User talk:Ais523/Archive 5

db-histmerge and hangon

You placed {{hangon}} on a page I tagged for history merge. The db-histmerge tag does not lead to permanent deletion of a page; the page merely needs to be deleted temporarily because it was moved by a cut-and-paste move. Cut-and-paste moves disrupt the history of a page, and remove attribution information (information about who wrote the page), and so can be a violation of copyright. The temporary deletion is needed so that the page history can be moved into the correct place; to repeat, this is not a permanent deletion, and the page will be restored soon after the history is merged. I would suggest you remove the {{hangon}} tag. Thanks! --ais523 12:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank for info. I will remove it immediately. However, I was not aware of such a procedure, and I moved it in a good faith. My apologies. Surena 12:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Help desk assistance

Thank you. Really grateful. --Dweller 13:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

did i miss something

why has an anon user got a problem with me... i hear its got something to do with me wanting to delete his wrestling page or smething... i checked his edits and the promotion he says im trying to delete was afd'ed by another user so why pick on me -- Paulley

that's wierd cus i rearly comment on AFD except to keep articles... yea sourcing is a problem but we have been discussing that on WP:PW. As for Varsity Pro Wrestling, yea i guess im a little bias cus i did work with them, but im very much into the history and current aspect of British wrestling. It is the largest pro wrestling school of its kind in the South West and is run by a star trained by Shawn Michaels, who has brought in highly notable international talent. However, i will look into getting some sources. --- Paulley

Bypassing my cache

I created this [1]. What do I do now exactly? Power level (Dragon Ball) 18:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I use Windows XP. My computer is almost 4 years old. Can you see this User:Power level (Dragon Ball)/monobook.js? I copy/pasted the Javascript to the page. Can you help fix up that article and see if I bypassed it correctly? I am allowing you to edit it with my permission. Power level (Dragon Ball) 18:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, what's this for: javascript:alert(window.navigator.userAgent); Power level (Dragon Ball) 19:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, how did you do "undid revisions to last version"? Power level (Dragon Ball) 19:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I think I'm gonna give up on this popups stuff. It's too, too complicated. I think I'm unable to understand how to even know when it works. Power level (Dragon Ball) 20:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Helpme

Thanks for the assist on the template sandbox. It helped immensely. Pepto gecko 23:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Quilt code

Ok, I added my name to one, and it kinda works, but how do I get it to stay at the top of the square, rather than joining the rest of the patch? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 19:00, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Future help.

1.Many thanks for your help - I have yet to study it! 2.Should I remember, or store somewhere, :-"Ais523" inorder to ask you further questions?Osborne 14:15, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Oops

Sorry about the revert; you must have been caught in the mix-up. :( Feel free to revert and sorry. semper fi — Moe 18:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Hawaii Reserves

Go to Hawaii Reserves and look at the third reference there. Why does it say WIKIEPDIA.ORG, not WIKIPEDIA.ORG? If you can change it, thanks. Just don't click the link. --Arnold Go 13:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

This barnstar is awarded to Ais523 for a superb introductory answer to a question at the New Contributor's Help Page. -- Natalya 19:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

That was a really comprehensive answer, and well put together - nice work! -- Natalya 19:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for helping me out, I did not understand before about how you couldn't add extra information or remove it from a templated infobox. --Jackaranga 20:35, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Moved from my userpage

You've helped me a lot! Thanks! Keep Up! --Arnold Go 10:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Editing Pages

The pages are blank as I'm in the middle of editing them. If you wish to put detail on them, you may. But please do not delete it. Thanks for co-operating with me. Davnel03 16:57, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks & Another Question

ais523: Thanks for your reply and suggestion. I have posted a request for review/mediation on the administrator's incident noticeboard (see entry titled, "User: Tom Voigt using abusive language/making personal attacks"). Any idea how long it usually takes to get a response? Labyrinth13 19:38, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks from Labyrinth13 re ongoing dispute

ais523: Thanks for checking back. I have already put in a request for comment section on the Talk: Zodiac killer page. To date, I haven't had an outside entity respond, but hope that will change shortly. I appreciate your observations re whose arguments are valid, i.e., User: Tom Voigt or that of my own and the other editor involved, User: Jimbonator. About the only thing that I think you are missing there is covered in great detail in the "Request for comment" section and other areas of the talk page. Both Voigt's and my own website have been used to cite factual information in the body of the main article. That does not seem to be what is the heart of the dispute here, however, Rather, the dispute is over whether or not Voigt should be allowed to make his website links the prominent ones, both by linking them to key words in the main body of the article and by insisting that his links appear at the top of the list in the "External links" sections and/or in the "Reference" section. (The latter section is one that I agree needs to be vastly overhauled in order to make the section comply with Wikipedia standards, something that I and the rest of the editors can start working on once this dispute reaches a conclusion. Labyrinth13 19:39, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Beans

What do you mean by suspicious? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wrobbo (talk • contribs) 13:23, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Fixing Liberato Pinto

Thnaks for fixing the Liberato Pinto page. JJGD 16:31, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help on "Amanda Sage". 8) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Leo Plaw (talk • contribs) 10:00, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Further query

I have placed a further query on the help desk about a suggestion i have made to the user. Simply south 21:20, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

For you!

