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[edit] Your edit to Aylesbury Grammar School

Mboverload,

You have removed a fair amount of information from this article as you say it "belongs on the school website and can easily change". You removed information about the inter-house competitions and the school timetable.

Can you elaborate on this please, as I don't see where you're coming from. The house competitions are a fundamental element of the school's life which have been taking place for over 300 years. It is an interesting and relevant piece of the article. Indeed, it would seem strange to keep the information about the houses but not the two events which they, to be honest, exsist for. Do you agree? The events run each year, and so the holder of each trophy is unlikely to "easily change".

The school timetable, whilst perhaps slightly less noteworthy of inclusion I admit, is nonetheless a piece of information relevant to the school, and again, can you explain why it is "easily changeable and therefore belongs on the school's website"?

I would appreciate it if you would make your intentions and wishes clear on the article's talk page in future so that some consensus may be achieved before such a major edit is done.

Regards, Victor Greenstreet 09:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for a quick response. I look forward to working together in the future Victor Greenstreet 11:02, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warning

You're just a little kid. You impose your point of views on others by deleting true statements and labeling them POVs when they are really just reference to growing concerns. Continue with your acts of terrorist, and see what happens. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.149.244.50 (talk • contribs)

This user was indef banned for being too funny =D --mboverload@ 20:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

(Madrone 01:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Some of us add...

And some of us AWB helping those of us that can't spell well. Thanks! <g> (You probably ought to just key off my contribs!) Best regards // FrankB 04:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem =D --mboverload@ 04:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] MessedRocker On-The-Fly

In spirit of your idea to publish your AIM handle on your user page, which is a great idea, I created a box for my user page called "MessedRocker On-The-Fly". Since you inspired me for the idea, can you tell me what you think of it? —this is messedrocker (talk) 08:13, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Hehe, that's cool. Just a suggestion: Use a throwaway AIM and email handle, just in case someone wants to take issue with you. Use GAIM, I actually have 10 different SNs on different networks for different kinds of people I meet =P I've actually had 2 different users message me so far, and they actually turned into great discussions =D --mboverload@ 08:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cloaking e-mail/IM addresses.

You can also use the form: you & #64; someplace.com (with no spaces) to hide e-mail/IM addresses from spambots, it will appear as a regular e-mail address to anyone else. :) — Nathan (talk) / 22:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Skookum1

Is there anything at all you can do to stop User:Skookum1's continual soapboxing and incivil behaviour on Talk pages, especially my Talk page? [1] --- Hong Qi Gong 00:56, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

On this occasion, your request for adminship was unsuccessful. I hope that you will continue your useful contributions to Wikipedia and may consider standing again in future. Warofdreams talk 03:12, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] this edit

Please keep normal categories before stub tags so they appear first in the category listing. --SPUI (T - C) 12:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't see a difference. That's how all articles are supposed to be sorted. --mboverload@ 17:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
You moved the categories below the stub tag. The stub should be at the end. --SPUI (T - C) 17:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, the developers have been notified and it should be fixed in the next release. --mboverload@ 07:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Helping out with the AWB spellcheck list

Hi there, I saw that you run the commonly used AWB spellcheck list. I tried to start one of my own, with the intention of creating a massive tool (the settings.xml file is about 250kb! See User:Draicone/DSCL) but it didn't quite work, for reasons I'm still trying to figure out. Instead, with your permission I'd like to either adapt your script to suit my massive spellchecking options (I'll add case-sensitivity, ideally) or help out with yours (adding entries, really) to make it more complete. --Draicone (talk) 08:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

If you check out my latest release you will see that I'm already converting the list you use (it seems t be pretty common). Although a lot of it can be done with find-and-replace, as you can see I include the purals and other varients of most of the words. Every single line must be edited by hand and checked. Read the regex article and learn how I do each line - it's based an just a few simple operations that I'm confident you could learn. I'm already done with all the C words, which I'll release next week. Choose a random letter and see how well you do. As you can see at the top I'm on vacation and I got a minor injury that hurts like a bitch so I wont be able to chat with you in real time. Good luck =D - mboverload
Sure, I'll see what I can help out with. I personally hate SVN and am totally incapable of using it so I'll just email you changes I make or something. --Draicone (talk) 12:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB

Your AWB software is currently creating typos/problems in articles. See List of songs about drugs, World Trade Center, Timeline of trends in music (1960-1969), and I am sure there are others. Please fix these problems and modify your software to not break image links/correct typos in proper names. Thanks Schicksal 01:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

As I said in the latest edit summaries, all edits are going to be completely checked for errors. Thanks for alerting me, and I am addressing your concerns at this moment. --mboverload@ 01:37, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
The AWB software is causing you to create mindless, autonomic edits of many Wikipedia pages. This does not fit well in the scheme of having Wikipedia a "user-based" encyclopedia, not a "automatic software" encyclopedia. Please throughly go through all the edits you make before taking action using your "precious" software as a lot of carelessness can be reversed when doing so.
(note that I called his software "precious" as he used it as evidence of his "frequent edits" in his recent bid for adminship.)
John Cho 01:08, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Heh, I didn't use my edit count at all. Please do not misrepresent the facts. --mboverload@ 02:27, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I Think you need to halt using that software all together. You seem to be abusing that software by editing millions of pages with nonsensical "typo" edits that ruin images on pages and such. Seriously, please be more careful with this software unless you can harness its powers correctly and accuratly.
John Cho 02:20, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey, you're User:Ste4k (declare your sockpuppets, I have been in a dispute with this user). Please don't just hop on another user talking to me to throw in a punch. I don't edit millions of pages, and had you been involved in this you would have known that in the edit summary I said I was going to audit (ie, check) every single edit I made. --mboverload@ 02:25, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm User:Ste4k? That's headline news to me. I don't even know the character and if you check the dates of my contributions you will know and realize that I'm not a "sock puppett" of Ste4k. I am just opposing your random, frequent, mindless edits that litter Wikipedia. I do not like to see my Wikipedia (the PEOPLE'S (I'm a person) encyclopedia) getting littered with these non-sensical, software-autonomic edits. Please get on all your edits and fix them, I would appreciate that, and nothing will come about this. Thanks.
John Cho 02:50, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm not even going to bother refute that. Bye bye. --mboverload@ 04:32, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Note: AWB has been updated and all problems here have been 100% fixed and will never happen again. --mboverload@ 08:35, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] spelling

