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[edit] Vandalism

Thanks for reverting vandalism. Sorry I didn't respond to your message. I was reading a Wikipedia article for a school project and then I had to take a phone call. We did deal with some of the same vandals. I did delete some of the nonsense image talk pages that one of those vandals created. Academic Challenger 06:09, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User AMI box

Careful with that userbox.

I created one somewhat like that one and it was deleted with no warning whatsoever. See this link for info. — nathanrdotcom (T • C • W) 05:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the heads-up. Should I delete it and make it local on my page?--Mboverload 06:19, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof

Thanks for your interest in VandalProof! I've added you to the list of authorized users, and I will do my best to notify you as soon as a download becomes available. I was actually inspired to write this app by my somewhat disappointing experiences with VandalFighter and Lupin's tool, so I know exactly where you're coming from. Lupin's tool is about the best tool I was able to find, and VandalFighter was most definitely better than the old-fashioned Recent Changes refresh. But even combined with popups I simply couldn't stand the repetitive tedium in clicking diff, then clicking revert, then clicking talk, then typing in a warning template, and then going on to the next edit, so I really wanted to develop an app that had the vast majority of the features I enjoyed from those tools but that eliminated the tedium. I truly believe that VP1 is a wide stride toward that goal, though it certainly has a long future of improvement ahead of it, and I think that if you're familiar with VandalFighter, it shouldn't be too difficult to learn how to use this tool. So, anyway, I hope it lives up to your expectations, and feel free to ask me if you have any questions or suggestions for improving it. AmiDaniel (Talk) 08:29, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks! While I'm waiting I'm wading through the nightmare that is using 10 scripts in monobook.js =0 --Mboverload 08:30, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Actually your monobook is rather tame, look at mine, and I still have 2 things to have someone else add to it. :-) Prodego talk 01:45, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
      • Yeah, I removed most of the stuff =) Thanks for the link I'll try it out. --Mboverload 02:06, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Watch out for GPL

Since this program will be released under an opensource licence, it is trivial for someone to make a few edits and remove your authorized user checking mechanism. Indeed, I have already done this with AutoWikiBrowser. Remove this message once you read it if you want. --Mboverload 00:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't entirely understand what you mean. Is there some conflict with using user authorization and the GPL license? AmiDaniel (Talk) 04:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Oh, okay, I get what you were saying now. I might eventually release source code but only to trusted users, where it really wouldn't be much of an issue to allow them to see my routines, so long as they understand not to change them (or I could simply remove them). But we'll cross that herdle when we get there. I thought there may have been some issue licensing it under GPL and only allowing use to "select" individuals. Thanks for the warning though. AmiDaniel (Talk) 05:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Endangered Species Act

Quick response, yo! Thanks for that. I'd like to add more information about the criticisms, and develop the article itself, but I don't know enough about it. For example, the article reads 'The stated purpose of the Act is not only to protect species, but also "the ecosystems upon which they depend."', but in the episode (that I watched last night at like 2AM :P) reads some part of the Act that, if I remember correctly, reads that the purpose is to protect endangered species 'through' protecting their environments, so the stated, actual purpose of the act would be to protect "environments" and then only vicariously the species themselves, I think. But yeah, I need to find out more about it, the show obviously isn't the best scholarly resource. ;) Thanks again, also for making my edit more succinct. Zanturaeon 04:58, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Download Is Now Available

I just wanted to let you know that a download of VandalProof has recently been made available. AmiDaniel (Talk) 09:50, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] RE:Thanks

Your welcome. Happy editing ;-) Moe ε 23:33, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Looks Good!

