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Thanks for reverting the vandalism

We've all got each others' backs, it seems. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:51, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Paramus High School

I see you blocked the vandal on Paramus High School. This person made death threats in those edits, so do you think the authorities should be called? Academic Challenger (talk) 20:38, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, Hersfold (talk · contribs) is handling it. --slakr^\ talk / 20:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

SineBot signs vandalism

I get the impression you're aware this happens from time to time, and you're working on it, but here's an example of something SineBot probably shouldn't have signed. -- SCZenz (talk) 17:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Unblock for User:Tribe12?

Greetings! I'm not sure if you've been keeping up with User talk:Tribe12, but it looks like said user's vandalism was the result of some language filter software installed on his computer. The software's been deactivated. Tthis should prevent the kind of profanity-removing edits that triggered the blocks. It's your block, though: any objections to Tribe12 being unblocked? —C.Fred (talk) 03:07, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Maybe you don't know everything there is to know, man

I appreciate your efforts to act as mediator in the recent conflict between myself and Mrs. Winchelsea. However, there are some things about the latter that should, at the least, touch upon your consideration. Specifically, Winchelsea has played a central role in some rather shocking examples of vandalism. I hope that, with this new knowledge, you will understand that my attack on her was absolutely necessary.

I definitely don't claim to know everything there is to know, but it's fairly clear that you don't intend to be nice to other people. It kind of depresses me that people choose not to take the high ground but instead screw each other over needlessly and waste everyone else's time in the process. Oh well, right? --slakr^\ talk / 06:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

It wasnt me

Hey.

Regarding the message you left on my talk page, if youre referring to this edit, it wasnt me. I dont know how that ever happened. But I am a bit concerned about this. Can somebody else edit WP remotely using this IP? I ask this because if they can do this, then they can also edit using my Login name User:Zereshk. This is a home computer, and not a public terminal, and I only use the Anon account when interlinking wikis. (I do however use multiple PCs at work too). Otherwise, I log in to my user account for actual edits. It's a bit awkward and cumberome to keep having to log in every 5 minutes when youre working on multiple WPs simultaneously on multiple windows. Anyway, I have no idea how that edit happened.--75.63.192.246 (talk) 19:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC) (a.k.a. User:Zereshk)

P.S: Considering the fact that I have thousands of edits anonymously (linking multilanguage articles together on different wikis), and that only 2-3 edits appear for the User contributions of 75.63.192.246, it probably means this IP address was assigned to somebody else by AT&T (my service provider) when that edit happened. Anyway. Nevertheless I feel uncomfortable seeing someone else can edit under my current IP.--75.63.192.246 (talk) 19:20, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

sunscreen discrepancy and sunscreen controversy

I want to rename the "sunscreen controversy" into "sunscreen discrepancy". I had explained on the sunscreen controversy talk page why this is a better title. Please give me some time to do so instead of deleting my material just 5 minutes after I have started the article. Gerriet42 (talk) 07:08, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

will you adopt me?

Thanks I need this posted by 9pm. thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracer2 (talk • contribs) 01:32, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Acetone

OK, that was, hands down, one of the most creative awards I have seen on Wikipedia. I rarely have to remove nail polish, (being a guy...) but scrubbing vandalism with the acetone will be useful. I'll also have to try sulphuric acid, as that may be more painful........ J.delanoy^gabs_adds 17:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

if you block user:bsrboy i will thank you Sonicthehedgehog9000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonicthehedgehog9000 (talk • contribs) 17:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

SineBot source code?

I have my own Wiki on editthis and need a SineBot like yours. I've been told to ask for a "Source Code"? Krem^{Tell me stuff}_{♫Whaaaat I've Doooonne!♪} 19:43, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello? I really need that Bot. Krem^{Tell me stuff}_{♫Whaaaat I've Doooonne!♪} 15:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Slakr? Krem^{Tell me stuff}_{♫Whaaaat I've Doooonne!♪} 17:07, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Star

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This is for your diligence on WP:AIV. Some admins would have just blocked this ip anyway but not you.[1] I thank you for your diligence. ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 08:45, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Troublemaking anon user

This fellow redirected a link on Domestic partnership in California to a pornographic site, and it appears from his Talk page that this is part of a long pattern of his. You've warned him previously, so I've come to you. I was once active on WP, but I never learned what the blocking procedures are, and, regardless, nowadays I just have time to do occasional minor edits when I see something egregiously wrong... so, basically, I have no idea how to go about getting this guy a nice long forced wikibreak, and I certainly don't have time to shepard anything through any long wiki-proceedings. Still, I hate seeing long-term vandals go free to wreak further havoc, and I was wondering if you would mind looking into the matter for me. I appreciate it. --BCSWowbagger (talk) 07:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki bug

Hi. FYI. There is a strange MediaWiki bug on signatures. I don't know what happened to my signature but I did everything right [2] during editing. ;-) Probably some other people will have the same troubles, so have a look at your bot. Cheers, Arnomane (talk) 20:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Regex?

Does SineBot use a regex to determine signatures? If so, do you think I could see it? I'm having trouble making one for User:SoxBot VI. Soxred93 (u t) 20:07, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

It's really more of a parser, since it not only checks for various types of signatures/dates/formats, but it also looks for where in a particular edit it appears and a bunch of other things. There really isn't one all-encompassing regex that handles it. --slakr^\ talk / 03:26, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

FYI

Dmitry Medvedev (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) doesn't like you very much. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 03:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, so it appears. I'd offer him some cookies to try to make amends, but since it looks like it was a single purpose account, I doubt that he'd even see them. Oh well. --slakr^\ talk / 03:24, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Sinebot (again)

I see your stupid bot is signing sections I have already signed, once again. As I said before, if it got its message correct then I might not mind so much, but placing incorrect comments that contributions are unsigned when they have been signed is extremely annoying.User:Sandpiper —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.186.55 (talk) 13:47, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

