User talk:H/Archive 31

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AIV

Yeah, sorry about that, I'm using a script to report and yesterday it was not adding people who were already on the AIV list. Ho hum, I'll have to start looking more closely at the IPs I send to the list! Thanks for bringing this to my attention though. --Samtheboy ^(t/c) 14:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Small

This would look good in most of our articles, dont you think? SqueakBox 00:06, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I certainly think it looks much better once a list exceeds a certain length. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 00:12, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll start playing with this. It may be one of those things that can be spread throuigh example, SqueakBox 00:19, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Sock/Indefblock tags

Instead of substituting indefblock tags, you can add the parameter "blocked" to the sockpuppet tag and remove the indefblock tag; so, where {{sockpuppet|207.144.59.134|evidence=[[{{highssp|1={{{User|207.144.59.134}}}}}]]}} you could add {{sockpuppet|207.144.59.134|blocked|evidence=[[{{highssp|1={{{User|207.144.59.134}}}}}]]}} --Iamunknown 03:33, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Hiding your username

Your userpage has your name obliterated by pi. You also seem to mask your username in your (imo gimmicky) signature. This is generally annoying, and inappropiate for an admin. New users need to be able to contact you and to see clearly who you are. Please fix. Thanks. Secretlondon 21:27, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Annoying? How? My sig does not mask my username. These things are not inappropriate. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 22:35, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Username policy and User:TheGoogle

You blocked this user for having an inappropiate username. You can clearly see from Wikipedia_talk:Username_policy that the policy re:trademarks isn't clearcut. I'm not impressed that you seem to block first and ask questions later. This seems to be a bad case of WP:BITE and makes me question your judgement. (I accept I may be influenced by your juvenile userpage). Secretlondon 21:27, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Sly little comments like that last one make it really hard for people to take you seriously. Ditch the 'tude or get used to being ignored. EVula // talk // ☯ // 21:42, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I disagree with you assessment of the block, at the time of its creation and the time of the block it was against policy, and that was weeks ago anyways. Also, a username block is not a punishment or even a response to bad behavior, it is blocking a name not a person. The block message is plenty polite and welcoming. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 22:35, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

(I accept I may be influenced by your juvenile userpage). ... --Iamunknown 22:38, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I have been under the influence of a few things, but never someone else's userpage. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 04:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't think its fair to characterise HighInBC's behaviour as "block first and ask questions later". The name was discussed at WP:RFCN first ([1]) following after being raised there by another user (and the account was notifed of the discussion). The account was blocked after nearly a day of discussion. And then the matter of Trademark-based blocks was raised at WT:U. No opinion on the userpage :-). WjBscribe 05:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

John W. Morgan

The John W. Morgan article no longer asserts his "tested IQ", but does highlight a political attack used against him in a televised debate. This is an archived debate and the infomation is widely known to the public (in that opponents were trying to use this against him). I just thought maybe you could have a look at as kirkoconnel is trying to use your remark as justification for deleting it (which I believe it isn't). -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.138.48.196 (talk • contribs) 14:23, April 27, 2007 (UTC)

I think both sides have a point now. I have no real opinion on the most recent addition. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:49, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

- kirkoconnel is distorting your view saying "He agrees with me." I simply referred him to your comment. The issue is no longer about whether Morgan has a 176 IQ, but merely that political opponents alledged he was a member of a high IQ society. It's not asserting a "truth" anymore, merely referencing a statement that was made. kirkoconnel continues to revert and does not appreciate the difference (and he's putting words in your mouth by saying you "agree", when you clearly indicated you were neutral on it. Have a look at his comments in the discussion section, he is clearly biased on the issue of IQ. -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.138.48.196 (talk • contribs) 15:17, April 27, 2007 (UTC)

This is a content dispute, keep it on the article talk page. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 15:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

