User talk:BradBeattie/Archive4

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Around, but focusing on other things.
Leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. If the matter is pressing, contact me via GTalk, Skype or freenode (all as bradbeattie). Cheers.
Talk page archives: Current, Spring 2007, January & February 2007, December 2006, November 2006, October 2006


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[edit] WikiGuard

I'm having trouble using WikiGuard. Whenever I try to open it, it just quits right away. Any ideas? -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 21:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

That's odd. Are you running on OSX 10.4.8? Are you running WikiGuard Beta 3c? --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes, and yes. I get the "application has unexpectedly quit" message. The Beta2 opens and reports, but I can't even get the other one to open. Is there anything I need extra for the new one to work? -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 02:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Well that is odd. Hrm. You shouldn't need anything special to run the app. The only thing I can think of is maybe the older version's preferences are bugging the new version. Try deleting ~/Library/Application Support/WikiGuard and then running the app again. That should clear out whatever the previous versions set. *shrugs* If that doesn't work, then I'm not really sure what would be causing the issue. --Brad Beattie (talk) 02:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Hehe, that actually worked. Looks good too. Great job. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 02:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Rock. Glad we could get that solved. --Brad Beattie (talk) 02:25, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two usenames for the same person

Thank you for your recent message - just due to a technical hitch, I seemed to lose power to write under ACEO, so changed my name to Nurlesen. This indicates how I shall be using Wikipedia in future, i.e. as a read-only Wikipedian (from the German "nur" only and "lesen" to read). I feel that I was all right to alter ACEO's userpage, since, I can now reveal, that I am he - it is just my former username! However, please do not expect much need to accuse me of vandalism in future, when I shall not be editing Wikipedia, merely reading it. Nurlesen 16:52, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

I'll put those in. I was a little frustrated upon hearing that stuff in the RFA (I didn't want to be redundant to the bot, but I guess redundancy is rewarded). Thanks for letting me know, i'll use that one from now on. Just H 02:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cheers

Yep, I'll remember to do that from now on, I am new to this, and all I knew is to revert, as blanking warnings is not allowed.--Ikelim 02:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Take a look at WP:UTM for a list of specific messages that can go on user pages. Make sure to subst them too like {{subst:test}}. If you have any questions, lemme know! :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 02:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah gotcha, thanks for your help mate. --Ikelim 02:55, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I do not vandalise

yup, I didn't vandalise the article, what I did was right,sorry for not log in, do i need to re-edit the article? thanks for not banning me :)--Tearfate 05:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

No, it's all good. Just making sure you're logged in is a safer way of going about things. Anonymous edits to user pages are often reverted. *shrugs* --Brad Beattie (talk) 22:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your link to template messages

Hey Brad, thanks for the link to WP:UTM. It certainly contains more templates than I thought existed, and I'm already looking forward to deploying them! Cheers for the info! Budgiekiller 19:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I usually use templates, but I didn't know there was one for that situation.  :) User:Zoe|(talk) 22:25, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects

OK, that's news to me, but I'll be sure to check the casing in future. Without having to go through each of them and check which are lower-cased and what happens to them, what breaks? If it breaks badly, I might look at going to Wikipedia:Bot requests and seeing if they can be batch converted. Chris cheese whine 03:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Fine, but you're buying the paint ;-) Chris cheese whine 03:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you very much for your valuable advice. Actually, there are some pages that I created and they should be deleted. I created them when I was a new comer and didn't know the policies of Wikipedia well. I am finding them now in my contributions list and tagging them.

