User talk:Madman/Archive 1

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello Madman, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. -- Hdt83 Chat 21:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC) P.S: I noticed you reverting a lot of vandalism to articles; Keep up the good work!

[edit] Your User Page

Hi, thanks for your contributions. I have noticed that you have a blank/non-existant user page. I strongly reccomend that you redirect it to your talk page (this page) if you do not wish to have a user page. This is for the convenience of other editors. If you have any questions, please post on my talk page. Also, if you are planning on getting a user page, please ignore or delete this message. Thanks! SmileToday☺(talk to me , My edits) 22:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Bot requests

Thanks for catching my mistake and reverting it. I meant only to delete one duplicate section and ended up doing... something else. Anyhow, my apologies. Madman bum and angel 18:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem :-) —METS501 (talk) 18:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 360

yes, you made 360 edits in 3 and a half days. how you do it? :D West Brom 4ever 23:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Haha. I have no life. Seriously, though, I just have a fast Internet connection and I'm pretty dedicated to my vandal-fighting. Twinkle helps, as does IRC (#vandalism-en-wp). Madman bum and angel 23:54, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism warning

What level of warning did you give to 74.117.34.13? Technically, you are really start to do level one or two. --Umalee 00:05, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I gave him a blatant vandal warning, then a last warning. I thought it was reasonable, considering he vandalised the same article eight times. Apparently, so did the administrators. Madman bum and angel 00:07, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy?

Could you remove the speedy delete off the KS board of edu page? thanks J. D. Redding 01:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Can you remove it? J. D. Redding 02:09, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm removing it. J. D. Redding 02:20, 8 April 2007 (UTC)


Surprisingly enough, at 11 PM I'm not on Wikipedia constantly. But I'm glad to see you did indeed expand the article and remove the speedy deletion notice yourself. You can understand why when I reviewed this revision, I thought it met CSD A1, can you not? Madman bum and angel 03:09, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

How did it meet Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#A1? Even the short article was about a Kansas Institution ... let them grow ... J. D. Redding

[edit] IRC cloak request

I am Madmanbum on freenode and I would like the cloak wikipedia/madman-bum-and-angel. Thanks. --Madman bum and angel 02:34, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to LGBT studies!

Hi, Madman, welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies!

We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles of interest to the LGBT community. Some points that may be helpful:

  • Our main aim is to help improve LGBT-related articles, so if someone asks for help with an article, please try your hardest to help them if you are able.
  • Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
  • The project has several ongoing and developing activities, such as article quality assessment, peer review and a project-wide article collaboration, all of which you are welcome to take part in. We also have a unique program to improve our lower quality articles, Jumpaclass, so please consider signing up there.
  • If you have another language besides English, please consider adding yourself to our translation section, to help us improve our foreign LGBT topics.
  • If you're planning to stay, have a square in our quilt! You can put anything you want in it.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you.

And once again - Welcome!

[edit] Wikipedians by similarity -bot

Hello! Thanks for being interested. :) I don't think either that this is an encyclopaedic project but I sure would like to see this one happen. As I said, it doesn't need to be a bot, but possibly some general script similar to edit counters etc. In a bot form it should probably work in the way SuggestBot does: you file a request on its talk page and it posts a list of the most similar Wikipedians on your talk page later. But whatever your approach is, go for it. :) --ZeroOne (talk | @) 10:36, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warnings

Most of what I see is one-off experiments where the user doesnt even stick around long enough to see a warning. If I see an IP more then once I'll add a warning, otherwise adding the warning is a pointless edit that does little but bump an editcount. -Mask? 00:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Sorry and Thanks

couldn't get the code to go back correctly should have reverted myself but thought it was another server glitch. Thank you for cleaning Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.226.1.194 (talk) 01:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Thanks!

 Archive_1, thank you very much for your support in my successful RfA.

I am thankful and humbled by the trust that the community has placed in me,
and I welcome any comments, questions or complaints that you may have.
Again, thank you for your support, and happy editing!
Hemlock Martinis 22:38, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject newsletter

[edit] Nice Work

I wanted to drop you a line to let you know that you swayed my vote on a particular AfD. Your research and knowledge of guidelines is greatly appreciated, as well as the presentation of that material. the_undertow talk 21:33, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, thanks for the review and the change of vote! Feedback is much appreciated. Cheers! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 21:48, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Banners

I reverted the change to the Jordan talk page I already discussed this with Satyr when she/he added it. I also brought up the issue of the banner formats at the Village Pump where no consensus was reached see here. Previously Satyr and myself decided to leave out the shell format as it cluttered the page, this was also decided at Talk:Barack Obama and other talk pages. Quadzilla99 14:58, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

My apologies. I was not aware that SatyrN had already attempted to change the talk page and an agreement was reached to change it back – it had not been removed from Template:WikiProjectBannerShell/Cleanup project. I have added a comment to the relevant talk page to ensure that no other participants in the cleanup project will change it, though that should not be a problem – I removed it myself from the to-do list.
Cheers. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 15:48, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the note, it's kind of getting confusing per all the different options out there. Unfortunately we haven't been able to reach consensus as-of-yet if we ever will. Quadzilla99 15:53, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
I still think the reduction of WikiProject banner clutter is critical. Personally, I prefer {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} to {{WikiProjectBanners}} and will continue working on the cleanup project. Most of the pages on that list have no container template at all; however, some have already gotten to them and transcluded {{WikiProjectBanners}}. I think I'll just leave those alone or strike them from the list; no conversion is necessary, though I do think it'd be helpful, and regular editors of the article can switch to {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} if they too like it better. Would that suit you as a temporary solution until consensus is established (if, as you say, it's established at all)? — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 16:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Well it's not really up to me, as you can see from the disussion above I brought up at the Pump and no consensus was reached. It's really a grey area, of course I'd like it if the banners were kept but obviously that's my personal preference. Quadzilla99 16:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
You'd prefer that they not have a container at all, not even {{WikiProjectBanners}}? — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 16:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
"No I'd prefer the banners as you can see from my edit history I added them to a bunch today, but really my personal preference is irrelevant here, as things are done on a consensus basis here. There really is no consensus on this as you can see from here. In general I guess you can add to it any page you want but if an editor reverts it I would leave it alone. Quadzilla99 16:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Well done!

The Original Barnstar
For great work on articles as well as contributions in a wide swath of project namespace areas, you have earned this barnstar. Keep up the phenomenal work! --TeaDrinker 17:29, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm honoured! Thanks! I love your name, incidentally (going off on a tangent here.) Coffee is swill. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 17:31, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
You are certainly welcome. All the best, --TeaDrinker 18:12, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Joseph Ryan

This page was re-created again after it was speedied. I nominated it for speedy again. Do you think I should put a notice about the re-re-creation in the now-closed discussion? Ten Pound Hammer • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 18:18, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

No, because it's not the same article. It was created by the same author, but it isn't about the pastor it was about (?!). In any case, I've proposed speedy deletion per CSD a7. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 21:49, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Nice name!

Haha, it's always fun to come across people who have also read the series and recognize the name. I might have someone say something to me once every three months or so. :-) ZsinjTalk 14:45, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Madman bum and angel! 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. Daniel 12:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] American Airline destinations AfD

Hey - no problem. Great work yourself - that was a serious number of articles to get through! Regards. Will (aka Wimt) 15:53, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Here's an award

The Working Man's Barnstar
I hereby awared this user the Working Man's Barnstar for going through the trouble and taking the time of removing AfD tags from articles in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/American_Airlines_destinations. Keep up the good work. Yamamoto Ichiro (山本一郎)(会話) 18:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I was glad to be able to help. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 02:33, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProjects list

I've been nesting templates on pages I'm watching, and noticed you are keeping a list of those that don't have the "nested" parameter. I have three to add:

  • Alaska {{Project Alaska}}
  • Television stations {{TelevisionStationsProject}}
  • Volcanoes {{Volcano}}

FWIW. -- Rob C (Alarob) 21:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Many thanks for your support at my RFA. It ended successfully and I am now a glorified janitor. If I can be of any assistance please don't hesitate to contact me through my talk page. Happy editing! —Ocatecir Talk 18:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Howdy

Just to make sure, what are you using to make your edits in such quick succession? AWB, or a tabbed browser, perhaps? --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 16:16, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Tabbed browser. Thanks for checking, though; every experienced user should be familiar with the bot policy.
— Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 16:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
That's what I figured, just had to make sure. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 16:20, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YechielMan's RFA

Thank you for participating in either of my unsuccessful requests for adminship. Although the experience was frustrating, it showed me some mistakes I was making, and I hope to learn from those mistakes.

Please take a few minutes to read User:YechielMan/Other stuff/RFA review and advise me how to proceed. Best regards. YechielMan 21:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 16:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC). SatyrBot 16:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

That's me...

Dear Madman, thanks for your support in my recent RfA, it was, however, unsuccessful. I am not the type of editor to be disheartened by such a result, and have gained much experience. If you have anything to contribute by way of improvements or comments, please don’t hesitate to tell me.

I will run again. Until then, Cheers, Dfrg.msc 07:55, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Block

You are currently blocked for running an unapproved bot on your account.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 00:33, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

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Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

As you have provided a reasonable explanation for semi-automated edits, I am unblocking. However, please keep your edit rate to no more than about 4 per minute per policy. If you need more than that, you should be request a bot account to allow for the higher rates. If you have questions regarding this, please let me know. Thanks.

Request handled by: JLaTondre 01:45, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in this log. --ST47Talk 11:42, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] preg_replace

So can you give me an example of the preg_replace you would use for adding a banner to WikiProjectBannerShell? I'm stumped by the nested brackets. Tks!!! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:09, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I made up a quick example using PHP; it hasn't been extensively tested, as I haven't used this routine in any bot. It's quick and dirty, but it should work, and it seems to support |blp=yes or |activepol=yes at that. Tell me if you have any problems with it. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 02:30, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
<?PHP

        /* Example of the original contents of the page. This example contains {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}
        in addition to other templates to make sure the regular expression is not too greedy.          */
        $contents = "{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=
{{WPBiography|class=GA|nested=yes}}
{{Screenwriters|class=GA|nested=yes}}
|blp=yes}}
{{GA}}";

        /* Example transclusion of the desired WikiProject banner */
        $transclusion = "{{Aids|class=GA|nested=yes}}";

        /* Add the transclusion to the {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} */
        $contents = preg_replace("/{{WikiProjectBannerShell\\|1=(.*}}[^{]*?)(\\|[^{]*)?}}/si",
        "{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=\$1$transclusion\r\n\$2}}", $contents);

?>

That code changes this:

{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=
{{WPBiography|class=GA|nested=yes}}
{{Screenwriters|class=GA|nested=yes}}
|blp=yes}}
{{GA}}

to this:

{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=
{{WPBiography|class=GA|nested=yes}}
{{Screenwriters|class=GA|nested=yes}}
{{Aids|class=GA|nested=yes}}
|blp=yes
}}
{{GA}}
Can I just say "wow"? See - I can't do that. <sigh> I'll give it a shot and see how it works! And I'll see if I can puzzle out the syntax :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
If you'll remind me tomorrow (today; I'm going to bed), I'll try to explain the syntax as best I can. I'll have to figure it out first (I get it, but not well enough to explain it yet.  ;)) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 06:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Clarification - that code assumes there's a wikiprojectbannershell, right? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:24, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, but if there isn't one it won't kill the page; it just won't add the transclusion. I would just preg_match the regex first; if it's TRUE, do the preg_replace. If not, add it independently. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 05:11, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
You forgot |1- Also, why did you move the blp=yes? It looked ok where it were. Shinhan 06:18, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Sorry. I did indeed. And I moved the newline so it comes before the optional |blp=yes|activepol=yes. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 06:30, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, but how is that usefull? I mean I dont see any significant differences between "That code changes this" and "to this". Shinhan 06:39, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
It adds a banner. It seems simple, but it's obviously not; a bot has to compensate for every way a {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} can possibly be formatted. This does it with a preg_replace; it's possible to do it using other means, but they would be laborious, would use a lot more code, and would probably be a lot slower. And SatyrTN asked for an example after I requested of an editor who was going to use a bot to tag all articles in certain categories with a banner that if there were already two or more banners on the page to add the banner to {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} instead of leaving it floating. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 06:43, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
(Sorry if all of that was incomprehensible. It's almost 3 AM.)
Ahhh, now I get it. This is for adding new banner to a page that already has BannersHell. And I only now noticed that addition of Aids. Cool code Shinhan 08:01, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}

Hey there! I'm glad to see you doing such hard work on the Template:WikiProjectBannerShell/Cleanup project, and I'm impressed to see that you got AWB to do some of your work for you, much like I have with my own browser. However, I'm somewhat concerned about tertiary edits like this one.

