User talk:Bobo192/Archive 6

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Archive I · (October 23, 2005 — February 2, 2006)
Archive II · (February 2, 2006 — November 10, 2006)
Archive III · (November 10, 2006 — February 19, 2007)
Archive IV · (February 19, 2007 — June 18, 2007)
Archive V · (June 18, 2007 — October 11, 2007)
Archive VI · (October 11, 2007 — January 7, 2008)
Archive VII · (January 8, 2008 - July 16, 2008)
Archive VIII · (July 16, 2008 - November 6, 2008)
Archive IX · (November 7, 2008 - October 2, 2009)
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Actually, I don't know how that happened. I hit the revert button on VP to get rid of the word "blows" after "Macy's" on the revision made by the anon account. Don't know why it put the message on your talk page, or why it blanked your page. Some sort of weird edit conflict, I suppose. In any event, I apologize. Cmichael 03:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

San Isidore

The article you reverted on San Isidore is incorrect. San Isadore is a common miss-spell. Unless you have government drawings which suggest that this is the official name (the planning documents I have seen agree with me), lets get this article correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.154.24.148 (talk) 22:56, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Knights Templar

Is it possible for admins to remove the vandalism edits from the history of the Knights Templar article? As you may know, recently vandals vandalized the article, and left vandalism in their edit summary, and that itself is vandalism. Thanks for the help! Icestorm815 18:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't exactly sure if that could be done. Thanks again for explaining it to me! Icestorm815 18:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome some feedback

Hello, my name is Isucheme and I am currently writing my first Wikipedia article on the Churchill-Bernstein Equation. The equation is used to find an average (convection) heat transfer coefficient to use in Newton’s Law of cooling for a cylinder in cross flow, and the mass transfer analogy, as described in the article, can be employed to find a mass transfer coefficient. I would appreciate any feed back you can give me on my article so I can make it a great article. Thank you. Isucheme 20:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Woodberry Forest School

Sorry about the "vandalism" tag on my edit summary - it wasn't you, obviously. Acroterion _(talk) 02:40, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Just a question

Hello, Bobo192. Would it be allowed by policy for me to make a sockpuppet to maintain the sandbox? Cheers,JetLover (Report a mistake) 03:59, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I am going to use it to re-add the header. Happy editing! Cheers,JetLover (Report a mistake) 04:10, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Rhianna

No problem. It's all in a day's work for an admin. :) I must admit when I saw it on the deletion review, I thought it was some misspelling of Rihanna. At least I've learnt something today. Resurgent insurgent 12:18, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage! It is greatly appreciated. --TeaDrinker 01:10, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Hehe.

Thanks for reverting my talk page. Quite interesting what those vandals say. ;) · AndonicO ^Talk 01:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Ah, you've got me beat: earliest I've edited is 3:30 AM. Maybe tomorrow I'll wake up at 2... · AndonicO ^Talk 01:51, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I only rarely get vandalized; it's been around a month since last time. Probably due to the message I have on my userpage. · AndonicO ^Talk 11:43, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

John Fitzgerald Page

Hello, Bobo192 ... you deleted John Fitzgerald Page (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for the fourth time, but you didn't WP:SALT it to prevent it being created again, as suggested on the talk page ... just thought I'd remind you ... Happy Editing! —72.75.79.128 (talk · contribs) 14:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Reversion of Asana

You incorrectly reverted the changes to the caption of a picture on this page. A review of your contributions log appears to suggest that you blind revert on a variety of topics. In fact, it would appear that is what constitutes the majority of your contributions. It would be greatly appreciated if you would think before hitting Save, especially when there is no evidence to suggest that you are informed on a topic. --69.177.165.202 16:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

It wasn't an insult. It was statement of apparent fact. --69.177.165.202 16:27, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

No worries. I wasn't trying to be insulting or snarky. This page has been one of considerable conflict of late, and I have been trying to edit is without engendering warfare.

My comment was directed at the speed of your reversion, which looked like the work of a lurking sockpuppet, until I saw your user page. The apology is on me. Blessings. --69.177.165.202 16:27, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Smile

SJP has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Blocking

Can't you just block User:81.230.36.247 first and then revert? ➳ Quin 16:12, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Teamwork

My pleasure, and thanks for the note...! Nice to hear that I was able to help a fellow-admin.... I've seen your most-excellent antivandal efforts for quite a while...I should've dropped you a note a long time ago to say hello and tell you what a great job you do! Dreadstar † 16:26, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

And hey, you did all the hard work...reverting all those page blanking edits...;) We'll have to check on that one again when the block expires in 24 hours..it almost looked like a bot. Let me know if there's ever anything I can do to assist you...or just drop by now and then to say hello..! Now, back to the frontlines!! :D Dreadstar † 16:37, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Ah, let me back up my compliments with...