--Meno25 04:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A note from the editor review

Hi, Brad, In the time it took me to sign in to my account, you fixed the vandalism on the Alaska article. Thanks. Also, I found some info on Kryzyzanowski. http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/rsolecki/wlodzimierz_krzyzanowski.html Yopienso 19:32, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting removed warnings

I'd be happy to-- I didn't know there was a template. Kablammo 01:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

For the revert to my user page! Someone hacked into sonicchao's account :( delldot | talk 20:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Concerning comments left on User talk:SonicChao

My account was compromised by an anonymous editor, and the edits to delldot were not my own. I have changed my password, and nothing else should come from this. I am sorry for any misunderstanding. Happy editing. =) --SonicChao talk 20:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for the prompt reverting of my vandalized user page. Much appreciated. Maustrauser 01:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question on warning

Hi, I noticed the warning you left for Starwars1955 here, and I think you may have made a mistake. Starwars1955 has been blocked for something else for five days, so either you warned him for something he didn't do, or you warned him for something he did several days or weeks ago. | Mr. Darcy talk 01:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Hrm. Comparing your last edit to mine, I was trying to ensuring that your comments weren't tampered with. Starwars1955 seemed to be changing them. Maybe I'm misunderstanding this. Hrm... --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Serious vandalism to your user page

Hey there! I've noticed there seems to be a lot of vandalism to your user page. Why don't you request a lock? Mouse Nightshirt 18:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:WikiGuardIcon.png

Is that icon really copyrighted by someone else and being displayed here as fair use? If so, I suspect someone'll get annoying as it's not being used in any articels. 68.39.174.238 10:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Taking care of it now. I found a creative commons icon that I like better anyway. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 16:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 9th Elsewhere

"Articles which merely include an external link and a brief description of its contents will also be either cleaned up to adhere to the neutral point of view or deleted."

"Notability is not judged by Wikipedia editors directly. The inclusion of topics on Wikipedia is a reflection of whether those topics have been included in reliable published works. Other authors, scholars, or journalists have decided whether to give attention to a topic, and in their expertise have researched and checked the information about it. Thus, the primary notability criterion is a way to determine whether "the world" has judged a topic to be notable. This is unrelated to whether a Wikipedia editor personally finds the subject remarkable or worthy."

My comics is judged by 30,000 readers to be notable -and- the wiki was created by them, as well as non fans, objectively, I was not involved. The 9th Elsewhere wiki was not merely an advertisement of a couple of sentences with one external link, it referred to several psychological theory wikis and was mentioned in turn by a few wikis for novels including David Mitchell's #9dream. It met the criteria, please restore it. Carolinecurtis 05:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)Carolinecurtis

Hi there Caroline. I went to look at the deletion discussion that took place regarding 9th Elsewhere, but found it to be fairly short. From what I can see on that page, 9th Elsewhere didn't seem meet the notability guidelines for web content and was deleted under the speedy deletion criteria #A7: web content that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the deleted copy of the article, so I don't have the ability to restore it for you. If you feel that the article does indeed meet the guidelines, you can appeal to have it restored. Lemme know if you need any help doing that and I'll do what I can to help. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 05:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you very much for undoing the blanking of my user page. Much Appreciated, → p00rleno (lvl 80) ←ROCKSCRS 00:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Any time. Easily done. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
On another note, I cannot tead your userboxes. In IE 7, my browser, they appear off screen to the right, and no scroll bar is available. This could be because I'm using the wrong browser, or it could be a missed piece of vandalism. → p00rleno (lvl 80) ←ROCKSCRS 00:47, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, that's IE for you. Works fine in Firefox, Safari and Opera. *shrugs*. Feel free to mess around with the code if you'd like. I don't have IE so I can't quite test my layouts on it. --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Alright, Just watching out for you. → p00rleno (lvl 80) ←ROCKSCRS 00:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Much appreciated. :) On a side-note, WP:SIG. --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Think i've got it. I changed the left column width to 69% and now I can see em. How about you? And What of my Sig? So what, it's a bit long, but no external link. Actually, I think i'll sign twice. → p00rleno (lvl 80) ←ROCKSCRS 00:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC) → p00rleno (lvl 80) ←ROCKSCRS 00:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
The 69% thing works fine at normal resolutions, but when you stretch your browser out some, the userbox section gets wider when it shouldn't. Ah well, concessions need to be made in one direction or another. Those "widescreen" users need a-learnin' anywho. As for the sig, it takes up 3 lines of code! Craziness! Your call of course, but one line of code would be much nicer. --Brad Beattie (talk) 05:23, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Only now b/c it's automatically substed. → p00rleno (lvl 87) ←ROCKSCRS 23:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
See, I did it myself and it looks that same with no code.
True, that's shorter, but there's still the issue of Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages#Transclusion of templates. *shrugs* Your call, obviously. --Brad Beattie (talk) 23:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
This is for making wikiguard. It is a good tool and has helped me in my vandal fighting.Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio
  • Can you go on IRC and PM me? I have a few things to tell you and would rather do it there. Have a nice week. --Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 02:10, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Sure thing. What's your IRC handle on freenode? --Brad Beattie (talk) 02:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User page