I made a few changes to the wording and order, but I more or less kept your original design (you can feel free to change it again if you want). Thank you so much for your hard work! I'm already starting to feel the need to beginning splitting VP's talk page ... it's already about 100k, and so a navigation bar is definitely needed. Would you object to my (eventually) moving this either to my userspace or to Wikipediaspace? Again, thanks! AmiDaniel (Talk) 23:40, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

  • I will move it in when I'm done polishing everything up. I am going to make a few more templates. I'm glad you like it!--Mboverload 23:44, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Where did you put the bugs that were already on the talk page? AmiDaniel (Talk) 02:36, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Fixed. Sorry. --Mboverload 02:42, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Woa, we're moving just a little bit too fast, and I don't think we're quite on the same page with everything. Let me just address a few things:

  1. I want User talk:AmiDaniel/VandalProof to host the approved lists / requests for approval.
  2. Let's keep the Installation problems together with bugs, which I've now created at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs (there was a glitch in the Prefixindex and I couldn't find where the page you created was ... too late now).
  3. Can you please slow down and talk to me before implementing any more changes? Thanks, I'm sort of a control freak and like to have things my way. I'm also really concerned that info might go lost when we act so rashly. AmiDaniel (Talk) 02:53, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Get on irc in the #wikipedia channel and PM me or I'll give you my AIM SN if you want it --Mboverload 02:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB edits

Dear M, Please do not make edits like this. Out of 19 changes, none are visible. This occupies my watchlist for no reason. Thanks. --Eddi (Talk) 07:26, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

  • I'm sorry. I have a cheap explanation but that's more than is needed. --Mboverload 07:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] your threat to boot me

To clarify with you, I have no intention of VANDALIZING the Wireless Advocates page. I only am trying to update it with recent info and accurate photos..............am i doing it wrong? Thanks for answering - bdiddy —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BDIDDY (talk • contribs) .

Adding a friend of you and your buddies is not accurate information. Please stop. Please read WP:NOTfor information about what Wikipedia is and isn't. I'm sorry if you thought that what you were inserting was relevant informaiton. --Mboverload 00:21, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Large scale blanking by 125.255.16.233

I noticed you gave 125.255.16.233 (a sock puppet for Engjs) a warning for large-scale blanking, but his changes remain in place. If you think a reversion is appropriate, I'd welcome it JQ 12:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Status

I added the status controls to your talk page and userpage (and set your status to online, as I think you are). See what I said to Kalathalan for instructions on changing your status. AmiDaniel (Talk) 07:04, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, by the way, I just saw your "vandalism" to the abuse page. Tsk, tsk. AmiDaniel (Talk) 07:09, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
LOL, nice vandlism. ILovEPlankton 21:49, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Firefox, IE and the ASCII article.

Hi. Thanks for "unicodifying" that article. I took a look and it seems that the problem is in IE (at least on my computer), not in the article, your edits or the Wikipedia software. I've reverted to your unicodified version with a few changes. See the talk page for details. Any comments? Cheers, CWC(talk) 12:40, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ref converter links

You are receiving this message because you are on the Ref converter spamlist

Ref converter has been updated once again. This time I have created "WikiLinks", which automatically generates a fresh list of articles with old reference styles that need converting. Just run WikiLinks, open up a bunch of the resultant links it give in separate tabs, and go through each tab one-by-one and convert those references. --Cyde Weys 06:44, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

Not that you were assuming bad faith, but could you please explain your "Weak Delete" vote on 2022 Winter Olympics. Thanks Jonathan235 17:32, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Now that I see that you have added more information I have changed it to keep. --Mboverload 19:48, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB

In this edit you replaced [ with [ - probably not the intended action. Is this a general bug of AWB that you might report somewhere, or a setting that you could fix yourself? Anyway, here's something to watch out for. Femto 14:12, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Circumcision Userbox

You may find a userfied version of the deleted box in my user space at User:Tomyumgoong/ubx/nocirc, feel free to subst or transclude it if you wish. Tomyumgoong 07:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ref converter RFC

You are receiving this message because you are on the Ref converter spamlist.