User talk page protection

Hello, I saw that you had protected User_talk:Grandma_Logan from vandalism since the user [[who is actually User:Woodylogan, Grandma Logan being one of his sock puppets) kept removing the warnings from that talk page. The same user keeps vandalising a number of other talk pages for his various sock puppets; those I am aware of that have been repeatedly vandalised in the last few days are User_talk:Thomas_Logan, User_talk:Grandpa_Logan, User_talk:Ecmsthomaslogan and User talk:168.9.128.3. Any chance those could be protected, too? This is such a tiresome vandal :-( --Bonadea 20:56, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Not much point in protecting all those pages if he just keep changing name/IP. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 21:12, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

User:TheGoogle → User:Raden

Hello, not that long ago I think you blocked User:TheGoogle for username, the user was unblocked to change to User:Raden and this was carried out, however the user is now complaining that they are still being blocked, which I find strange considering they were unblocked (By Veinor) to allow the change. Thanks. GDonato (talk) 12:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

That is strange, there is not active block, nor can I find an autoblock on either names. I remember specifically no using autoblock. I will try just unblocking again, see if that works. (It is also possible the IP he is using got a block independently) ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmm no effect, the only thing I can think of is that the IP the user is using has a block on it. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:04, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, no block on the IP according to the user, also I can't find any record of the unblock after your block, can blocks be carried over and, if so, how do we fix it? GDonato (talk) 20:25, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I have never encountered a cross name change block problem like this before. Perhaps a post at WP:VPT or WP:AN would yield someone with experience in this sort of mystery. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 21:10, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

This post is to delay archiving of this thread. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:53, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I think there's another way this happens: some other username is blocked and the user's IP is blocked automatically to prevent sock creation, but the IP is not revealed for privacy reasons. The IP then gets dynamically reassigned to another user who can't figure out what the block is about. The usual remedy is wait a few days for the block to go away. 75.62.7.22 18:02, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I think I've got it go here and unblock 'TheGoogle' as this block appears to be active on Raden's account GDonato (talk) 10:27, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

That seemed to have worked. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:26, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. GDonato (talk) 16:48, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Appreciation

Hey I just wanted to let you know my appreciation for your "HBC AIV helperbot3", that you run with Krellis. It really is rather nice. KOS | talk 17:41, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

It is by far the single most appreciated contribution I have made to date, thanks. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 18:22, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Thank you, H, for your constructive comments in my recent RFA, which passed with 86 support, 8 oppose, and 5 neutral !votes. I will keep in mind all your suggestions and/or concerns, and will try to live up to your standards. Please, if you have any comments or complaints about my actions as an administrator, leave a note on my talk page, and I will respond as soon as I possibly can, without frying my brain, of course. Thank you once more, · AndonicO Talk

Way to go. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 18:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Decategorization of indefinitely blocked users

Hello HighInBC. I see you substituted the template on User:JJonathan and removed the category. It is much easier to use the sockpuppet templates only, which include a toggle for blocked status (see example):

• suspected: {{sockpuppet|username|blocked}}
• proven: {{sockpuppet|username|confirmed}}
• puppeteer: {{sockpuppeteer|blocked}}

You also did this on User:2ne, which is not tagged as a sock puppet. Doing so orphans the page and drops it out of the maintenance cycles. If there is some reason the page is not temporary, the template should be replaced with a more appropriate one such as {{banned user}}. Why do you think this page should be kept indefinitely?

Thanks. :) —{admin} Pathoschild 21:14:11, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

It is actually not easier to add those templates the way I am doing it, I am simply removing a category that they should not be in as sockpuppets. As for User:2ne, I did not delete it, and removed it from the category as user:1ne had recovered the page with the summary "Historical" after it has been deleted in the page. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 21:28, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Would it help if I wrote JavaScript code that automatically corrects the templates on the click of a button on the edit form? —{admin} Pathoschild 20:26:56, 01 May 2007 (UTC)

It would help a lot. I am rather poor at javascript myself and have barely cobbled together what I have now(User:HighInBC/TUPjs.js). ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:British Columbia Parliament Buildings - expanded.jpg

