User talk:Zsinj/April-June06

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[edit] Please stop Zsinjbot (at least for now)

Your bot has changed several {{helpme}} templates in welcomes that were marked with <code> and { instead of { . Please halt its progress in doing so so that no more users are erroneously listed as needing help. Jfingers88 02:09, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I blocked User:ZsinjBot temporarily and then unblocked - just to stop it operating. Do not operate User:ZsinjBot again, until we can discuss the situation. --Commander Keane 02:47, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: ZsinjBot

I'd love to discuss it. I've previously recieved a message from Jfingers88 stating me of the problem. I immediately stoped it's operation. After analyzing the problem edits, as noticed in the pause in the contributions, I then resumed ZsinjBot doing every edit manually. I might have been going too fast, hence the autoblock, for which I appologize. If there is anything else you would like to discuss, we can do it here on your talk page. --ZsinjTalk 02:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I would rather we discuss here, since there may be other parties involved. As you know, I have lifted the block (including autoblocks). How did you make the errors that substituted all the Welcome message things incorrectly? How can you ensure it doesn't happen again?--Commander Keane 02:54, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
You also screwed up (as a person, not bot) again with this edit. Can you use the show preview.--Commander Keane 02:56, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for the "screwed up" language, it wasn't very nice but I was rather tired of thinking people needed help in Category:Wikipedians_looking_for_help only to find it was an error. I guess you can continue your one week trial of the bot - as long as you don't make any more errors. You will also have to explain what happened today at your bot request.--Commander Keane 03:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Glad to help. I hope your bot works out ok in the end. Keep up the good work, and if the bot doesn't pass inspection, you can always fix up the code some more to prevent further errors. Jfingers88 03:43, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I have the template:test in my userpage personally just because I want to be able to store some templates there I might need, is there any way you could restrict the bot to user talk pages?--BigCow 17:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proxy IP

Hello! This proxy IP user user: 65.19.174.35 was recently banned, but it has just posted again here. How is this possible? Stefanp 18:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, ditto on user: 207.165.158.3. He's vandalised two articles since being banned[1], including a potentially racist statement. Tewfik 15:47, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RFI

Ok if I leave you to sort out in whatever way you think is appropriate (remove, archive etc) the reports you've commented on? I assume you aren't an admin (as you could have blocked or otherwise for 3RR)? Anyway great to have more people helping out over their. Petros471 19:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

PS. Don't think I'm trying to 'own' that page, it's just that not many admins seem to pay a huge amount of attention to that page! Petros471 19:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
You are correct: I am not an admin. I'm active on other pages similar to WP:RFI, for instance WP:AIAV and WP:OP, and enjoy helping out in cases such as these. It would be nice to find an admin to actively browse that page and carry out the suggestions we make. :-) --ZsinjTalk 17:05, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Agreed! Thanks for your help. Petros471 11:27, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your friendly neighborhood "subst"

Zsinj, Thanks for the heads-up on using "subst". I'm a template novice and am still learning the ins-and-outs. :-) Thanks again! Schmiteye 00:17, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh...so how do I go about "fixing" the ones I did wrong? Should I revert and then do it the correct way? Thanks! Schmiteye 00:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Open proxy reports

Hey Zsinj. Please note that the following IPs were removed from the WikiProject page as probably not open. 86.129.30.99, 68.206.131.247, 64.90.150.142, 72.56.69.104, 152.163.101.10, 141.219.72.176, 172.144.14.129, 129.15.122.152. // Pathoschild (admin / talk) 00:24, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whomp/Good Kitty on WP:RFI

I received the following message, and I thought you'd better see it as well (because you made the edits listed).

Hi, Petros471. I was looking through the page history of WP:RFI and I saw that a complaint left by Whomp ended up being misattributed to Good kitty. No big deal, of course, but I thought I would let you know so you could make sure you sent replies to the right person. —Veyklevar 05:47, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry about it, we all make little mistakes like that sometimes. Also a general bit of advice from what I've found on RFI- the simplest looking requests can often turn out to be some of the more complicated, so everything needs proper attention. I also archived a report that you commented should be, feel free in future to do so yourself if you think that is appropriate. Petros471 08:50, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mines45

Hello. In response to my request at Wikipedia:Requests for investigation, you issued a warning to User:Mines45. Mines45 has not edited since receiving the warning; however, an anonymous editor has made the same changes that Mines45 repeatedly did (Mines45, Anonymous). I don't know if the anonymous user is a sockpuppet, but it seems possible. Thank you. McPhail 16:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

