Archive for December 2006

Hi

Can you userfy Amr ibn Jamooh so i can fix it? Thanks. --Striver 23:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Recreated on User:Striver/Amr ibn Jamooh. Good luck working on it. Misza13 20:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. --Striver 02:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

User talk page deletion

Why did you delete Tsutsu's user talk page? A user talk page not being edited for a month is no reason to remove someone's talk page. What does "Temporary Wikipedian" mean? Why do you think he is only a Temporary Wikipedian? Angela. 09:33, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Please see CAT:TEMP. It is a category filled mostly with usernames that violate WP:USERNAME and are blocked indefinitely - templates such as {{UsernameBlocked}} and {{indefblockeduser}} automatically put pages in this category. Such pages are not of any use to Wikipedia. Also, as far as I know, such pages are also indexed by Google (which is bad, I think - we wouldn't want such pages to turn up in searches) and deleting them prevents the search engine from doing so. Oh, and it's not "pages belonging to temporary Wikipedians", but rather "Wikipedians' temporary pages". Misza13 13:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

See here bud, for my somewhat goofball circular logic :)  Glen  13:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

You blocked my ip range at school

yea, you blocked our whole system ( about 60 computers) from editing posts that have typo's or rude coments. I feel that it is unfair that you block 500 good students from ones stupid actions, also, this stops my own private account from editing.

thank you,

dave (D.Doer)

19:04, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

First, I have no idea what IP range are you talking about. Second, I can't find any autoblocks in my log, which is not at all surprising, because all standard IP blocks I give are anonymous only and thus allow for registered users to edit via the IPs. Could you be more specific? Misza13 19:41, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Prasi90

Hello, I was looking through your talk page for the request that you delete the user pages for Prasi90. I can't find that specific request. Could you direct me to it? Thanks. Regards, Hamster Sandwich 20:04, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

The user made the request by putting speedy deletion tags on both the userpage and talkpage. This qualifies under speedy deletion criterion U1 and upon examination, I didn't find any "administrative need to retain the pages". Misza13 20:26, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

IRC bot

I went to your userpage and clicked on Bob the Barman. Is your IRC bot now WineSteward? I'm very confused.--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 21:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

No. Bob_the_Barman is inactive at the moment (they take turns with WineSteward, who is xyr's bot). Misza13 10:08, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks.--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 16:44, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for unblocking me. I am on a BT ADSL line so I cannot comprehend why these autoblocks keep affecting me. I wonder whether to contact BT and see if they can sort it out. Thanks again. ><RichardΩ612 ^ER 19:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Re:living with idiots, it could be so, I am going to try to change my IP address, or make it dynamic. ><RichardΩ612 ^ER 19:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

DB-Nonsense Article

Hello Misza13, the creator of this db nonsense article has created several articles with nonsense content. Could you take a look at them please? Thank you.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 03:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

• Update: I contacted Raul654 and he took care of it.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 04:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Erk!

I give you a nice anti-vandal box and you go and stuff it with voting icons! Honestly... :) – Gurch 02:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

User talk:68.216.50.57

I have not edited a page that I have multiple messages for editing in error. I'm sorry, I not extremely verse in Wikipedia protocol, but I'm positive I've never seen this page or edited it. Your message was the first where I could navigate to a talk page. I don't care too much about the block, I've only ever edited maybe 1 article, I just wanted to let you know that this was an error that I keep getting messaged about. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.216.50.57 (talk • contribs) 19:57, 15 December 2006 (UTC).

Quite possibly, it was someone else editing from the same IP address. Миша13 20:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

WP:UW

Hi,

You have put yourself as interested in helping out atWikiProject on user warnings. We are now at a stage where we are creating the new templates and are wondering if you are still interested? If so please visit the overview page and choose a warning type you wish to work on. There is a base template available here, which you can copy and use to get you started. Have a look through the redirects and see what old templates are affected and incorporate them into the the new system. Anyway, any questions please don't hesitate to give me a shout. Regards Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 08:53, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Annie Mae Leonard Mitcham

A topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the subject itself.

Annie Mae Mitcham is very well known Throughout Central GA as an educator for the under privileged. She has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of her which qualifies for inclusion according to the rules.

There are several entries in this media that are far less notable and news worthy than this subject.

20:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)Mitchamz 20:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

The article didn't assert its subject's notability. Миша13 20:12, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Templates for Deletion

Thanks for notifying me about the Templates for Deletion process for Template:Silly - I hardly ever check that page and probably wouldn't have noticed it go through! StoptheDatabaseState 12:58, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem. It's a part of Wikiquette and also a step in the TfD process to notify the creator of a template of the discussion. Миша13 13:02, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Status Switcher problem

I seem to be having problems with the status switcher script you wrote. As you can see on User:Ed and User talk:Ed, an apostrophe (') appears next to "Status of Ed". Would you please look over User:Ed/monobook.js, [1], [2], and [3]? Thanks.--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 04:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure what's wrong, especially since it seems to have been working in the past. Have you suddenly switched to a different web browser or something similar? Миша13 10:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I upgraded to IEv7. Maybe that's the problem...Is your script reliant to the web browser being used?--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 01:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

There's this piece of code:

 statusRegExp = /&action=edit&newstatus=(.*)/;
 status = statusRegExp.exec(location.href)[1];

- some regular expressions that parse the address & extract the new status being set. It works fine in Mozilla-based browsers, but for as long as I can remember there were problems with JS regular expressions in IE and I haven't figured a workaround yet. Миша13 08:19, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

John Bryan Robinson

I unblocked John Bryan Robinson (talk · contribs). You blocked this account today apparently because of a violation of the username policy but this violation was not clear to me. Given the speed with which the account was blocked, I believe you may have slipped and hit the wrong button or something. I've done this plenty of times. Anyway, please feel free to reblock if the block was actually legitimate. It is not my intention to engage in a wheel war with you. --Yamla 20:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

No slipped button there. You may not be familiar, but "John <<second name>> Robinson" is a pattern followed by a certain vandal, whose modus operandi (now that such usernames get blocked on sight) is to abuse the {{unblock}} template on his talk page (investigate User_talk:John_Parry_Robinson, User_talk:John_Arwel_Robinson and User talk:John David Robinson for the few of some 20 by now examples), claiming he's User:Hephaestos and other nonsense. I didn't go into lengths investigating the user's earlier "crimes", but such usernames are now blocked immediately, pending verification (or talkpage salting in case of a recurring pattern). Миша13 20:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

As a side note, this unblock request doesn't seem like one written by a newbie. But since it doesn't follow the usual pattern ;-), let's leave it be (my bet being - he abandons the username now anyway), but don't be surpised if the accounts starts vandalising all of a sudden. :-D Миша13 21:51, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Much appreciated. --Yamla 18:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Anthony J. Gentile

Hey -- you speedy deleted this while I was in the process of declining the speedy request. I think the notability of the person is clearly explained -- a teacher's union rep convicted on Child porn charges, with published sources backing it up (it arguably even meets WP:BIO, let alone the bare "claim of significance" needed for CSD A7. I was going to take it to AfD, because I feel that having an article like this that can only be negative about its subject needs a very good rationale, and some borderline notable case like this should be deleted per WP:BLP concerns, but I know that's a somewhat controversial stand. Anyway, if you still feel deleting it with no further debate is okay, I won't complain, but I think it might be better to debate the issue. Mangojuice^talk 18:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I hardly find a mere fact of being convicted a "claim of significance". Also, neither of the "source" links seem to me as "media coverage", but if you contest the speedy deletion, let's see what discussion it generates. Feel free to nominate. Миша13 18:30, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks like Zoe deleted it again. Миша13 08:07, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

WoW username

Yes, right; I intended to block the account myself. I have created it because the name was in the history of Wikipedia:Suggested usernames, to prevent it from being used by the vandal. - Mike Rosoft 01:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Better safe than sorry. And that page is a very BEANy list if you ask me. :-) Миша13 08:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Blocked userpages

I didn't know that they were deleted, sorry. I can't see any reason to have them. I have stopped now. Sorry :). Merry Winterval! —¡Randfan!^{Sign here?} 21:21, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Wesołych Świąt

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Cześć Michał! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you i szczęśliwego Nowego roku! Have a nice holiday time. - Darwinek 10:54, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

XMAS gift

Lots of good intentions flying around, but not much in the way of useful stuff. Here is a nice template I found to organize your ever-growing collections of awards :) -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  14:39, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

A process question

Hello. I notice you were able to quickly restore BigDTs talk page minus the abusive edit summary. Is there a faster way to do this than what I was trying to do - which was manually clicking all 270 checkboxes individually. Thanks. -- No Guru 18:54, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, there is at least one super-speedy way. There is a lot of nice code to be found on User:Voice of All/UsefulJS - among others the "Admin only JS", which, again among others, adds a tab named "Select all" when browsing deleted history of a page. Needless to say, it ticks all boxes with just one click. :-) Миша13 19:08, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Not a vandalism but ...

Hi, what to do with this user User:Williamdevino posting articles like this [4]. I do not think it is normal. ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 18:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Not normal (what's normal on Wikipedia anyway?), but did he vandalise except that edit? Was warned for that edit and seems to be an otherwise regular contributor. Миша13 19:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

His userpage and edit is against good faith, he express his racism and being neo-nazi. These users are not blocked ? ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 19:21, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Comment Extreme attacks, in particular legal threats and death threats, can be dealt with by blocking the offending user without warning. ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 19:29, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Since except the one edit to Ice Cube I haven't found any other disruptive edits, I'll leave the user be for now, especially when seems to be contributing to the encyclopedia. If his userpage bothers you (I'm close to neutral on it), you may ask him directly to change/soften it. Just let me know if he picks up the line of hate & vandalism in articles or towards others; then I'll react accordingly. You may also ask other administrators for an opinion on WP:AN. Миша13 19:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for removing that edit. --BigDT 19:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem. It was actually No Guru, who deleted your page and me who restored all revs except the bad one (and the rv). Миша13 19:10, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

CAT:CSD backlog

I think the reason the backlog tag was restored wasn't because of the one image that remained, but because of the categories of images that remained (i.e. images with no copyright, images with no fair use rationale, etc.). I assume that's why Zsinj (talk · contribs) readded the tag. Metros232 20:28, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

In that case, I figure you can add {{adminbacklog}} to one of the backlogged subcategories - this will make it appear on CAT:ABL. No reason to list a parent category there, IMO. Миша13 20:39, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

re: cookies for destruction

Thanks for the cookies! I am sure there were other admins working on the backlog at the same time, too. :) --Fang Aili ^talk 20:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you too! And a happy solstice! --Fang Aili ^talk 21:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Ooh, you're deleting old userpages again.

Thanks! – Gurch 23:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, but I'm at the same time in the progress of redesigning the whole process. I have, for example, noticed I'm sometimes deleting a user page and leaving the corresponding talk (or vice versa) because the're not categorized. For start, on this run, I'm logging whenever the "mirror" page existed (will have a semi-manual run through them later on). In future, I'm planning on sucking the entire CAT:TEMP (pages with contents and timestamps) into a mysql db, running some analysis on them and then proceeding to the proper deletion run. Миша13 23:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Cool... hope it works! – Gurch 13:08, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm...

I thought you weren't meant to judge people by their edit count... ;). I can see the sense in what you're saying, but I remember being welcomed when I first signed up, before I'd even edited. It gave me the confidence I needed to start doing things, and an opening for finding out how to both use and edit Wikipedia, when the Help portal was much harder to understand. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 17:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

All those sleeper accounts. So why did WP:DUU90 fail if so many people hate unused user accounts? —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 17:51, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

It didn't. The vote passed by 255 to 18, but the MediaWiki developers refuse to implement it, because they hate us – Gurch 23:20, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

merry Winterval(s)!!!! (12-22-06)

Oh, the weather outside is frightful!... But I hope wherever you you are, that it's warm and delightful! : ) —Randfan!!

God (or your deity/deities) bless you and your family! —¡Randfan!^{Sign here?} 02:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

-Note:I was planning to hand these out on the 22 of Dec. Happy holidays —¡Randfan!^{Sign here?} 23:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Userpage Code

How did you get it to work backwards? Clever... ♥ Fredil 17:33, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

A bit of magic and a well-placed special unicode 202E character. Миша13 17:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Wow, if that doesn't discourage vandalism I don't know what does. Very smart of you. How'd you come up with it? ♥ Fredil 15:39, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

It certainly won't discourage on simple type of vandalism: WTF IN HELL? OH NVM, JUST BLANK THE WHOLE DAMN THING! And I found it out on some technical discussion related to usernames containing this character. They cannot be created anymore, but apparently cannot be blocked either. o.O This means problems in cases of usernames that are reversed usernames of established users, i.e. selaW obmiJ becomes (or at least looks like) Jimbo Wales if the character is prepended to it, although it's an entirely different user. Миша13 20:24, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

sigh...

Shame he couldn't just let things quiet down. ---J.S ^(T/C) 19:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Question

What can I do to make Annie Mae Leonard Mitcham's entry acceptable for this site? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mitchamz (talk • contribs) 22:13, 28 December 2006.

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Discussion on WP:HD

Hi Misza, I just started this discussion on WP:HD - I noticed something very strange in my editbox display when having a look at your user page in edit mode (I didn't actually edit anything, just wanted to see what code/template you used for the "evaluate this edit" section). Hope you don't mind me using your userpage as an example for that discussion :P -- Ferkelparade π 15:58, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Just a geeky joke on my side & I'm glad to see you fell for it. :-D Technical explanation on WP:HD. And the core of the "vandalism box" is pretty simple, really: {{Special:Recentchanges/1}} (change 1 to more for more edits), plus some <div>s to hide the headers that Special:Recentchanges is producing by default. Миша13 16:12, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah... I guess IHBT. IHL. I will HAND ;) -- Ferkelparade π 16:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)