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For unending and amazing work at the help desks!! — Lost(talk) 13:16, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Argh, I got beaten to it. Totally deserved, though. Xiner (talk, email) 16:23, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

request advice from experienced wikipedian (metapedian?)

Greetings Ais523, Have come across your link at the Help desk when looking for advice regarding something weird going on and you seemed to answer things that more or less fit my query. I was going to leave a message there, but would rather avoid becoming a laughing stock as I'm sure for an experienced wikiperson it is easily explained but for paranoid newcomers... . Basically, I had followed a random link to an article and happened to come across an uppercase in a header, which I edited (I think I left an edit summary) and went on my way. Shortly after, I was informed by a bot that my spamming had been reverted.

On contacting the editor (?) responsible for the bot, I was told that I had included an external link which was considered spamming but assured that as no harm had been done there was nothing to worry about. On contacting the bot editor again with my continued concern as to a possible virus in my account, I was informed that the only way that could be done was through my monobook. I promptly visited the monobook and find a warning saying that I should be wary of any message on my talk page directing me there. Underneath the warning there is a blank box. So, the bottom line is: Should that empty box be there or is it possible that it has some malicious hidden meaning?

Thank you for taking the time to read this long and winding plea for help and please remember that in replying you are dealing with a newcomer with a very low level of technological know-how - like zero. Regards,--Technopat 20:07, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

For the record

m:User:ais523 and commons:User:ais523 are both me. --ais523 13:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanx

Thanx for your prompt reply. I suppose I can now relax, can't I? Regards, --Technopat 20:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the delayed response. Using the Wikipedia interfaces is like going back to the old machine code of 20 years ago. The article titled "Robert Blohm" on the following page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-02-06 has been created but has not been published in Wikipedia yet! At the bottom of the article highlighted in green, is the note stating: "Article created. Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia!Editorwikipedia 04:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)." The search engine takes 4-6 weeks to update. 3 months have passed!

I have responded to this help me request on Editorwikipedia' talk page.Cheers — WilsBadKarma ^(Talk) 16:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

DRV of Category:Articles with unsourced statements

I think I see your reasoning at the DRV for this category. Is it then reasonable to simply allow the DRV to continue to assess the history of the situation, and still begin a CfD as you have advocated there? Or does one necessarily need to wait until the DRV is closed out? Under the current circumstance, it may not make complete sense to wait to file a CfD, which is where most of the community input would tend to be gotten anyway. ... Kenosis 16:45, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Got your response. Makes sense; guess we'll see what the consensus thinking is, then. Appreciate it ais523. ... Kenosis 18:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Two questions !

1/ In "Algae" a certain species: "Halichondria panicea" is highlighted - but there is no article it links to (sorry - ending with a preposition). 2/I have tried to enter a dash instead of a hyphen (in dates for example - "History of Phycology". I thought it should be:- endash; but that does not work: 2006endash;2007

Will be grateful for advice.

I wonder where your answer will be - my talk page I suppose? With thanks,Osborne 09:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for asnwering my question

Hello, Thanks for answering my question[2]. I just need a couple of clarifications. So if we tag the material as "unbalanced" should it remain in that state indefinetly, until another user provides info? Also, can we move the minority material to another article that is devoted to that minority's perspective? However, would that article be considered a POV fork? Please respond on my talk, just under your last response. Thanks again.Bless sins 20:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js

I added the script into my monobook.js file and it just created text at the top of my browser window. Any idea on how to fix the script error? ~Steptrip 02:00, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help.

Thanks for help in the attempt to resolve the audio (.ogg file) at the article, "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2". There are still problems, and I have contacted [KFB] about it. (I think this system just doesn't work with a slow Internet connection.) However, if I don't get the desired results, either from [KFB] or through trial and error, I might call on you again! THANKS! Prof.rick 09:32, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Help with disambiguation of names

Thanks for the advice, I will (slowly) try to follow it. RLamb 11:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)Rita Lamb

Thanks...

:) Glen 10:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your help!

thank you very much for helping me with the categories! Kate Orlova 10:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC) Kate Orlova

Thanks!

Thanks for all your help, do you have AIM/MSN, or gTalk? Virchu 18:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

IRC

Are you online on IRC atm? If so, what server are you on, and nick.
I'de like to ask you a few questions as they pop up. Virchu 18:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

No Cache Problems.