Please keep in mind that different WikiProjects have different standards for classes, and you could potentially get into a lot of trouble just applying a given class to all WikiProject banners willy-nilly. Just trying to look out for you; feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or if I'm viewing the situation incorrectly. Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 05:11, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your input, but as you may know, AWB still requires more-or-less manual edits, and I look at/tweak every one. The stub/start classification isn't part of my "replace" formula; I only assessed a limited number of articles to which I added WPBS, and I did it manually (pretty much because I came across funky templates or auto=yes boxes as I applied WPBS). I know diff projects have diff specs, but a stub is a stub and for the most part a start is a start. In the case of Guilford, I assure you it was not an automatic classification. I've got over 14,000 edits to prove I kinda know what I'm doing, LOL! TAnthony 05:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Just being careful; it's better to be safe than sorry. Thanks for clearing that up! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 06:04, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] removing to-do from Template:PCP

i wasn't aware of any discussion, policies, or guidelines leading to you unilateral decision to remove the to-do template from another that is transcluded on 500+ articles. i'm putting it back because there are currently articles utilizing it and you hve effectively broken them. i'd like to discuss your reasoning before it is removed again. please respond back on my talk page. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 14:59, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

i'm sorry i jumped the gun there... there's a lot going on in the poke-corner of wikipedia right now, and i know i should have checked the talk page before saying what i did. at any rate, i've responded on the template's talk page. i'm mostly interested in figuring out exactly why i broke usage with the wikiproject bannershell. in my mind though, the best way to solve these sorts of problems is to fix the code, not delete the feature. also it may not have been described in detail, but there used to be a lack of consistency between the to-do list for the Focus articles listed at WP:POKE, the improvements suggested at the actual article's talk page, and the to-do list displayed at the portal. utilizing to-do encourages people to centralize improvement discussion and takes the workload off of people trying to facilitate the editing process. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 15:34, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

i've responded at Template:PCP and offered a new compromise at Template:WikiProjectShell]]. Hopefully we can reach an arrangement everyone is happy with. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 06:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merging Alternate Characters

Quick question. In your most recent entry you write, "You stated: "At issue are the proposed mergers to make the..."". As I am interested in the discussion and trying to follow it closely, but I was not sure who the 'you' (which begins your statement) is addressed to. Is it myself, the other anonymous user, or Mister Fax? 66.109.248.114 19:55, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I meant that was what the nominator said upon opening the discussion. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 23:39, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] discussion page tabs

You said 'I would prefer just "comment" or "add comment"'. The way I structured the poll, I meant that if you have a new suggestion, you should add it. I've added them now. Please add your rationales accordingly. — Omegatron 23:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC).

[edit] WikiProjectBannerShell

Hey there, in Template:WikiProjectBannerShell/doc you note that 1100 banners have been made compliant; impressive, but where do you get that number? SatyrTN's latest report lists 973. TAnthony 08:35, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

He's absolutely right; I get 973 too. And I didn't know he was still updating that report. I clicked through the category's pages, and I got 1173; obviously I counted one more (next 200) where I shouldn't have. Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 17:01, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
You may have even counted correctly, but that darned category contains a lot of people's sandboxes, which of course is SO annoying to a perfectionist like me, LOL. TAnthony 21:56, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Question for you re:API. Are you able to edit with it? It looks like the one section for getting an edit token hasn't been implemented yet - do you have a workaround? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 07:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Well, I just edit using the normal Wikipedia interface. For an example, see User:MadmanBot/Source/Task2 (outdated; it doesn't include my checks for {{bot}} and {{nobots}}). — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 04:40, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] bot

You might remember this bot proposal. It looks like very few people are interested in my wikiproject proposal, so I would like a worklist for myself. If you would like to, you can make that list, but only with the articles starting with the letter J. Each page should be 70kb and the lists should be in subpages (/1, /2, /3, etc) of: User:The Psychless/Untagged. I will create the page if you are willing to do this task. I'd really appreciate it if you'd do it. Regards, Psychless 19:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

I am still interested in this. Could you please give me an answer on whether or not you'd like to do this? Thanks, Psychless 22:15, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry; I was on Wikibreak. I'll try to get to this as soon as possible – I'm catching up on everything, online and offline. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 04:41, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. Leave a note on my talk page when you're ready to do this. Psychless 17:50, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but for some very strange reason you managed to leave your message on my redirect page. I usurped the username Psychless recently, and you must have clicked my old signature. Here's a convenient link you can use now :). Regards, Psychless 03:28, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I clicked your Tux. So that link must just have been outdated.  :) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 02:25, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
I knew I must have forgotten to update some link... It will be fixed. Psychless 16:13, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, however it was a lot less pages than I was expecting... Thanks for doing it, all that means is I might be back requesting another letter soon :) Psychless 14:52, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
No problem. A lot less pages than you had anticipated? I wouldn't want to go wading through that list.  :P — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 14:55, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SkyBot 1

I made the userpage of SkyBot, before creating the account, so I had to create SkyBot 1. I already though of Usurpation, but I thought it would be an unnecessary waste of time. SkyBot 1 is just fine to me. Thanks, -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 15:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProjectBannerShell

There's been a recent uptick in the number of article talk pages that need WPBS. If you have the time/inclination, take a look at SatyrBot's listing? Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 16:13, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I just updated MadmanBot's too. I should go through them today or tomorrow. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 16:16, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Can you give me your bookmarklet? I still wanna help with BannerShelling, but fully manual way is too boring for me. If you can give me the bookmarklet, I'll ask for the bot aproval (got the second account ready) and I am aware that this is only a half manual way, not fully automatic. Btw, what do you think about User talk:Shinhan/AWB BannerSheller and can you code in C#/Python? — Shinhan < talk > 17:31, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
I can code in C# but not Python. I'm still very adamant in my belief that this process cannot be automated; there are huge drawbacks to the regexes you suggest, and proper ones would be MUCH too long. I think a human still needs to be involved because there are several human factors that cannot be neglected either.
I'll post the bookmarklet as soon as I get some bugs in it ironed out. I want to make it as usable as possible. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 18:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Oh, definitely, I had no intention of fully automatizing it. Just to help a bit more than a bookmarklet can. — Shinhan < talk > 18:29, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Well, I'll iron mine out then look at yours. I haven't even requested approval for AWB yet, so I can't test it.  :P — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 18:30, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Not yet 500 mainspace edits. Do some vandal patrol and then visit WT:AWB/CP. — Shinhan < talk > 19:12, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Errant category links from templates

Hi - Thanks for fixing the template category links. Did you scan all templates or just the ones in Category:WikiProject banners? -- Rick Block (talk) 22:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Just the ones in Category:WikiProject banners. Want me to get them all? — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 22:59, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
If you could. Without looking, I don't know how to tell how many more there might be. BTW - how did you find the ones that needed fixing, i.e. do you have a copy of the downloaded database, or did you use something that read all the articles in the category (just curious)? -- Rick Block (talk) 23:36, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
My bot just pulled the list of templates in the category, did a Special:Export, and scanned it. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 23:36, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hey

thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page, thats about the 5th time that guy's signed back up and vandalised me--Jac16888 23:42, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 23:45, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Illegal Immigration

The illegal immigration entry is completely biased. There are studies that I can quote that show the taxes an illegal immigrant may or may not pay do not offset the amount of public services they consume. Why isn't that study quoted? Or where is the information about the economic cost and impact to our schools, hospitals, jails, wages, etc? A study by Bear Stearns in 2004 shows the United States is losing over $20 billion a year due to the underground economy of illegal workers. I have so many studies that I can insert if need be.

Why is President Fox being quoted, too? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.86.173.253 (talk • contribs) 23:42, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Blanking sections of the article won't fix that; rewording them will. You can also flag the article with {{NPOV}}. I suggest you 1.) sign up for an account, 2.) use an edit summary that reflects the intent of your edits, and 3.) read WP:3RR. Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 23:45, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Illegal Immigration Entry

A dubious argument that higher immigration dramatically improve economic growth is false. According to the Congressional Budget Office, from 2007 to 2016 the Senate's immigration bill increases the economy's growth rate by about 0.1 percentage point annually.

Senator Kennedy said this about the 1965 Immigration Act "First our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Second, the ethnic mix will not be upset" are not evident today. His assurances were so false as it took away traditional quotas away from skilled worker and Europeans (the founders of America), and gave them to the unskilled from the poor Third World. Then came the 1986 amnesty, again drafted by Kennedy, which touted as a one-time-only event; now we know that amnesty actually increased illegal immigration. Now he's pushing Congress for citizenship to illegal aliens. If the first responsibility of our lawmakers is to ensure that their actions do not harm their fellow Americans, then all of the "comprehensive" reforms fall short, because none provide genuine protection or relief for our country's OWN disadvantaged citizens.

There is just reasons for laws that restrict and control immigration and define and secure our borders, despite the wanton ignorance of those laws and disregard for their enforcement. Our infrastructure, economy, public health, and safety all depend on the very delicate balance that has been so upset and is listing dangerously further.

Illegal Immigration: Contrary to popular belief, illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. The victims may not have a voice, but they are low-paid, low-skilled American workers. Another victim is the taxpayer. The U.S. may be foregoing up to $35 billion in lost tax revenue because of the growing size of the underground labor market using illegal workers in a cash economy, according to Bear Sterns.

From a national standpoint, all state and local costs associated with illegal immigration total $36 billion a year. The taxes that illegal immigrants may or may not pay do not offset the monetary value of the public services that they use (a study showed on average they pay $10,000 in taxes and use $40,000 in public services). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.86.173.253 (talk • contribs) 23:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Look, I'm not arguing with you, I'm just trying to protect Wikipedia's articles against vandalism. The way to advance your point of view (which should be a neutral point of view, I might add) is to add sourced material like that you posted above, integrating it into the article and adding in-text citations. It is not to remove sections of the article that oppose your point of view eight times. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:09, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar!

The Template Barnstar
I was just taking a look at how to add a "nested" parameter to Template:WPAFC when I noticed you had already done so. On behalf of Wikiproject Articles for creation, thanks for going the extra mile without being asked. Hersfold (talk/work) 00:49, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! Much humbled. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 01:23, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Sindhi people

This is in ref. to the article Sindhi people. I apologize for the joke excerpt. However, I do feel the summary I included definitely gives people a better idea of the Sindhi culture than what is currently on the page.

If it's of an encyclopaedic nature, please re-add it to the page. However, I suggest you: 1.) sign up for an account, 2.) refrain from improper humour and not use SINDHI in caps every time (it makes it look like vandalism), and 3.) use an edit summary. Just a few suggestions.  :) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 01:36, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Private equity firms

Hi, I noticed you reverted the addition of copyrighted text on Private equity firms. However, you blanked the page. Could you please find the URL with which you can find the copyrighted text and add a {{copyvio}} template?

Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 02:11, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't know how you do that, but here's the URL:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/27/8394344/index.htm
WolfKeeper 02:36, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
OK, I CSD'd it.WolfKeeper 02:42, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 02:55, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor characters of the Powerpuff Girls

I can see where you're coming from, but it's well-disguised vandalism. See the discussion page. There's no evidence for the characters having existed, no episode summaries anywhere else on the net mention them, and the only places I could find discussing them are in relation to Wikipedia, pointing to it as an example of how anyone can introduce false information. Sorry the spelling correction got caught in that, I was a bit TO'd and didn't want to go through deleting all the false edits again, and got a bit overzealous. Thanks for cleaning up after. Lucky number 49 03:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem! It was a good faith reversion on both sides. I hope we got everything sorted out.  :) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 03:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Wikipedia:Bot policy

Ah, okay. Thanks for the explanation! Blast [improve me] 20:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sinatra

Thanks for the revert. I reverted further back, as someone was confused as to the Bobby Soxers. Gareth E Kegg 10:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Protecting pages

If anyone can protect a page, then what does that do? A vandal can jump in and unprotect it. Are you sure? Orangemarlin 19:17, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Only a sysop can protect or unprotect a page. Please see my comment on your talk page and Wikipedia:User access levels. Whether the template is on the page or not has nothing to do with it.  :) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 19:19, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Well, I didn't know the article was protected anyways, so I guess I might have deleted it anyways. But thanks for the link. Never saw that before, and a very useful diagram. And I thought I knew everything there was to know about Wikipedia. LOL. Orangemarlin 19:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProjectBannerShell bot proposal

Hey there, I left some positive comments at your bot proposal but wanted to suggest privately that perhaps the bot check for the presence of {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} itself before implementing it "again." This will probably not be an issue if the detection and correction processes take place around the same time, but I've occasionally come across pockets of pages from the "needed" reports that have already been corrected. TAnthony 01:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. Like I said, as soon as it detects it, it'll see if it can correct it. But yes, it'll check the page during the correction process too. Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 01:44, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible task for your bot

Hello again. I was looking for a bot to take care of a job for Wikiproject Articles for Creation, and Wikihermit thought yours might be able to carry this out. It's rather complicated, so might not be possible, but I thought I'd check just in case.
Here's the deal: We could use a bot to look around for articles that have been created through the AfC process and tag them with {{WPAFC}}. There's rather a lot of them floating about from before the Wikiproject was created. Such articles can be found by looking at the article history - the very first edit should have the text "Articles for Creation" and/or and IP Address somewhere in the edit summary. That's the hard part that I'm not sure a bot can handle too easily. The easy part is simply adding {{WPAFC}} to the talk page. We don't really need it ranked for quality, but if the bot is able to pick up on any existing rankings from other projects that would reduce the workload a bit. Please let me know if you think this will work out - if not, I do understand. Thanks for your time. Hersfold (talk/work) 19:52, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

It's certainly possible, and picking up on edit summaries isn't that hard. But I'm not familiar at all with the AFC process; I'll have to take some time to get familiar with it and to scope out this task. I'll let you know about its feasibility within a couple days on your talk page, all right? — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 20:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Sure thing - take your time, there's no hurry to get this done, and I'll be out all next week anyway. Thanks a lot! Hersfold (talk/work) 22:35, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Don't cavass / spam

Please. Putting a note on WP:VPT saying you've applied for BAG isn't relevant, and it's probably canvassing and spam. --Deskana (talk) 00:17, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it's been requested by the BAG in the past to ensure that the community knows discussion is open. BAG discussions are considerably less well-known than discussions like RfAs. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:37, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:BRFA

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HermesBot 3 Withdrawn. It's all yours ;-). I'm planning something different. ~ Wikihermit 07:54, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A thread I suspect you'd find interesting

Hi - I suspect you might be interested in Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Should WikiProject banners look and behave exactly the same?. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:51, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

My RFA
User:TenPoundHammer and his romp of Wikipedia-editing otters thank you for participating in Hammer's failed request for adminship, and for the helpful tips given to Hammer for his and his otters' next run at gaining the key. Also, Hammer has talked to the otters, and from now on they promise not to leave fish guts and clamshells on the Articles for Deletion pages anymore. Ten Pound Hammer • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 17:16, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK locations

I see you're working on Talk:List of United Kingdom locations/botreq; for which, thank you. Are you also planning to add the microformat markup, per that request?