I noticed that you tagged the page BuySell Real Estate for speedy deletion with the reason "this is advertisement". However, "this is advertisement" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. You can use WP:PROD if you still want the article to be deleted. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 16:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

If you check that page's history, i simple reverted the removal of that. An anon IP tagged that page. --ZsinjTalk 16:36, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
OK, thanks for letting me know. The anon has now been notified. Stifle (talk) 16:38, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Question

Well that particular image was probably a borderline case, but it looked like it might possenbly be a user image so I listed it on IFD rather than choosing between taking the "risk" of tagging it as {{GFDL-presumed}} and having someone yell at me for speedying an "obviously" free image. --Sherool (talk) 19:17, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks from Petros471

For a more general RfA thanks to all voters see User:Petros471/RFA Thanks.

You've got a couple of admins now who've promised to help out with RFI :) I'm sure you'll be due for admin fairly soon- I'd be delighted to nominate you after you've got a little more experience (as people will probably oppose now based on months). Let me know when you want me to take a more serious look at your contributions. Thanks, Petros471 20:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bob Newman revert

Did you look at the talk page before reverting? There is a history to this dispute. -- Mwanner | Talk 00:12, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

You wrote "articles cannot be too long without being long-winded, which is a characteristic I do not see in this article".
OK, to each his or her own. Personnaly, I think its a pile of fluff, but I'm confident that over time, concensus will develop one way or the other. Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 00:26, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


Thank you Zsinj, for the good faith you showed in judgement on Mr. Newman's page, and for your wisdom in a person so young of age. BTW, I'm curious if either you or Mwanner have listened to Mr. Newman on the radio ...--FairNBalanced 07:22, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archiving on WP:RFI

Just to let you know I'm going to archive some of the older requests, including some you commented on, as nothing more seems to be happening with them and the list is getting rather long again. Feel free to retrieve them from the archive if you are still doing work on them. Cheers, Petros471 10:57, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help Request of Ardenn

Online and ready to respond to any queries you may have stemming from Ardenn's help request. — WCityMike (T | C) 01:55, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why did you revert edits on BI?

I am not deleting sections, but rather moving them, as I discussed on the edit. What is your point?molly bloom 18:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)



[edit] Vandalism

Please do not accuse me of vandalsim when i am correcting the vandalism form other users.--CopperTopOnTheEdge 22:36, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WTF?

I was rolling back a copyvio... why did you revert and call it "blanking"? --216.162.81.162 23:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with subst

Please take a look at this edit by your bot: [2]. This is wrong. I've reverted this particular instance. --Stephane Charette 07:12, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re Vandalism

No worries! User blocked. -- Szvest 00:02, 24 April 2006 (UTC) Wiki me up™

[edit] Vandalism

81.99.186.48 (who I suspect is 81.99.182.121) is vandalizing the Saw III talk page again.--CyberGhostface 17:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A landslide victory for The JPS (aka RFA thanks)

Hey, Zsinj/April-June06, thank you so much for your vote and comments in my RfA, which passed with an overwhelming consensus of 95/2/2. I was very surprised and flattered that the community has entrusted me with these lovely new toys. I ripped open the box and started playing with them as soon as I got them, and I've already had the pleasure of deleting random nonsense/attacks/copyvios tonight.
If I ever do anything wrong, or can help in some way, please feel free to drop me a line on my talk page, and I will do my best to correct my mistake, or whatever...
Now, to that bottle of wine waiting for me...

The JPS talk to me 21:43, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help me, please

Image:Ottoman small animation.gif

Can you teach mea how to draw a map like Ottoman small animation.gif? I’m trying to write some articles about great battles of the Romanian Army and such animation would be very useful for my purpose. Thank you! User:Valip Talk Valip May 3, 2006 20:37 (EET)


[edit] Brainstar

I awarded you a brainstar, but I couldn't figure out the coding to put it in the right spot. That's why YOU'RE getting the brainstar (and not me) :) Anyway, I hope you fix it and don't delete it!

Why did you receive a Brainstar? Because you are smarter than the average bear. Thanks for your work on Wikipedia, on behalf of... well, just me. But thanks for your intelligent work! --FairNBalanced 08:28, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questions:(Reply at my talk page)

Question 1. Are you an Administrator?