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		I hereby present you with this Defender of the Wiki Award for your Heroic efforts to maitain the quality and integrity of Wikipedia! Dreadstar † 16:48, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

RE

Sorry. When I find vandalism, I head for it to fix it! But glad to help! --Esanchez_{(Talk 2 me or Sign here)} 02:58, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome

*Cremepuff222* has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

No problem. :) *Cremepuff222* 22:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank You!

Thanks for reverting that vandalism on my talk page. I also realised someone vandalised my page in April, which I didn't revert. How embarassing. Hehe. Thank you =) ĞavinŤing 14:07, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help

Thanks for reverting vandalism on Larrys Creek on October 19. I appreciate your help keeping the article presentable while it was Today's Featured Article very much, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 19:08, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks also for your kind words - I was a bit surprised as the article had never been vandalized (despite its stunning popularity ;-) ) before it was WP:TFA. Several useful edits were made though (two by IP addresses), and the vandalsim didn't last long, thanks to the efforts of many, yourself included. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 20:33, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Sean Taylforth

Lol. No worries. To be honest he doesn't meet notability for an entry and I reckon we're going to get rid of him so not sure how long the entry will last anyway. Peanut4 20:14, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Only league games me thought. Otherwise I'd have created the stub a while ago. Peanut4 20:20, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

The full wording for that sentence is Sportspeople who have played in a fully professional league, or a competition of equivalent standing in an individual professional sport. So I'd say for a team player it has to be a league game. I'm not going to contest the entry but if someone else does it probably would get deleted. I think we've a couple of other players who've only played in cup games including the same one as Taylforth. Peanut4 20:28, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

"Removed example image"

Hi, when you remove Image:Example.jpg from pages (which you seem to do a lot) could you possibly start by looking at a diff of the last edit to the page, and reverting if it's just vandalism, rather than trying to find and remove the image manually? Quite a few times now I've come across situations where a user has made an edit such as this one and you've then remove the example image but neglected to repair the rest of the vandalism. Undoing the most recent edit to the page only takes a few clicks and in most cases is actually likely to be faster than finding and removing the image. Thanks – Gurch 20:43, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

You're right, this tends to be the first task I do in the morning as I check three or four bookmarks where these links to mostly test edits are kept.

It's a toss-up between finding and reverting vandalism, if indeed it is part of a vandalistic edit, or simply removing the image if all they were testing was the button in the toolbar, and if I accidentally did the wrong thing by reverting instead of simply removing the image.

Thank you for contacting me about this, I know that these images can get everywhere at the worst of times, which frustrates the both of us.

As for removing the "Headline texts", which you are very good at doing, is this just a case of running a search and checking the mainspace pages with it on? The search function can be dodgy at times. Bobo. 20:50, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Not just "headline text"s, actually, but also "insert non-formatted text here", "insert formula here" and all the rest of them (especially "bold text" and "italic text", of which there are frequently loads). These all have to be located via search, which is a little dodgy as you say; some results, including genuine uses of the phrase "bold text", have to be ignored. Links to Link title also get inserted via the toolbar, but that is a little easier to deal with by checking Special:Whatlinkshere/Link title. Slightly more complex to find (and unfortunately much more common) are signatures in articles; this is a related problem because many of them are inserted by people randomly clicking the signature button, but others are added by users who erroneously believe that they should in fact sign articles. I've just removed 300 of those from this month alone. User:Gurch/Test has a collection of links to find these and a few other searches that are useful – Gurch 20:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

This is exactly it. These are links that frequently get inserted into test articles and those which equally stay in vandalized versions of articles in good-standing for a week or more if not spotted beforehand. Genuine uses of bold text which require wikification in this way truly are few and far between, and I think I've only come across one in the mainspace since beginning my implementation of these filters - indeed, according to the history, the article for bold text itself was created and redirected nearly two years ago.

Your list of links is a lot more useful - do you mind if I insert a version of this in a space on my sandbox and work with them on a regular basis instead? I will attempt to not do anything overly reckless with them - I'm not the kind to go about making these kind of edits unless I'm entirely sure I'm doing them... but it's worth me checking these, right?