For what it's worth: "causality" and "casualty" are two different words. "Casualty" is a disaster, or a person lost through disaster. "Causality" is the relation between a cause and its effect. - Nunh-huh 06:25, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for alerting me. --mboverload@ 06:32, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
No problem, glad to have helped. - Nunh-huh 07:00, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
This, for example, is a great example of your buggy software that you fail to use in an efficient manner. Please fix, and Wikipedia shall be at original, good means. Thanks. --John Cho 06:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
The software is not buggy. And I didn't know there was a difference, using a program has no relevance. This is a friendly editor giving me a friendly tip about one small error that was fixed. Stop raking for crap Ste4k. --mboverload@ 08:33, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
As stated previously, I do not have any idea who this fool Ste4k is. A lot of people seem to have disputes with you, as seen with your recent bid for adminship, and I don't see why just because Ste4k had issues with you that you can link me to him. I do my own edits, as seen in my contribs, never in relation to any of Ste4k's contribs, nor can you see any of my Wikipedia pages linking nor even remotely relating to Ste4k's.
On that note, I'm glad you resolved the issue. Please keep up with your good work in editing typo's and such but please also be more careful, is all I ask. Have a good one.-- John Cho 08:42, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Very few people have dispute with me, but I'll leave it on that note. Bye. (And yes, I'll be even more careful in the future at approving my words to replace) --mboverload@ 08:46, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot Account & AWB

Hi, I noticed from the AWB pages that you use a bot account and run AWB on it preforming edits.

I was thinking about doing this for myself.

Would i need to create a new account, request bot status on it (would this be done from my main user account?), and then request AWB authorisation on it?

Cheers


Reedy Boy 11:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I actually run a semibot (complicated). Post this question to the WP:AWB talk page for better help. Good luck =D --mboverload@ 06:07, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting vandal warning

Thanks for that. --Guinnog 21:55, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

np, the picture has also been deleted as it is a violation of fair use guidelines. I explained it to the user. --mboverload@ 21:56, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quick Question

Can you make your spamlist include the timestamp? Not having the stamp sort of F***s up Wernabot's archiving. Alphachimp talk 04:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, no problem, thanks for pointing that out. --mboverload@ 06:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please be careful with your AutoWikiBrowser spellchecker.

Hi Mboverload,

Twice now you've incorrectly changed "attendent" to "attendant" at French conjugation, and twice I've had to revert the change. Please try to pay more attention to the changes your AutoWikiBrowser spellchecker is suggesting, and don't make the changes when they're incorrect.

Thanks in advance!

Ruakh 11:51, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I'll be sure to take your advice to heart. --mboverload@ 19:19, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. :-) Ruakh 19:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hi

thank u for acknowledging me for my contributions to nellore.I would like to stay back and prevent vandalism and any unsubstantiated postings here.Can u help me how to post pics and arrange them in order?

Sure, what do you need done? You can also get your own account to upload your own pics. --mboverload@ 19:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hydnjo's response to the blocking proposal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I thank you for your courtesy in informing me at the outset of the discussion at WP:AN and for your compliments about my contributions. The comments in my response were made in the shadow of my own frustration with my having left a trail of edits that could easily be construed as having come from either Heidi or myself. I sincerely apologize to you for making any suggestion as to your motivation in bringing up a legitimate policy question. You have a genuine concern for the orderly behavior of our editors and I thank you for initiating this discussion and providing me the opportunity to explain the nature of my account. --hydnjo talk 18:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:The Frosties Kid‎

Hey there, thanks for the putting the explanatory template on Talk:The_Frosties_Kid. Might you also possibly place "No Personal Attacks" warnings on the talk pages of those who are still violating this daily? I refuse to engage in discussion with these kids as long as they continue the incivility. wikipediatrix 03:16, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if there is a template for that, but if there isn't, I'll make it =D --mboverload@ 04:20, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
How long will this go on for, wikipediatrix you refuse to discuss anything and keep "running off" lookng for backup. I'm sure most people would be willing to discuss matters in a civl way, just give them a chance!
All users should present their arguments and stay for the discussion. --mboverload@ 08:51, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I already presented my argument from the start. Nothing's changed. I will only respond to non-insulting editors. wikipediatrix 13:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] A favor to ask

You may not remember me, but I dug up the links demonstrating an admin vocally opposing your RfA was acting out of spite and bad faith. Unfortunately, I was a few days too late.

Now I have a favor to ask. I'm seeing another RfA potentially get scuttled by a disingenuous opposition that's got everyone else nodding their heads in concern. See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Andypandy.UK, especially supporting comment #60 and my response to opposing comment #15. Do you mind taking a look at this? --A. B. 08:25, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I could never forget you! I'll look at it. --mboverload@ 08:31, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: AWB regextypofix

Hi, I have been informed of something

I have just started using your spelling list, and it makes the edit summary strange

<summary text="Limited spellcheck + unicode + minor fixes using mboverload's RegExTypoFix with AWB" />

   <summaryindex index="Limited spellcheck + unicode + minor fixes using mboverload's RegExTypoFix with AWB" />

It ends up with With AWB using AWB

Do you think the with AWB should be removed?


Cheers


Reedy Boy 08:43, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, sorry, that's for my own personal use. I'll remember to change it for the next release, thanks. --mboverload@ 08:44, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Heh, No Problem. Thanks for making this very extensive list. Oh, and as a side note, you may want to put in the readme, that if people call it default it will be loaded with AWB! Reedy Boy 11:55, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Frosties Kid Discussion page

Discussion pages are there to assert different points of view whether we agree with them or not. Tagging some discussion pages are fine but deleting whole sections of DISCUSSION????? is this good faith - you have never contributed to the space and you have even deleted comments made by another ADMIN - just tell me why??? Mike33 09:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Note The removal was actually done by an IP user, as you can see in this edit. They used the Google Toolbar, which cuts off text just like that. They most likely didn't mean or know about it. --mboverload@ 09:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

ok i meant that you edited The Frosties Kid several times during the last few hours and removed several paragraphs see edit [[2]] and your later edit [[3]] - Those paragraphs of the discussion pages included comments from other admins. why were they removed? why were they not removed by admins who had commented to the articles? I thought that talk pages should only be edited by original users changing spelling :-Z Mike33 09:48, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Posted on the talk page: It has come to my attention that I accidentally deleted several sections. This is because of my use of the Google Toolbar, which cuts off the text of the edit box, as you can see in that diff. I am SO sorry, I totally didn't realize, and I offer my sincerest apologies. --mboverload@ 09:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
ITS COOL THANKS my apologies really - didn't realise that you were already onto the problem - your original post not the crossed out section seemed a bit derisory and facetious check [[4]] (history passim) - but thanks for the help and sorry for my tone - I honestly thought that you were trying to deny it. Your friend Mike33 11:15, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Skandha spellcheck

Thanks for the spellcheck on the skandha article -- nice catches! - LarryR 11:58, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bright Feminine Pink With Flowers RfA Thanks!