Question 2a. If you are when did you become an administrator?

Question 2b. If you're not has anyone nominated you to become one?

Question 3. Would you like to become an administrator someday?

Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 18:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

You've been very active for over 4 months and you've made a total of 5054 edits. You've also been here for more than a 3 months. I think that you're ready to become an Admin. See This page Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 19:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I have a feeling that in a few moths (or weeks) you'll become an admin. Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 20:52, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Wdefcon

Hello. This is a spam message intended to inform you, that the Template:Wdefcon has been rearranged to a new universal scheme, as inspired by a discussion under Template talk:Wdefcon#Levels. This change has rendered some of your subpages obsolete and they can now be deleted. For details, check out Template talk:Wdefcon#Migration done. Thank you and happy editing, Misza13 T C 10:39, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

And they're gone. :-) Jude (talk) 13:40, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Zsinj! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Prodego talk 15:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thaks for the removingthe vandalism on my talk page - Much appreciated! --Irishpunktom\talk 13:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grenoble

Why did you revert my edit to update Johnny Servoz-Gavin? [3]? --Matthead 16:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism Accusation

Thank you for taking the time to review my edits to a banned user's talk page, but I do not think it was appropriate to accuse me of vandalism simply for a little cleaning up. I am relatively new to Wikipedia, so if there is a policy against deleting clearly outdated information on another user's talk page, please direct me to that information and accept my apologies for the improper edit. But even if you disagree with my edit, placing a vandalism warning template on my own talk page seems a little over the top. All you had to do was politely ask why I edited as I did and I would have been more than happy to give you my reasoning. Please don't bite the newbies. Thanks for your time and happy editing. --Satori Son 19:56, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Hello, and thank you for coming to me with a question. From your original edit, which consisted to removing a welcome template from a registered user's talk page, I had come to the conclusion that if the user who's page you edited did not want that information displayed, the user could remove it for him or herself. Removing content from other user's talk pages is usually not conducted unless the page contains content that is espically detrimental to the encyclopedia, such as 500,000 bytes of repeated characters or markup used to deliberately make the page inaccessible (such as thousands of pictures preventing the browser from loading the page).
In a case such as yours, I would like to remind you that the editing of user's talk pages should only be done when vandalism warnings or block messages are removed and need to be put back, or when the user has vandalized their own page in a way that hampers others from accessing it.
If you have any further questions, you have already found my talk page and I invite you back to it. Thanks, ZsinjTalk 22:14, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


  • Thank you for your response. As a fellow member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit, I know how much time and effort you devote to keeping Wikipedia top quality, so the time you taken here to provide a thoughtful and thorough response is greatly appreciated.
Respectfully, however, you have still not provided me with the official Wikipedia policy, or even guideline, that my edit violated. What you have provided is your personal opinion. And as thoughtful and reasonable as it is, it is still just that: the opinion of a fellow non-admin user.
My humble opinion in this case is that when a user has been repeatedly warned for true vandalism, has continued to vandalize Wikipedia article and ends up being blocked by an admin, at that time it is appropriate to remove the stock welcome text from his talk page.
But the fact that we have a difference in opinion as to the proper edits to another user’s talk page is not the issue. You may well be right, but my issue of contention specifically involves your placing of a vandalism warning template on my own talk page. If you disagree with any edit I make, you are, of course, more than welcome to revert it and explain your reasoning, as you have considerately done above. But to use the tools Wikipedia gives us to fight vandalism to impose your personal editing style on other users is, I believe, wholly inappropriate. Such tactics smack of elitism at best, and, at worst, intimidation.
I apologize for any misunderstanding as to the original edit, and, again, thank you for your time. --Satori Son 22:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I assume you are watching mytalk page, and I appologize for the delay in replying to you, as I am currently out of the state on vacation until late next week.
You seem to be accusing me of vandalism by placing a, relatively, innocent warning template on your talk page. However, I encourage you to do exactly as I encourage: to do with your talk page what you want. I will take no offence, nor incur any hard feelings if you were to simply remove the template from your talk page.
I appologize for any inconvienience I may have caused you, and again, if you would like to further discuss this, perhaps later next week when I get back home, I would be more than willing. --ZsinjTalk 02:19, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

The defender of the Wiki award for anti-vandalism and backing up your fellow reverters.--Dakota ~ 18:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
The defender of the Wiki award for anti-vandalism and backing up your fellow reverters.--Dakota ~ 18:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)