I have no cache problems at all. I did see your message. The mistake was mine, as I badly worded my message to ConnieOC. I should have asked something like "what further help do you need?" Unfortunately, I might have gone and confused this user with an incorrect question. Acalamari 19:10, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Interiot Script

It's fine, about an hour after I posted a message on your talk page and Mike Dillon's, Mike left me a copy of the script. Sorry that I forgot to tell you, My Bad :D

~Steptrip 20:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Mono-Edit- Charleenmerced

Hello, I was definately trying to do something else. I was trying to edit that page but don't know how to. I was following the guidelines in [3] by adding the persondata template. How do I edit it so that it is visible?Charleenmerced ^Talk 19:13, 27 February 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced

Adminship survey/Q

Hi. You've reverted to a version which numbers the struck comment as #1, and the next comment as #2. In contrast, my version de-numbers the struck comment, so that the next comment becomes #1. That's what we want, right? Tim Smith 16:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks; no problem! Tim Smith 16:31, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

ISBN Number edit problem

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by the problem; I haven't heard of it before. I'm going to type an ISBN here: ISBN. Could you reply to this section by editing it, so that I can see what (if anything) happens to the ISBN? --ais523 18:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I clicked on EDIT and as you see above all but "ISBN" was left from ASCII representation of your ISBN string. I am using Firefox as browser. To double check I just tested also with IE Explorer and with it the ISBN is preserved.Emesz 19:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)Emesz 07:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Try this - blah (1979). blah. ISBN 0-9536923-0-8. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help) - Kittybrewster 10:54, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Kittybrewster, the problem's not with formatting but that Emesz' browser has a tendency to remove all the numbers from after the letters ISBN, for some unknown reason. See User talk:Emesz for more details. --ais523 16:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Big cats

Sorry I let that template lurk around my sandpile. Is it all good now? Again, apologies for the confusion - Fred 18:11, 2 March 2007 (UTC) Thanks for letting me know. Regards - Fred

Your edit counting script...

...is broken somehow. When I run it, it claims I have no edit summaries at all, which is patently not the case, and refuses to tell me anything else other than that I have more than 5000 article space edits (which I know already). Just thought you might want to know – Qxz 08:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Never mind. I tried it in a different browser and it worked – odd... first time I've actually seen Internet Explorer be more compatible with something than another browser :) – Qxz 08:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

I think some of the stats are a bit misleading, though. It lists all my 3795 vandalism reverts under "Manual reverts not marked as vandalism reverts"... now, true, I was using a non-standard tool, but the edit summary is "Reverted edit(s) by [vandal] to last version by [user]", how is that not "marked as vandalism"? – Qxz 08:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

The failure of my counter to detect your reverts as automatic were due to the edit summary saying "Revert edit(s)..." rather than "Reverted edit(s)...". Out of all the revert scripts I'd ever seen up to this point, only navigation popups started with any word other than 'Reverted', and I had a special case in for them. I've added your summary to the counter as a script/tool revert (I guess you didn't type in all those edit summaries by hand!); if you bypass your cache it should work for you, at least on IE. (What browser did it fail to recognize your edit summaries at all on?) --ais523 09:22, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, never mind. I don't actually care how many edits I have, I just know it's "lots" and leave it at that. But people kept going on about the statistics this tool produces, and it seems to be extensively used in adminship requests and things, so I thought I should at least see what it did. I tried it with three browsers; in Opera (9) it counted the number of edits per namespace correctly, but then listed zero for all the extra statistics. Firefox (2) seemed to crash completely; it refused to give an answer even after I'd left it with the CPU running at full load for 20 minutes. Internet Explorer (7) seemed to give the "correct" results for everything. Odd. It had never occured to me to used "Reverted" instead of "Revert", I guess I should for consistency, but on the other hand it doesn't really matter. Thanks anyway – Qxz 09:27, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: User:Qxz/ad.css

I've converted image 5 here to the PNG format, as requested by Remember the dot on its image description page. Perhaps you could replace the fifth image with Image:Qxz-ad5.png? I can't replace it myself because you protected the page with the .css suffix. (Unfortunately, the PNG format can't do animations, so it's just one image that can be changed.) --ais523 09:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

They were all uploaded as GIFs to make the template easier to write, but might as well keep people happy. And the template is more flexible now, anyway – Qxz 14:33, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for helping

Thanks for helping me with that problem on reverting Soaringgoldeneagle 18:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

sorryyy!

i guess i was attsacking beyoncé, but it is the worst single on the album and there's a rumor going around that it'll she will release it

sorry [o: —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Auzztin (talk • contribs) 17:46, 6 March 2007 (UTC).

Bug

Highlight my name screws up my monobook only when I edit. Can I have a copy of the code that does not have that part in it? Thank you, -- Darkest Hour 21:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Works like a charm :)

Thanks a million. -- Darkest Hour 16:22, 8 March 2007 (UTC)