Yes; I'm just working on step 1 right now, which only needs AWB. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 22:14, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Cheers. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 22:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately, you missed List of United Kingdom locations: Bou-Bra and List of United Kingdom locations: Boa-Bot. I wonder if there are others? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 00:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Ah. That's because the text was changed -- it wasn't as you specified. I did output a skipped list, but I've since deleted it; I'll find out which ones I didn't edit. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:36, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
18 pages not edited; looking at them now. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:46, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Y Done – Reviewed all skipped pages. List of United Kingdom locations: L just plain doesn't have the header; add it if you'd like. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Y Done ;-) Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 13:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Here's an interim solution, which you might like to kindly implement, while I seek a solution to the issue we discussed recently. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 18:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Will do. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 19:08, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Y Done. Please review User:Madman bum and angel/Sandbox 2. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 19:15, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
You're missing class="note" on the coordinates. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 19:29, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Ah. Missed that change. Will do. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 19:30, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Y Done — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 04:35, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
That looks fine, I think we're ready to roll! Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 15:44, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Nudge ;-) Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 23:24, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Bugger. When MiszaBot archives, I miss the other comments on my watchlist. Will do now. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 23:31, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding your message

Thank you for making me aware of this. I didn't even notice. But isn't it all right to do that as long as you are reverting what you take to be vandalism? Because that's what's those edits looked like to me. -- Gravitan(Talk | Contribs) 21:14, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Reversion of blatant vandalism is an exception; since this wasn't quite blatant vandalism (it was just unexplained and disruptive), I thought it best to let you know. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 21:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Well thank you again for letting me know. :) But since my edits were made in reverting vandalism (whether blatant or not), would it be acceptable to remove the message from my talk page? -- Gravitan(Talk | Contribs) 22:42, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Sure. The user was blocked; no one thought you were in the wrong – I don't see why not. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 22:55, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Okay, great. Thank you once again for alerting me, and I hope to see you around more in the future. -- Gravitan(Talk | Contribs) 23:15, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nice work out there

I just sat down for a few minutes of RC patrol, and you were literally everywhere. You have some fast fingers!--Kubigula (talk) 21:28, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Heh. Thanks!  :) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 21:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

TheFearow would like to nominate you to become an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact TheFearow to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Madman. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state and sign 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.

I assumed you were an admin - Since you aren't, and it was a surprise, I would like to nominate you. Please contact me on my talk page to accept/decline. Thanks! Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 08:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

I think you would stand a chance, but it's up to you. You've definately got enough edits to survive the editcounter, and 4 months is not a short time. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 21:08, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, it can't hurt to wait.  :) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 04:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot request

I answered your question here. Thanks for your help! Giggy UCP 03:49, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you, but is there any news on this? Giggy UCP 00:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry; I must not have seen your message. I was held up doing another major bot task, but it's since been approved and I can work on yours. I assume I don't have to do the |oldid= as is being discussed? — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 15:18, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
No, not oldid, just topic is fine. Giggy UCP 23:23, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

(←) Great job on the 'bot, Madman. Thanks! — Gosgood 11:45, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My bot request

I'm not sure I understand how your template would be employed. Can you give me a run-down? Your example page has -1 and +1 which I assume wouldn't be included in the actual pages. Thanks. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 16:30, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

On September 11, for example, you would use {{User:Madman bum and angel/Sandbox Template|month=09|date=11}}. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 16:36, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I seem to be getting it wrong. I hope you don't mind, I've tested it on your sandbox. Can you look at it and show me what I did wrong? Thanks. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 16:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Oops; I'm sorry. The month is specified numerically, as it is in the URL. Fixed my example. Note that the leading zero is important. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 17:02, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
You put in 09/11 for the date but it displays it as 09/08. I also noticed that if I put 08/09 it displays as 08/01. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 17:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
UGH. I am so dumb today. The parameter is |day=, not |date= (it used to be date). Fixed. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 17:37, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Looks like it works to me. I'm going to start a discussion on it to see if anyone objects to using it. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 18:56, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
What do you suggest for February 29? -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 21:43, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Does it not work for February 29? I think it should. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 21:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't recognize that there shouldn't be a 2/29 on most years. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 00:40, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
True. Then maybe February 29 should be updated manually. There're only so many exceptions you can make in a template and keep it compact. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 04:24, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. :) I just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know that I've taken the liberty of moving the template here. And thanks again for your help. Cheers S up? 17:32, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll get rid of my version. Cheers! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 17:35, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The da Vinci Barnstar

The da Vinci Barnstar
Thank you for your bot categorizing Good Articles. OhanaUnitedTalk page 14:59, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I'm glad it did everything you needed.  :) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 15:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good article Medal of Merit

The Good Article Medal of Merit 
On behalf of the Uncategorized Good articles task force, I award Madman bum and angel this medal for the hundreds upon hundreds (over 1,000) of articles categorized in order to help eliminate the backlog at Category:Uncategorized good articles. Although it was a bot action, you created said bot and, for that, many thanks considering it not only helped eliminate the backlog, it completely annihilated it! Best regards, Lara♥Love 02:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey, thanks! I shall pass on the compliments to MadmanBot.  ;) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 16:27, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CorrectBot

Not really sure what you were trying to tell me here. Is there anything you can teach me about programming and the like? I will accept full responsibilty for any damage my bot does to Wikipedia and I'll correct edits manually if I have to. I'm all ears if you can tell me what I need to know. Lord Sesshomaru 17:50, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

No, I can't teach you the basics of Pywikipedia. I really would like to, but I don't have a great deal of time on my hands, and it's not the framework with which I am most familiar. You may accept full responsibility for any damage you do to Wikipedia, but the bot policy requires that any bot with a bot flag must be harmless; that is, its edits shouldn't need to be corrected manually. — madman bum and angel 17:52, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
You have my trust, it will be as harmless as a fly. Now going to what Betacommand said to me, what pywiki modules should I use and with what settings do you suggest? I need to know what is available before I understand it, correct? Lord Sesshomaru 17:59, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I may have your trust, but you must have the trust of the community, and in particular, the Bot Approvals Group. As for your question, you're the bot operator; you tell me. Why don't you read up on the modules? — madman bum and angel 18:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
See also: Using the python wikipediabot. — madman bum and angel 18:02, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Ah! I get it now, I have to download it. I wonder why it wasn't on the instructions steps? I'll install it and get back to you. Er, perhaps I'll respond back at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CorrectBot instead? Thanks so much. Lord Sesshomaru 18:07, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:CorenSearchBot

Hm. For future reference: when one edits a page, one gets < and > silently substituted to &lt; and &gt;. One must undo that before the submit or bad things happen.  :-)

At any rate, I'm all set for a short test run on real new pages. Do you feel the automated search thingy is an obstacle to that? I can wait, but since weekends are where my Copious Free Time lives, I'd like to be able to call by 'bot "finished" (if software can ever be called that). — Coren (talk) 03:13, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, < and > aren't converted to HTML entities if you're making the HTTP request properly; it must be a problem with your code. In any case, I have no strong opinion on whether your bot should query Google at this time. I merely felt it prudent to point out that if your bot did query Google, that it would violate Google's terms of service.
Should that issue be resolved before your bot is given a flag and is free to check all new pages automatically? Absolutely. Is it strictly necessary for a trial? Perhaps not. However, if your bot is approved for trial, I would consider throttling your Google requests just as you must throttle your edit requests while your bot is unflagged. Two edits per minute is the maximum edit rate permitted by bot policy in a trial period; perhaps you should consider restricting Google queries to two per minute. — madman bum and angel 03:21, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Indeed, I wasn't even considering running without an official okay except for a very limited trial run.
On another note: argh. More entities being squished. My request follows the docs to the dot-- I doubt > and < could ever not be substituted— it'd break the XML if they weren't. I just didn't expect other entities to also be translated. Argh. No visible documentation either. I suppose I should dive into the mediawiki source. — Coren (talk) 03:28, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't break XML; they're substituted when the page is rendered. They're not substituted in the Wikitext. Do you mind posting your source code? I may be able to see what's wrong. — madman bum and angel 03:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't, as long as you don't comment on how cruddy it currently is.  :-) And there are no comments. And it's semi-automated (it currently checks just the one page from the command line, and has no throttling). Meep! That's why I usually wait for my code to be clean before posting it.  :-) It'll be at User:Coren/csb.pl in a few minutes. — Coren (talk) 03:52, 5 August 2007 (UTC) It's there now. — Coren (talk) 04:07, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Meh. Wikipedia made hash of my code. I'll email it to you if you want. — Coren (talk) 04:11, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
It's to be noted that undoing the entities works and CorenSearchBot is now able to edit pages without breaking them.  :-) — Coren (talk) 04:19, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Hm. I have no Wikipedia-associated e-mail address. Did you put your code in <nowiki> tags? — madman bum and angel 04:40, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Nowiki tags make even worse hash of things; the whole code is interpreted as semi-raw html and becomes one, ugly block of running line noise (all whitespace gets merged). — Coren (talk) 04:37, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Indeed, your own tag broke your talk page. (Fixed). — Coren (talk) 04:37, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I forgot to <pre> it. Speaking of which, try <pre><nowiki>. It's commonly used for JavaScript content. Or just point me at the page and I'll see how I can help. — madman bum and angel 04:39, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

(reduced indent crazy factor)

Yeah, <pre><nowiki> did the trick except for &s (which I substed manually). The code is there: User:Coren/csb.pl — Coren (talk) 04:44, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Have you considered the Perlwikipedia framework? I think the standardized functions will eliminate little bugs like the ones you're having. — madman bum and angel 04:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, the bugs are gone now. The reason I haven't used the Perlwikipedia framework is just that it uses the older API, and I wanted to use the newer one (under the presumption that it's Better(tm) and designed to be easier on the servers). — Coren (talk) 04:49, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, it's up to the programmer. Query.php is legacy, but perfectly functional. Api.php is now a part of MediaWiki and is more developed. It depends on what you want. As long as it works... — madman bum and angel 04:51, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Usurpation request

Welcome to your new home at User:Madman. — E talkbots 08:33, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! — madman bum and angel 17:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Hehe, congrats on the new name. Here's an apple for the housewarming (you moved to the new name) gift: Ѽ. — Shinhan < talk > 09:45, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of road junctions in the United Kingdom: BOTREQ

As with UK Locations, would you like to kindly work your magic on this request, or shall I post it on BOTREQ? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 11:56, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd put it on WP:BOTREQ; I may be able to do it, but if not, it'll reach the widest audience that way. — madman bum and angel 16:01, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
OK, thanks. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 17:05, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unused templates list

Thank you very much for volunteering to create this list. It will help enormously in cleaning out the Template namespace. Can't wait to use it. Cheers. --MZMcBride 04:33, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Whoops! Thanks for the comment; I forgot to post it.
Here's the thing: I started it, then aborted it about halfway through. This is really the kind of report that needs to be generated by way of an SQL query; since embeddedin can't use a generator, my bot had to make a seperate embeddedin query for each template... and that's expensive. I shouldn't be making literally millions of API queries (even appropriately throttled... which makes it take hours).
So here's half the list, which should be plenty of material with which you can start, and once my account on the Toolserver is set up, I can get you a full list. — madman bum and angel 07:13, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Located: /1 /2 /3 /4 /5. I figured you could just delete them when you were done.
Buyer Beware: I'm sure you know this already but just like Special:Unusedtemplates, templates listed therein are not transcluded on any pages. However, they may be intended to be substituted and may be heavily used that way. Case in point: {{Cfd}}. Tread carefully.  ;) — madman bum and angel 07:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Good lord that's a lot of templates; I'm kind of in shock. Thank you very much for generating that report. I guess I have my work cut out for me now. : - ) Cheers. --MZMcBride 17:28, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I appreciate the reverts on my talk page, and followed up via oversight. I removed your comments along with the troll's out of concern about feeding him beans; this isn't the first time this has happened. Acroterion (talk) 16:54, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WPBS

Will you be running the bot on the WPBS list again? It's getting kind of long, and the bot really helped! Thanks for that! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 18:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Sure. Running now. — madman bum and angel 23:10, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
And removed the articles it fixed from the cleanup list (of course, I could have just let you re-run your bot, but what fun would that be?) — madman bum and angel 07:14, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I had to giggle watching your edit/reverts. I've been there so many times it hurts :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Banners

Okey doke. Sorry about that. Guessing that they should just be under Category:WikiProject templates? --WoohookittyWoohoo! 06:37, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, most of the pages you tagged were in the Template namespace, but are not in fact templates; they're support pages for various templates. If you could edit {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} to change it to Category:WikiProject templates, that'd be good though. Thanks!  :) — madman bum and angel 06:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Okey doke. Thanks. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 06:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] David Vernon (professor)

Hi, I didn't actually create the David Vernon article. Rather, the creator over wrote the David Vernon disambiguation page with this article. So I reverted back to a disambig page and put the David Vernon (professor) article into a new article. On doing that I thought it read rather well for a article created by a newbie so I checked it and found a substantive part of it was a copyvio. Thus I then flagged it as a copyvio in the hope that an admin would drop by and have a look. I'm not certain it was a speedy delete. I explained this all on the article's talk page. Gillyweed 09:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh, did you? I must have missed it. My apologies. — madman bum and angel 12:12, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MadmanBot error?