You can't sign as a user while you're logged out. --slakr^\ talk / 22:04, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Double signing

Recently, SineBot appended my signiture with an additional copy of my signiture. Talk:Lymbyc_Systym < Page may not exist soon; CSD A7 R3ap3R.inc (talk) 17:30, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

It didn't sign yours. It signed someone else's. --slakr^\ talk / 22:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Sexually-confused vandals

I came across your page and was curious what this meant: "Sexually-confused vandals think that this user is a closeted homosexual, but this user just laughs because the poor vandals are simply in denial." I don't get it. Are you saying that you are a homosexual and vandals are closeted? or that the vandals are confused and in denial about you being heterosexual?--Biggayallison (talk) 23:17, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

It's a joke. When homophobic 12 year olds vandalize my userpage, as well as pretty much any other page, they usually tend to vandalize with the same things, which seem to mostly center around calling people "gay" and making gay jokes, presumably because they think it's somehow going to anger me. How, exactly, it's supposed to anger me I have yet to figure out. :P I'd show you some revisions, but another admin deleted them a while back while cleaning up vandalism. There's still some in my talk page archives, though (e.g., here and here). Anecdotally, I've found that directed homophobia is inversely proportional to repressed homosexual orientation— the more homophobic the person, the more latently homosexual they are, hence the fun userbox. :P --slakr^\ talk / 23:43, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for change in SineBot

Hi, Slakr. I like your bot, but I have one change to request. When a user is notified, instead of {{Tilde}}, would it be possible to use {{uw-tilde}} instead? sanawon 20:30, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

{{uw-tilde}} contains parser functions and is therefore unsuitable for substitution on as large of a scale as SineBot makes edits. --slakr^\ talk / 22:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Your edit to 19 August

Thank you for your edits, but please do not just unlink names from date and year articles, but remove them entirely. The main -- really, the ONLY criterion -- for people's birth and deaths to be included on these pages is that they have a Wikipedia article about them. Therefore, when you merely remove the linking to those who do not articles, as you did here, you just make it harder for them to be found and weeded out. Thank you for your attention in this matter. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 23:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

No worries. I've seen that happen a few times elsewhere. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 00:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy of Raymond 'SAROM' Diaz

Hi, not a big issue or anything but i'd added a hangon tag to the article as the subject appeared (to be possibly) notable after a quick google [3] search. Nk.sheridan   Talk 00:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Sparx* merge

You're right, of course. My mistake - there was a "missing page" link from Sparx disambiguation. I'll merge the new page into the existing one immediately, and fix the disambiguation page as well. Fleebo (talk) 02:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Attachment theory

Can I just say how much I now appreciate your hard work on the above page. The stuff on 'monotropy' was excellent and I think you were really making a difference.

I apologise if I seemed over critical and I am sorry if you have left the discussion because of these comments.

KingsleyMiller (talk) 06:55, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Mediation

Hi Slakr. I'm a bit puzzled. I thought you were really getting stuck in there and actually starting the mediation process but Steve says not. I really appreciated your efforts, even if your boxes flummoxed me, and am sorry we could not just carry on with you as you seemed to be getting somewhere. Fainites ^barley 17:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

SineBot is going to ban me?

Well, that's the threat. Can't say I'm much of an expert, so apologies if I'm not interpreting your bot correctly? Anyway, I'll be ignoring your bot's warning and continue deleting the fringe wetpaint spammer from the fringe tv entry and discussion page. Thanks? BOTF (talk) 06:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Airliners.net page

Kurt, there's a lot of editing being done concerning the recent redesign of the Airliners.net homepage, and it is only accurate to describe the reaction of the user base there. The comments "The changes were released to a mixed reaction with many users disapproving of the new site. " are accurate and descriptive of the response of the members of that site, and the comments are neither inciteful nor provocative. I'm requesting you consider permitting the remarks due to this reason. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anetmod (talk • contribs) 00:22, 30 May 2008 (UTC) Thanks, Kurt, for the heads up, and also for your consideration on the Airliners.net page here on Wiki - as of right now, the information is reflecting accurately. Anetmod (talk) 00:39, 30 May 2008 (UTC)Anetmod

BRC & privacy concerns

Hey slakr, would you mind dropping in your opinion here? Thanks. GlassCobra 01:16, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Brilliant Work!

		The Minor Barnstar
		For great work by SineBot; a minor, yet valuble contribution to Wikipedia. ajmint (talk•email•contribs•subpages) 17:34, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

could you please do me a favor?

Hello,

I am a master student at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently I am wrapping up my master thesis titled “Can Wikipedia be used for knowledge service?” In order to validate the knowledge evolution maps of identified users in Wikipedia, I need your help. I have generated a knowledge evolution map to denote your knowledge activities in Wikipedia according to your inputs including the creation and modification of contents in Wikipedia, and I need you to validate whether the generated knowledge evolution map matches the knowledge that you perceive you own it. Could you please do me a favor?

1. I will send you a URL link to a webpage on which your knowledge evolution map displays. Please assign the topic (concept) in the map to a certain cluster on the map according to the relationship between the topic and clusters in your cognition, or you can assign it to ‘none of above’ if there is no suitable cluster.
2. I will also send a questionnaire to you. The questions are related to my research topic, and I need your viewpoints about these questions.

The deadline of my thesis defense is set by the end of June, 2008. There is no much time left for me to wrap up the thesis. If you can help me, please reply this message. I will send you the URL link of the first part once I receive your response. The completion of my thesis heavily relies much on your generous help.

Sincerely

JnW^talk 07:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Do not delete comments

I ask because you are not an admin. Do not delete comments from a discussion page, regardless of the contents of the comments, without first issuing a warning. There are templates for this. You should know where to find them. And before you delete this comment, or alert an admin, please cite the rule that disallows the casual use of the word fuck on Wikipedia. Thanks.