Hello there, I'd just like to make you aware that Lulu has filed an RfC against me and "other users of Ref converter". Since Lulu has previously contacted you regarding Ref converter I think it is safe to assume that you are one of the people named in the "other users of Ref converter" bit, so you may want to get involved. Just a heads-up, Cyde Weys 18:21, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pescadores Islands

Your use of the ABW bot broke all the double byte characters in Pescadores Islands. I don't know what good those are, since they display as ?'s on my browser anyway, and furthermore what the current Wiki policy is for double-byte chars, but it looks like someone went thru a lot of effort to put those into the article in the first place. So what's the story? Kendrick7 04:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 and Opera display that page correctly. Perhaps your encoding is set wrong. View > Character Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8). I'm sorry for the confusion I have caused you. Encoding with Unicode allows editors to see what is actually in the article they are typing. You can see what it looks like before if you edit the old version here. Sorry again and please post here if you have any additional questions. --Mboverload 05:38, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Oh! So you are saying an editor with Chinese support would see those characters correctly when editing the article? I was just confused when looking here at, for example, the post line 37 diffs. On the left it says:
[[Makung|Magong City]] (馬公市 [[pinyin]]: Mǎgōng): 34 municipal villages (里 ''li'')
On the right it says:
[[Makung|Magong City]] (馬公市 [[pinyin]]: Mǎgōng): 34 municipal villages (里 ''li'')
So you are saying 馬公市 hasn't really been replaced by ???, it's just my browser, right? Kendrick7 08:18, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
  • So you can not set the encoding to work correctly in your browser? Which browser are you using? I am very sorry. I never knew a problem like this existed. I know some characters do not work in IE6 (so I do not replace them) but you seem to have a very different setup. I don't think I have anything other than English support installed in Windows XP. Can you tell me your operating system and browser? You are more than welcome to revert the edit. --mboverload 08:26, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Hmmm... I'm using Firefox for XP without any non-English installed. But, just to make sure we aren't just talking past eachother, I've asked for a third opinion at technical support at Village_pump_(technical)#Double-byte_characters_and_AWB_tool Kendrick7 15:23, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
  • OK, nevermind - you were absolutely right all along -- the characters show up just fine in my Firefox browser on my Linux box at work. Tech said I do have to install some language packs to get this working on XP. Sorry for the confusion! Kendrick7 16:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] & hellip;???

I'm just curious why you edited an article (Roman Catholic sex abuse cases) just to replace & hellip; with "...". I originally perpetrated the hellip; is there any reason not to use it? (Note: I've inserted a space after the "&" to prevent the thing being interpreted, couldn't be bothered to see how to escape it properly). While I'm at it, I sometimes use superscript in dates; is there any reason not to do this? Best wishes… Pol098 19:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Editors get confused when they see that in my opinion. "..." is alot more intuitive than #& hellip isn't it? I am ignorant of the reasons for these kinds of things being used so I am more than happy to appologize if this has been a mistake. --mboverload 06:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. I haven't yet decided whether I agree, but it's not a big issue either way, and I'll leave the article you edited alone. I would suggest a comment when you make this edit, though it's clearly Minor. I'm forever replacing single or double hyphens with & mdash;—maybe I shouldn't use that either? Pol098 10:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

  • I did include an edit summary. My new edits have a direct link to User:mboverload/AWB which should epxlain some things. As for the double dash thing, keep on doing it! All AWB does is convert it to another form. No-one's editing skills are ever put to waste! All I do is convert =) --mboverload 00:00, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
… is more typographically correct. If you feel that it is not readable enough, you may replace it with unicode character x2026 (…) as shown below the editing box on Wikipedia. An ellipsis is three non-breaking spaced dots. As such, it is typographically incorrect to replace an ellipsis with "...", because the dots are not spaced. It is also incorrect to use ". . .", because the spaces are not non-breaking (i.e. they will be split apart by line-wrapping). The alternative ". . ." might be considered correct, but at that point, … is probably more readable. The general reason for using character entities like … is mainly to avoid character map conversion issues on web pages. Since Wikipedia embraces unicode, using the unicode character is probably preferrable (some notable exceptions being   and &). —LX 11:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Not all hyphens should be replaced, but it's certainly correct to replace usages like--this one--with em dashes. There are a few points to keep in mind. Firstly, as stated above, on Wikipedia, the unicode character may be preferrable. Secondly, most typographers agree that an em dash like the above should not have spaces surrounding it. Thirdly, some hyphens should not be em dashes, but the shorter en dash, such as for intervals like 2005–2006 (cf. "2005-2006"). Finally, some hyphens are correct, as in "Asia-Pacific region". See the excellent Wikipedia article on dashes for the fine points. —LX 11:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your AWB subpage