Thanks for contributing to my successful RfA!
To the people who have supported my request: I appreciate the show of confidence in me and I hope I live up to your expectations!
To the people who opposed the request: I'm certainly not ignoring the constructive criticism and advice you've offered. I thank you as well!
♥! ~Kylu (u|t) 00:34, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the support, even though it did look like you thought I was a guy for some reason. c.c ~Kylu (u|t) 00:34, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I just kinda assume people on the internet are guys, and I don't really care what gender people think I am. Anyway, I'm glad you got adminship! If you need any help please let me know. --mboverload@ 00:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beggins etc

You might want to be a little careful with the beggins changes. In this edit you incorrectly changed a name. Qutezuce 02:52, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't catch that was a name. Thanks!

[edit] Ste4k RfC

I am compiling information for an RfC regarding user:Ste4k's behavior. Frankly, there is a lot to document. I thought you might be more familir with the talk page formatting and edit warring issue than I am. If you're interested in contributing, the draft is at User:Will Beback/Sandbox. I've drawn up an outline of the talk page issues, but it needs to be filled-out. Feel free to add to it as you see fit. I expect to post the Rfc in a day or two. -Will Beback 04:57, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

They haven't been banned yet? You're serious? I'll look at it. --mboverload@ 07:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA thanks

Hello Mboverload/Archive 4, and thank you for your support at my Request for Adminship, which succeeded with an overwhelming final count of (105/2/0). I was very pleased with the outpouring of kind words from the community that has now entrusted me with these tools, from the classroom, the lesson in human psychology and the international resource known as Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia. Please feel free to leave me plenty of requests, monitor my actions (through the admin desk on my userpage) and, if you find yourself in the mood, listen to some of what I do in real life. In any case, keep up the great work and have a fabulous day. Grandmasterka 06:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: small but important...

Hey thanks, I've just committed some new tweaks and changes, it's good having you test them before they go live. thanks Martin 09:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

The edit summary is better now (no regex syntax), have you updated the code? Martin 10:26, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
LOL, I forgot to recompile it. Hehe. --mboverload@ 10:27, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
AWESOME! No more ugly regex! --mboverload@ 10:30, 19 July 2006 (UTC)Now it's just
I've just fixed another small thing, I noticed in your changes such as this it says "developed => developed", this is due to your regex matching the correct spelling as well, but it is of no importance, but it won't show these identical replacements from now on. Martin 10:52, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Actually, could you leave those in? (or just add an option for it when you have some crazy spare time) There's no other way to help me find useless lines, unless you know a program that will do it for me. --mboverload@ 10:55, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spell checking

Hi. While looking at your contribs (I wanted to see the new AWB edit summary in action) I think I might have found a botch in your spell checking regexes: See this edit. I think it should be "copyrighted" (if at all). Cheers. --Ligulem 14:20, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

THANKS! --mboverload@ 20:39, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verifiability template?

Was this edit [5] a template, and if so, where / which? Thanks much!!! KillerChihuahua?!? 18:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Yep! You can get it by {stophammertime} or {wp:v} --mboverload@ 20:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB regextypo Fix

<datagridFAR find="\b(A|a)pplicaito(n|ns)\b" replacewith="$1pplication" />


I noticed when doing some edits, that it turned a bad spelling of applications to application, had to manually change it

Should it be

<datagridFAR find="\b(A|a)pplicaito(n|ns)\b" replacewith="$1pplication$2" />

going by the other ones with (x|xy)

Keep up the good work!!


Cheers


Sam

Thanks man! --mboverload@ 20:40, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
No Probs. Ill have a look over it for you to look for any others. Im presuming $1 means constant one, and takes it from the brackets, and keeps it the same. Same for $2 ?? Reedy Boy 20:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I think you mean variable 1? =D Yep. You made an error in your replacements. to(n|ns) being replaced with tion$2 would just make tionns =D --mboverload@ 21:04, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Heh, ah well - Every Little Helps - As says asda...Reedy Boy 21:10, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
That one you just posted is actually supposed to be like that, it matches variable 2, but it doesn't matter in the end since both of those variables are wrong =D --mboverload@ 21:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I realised, thats why i removed it :D Reedy Boy 21:14, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
My brain hurts. Fredil Yupigo 21:02, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] regextypofix--0.0.5

regextypofix--0.0.5.zip seems to be corrupt on all mirrors

'(

Reedy Boy 21:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I just uploaded it again, in a few minutes it should be available for download. --mboverload@ 21:20, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
It's there, but its coming down corrupted. It could be my internet as it has been disconnecting a lot, and having a lot of problems. Will check it in the morning. Thanks! Reedy Boy 21:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, more servers have it, but im still getting a corrupt file. Other versions download fine.... Reedy Boy 07:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Still coming down corrupted. Have to wait for the next version Reedy Boy 21:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Having the same problems with 0.0.7.zip ..... ARGH! Reedy Boy 10:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


Yay - 2nd uploaded 0.0.7 works :D Reedy Boy 14:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roma People Illustration

You will find if you look at the history of the 'Roma People' page that verifiable images of Roma People were put in, just not in one self-contained image. They were removed and replaced with the current unverifiable image.

What you might not notice is that the current image has not been verified since it was uploaded over seven months ago. This was pointed out on the image's talk page but someone has not only deleted all reference to this but also deleted the history of this discussion. It remains a legitimate warning that putting the current picture on the 'Roma People' page is vandalism because it is not verifiable (one of the three requirements for ALL Wikipedia content). The four pictures themselves that make up the 'FamousRoma.JPG' illustration could be put there, but I think you'll find that some very politically motivated vandals (e.g. Improv) will not only remove it and replace it with an unverifiable image but also block anyone who takes issue with the current picture.DoubleSpacing 15:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Like you have been told, using that picture is a fair use violation. --mboverload@ 17:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks?