Beautiful pictures! Seriously. But since they are only being used separately, can the combined orphan at Image:British Columbia Parliament Buildings - expanded.jpg be deleted? Thanks. --Butseriouslyfolks 03:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the combined images did not look as good as I thought they would. I am going to redo the one of the whole building the first sunny day after my panoramic tripod head arrives in the mail. Thanks for the encouragement. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:23, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Dealing with Reapersss x

Thank you for blocking User:Reapersss x, although I did not see an actual block in the logs. As long as there will be no further activity from the account, or the person behind it. Thanks again. -- Reaper X 18:47, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I can see the block in the log:[2]. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 18:50, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

barnstar

Thanks, but have to delet. I am not an example of civility. In fact, I am not even a proponent of "wikipedia-style" civility. I understand that people are not robots and may get ticked off sometimes. At the same time I stand that a reasonable person must recognize when it is time to take some words back. `'mikka 00:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

The barnstar was for enforcing civility, not demonstrating it. While it is true that everyone loses control of civility eventually, a reasonable person can avoid a civility block, yet an unreasonable person cannot. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 01:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

John W. Morgan, again

Hello there

I am at a loss as to what to do now. IPs are accusing me of vandalism and reverting the article. They refuse to read or contribute to the discussion.

What should I do? I don't want to babysit this article for the rest of my life but I also a fair piece of biographical information available. I was considering expanding the article with the information I know of John W. Morgan, and source it but I don't want to have to deal with this crap every week.

Thank you for your help last time. --Kirkoconnell 13:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry what vandals accuse you of. If you get tired of watching the article, just come back every once in a while and remove the vandalism. Remember, someone can screw around for hours, it only takes a moment to reset them. When the IPs get bad, I can protect the page against IPs. Rest assured that nobody is going to give you grief for enforcing WP:BLP against vandals.

Every good version of an article you have created is kept safely in the history and can be recovered. Other than that the only advice I can give is to find people of similar interests and point them to the article. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I know all of that I guess I am just getting upset sitting at work fixing wikipedia articles...:P --Kirkoconnell 13:48, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

At work? That means you are being paid to edit Wikipedia, I wish I had that deal. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:49, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Sweet Jesus, you were on top of that. You solved the issue five minutes before I posted this... Do you know my weight, age and Fridays lotto numbers too? --Kirkoconnell 13:43, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

All three are "42", you just need to find the correct units. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Douglas Adams fan I see. I am 24 and weight 240... so thats damm scary...Lotto here I come!--Kirkoconnell 13:48, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

- I read the discussion and agree with the poster that this issue came up in the debates (though I think it was 2004). Most poeople in Cape Breton are on one of 2 ISPs (one of which has virtually static IPs). With the other ISP, usually a person will have the same IP address for weeks at a time (Aliant). The point is that this isn't just one person trying agreeing with the other side of the discussion, it's numberous people. I've never edited the John W. Morgan article before in my life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.232.19 (talk • contribs) 14:50, May 2, 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome to try and achieve a consensus on the talk page, the page has been protected because of the back and forth reversion. I did think you were the same person, I apologies if I was wrong about that. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 15:26, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Well my issue is what does IQ matter? John has a wife and a kid and a whole pile of things done. Including the IQ remark, unsourced, because it was brought up in a debate which was in 2000 by some, 2004 by you, seems misplaced in an eyclopedic sense. This is John Morgan, he has an IQ of whatever. I mean it seems like an attempt at bias by putting in an IQ showing how smart he is. John doesn't need someone trying to show off his intellgence for him. Any discussion on this should be continued in teh discussion but I could never agree to including it so consenses is not going to happen if the idea is to include it. I have YET to find the IQ listed for ANY polictical figure in Canada, living or dead. And I looked. On muliple encyclopedias. And it is clearly biased and unsourced. I think his height and weight have more relevence then IQ. --Kirkoconnell

Consensus does not require that everyone agree. This should continue on the article talk page, not here. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 19:19, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFCN#Ihcoyc

