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Hello

250 main edits is the amount required to qualify for vandalproof. click here to see your edit count

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— riana_dzasta wreak havoc|damage report 08:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad you've reformed...

...and I accept your implied apology. I would advise you to put some distance between yourself and your friend, however. Your support of him is admirable, but you are just dragging yourself down with him and your close association suggests that any future block on him for trolling and personal attacks would effect you too. So your new start is a good idea and I wish you good luck. Happy editing! ➨ ЯEDVERS 08:55, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

sig

made new signature JiMoThYTALK

Adminship...

...is explained here. Whilst no formal standards exist, there are many informal ones. Some people publish lists of their criteria for supporting or opposing nominations for sysop - based on edit numbers, blocks, users welcomed, vandalism reverted, helpful things done for the 'pedia, length of service, that type of thing. I don't do this, but my criteria for support are (roughly) that the editing patterns of the nominee are useful to the encyclopedia; that there is some evidence of community input; and that the editor needs and would make use of the tool. I usually only comment to support unless I really don't trust the user with the tools. And I usually only comment on editors who I have dealt with personally or have seen in action a fair bit. Which is quite a lot of them because I edit everywhere on Wikipedia, fairly at random somedays. ➨ ЯEDVERS 13:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for welcoming me. I'm pretty sure I will love wikipedia. --TV Lover 18:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Darren

He can "not annoy" me by not contacting me and keeping his trolling and personal attacks to himself. That would be better for everyone. Thanks. ➨ ЯEDVERS 18:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Monobook

Please confirm by adding {{db-author}} to the top of the page in question. Thanks. ➨ ЯEDVERS 19:46, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

New talk page

there is a mistake in your talk page. The link to leave a message will leave messages at daniels page. I don't know how to correct it . sorry your new reformed friend User:Dean randall/sig

Welcome to the Kindness Campaign!

Just my way of saying thanks to newcomers to the Kindness Campaign... a delicious home-baked chocolate chip cookie! Yum. :D  ♥ Kylu  (talk • contribs • email • logs • count)


Sorry...

...about the link - I forgot to change it over from the one I copied from my talk page. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 06:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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Whats he called

Wats the name of the guy that does your user page? I'm so addicted to this now. KingLloyd 16:04, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


Its so fun

I can't believe how good it is, can't stop. i hate it when it says its busy though.

Can't i have my sig so i can just do those 4 strange lines instead of KingLloydTALK

when commenting without a header use a Colon to add an indent, as for the signature you can do that by clicking "my preferences" up the top near Log out, change your signature to the {{subst}} thingy. JiMoThYTALK

No i'm afriad not. Four tidles will only display A link to your page and the time of the comment, not your personal sig User:Dean randall/sig

ok sorry i got it wrong. my meebo aint working at the moment and neither is my msn so i'm on wiki DARReNTALK -- JiMoThYTALK 19:45, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Header problems:

a) I fixed the header problem for the userboxes. It works fine b) However, the awards I don't think will work - this has been a long-running problem on Wikipedia. I'll see if I can find a solution, but I'm not sure I can. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 07:06, 12 September 2006 (UTC)


Yo, man. About Vaboo. I just made that up. Brian Boru is awesome 17:27, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Warnings

There's a page of warning templates here. Please remember to assume good faith when using them. Always use the appropriate lowest-numbered template. Also, remember to subst: most templates. Thanks. ➨ ЯEDVERS 08:44, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the raw sig advice Dean randall 20:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: quotes

I responded to your query that you placed on my talk page. My response can be found here. Feel free to post any further comments on my talk page, and I'll respond to you as soon as possible. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 06:37, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

yes i have ben kindly welcoming people this morning. Nothing better to do so on a lovely Sunday morning. Wouldn't you agree. DARReNTALK 08:08, 17 September 2006 (UTC) yes indeed i am a member as far as i know DARReNTALK 08:10, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


Changes made by yourself to the Covent Garden article.

Just to let you know, your bot (?) made a mistake in correcting grammar. It changed "1600s" to "1600 S" in the context of the century. I have fixed it here but wanted to let you know. What were you trying to do? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 11:29, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

"Automated grammatical changes"

Hi Jimothytrotter: what program(?) are you using to make all of your "Automated gramatical changes" edits? You are approving each edit, right? If you are not approving each edit you must open up a bot account and get it approved at WP:B/RFA (you should also read WP:BOT). —Mets501 (talk) 13:30, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I am approving each one myself, and am not using a bot. * am using buttons which i found on a script and added to my monobook.js. I try to revert changes promptly if the script makes erros.
Thankyou for your concern. -- JiMoThYTALK 13:34, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Great! Thanks for helping improve the project in "minor edit" ways. —Mets501 (talk) 13:36, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