I saw your subpage listed on Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser and I'd like to say it's a very good idea. I just want to make a suggestion. Your options do not cover everything, for example: <datagridFAR find=" zeebra " replacewith=" zebra " /> will replace "zeebra" with "zebra" but not "Zeebra" with "Zebra" and not "zeebra," with "zebra,". Hence, try this instead: <datagridFAR find="\b(Z|z)eebra\b" replacewith="$1ebra" />. Then, under options, make regex enabled and case sensitive enabled. This will (a) make the case of the first letter match ($1 means to replace with whatever's in parentheses, either a lower- or uppercase z) and it will match zebra but not I'mAZebra (the \b before and after stands for "word boundary"). I hope this helps you! (PS - The $1 trick won't work if you want to, say, replace site with cite because it only works for the same first letter in both the find and replace.) --M@thwiz2020 01:23, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sources and newbies

Hi! I noticed your edits to Syosset High School; I'd like to ask you to please don't remove unsourced material contributed from anons, but tag it with {{citation needed}}, since that is much nicer to newbies. Thanks! --AySz88^-^ 03:33, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB English variant preference

I noticed that you replaced "\b(V|v)irtualisation\b" with "$1irtualization" in grid computing using AWB. On the one hand, the Wikipedia Manual of Style states that "articles that focus on a topic specific to a particular English-speaking country should generally conform to the spelling of that country", and the use of "virtualisation" was in reference to a British project. On the other hand, the Manual of Style also states that articles should exhibit a uniform usage, and the majority of the article does use American English, so the edit is not wrong. Still, since it was a borderline case, I thought it best to remind you to be wary of the fact that "-ise" spellings are not necessarily "mistakes" which need to be "corrected", and some may take offence (since Commonwealth English users wouldn't take offense) to them being label(l)ed as such. —LX 11:04, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the advise. I have removed that entry from AWB. --mboverload 09:38, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your helpful approach to a new editor here benefits Wikipedia.

I'm impressed with the way you offered constructive assistance in the Talk:Youngdrummers page to the article creator. Thanks for showing that there's always a better approach than biting. Cheers, Colonel Tom 02:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --mboverload 02:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi, about YTMND

About YTMND, we came to an agreement after al ot of arguing that the article should probably be deleted, Max himself believes the article to be pretty worthless and he doesn't care if it is deleted. The article itself is just very low quality and against all wikipedia standards. An article about YTMND should exist. Just not this one in its current form.Dr. Ke 06:52, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oak Hill & race

Good job with Oak Hill Elementary. I'm as skeptic as the next right-brain atheist, but was surprised to learn that there are people who do "not believe in the existence of human races". I live in South Africa, a country filled with racial and cultural diversity.

Generally, culture and biological race are highly correlated. Observing people from one race adopted (literally of figuratively) by another gives some insight into which traits are influenced by culture, which by race and which by both or neither. "Culture" (including income, religion and education) seems to be much more influential in forming a persons personality than race does. (Unlike in dogs where personality seems to be very strongly influenced by breed.)

However, after stripping away the effects of culture some similarities between people of the same race persists, on average. People of different races tend to look and smell different and they are more likely to have different interests and abilities than people of the same race.

Native South Americans' last common ancestor with native Africans might have died as much as 1 million years ago. Tiny genetic changes due to the different environments in which people live are to be expected.