"Geez, now that is relevant."   Actually, its irrelevance is what's relevant. That fact that username policy at the time he chose his username said nothing about "names of religious figures" means he committed no violation of that provision (since it didn't exist yet), and there's sufficient precedent to establish that the policy isn't retroactive, e.g. the rules against email-address usernames and "Wikipedia" usernames don't apply to usernames created before the rules were made policy. Thus my laconic "Looks like 'grandfathered' sums it up." -- Ben ^TALK/_HIST 21:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I meant "The fact that the rule did not exist at the time of account creation is relevant to the username discussion". This is consistent with the irrelevance of the current provision of such names to a name that proceeded such a provision. I think we are in agreement here. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 22:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Other peoples talk

Reverting in other peoples talk space is usually a bad idea and probably impolite [3]. Its also pointless, unless you want other people to see it. Also, in general people can't be blocked for 3RR in their own space William M. Connolley 16:16, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, thats probably a bit condescending, for which I apologise. I can't easily see how to rephrase it, so if you'll forgive me, can you consider the same point to have been made, but in a much politer way? Note this does not imply any endorsement of what ALM is writing William M. Connolley 16:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

No need to apologize, not offense taken. When a user is using their talk page to put forth claims of factual information, I think WP:NOT and WP:OWN takes priority over the unwritten rule that user space is under the authority of the user. From WP:USER regarding userspace content, "content is only permitted with the consent of the community". Based on this I think that talk pages should not be censored by the user who's userspace it is in, the community has a right to discuss the content on the talk page of the content.

As for politeness, I really do not know a more polite way to revert the removal of my comments than the ask them nicely to stop and inform them of the rules. Can you suggest another way of going about this? ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:58, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

By impoliteness I didn't mean you'd done it in an impolite way - only that the very act is probably impolite William M. Connolley 19:20, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, one could argue them removing other people comments that were addressed to the community at large is rude. I fail to see how returning them is rude. It was not as though the comments on that talk page were addressed to ALM, I was seeking further input from others.

What we have here is a talk page that some people can post to, but not people who disagree with the opinions of ALM. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:39, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

TW not compatible with bot

It seems TW isn't formatted the way the bot deletes sections: [4]. Is there an easy way for you to change this or should AzaToth change the headings. --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@(Let's go Yankees!) 23:53, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

It would be better for me if AzaToth changed his headings, because the bot serves other pages in that format. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 03:28, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Hairy backs

If you look at the deleted userpage, you'll see why. The userpage was a G10 speedy, as an attack on an established user, and the account was apparently created for that purpose. If the user resurfaces and requests unblocking, I'd be willing to AGF if he/she can explain the old user page contents. Mangojuice^talk 17:06, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah I see, I read that but I guess I missed the key point. Good call. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Editing problems on Child sexual abuse

I have proposed that the content dispute be put to an informal poll...However, given Voices history on this page I have some concerns. Can you suggest anything else I can do? Thanks. RalphLender^talk 14:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Gather many opinions, sense shall win the day. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:57, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

One more tip, don't violate 3RR, and report any 3RR violations to the 3RR noticeboard, or straight to me. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 15:01, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

ALM's ownership

ALM is repeatedly removing the link to the response I had made to his Muhammad Image Issues article. Should the page be MfD'd because its a violation of WP:OWN? --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 14:46, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Short answer, Yes. Long answer:

From WP:USER, "content is only permitted with the consent of the community". Unless he is willing to allow for other editors to work on his essay, or at the very least talk about it on his talk page then it is tantamount to using Wikipedia as a soapbox to campaign his opinions, and is not respecting the communities right to discuss the content. This of course would be contrary to WP:NOT#SOAP and WP:OWN. This essay is being linked to as a justification to an argument. It intentionally separates itself from the context of the pre-existing debates to give the impression that the concerns brought up were ignored. Any attempt to add context, or even discuss adding context on the talk page is reverted. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Needless to say I would support a nomination for deletion at this point. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:58, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I agree. I've nominated the page for deletion([5]) because of the refusal of the user to allow community input or discussion on the page. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 15:18, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