Hey thanks for the spelling changes to the article I pretty much wrote. I wrote that article in huge chunks, so I'm not surprised that I had some spelling errors. However, since my spelling sucks somehing awful, I don't really bother anymore. There are enough gnomes and bots to do that. Anyway, thanks. --Clyde Miller 20:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

=D --mboverload@ 21:58, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] regextypofix

hey mboverload. just wanted to warn you, be real careful with making a 100% 'foolproof' spellchecker. i've been spellcheck'n for quite a while now, and it ain't possible. i've made over 23,000 spelling corrections thus far, and hell if i don't get a monkey wrench in there once in a while. other than that, keep up the good work. :) JoeSmack Talk 04:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know what you mean! =D Thanks for the advice =D --mboverload@ 10:17, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Di Biase

Just a thought, instead of "reverting blatant promotion" which really wasn't promotion at all, would it perhaps have been more constructive for you to edit what you considered "blatant promotion" so that the paragraph was acceptable, instead of removing it entirely? - pm_shef 20:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

It was unrecoverable. There are two unsourced claims in it, both of which can be removed by any editor. "Once elected, Di Biase insisted on moving the City Of Vaughan beyond its roots as a commuter community. Working with various levels of governments, Di Biase guided the City to economic success and influence." That isn't blatent promotion? --mboverload@ 20:40, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
I removed the "economic success" sentence, you're right, that was a bit much, but the "downtown" thing is evidenced by the Civic Centre. Take a look at my changes and tell me what you think. In terms of the "senior regional councillor" thing that you reverted. That is in fact why he was appointed Mayor over the other Reg.Counc. Joyce Frustaglio, simply because he was deemed the Senior Regional Councillor, so there was no need to remove that part. - pm_shef 20:43, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Although I still have a small objection, I'm not going to argue or revert you. Have fun with the article. --mboverload@ 20:47, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signature Template

I know, some people aren't taking it so well (this diff, for instance). It's just a bit of load on the server. There will probably be more templates of almost any listed userbox than my signature template, and the server load isn't that heavy.

[edit] AWB Pokémon problem

Is there anyway to stop the AWB to not change "pokemon" to "Pokémon" when it's part of a reference? I think this is mucking refs is all. Cheers, Highway Return to Oz... 22:18, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

What article was this in? I'm really sorry, I didn't see it. Can you point me to it? --mboverload@ 22:21, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Makuhita for one. It's not the link, it's the "Pokemontcg.com. URL Accessed July 21, [[2006.". I doubt you'll be able to isolate it. Sorry, Highway Return to Oz... 22:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
I have contacted the developer of AWB and hopefully they will get back to me for a fix. THANK YOU for telling me about this, I am stopping all editing until there is one. --mboverload@ 22:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Och, it's fine. ;) Highway Return to Oz... 22:28, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
I think I caught it early, the problem is only appearing in articles that have a specific intro to the Trading Card Game section. Cheers, Highway Return to Oz... 22:37, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Stophammertime

The template has been deleted, as requested.  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  23:41, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ste4k RfC

FYI: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ste4k. -Will Beback 00:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi mboverload~ I'm going to move your replies to outside views on Ste4k's RfC to the discussion page, unless you object. Discussion and response to outside views should occur there. Take care, —Antireconciler ◊ talk 04:39, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

no problem. --mboverload@ 07:32, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Weekly AWB spellcheck changes - 0.0.8 and uberness

LMAO!

The Humour is great!

Good to find the cause behind teh 'corruption'


D

Ill have to give you a present later ;)

Reedy Boy 13:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Good stuff. I used it for a little bit and now I'm done...but yeah, nice job. I can't imagine the level of work you invested in this. Typochimp 05:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
=D --mboverload@ 06:08, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Posted. Alphachimp talk 06:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Yay Cheers Alphachimp :D Reedy Boy 21:14, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How exactly am i using copyrighted text?

Please point this out to me and i will stop. But as far as i can see, none of my text is copyrighted. --Crampy20 21:33, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

here. Thanks for understanding! --mboverload@ 21:33, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for pointing this out. [6] is the page from which that text was copied from; I was moving articles around, I was unaware it was previously copied.--Crampy20 21:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Ok, thanks cool. --mboverload@ 21:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Do I still need to delete the text? --Crampy20 21:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Could you post the articles with the text and such? I'll take care of all of it for you. Sorry, I thought your were just copying stuff over, which I thought was strange coming from a user like you =P --mboverload@ 21:39, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Cute, but you have deleted the page. I did put effort into that page, especially as the previous page was cr*p, i thought i was good, minus the lack of and copyrighted information. By "taking care of it" you deleted it. Can you restore it and just delete the info. Because that was a bit rude. --Crampy20 21:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Oh, I'm not an admin, someone else must have deleted it. I can contact someone and get it undeleted for you though --mboverload@ 21:45, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
That would be kind thank you. --Crampy20 21:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Here, an admin did this for me: freewebs.com/abcde1846 Sorry about this. --mboverload@ 21:58, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank you --Crampy20 22:02, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
I wish you the best of luck! --mboverload@ 22:03, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stop

Please stop removing the presently-unverified text, as this undermines the Mediator system and the dispute resolution process. Killfest2|Daniel.Bryant (Talk) 09:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't aware that article was under mediation. Sorry. --mboverload@ 22:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] So I was checking Interiot's Tool today...

and I found this....

Username   Mboverload
Total edits     21298
Distinct pages edited   17100
Average edits/page      1.245
First edit      03:31, April 11, 2004

(main)     17619
Talk    270
User    602
User talk       1495
Image   20
Image talk      4
Template        54
Template talk   4
Help    2
Category        4
Category talk   2
Wikipedia       1050
Wikipedia talk  172

Um. Wow? I know that they're mostly spelling corrections and cleanup stuff, but there are still 17100 distinct Wikipedia pages that owe their current state in some part to either you or your spellchecker. You've also uploaded a part of the dictionary and made your AWB settings available to all. When I posted a problem, you had it fixed within 30 minutes. Anyway, you get this:

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
is presented to mboverload for his many excellent contributions across all of Wikipedia, and especially his spellchecker. Alphachimp talk 22:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC) Seconded by Reedy Boy 21:20, 25 July 2006 (UTC) Thanks for making our Wikipedia WP:AWB edits that bit more meaningful!