Hello BradBeattie, thank you for your message. Arigatou gozaimasu :). You are right, I didn't pay attention when I created it, my mistake ... sumimasen. I'm going to move the page now. Also a lot of nice Japan-related images you got there. Awesome ^_^ --Stavenn 05:28, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm a member LOL, it relaxed me when I see birds. Love them :) .. A lot of trips to Japan ? Thanks again & take care --Stavenn 06:00, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ideas

I have a few ideas for wikiguard. 1. I think that you should have a built in revert button on wikiguard. 2. Make it so you can have a list of trusted users. Make it so edits from the trusted users never is at a high chance of vandalism. 3. Make it so when people add cursing to articles the chance of it being vandalism goes up. 4. On the side put a link to AIV. These are the ideas I have for now, I am sure that I will have more. Also tell me when you fixs the bugs so I can download it again. Have a nice week. --Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 14:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey there James. Lemme address each of your requests in turn.
  1. (No can do) A revert button would be awesome, but there's a conceptual hurdle that hasn't yet been solved. When you're looking at an edit, do you revert to the previous version? The last version by a different user? The last version by a trusted user? When I go vandal-whacking, I find that I need to look at the history and make a judgement call as to which version I should revert to. So while this request is easy to do, it's difficult to do correctly.
  2. (Already done) When you flag an edit as good (the green plus sign), the risk associated with that user's edits drops.
  3. (No can do) Setting aside how we determine what cursing is, where do we get the text of the edit from? The source of information the app is working from is Browne's recent changes feed, which doesn't include the text of each edit. I suppose that with every change that it gives us, we could load the page in the background and get the text, but that's more than 1 page per second at peak times. It's unfortunately impractical considering the server load and bandwidth issues.
  4. (Already done) The icon next to the stop sign? That button takes you to WP:AIV. I should probably augment it though to automatically report the user. No need to type in the info each time.
Anywho, hopefully that answers your questions. Cheers! --Brad Beattie (talk) 18:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jeanette Jenkins

Hey. I actually just found out about her today and didn't add anything knew to the article I just read it and noticed that the "q" in Queen Latifah wasn't capitalized. So I corrected that and I also made it into a link.

But I guess I can still give you a source because it was that rumor that made me search for her on Wikipedia. The line said something like "She is rumored to be dating Queen Latifah," right? So I'm assuming since it's "rumored" PerezHilton can count? If it can, here you go :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.109.49.121 (talk • contribs)

[edit] WP:ADOPT

Hi there,

As a current Adopter with the Adopt-a-User program there has been some ongoing developments that we would like to bring to your attention.

A new Adopter's Area has been created where you can find useful resources and other Adopter's experiences. Please feel free to add any resources you may have found useful as an Adopter, as well as recount any experiences that you think may help others. If you know of any useful resources for new users / Adoptees then you can add them here.

Also the way the adoption process works has changed slightly. To decrease workload at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user, on offering adoption please change the {{Adoptme}} template to {{Adoptoffer}} on the user's user page, and this will add the user to Category:Wikipedians having been offered adoption. Users that have already been offered adoption can always have a second or third offer, but by separating out those users that have not had an adoption offer yet, it is hoped that no one will go lacking.

Furthermore numerous Adopters have been adding their details to a list of users available for adopting, to offer a more personalised service and allow new users to browse through and pick their own Adopter. The quickest way to adopt though, is still to contact users at the Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user.