I have a feeling your bot may have made an error...

I've just done some checking and there are 4,428 articles that use some form of {{blp}} - either through one of the {{WPBiography}} clones or just with BLP itself - where the WPBS doesn't have the parameter "|blp=yes". Does your bot check for that? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 06:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

My bot adds |blp=yes if any project banner has the parameter living set to yes (not case-sensitive). — madman bum and angel 15:22, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Bleh. Sorry. A look at 10 of the "problems" shows a bunch of user-errors. Including one of mine! Your bot seems a lot better at the nesting thing - can you check for talk pages that already have the banner, have "living=yes", but *don't* have "blp=yes" -- and add that? Or I can keep kludging away at making my bot do it... -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 17:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I can add it to the existing task. — madman bum and angel 21:26, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
That's quite a lot of talk pages. Interesting. It must just be from those who add {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} but don't know of that particular intricacy, not anyone involved with the cleanup project or my bot. I'd be surprised if my bot has edited 2,000 articles on that task. — madman bum and angel 21:29, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
The 4,000+ figure is an overstatement. My regexp only counted them properly if the "blp=yes" was on the same line as the {{WikiProjectBannerShell. So it's probably only 2,000 (?rough guestimate).
And did you notice that WPBio changed their template so it doesn't show the BLP at all inside the nesting? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
How recent was that change? It's been that way as long as I can remember. — madman bum and angel 05:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Here's the discussion. I missed the change, too - looks like it happened some time this month, but I didn't find when. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:35, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 255 bytes

I need to see an explanation of why the "Test of maximum ..." article needs to exist otherwise I shall delete it soon. -- RHaworth 17:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Apparently the author created it to turn a red link in the Help: namespace blue. I raised the possibility of having it #REDIRECT to Help:Page size on the talk page; if I don't hear from him soon, I'll go ahead and do it. Suit? — madman bum and angel 17:51, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of History of Chaves

Your name appears under the message saying that my article entitled History of Chaves was deleted for copyright violations. I wish you or the person responsible had consulted me before taking this step. I am the author of all of the prose included in the article, since I wrote the History of Chaves on my own website on portcult.com. I adapted the article to make the history of Chaves known by a wider audience. It cost me some time and effort and was deleted by someone who did not take the time to find out the situation of the article. I ask that you restore it. Vogensen 18:55, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid that it is not my job to find out the situation; the burden of proof is on you to verify that the text you submit is licensed under the GFDL. Your website had no indication that you intended to license your text under the GFDL, nor did you even leave a message on the talk page indicating such. You understand, since you are the copyright holder, that we don't want to run the risk of using your work without your permission. I suggest that you either post a notice on your web site asserting that you understand the GFDL and wish to license your contributions under that License, or that you e-mail permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Either way will serve to verify that we can use your materials and you may then re-create the article with no further problems.
Thank you! — madman bum and angel 21:09, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
See also: Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials#Granting us permission to copy material already on line.

[edit] Special:export syntax

Hi - I'm working on a bot to analyze the history of WP:DYK. Among other things, I'm pulling the history of T:TDYK. I'm clearly doing something wrong, since fetching http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Export&offset=1&limit=100&pages=Template_talk:Did_you_know only fetches the current version (not the first 100 versions). Can you let me know what I'm missing? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 20:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure. Why don't you use a query such as the following instead, seeing as you likely don't want the contents of each revision?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Template_talk:Did%20you%20know&rvlimit=50

rvlimit may be 500 if the bot is logged in (and is in the bots usergroup). Pull query-continue->revisions->rvstartid, rinse, and repeat. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 22:49, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I do want the contents of the revisions, but the api documentation shows how to do this. I'll give it a shot. Most of the stuff I write fetches content outside of a bot, using a bot only to update the results (this way I can use awk, or sed or whatever I want for text processing - call me a troglodyte). Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I process text the same way, actually. Let me know if the API doesn't work out for you and I'll look at Special:Export again. — madman bum and angel 03:57, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Looks like this works, although the line feeds in the source don't seem to show up (sigh). Maybe I need to rethink how I'm doing this (the goal is to figure out what user nominated each DYK article). -- Rick Block (talk) 04:10, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Huh. The line feeds should show up. What's the API request? — madman bum and angel 04:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah, nevermind. Fetched in a browser, the browser doesn't show the linefeeds (duh, since it's XML), but in a file the linefeeds are there. So, I can happily awk the hell out of it (if it can't be done in shell and awk, maybe just awk, it's not worth doing). If you care, the API request is

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Template_talk:Did%20you%20know&rvlimit=50&rvprop=ids|timestamp|user|content

Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:20, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Good! Glad it worked out for you.  :) — madman bum and angel 04:20, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. You don't seem to have your email enabled. I'd like to ask you a question or two offline. Any chance this might be possible? If you'd prefer, you can email me direct at rickblock that weird symbol pronouced at avaya.com (how unparanoid am I?). -- Rick Block (talk) 04:43, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll turn e-mail on. Oversight. — madman bum and angel 04:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
And it's confirmed. Sorry about that. I'm just as paranoid as you are; trust me.  ;) — madman bum and angel 04:45, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
The system says your email is not enabled (perhaps the pref item allowing other users to email you?). -- Rick Block (talk) 14:02, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Oh, bugger it all. It's on now. Never mind my incompetence. I never have e-mail on. — madman bum and angel 15:24, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My Reversions

Hey! Sorry about this edit, among possibly a few others. I'm still a bit new to Wikipedia, and was still trying to understand Lupin when I made that edit; it was a mistake. I'll try not to do it again, but just in case, I'd like to apologize in advance for any future damages I inflict. Thanks, Audacitor 15:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for dealing with the queries on my talk page while I was gone. I do agree that running HermesBot, even manually, to remove the hack was stupid and I should of notified each person with it on their talk page that it messes with the mediawiki software/codes/ect. Thanks again though! ~ Wikihermit 04:24, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot Req

User:SatyrTN referred me to you regarding issue at User_talk:SatyrTN#Bot. Basically, I need a bot that can check all articles tagged with {{ChicagoWikiProject}} and look for articles with articles that are WP:GA, WP:FA, or WP:FL probably by searching for {{Featured}}, {{GA}}, {{ArticleHistory}} and the right currentstatus. Can you help us catch all of our favorably reviewed content without doing it manually.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 20:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Working now. — madman bum and angel 21:30, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Aug 20 17:30:52 madmanbot [info] GA: Talk:Jeannette Piccard
Aug 20 17:31:23 madmanbot [info] GA: Talk:Road to Perdition
Y Done – That's it. Unioned Category:Unassessed Chicago articles with Wikipedia good articles and Wikipedia featured articles. — madman bum and angel 21:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. The logic of the statement above seems like it might miss an article that has class=B or something where people did not update all the templates on a talk page. Please advise.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't attempt to detect if the article should be assessed as anything but GA or FA, since that's what you asked me to have it do. If you had it assess for any class, you might as well have a bot run the WikiProject. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 22:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I guess my question is unclear. You are correct my request is to find hidden WP:GA, WP:FL and WP:FL articles that already have {{ChicagoWikiProject}} tags. The union statement above suggests you looked at the union of Category:GA-Class articles, Category:FA-Class articles & Category:Unassessed Chicago articles to perform my request. I am saying some articles could have {{Featured}}, {{GA}}, or {{ArticleHistory}} and the right currentstatus on their talk page and be assessed as Category:Stub-Class Chicago articles, Category:Start-Class Chicago articles, Category:B-Class Chicago articles, or Category:A-Class Chicago articles because no one took the time to change the parameter in {{ChicagoWikiProject}}. User:SatyrTN has a bot that looks for {{Featured}} within the project, but suggests the programming would be intense to find the other types of untagged articles, which are continuing to be discovered manually. I am hoping for an automated thorough search of the project. I am not sure your union test above would find the untagged articles that may exist that I describe. Do I need to do a new Bot Req or are you my guy as SatyrTN suggests?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 01:22, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
P.S. Here is a list of article recently found manually that should have been parameterized with GA or FA some time ago: Good article Frances Oldham Kelsey, John Marshall Harlan II, Gustavus Franklin Swift, Fall Out Boy & The Reputation and Featured article Joseph W. Tkach. I am sure more are out there, but need a logician and a programmer who can run the right algorithm.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 01:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
I think I understand what you're saying. I'll do a check this evening (I'll have training all day) for all articles tagged with {{ChicagoWikiProject}} that are in Category:Wikipedia good articles or Category:Wikipedia featured articles but are not tagged as such. Suit? — madman bum and angel 10:59, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

GAs not tagged as such:

No FAs tagged as anything but FA-class. — madman bum and angel 19:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anchor Link Bot

Just send me an email and I can send the source back. :: maelgwn - talk 11:46, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Done. — madman bum and angel 22:35, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB and bannershell

Yeah, it does. See here (asked at Giggabot's BRFA). Giggy Talk 02:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Would you like to be an admin?

bibliomaniac15 would like to nominate you to become an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact bibliomaniac15 to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Madman. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state and sign 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.

It's been a while since my last RFA candidate, User:DoomsDay349 succeeded, and I feel itchy to look for another good candidate before other people steal it. Anyway, I was looking on the requests for admin coaching, and I saw your sig and a short comment saying you might like to run some time in August. Well, I took a look at your contribs and stuff, and you're just the stuff we need for Wikipedia. Please reply immediately, and if you consent, I will create the page and we will see what happens. Thanks, bibliomaniac15 Prepare to be deleted! 21:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Replied via e-mail. — madman bum and angel 01:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Toolserveraccount

Hello Madman,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to image:zedler-admins.png. We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 14:37, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Y Done — madman bum and angel 02:54, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] API.php

Does API.php allow you to search for text inside an article? For instance, if I'm looking for the text "came out in", can I search all articles to find those that contain that text? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 06:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Madman might have more to say about it, but I think the answer is yes (I haven't used it). See MW:API:Query - Lists. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:27, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, Rick. Yes. list=search. prefix=sr. — madman bum and angel 02:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Hm - are we not using a recent enough version? I note on the MW:API page above that it requires MW1.11, and we're using 1.11(alpha). The reason I ask is this doesn't seem to output anything. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:53, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, all searches seem to be returning a null result set. We might need to wait for an update; I may try the latest build on my test installation. The only other thing I can think of is to poke a developer. — madman bum and angel 05:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE:Talk:Chris Snopek

Thanks for the heads up, I know what I did wrong there. Thanks!--Kranar drogin 22:35, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC).

[edit] BRFA:Chris G Bot 2

I think the reason PockBot does not edit anymore as the code is broken, so speedy approving the same code was probably not the correct move to make. Q T C 04:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, guess the code works, the install must be bad. Although I'm still going to go ahead and rewrite a version which scrapes less. Q T C 05:03, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ginsberg

I heard an NPR story tonight about Allen Ginsberg. Hadn't caught the reference in your (previous) name :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 03:07, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

My previous/current name. And few do.  ;) — madman bum and angel 13:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Approved

Hi, I think the last approval you added to the list was supposed to be a new task for the already flagged Chris G Bot 2, not for a new Bot called Chris G Bot2.... WjBscribe 14:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Indeed it was, and I'm trying to figure out what to do about it other than not to use the {{BRFA}} template. There's already a BRFA/Chris G Bot 2, so I can't move it there. I just copied it as the operator wrote it. — madman bum and angel 14:19, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Ah, seems its a second task for the first Bot - anyway ST47 has fixed it [1]... WjBscribe 14:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bots/Requests for approval/Ganeshbot 2

I completed the test run. Could you please check and approve the task? Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 03:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BRFA for ClueBot II

[2] I though SatyrBot did the same thing... GrooveDog (talk) (Review) 13:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Like I said. That task was not listed on the bot's user page, and there was no related request approved by the BAG, so I had no way of knowing the bot was performing that function. Since ClueBot II has been approved, it should take precedence. I'll talk to SatyrTN. — madman bum and angel 05:20, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
SatyrBot hasn't tagged WikiProjects as inactive since May and will not do so again. ClueBot II is unopposed. (mwahaha...) — madman bum and angel 05:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] copyvio and spam

Hello. Thanks for helping out with the speedy deletion tagging of new articles. Can I ask a favor though? When you come across things like Island Hotels Group (I'm guessing you remember!) I think it's preferable to tag them with {{db-spam}} rather than with {{db-copyvio}} and to warn the user with a spam warning. Sure, they are copyvios but that concern is almost secondary because the tone and intent of the article are inappropriate regardless. Feel free to disregard that advice if it gets in the way of efficiency though! Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 17:52, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey there. I've only been using {{db-copyvio}} because it's the backlog on which I'm working and in my opinion, it's a higher-priority criterion for speedy deletion than spam is. Usually I warn the user of WP:COI; I happened not to warn User:Islandhotels for some reason. I'll pay more attention. Thanks! — madman bum and angel 20:13, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits

What the heck are you doing, reverting my edits and labelling them as vandalism. The bot made a mistake, a false positive which I have reported to the bot owner. The bot should not be tagging edits by admins and experienced users, per Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars. The community, by granting me admin status, has trust that I know policy and will not go around blatantly violating copyrights and such. Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars also applies to labelling edits as vandalism. Please don't do that again to any experienced user. --Aude (talk) 18:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Please assume good faith. Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars does not apply, incidentally.
You used admin rollback without any indication as to why; a simple explanation would have sufficed. -1 non-violation is generally what we use. I had no way of knowing that you were an administrator, and it was perfectly plausible that a user who contributed content in violation of copyright would remove indications of such.
I do apologize, for the record; I should have immediately looked further into what was going on with that article, rather than waiting until I had dealt with the backlog. And selecting vandalism was a particularly grievous mistake of mine; it gives the impression that I was assuming bad faith, when on the contrary, I was simply electing to put the article back on the list for review. My apologies. — madman bum and angel 18:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Apology accepted. I normally don't watch the page and don't know how things work. But, nonetheless very frustrated with the time I have wasted. I'm done for the day with Wikipedia. The bot is a good idea, but could be made to work better by treating regulars differently. --Aude (talk) 19:07, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps so. It does a lot of good work, though. Hopefully Coren will consider that option.  :) — madman bum and angel 19:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OsamaKBOT 5

Hi, please do not delete my BRFA, thanks--OsamaK 19:15, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I didn't.  :) Mets501 (talk · contribs) marked it as withdrawn and I moved it to the appropriate section. — madman bum and angel 19:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
OK, I'm finding it difficult to parse that BRFA. Mets501 said you could re-open it when you created the script. Have you done so? — madman bum and angel 19:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
\me has a good script now.--OsamaK 19:42, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
OK, feel free to reopen the BRFA, then. — madman bum and angel 20:16, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nominated

I have nominated you for an RFA here. I am sure you will do fine. Should you not pass, you will have succeeded in gaining much more experience for becoming a better user. Please check my opening statement to see if you'd like to have anything added or changed, and let me know if you do. Best of luck, bibliomaniac15 15 years of trouble and general madness 22:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Oops, sorry for transcluding it early for you. bibliomaniac15 15 years of trouble and general madness 22:19, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
No problem. I would just have revised it out of coherence anyway.  ;) — madman bum and angel 22:21, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
See Madman? RFA isn't that bad. bibliomaniac15 15 years of trouble and general madness 04:11, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I guess I was being pretty paranoid about it.  :P — madman bum and angel 04:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot account has made non-bot edits, tought I'd notify you

User:Kl4m-AWB

From #wikipedia:

<Kl4m> AWB switched to my bot account (how???) without me realising it until after a couple of very unbot-like edits. How should I repair that?

...

<ST47> Kl4m: ignore it and move on

As you recently approved the bot, I notify you as a defense against "bad faith" accusations. -- Kl4m Talk Contrib 23:48, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I'll look at them and keep an eye out on your behalf.  :) — madman bum and angel 23:49, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

It's me again. I souped-up the regex for replacement. It now moves the portal template appropriately.

Right Under the See Also title if present; else
Right under the External Link(s)? title if present; else
No move.

My regex-fu is strong so I'm pretty sure I didn't mess this one up. Anyway I'll still check the edits manually so my guess is that it's no big deal. -- Kl4m Talk Contrib 04:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

It looks OK from what I've seen; I haven't had time to review all contributions, though; I can really only do that during a trial period, when I have only fifty to review. It's best if these kind of enhancements get added then, but as long as you're not getting complaints, you should be fine... — madman bum and angel 06:04, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Christopher Orr

You're welcome! Thanks for spotting it. mattbr 22:59, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Bmmccann

I have seen you tag User:Bmmccann with a copyright violation with one of his articles. I didn't tag another one of his because I don't know where you are along the lines with the editor. So I am going to give you the other article called Henry P. Rusk, and think that this is also a copyright violation.--Kranar drogin 03:36, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

It's based on the same document, but it's reworded sufficiently that it is not a copyright violation, unlike Henry H. Krusekopf. — madman bum and angel 04:49, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JVBot

wrt to task on Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JVBot being now unnecessary, should I propose my next task as "JVBot 2" or should I reuse that same BRFA (obviously removing the approval) as it is still the first request? John Vandenberg 09:47, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

You should withdraw this task, and your next task request should be titled JVBot 2. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 15:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: yeah, it's my own site

If you don't mind, I'll just send an e-mail to you using your Mail Me page. When you reply, confirming that you agree to license your site content under the GFDL, the copyright violation tags will be removed. — madman bum and angel 21:33, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Please do. I have sent a message to permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org as well. Oh, and please note that the pictures aren't covered since they are not my own work. // Liftarn

[edit] Speedy deletion

I'm watching CorenBot now, and noticed you placing speedy deletion tags on pages by User:Liftarn. He says the text is from his own site, and has left a message at User talk:Coren. It's appropriate to WP:AGF here and give the user time to sort this out. User:Liftarn has been around Wikipedia for a long time and deserves more good faith rather than hasty actions like tagging articles. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 21:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Read his talk page. We're sorting it out.  :) — madman bum and angel 21:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Please sort these things out before tagging articles for speedy deletion. I think being so hasty in tagging the articles is highly inappropriate. Treating long time users with lack of good faith is not the way to retain good users. I've seen too many leave the project. Chances are that Liftarn can explain. If he/she can't, the article can be deleted. But not without discussing with the user. --Aude (talk) 21:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
It's already taken care of, and with no major problems. I know you're concerned about our treatment of the regulars, but even a regular can make a mistake (incidentally, a user's contribution history is not usually thoroughly checked before an article is tagged as a copyright infringement). Adherence to the terms of the GFDL is of the utmost importance to this project. It's worth some minor inconveniences. — madman bum and angel 21:44, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Liftarn

Can you confirm that he is licensing all his text contributions from his site so I can safely ignore the articles he's creating on Spectrum variants that are copies therof? Exxolon 22:07, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes. — madman bum and angel 22:07, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Exxolon 22:15, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats

Congratulations on your imminent sysoppery! Remember to start slow and not to scald yourself too bad in the beginning. :) If you have any questions or anything, feel free to ask me or another admin. bibliomaniac15 15 years of trouble and general madness 20:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry; I will (regardless of any humor I may insert into my note of thanks ;)). Off to New admin school I go! — madman bum and angel 00:25, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your RfA was successful

Congratulations, I have closed your RfA as successful and you are now a sysop! If you have any questions about adminship, feel free to ask me. Please consider messaging me on IRC for access to the #wikipedia-en-admins channel. Good luck! --Deskana (talk) 21:39, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you.  :) — madman bum and angel 00:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Shoot, I didn't see that you were up. Please accept my support nunc pro tunc based on your copious assistance over at WP:SCV. I haven't been an admin long myself, but if you need any guidance, I'd be happy to help out. Careful with that mop, Eugene . . . -- But|seriously|folks  02:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barneca RfA thank you spam

Madman, first off, congratulations on your own successful RfA. Thank you for your support during my RfA, especially after the concerns that were brought up by other editors. I'll keep all of the comments in mind in the coming months, and will try again later. In the mean time, if you see me doing something stupid, please let me know. See you around. --barneca (talk) 12:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can you extend protection

On the Kimbo Slice page. Nasty edit war. Gross violation of 3rr. Somewhere around 12. I have stopped editing that page. Thanks. Turtlescrubber 22:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

No need. 17:58, 20 September 2007 Madman (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "KimboSlice (Talk | contribs)" (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 48 hours ‎ (Disruption, 3RR violation) (Unblock). — madman bum and angel 23:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, for some reason I didn't catch that. Turtlescrubber 04:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RFA Thanks!

Thanks for your participation for my RFA bid and for your support.--JForget 23:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] lol

haha. CO2 23:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

It's part of new admin school.  ;)
Glad to see you still with us. — madman bum and angel 23:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oops

Sorry about that invalid report. I guess I'm moving too fast with Lupin's tool and TW put together :]. I guess I imagined somehow that 3:08 is after 3:08 on a clock... :D. --(Review Me) R ParlateContribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 03:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Western States Football League

Sorry I screwed up with the cut-and-paste redirect. I should have done a move. Anyway, thinks for getting all the history in one place. Casey Abell 15:34, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem. — madman bum and angel 15:38, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet

An article that you have been involved in editing, Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet. Thank you. Carlossuarez46 18:20, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism Revert

Just wanted to thank you for reverting the vandalism on my page! -- Amazins490 (talk) 20:41, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-vandalism bot

Hi, it seems you have quite a bit of experience with bots (judging by your eagerness to take up bot requests). I was just wondering if you could point out a bot I could request to do some anti-vandalism work. 0870 number and 0845 number are often reverted to remove information about SAYNOTO0870.COM, and it would save me some work if a bot could revert it for me. I've tried to enter into a debate with the "anonymous" reverters, but this has largely failed. Sorry if I've missed something obvious here, but I did try trawling the bot policy pages and couldn't find a specific bot that would meet my needs. JGXenite 04:27, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

That's because no bot will be approved to enforce a particular revision of article content. In the case of vandalism, users should be warned and then reported to WP:AIV. Disputes over content should be settled per WP:DR.
Hope that helps; — madman bum and angel 04:31, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks :). I'll put in a request for comment by the community. Unfortunately, entering into a debate with "anonymous" users seems an impossible task, and blocking the IPs wouldn't work either as they are dynamic IPs owned by BT. JGXenite 04:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
The article could always be semi-protected if there's a real problem. — madman bum and angel 05:14, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I did put in a request for both to be protected, but only 0870 number has been. I had thought 0845 number had been, but turns out the admin who did it didn't actually protect the page. I'll see if anything comes of the RFC. JGXenite 05:38, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

I owe you a big thank you for supporting me in My RfA, which was successful with 67 supports and 20 opposes. - Penwhale | Blast him / Follow his steps 23:39, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks so much for closing that UFC article it was getting horrible Yboord028 05:22, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem. That was insane. — madman bum and angel 05:22, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Berkenthin

Hi, my edits of Berkenthin and Berkenthin (Amt) aren't a cut-and-paste move, but a split of an article that was about two administrative units with the same name: the municipality (Gemeinde) Berkenthin and the larger Amt Berkenthin. I mentioned that in my edit summary for Berkenthin. Markussep Talk 20:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Some information for the second article was cut and pasted from the first, though. That was my only point. It's mundane enough that nothing really needs to be done to fix it. Just letting you know for the future. — madman bum and angel 20:59, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
hmm, isn't that what splitting an article is about? Markussep Talk 21:03, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Generally, when you split an article, for attribution purposes, you need to link back to the original article. — madman bum and angel 21:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Do you mean adding "split from Berkenthin" to the edit summary? That sounds reasonable. Markussep Talk 21:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
No, attribution has to be part of the article itself. Like I said, in this case it doesn't really matter. — madman bum and angel 21:11, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Erm...?

Semi protect? [3] CO2 22:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spice Telecom

User re-created the article blatantly again after you deleted it. Bmg916Speak 14:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

It's fine now. Check the wording and discussion. It no longer meets criterion g12. Thanks for the heads up, though! — madman bum and angel 14:31, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Okay, sounds good, thanks for letting me know! Bmg916Speak 14:32, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Also, please keep in mind that CSD g4 applies to articles deleted through an XfD process, not speedily deleted. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 14:35, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking

Actually, you had gotten it right the first time. Viriditas' behavior has been out of control for a long time. This is his other most recent 3RR. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 03:18, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Also, here. There are at least 3 reverts here, too. Clearly, he's gaming the system.
Btw, the 3RR reporting above comes from Viriditas following my edits to a troll posting personal attacks on his user page, where Viriditas took up his cause. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 03:24, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

As a non-involved third party, I'm just here to say that contrary to what Arcayne suggests, Viriditas is the model of propriety and what a good Wikipedian is all about. He is not one to "game" anything. Arjuna 06:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question...

Are you having any troubles with Freenode at the moment? —[[Animum | talk]] 00:25, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

No. You?  :) — madman bum and angel 00:26, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Not anymore. —[[Animum | talk]] 00:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikibreak

I'll be back as soon as possible. Sorry, guys. — madman bum and angel 04:13, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to see the health notice go up. Hope it's not too serious and better soon. Elf | Talk 04:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Get well soon :). -- [Jam][talk] 05:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Yes, please, I hope everything turns out better soon. :) - Arcayne (cast a spell) 08:39, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On a certain vandal

Hello. The user: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/65.190.244.7

Has a good history of vandalizing articles. He has once already vandalized the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team article and has just now gone on a second spree. I believe a second warning or perhaps a light block should be implemented. Could you please look into it?


Thanks.

MrBosnia 04:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] James Hansen‎

Was there a request to Sp James Hansen‎? Just curious what prompted you to Sp it. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 14:21, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] From the Tetrast

Sorry to hear about your health issues. I had feared that I'd scared you away from my talk page because of my stentorian remarks about my use of sources, but that was not in response to you but in nervous clarification of stuff that I previously had said. Anyway, thanks for the remarks which you did make, they focused me on some needed work. The Tetrast 03:10, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ashanti Empire

thnx...and i'll try to be more careful in the future...CHEERS :)Scott Free 20:52, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia has a new administrator!