- sYndicate talk 14:45, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot

Your bot or script shouldn't be fixing things like this. The &#39; needs to stay, because changing it to a normal apostrophe interferes with the italics wikicoding. – Mipadi 15:04, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

That's okay, no problem! Just thought you might want to know that sometimes, it seems that &#39; is necessary (unless there's some way to get around the formatting issue that I am not yet aware of). – Mipadi 19:41, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB Spellcheck

Quick question:

<datagridFAR find=" taht " replacewith=" that " />
<datagridFAR find="\b(T|t)abacco\b" replacewith="$1obacco" />

Why the difference? Why not use \b with the first line, too? Just curious. --M@thwiz2020 20:51, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Because I haven't converted it to the second style yet =) Me = Lazy! --mboverload@ 23:01, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing "tfd" tags from templates listed on WP:TFD

Why are you doing this? [1] [2] ? --Tony Sidaway 21:24, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

The template there before was biased in favor of deleting them. I messaged Cyde about that and I assumed he was going to replace them with neutral templates.--mboverload 22:47, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Could you please not remove good faith nominations? If you think a deletion notice could be worded better, please do so. Removing the thing entirely stops people who might be interested in discussing deletion being aware that deletion is being discussed. --Tony Sidaway 00:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I messaged Cyde and assumed he would replace all of them within a minute. --mboverload@ 00:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your advice about the preview button.

Dogaroon 00:27, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userboxes

you really need to fix up your userbox area. User:Raccoon Fox - Talk 15:47, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't know how =( --mboverload@ 20:26, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

that's why i offer to help, should you accept it. :) User:Raccoon Fox - Talk 00:18, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

You bet I do! =0. I'll be on the wikipedia IRC channel if you want to chat. Thanks! =0 --mboverload@ 03:01, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

hey...if i help you out with your page, can you reverse your vote to KEEP Template:User Fatmouse ? (i'll still help you regardless, but i'd really like to save that template.) User:Raccoon Fox - Talk 20:58, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

After careful review I have changed my vote --mboverload@ 21:03, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You're welcome

It was no problem. I clean up that category every so often. As for the userboxes, this latest round of deletions isn't going though so well. There's no way any admin could pull a delete out of most of those templates now, not without getting some backlash. – Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 07:01, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the Beck article

No it is not vandalism. It is not Engrish because the grammar they speak is not broken. Sure they have a heavy accent, but that doesn't mean it's Engrish. So yeah, it isn't vandalism. Check two you (Talk)

Ok, thanks for letting me know. Sorry for any trouble I have caused. --mboverload@ 02:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Modified AWB

Yeah, I had downloaded a new version today (because I screwed something up in my modifications) and it certainly seems better. Thanks for the tip though. Cynical 19:14, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Created Moderator User box and Category

This user is a
VandalProof Moderator




To add yourself to this category, add {{VandalProof Moderators}} for the user box above, or [[Category:Wikipedians that are VandalProof Moderators|{{PAGENAME}}]] to your user page. Thanks! - Glen TC (Stollery) 23:12, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ick

Template:Ick said:

This file has been deleted. there was rude/racist/sexist/unneeded remarks. .
DO NOT RE CREATE THIS ARTICLE WITHOUT GOOD REASONING.
 do not remove this notice while the discussion is in progress. You can post a request to protest this deletion at the talk page of Joler1 or on its talk page User:Zoe|(talk) 00:45, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Noooo, I'm not protesting it, I just wanted to know what it said --mboverload@ 01:43, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
No, what I posted above is what it said.  :) User:Zoe|(talk) 01:48, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh, thanks! =) I'll be on IRC if you wanna talk =) --mboverload@ 01:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't do IRC, sorry. User:Zoe|(talk) 03:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You are very welcome

That's for the cute message :) - Glen TC (Stollery) 02:06, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Umm...

I did read the known bugs, and that one's not listed. If you guys are going to hound me for not reporting bugs, then hound me when I do...what am I to do?--Zpb52 06:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

As I just posted on the bugs page, no one here is meaning to "hound" you. There was some confusion as this was a former bug that was believed to be fixed--this is not, however, the case. Please try to calm down, as no one is out to get you, and I don't feel that mboverload was in any way attacking or criticizing you. I do greatly appreciate that you reported this bug, as it appears that it needs my attention, and I hope that you will continue to do so in the future. Thanks. AmiDaniel (talk) 06:18, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I am very sorry that I came across as being harsh. I usually like to get right ot the point and for many people it can come off as being abrasive. Please feel free to submit more bug reports in the future! --mboverload@ 07:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hiya!