Finally - thanks for all your hard work, keep it up - and if you have any general questions or suggestions about the further development of Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User please bring them to our talk page. Cheers Lethaniol 14:05, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox movement

Yes it was a miss direction so thank you. Roone72 14:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Day by Day (webcomic)

Hey, this collaborative editing thing really works :-). Thanks for prodding me to improve the article. Cheers, CWC(talk) 18:31, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion of vandalism to my userpage

Thanks for that. I'll be honest, I'd not even noticed it till now! Regards, Tonywalton  | Talk 20:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. I like this bit about WikiGuard: Operating System: OS X :-) Tonywalton  | Talk 20:22, 15 January 2007 (UTC)


Thanks for the userpage revert! --science4sail talkcon 19:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks.

Just to say thanks for reverting the unkown IP edits to my userpage back on January 2, I'll try and be more careful to make sure I'm still signed in before I make edits to my userpage. Good to know that someone would be there incase anything like that did happen. Many thanks Eagle Owl 22:18, 17 January 2007 (UTC)Eagle Owl

[edit] User:DengXiaoPing123 vandalism

Thanks for the reverts. Since the user targetted three userpages and a couple of talkpages in less than five minutes, with no other edits, they've been given a permablock. Cheers, Tonywalton  | Talk 21:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep, I saw the user with high activity. *shrugs* Easily taken care of. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 22:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

The Original Barnstar
For protecting my Homepage St.daniel 22:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey! A barnstar! Thanks much. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 22:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Spamusement! restored

This article has been restored after its deletion was contested at Wikipedia:Deletion review. As you nominated the article to be deleted via WP:PROD, you may wish to nominate the article for a full deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion.

GRBerry 21:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted pages

I want the pages back - can you please help me with that ???????????? I am sure you care!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sameer81 (talk • contribs)

It seems as though Larry V has taken care of the pages for you. Do you need further assistance? --Brad Beattie (talk) 05:43, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Congratulations!
Congratulations!

Well done on passing your RfA with a 98% support vote - you must be really pleased. A Bureaucrat will be along shortly to issue you with a shiny new set of admin tools. If you need any help with using them then please ask! Regards and happy mopping, (aeropagitica) 23:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks much for the support and the assistance along the way. It's much appreciated. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 23:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations with your mop, Brad! Happy editing! S.D. ¿п? § 01:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Congrats bud!  Glen  05:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your RfA

I am pleased to let you know that, consensus reached, you are now an Administrator. You should find the following forums useful:

Congratulations on your promotion and the best of luck with your new charge! Redux 04:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks much, Redux. I'll do my best! --Brad Beattie (talk) 04:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great job!!

You got 61 supports, 1 oppose (with no reason), and 0 neutrals. That says something! Keep it up!!!--CJ King 05:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Will do, thanks! --Brad Beattie (talk) 05:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
May I also add my congratulations! Keep up the good work. The Rambling Man 10:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Admin Hunting

Can you take a look at this page as it seems that you are online now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection. --Parker007 05:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Kay. My experience in page protection policies is lacking, but I'll take a look. --Brad Beattie (talk) 05:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Thnx. --Parker007 06:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please unprotect

Please unprotect the article about Terminator 4 because I want to make an article about this —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chegis (talk • contribs) 17:38, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

Sorry, but it looks like Terminator 4 went through deletion a number of times. Talk:Terminator 4 has a record of them. If more information on the film becomes available, then we can unprotect it. Until then we need to stand by WP:NOT a crystal ball. --Brad Beattie (talk) 18:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Newyorkbrad's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning, as well as for your kind comments accompanying your !vote. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Of course, as I struggle to figure out which button does what, you'll be empathizing this week. :) Best Bradful regards, Newyorkbrad 20:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Joanna Lumley incident

Hello,

Yes my leaving is directly related to the nonsense posted on Joanna Lumley's talk page and the posting of words I find offensive on my talk page. I didn't realize I had such a low tolerance for people who post things like that.