Thanks, Archive 1!
Thank you for voicing your opinion in my RfA, which passed today with a unanimous 79/0/0 tally. It feels great to be appreciated, and I will try my best to meet everyone's expectations. If you have any advice or tips, feel free to pass them along, as I am sure that I will need them! Cheers, hmwith talk 21:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Richard A. Cody

You labeled this as a copyvio. In fact, it is merely plagarism from a U.S. government source (U.S. Army website, to be precise) which is public domain. I added the source so it should be all set now. Rmhermen 19:21, 4 October 2007 (UTC):T

Thanks. I looked for a federal government source but Google didn't give me one. Thanks for the attribution. — madman bum and angel 23:02, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] King's Quest Omnipedia

I'm actually one of the admins at King's Quest Omnipedia, as well as one of the largest contributors there, so much of the wiki is my work. Yes, I admit I probably don't have a life, but it was something to do when I had nothing better to do :p. If you want me to confirm myself, just leave a message on my user:page there.Splintercell007 07:23, 8 October 2007 (UTC)(AKA Baggins)

The problem is that you're not the only contributor on that Omnipedia article, and in order to use the materials under the GFDL, all contributors must agree to the licensure. Omnipedia as a whole does not license its articles under the GFDL, therefore we may not use them. Sorry.  :( You're free to create an original work here, if you'd like.  :) — madman bum and angel 07:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Can I interlink to the article?Splintercell007 07:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, we only have interwiki links to other Wikimedia projects and very few major wikis. Only developers may add interwiki links, and I think you'll find it difficult to prove that King's Quest Omnipedia is notable enough to justify yet another interwiki link. Sorry twice.  :( — madman bum and angel 07:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AIV

Thanks, I've now moved this issue to WP:ANI. --Rodhullandemu (talk - contribs) 08:15, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MadmanBot & Consolidating banners & Somerset

Your bot has been "Consolidating" banners on lots of pages I watch. It's putting Template:Somerset within the nesting but it doesn't seem to hide it in the same way as all the others (example Talk:Bath Abbey) - I think this is because our wikiproject banner doesn't have the right code - but having spent about 6 attempts getting it to cope with importance ratings, I'm loath to fiddle further (when I don't know what I'm doing) - do you have a neat piece of code which will make this work with the Somerset banner?— Rod talk 21:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I can make it compliant. MadmanBot assumes 100% compliancy because 100% of the templates used to be compliant; there's no recent report (that it generates), though, so there are likely some new ones. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! — madman bum and angel 03:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
I redirected to {{WikiProject Somerset}}, which seems to be the most recent version of the template and had established compliance. For future reference, the instructions are available here. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 03:28, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for this. I didn't realise {{WikiProject Somerset}} had been created. Does this mean that the Somerset one I was using needs to be replaced on all 1600ish pages where it has been applied? also does the new one cope with importance ratings & will the bot be able to work out the categories into which to put the class ratings & importance ratings - following this redirect?— Rod talk 07:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't need to be replaced; the redirect is just fine. The new one copes with importance ratings, I believe, and the bot doesn't do anything with categories or the minutiae of the template; it just tells the template to nest and the template is nested as the template designers told it to. You might want to ask these questions on Template talk:WikiProject Somerset (edit|template|history|links|watch|logs). — madman bum and angel 16:02, 3 October 2007 (UTC)


There is a problem with {{tl:WikiProject Somerset}} or it's operation & I can't work out what it is.... I originally created {{Somerset}} for Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset & had advice that is wasn't working properly & didn't "nest" on article talk pages. I also took ages to get it to handle importance ratings. Then {{tl:WikiProject Somerset}} was created & a redirect put on {{Somerset}} and I added a few importance ratings to several articles. The bot has now been round & is displaying the results in relation to class & importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset#Current status. In the process we have now lost about 500 articles which had the original banner (including most of the FA, GA & B class) & I can't work out why. Some examples:

So that gives the impression that anything with an importance ranking doesn't show up, however

I can not understand why some do & some don't appear, and would appreciate any help or advice. The best place for the discussion is probably Template talk:WikiProject Somerset.— Rod talk 19:31, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

(n.b.: presumably resolved, see Template talk:WikiProject Somerset. — madman bum and angel 23:01, 4 October 2007 (UTC))

Sorry not fully resolved.... Last week you helped me with the template at: Template:WikiProject Somerset. The bot has now run updating the numbers on Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset & it no longer shows any importance ratings (although we done over 100 of these). As you know I'm lost when trying to sort the template code & would appreciate any help you could offer.— Rod talk 12:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
I really couldn't tell you; I'd assume it's an issue with the bot. Maybe you should contact the bot operators? Bots should be able to handle redirects, but they have to be specially programmed to do so; I found that out with MadmanBot. — madman bum and angel 00:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Looking at Template talk:WikiProject Somerset, it seems like it was and still is a job queue issue. Let's wait and see. — madman bum and angel 00:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:SCV

Phew, thanks for tackling that backlog! It makes me uneasy when that page gets stacked up, and I haven't had time to work on it today. We need to draft some new SCV-ers. Many have gotten involved in other areas since they graduated to adminship. -- But|seriously|folks  02:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem!  :) — madman bum and angel 02:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Generic monthly/weekly/daily/hourly bot

A while ago we talked about creating a framework for a generic periodic bot (protected pages with bot code to be executed on whatever periodicity). Are you still interested in pursuing this? I have a generic bot sort of half written (retrieves the code, verifies its legit, then executes it) but haven't found the time to really follow up on this (real life keeps intruding). If you have the time and interest, I'd be willing to collaborate on this (subject to real life demands on either end). Wikitalk or email accepted equally. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fiel a la Vega

Take it easy. I'm working on it right now. I had to move from one computer to another, and I had already copied the info of Fiel a la Vega (album) to the new article to use as a template. Just gimme some time and I'll finish it. Thief12 23:44, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

So the new article has nothing to do with Fiel a la Vega (album)? Next time, you may want to slap on a {{underconstruction}} or similar template. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 23:47, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, it is an article about another album of the same artist, but I didn't know about that template. Thanx for the tip. Anyway, the article is finished now. Take care. Thief12 23:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Gondar

Hello, and thank you for telling me about the copyvio issues with the article. Is this any better? Please, if you could help me with any suggestions, that would be great. Your Grace Lord Sir Dreamy of Buckland tm 23:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock...

Heya! A user has specifically requested you to review their block... Thought I'd let you know. I came across it, perusing the unblock requests.... User_talk:JTBX#Blocked. SQL(Query Me!) 01:26, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of website

I understand the certian subjects are advertising and meant to be deleted but there are SEVERAL wiki pages for websites. Lightsource.com is the FIRST website to have free Christian streaming videos with many different pastors, authors, and speakers. If it a noteworthy site, then it should be included in wikipedia. I am trying to find negative press concerning the site to make it a more neutral pov. I will repost the page and ask that you look it over and tell me if it's not npov. If you got to the category: Christian websites, you will see that there are websites on wikipedia that are specifically related to Christianity. Trudy1947, October 12, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by ForHisGlory (talk • contribs) 12:30, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 17:31, 11 October 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Your block of 71.99.137.24

Hi, I saw you have blocked 71.99.137.24 (talk · contribs) for 3RR, but I think he should be blocked for much longer period for obscene personal attacks here [4], here [5] and here [6]. Those personal attacks are offensive and should not be left behind. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 09:26, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

The problem is that I can't read whatever language that is. Sorry.  ;) You may wish to bring it up on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard to find someone who can. — madman bum and angel 14:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, I can translate it for you but I am not going to smear your talk page with such mess. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 18:55, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ron Luther protection

Hi Madman, would you consider removing the protection at Ron Luther? While I see the need (from the vandalism), I removed the prod per the talk page and am going to list it on AFD. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:24, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

The listing seems to have been done for you ({{editprotected}} for such changes). Cheers! — madman bum and angel 03:24, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your block of 79.120.55.7

This IP belongs to VPN server of a LAN which consists of about 18000 users. This way you block them all. I don't know what should be done, I just inform... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.120.55.10 (talk) 01:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Registered users are still able to edit. If you are currently blocked from creating an account, please contact unblock-en-l for assistance. If possible, please use an email address issued by your ISP or organization so that we may verify that you are a legitimate user on this network. I apologize for any inconvenience. — madman bum and angel 01:33, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Gondar

Hello, and thank you for telling me about the copyvio issues with the article. Is this any better? Please, if you could help me with any suggestions, that would be great. Your Grace Lord Sir Dreamy of Buckland tm 01:51, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I reviewed it before; it's still almost exactly the same. It's not a major deal, but I wish you could find some more sources and write a new article in your own words. — madman bum and angel 01:57, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Stsfi

I just made the block indef. Its a clear legal threat and they must remain blocked until the threat is withdrawn. See WP:NLT for more. Obviously, if they withdraw the threat they need to sit out your original block first. Cheers. Spartaz Humbug! 22:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Thanks for the update. — madman bum and angel 22:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] RfA Thanks

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For your contribution to My RfA, which passed with 8000 Supports, 2 Neutrals and no opposes.

The standards and dedication of the English Wikipeidan Administrators is excellent and I am privileged to stand among them. Thankyou for putting you trust in me, I'll not see it abused. Also, special thanks for having supported me twice, on my first and on my latest RfA. It’s people like you that keep me coming back to this wacky-white-world. And now, I will dance naked around a fire. Party at my place! Cheers! Dfrg.msc 08:03, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Henry Nott

Please see Talk:Henry Nott/Temp. Please read stubs before speedily deleting. Thanks.Brian0324 17:06, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

I read the stub; it was a blatant copyright violation and there was no assertation of permission. — madman bum and angel 21:12, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IP block at the Fellowship of Friends page

Hello, Madman. This is related to the IP range block at the Fellowship of Friends page. I am an editor of that page and my company rents an office at a building owned by the Fellowship of Friends. Sometimes I do edits from the office, but since last Thursday I am not able to edit any Wikipedia page if I connect to the interned through the connection that I use at the office (it is included in the rent). Note that besides me there are more than 70 people working in this building that can't edit any Wikipedia page at the moment. The reason that was used for blocking the building's connection is COI. I can't understand this. Why is it that a person editing Wikipedia from this building is a case of COI but the same person editing from anywhere else is not? Wikipedia should block editors, not IP ranges, so I am asking for the IP block to be released. I am copying several administrators in this message. Mfantoni 17:23, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Please see my talk page which discusses this matter. --Yamla 17:30, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request

User:Moe Epsilon/monobook.js, delete it please. — Moe ε 22:58, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Y Done — madman bum and angel 22:59, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vic Kulkarni

Hi. I have a question: I'm the one who tagged with {{db-bio}}, so I fully support its deletion. The page that was the copyvio was an alumni profile at the university: http://www.eng.uc.edu/friendsalumni/alumniae/2007/kulkarni.html . I saw the cut-and-paste as well, but since there was no copyright info on the page, I didn't think I could assert copyvio. Should I have tagged it with {{db-copyvio}} instead? I would guess that takes prescedent over {{db-bio}}. Toddstreat1 00:32, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Either one works just as well. I was just working through a copyright backlog, so I picked the most appropriate criterion for speedy deletion. Keep in mind that if there is no copyright info on a page, that means it is copyright, per the Berne Convention. Everything is automatically copyrighted. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 00:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Wow. Thanks for the clarification! I had no idea. Take care! Toddstreat1 06:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inappropriate Block has expired. Surely the inappropriate pageprotect can do the same?

As the one inappropriate admin action has expired, surely you can see fit unprotect my talk page. If you all were trying to push me off the project, keep up the BS block crud. If such an action happens again, I will be out. It may not matter in the grand scheme of things, but I hardly think that WP policies were designed to chase good editors off the project. Removal of the pageprotect would be appreciated. K. Scott Bailey 00:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

They were meant to expire at the same time. I figured your block was not as far along as it was. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 00:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I beat you to the actual protection but you beat me to the template :P ViridaeTalk 00:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Oh, certainly, "Cheers!" May you have many happy perfunctory dismissals of legit unblock requests in your WP future! K. Scott Bailey 00:54, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links

It's like links in a chain..IP to Netmonger to Mystic and finally to Lahiru_k - confirmed sockmaster. Nice detective work, madman! Dreadstar † 20:07, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, the SSP report linked to on his userpage did all the work for me.  :p — madman bum and angel 20:08, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Rather self-incriminating, that link, eh? Not the best of evidence to have presented as a defense... Dreadstar † 20:11, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Do we want NM to be using his talk page as a soapbox and attack-page: [7], that's what this appears to threaten.. Dreadstar † 20:28, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

He says he's not Mystic, yet he also says every edit from that IP is his and that it's a static IP assigned to his office. Well, he shouldn't have made that edit saying he was Mystic, then... It also contradicts his previous point about dynamic IPs. It seems to me that he's simply trolling, but I'm newer at this game than you are. — madman bum and angel 06:06, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:SCV

Sorry about that -- I just cleared off about 30 items, finishing about 5 minutes ago. We'll miss you over there, as the tide continually washes new flotsam ashore. Anyway, as the Lucksmiths say, "Don't get well soon, get well now." -- But|seriously|folks  06:11, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, don't apologize; it works for me!  :p Thanks for the well wishes; we'll see. — madman bum and angel 06:13, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gordon McVie

Could you please supply me with the code from the page "Gordon McVie" that you recently deleted? And explain why you deleted it?. Thanks --Jonbirch24 —Preceding comment was added at 14:38, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pegz

Could you please supply me with the text from the page "Pegz" that you recently deleted? I wish to recreate the page without the copyrighted material. Thanks --Korp7 03:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category contents shell

Hi - Do you happen to have a shell script lying around that echoes the contents of a category, one line per member (suitable for piping purposes)? I've done this in the past by yanking the displayed content into a file and manually massaging the result (which doesn't really lend itself to anything to be done on a regular basis). Seems like it wouldn't be hard to modify pywikipedia's category.py to do this, but I thought you might have something handy. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, no shell script... PHP, perhaps. And sorry for my late response. — madman bum and angel 19:27, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
No problem. I guess I'll just hack at pywikipediabot a bit. -- Rick Block (talk) 01:14, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lol!