TeckWiz's RFA

Hey HighInBC. Thanks for commenting on my unsuccessful RFA last month under my old name, TeckWiz. I'm now known simply as User:R. I've been very busy lately which is why you're getting now. I will use your comment to help improve, and I hope to keep helping and improving Wikipedia alongside you. --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@(Let's go Yankees!) 16:30, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I like the new name. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:50, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Commons

Great job on the images! I started looking at your stuff after you replaced my image on the Victoria B.C. article. After following you around a bit I found out about PTGui and I have had wonderful sucess with panoramic stiches that I had all but given up on. Would you please consider uploading your photos to Wikimedia Commons so they can be used throughout all Wikimedia (particularly Wikipedias in other languages)? Thanks Cacophony 16:49, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I really should do that by default. Glad you have gotten into multi image mosaics, they are amazing. They cannot perform miracles, but they can do wonders. It was User:Diliff that inspired me to look into it. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:53, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Helperbot issue with category marking

Hey HBC - could you take a look at this when you have a minute? There seems to be some sort of glitch in the new category marking code. I scrolled back my console a ways and found the following:

[2007-05-06 01:14:41 UTC] Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Net/Netmask.pm line 409.
[2007-05-06 01:14:45 UTC] 74.131.33.105 matched Crowdalert, marked as: User is in the category: 
Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets.

I have a guess as to where the problem is (category matches on usernames are putting things that don't look like IPs into the special IPs hash, causing problems down the line), but I need to get to bed, and am likely to be busy tomorrow, so I wanted to point it out to you in case you had time to look into it before I do. Thanks! —Krellis (Talk) 05:28, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I think it must be an issue with old data being in a variable when it should be new data... I will look into it, that console output certainly will help me track it down in the morning. I will disable automarking right now as the information may not be accurate. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 05:32, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Interesting data point: when I was testing in my sandbox, when the list consists of just an entry for myself, with a test category placed on my user talk page, it doesn't get marked. When I add an entry below mine, THAT entry gets marked with the category that I placed my page in. And there's more warnings spewed by the code:

[2007-05-06 15:30:23 UTC] could not parse Krellis at ./HBC_AIV_helperbot.pl line 192
[2007-05-06 15:30:23 UTC] Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Net/Netmask.pm line 409.
[2007-05-06 15:30:26 UTC] 1.2.3.4 matched Krellis, marked as: User is in the category: 
Shared IP addresses.

Line 192 is just where I was guessing there would be a problem:

if (Net::Netmask->new($mask)->match($user))

Net::Netmask isn't happy, because 'Krellis' winds up as a key in $special_ips, which gets fed into it as a $mask. If we're going to overload $special_ips like that, instead of keys(%special_ips) being the array for the foreach we'll need to stick a grep around it. I'll see if I can get it happier. —Krellis (Talk) 15:34, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I believe I have it fixed, will post version 2.0.6 shortly. —Krellis (Talk) 15:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Doh, thats what I get for tacking on a cheap hack. Thanks for figuring it out before I even started looking. Will upgrade now. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 15:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. It's easy to miss little things, happens to me all the time. —Krellis (Talk) 15:58, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

THANK YOU SO MUCH

I reverted many cinnamonsynonim's edits. Please respond on my talkpage if you like. Thanks again! Wikiman53 t a 13:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:32, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Please s-protect

Hi. Please semiprotect my talkpage, as requested on ANI, as it is repeatedly vandalised. Thanks. – AstroHurricane001^{(Talk+Contribs+Ubx)(+sign here+How's my editing?)} 16:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

It is done. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for semiprotecting my usertalkpage, but if you used the wrong template, then should it be {{sprotected}}? Thanks. – AstroHurricane001^{(Talk+Contribs+Ubx)(+sign here+How's my editing?)} 16:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I am trying to use the new fangled protection templates. They are more specific than sproctected, I think I figured it out now. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for fixing it, and it made me laugh when I saw why' you changed it: it was incorrectly written to prevent me from editing :p . Anyway, I have changed it slightly, as my talkpage was actually vandalised by two ips, both from the LA area indicated by WHOIS. Thanks. – AstroHurricane001^{(Talk+Contribs+Ubx)(+sign here+How's my editing?)} 16:47, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

User Speciate

Hello, you altered the vandalism page re: the user I reported. Will anything be done about this? I am unsure as I've never felt it necessary to report a user before and not sure the proper channels to follow. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.127.230.167 (talk) 15:33, 7 May 2007 (UTC).