I don't know what you can do to convince me to stay. Wikipedia guidelines appear to be too tolerant towards this sort of discussion, which originally took place last July. My first thought was to get clarification of the policy and I left a query to this effect at the village pump, but it seems to have been buried. The village pump is a very busy page. As for discussing my revert with the other editor, this is something I felt obliged to do (as per Wiki guidelines). In my mind, any disagreement should have gone straight to 3rd opinion or arbitration. I simply don't want to have to communicate with this 'person'.

In this particular case, I find it impossible to assume good faith. Pendragon39 20:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't know all the particulars of this incident but am not the least impressed with the behavior of the other editor concerned based on what I have seen so far. I join in hoping that this one episode can be resolved without losing you as a contributor. Newyorkbrad 22:17, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm responsible for my own reaction. Pendragon39 00:13, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Ultimately it's your call whether you want to stay or not, but hopefully we can move past this. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes, you're right. Thankyou for your support Pendragon39 00:17, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
If you'd like me to, I can undelete your user page too. Easily done. --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

There's no real need to, I don't have much on it. Pendragon39 00:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR Question

I've been wondering if the 3RR rule applies to reverting vandalism? I want to revert vandalism, which I have been doing, but don't want to be in vialation of the 3RR rule. Hope you can answer my question and thanks much. Chickyfuzz123(user talk) 01:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Simple vandalism is an excemption of 3RR. See WP:3RR#Reverting simple vandalism. Happy vandal-hunting! --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:17, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Username Block

BradBeattie, thanks for blocking the user I reported on AIV, User:Fatpileofcrap. I'd just like to point out that you blocked the user name for 24 hours and then posted the username indefinite block notice on the user talk page. Perhaps the 24 hours expiry time was accidental? --Nick—Contact/Contribs 07:24, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Whoops! My bad. I'm a little new to these tools. That'll be fixed in a jiffy. --Brad Beattie (talk) 07:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sosiaalisesti rajoittuneet

Hi. I added sources and references. The article meets WP:WEB. Can you change your vote if you agree, explain what's missing if you disagree, and in either case see if you can't improve the references because I suck at adding them? --Kizor 11:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Please

If you are going to block User:64.5.147.101 please let it be at least a month, as User:Alphachimp did last time. ThanksDUBJAY04 20:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I did block the user at first, but then I saw that they didn't vandalize past their final warning. If the user vandalizes again, I'll do something about it. For now, let the warning do it's job. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 20:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply: New user warning messages

Thanks for the info! I've been waiting for a more organized page. Cyrus Andiron 21:06, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply: New user warning messages

Also thanks for the info. I am using the VandalProof tool though, which uses the old templates. Ill certainly use the new ones for manual edits though. Cheers •CHILLDOUBT• 21:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Thanks for giving me that piece of info. But, what's going to happen to the talk pages that already have the test4 template? Bushcarrot (Talk·Desk) 23:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for pointing out the new messages. Are there any messages that are equivalent to the blatant vandal warning templates? It's just that it seems like it might be difficult to deal with rather obvious vandals when restricted to always using the 4 warning system. --Wildnox(talk) 00:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Alright, I guess it won't be quite as simple as the bv templates, but it will work. --Wildnox(talk) 00:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks and question

Thanks for pointing me to WP:UTM. I've actually been using those, but didn't know what to use for someone who'd already had a final warning. Is there one for that I've missed? Aleta 00:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the tip! Aleta 00:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: User warnings have been updated

Thanks for the heads-up, Brad! --JFreeman (talk) 00:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm already putting them to use. - Gilliam 01:14, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I thank you for the heads-up too. Go away for 10 days and everything changes...sheesh! DMacks 01:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks from me, too! -- Flyguy649 03:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:86.8.18.166 blocked