I'm still chuckling over this. Hope you're feeling better & thanks for the laugh! -- But|seriously|folks  01:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

I am indeed, and you're welcome.  ;) — madman bum and angel 01:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sharedIP tag

It looks like your bot added a sharedIP tag to User talk:66.72.138.226, but when it did it blanked everything else on the page. Probably it's a better idea to insert the tag at the top. Arthurrh 18:53, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes; it was meant to do that. The bug has been fixed; the task is in trial. Thanks for putting up with it.  :) — madman bum and angel 20:36, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bots

I think you made a mistake on [8] this... :) PxMa 22:17, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

– fixed — madman bum and angel 22:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

No, I mean my bot isn't approved yet :) PxMa 22:44, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Ah; I archived the wrong task request. Will fix. — madman bum and angel 22:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sea Drift

Hey there.

Think I can trouble you into fixing a bad move/disambig over there? I've already db-moved the destination. — Coren (talk) 23:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

... which would be Sea Drift (Carpenter). Small detail.  :-) — Coren (talk) 23:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Y Done, I believe. — madman bum and angel 01:15, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Uncategorized good articles

You had a bot parse through this a while ago - do you think you could run it again? Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 09:24, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Sure, though I would have to recreate the script, as I was told it was a one-time task. It's also only forty-nine articles; last time it was more than a thousand and more suited to a bot. Have you talked to anyone on the task force? They know the most about the process and they can keep an eye on the quality of the review and such while maintaining the backlog. — madman bum and angel 22:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I have, we're all slightly lazy :) If you have to recreate, don't bother (unless your really want to), I'll talk to them. But if it blows out, can we count on you? Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 09:14, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Of course you can.  :) — madman bum and angel 17:37, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Backstreet Boys semi-protection?

Hello, I see that your bot semi-protected the Backstreet Boys entry on the 5th of August, but it's not clear why. (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Backstreet_Boys&oldid=149471932) The logs show only two edits in the 5 days prior to the protection, so it doesn't look like there was a vandalism problem. It's still semi-protected today. Can you shed some light on this? Thanks! f(x)=ax2+bx+c 22:39, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, Madman's bot doesn't protect (or semi-protects) as it is unable to do so (it is not an admin). What it does is place the tag on articles which were already protected but without a tag. — Coren (talk) 23:34, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Doh, you're absolutely right. I'm not sure why I didn't just look at the log. Madman: Can't sleep, clown will eat me protected it four months ago. I'd ask him to undo it himself, but it looks like he's on a wikibreak... f(x)=ax2+bx+c 00:06, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
For the record, my bot no longer performs this task. — madman bum and angel 04:16, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MadmanBot task 5 approved

I just went ahead and approved task 5 after its trial run. Happy taggings. — Coren (talk) 01:28, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for this. Seriously. Miranda 20:22, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
No problem.  :) — madman bum and angel 21:58, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jeannie Blaylock

The article Jeannie Blaylock that was just deleted was not copyrighted text, nor a substantial copy of her biography on firstcoastnews.com. Seriously...I'm not kidding. The article was written by me - all of it. I referred to that page but everything was in my words.
- Jaxfl 16:56, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, it followed the flow of the article... exactly, and it was nothing more than a minor rewording. I suggest you find more sources and write another article that's... more in your own words. Thanks! — madman bum and angel 17:17, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strange deletion of comment by MadmanBot?

For some reason which appears to me inexplicable, the bot deleted a legitimate warning from a user talk page when it inserted the SharedIPEDU template. The relevant diff is here. Cheers! — Dave (Talk | contribs) 21:01, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Replying to myself... I see those two edits (the bot's and the one that was stomped) were only 7 seconds apart. Evidently, the bot 's change should have triggered an edit conflict instead of stomping, no? — Dave (Talk | contribs) 21:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
It should indeed not have done that; I can't see anything in the code that would have caused it to do so, unless it requested the current page content from a slave that was slightly lagged. I'll tweak the maxlag value and watch it for a bit. Thanks for the report! — madman bum and angel 21:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting of Mail2World

Please explain to me how to add a wiki article without being deleted?

--M2W 04:27, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

For one, you must assert notability of the article's subject. For more information on that and how it relates to corporations, please see Wikipedia:Notability (business). The article must also be written in a neutral point of view and its contributors must not have any conflicts of interests, such as the one you have clearly evidenced. You should leave contributions related to your business to other contributors and avoid editing articles with subjects with which you are associated. See Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information and feel free to post here once more if you have any further questions.
Cheers! — madman bum and angel 04:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject rating links

Hi - I noticed a weirdness a while ago, see Template talk:Football#xxx-Class category links, that seems to affect lots and lots of wikiproject rating templates. I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to proceed or even whether this is actually worth pursuing. Any opinions? -- Rick Block (talk) 04:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 12:00, 1 November 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Jotterbot

My bot says thanks to you :). Havent got the flag yet. I'll start running it today. --Jyothis 22:07, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy decline

Howdy! Could you clarify, on this speedy decline, if we have permission to use all PETA images filed with OTRS or is it just that image? Would you mind sharing a link to where I can verify that? Thanks! --Bloodzombie 01:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

You can't; the ticket is confidential. I'll contact an OTRS volunteer on your behalf. — madman bum and angel 01:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
According to an OTRS volunteer, the grant of permissions applies to all original publications from PETA. — madman bum and angel 01:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Excellent, thanks. --Bloodzombie 01:58, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for deleting

I seriously do not understand why you had to delete the Don Diablo page so swiftly, while I was trying to restore it, so it would be deemed OK. Instead of giving pointers, speedy deletion was the only way to go? I think it was completely unnecessary, as I was trying to fix it. Furthermore, not ever biography reads the same and the most recent bio that was online, after my final edits was everything but advertisement, so this is a really strange move on your behalf. Since I'm not a super-experienced Wikipedia user, I can start all over again and invest time in building a page, while it could have done with a few edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oorbeek (talk • contribs) 01:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I can restore the page to your userspace. But the page was without a doubt blatant advertising, even given your revisions. Encyclopedia articles do not start: "Who is this Don Diablo guy everybody seems to be talking about right now!?" and continue with: "Here are fifteen basic facts you just have to know:". — madman bum and angel 01:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wondering about the CADAM moves

Hi -- not surprised at all to see that the CADAM (motorcycle group) article got speedied, but I'm wondering why the move of the original CADAM page to "CADAM (motorcycle group)" and then back. The main effect of that seemed to be to wipe out the original history for the CADAM page. Just for my own curiousity, what was the purpose? As I say, definitely not surprised or upset, just curious about the mechanism. Thanks --NapoliRoma 17:15, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, first I did the history merge, because it's important that all contributions be properly attributed and on the correct page's history. Then I realized the CADAM (motorcycle group) was a blatant copyright violation and speedied it. If any contributions thus deleted were for the current CADAM article, then I'll restore them. — madman bum and angel 18:09, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure the CADAM article (which started out as an article about the software company) goes back a few years. I think my own first edit for that article was in 2006, but it's not in my contrib list; I guess it goes away completely when the article's history goes away?
The motorcycle stuff was only added sometime in the last couple of months. I spotted it and moved it into its own article yesterday, not knowing it was a copyvio. Even so, I was pretty sure it would get speedied for being non-notable, but I didn't want to just blow it away without giving the editor who added it a chance to do something with it.--NapoliRoma 18:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Oh, OK. I'll restore the original revisions related to the company. — madman bum and angel 19:05, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Y Done. And to think I thought this was a completely innocuous history merge.  :p — madman bum and angel 19:08, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Is anything ever simple? :-) Thanks. I notice that DaytonaPaul's additions (and my subsequent deletions as I moved them to the new article) are not reflected in the history now; is that part of the copyvio cleanup?--NapoliRoma 19:29, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes; those revisions have been deleted. — madman bum and angel 20:11, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conflicting philosophies

You may have noticed that I boldly reverted your changes to {{User meta}}. However, it seems this was a sweeping change on your part. Was there any consensus for this change? I'm not saying it's a bad thing; I just think it should have been discussed first. Restore your revision if you want; I can just subst: my usage of the userbox and make it the way I like it. — madman bum and angel 22:00, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

The visual change was only to change user to editor (these are editing philosophies), and to add a link to meta which describes them all. What's your concern? - jc37 11:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, for one, where it had said 'meta', it then said 'Phil' with no distinct visual indicator that it was a link (not your fault) or what 'Phil' was (who's Phil?). 'meta' is more intuitive and a link to meta:Metapedianism would be better. If a userbox espouses an individual philosophy, you'd expect it, if it links to anything at all, to link to more information on that individual philosophy, just as you'd expect a userbox espousing an individual religion to link to Christianity, say, as opposed to Religion. Also, given the nature of metapedianism, you'd expect 'editor' as opposed to 'user'. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 16:59, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
It's rather moot, though; I just fixed mine up the way I like it. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 17:04, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MadmanBot

Madmanbot is not closing the {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} correctly when one of the project banners has an auto-assessment. The closing }}s are commented out. See this diff. Also posted on ANI. --Elliskev 17:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Reply made on WP:AN/I. — madman bum and angel 21:52, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Re: the message you sent me, as I'm a very new Wikipedia editor, can you please explain why someone would cite either Edward Ward or The Shopworn Angel (or any article, for that matter) for possible copywright violations without explaining why he thinks they are? Shouldn't there be some basis for the accusation? It seems obvious that the article about Ward in particular isn't violating anything since it really isn't much more than a list of his film score credits and Oscar nominations. I'm trying to understand why it was cited in the first place. Thank you for explaining. MovieMadness 01:16, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

The reports you removed were indeed bot errors (Wherebot is having problems). However, your page was not tagged, so it shouldn't have caused any major disruption to your editing, and they would have been removed instantly, given that it was a null report. I thought I should let you know about the etiquette regarding that page in any case. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 01:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of films based on comics

I'm afraid you'll have to undo this move. It certainly wasn't uncontroversial as the Comics Project defaults to comics as comic book is more of an American term and so the naming doesn't fit especially as the films listed on that page aren't classed as comic books. I have been working on renaming categories and articles (emptying Category:Comic books for example).

If someone wants it moved they need to propose it properly but I'd suspect it would be strongly opposed.

Either way this all needs undoing. Thanks for the help with this, I know you were only following a request. Would it also be possible to undo this at the same time and I'll speak to the user involved pointing out the problem (as they appear not to be a member of the project or aware of the naming conventions). (Emperor 14:16, 11 November 2007 (UTC))

Y Done. Please do speak with the user. — madman bum and angel 17:35, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the prompt response. I have dropped them a line already and we should be able to resolve this pretty quickly. (Emperor 18:30, 11 November 2007 (UTC))

[edit] UTF8 encoding

I'm a tad bit stumped on the UTF8 encoding business. When I edit an Illinois town (say Erie, Illinois), I don't see any characters by the Portuguese wikilink. And when I view the page through api I don't see any characters. But retrieving the page with "format=php", I get:

[[pt:‎Erie (Illinois)]]

And utf8-decoded, that becomes:

[[pt:?Erie (Illinois)]]

Would appreciate your thoughts on the matter... Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:41, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Hm - take a look at the "rawfm" format: [9] -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:43, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
I'll respond to this when I have a chance to look into it more; however, I've never had any UTF8 problems with MadmanBot. I'd suggest upgrading to the latest PHP version and making sure you have extension gettext enabled. — madman bum and angel 02:53, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Currently at PHP Version 5.1.6 with gettext enabled. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:23, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kavli Foundation deletion

This page, about a not-for-profit foundation, was deleted because of fear of copyright infringement. Per policy below, we are fine posting the material, which was retrieved from our existing materials and website, and licensing to the public under the GFDL. (The information is all educational, as we do not solicit.) How would you like us to affirm this?


Contributors' rights and obligations

If you contribute material to Wikipedia, you thereby license it to the public under the GFDL (with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). In order to contribute, you must be in a position to grant this license, which means that either

  • you hold the copyright to the material, for instance because you produced it yourself, or
  • you acquired the material from a source that allows the licensing under GFDL, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under GFDL.

In the first case, you retain copyright to your materials. You can later republish and relicense them in any way you like. However, you can never retract the GFDL license for the copies of materials that you place here; these copies will remain under GFDL forever.

In the second case, if you incorporate external GFDL materials, as a requirement of the GFDL, you need to acknowledge the authorship and provide a link back to the network location of the original copy.


Jcohenkavli 00:11, 10 November 2007 (UTC)Jcohenkavli


You need to send that affirmation to permission-en at wikimedia dot org from an e-mail address associated with the publication. You could send it to me, but I'd just have to forward it. Cheers! — madman bum and angel 00:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

———————————————

Fyi, From my office email at The Kavli Foundation, I've sent an email to permission-en@wikimedia.org. Key text is below. Thanks for your help! Jcohenkavli 17:59, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

To: "permission-en@wikimedia.org" <permission-en@wikimedia.org> Conversation: Permission granted for The Kavli Foundation entry. Subject: Permission granted for The Kavli Foundation entry.

To the permissions department.