Actually, believe it or not, I am an admin, and your comment wasn't positive and was incivil; thus, it was removed. --slakr^\ talk / 07:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Erroneous comment stricken. Still, don't delete comments outright just because you don't think they're appropriate. There's nothing in the rules that forbids casual use of words like "fuck" on discussion pages. Also, what I posted above is not an attack. I mention this because one of your friends, coming to your aid, accused me of attacking you.

Please review WP:CIVIL and WP:TALK as slakr suggests above. Also, WP:CABAL may be helpful. I no longer remember why slakr is on my watchlist, but I agree that the tone of your discourse is unhelpful. I've edited the section heading above to be more appropriate. Also, please sign your comments per WP:TALK. Walter Siegmund (talk) 10:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

SLAKR, I'm not quite sure to be in the right ballpark here. However, If you look at my userpage, I got slandered by an individual which you already had warned off. As he/she said, he/she "sent you a message" and "I should ba careful what I say". I do indeed consider this a serious threat. Could it be that we are talking about the same unfriendly person, although with a different IP? Anyway, whether or not, how would you deal with such a threat? Any help is appreciated. Greetings, Lost Boy (talk) 14:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

SineBot

I have my own Wiki called Vandalpedia. If you could create (or teach me how to create) a SineBot there that would be great! Krem^{Tell me stuff}_{♫Whaaaat I've Doooonne!♪} 23:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user talk page, and for blocking that idiot. -- Roleplayer (talk) 16:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

pls indef and full protect my userpage and talkpage

pls indef and full protect my userpage and talkpage . my talkpage should stay completely blanked. i just want to get this done as fast as possible since i'm now about to leave wiki indef and wanna get this done. thx in advance. sincere SomeUsr 01:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

done by another sysop. thx and bye. SomeUsr 01:19, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Defanging of preserved unblock request on User_talk:Korax1214/Blocked

I can understand why this was done, but the problem is that the visual appearance of this archive page no longer corresponds to what it looked like during the block, which somewhat defeats the purpose of the page.

Is it possible (and if so, how?) to put in its place something which renders in a browser in the same way as the original unblock request, but no longer triggers the request mechanism -- thereby satisfying everybody's requirements? -- 217.171.129.77 (talk) 12:24, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

You could technically substitute the template in one edit, then in another remove the categories it adds. --slakr^\ talk / 14:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

My signature

Hi, I am just dropping by to tell you that I have been signing evey post with these tildes and somehow it's not my fault. I been trying to sign it. I think you have a problem with your bot.--Miss Lindsie aka LindsieandLance 08:15, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Uncheck the "raw signature" box in "my preferences" and read the FAQ at the top of this page. --slakr^\ talk / 20:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

SineBot

Is this bot accessible to other users? Because i would like to use it. User:GENIUS(4th power) User talk:GENIUS(4th power) —Preceding comment was added at 19:46, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

No, but your signature is ridiculously long. Please read through our signatures guideline. --slakr^\ talk / 20:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Coincedence

Heh, hey, that anonymous user you (and i at the same time ) just blocked? Guess What? Check his contrib's. Hes been doin that for a while now. I say a permanent block is in order. Of course, its not my decision, but i suggest it. He has been replacing pages with lude words and vile comments, i am not an admin (yet) so i ask you to block him indefinetly. thanks, User:GENIUS(4th power) [[User talk:GENIUS(4th power)

Not sure what you mean. You're not an administrator, so you're not able to block editors. Also, please refrain from using blocking templates unless you've made the block yourself (which will only happen when/if you become an administrator), as adding blocking templates when you're not an admin is confusing to users. Moreover, we generally don't permanently block ips. Thanks, and cheers. --slakr^\ talk / 22:16, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Slakr! You beat me to a block again! the user you just blocked i was blocking at the same time! stop it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by GENIUS(4th power) (talk • contribs) 22:22, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

As I already said, you're unable to block people. Also, I noticed that you've been sending similar messages to other admins. Is there are particular reason for that? --slakr^\ talk / 22:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

You are funny fucking Yankee

Ignorant

I wish I was a Yankee. Unfortunately, I was born in Texas, so if you insist on using personal attacks, that very much makes me a backwater, inbred, redneck instead. Realistically, though, I feel like much more of a northerner, so you're partially correct.

Though, it's possible that you were referring to "Yank" in the sense of me being an American (i.e., "yank" is a slang term for American in many locales). If so, guilty as charged. Though, in many ways I don't really see myself as an American as much as I do European— mainly because my fellow Americans can, quite frequently, be, as you said, ignorant. Meh. Oh well. Anyway, while you're blocked, please read up on our policies and guidelines, particularly those relating to civility, so that when the block expires you will be able to contribute positively— if you so choose. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 23:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Block of 71.7.162.214

Hey there, fellow Texan! I noticed that you blocked this user for returning right after a block for a previous vandalism spree and starting it up again. This seems to be a pattern with him, always focusing on the same set of articles. I wonder if you'd mind adding his favorite set of articles to your watchlist? He'll be back as soon as the block expires: it's like he sets an alarm clock. Some other incarnations are User talk:24.215.75.61, User talk:24.138.60.240, User talk:142.68.206.30, and User talk:142.167.143.78. There may be a few others that I've missed. I've reached the point where I block for extended times pretty quickly when these articles are hit. If you check out the contributions, you'll see that they just go on and on and on each time they get a chance. Thanks, Joyous! | Talk 02:59, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

The Penetrator

You're a jerk for deleting my article. The Penetrator is so well known here (Northern California/Bay Area) that you are disservicing anyone and everyone by depriving them of knowledge of it. I didn't make it up. It is a myth, as I said in the article, and you need to put it back up. It is in no way vandalism, it is a funny, true myth that exists around my college campus and those of my friends. Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hubert-church (talk • contribs) 04:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I have no doubts that it is, indeed, a funny, enjoyable myth. Unfortunately, myths don't make it into an encyclopedia unless it meets our notability guidelines and can be verified using reliable secondary sources. Otherwise, the myth will sadly have to remain excluded from the encyclopedia. --slakr^\ talk / 04:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

