User talk:Wikipeedio

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Welcome to my talk page. Please post all your comments and questions for me here, I don't care whether they are good or bad. Remember to sign your posts with four tildes (~~~~) so that I know who you are. I will immediately archive and probably not reply to any unsigned comments! Wikipeedio

RULES

  • No personal questions. I will immediately delete any questions asking for details such as my precise location (address), phone number, last name, or any other subject that could lead to my personal security being comprimised.
  • No spamming or trolling. Having to delete automatically created useless messages is annoying. NOTE however, I said useless messages. If an automatically created messages has importand or useful content in it, then of course I'll read it, but after I do so it will most likely be archived into a special folder.
  • Rules Have Been Changed. I have a developing interest to know what everyone thinks about me at any time, so I will respond to all comments, no matter how offensive or pointless. I request that other users do not remove items from this talk page unless it breaks the page or something like that.

Contents

[edit] Your VandalProof Application

Dear Wikipeedio,

Thank you for applying for VandalProof! (VP). As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact with the new 1.1 version release it has even more power. As such we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. The reason for this is that, for security reasons, VandalProof requires 250 article edits to use . Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again in the not too distant future. Thank you for your interest in VandalProof.

I really commend your ambition and your vandal fighting. I think the other moderators and AmiDaniel would just be a little more comfortable if you had a little more experience under your belt. VP has a few features that would be a pain to clean up if there was a problem, so that is why we are cautious. It is nothing personal and keep up the good work. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 00:32, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiBreak Enforcer

Mmm, you're right that the wikibreak enforcer works out largely honour-based, but that's a limitation of its (Javascript-based) design. The user can disable it by changing their clock, or by disabling Javascript in browser options (works on firefox, at least, probably availiable on internet explorer too).

The reason I leave it up, despite its weakness, is that for me it works as a 'hint', i.e. if I wanted to check something on WP and was logged in, I might have a quick look at my watchlist (when I should be studying). When I know I'd have to change my computer's clock, it makes me think 'hold on, I shouldn't do this'. The same with the page history; if someone is installing the script, I think they won't look through the page history to find out how to disable it!

As I mention above, an external time server would indeed stop people changing their clocks. In fact, my first attempts at the script used wikipedia 'current date' functions to get the date (this doesn't work easily). Unfortunately, people can still get around it by disabling javascript.

With some creative programming you might be able to make it more secure, I suppose. It could be done by the user messing with their custom stylesheet (i.e. special:mypage/monobook.css) so that everything on the page was hidden, then the script could unhide everything if (and only if) it was after the timeout date. This would prevent people disabling javascript, since if they did so the script wouldn't be there to unhide everything. Combine it with an external time server and Bob's your mother's brother. On the other hand, Firefox lets users discard page style information, so even this might not work....

In a way it's useful to have a bypass availiable anyway; when I first tried the script I didn't know about Javascript's funny month-numbering scheme (i.e. january = 0) so my one day test break became a 1-month-and-one-day test break :-S

Cheers,

Mike1024 (t/c) 07:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hilarious!

Not only is turning the RuneScape links into a template a brilliant idea, it is extremely hilarious at how the problem was dealt in the first place!

Thanks for significantly removing any future vandalism in the links section of RuneScape and giving me some very nice entertainment along with that! TarikochiGalleryCriticize 02:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah! Clever, clever! Now, if we could only do that to the whole lot of them... Hyenaste [citation needed] 03:37, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: The Newbie IPs

Great Idea. But keep an open mind, there may be new sites going up. p00rleno 21:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:VandalProof

Hey, Wikipeedio. As PS2pcGAMER stated, I do trust that your intentions are very good; however, I worry you may be just a little underexperienced with Wikipedia. We typically like to see at least 250 mainspace edits and some distribution of edits in other namespaces. I've posted your edit stats below:

Statistics for: Wikipeedio
- Total: 299 -
Main: 69
Talk: 17
User: 97
User talk: 96
Wikipedia: 13
Wikipedia talk: 1
Image: 5
Template: 1