Recently I tried posting an entry for “The Kavli Foundation” on Wikipedia and it was pulled for violating copyright rules. In fact, the materials were posted by The Kavli Foundation, which owns that website. (Note: we are a not-for-profit foundation that does not solicit funds and has created educational research science institutes at universities worldwide.) Per Wikipedia’s policy below, as the director of communications for the foundation, I extend permission to post the entry, which was built using copy retrieved from our posted web material, and licensing to the public under the GFDL.

Please let me know if there is anything else that is necessary to restore and add to our entry into Wikipedia.

[edit] WP:AN

Can I ask why you closed the discussion about User:Porcupine on AN? If this is left aside now, it's just going to rear its head again in the future. ELIMINATORJR 19:39, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

About the selfblock? Because as noted by several administrators, it was just wasting time. The blocking policy recommends that nothing be done, and while I wouldn't call Porcupine's behavior trolling, he was being unnecessarily tenuous. I will note, however, that any administrator should feel free to revert; indeed, I meant to say so in my edit summary. — madman bum and angel 19:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
No problem - I'll leave it for the time being. ELIMINATORJR 19:47, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MadmanBot: minor bug (WikiProjectBannerShell task)

See this: [10] - where }} is placed inside a comment, which seems to have undesired effect. Oceanh (talk) 08:47, 19 November 2007 (UTC).

My apologies; this task was not supposed to run again until that bug had been fixed. I recently moved MadmanBot to a new server; the cron job came with, and I mindlessly re-enabled it. It has again been disabled and once I fix the bug, I will scan through all of its revisions to find any other assessments it may have maligned.
Thank you! — madman bum and angel 15:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Christmas Story

Hi. I see you reverted the cut and paste move, only to do a normal redirect on this page. Was that the best way to proceed? I ask because although imdb does list two films with that title from the silent era, they hardly seem important enough to force the main page to a longer title. Is there a good reason why the 1983 film needs the longer article title now? Thanks! --Karen | Talk | contribs 01:26, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

It appears that there was a disambiguation page created by the mover; I'm just not sure where it went. It should be at that article title. — madman bum and angel 07:31, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Is this better? — madman bum and angel 07:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
I hate that, actually, since you ask. I see and appreciate what you're trying to do, but it adds a step for just about everyone. Please see my remarks on Talk:A Christmas Story (1983 film) - which is where I should have gone with my concern in the first place. If everyone disagrees with me I'll cope with the new set-up, but I really don't think the main article should have been moved from the bare name in the first place. If there's to be a disambig page, it should probably be under A Christmas Story (disambiguation), with an other uses tag that works at the top of the film article. Thanks for your work on this, even if we end up disagreeing about what to do! -- Karen | Talk | contribs 09:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry; I'm trying.  :) I wasn't the one who made the initial moves and created the disambiguation page; I'm just used my mop to clean up the history rubbish that resulted from the moves being made improperly.  :p I would have kept the article titles the way they were. — madman bum and angel 22:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I realize and appreciate that - and I see that you did clean up on other similar messes as well. Thanks! --Karen | Talk | contribs 23:44, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Beh-nam

Hi, I see you've blocked then unblocked beh-nam recently, he is vandalising pages so why are you not doing anything to stop him? I request that he be blocked indef due to his disruptive behaviour who is and has been vandalising pages after pages of national leaders by falesly inserting that they were child molestor, slave owner, facists, etc.[11], [12] He's been vandalising Pashtun people and many other articles for a very long time.[13], [14], [15]

He keeps removing the official government website from Afghanistan/Hamid Karzai article [16] and usually placing over it anti-Afghanistan blog sites, this after an administrator (Future Perfect at Sunrise) has warned not to mess with again. [17], [18] If anyone adds images of popular Pashtun leaders in the Pashtun article he will revert the page right away, probably that he does not want Pashtuns to appear good in the eyes of others. He is ethnic Tajik, a Persian nationalist, and anti-Pashtun or Afghan as well as anti-Turk.[19] He has an unusual extended block history which includes 2 indefs for which he was allowed back on condition to stop harrassing or personally attacking another ethnic group.[20]

Same as all other vandals, he will never change and will continue with vandalising pages by writing all sorts of untrue things about leaders who are not from his ethnic group. He reverts everyone who fixes his vandalism without explaining anything.[21] Beh-nam is working closely with a banned User:Tajik (who is hiding under anon IPs that start with 82.xx.xxx.xxx which is confirmed by several admins including User:Dmcdevit‎ [22]) [23], [24], [25], and has User:Anoshirawan as his edit-war partner. He and his edit-war partner are going around changing the correct name Afghan (which is backed by the Constitution of Afghanistan, CIA world factbook, as well as all the government and media sites of the world) to a false afghanistani name simply because they like it. There is nothing that can be said to justify his actions, even if it comes from an administrator who knows him. Please ban this user indef so that the rest of us can have peace and finally fix all their vandalism slowly.--Hurooz (talk) 17:06, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

– It appears that he has been blocked for one week by Rlevse (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights), so no further action is required on my part. I feel compelled to note that I blocked Beh-nam (talk · contribs) for twenty-four hours for violating the three-revert rule, at no point unblocked him, and have no part in this content dispute. — madman bum and angel 23:41, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Draymin

Why was this page deleted? It did not violate anything? Colingrieve (talk) 11:30, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

The Draymin was deleted per criterion for speedy deletion a7 as a non-notable band. Please see Wikipedia:Notability (music). Cheers! — madman bum and angel 20:55, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jrandi

Jrandi is an imposter of James Randi. The manner that the account edited (grammar/writing style, POV, edit warring) is definitely not the manner that Mr. Randi would behave. I have contact with Mr. Randi and have confirmed it is not him editing. It's a hoax or imposter. The block has been extended indefinitely. In light of that, you may want to reconsider the block on User:Jazz2006. That's up to you. Regards. --Aude (talk) 15:54, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the unblock, Madman. I apologize for what appeared to be edit warring, but it was not my intention to "war" with the other user. I was having a difficult time reverting the edits and had to do it manually, so it looked worse than it actually was. In any event, thanks again for unblocking me. I appreciate it. Regards, {Jazz2006 (talk) 19:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)}
No problem. — madman bum and angel 20:56, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Draymin

I have read the music terms-

The Draymin have played major festivals such as T in the Park and South By South West in the USA as well as supporting major acts such as the Skids, the Bluetones, the Paddingtons, the Law, Seargent (band) and The Enemy....

I think this meets the criteria


Colingrieve (talk) 18:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Draymin

I have read the music terms-

The Draymin have played major festivals such as T in the Park and South By South West in the USA as well as supporting major acts such as the Skids, the Bluetones, the Paddingtons, the Law, Seargent (band) and The Enemy....

I think this meets the criteria


Colingrieve (talk) 18:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the help with She Who Photographs (talk · contribs). I appreciate it. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:54, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

No problem. — madman bum and angel 20:56, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Charles Philippe Lafont

Thanks for notifying me. I have attempted to assert the notability of Lafont. Cheers,Atavi 09:29, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland: clarification

Thanks for removing the copyvio flag. Appreciated.

So I understand why you also wished to removed the paragraph beginning "It is ecumenical, its members being ...", which was from the website.

But you also removed my own, original text, beginning "The Honorary President is..." to the end. Could you let me know, please, why you removed this particular text, which is mine (not the website's), and which I placed there under the usual wikipedia GFDL? I should like to re-introduce this particular text of mine, and assume is it OK for me to do so. Thanks. Feline Hymnic 14:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

If it's in your own words, you may re-introduce it. — madman bum and angel 00:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pipsico

Why was this page deleted? I fixed what had previously appeared as copyright violations. I cited everything. What was possibly a violation?

NorfolkScout (talk) 03:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 20:05, 3 December 2007 (UTC). SatyrBot 21:19, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy Delete of Zwaanendael Colony

I'd like to ask you to respectfully reconsider this delete. The URL of the alleged copyright violation is not necessarily the owner or source of the text in question. It seems just as likely that it was copied from wikipedia in the first place, or that the same user contributed the content for both. Perhaps if it went into AfD or something it would give editors a chance to address possible copyright concerns (if they truly exist). Elpiseos (talk) 14:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Zwaanendael Colony. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Elpiseos (talk) 16:20, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Obedium

I thought you might be interested to discover that the list of sockpuppets User:Obedium has been found using has now increased to 19. See also: Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Scibaby. Happy new year. —Viriditas | Talk 10:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Back

Hooray! You're back! Had a restful vacation? bibliomaniac15 01:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

No real complaints. It's still ongoing, so I'm "back". I just hit my SCV bookmark, boggled at the backlog, and decided I'd try to put in some effort. — madman bum and angel 05:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bristol University botanical gardens

You deleted this page; did you not read any of the comments on the talk page? Or think it was worth asking me about it? Moonraker12 (talk) 16:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I responded to you on the talk page, but it was later deleted by another administrator. Here's the latest revision:

I've just moved this here from the List of botanical gardens in the United Kingdom where it sat like a sore thumb. I don't know whether it's a copyright violation or not; if so then it was before, as well. Moonraker12 (talk) 14:17, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
(copy of post to User:Coren at 14:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC).)
Anyway, I've checked this; it is a direct lift, so I've sent a note to the original editor (User:Buaes; his talkpage). Also, I've added the website as an external link. If there's no response, I'll have a bash at it meself. Moonraker12 (talk) 09:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
As this article was indeed a blatant copyright violation, and no assertion of permission was made, it has been deleted per CSD g12, without prejudice to its recreation using non-copyrighted content. — madman bum and angel 19:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

You can re-create the page when you can find content that doesn't infringe on copyrights, or when you can determine that the original content did not infringe on copyrights. — madman bum and angel 01:47, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The da Vinci Barnstar

The da Vinci Barnstar
For your PHP wizardry in creating the "Check User Reverts" tool on the toolserver. Well done! Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 15:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks!  :D — madman bum and angel 19:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Americans of German-Irish descent

This category is a member of Category:Wikipedia category redirects. Due to technical limitations of the #REDIRECT function, a soft redirect is used instead. This category claims to be redirected to German-Irish Americans (which isn't even a category, let alone an existent category). The actual category was deleted. For the CfD page, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_January_4#Category:German-Irish_Americans. As it is a soft redirect to a non-existent category, it should be speedily deleted per CSD R1.--Vox Rationis (Talk | contribs) 01:52, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Y Done — madman bum and angel 02:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] excuse me vandalism?

you accused me of vandalism on the dead baby bikes page.. the page was atrocious and i salvaged what objective information there was and left the rest open in the case of someone wanting to put in a proper entry..

perhaps someone who takes the name madman and a bum.. (have trouble differentiating between negative and positive attention? let me guess your parents didn't give you honest praise or attention unless you got it by being bad)

what i did was not vandalism.. i did not deface the page.. i kept the relevant information..

so go somewhere and do some of the lame antics im sure you do.. someone will eventually realize you're a supastar —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.212.13.177 (talk) 16:11, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials says

Under Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials#Granting us permission to copy material already online:

you might also explicitly indicate somewhere on your site that Wikipedia has permission to use material from your site.

Which is exactly what I did. If this isn't good enough, then please have the common courtesy not to say that in your own policies. What exactly do you need me to say, and where? -- Roleplayer (talk) 03:42, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry for the confusion; that oversight will be corrected. The best procedure is to confirm that you agree to license the material under the GFDL, which means, among other things, that:
  1. The text may be freely redistributed and used.
  2. It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely redistributed and used.
  3. Any redistribution must include the full text of the GFDL itself.
  4. In all cases, the GFDL requires proper attribution of the author(s).
  5. The GFDL allows commercial re-uses provided such re-use is also under the GFDL.
You do not give up any of your rights to use the text: you are still free to publish the text elsewhere or to license the same text to other parties under any other license. The requirement to include the full text of the GFDL with any redistribution also makes stand-alone commercial reuse of the item unlikely in practice, incidentally.
I hope you don't begrudge this simple licensure we require to ensure that Wikipedia is and remains free content.  :) — madman bum and angel 03:47, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Is this ok? (see note at bottom of page) -- Roleplayer (talk) 03:56, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Absolutely. Thank you for your time. — madman bum and angel 03:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] O Madam

O Madam, the article Rashmi Kumari the content is typed by me and i put it on my website that is http://www.psca.ca.pn/. I put it on this encyclopedia not for popularity purposes. there is a huge list of champion players and their information with me. What abut these articles * R. Arokiaraj

these are also carrom players, But rashmi and other players with me are top grade and these are just kidae before them. Maria Irudyam is an arjuna awardee. Rashmi Kumari, P. Nirmala, Ravinder Gaud, Madhop Singh, Amarpreet Singh Johal, are todays championa and i put it on my website which again is not copyrighted.

If i simply put article u demand for references, if i create reference then you say its copyrighted what is this Madam????.....user:hpt_lucky —Preceding comment was added at 07:55, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't see what the problem is; I removed the article from the list of suspected copyright violations, as it's tentatively fixed/a non-violation and not enough infringing material to matter. Carry on. — madman bum and angel 19:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User_talk:Madman_bum_and_angel/Archive_1#preg_replace

Really useful, thank you. It helped me get past the same fear of all those curly brackets... :) Anyway, I've taken that as a guide, beefed up the regex (has to be pretty watertight to go into a bot), wrapped it up in some logic, and I'm testing it in my plugin now. Thanks again! --kingboyk (talk) 22:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Glad to hear it, and no problem!  :) — madman bum and angel 01:45, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered sometime in January 2008 (UTC). SatyrBot (talk) 23:44, 19 January 2008 (UTC)