The Penetrator

Understandable. Stories of it are all over myspace and facebook, those are reliable secondary sources. I shall reference them (and of course the two interviews that I conducted although they cannot really be verified). Once they have the myspace links, the article should meet the notability guidelines I have just read. I appreciate your advice and support on this matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hubert-church (talk • contribs) 04:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Stories on facebook/myspace, unfortunately, don't constitute reliable, independent secondary sources. You'll need to find news stories or scholarly sources. --slakr^\ talk / 04:54, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

The Penetrator

I have found a couple web pages written about the Penetrator by people that I do not know, yet know about him very well. Since they have published web pages about The Penetrator, that should be ok right? I will reference them fully... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hubert-church (talk • contribs) 05:05, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I can't really answer that without knowing the source. Be sure to read our policy on verifiability, which should help. --slakr^\ talk / 05:10, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Deletion on a wiki page link!

As a first time editor on Wikipedia, I was working on doing the translation for artist Luigi Serafini and his work, Codex Seraphinianus in Chinese. I made the mistake by logging onto the English page to make my input and made an incorrect inquiry for translation request. Now the request page exists when I search for the work online in Google, for example. Can you help me with deleting the page or link that exists on Wikipedia and on the web? The following is the link to the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/如何编辑页面 Thanks for your help!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deertofortune (talk • contribs) 13:29, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

The page is deleted. However, I notice that the link(s) still exists if I search under Google if I look up 抄本Seraphinianus. An additional link was created since the last request noting the deletion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Deertofortune Is it possible to delete the links permanently so they do not show up any longer when one looks up the term? Deertofortune (talk) 09:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

We do not control google's indexing on a per-page basis. You can try removing the link from your user talk page. *shrug* --slakr^\ talk / 17:51, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

for the acetone! NawlinWiki (talk) 18:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Re-blocking of User talk:72.138.216.89

Thanks for everything you have been doing with regard to blocking this user before, but he/she continues to post uncivil comments, and has most recently resorted to cursing and attacking on the Tiger Woods talk page, [4], [5].
I think these most recent comments do merit an additional block, and as the third violation, I was wondering if this warrants a permanent block. Thanks for your help. :) Supertigerman (talk) 23:19, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

 Done. We don't permanently block ips, though, but longer expire times aren't a problem :P --slakr^\ talk / 00:10, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

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awww im sorry man i didnt know what a signature was until now thank youFaln angel82 (talk) 03:10, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

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how am i supposed to put like the template boxes on my profile? Faln angel82 (talk) 15:41, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

SineBot question

I work on a private MediaWiki installation and it would be awesome to have the ability to operate a sinebot clone on it. Is the source available for SineBot, I have seen requests for it but no mention of its availability. Thanks for your time. --Coban (talk) 15:52, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Linux

Why did you revert me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.155.195 (talk) 03:42, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, you undid it. 76.10.155.195 (talk) 03:44, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Heh, was a little overzealous. Sorry 'bout that. :P --slakr^\ talk / 03:44, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

No worries :) 76.10.155.195 (talk) 03:50, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm getting tired of asking you this.

Can you instruct me on how to make a SineBot on my editthis Wiki? Krem^{Tell me stuff}_{♫Whaaaat I've Doooonne!♪} 15:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Portal TP

hi i created the portal for Zelda TP. I need some help adding templates and stuff. could u give me a hand? thanks :p - leo604 18:48, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, concerning this anon

71.197.53.0 Was blocked today at precise time unknown for persistent vandalism. I understand, yet the block fails to state how long the user will be blocked. You might want to change that. >|< —Preceding comment was added at 02:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

On short duration blocks, I don't spend the time typing in the block time. Check out the block log for a user to see the duration. Cheers. --slakr^\ talk / 02:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I should also note that the actual block time is also shown to the user when he goes to edit the page. See also MediaWiki:Blockedtext. --slakr^\ talk / 02:18, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Signature

Oh hey, thanks for letting me know about the four tildes for signature. I didn't even know that it was such a big deal. I mean, if wikipedia automatically adds a link to the user why do you need a signature anyways? Anyways, thanks for letting me know to use signatures. I won't forget again! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.49.150.73 (talk) 05:00, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

please review the autoblock on 203.177.74.139/User_talk:Akmg

thank you! Akmg (talk) 09:50, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

You've blocked an entire browser!

Your block of 195.189.142.0/23 today has blocks users of the opera mini browser (the best browser for pocket PCs and smartphones). Can you please unblock it and contact the Opera Admins if you have concerns about how their servers/proxies are set up, but in the meantime let us use a decent browser for our mobile editing. Thanks.The-Pope (talk) 13:06, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

No. It's being used for abuse. Requests are round robined across multiple ips, much like google's web accelerator did. Opera is more than welcome to use our XFF system, and legitimate editors are welcome to apply for block exemptions. --slakr^\ talk / 23:54, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Signing in Error

SineBot just signed a line in a comment that already was signed. This happened at Talk:Potential superpowers, with this diff. I'm not sure if there is any easy fix to avoid this, but an error nonetheless. Going to try and trigger it below. =Species8473= ^(talk) 20:48, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

It was because of the time difference. SineBot assumes that if you make a bunch of edits within a short period of time (~5-8 minutes or so) that you're simply revising what you've already posted. However, if you make one substantially later (e.g., 20 minutes later) and your signature isn't visible to the bot in the diff, it doesn't know what you're adding stuff to. Thus, the best method of avoiding it is to append to lists toward the bottom, use !nosign! in the edit summary, or indent additions below what you've already added. Cheers. --slakr^\ talk / 23:49, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

some more thanks

I just wanted to say something that you have prolly heard before but I really appreciate SineBot :) it's helpful not only to figure out what people have said to me on talk pages but for those times when I forget to sign my own! great work on that bot! Sykko (talk) 04:56, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

78.168.79.189‎

The ip address that you recently blocked, the one that was repeatedly vandalizing the articles Limassol‎, Larnaca‎ and Paphos may be a sockpuppet of another user using a dynamic ip address or a proxy because the same vandalisms that were committed by that ip address today were also committed by several other ip addresses (that are similar all of these ip addresses start with 78.168.) before today to the same articles.[6][7][8]--Apollonius 1236 (talk) 11:54, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I blocked the range since they were doing it over several pages. I'll drop the ISP a note. --slakr^\ talk / 19:21, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks--Apollonius 1236 (talk) 23:32, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

It appears that the vandalisms are still happening (and are coming from the same ip range as before (78.168.)) even though you blocked the ip range [9].--Apollonius 1236 (talk) 15:38, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Opera ban

I don't think you've thought this through.