What user did you report, I don't remember removing any reports recently. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 15:37, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

If I removed it, just re-add it, I have to go out now, talk to you later. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 15:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

The comment I posted was removed and "fix" was put in the edit summary. Should I repost here? Again, I am concerned about the changes this user is making (without discussion) and I'm not even entirely sure of the proper way to go about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.127.230.167 (talk • contribs) 15:39, May 7, 2007

I see now, yes I removed it by mistake when removing something else. Sorry about that, I have returned your post. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 15:43, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

By the way, you may want to read this: Wikipedia:Signatures#How_to_.22sign.22_your_posts. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 15:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Will do. THanks for your help. 130.127.230.167 16:12, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

The revert.

I meant to thank you earlier, so thanks for removing that message on my talk page. :) Obviously that person must admire the users they vandalized. :) Acalamari 16:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

It means you are doing your job right, hehe, I have a rather long list of that stuff myself. See my Trophy case below my archives. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I've seen some of it. :) Must be nice that all those people pay attention to you. Acalamari 17:11, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

The crackers email

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll change my password now though it's not a dictionary term. Do you have links to the incidents? Thanks again. Xiner (talk) 20:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

There are posts about it on WP:ANI. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Dang! Thanks for the note. My password is pretty obscure, but I may change it anyway now that I'm a little paranoid... --Fire Star 火星 22:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Same here. Steve block Talk 23:09, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Password note

Thanks for the heads up. BTW, please be sure to mention Wikipedia in any such messages; I was really confused for a while before I realized what you were talking about :-) Cheers, bdesham ★ 02:18, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I know, I sent over 800 before I realized that, some people got Wikipedia mentioned. Mea culpa. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 02:27, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Your email gave me a momentary start but thanks for the information.--Dakota 03:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks. >Radiant< 07:59, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
• Thanks from me too. I may be very busy IRL, but I still care about the project. --Daniel Olsen 01:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Templates on description pages for Commons images

Hello! I noticed you added templates to images stating that they are part of your contributions, which is neat. A lot of the images you tagged are located on the commons, so your tag is the only thing that exists on that page in Wikipedia. This means that there are a lot of images showing up in Special:Uncategorizedimages. What do you think about either tagging your images on the Commons, or if that isn't a good idea for you, adding a category to your templates? --Strangerer (Talk) 11:25, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I had difficulties getting my template to show up properly on commons, so I put the tag in Wikipedia. You are welcome to add whatever categories you find appropriate either here or on commons. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 12:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Change of image location

Hi. I see that on your overview of images in userspace, my workpage User:Murgh/Natacha (comics) is listed, so I thought I'd let you know that Image:Natacha1cover.jpg is no longer in that location. Cheers. Murgh^disc. 09:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Those lists has become very obsolete, I should delete them soon. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 12:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

name change?

I see you want to become H... is there a move towards really really simple usernames going on all across wikipedia? I've noticed several people changing their names to a single letter. ^{Review Me}CASCADIA^Howl/_Trail 01:31, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I like short urls. Besides, there are only 26 of them, think of the bragging rights in 20 years. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 02:12, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

(The real reason is that it is almost impossible to google search that name) ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 12:48, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

""h" +wikikpedia" = 159,000,000 ghits. A little patience, some munchies, a library of cds, and some 420... Flyguy649^talk_contribs 21:33, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Obfuscation is your friend. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 21:33, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

You're lucky, HighInBC. I wanted X but it was once used by an indef-blocked vandal. Xiner (talk) 23:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm sticking with Acalamari. No point in me changing to "A" or "Acal". :) Acalamari 23:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

A is not available. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 00:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

The following single letter names are not available A, C, D, G, K, M, O, Q, R (of course :)), V, X, Z. The rest are. --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's go Yankees!) 00:27, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Damn, here I was thinking I could change to "K". —Krellis (Talk) 00:40, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Y should be unavailable too. GDonato (talk) 14:30, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

• Barnstar moved to userpage.