You might not be an admin, but you sure have a twirling barnstar. Have a great night. Alphachimp talk 22:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! That means a lot to me Alphachimp. =D --mboverload@ 22:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
That was what i was meaning.. Just didn't know how to do it. Hope alphachimp don't mind my add on to it. Thanks Again! Reedy Boy 21:20, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Uh...can you help me?

You have like 10,000 edits or whatever, so you must have some idea what's going on. Hey, ya know that one article you spellchecked? Well do you know if a wiki project video game exists? and if so, where can I find it? Thanks I owe you...two now I guess. --Clyde Miller 15:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Here ya go: Wikipedia:List_of_WikiProjects#Games =D --mboverload@ 19:28, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. --Clyde Miller 20:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Main issues

  • The Toronto election page contains no references for the main issues. Am I to assume you will be deleting those as well. Also, I am sure there are many more 'main issues' sections throughout all of the upcoming Ontario election articles without sources. ED209 02:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Nah, I'm too lazy. --mboverload@ 02:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
So stop complaining. Pm_shef wants to remove the 'election issues' to avoid scrutiny and protect Vaughan Council, on which his father sits. ED203 20:15, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Slapping

Don't be cheeky. ;) But it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. Here are User:Lingeron's comments on the Talk:Anarchism page:

The Ungovernable Force, when I study I like to study the actual history and the events that happened rather than rely on another researcher's point of view. I like to just get the facts and then draw my own conclusions. It's like reading a newspaper. One can read a right or left leaning paper, where some of the facts are left out, and come to right or left leaning conclusions. I would much rather just get the facts and make up my own mind about the event.[7]

If that's not a tendency towards original research, I don't know what is. --AaronS 11:58, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prod tags

I see you already know about the Pokemon problem with RegExTypoFix, but does it also automatically remove prod tags? I'm looking at the history for an article that has come up on AFD [8] and it seems that the only change between the intial prod and the revert was yours. A regexp fix probably isn't a reason to deprod an article, so I'm guessing this is part of the code? Yomangani 12:10, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow, that is extremely strange! I have brought it up with the developer of AWB here. Feel free to add anything in, and thanks for telling me about this. --mboverload@ 20:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Remember the database problem on the 21st? I think it was related to some edits being temporarily lost instead of a glitch with AWB. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 20:19, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, that's certainly a likely explanation. The same occured here around the same time, so probably a false alarm but worth keeping an eye on. Yomangani 22:44, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hey, good catch on Split-T. Thanks Z4ns4tsu 20:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow, thanks man! That's an extremely nice article, keep up the good work man. --mboverload@ 20:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting the Nitcentral article

Can you chime in with your vote? It's here.

  • IMPORTANT comment Due to the database problems we lost like 40 minutes - 3 hours worth of changes to some article. Many prods were accidentally removed. Because of that it looks like I removed the prod tag (it also happened on a few other articles). I have no interest in this article. --mboverload@ 03:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ste4k RfC

I thought you might like to know that Ste4k has revised her response to the RfC, and has now posted what appears to be one of your comments but in reality is a misleading paraphrasing with your signature attached. I commented on it on Ste4k's talk page as well as the RfC talk page. Sorry to drag you back into this but thought you would want to know. --Nscheffey(T/C) 03:46, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Venture capital...

For your hard work on RegexTypoFix, I award you this barnstar. Draicone (talk)
For your hard work on RegexTypoFix, I award you this barnstar. Draicone (talk)

From your latest RETF bulletin, "Bill Gates has offered me $1.3 million in venture capital. I'll be taking him up on that offer". /me bids 1.4. For spending the time to convert lists to RETF, I hereby award you this barnstar. --Draicone (talk) 06:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks man! --mboverload@ 06:28, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

Wow, 4 barnstars in one day, that must be a record!

P.s. have you looked at the newest version, with the customisable find-and-repplace dialog? any bugs or whatever in the dev version can be reported to my wiki email, or on my talk page. thanks! Martin 13:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Calender --> Calendar

Just running Latest AWB and Regextypo over my watchlist, which includes your typo fix page

And its still wanting to correct calender to calendar

From this bit:

  • Fixed in 0.0.9.6 - Calender is a valid spelling, sadly enough. It actually has it's own meaning. Regards, Typochimp 05:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Wasn't this changed so it didnt happen?

Or is it up to the user to decide on which oen?

Reedy Boy 22:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

=( You can use <br> to make new lines. I have removed it and I will be releasing the new version and newsletter later today. Sorry =(. You can strike out that comment in the regex page --mboverload@ 22:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Francis Schuckardt

Thanks for the input on the Francis Schuckardt article which you reverted. I could use some advice. I have about 20 newspaper articles in hard copy from the 1970s and 1980s. I have photocopied these and posted them at www.therougebishop.com so that others could read the entire articles, portions of which are cited in the Wikipedia article. (There are many other newspaper articles dealing with Francis Schuckardt that are not cited.) The newspaper's online sourcing of articles does not go back to the 1980s. How do I allow interested parties to read the actual articles if I cannot cite the one place that the articles are posted? Any ideas? Bernie Radecki 23:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I was just concerned about sourcing forum posts. Feel free to revert, I really don't want to both with this article anymore =D --mboverload@ 23:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks from Yanksox

 Hey, Mboverload/Archive 4, thanks for supporting my RfA, with a tally of 104/4/7...


I am now an admin!!!


I was and still am very flattered by all the kind comments that I recieved, I will also take into account the comments about how I could improve. I guarantee I will try my best to further assist Wikipedia with the mop. Feel free to drop in and say hi or if you need anything. Again, thank you so much! Yanksox 07:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes...master... Yanksox 08:12, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
No worries, I did it to quite a few people before my adminship. :P I think if you give it another run, you'll be fine. Yanksox 08:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Small one

<datagridFAR find="\b(A|a)bouta\b" replacewith="$1bout a" />

Noticed this was one that some people checked using google...