Howyadoin? LOL! Supercool Dude 23:38, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

=P --mboverload@ 00:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked

I have blocked you for 3 hours for disruptive and unproductive personal attacks against another user. These kinds of comments are simply unacceptable. This user is acting in good faith doing what he thinks is best for the encyclopedia (and following process by using deletion nomination templates I might add) and you have the absolute nerve to call him a vandal?! --Cyde Weys 02:21, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Please take some time to cool off. --Cyde Weys 02:21, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe your personal attack justification at all. We have a history (in fact, see above) and I don't believe for one second that it wasn't the final reason for this. Saying that my telling him that he doesn't like boobies is a personal attack is laughable. Jokingly saying that someone doesn't like women because he is deleting a userbox with a picture of breasts in it is not a personal attack. I didn't call him a vandal and you know it. I was refering to the size-changing in-line templates that are used on wikiboxes. Adding stuff to a template that doens't belong there is usually vandalism. You fail any sarcasm or humor test. --mboverload@ 05:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
My, that is a very discouraging response. --Cyde↔Weys 05:29, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for resolving to modify your behavior in future. I fully support Cyde's brief and timely block. --Tony Sidaway 14:29, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Don't sweat it

Don't worry- Wikipedia is not a humourless place. But, it's also not a forum, so the culture here is different. As for the block, it's really not a big deal. There are respected contributors who've been blocked. Admins makes mistakes all the time, just like anyone else. I don't agree that it was justified, but it's over, it was only 3 hours, and FWIW most people who've commented have agreed that it wasn't very warranted. All humor issues aside, please do take care what you call "vandalism". Like "verifiability", this has a Wikipedia-specific meaning that is not neccessarily entirely clear just from the plain-English meaning of the word. See Wikipedia:Vandalism for more info. Unless an edit is very clearly vandalism, it's best not to call it that. Nominating something for deletion isn't vandalism, no matter how strongly you feel that deletion is inappropriate. Friday (talk) 15:16, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank for the advice --mboverload@ 15:25, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Here's some more unsolicited advice: Stay off WP:ANI for a little while. There can be, um, personality issues (I know, what a suprise!) and you're >| |< that close to getting into a much larger and longer-running thing than you probably see. I could use a metaphor about an iceburg or a duck but you get the point. Feel free to ignore this, of course, but I'll block you if you do. Happy editing. Oh, and having your block log sullied is pretty common.
brenneman{L} 11:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox Deletion

Want to join? FreddieAgainst Userbox Deletion? 22:43, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

You are totally right! Have you looked at Template talk:User sumofpi? FreddieAgainst Userbox Deletion? 17:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userboxes: A New Proposal

Hey, I've noticed that you've been active on the Userbox deletion page, either strongly FOR or AGAINST the use of the new T2 for deleting userboxes. I have noticed that most of the community is strong in their opinions on this issue; for that reason, I created my own proposal which attempts to create a middle ground for the two groups, and finally get this debate settled once and for all. I welcome your input into the proposal, as well as your (non-binding) vote on the straw poll. Thanks! // The True Sora 01:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another personal attack

"Someone is completely oversensitive...Get a backbone." [3]

Please be more careful. You're letting your feelings about a subject spill out into highly offensive personal remarks. --Tony Sidaway 13:27, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I was just coming here myself to leave a comment to that effect. Given the abuse that administrators are subject to on a daily basis, including all the hate email from banned users, it's the backbone which gives one the nerve to deal with a disruptive user. Please check the contributions of Thewolfstar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) to get an idea of the sort of user whom J.sweeton@wnri.com (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) thought had been treated unfairly. Mackensen (talk) 13:34, 20 May 2006 (UTC)