Archive for August 2006

Thanks

Just a quick thankyou for noticing that vandalism to my userpage. --ais523 11:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Just a quick you'rewelcome. :) Misza13 ^{T C} 15:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

AIV

Just a reminder - don't forget to remove an AIV listing after blocking. Thanks --Jay(Reply) 16:07, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually I have no idea which block you're talking about, but I didn't get to it via AIV. I'm working with pgkbot today. But I'll check it more often then. Cheers! Misza13 ^{T C} 16:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

My mistake then. It must have been a user who listed it not knowing you were on it already. --Jay(Reply) 16:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

thanks for help against vandals on Dead Rising Travb (talk) 17:45, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

You missed some vandalism, before it was protected: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead_Rising&diff=67274492&oldid=67274360 Travb (talk) 17:47, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually it's only semi-protected - cleaning up should be easier now, but keep an eye on it. Misza13 ^{T C} 17:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. We will see what happens.... Travb (talk) 17:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Teh videogamer!

Please watch, as I expect you'll want to indefblock him as well. - CobaltBlueTony 17:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

WIkipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award

Greetings, Misza13. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to Kylu for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.

If you'd like to participate in the contest again, check by the contest page in a few days and sign up. See you around. May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|)

Ian Mannus

You will probably want to block 81.156.60.67 as well... vandal is editing from IP now. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Isotope23 (talk • contribs) 18:01, 2 August 2006.

Thanks :)

Thanks for reverting the recent vandalism to my userpage. Fabricationary 21:43, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Moving Temporary Subpage

Hello, how are you? Would you please move the temporary subpage Talk:Fasy/Temp to Fasy, replacing the copyvio tag? Nobody seems to be objecting to Fasy's copyright status. Thank you! --Gray Porpoise 14:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Done. You're welcome. Misza13 ^{T C} 17:08, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Excellent. Thanks again. --Gray Porpoise 02:47, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

template migration

Since you decided to keep the template, will you move it out of the template name space?--JWSchmidt 23:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't think germanizing the template has anything to do with closing it's TfD discussion. All you need is a user willing to adopt it and someone to substitute all instances with the userfied version. Then you can notify me and I'll delete the unused {{User System Administrator}}. Misza13 ^{T C} 10:09, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi

I noticed you're an admin, and you're currently online. Could you help me move User:Chacor/Sandbox/Ewiniar 0603 to Typhoon Ewiniar (2006) over the redirect that is currently at the target article? (A move of the talk page is not required) Thank you! Chacor 10:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Done. I didn't touch the talk pages - if there's any info you want to salvage, you can just copy it yourself. Also, let me know if you want your "workshop" (now a redirect to the article) or it's talk deleted. Misza13 ^{T C} 10:55, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you re: Bobby Boulders Vandalism

Hey there! Thanks for your recent help combatting Bobby Boulders and his various sockpuppets. Watchful admins are always a welcome sight whenever he's around. For future reference, though, we at the CVU are currently attempting to catalogue all of Bobby's various sockpuppets as they appear. If you could be so kind as to tag his sockpuppets' user pages with the "BB" or "Bobby" tags from now on, that would be great. Thanks again! Dr Chatterjee 17:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Will do. My monobook auto-tagging script is getting overloaded with all those tags, though. Misza13 ^{T C} 20:24, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstarage

		The Original Barnstar
		I, JD, offer you, Misza13, this barnstar for using the correct terminology when referring to the television show Big Bogan. JD don't talk email me 20:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

WIkipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award

Misza13, thanks for signing up for the Esperanza User Page Contest. The judges have received the fifteen entries, and are ready to start judging. The judges will take a week to complete the judging process, and they will contact all the participants when the judging is done.

Please drop by the contest page for contest updates and questions. Take care, and good luck! May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 08:12, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Toolserveraccount

Thanks :D -- Where 16:28, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Template work etc. from IRC

		The Minor Barnstar
		For quickly fixing {{wsproj}}, it's quite helpful! The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 17:42, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. :) Misza13 ^{T C} 17:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Newsletter spammage

Hey there, Misza13! Are you still willing to use MiszaBot to send the Esperanza newsletter to all the Esperanzians? That would be most lovely; there should be a newsletter in the next day or two, and I wanted to check and see if you could still take of sending it out. Many thanks! -- Natalya 15:42, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Sure. Just signal me (via IRC would be best, if you catch me this evening) that's it's ready, where is it (like, User:Natalya/Sandbox) and what's the ==message header==. I'll take care of the rest. If not today then tommorow. Misza13 ^{T C} 18:29, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks! I'll let you know when it's ready. -- Natalya 00:22, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