Your call. Bobo. 21:05, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that is fine. Especially if it means you help fix more things :) – Gurch 21:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Here's another good search: "retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/". It's what appears at the bottom of text that's been copied-and-pasted from another Wikipedia article... – Gurch 16:02, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page!

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page! In doing that, I, -Goodshoped, give you the RickK anti-vandalism barnstar! I warned the person, already. -Goodshoped 00:32, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on Armbrae Academy, seems that fellow had blanked a whole bunch of pages. Thanks again dude. --BrianWhalen 12:45, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Your most recent edit to Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits

... is good; thanks for making it. I've added myself to the exclusion list preventively, and I had sort of randomly worried that I would end up getting added and removed regardless – I never want to be on any version of the list if I can avoid it. Somehow, I managed to avoid thinking of just improving the instructions as you did. I'm glad someone else thought to fix it up. — Gavia immer (talk) 17:28, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Just to say a little thanks for undoing the vandalism on my talk page! ::Manors:: talk to me 20:48, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Save us.222

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Save us 222. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Jreferee t/c 06:33, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I'm awarding you this RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your great contributions to protecting and reverting attacks of vandalism on Wikipedia. Wikidudeman (talk) 19:29, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Culture of the United States

haha you didn't revert it completely.. you reverted "poop hole" to "shit hole" =P I've fixed it! atanamir 19:43, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Did the disambiguation you posted about on the help desk work or do you need more help? - Mgm|^(talk) 10:46, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

My mistake. I clicked the link on User:Buddpaul's userpage without checking where the link went. I think he copied some of your code without altering it for his own use. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

....if I caused any issues. I copied your sandbox because: A. It's massive and I want to use some of the formatting on there to do my own sandbox (sorry, not a huge cricket fan[although it is a cool sport])..........when I say my own sandbox, essentially a huge to-do list for some things I'm interested in. and B. I want to just know how to actually set up my own sandbox....I have no idea how to do that, and thought that your code could help me. If there's something I need to edit out (so other people won't incorrectly send you messages) just let me know, and I will whittle down on the stuff in there as I learn how/what needs to go. Buddpaul 17:54, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for catching the vandalism on the Nightcap page. Les —Preceding unsigned comment added by Les Andersen (talk • contribs) 07:30, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

DYK update

I recommend additional links to the first item in the latest update as follows:

• ...that the brightly coloured shells of the Liguus snails (pictured) are so prized by collectors that some varieties are now extinct? --EncycloPetey 16:04, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Uh... if you check the link above, I suggested piping through to Gastropod shell, so I'm not sure what you mean. --EncycloPetey 16:16, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Honestly, I'm not quite sure myself

From what I can tell, the page was hijacked by the frighteningly vain Amrikrocks. Check out his/her talk page, it's a nightmare. Thanks for being understanding, I'm always worried about these things happening when I'm using automated tools like twinkle. --Closedmouth 13:47, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, but the same can't be said for the diff after that. And yes, I had no idea what to make of that bizarrely recursive template, so I just threw up my hands and left it to someone else to deal with. --Closedmouth 14:58, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

CISSP article

There's an edit war happening on CISSP, an article to which you've contributed.

tdbf is insisting on inserting a POV tag meaning he feels the article is not neutral.

I believe the article is neutral. I do think that it can be improved but as it stands the problem with the article is not that it's POV.

Would you please leave your thoughts on the matter on the article's talk page?

Thanks Vincent 16:12, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Wow

you can revert 3 or 4 edits a minute on widely different articles. Vandal Reversion Helper or something, I presume? 204.52.215.13 (talk) 06:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

User:ClueBot/FalsePositives

I noticed you reverted an IP edit here. However, another IP had edited the page before that here. Looks like something went wrong there, would you mind taking another look? |dorftrottel |talk 17:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I just reverted to one revision earlier. Now the question remains what to do about the IP who had edited there? Should the report they tried to post be made on their behalf? |dorftrottel |talk 17:43, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, I went ahead and just created that report. |dorftrottel |talk 18:28, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey Bobo192 - Why the revert on Dead Man?

Are none of the changes truly acceptable? If not, why revert? Please respond on the entry Talk Page if appropriate, and let me know how if in any way I've overstepped. Thanks.

Revert

Hello. I noticed you reverted this. Did you report it anywhere? I've noticed stuff like this is being taken to AN/I. Cheers.