If, firefox users were banned from editing the site because of vandalism then there would be quite an outcry. Millions of people use opera and there's nothing to stop you from blocking the IP range for a few hours occasionally if and when it used for abuse but to block until 2013 at the very least requires you to obtain community consensus for this. Browser fan (talk) 07:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Firefox doesn't route all traffic through proxies. Nor does Opera desktop. Nor does IE *shiver*. Google Web Accelerator did, though, and we subsequently axed it. Like I said, if you want this fixed, contact Opera and let them know you're mad. Maybe then they'll make motions to work with us to help eliminate abuse. --slakr^\ talk / 09:41, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I think a community discussion is warrented because many Opera Mini users are unable to surf without it - very different to web accelerator. Please could you arrange one? Browser fan (talk) 16:04, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

i Am facing the same Problem, have asked here Bharath (talk) 17:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I use Opera Mini from time to time. Have you hard blocked it? Or am I exempt as an admin? Where is the discussion relating to hardblocking the entire range for five years? Neıl 龱 17:35, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

You are exempt as an admin, as is anyone else with the ipblockexempt permission. Sam Korn ^(smoddy) 18:03, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

• Opera Mini forwards via XFF the real IP of the user, for all users except those using the demo version. Who were you having problems with that you blocked the whole range, and did you ask a checkuser to look at the edits? Thatcher 19:32, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

  Correct. It seems that the demo version screws up when it comes to the XFF. Moreover, I would guess that the range isn't on our trusted XFF list, otherwise none of these users would be affected; for, the XFF of the demo site returns back addresses within the range. This one was one of the troublemakers, and I was going "how is the dude switching ips so fast?" I would have just semi-ed the page until I realized there was some other stuff within the range, the demo, etc. Anyway, since this issue has popped up before, and since apparently Opera did nothing about it when we tried to ask them to, I figured that the ideal approach would be to get the users to ask them to do it as well. :P --slakr^\ talk / 22:53, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

  • I believe you cannot log in on the demo version. If that's the case, couldn't it be blocked anon-only? Neıl 龱 08:39, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Logging in by going directly to the login page works fine, as evidenced by this test account that is ipblock-exempt being able to post. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SlakrTEST (talk • contribs) 21:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

*huggles*

o —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.203.96.23 (talk) 00:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I'm sorry if I breached any rules - there seems to be a myriad amount of them and I'm still in Wiki-nappies so to speak. I certainly meant to threaten anyone, my humour obviously doesn't translate well through text! Thanks for the heads-up! Saul Douglas Whitby (talk) 22:43, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

very thoughtful of you!

to mark it resolved and say that user may create category. As I said in AN, it's ripe for delete if it remains empty for a few days. I am not the arguing type.

A very good solution rather than have people attack me as they were starting to do. 3 cheers for you. Voxtel (talk) 22:47, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

M7 Technologies

Hello Kurt,

I'm a first time author to Wikipedia. My post "M7 Technologies" has been deleted twice today. I've edited and reduced this article several times and was still advised that I was promoting. I have no intention of promoting only to post an entry on the topic. Do you have any advice you'd share with me on how to successfully achieve this entry?

Thank you, Jeffrey Cunningham hammer352001@yahoo.com Hammer352001 (talk) 19:45, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Basically because of two main reasons:

1. It's written in a way that promotes something and has no neutral revision to revert to. The very definition of our criteria for speedy deletion / g11 category. Essentially, it's a completely one-sided presentation of the company that only accents the good things about it without any encyclopedic depth, and Wikipedia is not for advertising.
2. It doesn't assert why it's a notable company. Check out our notability guidelines for inclusion of corporations. The article should include why, exactly, the company fits those guidelines and ideally cite some verifiable, reliable secondary sources.

Besides those, it's also written like a directory entry, and it it's possible its primary contributor may have a conflict of interest in editing it. Please check out our Business Frequently Asked Questions for more info. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 20:05, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank You! I will rethink and restructure! Also, could you check: Laser Tracker and comment please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hammer352001 (talk • contribs) 20:17, 3 July 2008 (UTC) Hammer352001 (talk) 20:22, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

User:SylviaDouche

I was about to to a username block to User talk:SylviaDouche as offensive when I noticed you had done it and retracted it previously. I refrained from blocking as per your comments at the time. I am uncomfortable with allowing the name. If she claims her real name is Douché, then maybe the user name should change to include the accent (diacritic mark). Opinions? -- Alexf⁴² 23:01, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Lol, no idea if it's true or not, but the email seemed fairly genuine (i.e., it didn't seem like a 5th grader wrote it just to have the username). I'll forward it on to you. Not sure what to do in this situation. :\ --slakr^\ talk / 23:34, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

I would recommend to her to change the name, to accented version if she prefers. No need to forward the email. -- Alexf⁴² 23:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Slakr Rules!

=) your bot is great! yeaahhhhhhh i think that all the day is great day for anybody but sometime it's very danger for us, isn't it ?

