGhetto (talk • contribs).

Poop

I have never commented on that article, but I do in fact, know and attend middle school with that user, and he is quite a class clown. He also likes to state that "he pwns me". Go ahead, delete the article. Эйрон Кинни 05:28, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, and it's okay. I also nominated another one of his inane categories for deletion. Эйрон Кинни 05:35, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

List of environment topics:F-G

This page was deleted by you, but the earlier content in this page was copy-pasted onto List of environment topics:F and List of environment topics:G. I wonder if this loss of edit history is allowed, as it seems to go against GFDL.

Thanks! -- Paddu 16:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

History's salveaged, see your talk. xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:01, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring the history!
When we split up a page, we can't really do a normal page move storing history for each of the subpages. When we merge 2 pages, we can't merge the histories (unless some enterprising admin like you uses strange procedures :)). What I have seen usually is that in the edit summary a link to the other page is mentioned, so people can go through the link to get the earlier history. Hence the copy-paste from List of environment topics to List of environment topics:F is IMHO OK.
The issue with such splits/merges are that we should think twice before deleting a redirect. [In this case the redirect was "nearly blanked", which is even more dangerous.] -- Paddu 06:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Dumbass

What does the word dumbass mean? If it is, why did you make this page redirect to Ass? Besides I have watched this page. adnghiem501 05:57, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I was trying to kill a redlink to it, but I've deleted my edit, and correspondingly, the article; anyone may recreate it as needed. xaosflux Talk/CVU 06:00, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

This word is already available on Wiktoinary. Previous discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dumbass. adnghiem501 06:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

"Wacko Jacko"

The use of this title on the Michael Jackson page is still widely disputed. I have been explaining this in the discussion section and have not violated the 3rr nevertheless I have still been threatened to be blocked by Funky Monkey who judging by his user page dislikes Michael Jackson which makes his determination to include the derogatory title more clear. Can you explain the how this is necessary? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.213.167.25 (talk • contribs).

re: thanks

Why, you're quite welcome. --  Denelson83  06:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your kind words! Nach0king 09:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Pombo entry

I looked under "Richard Pombo" in quotes, just like that, and found no entry, before posting what I did as a free-standing stub. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SocraticGadfly (talk • contribs).

Daily premier anonymity

Hello. Can you provide some more details about your reply? — Dzonatas 18:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

AfD closure tags

Please note that the afd top tag goes above the subpage's title. Thanks. -Splashtalk 23:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Template talk:Mil-antarctica

I'm not sure why you're telling him to "blank it if you wish", there was only that editor who is requesting removal, he hasn't let it sit for any peorid of time and I was reverting for blanking on the page -- Tawker 00:13, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Template

Hi, I deleted the template and someone put it back, so I reposted the Speedy Deletion. Do you want to advise them that it should be deleted ? Cordially SirIsaacBrock 23:42, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey if you are an admin then delete the articles before you remove the delete tags. If you are not an admin do not remove the delete tags...got it ? SirIsaacBrock 00:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Reply

(To whoever it may concern) I've recently delisted the TALK page of Template talk:Mil-antarctica from CSD, as a talk page for an existing template, possibly potions of a deletion discussion. This in no way endoreses that the Template itself should or should not be included in the encyclopedia. The template is currently in use in articles, and it's deletion could be disrubtive at this time. I don't see that this template has ever gone through a deletion review, but anyone is free to list it on TFD at anytime they have a good faith reason for it's nomination. The template itself does not seem to qualify for speedy deletion either, and I would delist it as well in it's current state. Thanks, xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
As for my "blank it if you wish" comment, although not popular, archive to history is an allowed talk page archiving protocol. xaosflux Talk/CVU 01:53, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

- ::Thanks for the clarification, I think the user (and myself) thought you were referring to 'blank the template' over blank the talk page, hence the confusion. -- Tawker 01:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA/Christopherlin

Thanks for your vote and concerns in my recent RfA. It closed (22/11/8) without consensus, but I hope to have your support in the future, when I have a closer idea of the process. --Christopherlin 17:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

When i searched it was case sensitive so i couldnt find the original

How do i Fix it--TheRanger223 03:42, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 February 26

Regarding the Sports in the United States by city listing, I'm moving it to CFD/#Unresolved_after_seven_days as there seems to be some disagreement over what categories to include/exclude, but also all the individual cats are not CFR tagged. Yes the parent has a CFRU tag, but shouldn't all the childs that are going to be renamed be tagged as well? I guess the reason I'm posting this here is to get some guidence on how to handle situations such as these. Thanks for your help!! —akghetto talk 06:25, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Re : Nomination for adminship for (aeropagitica)

Image:Admin mop.PNG Hello! Thank you for taking the time to vote for me in my recent request for adminship It ended successfully with a final score of (40/10/5). I value all of the contributions made during the process and I will take a special note of the constructive criticism regarding interacting with users in the user talk space. If you have questions or requests, please leave a message. (aeropagitica) 17:36, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Robey Pointer

I went ahead and listed it on AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robey Pointer. I thought I'd let you know, in case you had an opinion on the matter. --Grocer 01:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Comment re really-speedy-speedily deleted page.

I left you a comment on my talk page, when I probably should've left it here, though I like not fragmenting the discussion. :) - nathanrdotcom (T • C • W) 04:09, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

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User 137.132.3.7

Hi, this is to inform you, that this user vandalised the Dylan page today. As you issued a last warning, I thought you should be made aware of this. Cheers, Lion King 13:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Pauley Perrette

Hi, Jimbo protected this, citing WP:OFFICE, on 1/23. I noticed that you unprotected it on March 5. While I'd normally agree that this is too long for it to have been protected, it's my understanding that only Jimbo or Danny are to lift protections done under WP:OFFICE (which generally means the principal has contacted the WMF with some valid concern about libel or defamation). You might want to place the protection back again; just FYI. · Katefan0(scribble)/poll 22:11, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure to be honest. It's listed at WP:PP under WP:OFFICE protections; I seem to remember maybe some discussion about it on the wikien-l list, but could be mistaken. · Katefan0(scribble)/poll 02:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Dylan

Thanks. Be lucky, Lion King 00:38, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

E-Mail Confirmations

Wikipedia keeps asking me to confirm my e-mail. I have been through the process a few times, the message disappears for a few days, and then it comes back asking me to confirm my e-mail again! I thought that you would be the one to contact since you posted the message about SpamCop. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Yendor33 March 10, 2006 17:52 EST

Thanks for the protect on Freemasonry

Can we make sure it doesn't go away until the issue is resolved? I'm pretty sure there's a 3RR (but the rvs are obfuscated) and I know there's a sock issue. MSJapan 16:06, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Why are blankeet deletions and insertion re-writes by Masonic Editors like MSJapan not considered vandalism? Why is it always when editors who are non-masonic or critical of Freemasonry make edits using the criteria Masonic editors use that there is intervention? Seems like a double standard. I point in particular to the blanket deletion of external links by MSJapan, his lack of edit summaries, and the misleading information he later provides on the talk page. Either Wiki Administration is going to be neutral or it isn't.Keystrokes 16:09, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Freemasonry

(copied from User talk:MSJapan) I've protected this article to stop edit warring. User:Keystrokes has been delisted from AIV, as they don't seem to be making obvious vandalism, and commented on the protection on 3RR Reports. I'm going to recuse myself from determining the possible 3RR breach on this article though, and will revist the protection in a few days if antoher admin has not lifted it. Thanks, xaosflux Talk/CVU 16:10, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

John oh

I listed this user at administrator intervention for persistent removal of AfD and merge tags. There are sixteen examples of this on the RfC I linked to. Since he has refused to discuss the issue, doesn't this now qualify as obvious vandalism? Feezo (Talk) 06:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your well thought out post on John oh's talk page. I daresay it seems to have worked. Feezo (Talk) 11:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

]project Open[

Hi, I noticed you were the user to add the Non-alphanumeric characters guidance into the Wikipedia:Naming conventions article. I've been struggling with what to do with a case concerning the name of a software program (and related article). The case is a program named ]project Open[. The article has been titled )Project open(. According to the guidelines in WP:NC, this possibly fits under "page names should not begin with non alpha-numeric (A-Z,0-9) characters used solely for emphasis". To me, it seems like it's worse that it uses decorative characters in the name, especially substitute decorative characters since the square brackets do not work. In addition, it seems inappropriate to use these decorative characters in the opening sentence in the article and throughout the article, as well as links pointing to the article. It looks messy and pretentious, and in English these characters have no meaning but merely reflect the logo they have chosen.

If you have any ideas on what to do with such an article, please let me know. Maybe a change to the style guide would help. There is another case -- the article Oneworld -- in which one of the editors insists the style of the logo be used even in the opening sentence, causing it to appear oneworld. I think some guidance needs to be created on these silly corporate naming conventions. Again, please let me know what you think, as you have had prior experience with the official policy and MoS on naming conventions and titles. -- Renesis13 17:41, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Your welcome

Your welcome. I didn't know of you had missed the two shortcut or were just slow getting to them. But I figured that it wouldn't hurt to tag them for speed delete.--TheFarix (Talk) 03:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

im sorry

152.163.101.8 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log)
\it doesn't say why this ip specifically has just been blocked? It doesn't seem to have an extraordinary history of vandalism, certianly not recent, could people please provide examples of why AOL ranges are being blocked from now on?

For an AOL, the little bit of recent vandalism is all very minor--64.12.116.65 04:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Ted Kennedy sprotect

I am of the opinion that the Ted Kennedy article is one of the few (like George W. Bush that needs perpetual sprotection. Keep an eye on it over the next few days now that the sprotect is gone. 95% of the activity on the page will be anon vandalism and reverts. Compare the next few days with the few days prior to the sprotect removal and you'll see what I mean. Thx! --AStanhope 13:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Avoid dynamic templates

Please undelete and userfy this for me to User:Netoholic/Avoid dynamic templates. Several people, especially late in the discussion, mentioned merging this. I'd like a copy for my own records, and to glean anything esle still useful. -- Netoholic @ 16:16, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Marcus Klingberg

Hello Xaosflux, I wanted to move Avraham Marcus Klingberg to Marcus Klingberg per WP:MOSBIO ("the article title should generally be the name by which the subject is most commonly known, the subject's full name should be given in the lead paragraph"), but accidentally moved it to Avraham Klingberg. Can you correct this for me? Regards, gidonb 03:04, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for moving the article! Regards, gidonb 13:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

User:207.69.137.8

Many thanks for blocking this vandal. He/she is now spewing over their own talk page as this is the only page they can now touch. Could you also sprotect the talk page so we don't have to keep reverting the obscenities? Many thanks Gwernol 01:03, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Hate mail

don't u dear delete my page again alrite (Personal attack removed) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Antoniosanchez (talk • contribs).

Joshua Blahyi

Hi, I'm wondering why you deleted the article Joshua Blahyi without sending it to AfD, even though the article clearly falls under none of the criteria for speedy deletion, namely that it wasn't patent nonsense, it wasn't a test page or vandalism, it wasn't recreated deleted material, or from a banned user, or very short without context, in a foreign language, or a copyright violation, etc. I don't mean to be rude, but please recreate the article, and, if you feel it doesn't belong on Wikipedia, list it on AfD. Thank you. zafiroblue05 | Talk 05:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation, I appreciate it. :) zafiroblue05 | Talk 07:45, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Ferdinand Schupp

You didn't give a reason for deleting the Ferdinand Schupp article. Care to tell me why? --jp3z 16:07, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Replied on talk — xaosflux Talk 02:26, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

CSD note

Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week You were correct to remove the copyvio tag in the absence of a supporting cite; my apologies for (carelessly) having tagged it without further comment. Because I'm not altogether sure that it's a copyvio but am sure that the article, for sundry reasons, should be deleted, I am tagging it for deletion. Cordially, Joe 05:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Room 213

hi Xaos -- I see you just {{deletedpage}} Room 213 -- you could probably do the same to Room 21three, which was just created. thanks! bikeable (talk) 05:52, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

...and it's back! but they've recreated it with the speedy tag intact, so they can't have much hope! best, bikeable (talk) 06:00, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Looking for some Wikiadvice

Hi, if I might impose on you, I have a question. I'm keeping an eye on Garden railway and there's been a little friendly back and forward over the link to LSOL.com. I think it probably shouldn't be there because much of the material on that site is only available to paid subscribers. Others think its a useful resource to link to which has good free stuff available too. Both viewpoints have merit and we are a long, long way from needing anything as drastic as the various measures at WP:DR. Do you know of a Wikipedia forum where I can ask questions like this, without invoking a formal mediation or the like. Basically I want to ask wiser heads than mine how to interpret Wiki policy and guidelines. I'd appreciate any advice you can give, if you have the time. Many thanks in advance Gwernol 00:30, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks for your thoughts on my talk page. Just what I was looking for. I think for now I'll leave the link. There is enough free content at LSOL.com that it adds value. This seems like a good decision in the light of your comments on WP:EL. I may also go the route of adding "subscription site" or similar to the link as you suggested. Many thanks for the sound advice. Gwernol 01:22, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
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{{GLOCK pistols}}

A useful box to have created, but I have a stylistic comment. There's no technical distinction between the "1 series", "2 series" or "3 series". They're just a sequence of numbers for the models. I would change the box to delete that differentiation. If you want to have them on separate lines to keep the box structure, doing so without a series tag would be fine. Georgewilliamherbert 03:27, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Saw your note, and reviewed the box change. Looks great now. Thanks! Georgewilliamherbert 03:37, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

That was apretty fast deletion

of Attilio Piccirilli. i was just writing a note on the discussion page when the article dissapeared. As one of the folks working on it i feel that this move was a bit previous. Carptrash 03:31, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

well I am very much in favor of removing such stuff - it was just a bit of a shock because I was there, only suddenly there was no THERE. I'll post at least a stub shortly. Carptrash 03:41, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Well if it speed that you want then it's speed that you'll get. As it turned out i had a 2/3 finished article on Attilio, so I posted it. However i have been kicked off the internet by my wife, so . . . . . . . ................................... Carptrash 04:27, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Well. thank you very much. You just doubled my barnstar collection in one fell swoop. You might want to take it back when/if you see the really cheesy artickes that i have milked out of Attilio Piccirilli. (give me at least 15 minutes). Girolamo Masani Aristodemo Costili Leopoldo Costoli Carptrash 06:05, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

WP:DANNY

I thought it would be a good idea to use it for something meaningful rather than something stupid like WP:TOBY. Also, Jimbo says right on the Wikipedia:Office Actions page that he created it for Danny, but if Danny finds the redirect disparaging I suppose it should be deleted, though, otherwise I don't see the harm. Also I think it might help improve awareness among users who might otherwise be inclined to revert Danny's edits (wondering "well who the hell is Danny, anyway" if they haven't heard of him). Have you spoken with Danny about it? I'd say leave it up to him. — Mar. 22, '06 [04:29] <freakofnurxture|talk>

Rue Dussault

Curious as to why you despeedied Rue Dussault - I can't see anything that marks this road as noteworthy - the tallest building mentioned doesn't even have it's own article. I'm going to put it on AFD. exolon 00:28, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

splitskies

Why did you delete the splitskies article? Where else would one find out the history and definition of such an important term, but on wikipedia? Please, repost it. Thanks a lot.

Harryfronman 21:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you so much for supporting me in my recent RfA, which passed with a final tally of 56/1/0. I thank you for your confidence in my abilities. If you ever need anything or find that I have made an error, please let me know on my talk page. — Scm83x hook 'em 21:14, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Cfd for Category:Fuck

In closing this CfD, you closed it with a consensus to keep, but I count 8 Deletes (including the nomination and the BJAODN suggestion) and 5 Keeps (including the "reanme if kept" vote). I hardly call this a consensus for keep. Fightindaman 05:22, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm

I never noticed someone removed the big red button, do you know if it happened recently, nobody has had to press it lately thankfully, saves me some headaches, accuracy seems pretty good now -- Tawker 05:59, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

User talk talk:Kittenmarks

You deleted User talk talk:Kittenmarks with the reason (error page title). I created that page by clicking on "Discuss this page" after clicking on "View source" of User_talk:Kittenmarks. 1.What was the error? 2.Can you answer my question that I left on that page ("Why is this page protected?") Thanks. Heqs 23:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Branchlist deletes

Copied from my talk:

I processed most of the CSD's, but some of the template were in use. Please wrap template CSD's in tags, so they do not mark the articles they are transcluded within for CSD as well. The templates I did not delete have been removed from CSD, please orhpan them before relisting for CSD, or list them on TFD. Thanks, — xaosflux Talk 13:53, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, thanks, I've never marked for deletion before. I am at this moment going through all affected articles and have come across one or two that I had missed in the changeover. I was horrified to see three big deletion templates on Wikipedia:Root page and then realised why and put the correct templates in place! I'm getting there! --Lindosland 13:58, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

RFA

Hey Xaosflux, at this time I probably wouldn't accept an RFA nom (But don't worry, I will soon!). Another user has expressed interest in nominating me later this month, and as such I'm going to hold off til later on in April, once my "three month mark" has passed. I appreciate your interest in the matter. --lightdarkness (talk) 04:43, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Just so you know

All automated editing is now on the two bot accounts, if you check my contribs I haven't done a single auto edit in a month or so :) -- Tawker 03:48, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! Who knows how that one will go, I wasn't going to accept at first then Danny's pre accept vote pressured me (ah, I need to stop bowing to our Fearless leader's fearless assistant :). Oh well, either way I don't care, I've just got ot get better at flagging actual article edits as major rather than minor :) -- Tawker 04:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, no idea what will happen, it's close, I'd hate to be the 'crat who gets to close it :o -- Tawker 02:46, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Rfa note

"Would unblocking other accounts of yours be your primary remedy for it's unblocking?" Could you clarify on the question a bit for me, I don't know exactly what you mean. For what's unblocking are you referring to, I'm kind of confused on the question. Sorry -- Tawker 04:26, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I've replied, sorry about the slow reply, I was working on some more questions and I managed to crash Firefox while doing the questions so I have to start over. Seeing how you're awake and probably waiting for a reply, I gave you priority :) -- Tawker 04:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

03-3

Sorry! I restored it as per your request. Deltabeignet 05:17, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about the xx-y deletion requests. If necessary to maintain links, put them back. However, it would be better if you restored all possible xx-y, unless you expect the software to be fixed soon. (Putting in a creation edit summary would have helped, too.) — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 06:22, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
(replied on your talk)— xaosflux Talk 06:26, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Thank you for your support vote on my RFA. The final result was a successful request based on 111 support and 1 oppose. --CBDunkerson 17:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of Dave Eversman

Hello, I posted an article about Dave Eversman, a republican candidate for the 2nd Congressional District in Georgia, and you deleted it. I was wondering why you did so. I believe that since he ran in 2004, and did garner 1/3 of the vote, he at least deserves a mention. It's not like there are any other important Dave Eversmans. Let me know. Thanks, Torrey

re: User:Buckeye80

Hello Xaosflux. Thanks for having a look. Do you admins have an access to deleted edits? Because the userpage that Buckeye vandalized only did one edit itself, and that was another vandalism to User:Durin. I'm suspected an admin deleted whatever Buckeye vandalized, because the userpage did not previously exist. Regards,Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:59, 5 April 2006 (UTC).

I've looked it up User:Bucknuts23 was the vandalized page, and User:Rogerd deleted the vandalized page because the vandal edit was the initial edit. You can see if you look at the deleted history (admins only) that buckeye90 vandalized the Bucknuts23 page. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:01, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Thankyou for chasing it up Xaosflux. I appreciate it. Regards,Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:09, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

125.236.44.45 (talk • contribs • count)

I think 125.236.44.47 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log), 125.236.44.48 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log), and 125.236.44.49 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) should also be banned. As I said, the four IPs were concurrently engaged in extensive vandalism of that page. - Emt147 Burninate! 02:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi from Dennis O'Brien

Thank you for your kind comments regarding my edits of fire related articles, such as the Our Lady of the Angels School Fire. I am new to to Wikipedia and very impressed with all the interesting articles here, generally well written and researched. I hate to see vandalism, but it does seem to get corrected quickly. Best wishes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DennisJOBrien@yahoo.com (talk • contribs).

Rangeblock

I've lifted your rangeblock of 125.236.44.0/23, because unfortunately a good regular editor was getting hit by it. Just letting you know why a lifted it; the user edits regularly from that range. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 02:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)


Sorry, accidental deletion.

Sorry, but I did not delete the content on purpose - I think my mouse accidentally selected the text and then it got deleted. I actually go to school at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and it was a mistake - I wouldn't delete the information at all. Sorry for the headache- but I am most definitely not a vandal, but an active and honest Wikipedian. Thanks for undoing my mistake, though.