Maybe worth adding just incase it is found

Keep up the good work

If you get another RfA, i'll vote for you :D

Cheerss

Reedy Boy 10:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your User page

I'd love a diff of "The first time someone made up a husband to challenege you to a fight"! ViridaeTalk 10:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd be happy to. Check back here tomorrow, I gotta sleep =D --mboverload@ 10:14, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
And I gotta eat dinner :) ViridaeTalk 10:15, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
diff? :P ViridaeTalk 08:27, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Aw crap, I'm actually working on AWB right now. I'll message you someday =P --mboverload@ 08:28, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] <datagridFAR find="\b(G|g)raceful(l|ly|lness)\b" replacewith="$1racefu$2" />

<datagridFAR find="\b(G|g)raceful(l|ly|lness)\b" replacewith="$1racefu$2" />

Should be

<datagridFAR find="\b(G|g)raceful(l|ly|lness)\b" replacewith="$1raceful$2" />

It was introducing spelling mistakes!


Reedy Boy 12:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article on Jim Shapiro

Wow, thanks for the speedy deletion tag. However, it will soon be removed, because a couple of admins are so inclined. I removed unsourced negative statements made about this attorney, per Wiki guidelines, to the sentence you see there. The sole purpose of the article was to disparage this attorney - whether he deserves it or not, is irrelevant. The attorney has no notability, but for the claims made of his lack of ethics. That seems an odd reason to have an entry in Wikipedia. jawesq 07:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC

I saw your comment on my talk page. Bless you. If you would vote on the Rfd, it would be helpful - with reasons why... Yes, we can talk on my page.  ;-)jawesq 07:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
the admin who provided the 'source' already removed your tag as I expected he would.jawesq 07:43, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, it will be deleted, have no doubt about it. The AfD will be closed early, you may just have to wait a few hours. He is doing what he thinks is right, and he may be to some degree. We can wait a few hours for everyone to finish talking on the AfD and then it will be gone forever. --mboverload@ 07:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New AWB

Hi, I'm not sure if you noticed, but the newest version of AWB already has your Typo regexes incorporated into it, and an option to tur, remove and change new typos. I used the latest xml file you had uploaded to get all the settings, if this is is out-dated then it is easy to replace it with a new one. I'll give you developer access if you want to be able to change them yourself. Martin 08:08, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually I can't find it them in the SVN source. Please get on irc --mboverload@ 08:10, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My mod

I just realised I should have asked before I changed your coding, specifically I added publically->publicly and already edited with flourine->fluorine, -ide, and deleted behaviour. I don't see why you'd have a problem with that but I really felton reflection that I should mention it. I'll hold off on editing using my mod until I hear from you. I do hope you aren't put out. Apologies if so. --Guinnog 21:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Wait, where did you change it and how? I'm the only one with access to the sourceforge project. =P --mboverload@ 21:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Oh no, I only changed my local copy, in notepad. Great piece of work by the way. --Guinnog 21:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Oh, you don't need my permission for any of that! It's under the GPL anyway =D. There's going to be some huge news...it's going to change everything...... --mboverload@ 21:24, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I know that legally I don't have to ask your permission but I was worried you'd still be annoyed; I should have asked as a courtesy first. Would you like to expand on that tantalising bit of news? --Guinnog 21:33, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Oh no really you don't. You're just editing a file on your computer =D. The news? Lets say it's a whole new era for RETF. --mboverload@ 21:36, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Challenge to deletion of Jim Shapiro

I had hoped what you said was correct, but I see that it is not. Please see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2006_July_31#.5B.5BJim_Shapiro.5D.5D

The author has challenged its deletion.jawesq 01:21, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!jawesq 01:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Musics vs. Music

Note: This user is referring to a manual spellcheck I did using Microsoft Word, not WP:RETF
Thanks very much for cleaning up my spelling errors at Quartal and quintal harmony. I was curious, though, about one part of this edit. Why change "musics" to "music"? Is it an issue of style for you? - Rainwarrior 03:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem! I always thought that music was a singular and plural word (plus Microsoft Word said it was a misspelling). I'm not 100% sure, though; Microsoft word isn't that great when it comes to the intricacies of the English language. I do see your point; I'll be sure to skip over it in the future. --mboverload@ 04:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
It's a less common word, comparable to the difference between "peoples" and "people". They're somewhat interchangeable, but there's a subtle difference... Maybe I could say "there are many different aboriginal peoples on this continent" but it would probably take a few more words to say the same thing with "people". Similarly with "musics", I was trying to subtly hint that an individual culture might have several distinct traditions of music. (Again, it's not a big thing, I was just wondering if you'd heard somewhere that it was bad style to use a word like "musics" or something.) - Rainwarrior 05:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RETF

I noticed on anothers talkpage thats on my watchlist that you have eminent correcting to imminent. Just a heads up, both are words, and you may want to introduce some context into the correcting, if you havent already looked into the issue. Good work. -Mask 07:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, it's been fixed in the latest release, people should have updated by now =D --mboverload@ 07:23, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UMN solar car

Heya man, thanks for going over the University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project page. I'll take it as a complement that you only found one spelling error. TheHolyMacintosh 00:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Suggestion

Don't put the RETF section at the very top of the AWB page. I think it should definitely be below the level of the registration and download instructions. That's just my opinion. alphaChimp laudare 21:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

You're right, I moved it and I think that's better. --mboverload@ 21:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great work!

I'm awestruck that you have spent fifty+ hours of your valuable time developing your spellchecker to help Wikipedia. It is a true testament to your desire to make Wikipedia a better place. While this trinket is nowhere near the proper recognition you deserve, it is the best I can do as a humble Wikipedian of limited Wiki-means! Cheers! hoopydinkConas tá tú? 21:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] RETF --> AWB

Congrats on getting RETF into AWB, i'm now using it on top of my spelling errors list. My own old spellchecking list had about a 9.3% (and slowly rising) multiple error occurrence rate per article correction, and hopefully it'll raise that more now. We all put some strain scanning and changing articles with AWB, and fuck if i don't love being parsimonious! ;) JoeSmack Talk 14:30, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Whoop, it just tried to change 'Adaptions' to 'Adaptations'. JoeSmack Talk 14:32, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Crap, fixed =( --mboverload@ 22:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

What he said. ;) I keep seeing it on Recent changes.--Andeh 16:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: my talk page