Spreading some Wikilove

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Sinebot sugesstion

Can sinebot have a twin on the UK Transport Wiki

Me^{Myself and I}with the UK Transport Wiki 14:10, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Summer Ventures: Flight Science

Regarding the junk article noted above, i have the slight suspicion that we are dealing with a mass of sockpuppets here. All the user account noted below took part in this page. In a sense thats already highly suspicious, as they are all new user accounts flocking to the same page. Second, all these accounts except for the initial contributer (Johncockman ) were made within minutes after each other according to the creation log. What do you think about this? Report the mass as suspected socks or just keep an eye on them to check for vandalism only accounts? Kind regards, Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 13:02, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Suspected socks

• Rocketgirl99 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• DarthMarth312 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• I wack the Wiki (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Kevinpark30 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Jonathan03 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Dgjr10 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Xxxzzz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Johncockman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Not sure. I'd probably guess they're just a pack of schoolkids, but I'll keep an eye on them. I already blocked one for a usernamevio. --slakr^\ talk / 13:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Which reminds me, I hardblocked it, so if they're editing from the same school, it likely autoblocked all of them. :P --slakr^\ talk / 13:08, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I should seriously start a page called "Favorite Slakr Quotes" since thats the second time you got a smile on my face with a one line comment :) (I still haven't removed the first from my user page either). Either way, i guess that actually solves the entire problem for now. And if they can come back, well, well see what happens then Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 13:12, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

sinbot error

Interesting error. What happened? How can it be prevented from happening again? Kingturtle (talk) 13:16, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

It normally detects interwiki links, because interwiki language links are usually two letter prefixes (not three). I'll fix this bug at the earliest chance. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 02:29, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

User:Kalindoscopy

Hey Slak, I see you once unblocked this user and then blocked with reduced expiration because you thought the person showd since of repentence. According to this user's own version, he was bblocked as the result of an anti-Semitic attack and once the unfairness of the attack was acknowledged the block was lifted. While I would be curious for your account of what happened, I'd appreciate it if you would lok at Talk:Jesus towards the bottom where there is an exchange concerning whether "God" was Jesus's "occupation" - another user is accusing Kalindetc. of being a troll (and see this exchange). It seems to me that this user has made some constructive edits, but has a contentious manner on talk pages, and would appreciate your view of things. Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 17:22, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't explicitly remember the original incident, but looking back I think my reasoning was that because the user was relatively inexperienced at editing at that time, a lot of what was interpreted as vandalism was just the user screwing up without understanding he was doing so (e.g., editing User: pages to try to contact someone instead of editing User talk: pages; mild personal attacks despite not knowing about WP:NPA; etc...). So, I figured I might as well AGF, since 2 weeks was a bit much for the first block.

With regard to the new stuff, I would guess it was a response to these comments, where possibly the inciting incident was the other user not WP:AGF-ing and having serious WP:CIVIL issues; though, I'd agree that Kalindoscopy shouldn't be WP:FEEDing the trolls. That said, given the nature of the topic (religion) and the presumptions made by Tourskin, I can understand the very frustrated and mildly un-CIVIL response, but I can also understand the reason for the response in the first place. *goes cross-eyed* Given the comments in the Talk:Jesus#Occupation thread, it does seem trollish; or, at the very least cavalier on the part of Kalindoscopy; but, at the same time, I can understand the original reason for asking the question in the first place.

So I dunno. I really do think that the user is trying to be a good editor most of the time, though, and judging by his user page he has a fairly tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. That said, he definitely needs to be more careful in his comments to avoid riling people up, and he needs to know that you can't fight fire with fire (i.e., you can't violate WP:CIVIL just because someone violated WP:CIVIL). I'd probably say one final warning is in order, and from here on out, the person's in instablock territory. Not all of us have the patience of an ox, but then again, not all of us have the patience of an ox to deal with the people who don't have the patience of an ox. :P --slakr^\ talk / 03:59, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I have the same cross-eyed feeling. Maybe he could use some mentoring (and maybe not just him!!) but I am not up for it and not sure what the best if any mechanism is ... Slrubenstein | Talk 09:45, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

SineBot

Is it possible to opt out of the "your recent edits" message SineBot adds to user talk pages? I still sometimes forget to sign pages on talk pages (I'm getting much better) but I know I do this so don't need SineBot reminding me. However I think it would be sueful if SineBot still signs my comments when I forget. Dpmuk (talk) 23:51, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

No, the recent edits message is essentially for nagging people into remembering to sign. It'll only leave one once every 3 days, and only if you forget to sign 3 edits in a 24 hour period. That way it doesn't get excessively annoying :P --slakr^\ talk / 03:48, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd disagree about it not getting excessively annoying. Surely not having this option will just encourage people to optout of SineBot entirely to avoid this message (as presumbly you won't get the message if opted out) which is worse for everyone as messages will go unsigned. Dpmuk (talk) 10:50, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Most people aren't that forgetful, thankfully. --slakr^\ talk / 14:10, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Of course, the bot actually adding a bit to my user page became "excessively annoying" - especially considering the boneheaded stuff I've been up against in the Wiki today :-) Before that moment, the bot was useful IMHO, now I think it steenks! Bwilkins (talk) 17:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Yikes. Sorry I couldn't meet your demands for perfection. Ah well. Thanks for the kind words, though. :P --slakr^\ talk / 06:33, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Signing Talk:Main Page

Hi there, I was wondering if it would be possible to set SineBot back a bit on the main page's talk. Very often SineBot signs vandalism seconds after it is added and creates more work when trying to remove the vandalism then simply clicking "revert". Maybe a full minute stop? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 01:31, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Main page is a very frequently updated page, so if the bot waits too long, it'll skip adding a signature due to conflicting intermediate edits. It has a primative vandalism detector, though, so it should skip signing on some of the most obvious vandalism. --slakr^\ talk / 06:32, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Sinebot signing signed posts