Kungming2 03:11, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Placing welcome templates

When placing welcome templates, would you consider using subst: ? For more information please see Template substitution. Thanks! — xaosflux Talk 03:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Xaosflux. OK, but let me read Wikipedia:Template substitution first and then get back to you. Waikiki!!! --ElectricEye 03:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I found it a little confusing because I don't understand everything mentioned. But began to realize someone could vandalize my template and then it appears on ALL NEW USER TALK PAGES. Therefore I will use subst. Originally I was thinking it saved diskspace on Wikipedia to not use subst, but I think preventing BROADSCALED vandalism is more important especially if someone vandalizes my template with pornography. Thanks for the communication. Waikiki!!! --ElectricEye 03:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Yea, the code makes the usertalk page longer, but the risk redcution is really worth it. The diskspace for text is negligable anyway. — xaosflux Talk 03:40, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
You are sure working fast, are you running a AWB or a bot? — xaosflux Talk 04:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi again Xaosflux. I can type 200 wpm. Took typing I and II in highschool and that was 24 years ago. --ElectricEye 04:10, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

vandalism

I noticed you were working on the administrators' vandalism reports page, and I was hoping you could expedite blocking 68.237.197.238 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log). He has already admitted to being Zarbon (who is blocked) and he's vandalizing a tremendous amount of pages. I can't keep up. Kafziel 20:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the quick response and the rollback. Kafziel 20:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
No problem, thanks for the alert. — xaosflux Talk 20:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Category deletion with rename summary

Would you check your edit at [3]. Is this a bot error? -- User:Docu

I fixed another one at [4]. -- User:Docu

Kashmir pages

Hello Xoasflux. Socks are still being used on the pages [5]. I think that the rest should be blocked now too since person didn't stop after first was blocked. Thanks. --a.n.o.n.y.m t 23:01, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

I've place full protection on both those pages, and noted as to the protection in the WP:AN section regarding this complaint. If you haven't already, you may want to file WP:RFCU's against the suspects. — xaosflux Talk 00:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping. Well hopefully they stop now so that we can actually talk about it. --a.n.o.n.y.m t 00:14, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Query on my RFA

I left messages on both of their talk pages, waited a day, and neither of them did anything. I believe I also left a message on WP:AN. KI 15:16, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Help!!!

My user account is block I dont anderstand way? Hier is my page User talk:Hipi Zhdripi#Vandalism and hier is the rv. [6]. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.180.13.109 (talk • contribs).

He has been editing under that IP address: See here, here and here. Please, let me know if you can do anything about it. Regards, Asterion 01:32, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
He just reverted the Kosovo article. See here. Thanks a lot (so much for my attempted wikibreak! :( ) Asterion 01:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Placed Kosovo to {{sprotected}} — xaosflux Talk 01:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Kosovo

See: Talk:Serbia --Hipi Zhdripi 19:37, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Greetings

Hello, fellow-Wikipedian; I was wondering if you could tell me what are your standards for adminship? You have been opposing quitte a number of requests for adminship and they're most by unexperienced wikipedians. I'm not saying that having high standards is bad (in fact, I think that perfectionism is a rather positive thing), however, I would like to know what needs to be done to make you valuate a user good enough to become an Administrator.

Sincerely yours. --HolyRomanEmperor 22:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied on your talk — xaosflux Talk 02:01, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks

Image:Cyde.png This user thinks it is ironic that thanks for supporting Cyde's successful RFA came in the form of a userbox.

Here's a userbox for you. --Cyde Weys 04:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Template:Wdefcon

I've speedily restored this template as a seeminly out-of-process deletion. I've noted this on WP:DRV. This template has already surived a TFD discussion. As I put on the DRV page, this is without prejudice for relisting it on WP:TFD. Many users noticed this deletion rapidly and were confused as to where it went. I will not wheel war over this if another admin feels it deserves speedy deletion, but will argue against speedy deletion of it on DRV. — xaosflux Talk 02:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Dear Xaosflux: Ah, certainly, that's fine if you feel it wasn't a satisfactory speedy; actually, I'm surprised to learn anyone still had any interest in it, considering it failed an MfD some time back and apparently hadn't yet been deleted. I deleted it because, well, it looked useless, and had apparently been left "in the lurch" following the MfD. Also I thought there was fairly good consensus, although I might be mistaken, that the more militaristic former trappings of the CVU weren't a good idea. "Defcon" has such a militaristic air to it, and frankly the status hadn't changed for eons. But anyway, I won't touch it again. Thanks for your time in restoring and listing it, btw. Best regards, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 02:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. The project page was deleted little opposition, but that template is heavily transcluded and edited practically daily. Thanks for the quick response back. — xaosflux Talk 02:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Blocking Squidward

I noticed you only blocked one of Squidward's latest puppets for one week. All of his puppets are open proxies/hacked machines/zombies and should be blocked indefinitely. Your one week block caused a conflict; don't worry though, I fixed it. --Cyde Weys 03:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

RFA's

Yes, thank you; that answers my question persicely. I mean, my (second) nomination I was forced to withdraw because I had low WikiProject namespace edits. Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/HolyRomanEmperor2. I never said that you have extreemly high standards, just high. :) I'm asking because I want to eventually become a sysop, but I need advices from frequent voters like you. (the guides don't really specigy users' standards. Cheers. --HolyRomanEmperor 15:17, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
But are Wikipedia namespace edits a part of your demand? I would like you to act like somesort of a Guide for my adminship if you don't mind. That means that I would like you to valuate me (in the following months) when I am rendered valuable for an admin (and nominate me if possible). Could you do that? Regards! --HolyRomanEmperor 15:55, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, I regularely contribute WikiProject History, of which I am a member. I also founded the WikiProject Belgrade... Anyway, I'm not going right now; I'm asking you to value me (in due time; there's plenty of it). Thank you! :) --HolyRomanEmperor 16:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
  • I have replied to your question on my rfa, with a followup of my own. Please respond, thanks! --lightdarkness (talk) 19:50, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
    • You have recieved eight(8) cool points for your Monty Python reference on my RFA. Cheers! --lightdarkness (talk) 01:41, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for participating in my RfA. Since now I'm an admin, I'll do my best not to turn the community confidence down. If in any point in the future you get the feeling I'm doing something wrong, do not hesitate to drop me a line since I'm always open for constructive criticism. --Dijxtra 11:44, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Por favor

I'd appreciate it if you'd stop encouraging other users to harass me. If you are somehow "surprised" by this statement, you might want to look at this[7]. You instigated this. KI 18:09, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm not following you. I voted Neutral on your RFA. I posted one question, and was not swayed much by the answer, so remained neutral. How is this a bad thing? And what are you accusing me of instigating (re: You instigated this. )? This seems to be a dif to another editor asking some questions. While I don't see anything devious in my extremely limited contribution to your rfa, I do hope you are assuming good faith on the edits. (N.B. I also was neutral on your first RFA) — xaosflux Talk 07:35, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hmm... interesting... I can see your going to stick by the nonsense Geo Swan posted below. No matter. I was referring to your instigation here.[8]. Please read the "questions" he added. You obviously did not do so before. KI 18:32, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm making no opinion regarding questions that Geo Swan added to your RFA. My note to them simply suggested that very large entries on an RFA such as this one may be better suited for placement on the discussion page, as it may detract from the process of the request. This suggestion was apparently taken, and the disusccion was moved. — xaosflux Talk 22:43, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks & "instigation"

After I left my vote on User:KI's RfA you were kind enough to answer a query I had left in my edit summary, and give me some courteous, helpful and, importantly, neutral advice on how to respond to RfA's.

Thanks!

I think this is the "instigation" that User:KI wrote to you about.

They consider the questions I left for them on their vote page "far from civil".

So far as I can see, even if, for the sake of argument, I accepted KI's premise that my questions weren't civil, I can't, for the life of me, imagine how they could think you bear any responsibility for them.

I already had pretty strong concerns that KI was tempermentally unsuited to be trusted with the authority inherent in being an administrator. Their last notes to me, and to you, further strengthen those concerns.

Anyhow, thanks for your help, which I believe was in the best traditions of the wikipedia, and which no one should try to make you apologize for. -- Geo Swan 08:16, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

The Sugarman Three

Can you please undelete the The Sugarman Three article I was in the process of creating and give me a few minutes to state a case as to why it IS a notable article? Thanks! - Blahm 03:45, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't know when I'll get a chance to pad the article some more since I was procrastinating from writing my papers/preparing for classes and should really get back to that. So the article per se may have to wait, but I think what I wrote in the talk page is a decent case for keeping the article. - Blahm 05:06, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Requesting SProtection

Requesting SProtection for Kosovo, Serbia and Serbia and Montenegro articles Hi Xaosflux,

I need some help here. We are having troubles again with Hipi Zhdripi. Same old story, he runs out of arguments, logs out and then reverts to what he considers "the right version", thinking he can avoid a 3RR block this way (he got blocked before). The thing is his mastering of English language is so poor he isn't fooling anyone but himself.

Please have a look at the history of contributions for the Kosovo, Serbia and Serbia and Montenegro articles.

He has recently vandalised the Serbia article too and issued threats (well, a bit hard to understand but they definitely sound like threats to me) to User:HolyRomanEmperor

I ran an ARIN check on the IP addresses and all resolve to the same ISP. He has also admitted it was Hipi Zhdripi in a few of the edit summaries, anyway (see this).

I will list him in the 3RR noticeboard later on but, sincerely, I cannot see the point as the dynamic IP addresses seem to change quite a lot and a block on his username would not affect his unlogged edits.

In the meantime, I feel forced to request to have those three articles sprotected. Thanks in advance.

Regards, Asterion 19:22, 17 April 2006 (UTC)


Thanks, this has already been semiprotected by another administrator. I would appreciate any suggestions from you as an admin on what is the best action to take against User:Hipi Zhdripi. I know he is behind the IP addresses involved in the last actions for which I requested the Semi-protection. I have marked these as suspected sockpuppets. He has also admitted it was Hipi Zhdripi himself in a few of the edit summaries. This certainly make him go over the 3RR limit repeatedly. The fact that he got blocked for this before seems to clarify that he is fully aware of the rule. Shall I list him in the 3RR noticeboard as User:Hipi Zhdripi or ask for a CheckUser? --Asterion 21:28, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

What's an RIR lookup? Sorry, I'm lost here. Do you mean a reverse IP lookup? --Asterion 17:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Rapidan

I posted a proper article on Rapidan the Game but I would like it to be what comes up when you type in Rapidan because Rapidan is the name of the game and currently there isn't anything ON the rapidan page... can we fix this ... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Boxsavell (talk • contribs).

Zarbon

I don't follow your edit summary on the Administrators' vandalism notice board. Does that mean you're going to block him, or...? Kafziel 05:08, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

It apears I cleared that in error. When viewing the block log for them at the time I misread the 18 in the time for the date, and cleared AIV as a already blocked report. FWIW another admin has since blocked them. — xaosflux Talk 02:50, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

One question

What I wanted really to know, is when does the Project edit count stop being low. Could you give me some sort of a border so that I can know in the future? --HolyRomanEmperor 20:45, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Ifdef

Regarding your speedy keep vote of {{ifdef}} (see Templates for deletion/Log/2006 April 18), there's actually two issues here. It's not just that we have #if now, it's that it's a fork of {{qif}} and basically complicates things even more. Even if we decide to keep qif for now, we absolutely should not encourage the use of still other conditional templates (especially when ifdef is [almost?] identical in functionality to qif; I could see the point if it did something exceptionally different/better, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't). Anyways, just wanted to clear that up. =) —Locke Cole • t • c 04:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, thank you!

This undecidedness spread by me is because everyone says that none will count my edits, but judge their quality rather. You see, when I find an article, I save it; and skim up for the internet for sources, expand it, clean-it-up, fix all typos & errors and place some tags if I didn't finish the job/do it properly. Now, after totally moving an article from an errorous stub, the result I get is 1 edit. That's the thing that's been annoying me. I mean, I do not want to seem like some obssessed Wikipedian that now contributes only to sum up his edits. I am here to contribute, and I thought (and am thinking) that adminship will help me quitte a lot.

Anyways, thanks! You've been very helpful! Cheers. --HolyRomanEmperor 09:48, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Could I also bother you some more to comment on some of my largest contributions: Duklja and Tvrtko? Thanks in advance. --HolyRomanEmperor 09:50, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of Dahon

You speedy deleted this page... due to copyright. I accredited the content at the very TOP of the page saying all content was from the Dahon site. Another bike co seems to have alot of content straight from their site as well. Why the differnece? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mike Brewer (talk • contribs).

More Dahon

first up - how do i reply to your messages in talk?

second - i have checked the copyright info you gave me - what constitutes permission? e.g. Permission to reproduce this web content was granted by NAME, TITLE, CO on DAY MONTH YEAR? is that enough? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mike Brewer (talk • contribs) .

Your signature.

Great idea, done. --Rory096(block) 20:51, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Xaosflux/Archive0! 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) 05:15, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Spamming of the Sudoku article

Hi Xaosflux. About a week ago you kindly added an 'sprotect' on the Sudoku article for a couple of days which seemed to stop one specific pest. Thanks! However, the Sudoku article seems to attract an extraordinary volume of antisocial people who repeatedly place ads for their personal website in the Links section in spite of prominent notices discouraging this. I'm totally sick of reverting them and am not far from giving up and leaving the Links section to degenerate into the unholy mess it was 9-12 months ago. Is there some way of putting a permanent block on a specific section within an article? If so, could you/someone consider this for the Links section of the Sudoku article? --angusj 09:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

203.94.130.77

You blocked 203.94.130.77 (a school). User talk:Cyril Washbrook is suffering collateral damage. Not sure that the block can lifted considering the vandalism, but I encouraged Cyril to contact his network admin.--Commander Keane 03:27, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Protection of Joel Leyden

I'd like to bring to your attention that the version of the page which you protected is the version that less reflects the guidelines and spirit of Wikipedia. The user who has been agressively defending the article, Nancetlv (talk • contribs), is a suspected sockpuppet of the author and subject of the article, Israelbeach (talk • contribs), who is currently under review for similar edit warring on Ra'anana. Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Israelbeach and/or Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Woggly. I believe that DejahThoris deserves support for her efforts to bring the article in line with Wikipedia standards. As I am currently involved in dispute resolution with Israelbeach I will not unblock the page myself in order to revert it to the version that I strongly feel is better, Though it is in my power to do so. But I do ask you to reconsider this block. If I see that you are currently inactive I may leave a request for unprotection and a description of the matter at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection . --Woggly 06:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Update: see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Users: Nancetlv and Bonnieisrael --Woggly 08:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Leap year date fix

Hi, I'm Ed Poor. I'm the one Tim "blames" for getting him to create m:ParserFunctions by making all the Date math templates.

Could you take a look at Template talk:Ordinal date leap year? I think I've found a minor error that won't be noticeable until March 2008, but I like to plan ahead! ;-) --Uncle Ed 16:05, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Moving rename request to CfD

When you moved the speedy rename request for Category:American Dance Acts to WP:CfD [9], you used 3 = signs instead of 4, which made every other nomination on the page a subsection of your nomination. It has now been fixed. --Blainster 18:30, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:User antifa-01

Template:User antifa-01 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. PS: I know this a heated subject. I don't care either way on the subject. This was a technical nomination only. If you wish to have a go at somebody, please pick somebody else. If you wish to have a go at me, then fine but I won't respond. ➨ ≡ЯΞDVΞRS≡ 22:25, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Dude!

Dude! Has the Davie Dodds talk page really been protected to prevent me from 'vandalising' it? You're not serious are you dude?--TheMadTim 03:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

John Cena

Hi,

This IP address is shared throughout the university. There are probably 2,000 college students coming to Wikipedia who just clicked on "you have a new message" who have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. If you have a specific grievance that you would like addressed please contact our network admin directly. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.203.190.88 (talk • contribs) .

I've got to idea what this anon is talking about, I've never left them a talk message. — xaosflux Talk 13:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
This is possibly regarding User talk:70.109.255.175, and a generic test mssage regarding vandalism of John Cena. — xaosflux Talk 13:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

User:203.97.2.58

I just had a look at his edit history and I see vandalism as far back as october 2005, with a strong streak since march. I think I'd go for at least a week now, and keep him in check afterwards. Circeus 01:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted you to know

The email ticket system does have a pretty big impact on Wikipedia, though the edit counters don't show it. Just wanted to make sure you were aware of the above fact but then again, I know you're pretty conservative -- Tawker 02:06, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

replies on your talk, please put any other replies here. — xaosflux Talk 02:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Block Request

Can you place said block on my account, the whole thing on 5-7-06, and give the Toolbox links to Bishonen as well, and state that this account was terminated at User request ? Martial Law 07:10, 6 May 2006 (UTC) :)

Also can you make the Toolbox links part of the Welcome template as well ? Also, go ahead and make yourself a copy of the toolbox as well. Martial Law 07:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC) :)

Reg recent nominations for speedy deletion

Hi,

This is with ref to the articles St Hedda's, Egton Bridge, et. al. The pages were created without much content and evidently the author has been using templates to create the pages in bulk without substantial information about the topic. In the interim, I suggested in the user's talk page to list/tabulate them in the main page, if the user doesn't have significant information. The particular articles on individual parishes may be created if and when someone has enough information regarding the topic, rather than populating wikipedia in bulk without enough info. Thanks for taking up this matter with me. Cheers. - Chez (Discuss / Email) • 03:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Blocking

This is to let you know that I just made a stupid block, but it's fine because yours will expire and kill mine. So, um... this note is to let you know that you don't need to let me know. Thanks. Mak (talk) 03:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

lyrics

Hi user:RyanGF3's posted lyrics from Love Song by AC/DC song on Love Song (AC/DC song). I deleted them as a copyvio. Is that the thing to do, or do I owe him an apology?User_talk:Dlohcierekim 04:03, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome and thank you.User_talk:Dlohcierekim 04:10, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Czech Big Brother page

I do appreciate your work on the Big_Brother_(Czech_TV_series) page, but I googled the 4 contestants who were red links and got no hits. The Big Brother site linked also doesn't mention any of the listed constestants. I might suggest PRODding the page -- it strikes me as a likely hoax.

Cheers, Supermanhaiku 14:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC) 14:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

User talk deletion

I have archived the remainder and will restore the links post-deletion. Many thanks! Charles 20:11, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Done, I'd reply, but then it would create that page! =) — xaosflux Talk 20:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Charles 23:16, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Marxist userbox

Is there a general vote taking place or just for admins?--Constanz - Talk 05:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Template:User Sock Puppet

Template:User Sock Puppet has the wrong DRV link. I would correct this, but am unable to do so, as the page is protected. --Constantine Evans 02:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Votestacking

I've removed the notices you inserted into the deleted templates because the edits you made resemble those made by MSK, and are likely to have the same vote-stacking result as those edits. Putting "come and vote here" notices on the userpages of userbox users can only distort the measure of consensus. --Tony Sidaway 03:30, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

DRV/U

Stating that I am votestacking is not assuming good faith, period. I've recreated the DRV/U in progress notes to the Discussion pages of the affected templates as a regular message instead of being inline on the template. I still think that bringing the same box through the deletion process over and over again is a big waste of time, but something that affects the moral of many editors (perhaps having the boxes is affecting other editors to, it is quite a sticky situation). I support our policies, but the community has overwhelming cried out that CSD:T1 is not specific enough. There has got to be some way to get a community consensus on a userbox policy, any ideas how? — xaosflux Talk 03:59, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree that bringing the same box through DRVU many times is pointless. I'd prefer to see far, fewer of these routine T1 speedy deletions queried.
There isn't really a lot of doubt or ambiguity about what T1 is about. I don't hear the community crying out, or even squeaking plaintively, about it.
We had the makings of a more comprehensive userbox policy but it was deliberately sabotaged by someone who gathered together a rabble. It'll be a month or two at least, in my view, before a new policy stands a chance of reasonable discussion. Personally I would prefer holding off on userbox policy formation at least until the fall. --Tony Sidaway
Thanks for the replies, I speedy things all the time from CAT:CSD and they rarely end up on DRV, same with most sysop deletions; I'm pretty sure I've even deleted some boxen(!) My annoyance with some of the ones on DRVU now are that they have gone back and forth ad nausem. If we could point people to a clear, community endorsed, policy on userboxes when speedy deleting them processing tfd would have less backlog, and drvu could go back to being about the process.
Personally though, if I speedy something, and someone complains, I usually restore it and bring it to xfd, most times it comes back delete, but if it stays as keep, them it's no big deal to me either. Even with this I've never been involved in a page that I deleted, went to DRV, got kicked to xfd; passed xfd that I thaught should get deleted again, doesn't all of the process exist to gather the consensus of at least anyone who wans to volunteer to debate it. (On many issues the consensus of the entire community is more likely abstain, and they simply don't comment at all. — xaosflux Talk 04:17, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Bot

Okay...my bot no longer runs from the monobook...I have finally got around to making the bot request.Voice-of-AllT|@|ESP 03:36, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the support. I just fixed the bug with people using templates in summaries and the <a href thing. Looks like all the bugs are gone.Voice-of-AllT|@|ESP 05:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for voting on my RfA

Thanks so much for voting!
Thanks so much for voting on my request for adminship. I have decided to withdraw my nomination as it seems that consensus will not be reached. If you voted in support, thanks for putting your trust in me to be a good admin. If you voted in opposition, thank you as well for your constructive criticism as it will only help me be a better Wikipedian and perhaps help if/when I apply for adminship again sometime in the future.