Yes, it is pretty funny, although it is pretty disturbing that he got that angry over this. Similar things have happened many times before though. Academic Challenger 09:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB: I don't understand

Your spellchecking has been a bit aggressive with corrections to variants of the word understand. It has changed "undertanding → understand" here and "undertands → understand" here. I don't think this can be what you intended. Gaius Cornelius 19:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. I have gone through my history, it showed up again one other time. --mboverload@ 19:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB use on Lancelot Andrewes

I just wanted to let you know that your use of AWB/RegExTypoFix on the article Lancelot Andrewes caused the correct and archaic spelling of a word in the title of a cited pamphlet to be incorrectly changed to a modern spelling. You might want to be aware of this risk while using AWB and/or to make this risk known to other AWB users. I have corrected the error. --Dystopos 22:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I went to dictionary.com before I put it in, I guess I should go out and buy a real dictionary. Thanks for alerting me. --mboverload@ 22:27, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
There are long periods of English history in which spelling was not standardized. This was largely a project of the 18th century, which is in part how American and British spellings have deviated. So for long periods, a writer was justified in choosing the spelling which best suited his or her ear and variants such as painful, painfull, peynful, paynefull, etc would all be, to a greater or lesser degree, accepted by readers. --Dystopos 23:22, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to explain it to me. I'll totally keep that in mind in the future. --mboverload@ 23:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof login problems

I've been trying to use VandalProof for three days and still get problems. I've tried on both a Win XP and a Win98SE machine, on the latter it crashes about 10% of the time. On both machines I have never managed to log in. I get Your log-in request failed. all the time. It looks like AmiDaniel tried re-adding me to the user list on Aug 2 - but with no change. Any suggestions? --Brat32 04:39, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

No, sorry =( --mboverload@ 05:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Try login over and over and over. Sometimes VP works. Usually it just fails miserably and is slow. Anyway, all the cool people are using VS these days. alphaChimp laudare 05:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Wow, your reaction times are suffering man. It took you a full 4 minutes to register for VS. By the way, only 2 users have actually been successful in running it, and I'm not one of them. Do you run Linux? alphaChimp laudare 05:23, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
I have VMware =D --mboverload@ 05:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Although I have 5 computers within 3 feet they all run variants of Windows, since I do Win based software development. No customers run Linux. I tried it once a few years ago, and it crashed almost as much as Windows. Would be nice to have something that worked on Win98SE since that's my primary computer. --Brat32 06:18, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't mean to be discouraging, but VandalProof used to be a good tool. Now it's just really sucking. I'm not saying that 1.3 isn't going to be good, but 1.22 is slow, inadequate and innefficient. Have you tried using Lupin's popups? It's got an RC feed that flags articles with suspicious edits. alphaChimp laudare 12:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
I have been following the dev of 1.3 closely. There are so many upgrades and new things he's doing...he has spent alot of time building a whole IRC bot that the client will talk with the whole time. --mboverload@ 12:12, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RETF

Hi, one typo you recently added was <Typo find="\b(D|d)iffrent\b" replace="$1i?fferent" />, you can't put the question mark in the replacement, the special characters only apply to the find part. Also, just in case you misunderstood what was going on, when you did this fix, you only fixed the mistake you had just introduced, as a double backslash is also a perfectly acceptable way to escape the characters, just so you know ;-).

Also, you probably noticed the "compessing" i did by merging some regexes together, I think it would be advantageous all round if we aim to have 1 regex per word, this is more efficient/maintainable/versatile etc. There are still a lot that can be done. Martin 15:48, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Partially Worked

Yep. - User:Abstract IdiotAbstract Idiot [ Talk • Contribs ] 01:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I posted a response on his talk. alphaChimp laudare 01:13, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] TypoFix

<Typo find="\b(R|r)oomat(e|es)\b" replace="$1oommat$2" />
<Typo find="\b(R|r)oomate\b" replace="$1oommate" />

These two seem redundant. --ColourBurst 01:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

<Typo find="\b(T|t)olkein\b" replace="$1olkien" />

Tolkien should always be capital, since it's a person's name. --ColourBurst 01:37, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

<Typo find="\b(U|u)nmanouverable\b" replace="$1nmaneuverable" />

Not really a mistake, but the bot doesn't know if a page is British or not and so unmanoeuvrable could be a possible replacement (not likely, so that's why I called it "not really a mistake".). --ColourBurst 01:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

<Typo find="\b(V|v)irtualisation\b" replace="$1irtualization" />

Not sure about this one. Virtualise is in wiktionary, however. --ColourBurst 01:51, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

<Typo find="\b(W|w)arren(t|ts)\b" replace="$1arren$2" />

I believe this is "warrant", not spelled with an e. Wiktionary and dictionary.com give no matches for "warrent". --ColourBurst 01:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

<Typo find="\b(W|w)olontary\b" replace="$1oluntary" />

Should be "voluntary". --ColourBurst 01:54, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

<Typo find="\b(W|w)upport\b" replace="$1upport" />

Replacement should be "support". Maybe you mean to replace "suport"? --ColourBurst 01:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Wow! Thanks! If you have anymore... =D --mboverload@ 04:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I'll continue looking. Meanwhile, thanks for the barnstar! --ColourBurst 17:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Replaicing "support" buy "support" is kinda scilly. --LambiamTalk 07:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
<Typo find="\b(C|c)onserning\b" replace="$1oncerning" />
Possible variant; conserving.
<Typo find="\b(C|c)onserned\b" replace="$1oncerned" />
Possible variant; conserved.
<Typo find="\b(F|f)lourine\b" replace="$1luorine" />
Possible variant; flouring.
<Typo find="\b(G|g)ridles\b" replace="$1riddles" />
Possible variant; girdles.
<Typo find="\b(H|h)eathy\b" replace="$1ealthy" />
A real word; heathy.
<Typo find="\b(H|h)igest\b" replace="$1ighest" />
Possible variant; digest.
<Typo find="\b(H|h)ompage\b" replace="$1omepage" />
Possible variant; homage. Road Wizard 14:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My Talk Page

Sorry, perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't recall having asked you to mess around with the formatting of my talk page. Come to think of it, your making light of a serious conflict on this site is not appreciated. I'd appreciate it if you kept your non-constructive comments off my page from now on. Thanks. -- pm_shef 04:59, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