Hi. I see you'd commented on WP:AIV that 86.8.18.166 hadn't vandalised past their final warning at 01:03 UTC. However they'd already been given a test4 by Wolfkeeper at 00:54 and went on to hit Human penis size yet again at 00:57, closely followed by Wolfkeeper's user and talk pages. So I've gone ahead and blocked them for 31 hours. Regards, Tonywalton  | Talk 01:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, my bad. I'm still getting the hang of this. Thanks for picking up the slack. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Oh! Also take a look at WP:UTM. Looks like the old warnings are being deprecated in favour of some new ones. --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Updates

Thanks mate, really. I'd be lost without people like you. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . Editor Review 09:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey. Thanks for the note on my talk page, too. I'll look into the new templates. Prolog 21:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Ibid. Thanks for letting me know about that. --P4k 21:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New warnings

Cheers for the heads up. I use Lupin's anti-vandal, and the warn button on that still uses the old templates. Might see if he can update that. Jem 21:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Ive always gotten some funky looking preview messages when I use the new warnings, so I have stuck with the old ones, I guess Ill give it another try. DUBJAY04 00:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, check this out User_talk:66.44.193.74DUBJAY04 00:29, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah yeah, don't sign. The template signs for you. Just add "{{subst:uw-vandalism1|Some article}}". Don't sign. --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] == Warning tips ==

Heya, looks like the old warnings are being deprecated in favour of those listed at WP:UTM. Also, no need to tell vandals that they've been reported to the admins. Oddly, it often eggs them on. *shrugs* --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

the new ones are buggy and they are still debating on the layout and if they should have a number etc etc policy discuss, boredom. I will use the tried and true till I can't anymore. As far as egging them on. If they get to that point its not a loss to the community to let a vandal know we won't and don't put up with their behavior.--Xiahou 01:06, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
looks like I don't have a choice now. --Xiahou 01:30, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 66.31.7.179

You removed this IP from WP:AIV with the edit summary "Removed user that didn't vandalise past last warning. List not empty." [1]. The user received a {{bv}} warning 00:42, 24 January 2007 and then continued vandalizing 00:46, 24 January 2007. Just for future reference, a blatant vandalism warning is a final warning; one that I frequently use. Thanks! auburnpilot talk 01:44, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nutshell WP:NPOV

You completed the "circle of life" (very cute) on my edit of the nutshell, so I thought I would reach out to you about a related item. I have been going around looking at how the new template is applied both graphically and editorially. I've made a few changes, and they have been accepted. Then when WP:NPOV was pointed out as a bad example of Nutshell usage, I was "bold" and "fixed" it. It was reverted, and I tried again with WP:BRD but there is one user who rejects all changes. The same user is doing it on another page as well, but I have tried to focus on this one as it is the worst example. I know this is a policy page, and extra caution is needed, but I think the editor has "gone off the deep end" defending the status-quo, and calling it consensus. Anyway, I would appreciate a semi-confidential reply here with any observations or advice you would be willing to offer. Thanks. Dhaluza 18:24, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm also dhaluza on skype. Dhaluza 18:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Solidbob

Thanks for blocking that guy, his edits to my userpage were getting a little crazy. Although, he did create a sockpuppet account user:unblockable2, for the sole purpose of vandalizing my userpage, right afterwards which I reported and was blocked indefinitely. I am worried that a temporary block on his first account will not be enough, and that after his block is up he will come right back to vandalizing and attacking me for warning him about it. Darthgriz98 19:12, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

No worries. I'm in the middle of working on WikiGuard, so I'm watching vandalism a little here and there at the moment. If you need any help, just let me know. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 19:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expert tagging

Hi, I forgot to answer to your message, sorry. Thanks for updating that template, makes life a bit easier. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warning messages

Thanks for the heads up about the new warning messages - there was me congratulating myself on just having learnt most of the old ones... I'll have to print myself out a copy I think. As an aside, any chance of sprotecting Student loan so I can go to bed with a clear conscience? 2 hours of spamreversion is starting to get tedious. Cheers, --YFB ¿ 06:33, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Oops, beaten to it! --YFB ¿ 06:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for making the juggling userbox. I've been wanting something like that for a while :). Thanks again! Ian F. 19:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Cheers