Sometimes Sinebot is coming behind me and signing posts I've done saying I didn't sign.[10] I am guessing there is something wrong with my custom signature that is causing it to not recognize that I have signed? Can you let me know what I need to change in my sig to fix that? -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 19:34, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Yep, it's the double colons in the wikilink. Drop it down to no prefixing colons and it'll be fine (e.g., change [[User:Collectonian]] to [[User:Collectonian]]). I'll probably add a patch to fix that at some point, as well, but it's rare enough for me to, ermm... slack... for now. :P --slakr^\ talk / 06:31, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Signature Question

Hi - I have a comment from your bot about not leaving signatures and I think it happened becasue I have started to use Twinkle (just today in fact). I usually am pretty good at putting my sig but I think Twinkle leaves it out. Do you know how to check what pages I didn't leave a signature (or will I just go throught my recent edits? --BustOut' (talk) 13:45, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, not sure. I don't run a current version of twinkle, so I'm not sure. It's possible if you have a large edit count that the bot ignores you, so if something's causing you not to sign, then the bot probably wouldn't clean up after you. :P --slakr^\ talk / 06:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

can you help me out?

I just left a decline to Kalidoskopy's request for a lift of his ban but somehow screwed up the formatting (his request is no longer visable) can you look at waht I did and fix it please? [11] Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 20:37, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Aha, it looks like you got it: [12] --slakr^\ talk / 02:49, 13 July 2008 (UTC) :P

July 2008

Left a response.--Artist Walser (talk) 03:24, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Save humanity (talk · contribs · count)

You recently blocked the above mentioned user for edit warring. However, when I click his block log it appears empty? Obviously, I am not saying that you made a mistake or something as the WP:List of active blocks clearly mentions the block, rather I want to know why is it that the block log is not showing the details. Also note that he/she copied his userpage by copypasting another user's(user:Gppande) userpage. (no very cleverly) Is this a breaking of a policy? --KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 06:12, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

It's in the block log and the ip blocklist. Remember: blocks are logged to the person who makes them (in this case me), so when checking blocks on a user, you have to enter the User:link in the title field as opposed to the user field. --slakr^\ talk / 06:23, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

And copying a userpage isn't necessarily breaking policy (all contributions, including those to one's user page, are GFDL-licensed). Technically the copying user needs to attribute the origination. Now, there's something to be said about claiming to be someone (i.e., using their real name), so that could be an issue of miscellany for deletion, but unless it is intentionally trolling the other user, you'd probably have to ask for the input of others as to whether it's acceptable. Cheers. :) --slakr^\ talk / 06:26, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Your page got raided

Hi SLAKR, an IP that already had been warned blanked your userpge. I restored it; I hope, it was not you who wanted to delete the info. Greetings, Lost Boy (talk) 09:15, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Nah, wasn't me. Thanks for the help. :D --slakr^\ talk / 11:04, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:OP

Just wondering but did you acctually check through every single one on that list? :O ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 19:36, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes. --slakr^\ talk / 13:05, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		This is for all of your work on WP:OP. Well done and thanks lots for the removal of everything backlogged. ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 15:13, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks but.. I did.. :D

If any of the articles you are considering for bundling could stand on its own merits, then it should be nominated separately. Or to put it more succinctly, if you are unsure of whether to bundle an article or not, don't.

It was that text that made me feel that I should NOT bundle all the articles together. There are actually two strong bundles of articles that are very closely related - one is the New Kadampa Tradition and the other is Dorje Shugden. So, following the Template:AfD_footer_(multiple) advice, I did it twice over. Sorry if you disagree with my idea of what is to be bundled. It's a close call IMO. (20040302 (talk) 12:36, 14 July 2008 (UTC))

Ah, okay. As I read your rationale, it looked like you believed they should be deleted for the same reason. --slakr^\ talk / 12:45, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok i signed

now please tell me how I can contribute to the pages I want to and not get deleated again ? I do have contributions to make but for now I have to run the girlfriend is calling. Assume I have real contribution as I realy do, please tell me step by step what to do to be able to contribute those links and please do not refere to another page because I will try again and someone else will say that my contribution is not good and deleate it again it has happened many times I am starting to loose faith in this system, or in other words a communist contries administration is a joke to get through relative to the wiki pages ;)Javaeu (talk) 17:13, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

In short, nothing. It's spam. You know it's spam. Wikipedia is not for spam. Sorry. You're free to believe it's some sort of cabal out to get you or your company; or, alternatively, you can call us evil commies. Unfortunately, the reality of things is that you're probably going to have to spend the money and do the gruntwork of advertising elsewhere, as advertising isn't allowed here, and we highly frown upon conflicts of interest. --slakr^\ talk / 18:57, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

what if I put it under examples on the page

(which is still not fair relative to the others and the gravity of our work )Javaeu (talk) 17:37, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Doesn't matter where you put it— it'd still be spam. Perhaps wait until your company/software meets our notability guidelines. Otherwise, repeatedly adding spam links will get your entire site blacklisted, which would suck. --slakr^\ talk / 18:59, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

thanks for this revert

Oddly, I don't even live in the EU. ;) Not sure why my page was targeted. :) Rockfang (talk) 05:47, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks from me, too. =) It appears I have a groupie. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:36, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Sinebot Question

Hi. I was wondering if you would be willing to give out Sinebot's coding, or if you want to hog it for yourself (joking :)) If you would, please reply on my Wikia talk page. Thanks a bunch for your time!--Eulalia (Talk!) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.110.95.248 (talk) 19:30, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

==hi== your sinebot talked to me and i would like to know how to "smile" at other wikipedia users ty! --20bite (talk) 04:34, 23 July 2008 (UTC)20bite

Open proxy

Hello! I blocked an ip address (195.189.181.66) as an open proxy but today I was emailed by a good faith user who was affected by the block. I unblocked the ip address but I'm not sure where to go from here. I thought I'd defer a more knowledgeable admin. Seraphim♥Whipp 19:01, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Blocks

Slakr, it looks like you blocked at least three regular editors, indefinitely, for "block evasion", but without any further explanation or reasoning. I am not seeing anything in the contribs or background of any of these accounts to justify indef blocks, and you did not post anything to their talkpages. Can you please explain?