On the subject of your "automated gramatical changes" (which, by the way, you should fix the spelling of, as it doesn't exactly inspire confidence) — could you maybe stick with changes that have a purpose? I'm thinking of edits like this one, where most of the changes have no effect on the resulting page, but make the diff all but unreadable, making it very hard to figure out what's actually changed. Thanks in advance! Ruakh 14:22, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

User Ruakh has basically stated my own concern with the automated changes on Free will. I can't even read the diff to figure out what the changes were. And this is on a Featured Article. You must have a GREAT deal of confidence in automation which i do not share.--Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 14:40, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Your changes at infinity today include capitalizing the <math> tag to <Math>. How strange. You also capitalized the word what inside a direct quotation, which disagrees with WP:STYLE. CMummert 14:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

The reason for the automated gramtical changes was to boost my main space edit count in a "legal" way! I am hopeing to get VandalProof and subsequently stop using this method of editing, however until then I will be forced into remaining with the old method. Hope that clears it up-- JiMoThYTALK 14:47, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

That doesn't address my concern at all! You did make at least one real change at Inflection — you capitalized the first letters of some list items — but I can't tell if that's the only real change, or what. If you want to make improvements, that's great, but if you feel the need to hide your edits by making diffs unreadable, then I have to suspect that you don't really intend them as improvements. (Your comment makes me wonder if perhaps you're verging on disrupting Wikipedia to illustrate the point that mere edit counts aren't necessarily a meaningful barrier to entry; if so, be warned that disrupting Wikipedia is verboten whatever the reason, and can get you blocked.) Ruakh 15:09, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
If you want the editcount of a superstar and be a helpful editor at the same time, you could consider joining us at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam. There is so much spam being added to Wikipedia continiously now, and we really need help to revert it all, and talk sense to the spammers. Haakon 17:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof

Sure, consider yourself approved. It might take me a while to get through the list though! (I'm gone for one week and the whole list backs up... Oh well, at least I'm needed ;-) Prodego talk 15:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Jimothytrotter! 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. Prodego talk 15:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Automated gramatical changes

Hi. I suggest you do not do the "automated gramatical changes" in articles. They achieve little besides inserting a newline here and there, but those changes fill up watchlists and may mask vandalism. A better venue for your energy would be I think for example spell-checking, or fixing articles in Category:All pages needing to be wikified, etc. Wonder what you think, you can reply here. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:58, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I second this. The changes to Encryption were counterproductive. Nice work on all the spelling fixes though. Haakon 17:23, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Agreed

I only built the script this morning and was unaware of the changes it made to the diffs etc. I have been accepted for vandalproof and can therfore stop using the script. I wish i knew how to get vandalproof to accept my log in attempt though! I will also try to take a look at those suggested articles and clean some of them up. Thanks-- JiMoThYTALK 16:01, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

RE: Vandalprrof problems

I'm not sure it's the reason, but try capitalising your username. If this fails, let me know. Thanks! —Xyrael / 16:40, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Your script is making a mess

As you should know, Wikipedia uses sentence case in titles, not all caps. Your script turned "16-bit" into "16-Bit" in Microsoft Windows, which is clearly incorrect. Please get your script fixed ASAP. Also, the correct spelling you're looking for is "grammatical." --Coolcaesar 17:49, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Consider reversing what you have wrought

You should probably consider self-reverting the "automated gramatical changes" you made since they cause so much disruption to the difs and may have caused other undesirable changes (e.g. "Bit"). I've reverted a couple I came across, but I see there is quite a list of pages you've affected with this script. I'm sure many of those pages do not yet have further edits and so you can easily revert them (the others should probably stay the same). -R. S. Shaw 20:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I have considered it

Its not going to be easy for me to do as I am a busy guy studying for my G.C.S.E's. I agree that some of them should be reverted however they are not all bad and i do not have the time to do it. I ahte to ahve to take this approach but I'm sure that whoever is next editing the article can decide what to do.

Appologies yet again-- JiMoThYTALK 21:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for the barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar you awarded to me on the 10th. :D --Actown e 16:52, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


Please pay attention...

You corrected the spelling on obvious vandalism. I'm sorry, but that is just as bad as the vandalism itself and ends up covering said vandalism in recent changes. Either be more careful, or pay attention. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 18:49, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


RE:VandalProof

Groovy :) —Xyrael / 20:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


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Your user page.

Hey there,

I don't know if I ever thanked you for that Barnstar I was awarded way back when, but thanks!

I love how you've set up your user page. How exactly did you do all of it? -_BoaDrummer 21:16, 22 September 2006 (UTC)