Mahogany

Thanks for voting in my RfA!

I appreciated your question, and your comments. Thanks for your vote in my RfA; it didn't gain consensus but I'm glad I accepted the nomination. - Amgine 17:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

What are you doing?

Why are you going through and re-adding all of the non-encyclopedic divisive religion-based categories to userboxes? We need to get rid of these things, not add them! --Cyde Weys 00:49, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Hola

Hey, thanks for taking our side in (at least some of) the userbox debates. It's good to have admins on both sides to make sure neither side outsteps its bounds. Also, just out of curiosity, how do you pronounce your username? Shousflux? Zhaousflux? Exousflux? TheJabberwʘck 02:34, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

It's unpronouncable to hu-mans. =) (`Zay-os-`flux) is pretty close though. I don't really think I'm taking sides, because I don't think it's about sides. I would LOVE to see a workable Userbox Policy, Category Policy, etc; but withstanding one I'm against doing things that will make editors be annoyed and leave the project; and even more so in wasting peoples time. Admins should represent the community, not dictate it. — xaosflux Talk 02:38, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
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Reality television

some admin intervention needed, User:202.50.90.10 - I know it's a college in New Zealand, but this article is going to be trashed. --Geneb1955Talk/CVU 03:21, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! --Geneb1955Talk/CVU 03:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

AOL vandal just on WP:AIV

They appeared to be done and moved on, but, no problem at all. Thank you for asking! :) RadioKirk talk to me 03:23, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Template: User Hell

Thanks for letting me know. It's my opinion that "this survived a TfD" is not a reason to undelete a speedy delete -- I view the criteria as somewhat disjoint. Inflammatory and divisive userboxes should be speedied, but it makes sense to send userboxes to TfDs if there is not consensus that they are inflammatory and/or divisive. That being said, I'm happy to watch the discussion on DRV and wait until that reaches a consensus before asking someone else to re-speedy it (or not, depending on what the consensus is). Nandesuka 14:08, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thank you for this edit. —Guanaco 00:37, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

User:222.110.155.186

He continued spamming after the warning. DGX 02:18, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Darn, Naconkantari beat us to the punch. ;-) DGX 02:22, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Help with page move?

'ello. Fancy seeing you at your own talk page. >_>

Can you help in a page move? An editor moved a page without discussion with fellow Wikipedians, and now images in the now-moved page are funky. I only ask since you assisted in a page move of the same info before, and being inexperienced I don't want to risk screwing the page up any further or doing a cut & paste.

The page was for the DragonBall character Freeza, which as of now directs to Frieza. I'd be thankful for any help in rectifying or fixing the link. Papacha 04:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

We got the picture back up at any rate, so I s'pose any decision on a page move would be in your court now. In either case, take care. Papacha 07:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Protecting {{user hindu}}

Thank you for protecting this template! I am very greatful that you have done this. --Shell <e> 13:11, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

RE: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion

I would have edit conflicted you on Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion a minute ago, but was partially reverting the person you were reverting, and expanding on parts of it. I do NOT want to edit war over a policy page and think resolving it on the talk page is the only way to get it to stick. Please look at our difs and see if my "right version" (sarc) is OK for now. (Please reply on my talk page if you are going to reply directly to me). — xaosflux Talk 03:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't really mind, I just found the revisions made by the anon, esp. the edit summaries, a little too bold for my taste. An anonymous user reverting an established user like Tony Sidaway, then making a number of changes that seemed to be overly bold for such a contentious area looked like something that should be reverted and discussed before anything else happened. Anyway, I like your version for the time being. WerdnaTc@bCmLt 03:32, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandal

Yeah, I thought he had genuine intentions too; however, the second time I happened to look at the edit through popups and I saw the bottom part. But anyway, thanks for blocking him. Wikipedia:∞, vandals:0. Cheers! Master of Puppets That's hot. 04:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

CSD

I'm not here to argue or even ask that you revert yourself. It just seems to me that as the original author of a humour piece/hoax it is quite possibly my prerogative to nominate the page for a speedy deletion (for that matter, I could have done it myself, but I dislike bundling the nomination and deletion–second pair of eyes and all that). Just a thought. Mackensen (talk) 02:49, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on your talk, deleted as db-author. — xaosflux Talk 02:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

AIV

Sharedip I am stuck behind sorry. (Later on note) Yeah, I was trying to edit and kept getting the nice blocked text, its somewhat hard to edit that way, hence I just hit unblock so I could make the edits I needed to, sorry if that caused any problemos Tawker 21:14, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Template:Wdefcon

I missed something, the link was disfunctional, it was unclear from the edit history when it was inserted(23th?), nothing to find at 23th, there was an old TfD, and there had been a lot of reverting, so I went wrong.... :-) I fixed the link now. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 03:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Even better. And voted to keep. This is the second nomination of the same person, persistant. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 03:53, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/KimvdLinde

I just accepted your nominations. Thanks for the confidence that you show in me. I saw that you have already added it to the page, thanks. If necessary, I might come to you with questions, but I do not anticipate that that will be needed. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 02:37, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Grin, I did not know that I had hit the 5000 mark already. :-) -- Kim van der Linde at venus 02:39, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Indeed, I have seen a few passing by. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 02:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
O, I keep roughly an eye on it, but no, I can not care to much about it. Besides that, I think the Parrot project I am currently work in result in a slightly inflated count, sometimes, when I have to update stuff a name or add a new taxonomic level, it runs in the 10 of edits, which normally in a single article would be one edit. I think what counts is the quality of your edits, not the number. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 02:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I suddenly had extra buttons and such, was kind of funny. Thanks for the nomination and the confidence of you in me. And sure, I will pass by to for questions when I have them (and I will get them for sure). -- Kim van der Linde at venus 04:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

REALbasic

Hello. You recently removed the sprotect from this article; within two hours, the article was vandalised by the same extremely persistent user that was the motivation behind this article being locked in the first place. That's really how bad the situation is. We've been dealing with this goof for almost half a year, including multiple legal threats against Wikipedia. I really strongly recommend re-protecting the article. Warrens 05:28, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

This person is back again, with an absolutely [mind-boggling] number of reverts in a single day. Any chance we can get another protect put on the page? BudVVeezer 04:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

No problem. That's why I'm here!--digital_me(t/c) 03:05, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

24/24 World Concert

Dear Xaosflux, in the past you have shown interest in the article 24/24 World Concert. I have listed it for deletion since I believe that it is too early to establish its notability. I would appreciate if you can take a look at the AfD and add your opinion to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/24/24 World Concert. Best regards, gidonb 13:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Lol - thats creative

Template:User Christian - that is creative! -- Tawker 02:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmmmm....

Some people had raised some concerns that it would be in short a form of advertising on user pages to go and vote keep on DRV and therefore vote stacking, I see both sides of this one and don't want to go on either side of the fence -- Tawker 04:42, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: {{Ordinal date}}

Your instructions make perfect sense to me! I've a little nitpick about the leap year thing, though; technically, the algorithm used by {{isLeapYear}} only works for the Gregorian calendar, which has been adopted at various times by different localities (the UK didn't until 1752). So that's kind of a gray area — shouldn't matter too much, though, I doubt anyone's going to be using dates that early. ;) æle ✆ 2006-06-02t04:25z

We can do it on request. :P æle ✆ 2006-06-02t04:31z

WP:CHU

Hi, it is my page WP:CHU. Could you delete it please. --TKK3 05:10, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Hydroelectricity

Hi Xaosflux, I've semi-protected this page again due to long term vandlsim. Just wanted to let you know since you've delt with protection on this page in the past. The hydro pages (this page, hydropower and some others) have been geeting non-stop vandalism for over a year. I'm not sure why but have a theory. --Duk 15:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

DRV

On DRV, you said that List of tongue-twisters should be restored because it was deleted at Wikibooks. It has however, also been transwiki'd to Wikiquote, where it has not (yet) been deleted. -Splash - tk 20:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion review of List of tongue-twisters

I'm notifying you because you voted recently at Wikipedia:Deletion review#List of tongue-twisters. Since your vote, additional information (merely, the fact that the content was transwikied to Wikiquote) has emerged. I'd therefore like to ask you to revise (or confirm) your vote in light of this additional information. Thank you, and sorry for bothering you about his. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of Pohaha

I just noticed that you deleted the Pohaha article. I was wondering why you did so, especially since it had a source cited. Asarelah 03:31, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 04:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of talk page

Hello Xaosflux; You kindly deleted my talk page upon request a few weeks ago. I have since moved things into new archives and would like to have my page cleared again. I have retained the Wiki code for the links on my harddrive, so you need not worry. Many thanks! Charles 01:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Xaosflux;
The method you posted seems much more manageable. I will utilise it. Thanks! Charles 01:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
That I shall keep in mind. Thankfully, I don't have much of a problem with personal attacks or talk page vandalism. The odd dispute or two, but that is human nature :-D Charles 01:58, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I messed up my page pretty bad :-S. I moved it and now I can't move it back. It's really confusing. Can you move it back for me? Thanks. Charles 03:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
That was perfect! Thank you very much and sorry if I was somewhat of a nuisance. Charles 04:31, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: CSD - Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play artists

I only listed it, since the consensus as reported is delete. Otherwise, I have no real opinion on the subject, so I'll abstain. Antares33712 13:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Billboard_Hot_Dance/Club_Play_artists" :-) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Antares33712 (talk • contribs) .

Image categories at CAT:CSD

Hi, why did you remove the categories of images that need to be speedied from CAT:CSD? There's a huge backlog of improperly sourced and/or licensed images that need to be deleted, and putting them in CAT:CSD is the only way of bringing them to admins' attention. Angr (talk) 08:01, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

the userboxes

hello xaos, I'd like to talk with you about why I'm doing those removals. You'll see, just like a category of crationist wikipedians can be used to quickly get vote stackers should a controversial afd or debate arise, the same can be said from the evolitionists under the category of fsm. Both things are potentially compromising the NPOV of wikipedia. Now, I'm not deleting the category, I'm just objecting its use on userboxes, which is one of the main arguments anti-userboxes (they being used for networking user by beliefs and rallying them when needed). No there's not a hard policy on they not being acceptable, but I'm appealing to your good common sense (if you want, put the category on your page separatedly) but please, keep it out from the userbox. Would you please? -- Drini 17:13, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Ejaculation pic

I saw you deleted it with the message "This image does not have information on its copyright status for more than a month." Was the pd-self tag a fake? CanadianCaesar Cæsar is turn’d to hear 04:44, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

(copy from Image talk:Cum.JPG and Talk:Ejaculation) I just deleted that image from it's nomination on WP:CSD as a copyw unknown image over a month, but may have done so in error. If anyone still has the image and reuploads it with a valid copywrite status, I will not delete again. — xaosflux Talk 04:49, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Someone removed the tag and marked it for deletion for not having the tag, then left two personal attacks on my talk page. CanadianCaesar Cæsar is turn’d to hear 04:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
It was tagged by Julien as db|no copyright and pornography when it had PD-self at 4.36 UTC. At 4.41 CanadianCeasar reverted to PD-self. At 4:48 you deleted. The article was in the middle of a dispute over the inclusion of this image (some considered it to be pornographic and wished to censor it) and had been protected. Image deletion (unlike text deletion) is permanent. If this was an accident you need to be MUCH more careful. Not everything that is tagged as speedy delete is valid, by a long way. Secretlondon 16:49, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
As you can see from the log I delete LOTS of things while working Speedy Deletions. I had never been involved with the article (check I've never been involved with it) until after I deleted the image. After seeing the issues I immediately commented on the image talk (since deleted) and the article talk as to my possible article deletion, and that I would NOT contest a properly copyrightsed image being reuploaded. I am aware that image deletions are permenant, but this this deletion in good faith. We will all make an error occasionaly, and I will be checking realted edits more frequently in the future on image deletions. Let me know if you have any more questions. — xaosflux Talk 03:46, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm confused, how does one delete images? I tried to a long time ago (delete an image) and it would not let me. --Julien Deveraux 04:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

How does one become and admin?--Julien Deveraux 04:55, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Should Julien Deveraux be blocked for disruption then? CanadianCaesar Cæsar is turn’d to hear 04:55, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

OKay this is getting out of hand, I got upset with this user because he accused me of doing something I did not do and got irritated with me over it and left nastiness of my page . But I frankly don't really want to talk about that, i've been contributing very well over the past 2 years and havent' had past difficulties, I simply got short-tempered. Are you going to answer my question or should I ask someone else? --Julien Deveraux 05:00, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

I asked about becoming and admin since apparently everyone cannot edit this thing --Julien Deveraux 05:05, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
  • See both your talk pages. — xaosflux Talk 05:02, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Barbi.jpg

It's only being used for vandalism. See the uploader's contribs and User:72.148.43.61's contribs. --Rory096 19:18, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Well technically, it says that it's only being used with permission (making the tag wrong), so that's speediable... --Rory096 19:57, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Religion userbox directory in userspace

Hi Xaosflux, thanks for everything you're doing to help end the userbox wars. I thought I could help by starting a mirror directory of Wikipedia:Userboxes#Gallery. As part of that process, would it be okay with you if I updated User:Rfrisbie/Userboxes/Religion to show the religion userboxes listed at User:Xaosflux/UBX? I've already linked to your page in the "See also" section. Regards, Rfrisbietalk 20:46, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, links will be at User:Rfrisbie/Userboxes/Religion. Rfrisbietalk 20:52, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
See User:Rfrisbie/Userboxes/Religion#Humor. Feel free to update any other links...or create new ones. :-) Rfrisbietalk 21:03, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Template:AOL ranges

Noticed that you marked this as a high risk template - freak of nature asked if it was really needed but no one ever responded - can you help? Trödel 18:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thx - I was just doing some "how does it work" template research - came upon the category and the AOL ranges just didn't seem to fit with the others - have a great day Trödel 03:44, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

message

You should see my response about Selachophobia on my talk pageTriple-Quadruple 01:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Logs link

I'm curious if you think it'd be worthwhile to approach Village Pump (or whoever) about adding a tab to "logs" (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user={{{1}}} or whatever) to the top of monobook.css/js for user/user talk pages. Any opinions? ~Kylu (u|t) 21:15, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Check out this javascript please. Seems to work fine, doesn't interfere with any of the kazillion js's I've got loaded. :D ~Kylu (u|t) 03:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Martial Law

Hi, Martial Law is back.... or is claiming to be back. Might want to unblock him. Apparently he's having issues logging into his account. ---J.S (t|c) 18:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

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France

Hello, Xaosflux, As I observed the article, France has been vandalized many times. Could you put Semi-Protect(Only Established user could edit} instead of me? Because I'm not admin, so I can't control the Protect or Semi-Protect. Please reply on my discussion page. Cheers~~!! Please, Do not ignore my message. *~Daniel~* 04:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't know Xaosfulux if you should do it. I noticed that Daniel that does not post on Requests for Page Protection. ForestH2
There's almost no vandalisim at all. Only a couple edits today and only one reverted edit. ForestH2
Vandalism on France appears to be easily managable at this time, page protection should be avoided if othere methods to control vandalism are viable. This page is also likely rather watched. If vandals start getting bad, please report them on WP:AIV or request page protection at WP:RFPP. Thanks, — xaosflux Talk 17:02, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

RFBOT

I think that was accidental oversight, I added myself to the list as I'm pretty sure I'm susposed to be in there and myself Freakofnurture and Robchurch seem to be the most active people around there -- Tawker 04:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Tagline removals

No, I just opened the articles in Firefox tabs, and got the articles from what links to tagline. It really seemed that fast?

Also, you're right, I forgot about consensus (hey, I felt bold). Would it be a good idea to start a straw poll on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films? —Whomp [T] [C] 20:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Also, I'm not a member of the project, either. —Whomp [T] [C] 20:02, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

CVU cats

Nope, its soon-to-be-closed however, and it's unanimous at the moment. A little mix of WP:BOLD and common sense :) -Mask 22:51, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

go for it. I sometimes sic my AWB on it if it seems non-controversial and clear cut, but deleting the cat itself is beyond my powers. :) -Mask 23:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Apoplexy v. Stroke

Hello,

Does changing the outdated term 'apoplexy' to its more modern one 'stroke' really need to be debated? Perhaps it would be a good idea to see how Wikipedia defines apoplexy. Further regards, Michael David 01:36, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Regards, Michael David 00:56, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello, again,
After some struggle with the technical aspects of Wikipedia, and the usual Saturday night snail's pace of the database, I think I got it right. I did enter the change request into the discussion section. Thank you for your input.
Be healthy,
Michael David 02:43, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I’m still very green when it comes to navigating the technical aspects of Wiki. I’m somewhat computer challenged to begin with (I did most of my undergraduate work on a manual typewriter!). In Wiki, when I have to deal with anything other than subject content, I reach new levels of anxiety. The good news is I’m learning, and I haven’t crashed the database yet.
Be healthy,
Michael David 17:12, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Undelete if possible

Sorry to bother you but somehow I mismarked User_talk:Netscott/test for deletion. If it's at all possible it'd be great to be able to get it back. If not... not too much harm done. Thanks. Netscott 01:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! ;-) Netscott 02:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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The Ax (Le Couperet)

Hey dude... I tried making this page as a stub as I knew failry little about it and saw it was deleted by you.. I kind of made it a stub for that reason.

Um, obviously you're the one who knows a hell of alot more about Wiki than I, but I do think it's a page needing to happen... give me a hoy, if you wouldn't mind, on my user talk page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jubeanation (talk • contribs) .

Restored-see your talk. — xaosflux Talk 00:34, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Commons Cat(s) deleted

Hi!

re: This was you deleting a category where ample material exists but hasn't yet been properly recategorized. There is only so much time in a volunteers day, and apparently, I can't even take a few days off for real life without hoovering like a mother hen and protecting Work In Progress! I cannot find any references in Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_xx. Is there some central list reference one can access without visiting a dozen pages like I just did? This is most unhelpful!

There should have been red warning flags flying high and wide in any reasoned deletion discussion though from the use of the commonscatX template linking to the this commons page, which once the database catches up, should be reflecting all the commons listed materials here on wikipedia. At least once we recategorize images there. Right now it's hit or miss.

More to the point, we want the categories herein to be as empty as possible, as the foundation goal is to have all that will satisfy copyrightwise, on the commons. That makes these categories here as echo's of the commons pages suitable for lookups and look-overs to editors wanting an apropo image for an article. Taken together with the factions herein that like the minimize categories in articles, this seems to be the best workable compromise solution to allowing editors to find stuff and keep down the category creep.

I seem to have not been contacted nor have I had time during the current interval (I'm taking a minibreak from Wiki for RL matters) to monitor things like Cfd. Did this get a full period treatment in Cfd, or is there some Speedy delete for categories I'm unaware of in operation? I'm really getting tired of things just barely being organized and having someone delete them without even a question! For starters, this image is in the wrong cats: Image:Western_Empire-Europe870.JPG, the parent categories should eventually be deleted in favor of the overt proper map categories, which I added today to dispute-satisfy your 'catempty' actions. So kindly put these back (I see High and Late MAges map categories are in same state at your hands).

There are dozens of images per time period that will occupy these pages (High, Late) included, and such hasty action is counter-productive at best. This one, had we been less busy and relocated it sooner, would have been one such example. But we're also trying to inventory and tag duplicate images, purge those, et. al. and there are at the moment only three of us, all very busy, working on recatting this stuff. In sum, someone acted awfully hastilly for some reason. All maps are going to be gone over and fixed up, but if you take away the skelatons, it's hard to hang the flesh and trim the fat! What's the rush, and where's the mature patience in all this haste? Best regards // FrankB 15:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

restored, see your talk. — xaosflux Talk 00:34, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Can you do a speedy delete or rename

Just got your last. Thanks. Just Goofed too.