One more question: we'd like to partially implement the opt-out list for the newsletter, so that if people don't want to recieve the entire newsletter, they can receive a link to it. Where is the most convinient location for you for us to have this list? Is there any particular way to format this list to make it easy for you? Thanks again, -- Natalya 02:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Makes no great difference to me. I'm using programs to parse the lists anyway, so I can adapt to whatever format you choose. Put it on whatever page you want, one user per line, be it with {{user}}, plain [[brackets]], whatever. It is the software that should adapt to our needs, not the other way round. :) Misza13 ^{T C} 10:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Great, thanks so much! :) The newsletter is ready to go out, it's located at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter (also at User:Natalya/Draft if you need it in the userspace). The message header can be "August Esperanza Newsletter".

For the future, the opt-out list (currently empty, so not applying to this newsletter) is located at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List. Everyone there will just get a link to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter instead.

Thanks again! Your help is much appreciated. -- Natalya 15:27, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Everything looks lovely. -- Natalya 22:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Status Switcher

Hi. I just would like to say great job on your user page! I was your Esperanza User Page award. Anyway, when I saw your page, I came across your Status switcher script. I tried using it on my page (sorry for not telling you), and it didn't work somehow. Can you help me? The pages I was instructed to create are here:

• User:Leroyencyclopediabrown/monobook.js
• User:Leroyencyclopediabrown/Status
• User:Leroyencyclopediabrown/StatusTemplate

--Ed^{talk c E} 21:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

You don't have to be sorry - that's why I created it. :) And thanks for chosing my page. Anyway, to figure out why doesn't it work, I'll need more info. Specifically, let's start with this: do the status links show up? These should be 3 links named "in", "busy" and "out" that show up in the upper right corner of the screen (besides the "log out" link). Misza13 ^{T C} 21:51, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

No additional links show up, and everything I did is in the three links above. Do the pages look right?--Ed^{talk c E} 21:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I think I got it. You forgot to add the addlilink() function to your .js. Being an admin, I have taken the liberty to invade your monobook and fix that myself. Try purging your cache and see if it works. Misza13 ^{T C} 22:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Here, take this:

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		In recognition of his excellent contributions on making scripts and tools, I award this da Vinci Barnstar to Misza13. Edtalk c E 22:32, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! 2 rewards in one day, wow! :) Plus, I like the Vitruvian Barnstar image so much, I was hoping to receive one for quite a while. :-þ Thanks again and you're welcome! Misza13 ^{T C} 22:38, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Please fix your newsletter spamming system

It doesn't make much sense to deliver the newsletter to indefinitely banned users. --Cyde Weys 03:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Good point. However, the list I base the spam on is WP:ESP/M - if it's not up-to-date, it's not really my fault. And neither is Karmafist categorized as banned, so I can't even cross-check the list with anything. And going through it item by item manually would beat the whole point of using a bot, now wouldn't it? Any other ideas? Misza13 ^{T C} 17:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

WdefconBot

WdefconBot added a bunch of gibberish to the the Wdefcon template. Could it be a bug, or maybe someone on IRC made a mistake?--1568 03:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

It's a bug in my old IRC bot framework which sometimes causes lines received from the server to glue up. Given the bot's low activity, it's also an extremely rare one. An extra reading buffer should fix it... Misza13 ^{T C} 17:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

WIkipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award

Greetings, Misza13. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to Buchanan-Hermit for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.

If you'd like to participate in the contest again, check by the contest page in a few days and sign up. See you around. May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 16:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page awhile ago. --  Netsnipe  ^(Talk)  06:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Template:User wikipedia/VCN

Just to give you headups. No more userboxes on main space. Please gusify it moving it to your userspace. I'll be removing it soon. -- Drini 22:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I thought Wikipedia-related boxen were exempt from it. Oh well, since I'm not the original author (I just made the .svg image), you should rather keep bugging Netsnipe about it. Misza13 06:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Dear Admin

Other Admins: Please do not delete this message until the admin whose talk page it's on has seen it. Admin: please sign your name on my talk page once you have seen it.

Dear Admin,

I am a sockpuppet of user:Crisspy. I will agree to stop vandalising wikipedia under any new accounts, on the conditions of:

• You put user:Crisspy and user:1028 on a long term abuse page.
• You do not give away the physical location and/or IP adress of either of these accounts.
• You distinguish that user:1028 and user:Crisspy were different people vandalising together.
• You do not make any records of this message and you delete it as soon as possible.

If you do this, I will agree to stop vandalising as I have said before. If I do, you may block me indefinitely.

Consider yourself warned. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DJ Soupy (talk • contribs) 18:15, 24 August 2006 (UTC).

Blocked My Usage

Dear Misza13: I have been blocked from editing my page by your e-mail address because it says I sent you an e-mail but I did not. Please advise. How do I fix this? Angikay2 19:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

This is the message I get

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Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing.

You were blocked by Misza13 for the following reason (see our blocking policy): Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "DCC SEND HELLOANDWELCOMETOLOLTOW„ 0 0 0". The reason given for DCC SEND HELLOANDWELCOMETOLOLTOW„ 0 0 0's block is Your IP address is 205.188.116.200.

You are not blocked from reading pages, only from editing them. If you were only intending to read a page and are seeing this message, you probably followed a red link. These are links to pages that do not exist, so they take users to an editing screen. You should have no problem if you follow only blue links.

If you would like to know when the block will expire, please search for your name or IP on the block list.

If the reason given is "username", "user...", or "contact an administrator for verification purposes", then you or someone with whom you share an IP address has most likely been blocked for choosing an inappropriate or suspicious username. Please read our username policy for more information. If you do not feel that the name is inappropriate, or if the name was registered by somebody other than yourself, please contact the blocking administrator, as described below.

Angikay2 19:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award

Misza13, thanks for signing up for the Esperanza User Page Contest. The judges have received the fifteen entries, and are ready to start judging. The judges will take a week to complete the judging process, and they will contact all the participants when the judging is done.

Please drop by the contest page for contest updates and questions. Take care, and good luck! May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 15:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Revert on my userpage

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. Much appreciated (as was the block on the offender), Gwernol 18:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. :-) Misza13 18:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

User:I took a Poop

Hi. Is there any reason to create a userpage and tag a nil-edit blocked account? The block logs shows the block - the name is obviously going to be blocked. In this case it seems pointless (although harmless) but stuff like this is encouraging people to tag nil-edit accounts with speculative tags categorizing by who might be creating it - and that justs to glorify the vandal. My ethos is block and forget - as the only way we'll drive these people away is to bore them by ignoring them. Just some thoughts... --Doc 22:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

It's just that this tagging is a long tradition on Wikipedia. I my early days as an admin I was even poked when I didn't do so; thus I figured out there's a general consensus for this practice. But since you point it out, I'll give it a thought. Misza13 22:22, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

It's good to tag a user with edits (especially if some are good)- in case someone follows an edit looking for the user. But the whole criminology ethos of taging and categorising vandals is increasingly being seen by experienced admins as at best useless and probably counter-productive. We've even had some users going around taging things just to up their edi count (groan). Anyway thanks for thinking. --Doc 22:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Imposter

Thanks for the block! -- Samir धर्म 00:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Cookie

		Administrative cookie
		I, Ryūlóng, give you this cookie, Misza13, for your efforts in clearing the backlog at WP:AIV. Ryūlóng 19:12, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for your help with the 'references' tag at Mills Mess. I really appreciate such a quick response. Let me know if you have some particularly onerous chore in the future, I'd love the opportunity to return the favor. User:Pedant 22:00, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

WDefcon

It'd probably be best if it had no default. The default bit is just a convienence. Some people apparently think this is a userbox, when itself is not. Kevin_b_er 19:06, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

The default one doesn't look like a userbox at all to me. But anyway, what do you propose? A blank one? Misza13 19:08, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually. A better idea would be that the template not transclude unless a parameter is given. Since some may, I suppose, use the default one like a userbox. Personally I just glance at it on my watchlist to see if stupid stuff has happened (like some nutjob using aol proxy servers) that I know is likely not fully cleaned up. But since {{wdefcon}} could be used like a userbox, we could at least prevent that. If people want to make a userbox out of it(as a few have by putting it into a tiny box), they can use userpages to do it. Kevin_b_er 19:24, 30 August 2006 (UTC)