For taking care of that vandal. Dfrg.msc 23:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Easily done, good sir. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 23:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vancouver meetup

At this point I know of no Vancouver meetups being planned. After my experience of trying to organize something in Sept. 2005 when only one person showed up beside myself I decided that if this was going to happen someone else would need to organize it. If someone else is willing to organize a meetup I will be very happy (scheduling permitted) to participate. There are certainly items that I would like to see on the agenda of such a meeting, e.g. How much can we help if Seattle bids to have Wikimania 2009. Eclecticology 18:53, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help over at CAT:CSD

Hi, and congrats on your promotion! Per this discussion, I'm dropping a friendly note to some of the recently-promoted admins requesting help with speedy deletions. I am not an administrator, so if you don't feel comfortable diving into deletions - or if you need more info - please don't come to me, but I'm sure that Cyde Weys would be happy to guide you if you want to help. Any help is great, but I'm sure that Cyde and others would deeply appreciate it if you could put the page on your watchlist and do a bit of work there on a regular basis? Maybe weekly? Thanks in advance! Anchoress 18:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Super Travis sock

Take a look at the edit history here on your discussion page. -- Big Brother 1984 02:23, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My last RfA/me

Hi Brad! You opposed my last RfA in late November 2006. There were opposes citing civility and inexperience with policy. It's about 3 months after that, and I think I've gained more experiance in policy and more emotional stability on-wiki. Recently I've been doing a bit of Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam stuff, though this last week I haven't had a great deal of time. Anyway, I was considering an RfA in a month or two, and I wanted to ask a few people if they had any recommendations as to what I should to or criticisms over the last few months. Thanks for reading! ST47Talk 01:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] comics AfD

Care to look into the AfD for Superosity? You have more experience with this stuff. Cheers, Fang Aili talk 06:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{expert-subject}}

FYI, I added this template to WP:DELETE and WP:AFD. Dhaluza 01:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks much! --Brad Beattie (talk) 03:24, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
FYI, User:Radiant removed it from his rework of the page. He seems to think expert help has nothing to do with deletion.
P.S. Are you familiar with the template below? You may want to add the expert sorting backlog. Dhaluza 02:22, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Category Tracker Summary
Requests
Copyright violations for speedy deletion 3
Attack pages for speedy deletion 0
Requests for unblock 2
Candidates for speedy deletion 34
Backlogs
Images with unknown source for deletion in dispute 879
Articles lacking in-text citations 1060
Articles with sections needing expansion 6637
NPOV disputes 5580
All pages needing cleanup 26386
All articles needing copy edit 2193
Wikipedia articles needing style editing 9222
Stubs 2327
Articles that may contain original research 3581
Wikipedia articles in need of updating 1271
Wikipedia articles needing context 4655
All articles lacking sources 83256
All pages needing to be wikified 12651
All articles to be expanded 18659
All articles with unsourced statements 75197
Redirects for deletion 27
Rescaled fairuse images 415
Accuracy disputes 2080
Images for cleanup 134
All images with unknown copyright status 1983
All replaceable fair use images 454
Uncategorized pages 10329
All images with no fair use rationale 1866
All articles proposed for deletion 1006
Pages needing expert attention 1393
All orphaned fairuse images 2478

[edit] wikien-l thread regarding webcomics, etc

You may be interested in the "Scott McCloud on Wikipedia" thread at wikien. Cheers, Fang Aili talk 15:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiGuard feedback

I've just tried out WikiGuard for the first time! A couple notes:

  • For those of us with smaller screens, it would be great if the text size was adjustable.
  • There is a lot of dead space around the box on the left with the users and their ratings.
  • I'd like to see a third panel/column, so that when I click on someone in the list I get: a) the diff page, and b) their talk page with a choice of warning and welcome templates. An alternative to a third column, which would take up a lot of space, would be to divide the screen as Mail.app does, with the diff page on top and the user talk page on the bottom.

Anyway I'm looking forward to seeing how the application progresses :) -- hibou 23:09, 28 February 2007 (UTC)