On standard name syntax (typo)... Category:Old Maps of Europe should have had a lower case 'm' on Map, can you move that, should I nominate for a speedy and recreate, or what would you suggest. Considering the history here, I thought I'd add population! This name misses the proper interwiki link per the template and so doesn't echo the commons map collection. Thanks! // FrankB 00:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I make enough mistakes of me own!

This wasn't me:

Le Couperet

I've restored Le Couperet per your request. It is still rather laking in content, and should be expanded as soon as possible. — xaosflux Talk 00:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I make enough mistakes of me own! <g> // FrankB 00:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Template:Echo switch

Hi, thanks for picking up my mistake there. I was doing a fair bit of RC patrol that night and it simply looked like a bit of nonsense. --Wisden17 15:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Talk:Linux/Archive 6

What is your reasoning here? This is not an article, it was an ill-conceived archiving that archived discussions that were active only 2 days before the archiving, and in all cases discussions that were less than a week old or still open. No information was lost, and when the archive is recreated, it will overwrite whatever is there now. The only purpose of this speedy delete is to purge the page history, which you do not mention opposing. The page was listed for speedy deletion under Housekeeping, G6. It is a purely maintenance task and there has been no controversy, and you do not explain why you think there might exist any controversy. —Centrx→talk • 01:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I hope the dispassion of my above message was not mistaken for ill will. —Centrx→talk • 01:31, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

VB bof

I'm afraid I made a mess trying to revert the vandal's changes to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Today and don't understand what is going on with the redirects and how things should be. Could you have a look at that? Thanks. --LambiamTalk 01:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Film festivals

Nice revision of that article.

Vivaverdi 15:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Ideal time period for undeletion?

Hello! I hope you are feeling fine. I would like to inquire about a particular category you deleted. The category in question is Category:Wikipedians with over 100 edits, which you deleted on the 21 June 2006, 12:28. The reason you gave was removed per Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_12. Does this mean that this category can NEVER again be created in Wikipedia forever? Or is there a certain time period in which this particular category could appear again here? By the way, I am the one who created these categories and I would like to have your opinion on this matter. What do you think would be the ideal time period to re-create this category again? I personally feel that this category (or types of categories) plays a important part in Wikipedia in terms of the number of edits Wikipedians have. Thank you for your time! --Siva1979Talk to me 20:43, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

No ads- Your suggestion Good!! :D

Hi, I think your no ads solution (Ads for anons) Is a good idea. However I think when people first visit (if the ads do go ahead) all the ads might be a little daunting so perhaps a small number of ads are shown on newcomers first visits. A message could say "Register an account now and no ads will be shown" perhaps? I appreciate your comments and hope wikipedia does not turn to ads. (I hate emoticon ads!!!) Once again, a great idea. Thanks, Jam01 01:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I was refering to your message on the article about wikipedians against ads, yes the cookie idea is good too. Thanks Jam01 02:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

RE:Category:Wikipedians with over 100 edits, et. al

Hello! I placed my comments on this page. I hope to gain positive feedback about this. And by the way, does this mean that these categories would not be re-created in Wikipedia for ethernity? That thought just does not make sense as these types of categories would surely be re-created sometime in the future. --Siva1979Talk to me 05:18, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: My signature

As far as my signature is concerned, I could probably fix it, but I've been using the line "it gets corrupted" as a smokescreen. As much as I'd like to customize it, there are people around here who get very upset when someone uses a signature that's any longer than the minimum. I've tried to argue against that approach, and against the waste of time being spent on signature debates, but nothing has changed. So, I figure I'll just work on articles about bridges and stuff on List of historic civil engineering landmarks -- those topics are non-controversial. --Elkman 20:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Category:Stanley Cup Champions

Hello,

I am wondering why you changed the category I created Category:Stanley Cup champions to Category:Stanley Cup Champions. I worked rather hard for a long to to add names to that category, and now I am not even credited in the history of the page. Please respond on my talk page. thanks. Michael Drew 01:17, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

This category was Category:Stanley Cup Champions, I renamed it to Category:Stanley Cup champions after processing a Speedy Category Rename Request. As there were several edits to the original category, I listed attributions for the original category, including yourself, on the new talk page. All links to the category have been updated, so the work you did in categorizing the articles still exists. As category pages can not be moved like other pages, it is not possible to merge the edit histories on them, this the reason I posted the attributions on the talk page. In doing so I believe I've fufiled the GFDL attribution requirements. If you think this is a licensing violation, please let me know ASAP. Otherwise, I hope my reply here clears things up, if not please reply back! — xaosflux Talk 14:20, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

3RR on Chaka (The Lion King)

Hi, thanks for dealing with the reversions related to Chaka (The Lion King). I appreciate the time you took. I didn't know that the editor violated 3RR. And thanks for taking the time to investigate the vandalism. I forgot to mention which articles the vandal edited. I don't need to worry about violating the three revert rule on Chaka (The Lion King) because an administrator deleted it. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to Wikipedia. Cheers --Starionwolf 03:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

sprotect of Wikipedia:About

Hello, it doesn't seem to have worked as anon blanked the page after you'd sprotected it. Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:55, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks RE: page deletion

Thanks for deleting the Name of page article. I guess I forgot that moving a page still leaves a redirect, I should have followed through on that. Anyway thanks again --AbsolutDan (talk) 00:20, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Protection

  • Other than nominating for deletion, which I guess is reasonably drastic, I also am not a contributer to the page. I note that admins are not supposed to edit and perhaps it would hold them off. They should also "respect Wikipedia policy" and it is my view that this page is already in breach of that, but that is what the MfD is about.

"Pages are only protected in certain rare circumstances" - do not see that there was sufficient "edit warring" to justify protection, no matter who the editors are. Note at Wikipedia:Protection policy the statement "These abilities are only to be used in limited circumstances as protected pages are considered harmful." There have been less that 50 edits in the last 24 hours, the very great majority of those could not be termed edit warring.--A Y Arktos\talk 01:33, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Thanks for taking care of the vandalism on my user page. :) I'm really grateful. By the way, just how bad was it this time? G.He 22:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Please block the IP address 125.236.44.43

Even though the IP address 125.236.44.43 is a school one, it has done too much vandalism to the wikipedia pages. Please request for a long block. E.g one month. Thank you. Purerified

2006-06-29 23:15:47 King of Hearts blocked "125.236.44.43 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 1 week (vandalism) (— xaosflux Talk 04:05, 1 July 2006 (UTC))
Ok thannk you. Purerified —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.118.182.212 (talk • contribs) .

Thanks for your support in my RfA!

Thanks for voting!
Hello Xaosflux/Archive0, and thanks for your support in my recent RfA. I'm pleased to announce that it passed with a final tally of (96/0/0). I was overwhelmed by all of the nice comments and votes of confidence from everyone. Thanks again, and see you around! OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

CfD processes

Thank you for finally closing Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 June 19/Wikipedians by politics. Other administrators were less willing to complete the closing while discussion continued, but it had never reached a consensus.

Unfortunately, see Wikipedia talk:Deletion process#Removing SUBST instruction for result templates. You accidentally just subst'd in the {{tfd}} tags when you subst'd the obsolete {{oldcfd}}. Needless to say, that bolluxed the listings and categories. (heavy sigh) I'm fixing them now.

As to {{oldafd}}, that was replaced by {{oldafdfull}} many months ago (2005-09-02). See Wikipedia:Deletion process.

Likewise, {{oldcfd}} was replaced by {{cfdend}} (2005-10-14), and {{tfd-kept}} by {{tfdend}} (2006-03-31).

Please correct your opposition at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 July 2#Template:Oldcfd based upon this new information.

--William Allen Simpson 22:39, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm used to the oldxfd format, as I primarily do MFD's and it's the current practice; as is subst'ing the template. I also commonly subst in the template if I want to add somethign custom to it, and becuase its one less esoteric function to remember the syntax for. I did update my Keep! to a redirect if feasible vote. As you may have noted from the history on that cat; before I added them, none of the old cfd discussion results were posted at all. — xaosflux Talk 00:12, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually, you aren't supposed to subst the template at MfD, either. The instructions are fairly clearly written.

Thank you for fixing your Keep, and thank you for finding the missing CfD discussions. Sadly, not all administrators are thorough.

--William Allen Simpson 13:40, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Reverted Edits from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Please read the talk page for the GOF film discussion. We're trying to follow the Wikipedia guidelines. - Raditzu 02:50, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I'm glad we got it all sorted out. - Raditzu 02:52, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

My talk archive

I wanted that deleted because I merged archives 2, 3, and 4 to make one big archive. GangstaEB 13:26, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Toxic causes of Parkinson's Disease

Hi Xaosflux, please read WP:ANI#General_Tojo and Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toxic_causes_of_Parkinson's_Disease if it's not clear to you that Todd_50 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) is a sock puppet of the very disruptive sock puppeteer General Tojo (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log). -- Netsnipe (Talk) 13:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Could you semi protect the page so I can work with it to both improve its wording and to add links to online versions of the references. Due to the fact that the page in question is under debate I would request some urgency, not as a sockpuppet of any kind of the disruptive user in question, simply as I see the page as a legitimate fork from the main page to reduce bloat, particularly given the large number of references. Thanks, Ansell 03:17, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Portal Proposal

I'm not withdrawing my MfA for the Portal:Thinking. The Proral proposal page is Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals. -- Koffieyahoo 07:40, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

You think Brian Bates is not notable?

I've seen him many times on the Maury show.  Denelson83  00:24, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 01:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Your last fortnight ban

One of those diffs is a death thred (on Head) albeit perhaps imaginary. Would indefinite be appropriate? -- Avi 04:09, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Reply on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 04:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Portal approval

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Portal approval process counter to Wikipedia's aims? Discussion opened. SilkTork 08:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Star seed

  • As requested, I provided a link to the previous AfD for this article. Danny Lilithborne 03:01, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Userlog.js double-loading?

A user in MediaWiki:monobook.js mentioned that, with using userlog.js, it sometimes appears to load itself into the toolbox twice. I've looked at it and tinkered a bit and can't figure out why it'd do so. Any ideas? ~Kylu (u|t) 15:14, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I saw that too, I haven't been able to duplicate it. As with any local monobook changes, you have to be sure to have cleared out your cache, it never hurts to delete all your temporary internet files and restart your browser too. Didn't they say it was ok after a reload? — xaosflux Talk 18:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC) (copied from kylu's talkpage)
That was User:Gimmetrow, and I hadn't checked yet. I think I'll wait for this RfA business to be over before contacting him though. Personally I just meta-refresh and it takes care of it all happily, but I know most windows users don't have that kind of option. :( (I'll watch this page btw) ~Kylu (u|t) 18:43, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Userbox categories

I was wondering if you would please get rid of the categories listed here and at other places. Part of the German solution is making clear that userboxes aren't endorsed by the project, which involves moving them out of official namespaces like Template:, Wikipedia:, and Category:. Thanks. --Cyde↔Weys 19:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Hydnjo's response to the blocking proposal

I thank one and all - Jarandal, Antandrus, Titoxd, Xaosflux, TenOfAllTrades, mboverload, PseudoSudo, Knowledge Seeker, Haukurth, Deathphoenix, Zzyzx11, Tyrenius, Zscout370, AnnH, Rick Block, Tyrenius (again), Zscout370 (again) and NoSeptember for your support.

To Jeffrey O. Gustafson who initiated this block request I ask why? We have had no interaction until now so how do you come to this requested action at WP:AN? Did you come across my account during your own research or are you acting as a proxy for another admin/user with whom I've caused to be angry with me? In reviewing your contributions I see no such "letter of the law" before now and so I feel singled out by you and I have no clue as to why - that to me is most disturbing. If you've come to this action on your own then should I be always wary of another admin challenging the legitimacy of my account?

For TenOfAllTrades who advised me not to worry and Rick who made me laugh I give special thanks, you've helped me to not take this so personally. And to Jeff, thanks for being courteous in informing me of your action and for letting me feel that your heart wasn't for blocking me.
Except for my one explanation above, I haven't edited for a few days now so as to allow y'all to comment about this based on my history of contribution rather than my reaction to it.

I wanted to say all of this before it all goes to archive heaven. I still have a lingering concern that this may arise again and don't want to go through WP life looking over my shoulder or worrying that I might piss-off some admin and cause another inquiry about the legitimacy of my account. If any of you who have been so gracious as to take the time to support me here have any suggestions to prevent such an action, please drop your thoughts on my talk or by email.

Finally, on a personal note to all, I never ever expected so much supportive response from all of you. I know that I've been moody at times and have spoken in ways that I have regretted the next day. I hoped otherwise but it seemed that those unfortunate responses might end up being my legacy as they were the foremost in my mind. And so far as this being a "role account", I think that I'll let the descriptions of AnnH and NoSeptember (both above) stand as the most intuitive descriptions of this account. My (and our) warmest regards to all of you for your understanding and outward support for the continuation of hydnjo's user account and future contributions. Again, my delighted and humble thanks :-) --hydnjo talk 02:03, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

addendum: Jeff, I was confused at the outset in that I wasn't aware of the "role account" policy and then after becoming aware I was frustrated that I had made so many edits which could mislead someone to the conclusion that my account was a role account. I'm sorry that in my zeal to understand your actions that I posed the possibility that you were acting at someone else's behest. I have no evidence of that and it was improper of me to even mention that such a bizarre conspiracy was possible. I find myself guilty of "blaming the messenger" and posting an inappropriate comment about your motivation.

As for my account, I want to state that it is not a role account and I apologize for leaving the impression that it is one. "hydnjo" is the signature that I commonly use for much of my correspondence and thought it to be appropriate when I first started my WP account. The portmanteau is an acknowledgment of our shared existence and not an indication that Heidi and I share in editing at WP.

I thank you for your courtesy in informing me at the outset of the discussion at WP:AN and for your compliments about my contributions. The comments in my response were made in the shadow of my own frustration with my having left a trail of edits that could easily be construed as having come from either Heidi or myself. I sincerely apologize to you for making any suggestion as to your motivation in bringing up a legitimate policy question. You have a genuine concern for the orderly behavior of our editors and I thank you for initiating this discussion and providing me the opportunity to explain the nature of my account. --hydnjo talk 18:55, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Xaosflux/UBX/Sexuality

Xaosflux, I want to thank you for your actions to maintain some form of administrative integrity in the userbox controversy. Because of your action to restore User:Xaosflux/UBX/Sexuality in userspace, I also want to delete the unnecessary User:Rfrisbie/Userboxes/Sexuality page. The pages should be the same with only minor new edit histories. Are you willing to help me do this? Regards, Rfrisbietalk 08:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I just got the okay from MiraLuka, blast away! Please delete.

Rfrisbietalk 19:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Rfrisbietalk 14:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Optional userbox archives and directories in userspace

Hi Xaosflux,

I have a proposal for setting up optional userbox archives and directories in userspace. Because of their locations, I assume the only way they will have a chance of surviving deletion attempts is if an involved admin supports them. I’ve outlined the basic steps below with suggestions of who could do what.

Even though this will be seen as controversial by some, I believe it’s one of the best ways to establish some long-term userbox stability that the vast majority of parties can live with. Let me know what you think. Regards, Rfrisbietalk 20:42, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I think I'm about done with trying to move this thing forward for now. Rfrisbietalk 00:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...for undeleting my userpage

For restoring my user page...after you deleted it as vandalism 3 weeks ago. I hadn't realized, but I imagine I would have been fairly upset had it been removed. Alphachimp talk 17:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

no worries. I'm just glad it was undeleted. Alphachimp talk 00:46, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Ah, OK, I looked over the change. I didn't realize that removing a revision was a sysop ability. Thanks a lot! Regards, Alphachimp talk 01:08, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Vandalproof Error

I've been having some trouble with Vandalproof, which resulted in this report of myself to WP:AIV. I'm reporting it to the VP forums. Sorry about that. Alphachimp talk 05:08, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Userboxes/Beliefs

Greetings -

I bring this to you because of your previous undeletion of this page. Please take a look at the logs. Cyde & 1ne worked together to empty the page of its content, then 1ne immediately deleted it under CSD G6 (noncontroversial housekeeping). Looking at the userbox debates, I can't see any deletion of a userbox directory as noncontroversial. I have no trouble believing that they think they're doing the right thing, but process is important, and controversial deletions should at least adhere to the CSD or PROD process, which gives them a chance to be brought to MfD and dealt with by consensus. I've asked one of them to undelete & revert the page. I'm waiting to see what comes of it. Please look into this in the interest of heading off a war. --Ssbohio 05:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

This is what I requested on 1ne's talk page:

I would ask either Cyde or 1ne to undelete & restore Beliefs and place it at MfD, if the belief is that consensus supports its deletion. Clearly, from the logs, consensus among admins concerning this deletion can be questioned. Process is important. --Ssbohio 05:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

  • <Cross posted reply to this ForestFire> If someone would like to have this page german-ified| to their userspace to maintain the index, preserver the history, and/or work on box replacements; let me know and I will restore it to your userspace. Emerging consensus (in many places, including the last mfd on that page) are to userfy all of this stuff. I disagree with the last speedy deletion, but not to the point of reversing it. (The last time I reveresed it it was still full of active boxes, this time it was links to box soft redirects). Any sysop can overturn the speedy deletion, and then anyone can relist this on MFD, (although it was there recently, it has signifigantly changed since last time). — xaosflux Talk 14:32, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Template:Avatar

I only got to that page from a report at WP:AIV, so I'm not really sure of the background, but it seems that it was vandalism rather than an edit war, and that the vandalism was coming from IPs and newly-created accounts. I may be wrong, of course, but if I'm right, should it not have been semi-protected, and the {{sprotected}} template used instead? Cheers. AnnH ♫ 06:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

This is indeed the case. WikiProject Avatar is having a hell of a night trying to keep on top of this guy's edits. The evidence is being organized at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Father's Wish. -- Ned Scott 07:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I've decreaed the protection on this from protected to semiprotected, and will remove that in a few days. — xaosflux Talk 01:04, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Ned Scott 01:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


Fluxbot partial GUS substitutions

Hi, are you aware that Fluxbot only does partial GUS subs, e.g., [10]? Rfrisbietalk 03:51, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I use AWB find/replace myself. I don't know if this table helps with regex, but here it is. It gets the "common" situations. False positives is the biggest problem. I don't know how a bot handles those either. About the only pages you'll see "tl" code is on directories, not too many, but it's hard to tell what's been userfied without "watching" or editing the pages. It's not the first time this has happened, and the pages are so screwed up by now anyway, I wouldn't worry about it if you can't find an easy fix. Regards, Rfrisbietalk 04:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Find Replace
tl|User <n> [[User:Rfrisbie/Userbox/<n>]]
Template:User <n> User:Rfrisbie/Userbox/<n>
User <n> User:Rfrisbie/Userbox/<n>
|<n> |:Rfrisbie/Userbox/<n>
| <n> | :Rfrisbie/Userbox/<n>

GUS userboxes

Seriously though, I've got a bot, Fluxbot that I've got working on several WP:GUS replacements (replacing the Gus to template with the new GUS'd one). If you have any LARGE replacements needed, let me know. — xaosflux Talk 05:46, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Ooooh, really? I'd love it if you could do Template:User male to {{User:UBX/male}}. There were over 2500 links last time I checked. Do I need to change the redirect into a GUS box first? —Mira 05:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I can do some of this stuff to lighten Xaosflux's load if needed. — Nathan (talk) / 23:00, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

My User Page

You made a small change to my userpage, may I ask why. It was one of the userboxes, it looks exactly the same as before so why change it? --pjb007 09:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

xaosflux: I answered for you at User_talk:Pjb007#Userboxes. — Nathan (talk) / 23:03, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes

If you want some help doing userbox stuff with AWB, let me know on my talk (I did a little of that on Sunday and Monday). I wouldn't mind something to do, even for a while. — Nathan (talk) / 22:59, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Added some more comments to you on my talk. — Nathan (talk) / 23:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Bot approvals

I just realized <facepalm> that you aren't in the bag; I had just kinda assumed that you were, and never checked the page. With the level of activity you have on the page, if you're interested, I'd be happy to add you. Ping my talk page if you're interested. Essjay (Talk) 01:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Deleting UBXs.

I nominated a bunch of UBXs last night for CSD G4, but all of the tags were removed by Stifle, saying that they hadn't already been deleted. I dunno dude...do what you want. I was just following instructions. For most of them, I've eliminated all of the transclusions. A partial list is below (some of them were deleted, but by someone else). [11] [12] [13] [14]. I think the rest were deleted...I nominated about 10. αChimp laudare 11:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Also. [15] I suspect he didn't delete them because I didn't remove the direct links, but I thought that changing links on people's pages was much more vandalistic. αChimp laudare 11:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Xaosflux, sorry for being fiddling with your talk page, but nathan did it, so I guess I can :). Alphachimp, read CSD G4, it says recreation of deleted material. Now check the deletion logs of all the pages you nominated. I hope you guess the reason why Stifle is removing them by now. We would need a new CSD to do it, as this one obviously doesn't apply. fetofs Hello! 13:44, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I understand that. I had read CSD G4 before I nominated them, but Xaosflux had advised that we should put the pages up for CSD G4. It didn't really make sense to me, but I figured that he's an admin and maybe he knows some loophole in the CSD that I don't. Coincidentally, when I've been tagging them as CSD WP:GUS, they've all been getting deleted. Should I just start doing that? αChimp laudare 14:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
"Process" around here is a joke anyway. Just make sure Cyde knows about them. Rfrisbietalk 15:12, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Indeed :-D Cyde↔Weys 15:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Bingo!

Rfrisbietalk 15:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

lol. I'll do that then. αChimp laudare 15:40, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
lol. But it's safer to tag as CSD WP:GUS. Even if it doesn't exist, there's no mistaking in the actual reason for any admin :). fetofs Hello! 18:16, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Here's an empty one: Template:User Australian English. What to do with it? Rfrisbietalk 16:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I put it up for CSD GUS like Fetofs mentioned above. Good catch. αChimp laudare 19:09, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
"CSD" seems a bit arbitrary, but it worked. Process, process, process... ;-) Rfrisbietalk 19:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Eh. As long as my "process" works for Cyde...lol. I guess that's the new tag then... αChimp laudare 21:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
And the beat goes on [16]... Rfrisbietalk 21:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm only going to reply here so as not to start a forestfire...The cat directions for C4 were a mistake, and was meant to say C6 (housekeeping)...this may or not have full support at this time (wow can't believe people are fighting to KEEP userboxes though!) — xaosflux Talk 00:29, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I don't know if I have the lingo right on these, but I'm going to try {{Db-g6}} on something. If I'm wrong, please point me in the right direction. Rfrisbietalk 02:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
The correct tag is "Please delete XXXXX". Counterintuitively, this is placed in a new section on User talk:Cyde rather than on the template itself. --Cyde↔Weys 02:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I've got no problem deleting these, if they are really migrated, have done some as Userbox since migrated to userspace under [[WP:GUS]] which now has no incomming links, and is a cross namespace redirect or a redirect to a deleted page. ([[WP:CSD#G6]] - housekeeping deletion). — xaosflux Talk 02:22, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

How about we just create a category: "Userboxes migrated in need of deletion" or something like that, and you and Cyde can just go through and delete them. As it is right now, Stifle is just removing a lot of the tags. αChimp laudare 02:41, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

You can just list them on Category talk:Wikipedia GUS userboxes. — xaosflux Talk 02:45, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I've listed a ton more for deletion, if you're interested. Check the category talk page. αChimp laudare 00:55, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Even more listed. αChimp laudare 01:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Stub sorting Barnstar

Greetings. There is a Barnstar for stub-sorting up for proposal here. If you'd like to participate in the discussion, we'd much appreciate it. Thanks, and have a great days. :) SynergeticMaggot 18:17, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

BRFA

So I misinterpretted your comment and had already done a bunch of edits with my bot (>1000). I'm sorry about that, but you might want to go back and either extend the trial or approve the bot. I just thought since you were in the BAG, your comment meant something totally different. Regards, αChimp laudare 01:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Approvals Group

How does one become an AG member, out of curiousity? It seems like an interesting task.Voice-of-All 05:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

You and Essjay seem to be running the page mainly, its like RfCU and WP:PP now. Where are the other AG members? The list has many listed as "active".Voice-of-All 17:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

CfD - removal of contested state highways.

Why were these removed? They should have been moved down for discussion and not totally removed. Vegaswikian 07:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

RE: WP:AN/I re WP:GUS

Hi. Thanks for letting me know. I will watch the discussion, but I doubt I'll get involved further - now that there are more knowledgable people discussing it. I just wanted to raise the issue for review. Cheers TigerShark 14:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Wherebot

Thanks for approving Wherebot and for your extremely valuable feedback. I will be trying to implement your suggestions today. Thanks again! -- Where

Category:JammXKids Members CSD

I nominated the category under A7 after discussion on #wikipedia. Most of the pages have been deleted already for A7, or are in AfD. They, along with the category, were created as JammXKids spam. If A7 isn't a worthy category for speedy deletion, what would be? --DarkAudit 17:36, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Serenity Smith

Hi, please do not edit User:Andypandy.UK/Serenity Smith, it is a fake article and AfD used as a test at an RfA. Thanks.--Andeh 02:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's probably best it's left how it is as changing it may have changed the the users answers to the Qs regarding it.--Andeh 02:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

WoW

Just a heads up on the existence of the {{WOW}} template. Please use this template for marking blocked WoW related accounts rather than the generic username block template. -- Longhair 03:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll give you a hand as I can. Juggling many things here at once. Keep up your good work. -- Longhair 03:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
One more thing. Whilst it's usually encouraged, please remember not to subst: the WoW template, as described on the template itself. It's a common mistake I sometimes make myself. -- Longhair 03:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Archive This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Elephant

Yes! -Platypus Man | Talk 03:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hee! Awesome. Kimmykun 03:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Nice one --Padishar 03:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This is really sad :-/ Cyde↔Weys 04:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

You got there before me. Nice work, brother. --Pink_Sock

I notice that you blocked X (talk • contribs)

Only thing, there is no record of any User:X ever being used and/or created, they don't seem to exist--152.163.100.132 02:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Replied on their talk. — xaosflux Talk 02:34, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Elephant protection

Nice Move

You full protected Elephant just as I was posting the WP:RFPP. =D alphaChimp laudare 03:51, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd suggest semi protecting Talk:Latchkey kid. Vandalism is getting pretty high there. alphaChimp laudare 03:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

You beat me! (elephant)

I looged on to pre-emptively protect the elephant article maybe two minutes after it was mentioned on the Colbert Report only to find that you had managed to beat me to it. Nice work! – ClockworkSoul 03:51, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for also working on this! — xaosflux Talk 03:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

P-protected

Please just use the default vandalism protection notice, this is a bad idea for the same reason that the article metadata templates about "This article has been slashdotted" is a bad idea. --Cyde Weys 03:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Bot Approval

Xaos, you seem to be the only active member of the WP:B/AG right now, so I figure that I'll post this here. Sorry for hounding your talk.

I've got a couple of bot requests building up (from the Wikipedia:Bot requests page). They're all simple find/replaces and template additions spread out across wikipedia. One of them has been posted on WP:BRFA for almost a week without any response, and another has been languishing in the "trial" section.

I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong in my requests. When you requested Fluxbot, you listed a lot of tasks, and were approved for them quickly. Back then, trial runs weren't limited, as you've been doing in edit count, but, rather, in time (see DumbBOT 4). Is there a more efficient way for me to list these so I get a quick response? Is there any way I can help with the backlog on WP:BRFA?

I'm really trying to help others with my bot, but the delays are getting frustrating. If you do have time, I'd really appreciate your response. I apologize if this is confusing to read (I was watching tv at the same time).

Regards, alphaChimp laudare 00:41, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

MOTL

The rules for the long term deletion page say that only people who have already been blocked may be listed here - Wikipedia: AI/V doesn't exist. I'm trying to figure out where to list it WhisperToMe 02:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

MinunBot

Regarding your question on the bot page,

MinunBot ican be used to deliver important messages related to any purpose, there will be an approval page where users may request to use bots for their WikiProject or something similiar. Thank you for your question, cheers —Minun Spiderman • Review Me 12:06, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

BRFA Template Mode

I've placed the most recent BRFA request (Historybot) in the version we discussed on the talk page. Feel free to discuss (or just revert). I figured I'd tell you. alphaChimp laudare 16:20, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

No Worries

Thanks for the nice comment. I hope I didn't seem too impatient. I really didn't mean to =). Regards, alphaChimp laudare 00:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Unprotected?

I asked an admin to sprotect my user/talk pages. To me, they haven't been protected long enough.

I do assume good faith that you didn't know the situation before undoing the protection. Could you please review the history of vandalism at User:nathanrdotcom? In my opinion, it needs to be protected for longer. There's an important reason why I did ask for protection and why I prefer a couple of weeks. Considering the longish history of vandalism, I don't believe I'm asking for something that cannot be done. In my opinion - and not to cause trouble - I don't think anyone should really be undoing someone else's admin actions without knowing why the action was taken. There's a long (in my opinion) and quite prolific history of vandalism on my userpage to consider. Thank you. — Nathan (talk) / 00:49, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Lenghty reply on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 01:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

64.237.252.117 and 64.237.240.157

I am both of the aforementioned IP adresses. Thanks for the welcome, but I think that I will stay anonymous (I am hacker paranoid). - 03:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Don't worry. I am not a vandal. - 04:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

By the way, the reason I would rather stay anonymous is the fact that to have a Userpage you need cookies. To the extent of my knowledge, what the program does is allow hackers to see your personal information. Really devoted hackers can do more than that. A comment and/or opinion would be appreciated. - 04:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.237.252.117 (talk • contribs) .

Well welcome aboard anyway :) As you may be on a dynamic IP, expect to get welcomed as you change to ip's that have never edited before. Logging in does set 4 cookies that I am aware of:
  1. enwiki_session, a per session cookie with a session id string
  2. enwikiUserID, month long containing your userid number
  3. enwikiToken, month long tokenid, for cached passswords
  4. enwikiUserName, month long, has your username in it
Most people don't mind these cookies, but obviously some do. We always welcome anonymous contributions though. — xaosflux Talk 04:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Me again. Someone added this (between the asterisks) to the Liger article & I would like to know if it is right or belongs in the article: Some male ligers grow sparse manes *and are known for their skills in magic*. Seems to me like any big cat can be used in magic shows.

P.S. I looked at his talk page and he seems to be a vandal.

While this is not a factual statement about actual Liger's, it is a sourced "popular culture" statement. Generally these are ok for inclusion, although some editors disagree. The statement certainly does not belong in the main article, and has since been removed. When editing, WP:V is a core principal, if a statement, especially an outrageous statement is not verifiable, and preferably properly cited, br bold and remove it! Thanks, — xaosflux Talk 23:09, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

bot trial on en:

Thanks for your notification. I'm going to reply. --.anaconda 01:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Colours

Hi Xaosflu, Would you mind checking Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Colours to see if anything there is worth moving to User talk:Rfrisbie:Userboxes/Colours? If yes, would you just make the move? Thanks, Rfrisbietalk 00:09, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, even though I misspelled the page name! I moved it again, to User talk:Rfrisbie/Userboxes/Colours. Rfrisbietalk 01:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Rfrisbietalk 01:28, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I was wondering if you could do the same thing with Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Personality, moving to User talk:Rfrisbie/Userboxes/Personality. Thanks. —Mira 05:57, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Something for your bot

Template:User Drug-free has over 700 incoming links. Any chance you could use your bot to migrate them to User:Xoloz/UBX/Template User Drug-free? —Mira 08:04, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Daniel.Bryant's RfA

Thank you for participating in my RfA! I withdrew at (2/7/2) because I realised that I made a misjudged action by accepting the nomination so soon after a couple of edits which I whole-heartedly regret. I invite you to take the opportunity to read an explanation I gave for those diffs. In no way am I defending my actions, as I now realise they were wrong, but I still feel that if you understand the reasons I have given both with my withdrawal statement, as well as my RfA talk page, we may be able to travel the path of understanding. Daniel.Bryant

Bot request

Could you possibly take a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approvals#User:The_Anomebot2, and let me know what you think? Thanks, The Anome 12:13, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


Orphaned fair use image

(Image:JenniferConnelly TIME mag cover.PNG)

Warning sign This file may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:JenniferConnelly TIME mag cover.PNG. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. 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 fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Yamla 14:37, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I deleted it as db-author, note when it was uploaded it DID have a fiar use assertion, but once removed from the article it of course no longer qualified, may also not have been an accurate image. — xaosflux Talk 15:45, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Userboxes/Pets

Would you like to do the honors for Wikipedia:Userboxes/Pets? Rfrisbietalk 16:39, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Done and done. — xaosflux Talk 19:15, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Pro-Nuclear?

What happened with the pro-nuclear userbox? What was the deal with the "move for speedy deletion?--aceslead 02:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:User nuclear energy--aceslead 04:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

What was the reason for deleting and salting the original template? Was it anti-nuclear extremism? Or just didn’t think it should be on Wikipedia?--aceslead 19:14, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:DRV delete endorsments

Saw you closing Pilcomayo Departmen. Maybe you can help. where is the place to contest the endorsements / to complain about policy violations by a whole group of admins? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:15, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Second round of testing finished

I've now completed the second round of testing User:The Anomebot2: I've described the results on WP:RFBOT, with a pointer to the revisions in question. -- The Anome 22:57, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Word Change

The word "airplane" in the VentureStar article was changed to "aeroplane." Yes this is probably a stupid thing to ask you. How ever it from a non Wiki member. Should I change it back to “airplane?”--aceslead 22:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Template:User GUS UBX to

Xaosflux, why is Template:User GUS UBX to still protected. As it stands now, a POV admin controls it. Rfrisbietalk 14:35, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi can you please block these two users due to vandalism?

The user user: Danscan used an accoutn called user:Darnamazon to vandalise my user page. Necrowarrio0

Title of page in Special:Whatlinkshere

I've read MediaWiki talk:Linkshere. Short answer; request fulfilled, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk%3ALinkshere&diff=70474092&oldid=69482400. 86.134.116.228 21:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

It's live now, so the change can be made as desired. 86.134.49.147 15:12, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Bot flag for .anacondabot

Thanks for the approval. BTW I want to be flagged 'cause there are many warnfiles/day and 3 edits/min may be lower.
(And... thanks for replying on it.wikipedia, on pl.wikipedia a bot operator must check his talk page at least 5 times/day...). --.anaconda 15:37, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

SmackBot task approval

Thanks for letting me know. Rich Farmbrough 18:59 19 August 2006 (GMT).

Coulrophobia

I need a little help creating a UBX for Coulrophobia. --aceslead 19:38, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

All right!!!! Thanx --aceslead 22:03, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

My Bot

Hi Xaosflux. I was wondering how long the "trial" period is for a bot. I have done testing, and User:MetsBot works perfectly now. Can I continue running to bot, or do I have to now wait until I get a bot flag? —Mets501 (talk) 22:27, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Normally bot trials are for a week, although the approver can specifiy explicit times or edit caps. If nothing was stated, it's pretty much open ended. Regarless of anythign else, without a bot flag being set you should never edit faster then 2-3edits/min, to prevent flooding of recent changes. Generaly you should not be editing large (1000's) ammounts of articles while in trials either. — xaosflux Talk 22:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the response. Since my bot is just doing little tiny things (like correcting diacritics) and substituting user warning templates I'll just keep it going throttled at 25 seconds between edits until the bot flag is assigned. —Mets501 (talk) 22:43, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Linkshere

The new links seem to be working most of the time, but are failing for pages with spaces in their names, we fixed this elsewhere before, just cant remmeber where, any clues? — xaosflux Talk 16:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, of course. That makes sense. This might do it:
<span class="plainlinks"> [{{fullurl:$1|action=edit}} edit] · [{{fullurl:$1|action=history}} history] · [{{fullurl:$1|action=delete}} delete]</span>
I'll try that. —Mets501 (talk) 16:16, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Looks like fullurl is not pulling the value of $1 being sent to it, but using the absolute value, eg ilnking to the $1 article. — xaosflux Talk 16:18, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I see what you mean. Weird. I'll look at other messages with parameters and see what they do. —Mets501 (talk) 16:19, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Will you vote?

I noticed you moved the page, but I request you vote. Wikipedia:Communities strawpoll Ericsaindon2 06:24, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: JanDbot's rename

I've carried out the request. Thanks for letting me know. If Jan had linked the discussion in his original request, it would have been a smooth sail. In any case, it's done. Cheers, Redux 03:51, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

User:DraiconeBot's BRFA

Hi there, I understand you're a bit busy right now, but could you take a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approvals#DraiconeBot? Its been a week since I posted some sample diffs, nothing of great significant happened, one edit was bad but I rv'd it almost immediately and figured out how to avoid repetitions of it. Really the bot just needs approval and a guideline as to frequence of edits. Thanks! --Draicone (talk) 06:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Amateur radio

Hello, Xaosflux. I see that you have listed yourself as a licensed Amateur radio operator. Please consider taking a look at a proposal to setup a WikiProject Amatateur radio. Thank you. --StuffOfInterest 18:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

"Not" moves

Could you take a look at this (User talk:Aeon1006#GUS moves) and decide how to proceed? Thanks. Rfrisbietalk 23:11, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Deva Yogi

Hey, there. Ran into the fellow through RC patrol, I've been kinda lazily keeping an eye on it. Prior to your having deleted their userpage, they attempted to tag the one they copied it from for speedy (alleging that the original was a copy). And now they've recreated the page. I haven't run into anybody quite like this, before; if not for their having tagged the page for speedy twice [17] [18], I'd love to AGF and be done with it. Ideas? Luna Santin 02:51, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Xaosflux/Sandbox9

Do you mind If I move this to the template namespace.Geni 16:47, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

need experienced user input.

Here’s the story. A “statement” was originally added to Anti-nuclear by Revengeofthynerd and was shortly after removed by 65.94.128.45. I reverted it back. Today that same “statement” was removed by 82.247.153.132 again. I added it back. I believe the “statement” to be relevant and neutral. Could you take a look-e-see.--aceslead 22:48, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

User:CrazynasBot

thanks! Crazynas t 01:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Bot for User:JAnDbot

Bot is renamed, trial week is over, can it be flagged? JAn Dudík 07:02, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: WP:RFBOT

Xaosflux wrote:

Your bot request has been approved by User:Bluemoose. Your bot is not currently flagged, so edits should be restricted to less then 3/min, and marked as minor. If you require faster editing, please ping me or Bluemoose. — xaosflux Talk 02:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the confirmation. As far as the flagging issue is concerned, I could do with some advice, as you seem to be knowledgable of bot-related issues.

The purpose of this account is to fix spelling errors in articles. No machine can do this with perfect accuracy, so I have to do it myself, however I have written software to help me (similar to AutoWikiBrowser, but written specifically with spellchecking in mind, and hence with more advanced features for that purpose).

As I explained on the request itself (here), since these edits are not completely automated (at most, they are "assisted"), I didn't originally think a bot was necessary; I just edited from my main account. I submitted a bot request after I was told I needed one to edit at the speed I was editing (basically as fast as possible, anything from 2 to 15 edits per minute, depending on page loading time). On the request itself, Essjay hinted that the bot would need a flag, but Alai suggested that it should not. (I didn't specifically request the presence/absence of a flag, merely approval of the account).

Perhaps you can resolve this. Ideally, I really need to continue editing as fast as possible; there are hundreds of thousands of spelling errors in our articles that aren't going to fix themselves, and I have limited time to devote to fixing them. I check every change I make before I save it, and I have plenty of experience (~13,000 edits) with what I am doing, with only a handful of mistakes in that time. However, over the course of thousands of edits, a few errors due to misjudgement on my part will inevitably slip through at some point. Should the account be flagged, or not?

Thanks in advance – Gurch 16:38, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I've approved your bot for a flag, we are currently awaiting a 'crat to set it. Once flagged you can edit fast, but you should still limit editing to prevent server hogging, especially during peak teims (m-f 04:00-17:00) to less than 5/6 edits a min, off-peak you can go around 10-12/min, faster than that though is still not good. Faster than that generally required multithreading your edits, and that can cause other odd issues, especially if you don't have a lot of sanity checking in place. Keep an eye on the bot page, or the bot log to see when you flag is set. — xaosflux Talk 20:45, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, I understand the need to prevent server hogging – I usually edit in off-peak times anyway (being in the UK helps, as obviously the biggest chunk of traffic comes from the US), and when the servers are busy, you're generally limited to 4 or 5 edits per minute even if you wanted to go faster. I considered multithreading at one point but decided it wasn't worth the hassle, so I don't use it. Since it takes some time for me to actually read what's loaded before I change and save it, I should never average more than about 6 to 8 per minute anyway (unless the servers are being particularly responsive) – too fast for an unflagged bot, but within your suggested limit. I'm just playing safe and making sure I have the approval to do that, then I don't have to worry about it.