Gee thanks, you did all the work. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 12:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't have done it without the help of a select few of you so thanks a bunch. Ryan Postlethwaite 14:00, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Deny

Cool, SqueakBox 19:36, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

It works surprisingly well. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 19:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, HighInBC- thanks for the vandalism revert at my talk pages- good to know vigilance never slumbers around here! Cheers, --cjllw ʘ TALK 00:28, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 00:29, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Userpage title

PiInBC? :) – Riana_ऋ 13:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I like pi, hmmmm... It only bothers me that I can have but an infinitely small slice. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:51, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

http://fy.chalmers.se/~f3amj/Pics/pizza.gif – Riana_ऋ 13:53, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/XDnateDX

I would like to direct your attention to the above RfA. The user is listed on WP:AIV. T_{Talk to me} 02:19, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

(ec) I am confident that user will succeed on one of those two pages. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 02:22, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Haha, so very, very true. :) EVula // talk // ☯ // 02:44, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

No they aren't. :D EVula // talk // ☯ // 02:22, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Hehe. Thanks! T_{Talk to me} 02:24, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

An article for you to look at...

Hi High (soon to be H), I encountered Serializability as a result of the creator's posting at WP:ANI [6]. I tagged the page as unsourced, and he/she added a single source and removed the tag recently [7]. Since you seem to be tech savvy, could you check the page out? To me it's written in jargon, but I'd like an outside opinion. Cheers, Flyguy649^talk_contribs 02:26, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Without having access to the source it would be hard to tell. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 12:36, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

No worries. I'll leave a note on the author's page. Cheers, Flyguy649^talk_contribs 02:23, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Is it not also fairly standard to have a second reference, a "cross" reference if you will? ;) It really seems if this is such a technical subject and notable in its terminology, there should be a myriad of web pages to verify and corroborate this user's claims. And if not, you can always subserialibificationalize the article, right? lol... -- KirinX 16:02, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Things I need.

I want a pony with a laser cannon surgically implanted between its eyes; a death-ray unicorn. Just a small horse that can disintegrate things with its forehead. Is that too much to ask? HalfShadow 17:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

It would need to be robotic, and I don't think I could get approval for such a bot. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Bah. How can I count on you when the revolution comes, then? HalfShadow 17:35, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Things will be different then. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:37, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the revert on my user page. Seems that even when I scale back what I'm doing to only keeping my watchlist clean, I still manage to attract the punks, particularly in the last couple of days.

The new bot you're working on looks cool - it should be a big help in keeping the more obvious nasty usernames out of Wikipedia! —Krellis (Talk) 18:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

That looping routine we use of HBC AIV Helperbot was made by me for an IRC bot originally, so it was not hard at all to add the reading of the IRC feed to the bot as everything is already event driven. I am having lots of fun with it. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 18:39, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Usernames blacklist

The new Bot that you have created should add some of the words found on Vandal proof's badwords so that it would be easier to blacklist them and block them appropriately..----Cometstyles 16:28, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I will take a look. I am going to set up a page I can use to test how many false positives different keywords set off before I use them for the main reporting page. Where is the actual list of words? ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Actually you get the list when you download VandalProof..----Cometstyles 16:49, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

But I have moved most of these words to my User:Cometstyles/sandbox2 and if you like you can grow through them and see which words can be used in you bot..----Cometstyles 17:13, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I hope you have seen my User:Cometstyles/sandbox2 for more possible username violations.. :)..----Cometstyles 12:10, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, once the bot is up an working I will work harder on the lists. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 12:40, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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