I'm also a little concerned by a couple of your contributions, i.e. [1] and [2]. I understand your frustrations in dealing with vandals; however, it really does help to just keep a cool head, post the standard warnings, and if the situation exceeds your ability to control it, post a notice on WP:AIV. Otherwise, you've been around since 10 Mar and have a number of great contributions and vandalism reversions, but I think it may do you some good to use popups some more, and maybe check out User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool. I think it's very beneficial to be quite familiar with the basic techniques and have sufficient experience dealing with vandals before upgrading to a quite significantly more powerful tool like WP:VandalProof, with which a lot more harm could be done. I'd like to ask you to keep doing what you're doing for another couple of weeks, and if you then re-add yourself to the awaiting approval list you will likely be added right away, granted that you don't engage in any questionable practices during that time. Sorry about the inconvenience, but I'm just really afraid of what could happen if VP is used incorrectly. Thanks for your understanding. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

No prob. I can understand that you want to keep this tool out of the wrong hands, because the moment it does get into the wrong hands... very bad day. About me losing my head, although it may appear as I lost it, I really didn't. I just figured it would be much more noticable if I put it in caps. That, and I didn't have time that day to word stuff better, it was pretty much just post the quickest warning possible, because the vandals were hitting the RuneScape article faster than I could revert and warn. Thats why your tool looks good. One click and the article is fixed and the user is warned. Cheers! Wikipeedio 01:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fansites

Generally speaking, Wiki doesn't allow fansite links. See Wikipedia:External links for more info :). Linking to the largest fansite shouldn't get you in trouble (if there are a LOT of fansites on RuneScape), and if it does, let me know, and I'll have a chat with the admin. — Deckiller 00:49, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Illusory copyvio at Alan Shepard

See Talk:Alan Shepard. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 15:40, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The prod tag

I understand if you want to delete a page, but as you did at the PlayStation 9 page, by reinstating the prod tag after it was removed countless times, is against policy. If you object with the removal, please instead place the article for a full Afd. Pacific Coast Highway blah • my tracks 22:43, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I realized that after I did it. I then corrected it long before you sent me this message. You shouldn't correct someone's mistakes long after they correct it themselves! WIKIPEEDIO 17:47, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 200.121.140.211

I've delisted this entry from WP:AIV as it is not obvious vandalism. If their spam/possible fraud persists please list on WP:AN. — xaosflux Talk 03:03, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RunescapeCommunity

No problem. I am not an admin so I can't delete it, though. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 16:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your dad.

Why is he ordering you to not use this website anymore? Is he insane? For Christ's sake, I'd be nothing delighted if my child spent his time browsing and editing Wikipedia! What would he do else, you know? Play Halo or Resident Evil?

In the choice between my kid playing resident evil and my kid learning stuff and helping others learn stuff, I know what I'd choose. It is a shame your dad fits in with my stereotype of an american dad, technophobic and all.

With hopes you'll be back (perhaps when you're older), Jobjörn 19:47, 12 June 2006 (UTC) (who is, by the way, merely 17 years old)

You know, you could ust edit wikipedia in secret. But, it's suprising he's not letting you use it? what, does he think you spend all the time on category:drawings of sex positions?--Ac1983fan(yell at me) 14:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Your dad must be crazy. Wikipedia is one of the best sites. I think your dad is an anti-Wikipedia fan. Tell your dad to leave you alone. It's that simple. Professional Gamer 01:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Return

We're glad that you're back, but.. why did your parents and your teacher ordered you not to go to Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a great site. Did you do something wrong? If so, then why. I'm not sure why they're being Wikipedia-haters... Professional Gamer 22:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I am relatively new and yes i know that my grammer sucks.. but i would like to know where do you find out how to put userboxes in your User page, without copy/pasteing it from some one else? oh and i would start a new topic, but i dont know how to do that either.Flare Mage22

[edit] WP:CVU status

The Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to {{inactive}} and/or {{historical}} status. Another proposal is to delete or redirect the project. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU#Inactive.3F and at the deletion debate. Thank you! Delivered on behalf of xaosflux 17:52, 10 August 2007 (UTC)