Thanks again for your help – Gurch 22:02, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Xaosflux. I've set the flag for both JanDbot and GurchBot. Cheers, Redux 03:48, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Can you please revert this vandal

USer:Narakufanatic Vandalised the Tae Kwon Do techinque list, can you please revert it? User:necrowarrio0

Approval

Any chance? [[19]] alphaChimp laudare 03:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. alphaChimp laudare 04:02, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

AsgardBot

Hello. I'm the owner of AsgardBot. I done the 150 edits. I would like to continue my work, but you wrote in the request for approvals page that i can make up to 150 edits in the trial week. What can i do now?? --bDaneE 09:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Smackbot

Thanks for the note, and all your recent approval work .Rich Farmbrough 21:38 28 August 2006 (GMT).

Just thought you might want to see it

On user talk:Littlebilly1221 A user called purerified used your signature to sign himself using your name. Necrowarrio0 22:37, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh just checking

Is it possible for me to apply for a recent changes patroller, but not an admin as i have not contributed enough yet? Necrowarrio0 22:41, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

botlinks

Well, I think the discussion of each bot only needs to be on the main page if (a) the bot is awaiting approval, or b) somebody else has a problem with the bot that they are unable to resolve by talking to the operator. That would cut down on the pageload time (for sure), and perhaps help avoid situations where somebody blocks a bot just for the hell of it (speculation). —freak(talk) 09:11, Aug. 29, 2006 (UTC)

hello

I am new to wikipedia and i would just like to
say hello my friend i am always ready to help Count Raznagul 00:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

SwiftBot

I applied for a bot flag on the 11. of August. On the 20th you granted me a trial period and over the next three days, I made the up-to 250 edits that you suggested I'd do. I have not gotten any word from anyone since then. Please advise. --Swift 01:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Fast hands

You beat me on the Hardcore dance revert! --WildKard84 04:24, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

CURSE YOUR BONES! --WildKard84 04:27, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Why the warning?

I just got this message on my talk page:

"Please do not remove content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. -- — xaosflux Talk 04:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)"

Since you recently edited the same article, I'm guessing this about the hardcore dancing article. But I still don't understand. Where's the vandalism in any of my reverts? ⇒Bayerischermann - 04:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Just a question

hi Xaosflux, do you know the amount of edits a user need before applying for administrator? Necrowarrio0 10:08, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Bots

Hi Xausflux! There's a bit of a backlog on the bot approvals page, I was wondering if you had a bit of time to clear it up (specifically in the Bots in a trial period section, where several bots (including my bot) have been there for quite a bit of time with no response). Also, one user on the talk page of WP:BRFA is asking about how he/she can become part of the approvals group. Thanks in advance. —Mets501 (talk) 03:26, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Template talk:User GUS UBX to

Doesn't the template you put there belong on the template page (the links are red)? :-) Rfrisbietalk 02:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

AP.BOT flag

It's up to you, though the bot has already annoyed an RC patroller, see User_talk:Andypandy.UK/Archive_5#User:AP.BOT_request. So I don't mind.--Andeh 10:13, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I nearly always flag edits as minor, but usually let it edit quite fast. Up to you.--Andeh 19:00, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Archive This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

CfD Talk Page Deletions

Hello. I noticed that you deleted some of the categories that I emptied at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working. It looks like you accidentally deleted the new talk pages instead of the old ones, probably since the old ones were redirects created by the page moves. I think it is just for the ones for Giant Panda and Indianapolis Ice. Also, I know that has happened with some others that I worked with other admins on, so I would appreciate any suggestions that you might have (perhaps intentionally break the redirect?) Thanks. --After Midnight 0001 15:04, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, you got them all. BTW, is it just me or has the site been a little slow today? --After Midnight 0001 01:31, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Talk about getting sucker punched

The Nomintor of the Second MfD of the CVU was non other tahn Bobby Boulders. Anyway we can get the thing closed since it was a bad faith nom? Æon Insanity Now!EA! 18:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Roger that. Lets hope that the one closing that seees that. Æon Insanity Now!EA! 01:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again

Sorry Xaosflux, but do you think you could check out the WP:BRFA page again, there's a backlog starting again. Hopefully your burdened will be lessened soon with the new approvals group members! Thanks so much! (No big rush, just letting you know) —Mets501 (talk) 19:38, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks xaosflux for everything! —Mets501 (talk) 10:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome

Not a problem. Glad my mediocre html knowledge could help. --tjstrf 02:49, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I didn't even know that could be done. alphaChimp(talk) 02:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT

RE: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DraiconeBot's awb delay in 'off peak' time

Hi xaosflux, Sorry to take your time, but I had just one last question. You mentioned I should set the AWB delay time to 12 seconds during off peak times. Could you please give me an indication of what these times are? I live in Australia (GMT+10) so I assume the time at which i run the bot would be around 6 in the morning for the majority of users (4-6 pm approx GMT+10). --Draicone (talk) 06:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Your thank you note

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my userpage. — xaosflux Talk 12:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. — blobglob talk 05:48, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Block

Um...what? [20] I'm not blocked, as far as I can see... Sam Vimes | Address me 00:10, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Permanent User Pages...

I have heard that once you set up a user page it cannot be erased. What would happen to that user page in the event of the person's death?. - —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.237.253.37 (talk • contribs) . 14:10, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

All pages can be deleted, but they require deletion by a sysop. Typically there is no pressing need to delete a user page for a dceased editor, although an edit-block may be placed against that account. To nominate a User page for deletion, please see WP:MFD. — xaosflux Talk 16:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

re: userpage

Thanks for the message, xaosflux. I understand how this can confuse people, and give the impression of either a newbie or a departing editor (As with the way people were shocked when all the userpage links in User:CanadianCaesar's signature went red a few days ago.) I've already changed my signature in preferences so that it reads as [[User talk:Picarcoon9288|]], and am prepared for people to wonder what has happened to me/whether I'm a noob (who must be a sockpuppet because he is citing policy on afds!! ;D). However, I've already had a talkpage link in my signature for at least a month, and places older than that where I have signed my name are unlikely to be stumbled across. If there is a significant amount of trouble, I will heed your words and recreate the page as a redirect to my talkpage (I'm not a very prominent editor, so I doubt there will be). However, for now at least, I would like it deleted. Just so you don't have to check through the history, making sure there is nothing of reason to keep, the only editors have been myself, vandals, the vandalism reverter(s?), and mass template and category fixers (I'm not suggesting that you wouldn't assume good faith, just making sure you don't have to bother looking through the whole history.) Also, my ip address is in the page history, and eliminating that, as well as the stated vanity distraction, is an added reason to restate my request for deletion. Thanks, xaosflux. Picaroon9288 19:06, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Again, thank you, xaosflux. On another note, thanks for fixing up the work I did in the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Standards area a week and a half ago. Picaroon9288 20:21, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AP.BOT

Qs answered.--Andeh 23:03, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Slightly surpassed 300 edits, awaiting function approval. Thanks.--Andeh 16:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot approvals subpage

Hi! I've noticed that there is an occasional backlog regarding the flagging off a bot by a 'crat. I suggest you create a subpage where the trascluded approved requests are placed by the approvals committee. A bureaucrat can then come along and set the flag. This would be very helpful to us as we would be able to put it on our watchlists and archive it. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Approvals group

hay I see you protected the page. There is one slight problem Im not an admin and thus cant edit it can you add my sig to the page? Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Process is Important

Hi, could we discuss this? For now I've marked the page as deleted but obviously the earlier versions can be consulted by those who want to. Why do you think this essay is acceptable? --Tony Sidaway 23:27, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Could you please list my edit count like long ago and teach me how to do that myself? Thanks in advance! --HolyRomanEmperor 19:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

You have my gratitude. --HolyRomanEmperor 14:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

No problem! — xaosflux Talk 23:34, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

the Userpages

I listed them for speedy becuase of child protection issues (9 year old) (And the Ban was for that as well and a few other issues). I just didn't want to come out and say it for those reasons. (You never know who is out there) Æon Insanity Now!EA! 13:31, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Xaosflux/Infobox - Please change categ.

Hello! I've been unable to edit User:Xaosflux/Infobox due to protection while I was doing a re-categorisation per CFD. Please change [[Category:Wikipediholics]] to [[Category:Wikipediholic Wikipedians]] when you get the chance. Thanks --Sagaciousuk (talk) 12:37, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I've killed the cat all togehter. — xaosflux Talk 16:22, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
I've updated this. — xaosflux Talk 20:54, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

some notes about your userboxes

There are some userbox categories shifting names on CFDU, and your code is so involved that I wonder if you'd fix yours yourself. These changes would be made: Delete:

  • Wikipedians whose user pages have been vandalized
  • Vandalized Users Pages
  • IRC users (this has been renamed)
  • Lynx users (this has been renamed)

Rename:

  • Wikipediholics to Wikipediholic WIkipedians
  • Wikipedians whose usernames are initialed a lowercase letter to Wikipedians with usernames with lowercase initial letters

Thanks!--Mike Selinker 15:14, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Just so' you know, you don't seem to have fixed category:Wikipediholics (and are thus its only member!). So if you could take another whack at that, we can delete that category.--Mike Selinker 19:05, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
    • AH, looks like I had myself in that cat TWICE, fixed it, and deleetd it. — xaosflux Talk 22:58, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

CfD

Category:Lynx users was moved to Category:Wikipedians who use Lynx. See CfD. So anyways, I'd fix it for you, but the page seems to be protected. Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 20:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Fixed, Thanks! — xaosflux Talk 20:53, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Also, Category:IRC users was moved to Category:Wikipedians who use IRC (same CfD). You're welcome. : ) Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 20:58, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Fixed, — xaosflux Talk 21:23, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Apparent discrimination?

Hi Xaosflux

I do not understand what is going on. Sloppy fact checking? Discrimination? What?

A while back I put my offical bio up on Wikipedia under my name because I am a best selling author and a public figure and people always want to know more.

I write my own words and publish my own photos and hold the ownership on all of it, as my own property. In other words I can do anything I wish with my own personal property and have full rights to it, and I chose to post it on Wikipedia, yet, you deleted my Ed McCabe pages. You have the bios of other authors listed, why are you discriminating against me?

Without even asking me about it or checking any self-evident facts, you deleted my page and assumed to tell me to write it in my own words, which it already was, and to not borrow images that were not borrowed from anyone or anyplace.

Please explain your apparent discrimination and heavy handedness.

Mroxygen 19:05, 18 September 2006 (UTC)mroxygen, Ed McCabe

I just discovered THIS BELOW IS WHAT YOU SAID and DID

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the "Ed McCabe" article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! — xaosflux Talk 16:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC) [edit]

Welcome Mroxygen! Hello, Mroxygen, I'm xaosflux and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

   * The five pillars of Wikipedia
   * How to edit a page
   * Help pages
   * Tutorial
   * How to write a great article
   * Manual of Style
   * Picture tutorial

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (Mroxygen 19:05, 18 September 2006 (UTC)); this will automatically produce your name and the date, and use edit summaries whenever you change a page. If you have any questions, need help or assistance, check out Wikipedia:Ask a question or contact me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Enjoy Wikipedia!!

— xaosflux Talk 16:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC)c.

(copied from your talk) Personally I have no opionion as to the content of that page, however the entire text of that page appears to be the same as the text on amazon.com, of which they have claimed copywright (© 1996-2006, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates). If you are the author of that text, it appears as if Amazon is attempting to pass it off as their own, and you should contact them for clarifiaction. If this is an autobigoraphical article, please see Wikipedia:Autobiography for editing details. If you have further questions please feel free to contact me. — xaosflux Talk 22:20, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Open Proxy

I just removed this entry from WP:AIV, and failed to detect it as an open proxy, can you provide OP results to support that claim? — xaosflux Talk 02:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

The only edit to date shows the insertion of "\'" when it should just be an apostrophe. This is extremely common in open proxies. Ryūlóng 02:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:AN

Thank you! That is a wonderful page more users should know about. Desertsky85451 15:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Identity verification

The page is in no way related to any ongoing discussions - it hasn't been referenced in ages, and didn't come up at all in the Dave Carter discussion. I think it is in very poor form to keep an article that had unanimous consent to delete, and intend to reverse your decision - is there a good reason for me not to? Phil Sandifer 02:16, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Don't bother with a DRV on Wikipedia:Identity verification, I assumed too much good faith in the comments made in the deletion discussion, after a much more thorough review there is no reason to hold up the emerged consensus in that discussion. I've deleted the page, it's talk page, and it's redirect, and updated The MFD record. If you have any other questions, please let me know. Thanks, — xaosflux Talk 02:31, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Grimsby

Thanks for the semi-protection. The article seems to be attractin a lot of weird people lately. Hopefuly this will make it stop. Good night, Asteriontalk 02:30, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Benon/sceptre

I have no problems with the course of action taken, I agree this is a tenuious situation, and as I have stated previously one I would rather not have have had to have gone down and as lar has hinted at the only road the situation left open to me. I will be making good on my own decison to have the page deleted in the near future. Un-fortuatley as many users had pointed out to me an mfd so soon after the event has done nothing but "add fuel to the fire" Benon 03:53, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

admin assistance, but what kind?

I need some help with continued over- fansite- ing of Natalia Tena. User:Ayashe (and what I suspect is her sockpuppet, User:Poifect) repeatedly add fansites to that article, in violation of WP:EL and I'm not sure what course of action to take. I've posted to Ayashe's talkpage regarding WP:EL and I thought that solved it, but she replied a week later:

I know exactly what the WP:EL states regarding fansites, and if you'd read the Natalia Tena talk page, you'd know that. "On articles about topics with many fansites, including a link to one major fansite may be appropriate, marking the link as such. Fanlistings are generally not informative and should not ordinarily be included." See the keyword here is many. Many. Say it with me. Many. That means constituting or forming a large number; numerous. On articles about topics with many fansites, including a link to one major fansite... If you want to change the Wikipedia policy, I suggest you take it up with the admins. But I really don't know what's wrong with you. I'm a liberal too but I don't go around being a bitch just for the sake of it. You are so mean and rude to people, and talk down to them all the time on here. That sounds more REPUBLICAN to me, and troll if I ever saw one. I find it hard to believe we are both Democrats, NPR listeners, Daily Show fans, and LGBT supporters. And BTW, it's not spamming when it's not your site, and you have nothing to do with that site.

Almost immediately after that rant was posted to my talk page, user Poifect added another fansite to the external links. Anyway, I just want this to end, but I don't know how to go about it. Please advise? Desertsky85451 15:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I think I'll go to the mediation cabal for now. Since the sockpuppets aren't really vandalizing, and WP:EL isn't a rule so much as a suggestion, I'm not going to CHECK them yet. Desertsky85451 17:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Why!?

Why did you delete and protect Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Willy on Wheels?--B&W Anime Fan 21:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

well, that was quick

I did that rename to show that they (the metro systems) were in London but looking at you reasoning and thinking over some other categories and the like, i agree with you. However, now i want to put Category:London metros up for speedy rename again but this time to Category:London metro systems as metros is rather informal and i don't really think that would apply to convention either. What do you think? Simply south 15:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll be okay. Thanks. Simply south 15:55, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

MFD

User:Xaosflux/UBX/User religion flying spaghetti monster not really is listed at MFD (in case you hadn't noticed and want to chime in). Cheers, Yomanganitalk 18:08, 30 September 2006 (UTC)


User religion flying spaghetti monster not really

My mistake... I thought the mfd had been closed already. Looking at the consensus it probably should be anyway! Regards! Stubbleboy 22:18, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

User page vandalism

I semi-protected my user page following malicious editing by unregistered vandal(s). It seemed to have stopped the problem, but you have deleted the semi-protection. Can you advise me about what to do if the problem starts up again? I cannot see why anyone, let alone unregistered users, other than myself should want to edit my user page. Issues can be raised on my talk page. Viewfinder 01:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Um?

I'm trying to contact you via a variety of different media, re: a certain userblock (since I'd rather avoid a wheel war), and things are... peculiar. Let me know how to contact you, please? DS 16:25, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

User:MelancholieBot

Hiya Xaosflux! If you and the BAG people wouldn't mind taking a look at Special:Contributions/MelancholieBot and do whatever it is y'all do to get Melancholie working correctly, I'm sure both Melancholie and the wiki community in general would love you even more for it! :D

Ja! ~Kylu (u|t) 04:37, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Cronbot

Hi, Xaosflux -- hope it's okay to bug you with this.

This is just to say, "sorry for wasting your time, but I quit". The concept of my bot has been obsoleted and I'd like to cancel its approval request and end its trial period. My reasoning is here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Cronbot#Nevermind

Could you help me with this? Thanks again. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 06:46, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

User:TawkerbotTorA

Pretty much that's the connecto list that tor uses to work, it's pretty much as confirmed as possible. That site confirms everything - administrators already block on said information so I don't think it's a massive concern. The "bot" is moreso a script - Werdna wrote it but as he doesn't have the +sysop flag Jimbo suggested he asked someone else to run it. I get to be the monkey pressing the switch :) -- Tawker 13:01, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Meta block list. It's a dynamically generated list off SBL's. AFIAK I don't even know if it's working, I thought we disabled that a while ago due to privacy fears. In any case, a proxy blacklist on meta (like the spam blacklist) (perhaps the list generated by a program - yes, I like automating non-human intervention needed tasks) would be better - this script is more of a stopgap than anything else. -- Tawker 06:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
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My RfA

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a tally of 91/1/4. I can't express how much it means to me to become an administrator. I'll work even more and harder to become useful for the community. If you need a helping hand, don't hesitate to contact me. NCurse work 15:49, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Question

Please explain how exposing the truth is considered vandalism. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xbadwolfx (talk • contribs).

Replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 02:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks from StuffOfInterest

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which finished with a tally of 52/6/1 (~90%). It was an interesting process which gave me a chance to learn a bit about myself and about the community. My intention now is to slowly ease into using those additional buttons on my page. No use being over eager and mucking up the works. The support of all those who went over my record and/or rallied to my defense after the big oppose vote was instumental to the success of this review. Again, thank you! --StuffOfInterest 11:33, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Category deletion

Hi - did you move all the pages in Category:Sex moves to Category:Sexual acts before you deleted the former? I was working on doing so and then all the pages disappeared.—DomBot talk ; Chidom talk, owner/operator. 03:16, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it looks like we both were working on the same categories. However, where is your bot sourcing the categories to work on? I specifically took the categories I was processing off the Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working page to avoid these sorts of conflicts. Was this just a timing thing, or is your bot going back to the original Log?—Chidom talk 03:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

That would explain it. Any hints as to how to avoid this in the future? Your bot obviously trumps mine (as you're an admin); I don't want to be stepping on each other's "digits".—Chidom talk 03:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Basically what I've been doing is deleting the list of categories I'm working on from the WP:CFDW page, processing them, and then re-listing them in the "Ready for deletion" section. I've been taking one day's listing at a time so as not to get confused about where I started/left off. I'll give the more detailed edit summary a whirl; one problem I've been having lately is remembering to change it to begin with, so that's probably a good idea. Thanks.—Chidom talk 03:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

User:FANSTARbot

Bot does not appear in the WP:BRFA page or archives as approved, and there are complaints on the owners dutch user talkpage of complaints from it: and fr: about errors. I've blocked it pending BAG approval. Thanks again! :) ~Kylu (u|t) 04:13, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Ability to move pages

Thanks for adding the approval link to my bot's user page, great idea.