You seem to be confused. User:ED209 is the one who left you a comment. My last note to you 11 days ago was just explaining the 3RR policy and that you were not the only one blocked. I have _never_ changed your talk page's formatting. Good luck. --mboverload@ 06:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

See the thanks you get for trying to help him? ED209 17:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dictionary.com

I was trying to clarify the correct spelling of "humorous" and I see this website lists "humourous", although my paper dictionary does not, and neither do most online refs. I also note that they list "publically", which I think is a clear error. Should we continue to regard this as a good source? See also [9]

I'll hold off for now, but I think humorous is the right spelling. --Guinnog 11:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

one's the British spelling (with the "ou"). The other is the American spelling (with the "o") alphaChimp laudare 13:05, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure it's that simple. --Guinnog 13:13, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
No British and Commonwealth standard spelling is humorous. People probably assume the 'u' was stolen from humourous by Americans just as they stole it from colour but it had been missing for a while before then. Jonathan Swift used humourous though and he was a very humourous man, while Shakespeare used humerous. MeltBanana 14:41, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, my understanding is that "humorous" is the standard spelling everywhere, and "humourous" is an unusual variant, found predominantly on Wikipedia, and listed on Dictionary.com
MB, apologies for thrashing this out on your talk page. --Guinnog 14:57, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I've copied this to Wikipedia talk:Typo and suggest we continue the conversation there. --Guinnog 15:02, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Tar muchly for the award but I feel unworthy of it. I don't believe that any of my words deserve being taken out of your word list as they are so rare and unusual they are unlikely to actually appear correctly used in wikipedia. Thanks anyway and keep up the excellent and invaluable speel checking work MeltBanana 14:41, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] diffrent -> different

Something in either AWB or RegEx. was wanting to put those white squares (what you get when you dont have the character set) between the 'di' and the 'fferent'...

Any ideas?

Reedy Boy 16:32, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nitcentral article

Hi. There is a motion afoot to delete the article on Phil Farrand's website, Nitcentral, as you can see here. If you have an opinion on it, can you chime in? Thanks. Nightscream 17:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Commies"

Hi, thanks for reverting my Talk page, but the "Commies" comment was valid, in reference to a comment I had made on that user's page. User:Zoe|(talk) 01:24, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, sorry! It's just that when someone makes a short unsigned comment on someone's talk page with "commies" in it... =D Srry. --mboverload@ 01:26, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Not a problem.  :) User:Zoe|(talk) 01:28, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalSniper

You've been approved to use VandalSniper. Please let me know if you have any problems getting it working. --Chris (talk) 04:02, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Hello.

I'm the one who added some pictures and all on 'Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti' , actually hes my father. Some of those pictures I found online and some he sent me himself. You can checkout my album:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shahzwar555/my_photos (The first and secondlast albums)

As for the gettyimages, I doubt they'd mind since I'm not using anyone elses pictures, I'm using Akbar Bugti's own pictures on his wikipedia link and pictures related to the whole situation. Also, the photographer who took the pictures a few months back Mr. John Moore is very hard to get hold of but I know they will not mind the pictures being put on wikipedia specially when its all directly related to my father Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.

Please, consider your decision, I'd truly appreciate it. Yours gratefully,

               Shahzwar.
They will mind. You can't post copywritten images like that. Sorry. alphaChimp laudare 06:17, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Getty images

Thanks for bringing the matter to my attention. It has been addressed. — ERcheck (talk) 07:05, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notice

This is in reference to this edit which you made on WP:ANI. This is a personal attack on another user and is in violation of WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL. Please refrain from making further such edits as this might result in a block. Best wishes. --Nearly Headless Nick 12:32, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

You seem to be confused, I was refering to the user the message was about, not the user posting the message. The message was about someone who made mutliple death threats against the family members of users, called other users cunts and anuses, and said that they will be going to hell and jacking off with the devil. Cheers! --mboverload@ 13:17, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Excuse me; I must tell you that I was not the one confused. Civility and personal attacks are not tolerated on Wikipedia even though they are against users who could be categorized under the WP:DICK category. Please use appropriate words at appropriate places. Regards, --Nearly Headless Nick 14:47, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, have fun with that =D --mboverload@ 21:31, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Nearly Headless, you seem to be missing the forest for the trees. I've gone back and read the entire exchange. Yes, Mboverload could have avoided one deragortory word - but in the context of the entire situation that hardly calls for a warning as strongly worded as yours was. Maybe a suggestion to tone down the rhetoric would have been enough - In my opinion mboverload didn't really need the warning of a block. He's pretty much a model editor here and he was reacting to a pretty severe case of vandalism. Again, he could have phrased his comment a little more civilly - but you could have been a little more understanding and less heavy-handed in your warning... Well, we've probably exhausted this topic, let's all try to stay civil and assume good faith :-) Brian 21:49, 7 August 2006 (UTC)btball

[edit] Barnstar

Congratulations! I just had to award you a barnstar for helping me clear up thousands of spelling errors in Wikipedia. --Guinnog 12:52, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

omg, thanks man! You even figured out my userpage formatting =D --mboverload@ 13:23, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
You're very welcome. You thoroughly deserve it. --Guinnog 14:09, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RegExTypoFix anomalies?

Since discovering RegExTypoFix I've become an avid user and admirer...

I just downloaded AWB 3018 and am finding corrections listed in the edit summary that are unchanged - an example from my User contributions page will show what I mean:

  • 13:38, 6 August 2006 (hist) (diff) m Philip Lombardo (RegExTypoFix Typos: beleived → believed, between → between, using AWB) (top)

between is unchanged but is listed. It does the same with transform → transform and unnecessary → unnecessary.

I suspect you may have done what I did when using regex search/replace strings and inadvertently included the correct spelling in the possible matches?

I must say, I am most impressed with all the work you have done to make this such a powerful tool. Cheers, Euchiasmus 14:04, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that in some of my edit summaries, I have fixed both of them now. =D --mboverload@ 22:24, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the offer

If you see somebody vandalizing my page with penis pics or things like that, then, yeah, go ahead and revert, I don't mind. But if it's just nasty comments, don't bother, I'm a grownup, I can handle nastiness.  :) Thanks for the offer. User:Zoe|(talk) 20:58, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gallery

I stole your coding for my gallery. Hope you don't mind. --Guinnog 01:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

np =D --mboverload@ 01:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC)