User talk:Tangotango/January 2007

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Espernza member bot

Thanks for having Tangobot running the script at User:Tangotango/New members of Esperanza to report the new members of Esperanza; since Esperanza is no longer active, it won't need to do it anymore. Thanks for writing it up and having it done for so long! And I hope life gets less busy for you, and that you get a chance to relax. -- Natalya 19:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Pour toi

Sorry, could save only this much!
Sorry, could save only this much!

Hope your new year celebrations were better than expect<script type="text/javascript" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:AzaToth/morebits.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>ed (at least didn't suck as much as mine ;) ). A very crappy happy new year to you! --Srikeit 02:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

TemplateSearch

The templateSearch is complete, or close to it :) It's possible to add new templates, and search for them, but the search still uses WHERE LIKE for now, rather than MATCH. All errors should have been taken care of, but if you notice any, please let me know :) Bjelleklang - talk 11:31, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

User:The Blue Lion

Here's the evidence --

  1. The Blue Lion uploaded (as now-deleted Image:HUNK.jpg) this exact image from EddieSegoura.com. In fact all eight of the (now-deleted) Voltron images he uploaded were from eddiesegoura.com, I think. Certainly ALLURA.jpg was this one, right down to the "arus@lava.net" watermark.
  2. The edits have been deleted, but 66.108.223.59 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) -- who nearly self-identified as Eddie with his question on AN/I -- also messed around with the copyright tags on at least four of those same Voltron images.
  3. In the middle of all his Voltron editing, The Blue Lion made this edit, removing a {{notability}} tag from Rainbow Shops. Rainbow Shops has been of great interest to Eddie lately, see WP:ANI#Exicornt_vandals.
  4. A third supporting coincidence: Creating Category:Wikipedians who watch The Price is Right (And slamming somebody into it.) The Price Is Right is another long-time interest of EddieSegoura.

Taken altogether, it leaves no doubt. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:17, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Admin abuse

There is an administrator who has been blocking people indefinitly for minor infracrions. Is there any way to report this user? Albott 06:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The administrator is user:ohnoitsjamie. Hes blocked several of my accounts and I've received numerous reports from people I know in real life as well as in the wikipedia community who claim they have been blocked indefinitely without warning for extremely minor offenses (usually not even vandalism). If you try to discuss any blocks from a new account, he blocks you indefinitly. Albott 06:51, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I was not circumventing a block. I was originally blocked submitting false information (although i didnt know it was false). This was some time ago as a matter of fact I cant recall the name of the account. A friend I know was blocked for blanking a page ONCE. He was given no warning or temporary block. He was blocked indefinitly. It was wrong of him to vandalize a page, but this did not warrant an indefinite block. I know several people who were mistaken as sockpuppets of some other user, and were also blocked indefinitly. Anyone who is ever blocked by ohnoitsjamie is blocked indefinitly. If you try to discuss the block, he'll basically tell you "Im an administrator and your not so I can do whatever I want. Albott 07:08, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. I will give it a try. Thanks for your assistance. Albott 07:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Helpme

Thank you :-) Nareklm 08:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I am in your debt

I saw that picture too many times on the hijack of Nadir and then trying to get the article deleted. Ronbo76 07:00, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou!

The Minor Barnstar
Your help to me was very valuable. Thanks once again, Ali K 12:20, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Mozilla search plugin for Whatredirectshere

hallo, thanks for the tool, I really love it!

I wrote the following, maybe you know an better place. greetings --W!B: 11:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Usage

  • highlight title of article
  • rightclick >Web-Search >WP REDIR

it will also appear in search-box, were You can type in

Install

  • store following code as an .src-file plaintext, with any name you want, and put it into %INSTALLPATH%\searchplugins of Your browser
# Mozilla search plugin for Whatredirectshere
# http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/whatredirectshere.php
# by W!B:
# http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:W%21B:
# This file is released into the public domain.
# Thanks: Carey Evans, Tangotango
#
# Version: 1.0 (2007-01-10)
# Tested on Win2000, Fx1.5
# Country: DE
# Language: de

<search
        version = "1.0"
        name="WP REDIR"
        description="Wikipedia, whatredirectshere"
        sourceTextEncoding="0"
        method="GET"
        action="http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/whatredirectshere.php"
        queryCharset="UTF-8"
>
<input name="lang" value="de">
<input name="title" user>
<input name="subdom" value="de">
<input name="domain" value=".wikipedia.org">
#<input name="wikitext" value="on">

</search>
  • if You want an icon added, put any icon, named same as the .src to the same folder. but it will work without icon as well

config

  • adapt lines about lang, subdom
  • decomment line about wikitext, if You prefer

Thank you for your kind comments :) And thank you for the plugin! It worked great on my copy of Firefox 2. I'm not sure where the most ideal place is--perhaps on a subpage/related page of WP:SCRIPTS? And if you want, I'll certainly place a link to the plugin on the Whatredirectshere tool itself. Once again, thanks! Cheers, Tangotango (talk) 06:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Tools or Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools? " And if you want, I'll certainly place a link to the plugin" - of course! I'm humbly honoured ;) --W!B: 06:47, 11 January 2007 (UTC) (I'm used in answering, where talk started, de:WP custom, I'll whatch your page..)
Sorry for the late reply :( Wikipedia:Tools, I think. And I'll add the script to the page on the toolserver as soon as I get around to it. Once again, thanks! - Tangotango (talk) 10:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

McKeon adspam

Thanks for responding. I've dealt with vandalism before, but not link spam, it was late in the day and I was curious what kind of response the helpme tag would generate. If I find a problem I don't have the energy to deal with myself at that moment in time, can I just dump it at the town pump or something like that? What I really wanted was a way to apply a tag to the user talk page calling in the most efficient cleanup crew. If I just tag the page I found, odds are the associated spamverts are missed. Please respond on my talk page, I'm too busy right now to track my watches. MaxEnt 19:47, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Apologies and Thanks

Can you put an anonymous-editing block on my IP address? I honestly can't see why the students here need to vandalize edit Wikipedia, and I don't want them causing any more problems with it than needed. Maybe if they realize the privilidge can be revoked, they will be more careful later. 216.216.194.66 23:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Headings in RfA

Hi Tangotango. There is currently some discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Subheadings in RfA with a bot updated TOC about using subheadings in RfAs for "Support", "Oppose" and "General comments" sections and using a bot to hide these extra headings from the TOC. There seems to be good agreement on that, and the only issue seems to be the fact that bots may be confused if the RfA's are modified to include headings.

Would it be possible to modify the code of Tangobot to also accept headings (level four, "====Support====") in addition to the current format, which is '''Support'''? That would be very much appreciated. You can reply here. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 21:43, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your message. I've just checked the code and it does look like RFALib 2 supports level-four headings (it supports so many different variations I can never be too sure :P) However, if you'd like to see if it will, please make a test page and feed it through the RfA Analysis tool here: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/rfa.php, as it uses the same library. Thanks, Tangotango (talk) 10:03, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:07, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

TangoBot Down

Hey buddy,

Just letting you know that TangoBot appears to be down. It hasn't been updating for the past day or two. I'm not sure if you have seen this or not and I assume that it's an easy problem to remedy, so I hope you don't take offense at my prodding.

Thanks, – Lantoka (talk) 05:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Tangobot

Hey. You probabyl saw this by now, but for some reason Tangobot isn't updating the RfAs, and hasn't been for a couple days. I can't use IRC so I'm hopig you'll get this message.--Wizardman 05:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

japanese speaker needed for copyright investigation

Could you have a look at this fishy copyright claim? Circeus 23:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou

Thankyou for answering!--Sudhirkumarlal 15:11, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

It get's worse

There is still more copyvios in the article Periyar, such as Periyar_Ramasami#Self-Respect_Movement:_1925-39, which is a copy-paste from this article [1] adn there are many other instances. Devotees of this nutter Periyar have been copy-pasting from multiple sources and performing multiple copyvios. Rumpelstiltskin223 11:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


Band article

hi

I noticed a few hours after making some changes to my band's wikipedia entry that the entire page was deleted. I am just curious as to why it was taken away since my band is a hard working and completely real project. Please let me know why the page was deleted specifically and what I can change to re enter the page. thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wickedwitch85 (talk • contribs) 03:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm confused about how things are deemed credible or uncredible on wikipedia. At what "stage" does a band become notable enough to have an entry. There are hundreds of band entries on wikipedia who have less notoriety or are less well known than my own project. what/who deems them more suitable? Surely there is not a barometre that measures actual success of a band's career on wikipedia anywhere. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wickedwitch85 (talk • contribs) 04:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of article Bad Flirt (band)

I noticed you speedy deleted the article Bad Flirt (band) and have cited above notability as the reason. I believe you have incorrectly deleted this article and am hereby requesting that you restore it immediately. The Wikipedia:Notability (music) policy specifically states that failing to satisfy notability is not crtierion for speedy deletion. If you wish to initiate the delection process for this article, you are ofcourse entitled to do so, however the speedy deletion of this article was not justified. Thanks. Iradub 16:58, 23 January 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Iradub (talk • contribs) 16:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

Howdy- I got a message about this too. It's not clear to me whether they meet music criteria, or what level of media coverage this band has got, but it's definitely in a different category than the typical garage band articles we speedy. Tangotango, if you've no objection, I'm in favor of undeleting this to give it some time. If it looks questionable, the notability issue could be decided at AFD. Friday (talk) 18:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

RFBs

Do your reports intentionally ignore RFBs? Dragons flight 21:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Commons POTY

Please see urgent request on your Commons talk page. --MichaelMaggs 12:47, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Images listed for deletion

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Thank you. —Remember the dot (t) 01:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Bbc-fastech-360s-flaps-extended.jpg)

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Arabic translation of Milestone tool

Konnichi wa Tangotango, ogenki desu ga? :) Alright, that taxed my Japanese. I just completed translating the script of your milestone tool to the Arabic language. You can find it here. However, there is one simple issue, Arabic language is written from right to left. You should switch the page direction for the text to look OK. All the best! ← ANAS Talk? 15:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, good luck with that. :) Drop me a message when you're done. ← ANAS Talk? 15:03, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

(Belated) Order of the Smile Award

Image:Order of Smile.svg
I Willscrlt, hereby dub Tangotango as an outstanding member of the Order of the Smile.

This is a long-overdue thank you for taking the time to help me through all the troubles I had in the seemingly simple task of adding a photo to my first article (Jack Turner (writer)) back in November 2006. (In case you don't remember the situation, the dialog is still on MetaWiki.)

You helped me get off to a great start, because in the two months since, I've made around 2700 edits, uploaded around 95 images, and participate in Wikipedia, Commons, and WikiBooks. Seriously, without your help that night, probably I would have given up in frustration, and those edits (for better or worse) would never have been made. So, it is with the greatest regard that I give you this heartfelt award and my thanks. --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 09:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. Thanks, but I'm pretty self-sufficient now. In fact, I have three adoptees now that I mentor. My biggest problem is that I spend way too much time here now. :-) I still think that the documentation for uploading to Wikipedia is too complicated for most newbies to really understand, and that might be why the image section is full of so many problem images. Someday I might even get around to improving those instructions. Oh! There is actually something you might be able to advise me on. I flagged a template for deletion several days ago on Commons, but it's still there. I know things move at a slower pace at Commons than at Wikipedia, but I'm beginning to wonder if anything will ever happen. Is there a better way to flag such things in the future? Do you have any idea what language the text is on the page? I'd say it's all Greek to me, but even I can tell it's not Greek writing. :-) --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 09:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

That link didn't work. Here's the address at commons to the template itself: Template:Image Caption/Flaming cocktails.jpg/gu --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 09:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)