Since you've been gracious enough to help out (uh-oh), just want to confirm something. I currently can't move pages when signed in as DomBot; is this because it's such a new user and I should expect this ability to become available after some time passes, or is this just an oversight somewhere? Thanks for your help!—Chidom talk 18:33, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm just moving the associate talk pages for categories that have been merged/renamed; I can do that under this account but not under DomBot; I thought it would probably kick in after a few days. DomBot was just born 3 days ago, lol!—Chidom talk 18:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Pong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/TawkerbotTorA#Post_RFA_Discussion has been updated if you have any guidelines on what kind of policy we need, it would be very much appreciated -- Tawker 17:50, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Extending block

No problem on extending the block on User:203.57.147.20. I was a bit cautious on length due to it being a school. But, I'm on board with your change. — ERcheck (talk) 00:55, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Undelete an article

Hi, could you please undelete MFJ Enterprises? It was deleted through a prod a few days back, which makes it OK to undelete under WP:UNDEL. Being that I created the article I don't want to be the one to undelete it myself. I had a quick correspondence with the one who nominated it for prod (citing WP:CORP), and he doesn't even remember the nomination. Hopefully this doesn't end up on AfD right away, but I guess I'll have to extend the text a little bit to try and establish notability better. Thanks. --StuffOfInterest 19:12, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I've added in some more content in the hope the next person who comes along will see the article as worth while. Oh, and thanks for supporting the creation of the WikiProject back in August. --StuffOfInterest 21:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


Amateur radio

Hi xaosflux: I think inclusion of "Family Radio Service" and "General Mobile Radio Service" in the "Amateur Radio" category is in error. These radio services have little to do with ham radio and in point of fact many FRS radios are in commercial use, which is diametrically opposed to the principles of amateur radio. There's no "experimental" use of FRS, the regulations for acceptance of these units prohibit user modifications (and by and large this prohibition is honored by FRS users, I've yet to see any "mods" for FRS equipment, for example.) I think you should reconsider if these articles belong in the amateur radio category. 73, --Wtshymanski 00:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi again - GMRS used to be commerical, too, as I understand it - so it's not really "ham" radio. It would be interesting to see if there's any trickle-up effect from GMRS and FRS users getting into ham radio, but it may be quite a small effect. GMRS doesn't seem to lend itself to experimentation either, though I suppose you at least have the options of different antennas. Anyway, glad you've pulled FRS and GMRS out of the amateur radio category. --Wtshymanski 01:47, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: A Man in black

I need a dispute to be settled concering the admin AMIB. I feel that he is abusing his power by purging fiction based articles without consent nor thought. His recent action involves the AMG set of articles, claiming that he removed the images due to lack of fair use. Even though the images were there for comparisive means.

Please check this admin out for i fear he is out of line.-Dynamo_ace Talk

Restored Guillén

I undeleted Guillén out of process, because it seemed like an obvious and ordinary {{hndis}}/disambig to me. (I was making the change right as it was being deleted) If this is an issue, I can reverse it. --Interiot 05:28, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Something quick

An idea was discussed a bit in the -admins channel re dealing with vandalism new pages (aka G1, the super super obvious stuff) - essentially if it fit a modified set of criteria for Tawkerbot2 and eventually (after running it in add to a speedy delete list for a while) an automatic speedy. The rough thought had a pretty warm reception on -admins - I just wanted your take to see if that might be something worth exploring (I can't see how we could integrate it into MW atm) -- Tawker 00:42, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, auto delete is phase 2, no way we want to auto delete w/o any sort of testing. We'll roll in the db-tagging in the next TB2 release.. it already tags some speedies so not a big big expansion there. If you have any specific criteria you'd like to see please let me know :) -- Tawker 04:16, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Elephants

Good protect. I can't believe how fast you did that. :) --Alecmconroy 03:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Agree, I put Elephant related articles on my watch list waiting for the onslaught, that was fast thinking, good job, wonder who's worse willy on wheels or Colbert :) --Sirex98 03:52, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Note to any sysops: I will be reviewing these and likely lowering/removing protection in about 12 hours. Feel free to adjust the protection at will, (I waive any WHEEL complaints) before then. — xaosflux Talk 12:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Note to TWIMC:Reduced to sprot. — xaosflux Talk 01:10, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Just one more to sort out now *sigh* Glen 04:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Good point! Have linked to my block log which is dynamic so will show a different user upon my next block Glen 04:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Controversy of Hipforums

I do not understand why you moved my controversy section on hipforums: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_Forums to the discussion side of the page. It seems to me that it's just as valid as anything else on the front page, there have been many grievances against hipforums.com I believe it deserves it's place up front where people will have a balanced view of the site. At the very least can you put up a flag at the top of the front page saying the validity or bias of the hipforums entry is disputed and viewers should check the discussion page?Insanejester 06:36, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Insanejester 07:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

regarding POMONA BOYS gang article

can you block this ip: 67.127.101.9 he keeps messing with the article and before that he used a diff ip which was 68.123.145.122 and that one got blocked so now he's using a diff one. if you go here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pomona_Boys&action=history you can see how many times he's messed with that article, i'm just here to show the facts and trying to stop vandalism on wikipedia myself but it's hard work, and this guy is really at it, he keeps messing with that wikipedia article... perhaps he's their rival, i don't know, but it has to stop.

Closing Discussions

I noticed that you are using {{debate top}} to close discussions. The {{Bot Top}} should be used instead. (The shortcuts {{subst:BT}} and {{subst:BB}} work as well) -- RM 13:19, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:Uncyclopedia

Just to let you know, it isn't actually protected at the moment; it only has the template. I assume that wasn't what you intended. Gavia immer (u|t|c) 16:40, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

re:hipforums.

I do not understand why my oppinions on the controvercy section were removed from the discussion page. Isn't that supposed to be composed of oppinions to discuss the issue further? It seems as though by limiting what past users of that forum have to say about it, you are cencoring information which may be benificial to others.

It is a fact, that there was a mass ban, it is a fact that users were banned for expressing distaste to the admin of that forum which claims to be a free speech site. These things shouldn't just be written out of the encyclopedia they should be brought to the attention of those who wish to learn more about hipforums from a fair and balanced perspective.

If there are oppinions which contrast then both should be discussed or at least brought to light in order to give a fair representation of the issue.

My intire point was, hipforums claims to be a site based on hippies and free speech, yet they fascistly cencor their users and erradicate any beliefs which conflict with their own, this cannot be proven because the admin quickly deletes posts and bans users which do not hang on his coat tail. This can be shown by how skip stone chose to edit out my entry into the wikipedia discussion section for hipforums. He seems to believe that if he doesn't like an issue he can merely delete it and ignore it and not address it.

In short could you explain to me why my controversy section was deleted from the discussion page? Insanejester 17:04, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

thanx again

is there another admin which I can bring this issue up with? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Insanejester (talk • contribs).

Replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 05:37, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

StormPay

Accusing my NPOV edits of being "vandalism" and saying I am not allowed to edit the StormPay article with factual information

I am posting here in regard to this comment left by you in regards to myself on User:Nlu's talkpage.

"I've reduced this block from indef to 1 month, and it is almost over. I'd remind the editor that continued entry of POV material may be considered vandalism, and the perhaps some of our other million articles may be more interesting to edit than StormPay. — xaosflux Talk 05:48, 12 September 2006 (UTC) "

I have committed no vandalism to Wikipedia and what I added was never POV material. My contributions have always changed the article from having a biased POV that omits any factual information that paints that company in anything other than a good light to being closer to a NPOV.

The only time I ever edited Wikipedia was under this name.

Can you please explain to me why User:Nlu having slandered me by accusing me of vandalism I never did under names/IP address I never used, and then unjustly banning me from editing as a result of me contributing factual information to lessen the flagrant biased POV in the StormPay article results in Wiki Admin unanimously defending this corrupt action and trying to censor NPOV information from the StormPay article by in essence saying that I am not allowed to add factual NPOV information to it?

If there is not a vested interest in Wiki Admin keeping that article biased towards a pro-StormPay POV, then why is it that anything I've posted on it is censored and labelled as "vandalism" yet the clearly pro-StormPay POV of the article is not treated in an equal manner? --Keepthefactsinwikiplease 10:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 02:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Lupe Fiasco vandaliser

There is a user, 216.86.77.194, who keeps on vandalising Lupe's sales of his first album Food & Liquor. Eventhough reliable sources are posted for this user to see, the person simply ignores this and changes the sales amount. He also seems to have a negitive opinion of the rapper based on his modifications. Will you please help me out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.245.224.93 (talk • contribs) .

replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 01:59, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I think i didn't do this just quite right

Theres this guy User:63.114.228.2 who like to put up vandalism. I know he had a {{test1}} and hes had other warnings sense then. A total of like five or six. So i put a {{test5}}. Could you take a look-e-see to make sure i did it right.--aceslead 21:18, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

replied on your talk; blocked user. — xaosflux Talk 01:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Your talk page

My first impression when I got here was that your talk page has been blanked by a vandal. There are many ways to archive a talk page, but blanking is one of the least popular. You may want to visit WP:ARCHIVE for additional options that you may find useful. — xaosflux Talk 01:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

No, no one blanked my page. I kinda just wanted a fresh start.--aceslead 02:01, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism of Jamie Gold article

Nice work blocking this user, I saw the vandalism wasn't going to stop after multi-reverts and being warned by another user, so I rushed to temp block and used a template I hadn't used before{Test5-n}, it needed a time for a value rather then a page name, my apologies ~~=Sirex98= 05:00, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey, regarding Template:Uncyclopedia

I'm here to ask if you were behind its deletion, and if so, why? I am the original creator of the template, and no one complained at the time when I asked if I could create it. I think it brings "interwikiness" among articles, as well as showing the fun side of things, after all Wp is considered by many to be too "dry", and a link at the bottom of articles showing alternative versions for parody reasons would in my opinion improve the Wikipedia experience, as well as prevent some vandalism by "smart-asses".

I thereby ask that that template may be recreated again. It took me a lot of work to create it and I have to confess, I was bold in doing so, but that's what people expect from editors, is it not?

I can't figure very well the deletion log, so I'm not even sure if it was you who deleted it originally. If not, could you please inform the original admin of my position? Or if you point me in the right track, I'll do it myself.--Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves/Saoshyant talk / contribs 09:34, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've been looking around and seems like people apparently liked the template and tried to recreate it after the deletion, which led to the protection of the page. I speak for myself, though. I created the template last friday, 20 October, and I've been out of Wp the whole weekend. So, it is today that I learn of these things going on now. I haven't tried to re-create the template, although I wish to start a discussion on it, so that its recreation or "undeletion" might be considered. I don't believe it's admins who consider what should go or not in Wp, but the community as a whole. As such, I'd like you to consider my words here. When I created the template my intention was good; I didn't intend to vandalize Wp, or in any way interfere with it in a negative way. Do you know that there's an Uncyclopedia:link by default? That leads me to believe that mr. Jimbo Wales appreciates Uncyclopedia and doesn't mind users linking to articles in there.--Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves/Saoshyant talk / contribs 11:17, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Your message

The message you put all over my user pages is inaccurate. Stop harrassing me now!

You put a message all over my user pages saying that "editing or adding comments to this page is currently disabled for new or unregistered users." This is first of all, inaccurate. Even registered users cannot edit my pages. Second of all, stop vandalizing my user pages. I have been simply trying to clean the crap off the talk page, and then I tried to request my user account be deleted. Because of idiot assholes like you, this has been made much more difficult than it needed to be. Remove the crap you put on my pages. I will give you and the other assholes time to clean up your mess until they make a decision on allowing me to delete my user account. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.228.229.141 (talk • contribs) .

  • N.B. - message from indef blocked user's sock. — xaosflux Talk 16:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

s:User talk:Xaosflux

You got a strange message at Wikisource you might want to take a look at. If you think this needs any attention; WS has a Admin Noticeboard.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 18:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Blocking a user?

  • Zbuddy (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) This user has constantly been adding the same vandalism to the page Return to Halloweentown. He has been warned several times, and continuously repeats the offense, even after a final warning. I posted his name on the suggestions of users to be blocked, but it was removed without action. Do you think you can tell me why? Thanks!! MiniMary12 02:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Cool, thanks!! And I've been on here for a year already, but thanks for the welcome. Hope I can be an admin one day! MiniMary12 02:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

don't swear

great user page and all, but please refrain from posting semi-swear words on there. also, i like the interface, direct links to your talk page and stuff. and your bot, fluxbot, oh he's so cool! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Happy8 (talk • contribs) .

from happy8, again

Thanks for your advice xaosflux, i made sure to visit those helpful links and bookmark them. just out of curiosity, are you an admin? Happy8 05:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

once more, from happy8 (this is the last time today)

Dear xaosflux, could you visit the article transwiki? It appears to need administrative help. Oh, and thanks for following my suggestion about that little swear word thing. Thanks again, Happy8 05:15, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

sorry about this

alright i swear this is my last time. Could you tell me what Armadillo From Hell's talk page is called? I can't find it anywhere. Happy8 05:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

User_talk:Cardinal Wurzel

You said: "Noticed you just blocked this user for an apparent WP:FU violation. I just left them a message as well. If they reply that they get it now or something to that affect I'd support reducing the block lenght, they appear to have been making useful contributions as well."

I monitor these (and all blocks) and if a user seems to realise what they did wrong, I immediately unblock them. Well, once at least, sometimes twice. :) The block is not punitive, it's simply to try to reform the behaviour. --Yamla 16:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi there. I'd like to register some sort of formal complaint against Yamla for his behaviour yesterday. I believe his blocking me was completely punitive, and that his feeling the need to assert that it wasn't suggests he knows perfectly well that it was. I uploaded a picture, which was removed as having no fair use rationale. I re-added it, providing a rationale, and it was removed again; my rationale being deemed not sufficient. Fair enough. I then added a movie poster instead, believing posters to be incontrovertably fair use, which was where you arrived on the scene and disabused me of that notion. That was the end of it as far as I was concerned, and I was amazed to find myself blocked. I believe it to have been a ridiculously heavy-handed response to three - three! - good-faith edits. I believe it was a complete abuse of Yamla's administrator privileges, and that he seems to be extremely trigger-happy with his ability to block people. He also seemed to have trouble un-blocking me.

I've looked at the "dispute resolution" sections, but they all seem unecessarily protracted. I don't want to instigate anything ongoing. I don't want to "begin proceedings". As far as I am concerned, the matter is closed. But I would like to think that somebody is keeping an eye on Yamla to make sure he doesn't abuse his position in this way with other users, and I would just like to be on record somewhere as having made this complaint. Is there any system for doing that? Cheers, Cardinal Wurzel 21:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 02:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

You said: "FYI, I replied to this user at User_talk:Cardinal_Wurzel#Your_BlockUser_talk:Cardinal_Wurzel#Your_Block."

Thanks. I appreciate you offering to help this user out. --Yamla 04:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice; I'll look into it. C'mon, honestly, do you not think blocking me after three edits for "persistent abuse" was A Bit Much? Cardinal Wurzel 10:17, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I have refrained from providing any additional comments on this issue because I do not think it likely to particularly help matters. However, if either of you wish me to clarify my position and correct what I see as being some mistakes, please let me know. The first step in conflict resolution, however, is to step back, which is what I'm trying. --Yamla 14:37, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello

  • You remove the entire section of supporters and opponents from WP:IAR. Your reason: "this would become an unmaintainable list." I agree and appreciate your contribution. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.226.160.124 (talk • contribs) .
  • [21] I am hoping you can find a better way to link to important terms such as the extremely vague ignore. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.226.160.124 (talk • contribs) .
    • Replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 15:48, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
      • Thank you for your kind notice. Would you please tell me where is the dispute resolution page so I may ask for one. This is regarding the reverting on David's part.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.226.160.124 (talk • contribs) .
        • Our disputre resolution process is detailed here. Before starting dispute resolution, you may want to register for an account, it's free and only take about 1 min. The first step in dispute resolution is generally disucssing the changes on the Talk Page of the page you are conerned about. In the case of Policy pages, you can also see The Village Pump Policy Page. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 16:37, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
          • Thank you for your swift reply. I am not interested in an account, nor am I new to Wikipedia, but thank you for the offer. I am only interested, right now, on working on WP:IAR. "The first step in dispute resolution is generally disucssing the changes on the Talk Page of the page you are conerned about." This is not what I wish to dispute the reverting on David'a part. I am only allow 3 reversion and respect the policy so I rather dispute this then to revert again. Where do you suggest I go, or who do you suggest I talk to. This David person takes forever to reply and keeps reverting only because he wants it his way. 128.226.160.124 16:49, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

If you would care, you could filled in the Summary of essay from Jimbo section after reading it (use direct quotes), but of course you know. I was going to do that, but I need to reply to David first, so you can have fun editing! :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.226.160.124 (talk • contribs) .

Bot request

Hi - just thought I'd let you knwo that (at last!) I've run the trials for MartinBotII task 3 (here). Thanks Martinp23 17:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

smile

Happy8 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Happy8 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Happy8 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

A/C elections

Thx, I saw it. I won't answer for a while. I'd rather tackle them all at once at some point - since they keep on keeping on coming... - crz crztalk 15:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

WP:BRFA request

Hi - I've left a message here regarding a very short trial I ran for the pluralisation system. Thanks, Martinp23 20:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

ArbCom election question

Thanks for dropping a note, I appreciate your patience and I have answered your questions. Let me know if there is anything else I can elucidate. -- Avi 00:17, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Xaosflux/Infobox category

Could you remove Category:User Wikipedia/RC patrollers from User:Xaosflux/Infobox, since {{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} already contains the replacement category, Category:Wikipedian recent changes patrollers? TimBentley (talk) 20:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

dont, thanks — xaosflux Talk 02:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

template fix

Hi there. In addition to Tim's request above, on your Druidic True Neutral template, can you change the link to go to category:Druidic True Neutral Wikipedians? Thanks muchly.--Mike Selinker 01:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Hi Xaosflux, and thanks for your participation at the recent RfA, which did not succeed. For those of you who expressed their support, your kind words and your trust are sincerely appreciated. For those who were opposed --especially those who offered their constructive criticism-- please accept this message as assurance that equally sincere efforts, aimed at enhancing the quality and accuracy of representations within the Wikipedia, will continue. Striving for improved collaboration and consensus will also continue, with all of your insights in mind, while applying NPOV ideals as fairly and reasonably as possible. Ombudsman 05:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

You misspelled 'speech'

I though that I should correct you, seeing that you are an administrator and all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Silentbob4477 (talk • contribs) . re:Thanks. — xaosflux Talk 20:51, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Bot trial

Hi Xaosflux, I have run a trial with my bot and put its results here. Regards -- Lost(talk) 16:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AMiscellany_for_deletion%2FWikipedia%3AEsperanza&diff=88174212&oldid=88058500


Hello, could you please correct the Esperanza MFD?

Hello, you seem to have edited a signed statement I made, after a page was protected. This has altered both the formatting and the wording of my statement. [22]

  1. I closed as No consensus, not as Speedy no consensus.
  2. You have reincluded a broken link that was since fixed.
  3. Formatting is a matter of taste, so I won't comment on that here. Though your alteration of formatting does make my argument less legible, and editing other peoples' signed statements is somewhat discouraged.

Please correct at least the first two points as quickly as possible, since those alterations misstate my actual opinion, and introduce two errors besides.

Thank you.

Kim Bruning 13:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Bumm13 already helped out. Thanks for your time! Kim Bruning 13:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Frank Gotti Agnelli

Whoops, not sure what happened there, I was trying to clean up after Pigs. Catchpole 18:00, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Oops!

I just saved a comment at this MfD that you closed. It seems you closed it while I was writing my response. I thought about adding something there to make clear what happened, but wanted to explain here as well. Carcharoth 01:16, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

i have no idea what this is all even about

thats really all i had to say seeing as i barely even understand what wikipedia is —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Camaro4 (talk • contribs) .

Umm, huh? — xaosflux Talk 13:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Candidate statements

Could you do me a couple of favors? First I saw where some admins expanded the {{Sprotected2}} so it was a custom fit on a fully protected page. I created {{Protected2}} for that situation, a fully protected page. So instead of the expanded protection at the beginning, could you just replace it with {{Protected2}}? Another request I make is that could you protect the template itself because it is a protection template? semper fi — Moe 18:26, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree, it is a little new for full protection right now. Thanks for helping out :) semper fi — Moe 00:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Archive This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Yay!

So glad you're back! Lazylaces 03:26, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

that little star

Can you take the * off of {{User:Xaosflux/UBX/User IPU2}} yet? — coelacan talk — 04:54, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh and by the way, thank you very much for hosting these =) — coelacan talk — 04:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Proposal for new help page for new bot-developers - opinions?

I think there is confusion on how to go about starting a bot (eg here and here) and there is no wikipage covering this, the main bot page talks only about policy, not avenues for getting started, how to make a bot etc. I have made a suggestion that a howto page be established and, as a frequent editor helping out with bots, I would appreciate your comments. Many Thanks - PocklingtonDan 07:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Comment

My computer is having problems at the moment. I am trying to delete one edit in my page because the computer keeps on logging me out and records my IP on one of my questions - can you fix it for me please? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:02, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

It keeps saying " A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
   (SQL query hidden)

from within function "Article::insertOn". MySQL returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; Try restarting transaction (10.0.0.236)"."

Else it says you are not an admin. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Ok, it works, now. You can see that I have suppressed the IP edit and will reinsert it. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
I have reinserted it now, in its exact form. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

History of Canada

the changes are based on an old canadian textbook i have recently acquired. While some of the information is out of date i have checked with professor Theda Perdue at the University of North Carolina and she assures me that the newly provided information is true. My associate Valerie Thom and I have uncovered this treasure yet sadly the condition has left many pages tattered hence the revisions not thouroughly backed by citation. Please and thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Johnstamos11 (talk • contribs).

Byte diff sizes

Most likely, no. I know it was introduced to match the anti-vandalism bots "revision size" report, but that's about it. Everything I know is by hanging out at #wikimedia-tech while the devs are discussing it, but I don't think they've actually written down anything. It's probably up to us to do so, either here, in meta, or at mw:MediaWiki.org. Titoxd(?!?) 07:04, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Protected templates used in MediaWiki namespace

Regarding [23], noinclude does not work in these templates, probably due to the same bug that is the reason these templates were created in the first place. Also, because they are templates used in the MediaWiki namespace, they are protected as de facto MediaWiki namespace pages, and like all pages there do not have meta-templates about protection. —Centrx→talk • 09:38, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

RuneScape WikiProject MfD

On Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject RuneScape, you closed the discussion as No Consensus-Default Keep. I would, however, like to inform you that I'm suspecting Kalai Eljahn and Pyrospirit of vote fraud, per this edit. I will be filing an RFCU for these two users, and will give you the link shortly, in case that particular vote would have influenced your decision in closing the MfD.--Ed ¿Cómo estás? 01:43, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

RFCU on Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Pyrospirit--Ed ¿Cómo estás? 02:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Please read the discussion on my talk page. It explains what happened in the MfD relating to Kalai Eljahn's and my votes. Pyrospirit Talk Contribs 19:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
RFCU turned up as Unlikely. In that case, the MfD result should remain unaffected.--Ed ¿Cómo estás?Reviews? 01:54, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

wikiclock

hello xaosflux, how can I put as you the wikiclock in my user page? ;( --dario vet ^_^ (talk) 20:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for mopping WP. As a user of flesh and blood, rapid editing is permitted for my research purposes. I will bring the welcomebot to the RFB when have concluded my research. Thanks again. frummer 01:38, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

my research is very important as it is part of a larger project to establish certain facts about wikipedia that web analysts are contending amongst themselves. the main factor is that wikipedia does nothing about a certain issue that is wreaking havoc. no welcomebot has ever been approved and I hope you can participate in the talk when i put in the request. with my rapid edits i was trying to establish new user's awareness of their contributions. very dismal. frummer 01:52, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for catching 70.156.118.252

I was trying to clean up his mess and you caught him. Thanks.--Xiahou 02:16, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

High Speed Editing

It looks like you've been doing some high-speed page creation (>6 pages/min) of an idetical nature, if you would like to run a welcomebot please request a bot flag at WP:RFBOT so as not to flood the NewPages and RecentChanges logs. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 02:21, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't use any bots. I don't even know how to write one. What you are seeing is the result of George Money's Auto Welcome script. He has welcoming users down to just one click in most cases. Do I still need the bot flag? Instructions for the user of that script are at User:GeorgeMoney/UserScripts. Will (Talk - contribs) 02:30, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

User:KocjoBot

Done. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 10:11, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Question

I'd like to know why my entry on Steve Brook was deleted please. What does nnbio mean in the log? If it means not notable biog, then there are plenty of other self placed entries in Wikipedia that deserve deletion.

I'm particularly concerned as I had only written a couple of sentences.

Larryjhs 05:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Steve Brook

Fair enough. The article was very flimsy to begin with, and the only support the authors initially provided was a blog. --Mhking 16:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the action delisting and for letting me know about it. It was amusing to read that edit and see I had been promoted to admin! Hu 23:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

WP:BAG

Hello. I would like to be on the bot approvals group, and since you yourself are in the group, it would be great if you can stop by and either support or oppose my request. Thank you! —Mets501 (talk) 23:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

WP:BAG

Welcome to WP:BAG [24] please do not approve your own bots. — xaosflux Talk 06:51, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Great! Thank you so much! —Mets501 (talk) 06:57, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sandbox/The Or Game

I was wondering if I could have the history of this page? I'm considering a transwiki of the game to WikiSocial. -- Chris is me 22:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Part2

Done, thank you. -- Chris is me 23:55, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Link to response from CBDunkerson (eom)

cocktail xfD

Thanks for moving the discussions to the proper place. It seemed that wherever I sent it was not the right place. Hopefully I haven't caused too much trouble. Thanks again. Have a great day and happy editing! ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 05:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I've changed the format a bit, because Templates for Deletion works differently. Instead of transcluding the link to the old MfD debate, I have pasted the debate directly into the TfD daily log. This is because the transcluded link was confusing (in a subsequent debate about a different template). I hope you don't object, but I did want to notify you about this. The old MfD debate I turned into a redirect to the TfD daily log. Sam Blacketer 22:51, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Re:CSD

I am doing this under G7: Author's request. I have did this before and other administrators did the job. Talk pages under G7: Author's request and G8: Talk pages without a main page. Please delete them.

--Meno25 08:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your polite response. Cheers.
--Meno25 08:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Protection of WP:BAG

Hi Xaosflux. I'm wondering, could you clarify the reason that you protected Wikipedia:Bots/Approvals group last week? I've got three reasons I don't think it should be. Firstly, robchurch is no longer a sysop - should he wish to edit the page about a committee-type thing he's on, it seems silly that he'll have to use {{editprotected}}. Secondly, I'd like to make a few copyedits - not enough to waste a sysop's time with the aforementioned template, but still, something I'd like to do. Thirdly, I don't think there's much of a risk of random users adding themselves to the group, or for that matter, vandalism.

Would you consider either elaborating on why you think it needs full protection, or semi-protecting because of what I've listed above? (If you'd like me to post this to the talk page, I will.) Thanks! Picaroon 20:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

De-semiprotection of my userpages

Can you please re-semi my userpages? The reason I've had it on so long is due to vandals who create user accounts and flood my userpages with at least 100 barnstars. In fact, theres already been two attacks since unprotection. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 14:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but actually, NwwaewBot (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) and NicksBot (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) are doppelganger accounts, and there is no bot powering them, at least not right now- I have ideas to make a bot using AWB, but as of now, I dont have a bot. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 13:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ProtectionBot

Thanks, I've changed to support the bot. Half the WP:BAG members willing to block the bot if it does something it isn't supposed to do is enough for me. :) --Conti|✉ 20:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Dos lingo

Xaosflux,I am Dos lingo Real name David R.Lee.I do not have the foggiest why you claim that I am a sock puppet. Look at my contribs and compare them with the other users you have listed.Now let's move on to the IP.The IP is 63.3.11.2 it is not my IP. My IP is 205.188.116.201 normally, sorry to evade the block but either you or Redvers has blocked so that I can not dispute this case and according to what I have listed below,I am accorded that right. I have contacted ARIN and this is what they have told me; "Hello:

You will need to contact Wikipedia in this regard, to find out how they are getting this information (the IP address). They are probably not reporting the source, but perhaps reporting the last hop of the routing from your request to their server.

Regards,

American Registry for Internet Numbers ====================================== email hostmaster@ARIN.NET ftp ftp.arin.net whois whois.arin.net website http://www.arin.net phone 703.227.0660 ====================================== On Tuesday, 9 Jan 2007, VA Rottweiler X@aol.com wrote:

> Hello, I dial up using AOL at the phone number 540 725 9801 (dial up) my IP > is 205.188.116.201 But on wikipedia my IP is 63.3.11.2 UUNET Technologies, > Inc.Output from ARIN WHOIS Why is this?"

Xaosflux,do you have or know any one who has AOL? If so then please do the following Change the area code to 540 and select the first of only two numbers to dial in Roanoke,VA (540 725 9801)and go to whatsmyip.org and I bet you will understand my concern after doing so. So Xaosflux, whats the deal? Is it that Wikipedia assigns AOL users who Dial up from the above mentioned number? If so then that means all of Salem,Roanoke,Roanoke County,Bedford,Bedford County,all of Franklin County as well with all of Pittsylvania County and other Cities are block because of one user?. A good chunk of SouthWest Virginia with well over 3 million people.That sounds like Collateral Damage. Now having said that.....

There is no evidence. Notes for the suspect I. If the accuser has not formed a proper evidence page, you are allowed to remove the notice from your user page. The evidence page is linked from the template on your userpage and is situated on Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/YourUsername page (or, if this is not your first case, on Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/YourUsername (2nd) or similar page). II. If the accuser has listed evidence against you, you are not allowed to remove the notice from your page for ten days. You are allowed to respond to each and every accusation on the evidence page but are not allowed to remove accusations. III. If the accuser hasn't requested CheckUser for ten days, you are allowed to remove the notice from your page. Respectfully Dos lingo.209.244.42.104 16:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Response

Dear anon, I'm truley at a loss for where your problem is. Please provide a link to the block that I placed so that I can help you resolve it. You appear to not be having a blocked editing problem right now (as you just edited to leave me this message). You can also request unblocking by placing {{unblock}} on your talk page. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 04:18, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Image deletion

Hi anon, these images should be deleted: 1. Image:IUB-image.gif 2. Image:IUB-logo.jpg 3. Image:IUB.jpg 4. Image:SCSM.jpg. I've added {{db-repost}} on each images. I think you mentioned it before and I noticed it in the history page. Give me feedback Thank you NAHID 18:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 18:26, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
  • One image is already available named Image:SECS.jpg and refers to the same subject. So there is no need to keep this image: Image:SCSM.jpg. Actually, the problem was its renaming. I don't quite understand the point. Shall I add this image in this page [25] Thank you NAHID 18:46, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you and keep in touch :) NAHID 19:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Hi Xaosflux,I got some idea about fair use but bit confused about {{promophoto}} and {{promotional}}. They fall in fair use though. I don't know whether there is any differences between these two licenses and other fairuse licenses or not. Can you please tell me about it. Is it replaceable image image:Ianking.jpg? Does it have correct information?
One more thing, I found some images that've fair use but no rational. In that case I added fair use rational for saving those images.Am I doing right?
Or else Do I have to add appropriate tag on these type of images whenever I find them? e.g.{{subst:frn}}, {{subst:refu}} or equivalent. Thank you nahid talk to me 2007-01-23

Sam Wereb

I reported this user this morning after he vandalized an article: Ernest Emerson that is ghoing through peer review, by numerous admins, none of whom have said it was advertising or spam.

You removed the warning and Sam Wereb has gone back and deleted 7,000+ words including multiple sources, approved pictures and has called it Spam. How should I proceed? --Mike Searson 19:58, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

re LOL

yeah I made an approval walk though before I edited the pain page that way Im not making 100 edits :) Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 06:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Your block of 茶山

Hello. You blocked 茶山 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) indef for "username/POINT vio". They have requested unblock, which I am inclined to grant. Per WP:UN#Names_with_non-Latin_characters, such names appear to be allowed provided they are accompanied by a transliteration. I can't find any objectionable contributions or warnings, and I can't follow the comments on their user talk page about anonymous edits and image uploads due to a lack of diffs. Would you like to give your opinion on this, maybe on the user talk page, before I perform the unblock? Sandstein 06:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, now I find the problem image. The block was warranted because of this. I'll deny the unblock. Sandstein 06:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Rei-bot

Hi Xaosflux,

Please, remove the block of the bot what they did at the moment of the register. Thanks --Rei-artur 09:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

User talk:69.253.41.139

Hi! I noticed that you deleted my user talk page, that one up there. Was there any history or were there any other comments? Thanks! (Please reply on User talk:ST47, as that's me, is a reply is needed.) 69.253.41.139 22:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Replied on your talk (ST47). — xaosflux Talk 02:01, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
OK, thanks! ST47Talk 11:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Commons Picture of the Year - still on?

There has been little traffic on Commons:Picture of the Year/2006 recently. Are we still going to do this? If so, we need to decide the dates of the first and second rounds of voting, and make sure everything is ready to go (by 1st Feb?) I'm happy to help, but wouldn't want to do this on my own if no-one else has much interest. --MichaelMaggs 12:39, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Heads up

I have made a request for membership on the bots approval group. I have received only one response by User:Mets501, who suggested I drop the group a line[26] and let you know about my request. Thanks. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 04:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

CSD of usertalkpage

Thanks for understanding, I just didn't like it. thuglastalk|edits 05:04, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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Opus Dei

Hello! I was wondering why you'd changed my semi-protection to this article to full protection? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. perhaps you should wait to replace the templates until the wording is OK (and other people have had a chance to discuss it). The wording that you placed looked as though the template was fully protected. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:43, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Per

Hi. Just a note that despite the clear requirement for an {{essay}} tag following the MfD, Radiant is still expressing ownership over the page, and has removed the essay tag and put it back in the help cat again. --Barberio 15:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Well, actually, the page is a help page (Category:Wikipedia help) in that tells new users the definition of a term, rather than an essay that gives some kind of opinion. Also, out of about a dozen participants, only two people (other than Barberio) mentioned the "essay" tag. >Radiant< 16:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Er... MfD is not a vote. The argument that it is an essay was carried on it's merits, and is only objected to by Radiant. --Barberio 17:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Replied on Wikipedia talk:Per. — xaosflux Talk 02:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Information.svg

Thanks, I forgot about that. Prodego talk 20:34, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

FSM

Through another editor I discovered your fsm boxs. Thanks for the creation/development and I took a copy for my use. Thanks and I give you a WikiCookie as my token of affection.

--al95521 06:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Add Site...

Whoops, thanks :) Teke(talk) 06:34, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Huffff

So much for my clean log. :P Naw, it's okay. My edit summary came across quick in the logs I know. Thanks for dropping the message, and fight reality! Teke(talk) 07:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I never even got the block message. I think it's great the 50~100 users called to arms without real co-ordination, and reverted pages/salted new pages. We're pretty efficient. Teke(talk) 07:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Colbert

That's fine. I did that mainly because Colbert fans were beginning to find out how to vandalize templates within the Colbert-related articles, so it was the fastest way to protect everything at that time. Ral315 (talk) 14:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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My Bot

I was just substing in order to delete that Template per a TfD. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 14:57, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

RFaR, MFD thing, etc

I would much like that article moved somewhere so it doesn't in any way seem to anyone like it's anything even remotely official. I'd do it myself, but I don't know where to put it. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 17:01, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Moved to Wikipedia:IRC channels/Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Arbitrators' views regarding IRC. — xaosflux Talk 03:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Closed discussion?

Before you did this did you see this? We were still debating on the talk page I think too.--Mcginnly | Natter 02:55, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Replied on your talk, it's not closed just trying to preserve the snapshot in time. — xaosflux Talk 03:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

IRC discussion

I reverted your removal of the link from Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Header , because it appears to be that at least one Arb Comm member (Paul August) has not posted their full views. Catchpole 17:33, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Superbowl XL

I'm going afk for a while, feel free to protect the Super Bowl article if you think it's needed. Thanks. --W.marsh 01:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Meta ID Verification

I confirm that I am also meta:user:xaosflux. — xaosflux Talk 04:05, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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You say in the question, "Desribe some approriate lengths of time to apply protection to pages, now that this feature is available"; are you talking about cascading protection specifically? If not, why do you say now that it's available? I'm sorry if this is an inappropriate way to ask for clarification, if it is you can just ignore this. Peace, delldot | talk 02:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Now that I think about it, cascading protection probably isn't what you meant, but I was just curious about the now that it's available wording. Peace, delldot | talk 02:15, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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POTY 2006 Phase 1 closing

We need your help for organizing the closing of phase 1 and prepare the final. Will you please check Commons:Commons talk:Picture of the Year/2006. - Alvesgaspar 13:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

RE:40 Anon IP Address Vandals

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I noticed that you left a note stating that the list here was not clear. Basically this is a list of multiple IP Addresses editing each related page by removing the same template off back to back, is there a way to block all these addresses from future vandalism? Wiki Raja 03:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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I see you blocked this user for a week. I am wondering why you gave them a temporary block, since they haven't made any constructive edits. I'm not questioning your judgment - just curious. Natalie 03:26, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Thank you for your quick reply! Natalie 03:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

RE:Block

Regarding User:Wiki Raja/Multiple Sockpuppet Vandals, they are dynamic addresses, apparently from an Indian ISP. I've rangeblocked 59.92.0.0-59.92.255.255 for 8 hours, (anon only), with luck they will go away after that much time. — xaosflux Talk 03:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Any news on the other 38? Regards. Wiki Raja 03:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I almost forgot to mention. These two IP Addresses you blocked were not on my list. Wiki Raja 03:30, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
The block I put on is actually for 59.92.0.0/16, and as a range block will block all address from 59.92.0.0 through 59.92.255.255 (e.g. 59.92.0.1, 59.92.0.2, 59.92.0.255, 59.92.1.1, 59.92.1.2, 59.92.1.255 all the way up to 59.92.255.255). — xaosflux Talk 03:31, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I appreciate your help, but would there be a possiblity of having them blocked permanently? Wiki Raja 03:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
It is technically possible, but we generally only indef block 65025 addresses from editing for very serious offenses (such as running farms of open proxies). If they persist I'd start by getting a discussion going at [[WP:AN/I]. — xaosflux Talk 03:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I have had the same problem with 10 other IP Address of the similar code for Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and had them blocked permanently. There seems to be a continuous deletion campaign going on here.Wiki Raja 03:41, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
These IP's appear to be dynmaic, and from a pool of 65,000, blocked 40 more isn't going to fix anything, and I'm not about to block 65,000 anons over this. But if it's persitant please start a thread at WP:AN/I. — xaosflux Talk 03:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. I have reported the situation here. Wiki Raja 06:44, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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The Truth About Peanut Butter

Xaosflux, I wish to create this article. I wish to include the story as told in the Black Mystery Month episode, and will of course, point out that it is a fictional essay and part of an American Dad episode. This will stop vandals, as they will realize that the article has been already created. If you like, you can, of course, lock the article to prevent further edits, as no new information worthy of inclusion could possibly arise. Please tell me what you think. In the mean time, I will create a subpage with a version of this article. It will be located here It is located here.

--Flvg94 14:26, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


Thanks for replying. I requested the page be unprotected at the unprotection requests page and it was denied, so I don't see why you would unjupe it now. I will, however, expand the article on the episode page. Thanks again --Flvg94 11:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Artistpres block

The account owner for Artistpres (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) came to unblock-en-l and asked for an unblock, indicating that he thought he might have been thought to be spamming accidentally. I reviewed his edits, and your block, and I agree with having done the block. He was clearly spamming. I explained that to him, and after being pointed at WP:RS, Wikipedia:External_links, and Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context he stated that he understands and agreed to abide by them. Are you willing to unblock him on AGF? Thanks for your time. Georgewilliamherbert 02:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Unblocked. — xaosflux Talk 03:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! Georgewilliamherbert 03:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Trial approval

Hi,

thanks for the trial approval. Can you please read my edits at the request page? Happy Editing by Snowolf(talk)CONCOI on 18:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Poty-anon.js

Fixed, it might a while for the changes to take affect, due to [[caching]. You can force your cache to be updated by pressing ctrl+f5. Bryan 18:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Firearms

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Editing

Please don't remove things from my user page without consulting me first. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Supergeo (talk • contribs) 00:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC).

Thanks, I understand now.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Supergeo (talk • contribs) .

Own image in wiki and other websites

Hi Xaosflux, If an user upload an image in Wikipedia / wikimedia (that is taken by himself and licensed it as GFDL or equivalent) and at the same he upload it another website (i.g. Hi5, blog etc.), then is it likely to be deleted. If so then which deletion tag should be applied? I noticed some users uploaded their own images (taken by themselves) in wikipedia / wikimedia as well as in Hi5 and other personal website and blog. It's quite confusing. Image policy says that we can upload our own images (taken by ourselves) in wiki that won't be available in other website. (I forgot that statements location in image use policy page) Give me feedback --NAHID 09:30, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
P.S. I forgot to say that I notice lot of fair use image without any rational, source and proper license. Sooner or later they are going to get deleted. I'm thinking to add rational, source (If I know the source) and license. Is it okay ot add those stuffs on image page or should we wait for the uploader(Though the resposibilty goes to the uploader) or leave them for deletion ??

Yeah,:) but bit unclear. "Making a disclaimer" does it mean to use this {{Template:GFDL-self-no-disclaimers}} (And when I can use it?), {{Template:pd-self}} (Or any GFDL license in wikipedia when I follow the procedures (That when I upload that Image to another website?). If so then what about wikimedia licensing? Do I need to mention another websites URL where I uploaded the same image that's created by myself? Also How can I prove disclaimer?

I left you a message above in P.S. Can you please also calrify that to me also.thanks --NAHID 14:35, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

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