Seraphim ^Whipp 11:47, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism on the Doug Ose page

Hi Bobo - thanks for reverting vandalism on the Doug Ose page. One request: when you do so, could you please make sure that you revert all vandalism edits, rather than only the most recent one? Thanks again! Sarcasticidealist (talk) 18:43, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

list of articles created

How can I make the list on my userpage of articles I created similar to yours? Also how can I fix my userboxes so they are all together and not have empty spaces in them?--Ted-m (talk) 03:38, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Ahh you are loved

[1] KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 19:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes sir, I've had it on my funny page for a while now User:KnowledgeOfSelf/Funny things#Random funniness, I'm going to add the above link to that page too. Happy vandal whacking. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 19:13, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally Jeffrey O. Gustafson has 20 deleted edits. Beats the hell out of my two. :) KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 19:20, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for searching for a clean version on Colorado Academy. I wasn't able to find one, and when I gave up I saw that you'd already reverted :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 01:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Clan Grierson

Hello, I'm looking at the Clan Grierson. Let me start by saying that it's a horribly horrible article and is in serious need of some TLC (it probably needs a rewrite). However, I'm not quite sure I understand why you reverted 100s of edits there. Thanks for your time. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 20:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Always check to see if vandalism is indeed vandalism before reverting

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gold_mining&diff=162151796&oldid=162151671

In this case you actually reverted back to the vandalised version!. Although I suppose, maybe the description of the edits (LOL anti vandalism edits!!!!!!!!!!!11111oneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneone ONE TWO) which I guess would have been targeted at the vandals, could have been better.

I do understand that looking at recent changes must be a laborious task, and mistakes will happen from time to time :) Buckethed 12:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey Bobo192, thanks very much for cleaning up my User page. I'm afraid the culprit was me, I was trying out something .... should have used a sandbox to make a mess in. Anyway, many thanks.(olive 21:11, 3 December 2007 (UTC))

TOCright

I recently opened up a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) on the use of the TOCright template on dab pages. Since it was your edit here that prompted me to ask others' opinions of the template's use, I thought I should make sure you had the opportunity to throw in your tuppence. I know this is a minor thing, and purely a matter of opinion about what looks or works best, but I didn't want you think I was criticising you behind your back, and I wanted all worthwhile points of view aired. Regards --ShelfSkewed Talk 21:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the Vandalism on my userpage. S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s ^{(Talk to Me)} 03:03, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

+1 Meisterkoch (talk) 13:05, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Template talk:Dutch Military/w/index.php

Just a note - whenever you delete an article title which is complete nonsense (ending in index.php, please follow the instructions at User:Pegasus/XRumer. They are created by a particularly virulent brand of search engine optimizer and in general the users need to be blocked. Stifle (talk) 17:44, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar!

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		You've beaten me to the punch several times now. Keep it up! :-) Tiddly<;/font>-Tom 19:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Faroe Islands

I noticed that you changed some British spellings to American spellings in the Faroe Islands article.[2] The article appears to be primarily written in British English. So it would be better to keep the entire article in British English than to be inconsistent. –panda (talk) 03:45, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I see that a previous edit had changed the spelling changes you made from American to British English. Since the Faroe Islands are (more or less) in Europe and there are still words spelled in British English in the article, it might be best to just keep the entire article in British English. (I haven't changed the article in case you wanted to do it.) –panda (talk) 04:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Deletition of comment

Dear Robert, I am surprised to see my comment removed at User:Farosdaughter. I do not see why you did this.

Please explain to me, if I have sone something wrong plase do inform me.

Thank you very much and seasons greetings, John Marks.

My IP address seems to keep changing - but stays in the 92* range. Apologies. My previous IP was: Special:Contributions/92.0.57.202

Invite

Century Tower

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks!

example.jpg

Hi, was there any reason for removing example.jpg from my Hekla subpage? I hadn't changed it since the bot edit as it formed a useful placeholder for where to put the non-free image back in when I eventually move the upgraded article back to the mainspace? I see that you've done the same thing for a lot of other instance of the same image, for the ones that are in mainspace that makes a lot of sense but many uses of this are people trying out wiki-basics on their own pages and so deleting the image is fairly unhelpful, they may be still experimenting or building useful content. JMiall₰ 21:33, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

THANK YOU

Thanks for removing the offensive comment on my talk page by 68.43.176.180 (he reinserted it after I removed it). I am grateful. Also, is there any way to stop him restoring that comment over and over again. Thanks again. --Smallbig (talk) 11:10, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I appreciate you reverting the vandalism to my user page. I guess I warned one vandal too many :). Cheers.Xymmax (talk) 13:41, 1 January 2008 (UTC)