• Quartermaster (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• Llamadog903 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
• Mooshykris (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

--Elonka 19:41, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Elonka, it looks like Slakr identified Llamadog903 as a Grawp sock, per this diff. No comment on the other two, though I would assume they were also determined somehow to be socks. The llamadog unblock request was on the no-notice grounds, so I declined indicating the rationale behind the block. I then tweaked the block to disable e-mail, as is standard practice with Grawp (who left some lovely gems in my inbox this week, btw). Would concur that some clarification is in order, but I'm in AGF mode at the moment. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 19:49, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

And what is Slakr basing this on? It's quite a leap to make such an accusation, and then block established editors indefinitely, with no proof, no CheckUser backup, and no reasoning whatsoever. --Elonka 19:56, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Llamadog had a SSP case earlier in the month, here, which was closed with no evidence of misconduct on the part of Llamadog; I can find no other checkuser or SSP data. I'm forced to concur, Slakr, that some clarification is necessary here. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 20:09, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I have reviewed the Grawp sockpuppet "profile" at WP:LTA#Grawp. I still see nothing to link his behavior, with those of the three established users who were blocked. Generally Grawp sockpuppets are fairly easy to identify, with move vandalism and other clear disruption. --Elonka 20:32, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I bet this is Twinkle related. All three blocked users were Recent Changes patrollers. It looks like when they made a speedy deletion notification with Twinkle, it added the Grawp "Signature" (180K file, NSFW) to the talkpages. Then someone else saw that they were the ones who had added the template, assumed that they were Grawp, and blocked. For admins, check here to see the addition.[13] Now, I'm at the limit of my knowledge about Twinkle, so I'm not sure how it was hacked, but I'd say let's unblock those three users, and go looking for the template problem. --Elonka 21:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Found it. A vandal account, Ebpr123 (talk · contribs), vandalized four db-##-notice pages that weren't protected.[14] So anyone using Twinkle during that 20-minute window before they were fixed, was dumping Grawp images on user talkpages. Then once placed, the talkpages were "stuck" with that huge image, which made them difficult to fix. And Recent Changes patrollers using Twinkle, don't always check the user talkpages anyway. The account has since been indef blocked, and the notice pages protected. --Elonka 21:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

That's some excellent detective work, Elonka. Prior to this I was trying to get ahold of slakr on IRC to ask what this was all about, before reaching any conclusion (no luck, yet). Given what you've found, though, I'm more inclined to presume innocence on the part of these users. Shall we unblock, pending further discussion? – Luna Santin (talk) 21:32, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, it was a real mystery. I had to go deep into the javascript and templates to figure out what was going on, with little clue except that all three were RC patrollers. Quite the treasure hunt! I went ahead and unblocked Llama and Mooshy, would you like to unblock Quartermaster? I have met him in real life so it's probably best if someone else does the unblock there. --Elonka 21:36, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Done. Checking for autoblocks, now. – Luna Santin (talk) 21:42, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

(ec– yay, party on slakr's talk page :D). They're either compromised accounts or simply grawp socks. Grawp has been known to make legitimate/constructive edits, and now apparently he's masking vandal edits as constructive ones as well so that they will blend in. The two socks that look legit have their most recent edit (a grawp/goatse one, so beware), in deleted contribs. Cheers. --slakr^\ talk / 21:44, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh wow, after reading all the other stuff, that's unfortunate. Lol, I'll drop apologies their way. Feel free to unblock. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 21:46, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

• Bravo to all involved. It was an interesting experience as I've been assiduously following all of this. Interesting that those of us who are doing anti-vandal work had our own efforts turned against us. As someone who will go do an RfA someday (I'm not ready to be a janitor yet) it was a learning opportunity to be on this side of the problem. Thanks to all! -- Quartermaster (talk) 21:51, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

And just because its due.....

{{trout}} Alexfusco⁵ 21:59, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

• I must comment as well! This was definitely interesting. But, Slakr, do a bit more detective work before you block someone for sockpuppetry next time. Thanks to all involved in the unblocking. {{trout}} The Llama! (talk) 22:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

huh?

Blocked me?

Blocked my Wikipedia account? Or what?

Could you please explain what you are talking about?

Thanks,

--Mooshykris (talk) 22:18, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

• Seriously, I'm curious. I'd just love to know what on earth could've happened in the time I was downstairs eating dinner :P.

What edit or template was messed up :P.

Last question: is that why my Twinkle wasn't working right for a little while?

--Mooshykris (talk) 22:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Check out the discussion directly above. :P --slakr^\ talk / 22:27, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Vanishing

In response to your answer, I would greatly appreciate it if you could make my account and any trace of my name 'Fabrice Wilmann vanish. Yours sincerely Fabrice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fabrice Wilmann (talk • contribs) 06:56, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

RE: Vanishing

Me again. Sorry. Could you please make my account vanish along with any trace of my name; 'Fabrice Wilmann.' Thank - you. --Fabrice Wilmann (talk) 08:26, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

It appears the block has not been removed

It appears the block has not been removed– a google search of LowLeadBooks  confirms that fact –

I extend this email in an attempt to rectify slenderest posting about LowLead Books - I am the owner of Lowlead Books –a respectful, legitimate, well establish online bookstore- these accusation are baseless,  we have never posted Spam of any kind-  LowLead Books has no intentions, benefit, or incentive in  posting spam – I assume  our competitors  may have acted in  an attempted to discredited   the name. 
 

I ask that these negative accusation, reflected on Wikipedia be omitted at once.

Respectfully

Lowlead Books —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lowlead (talk • contribs) 08:05, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

The block on the LowLeadBooks (talk · contribs) account will not be removed. It is a violation of our username policy as it matches the name of a company and was being used to promote it. A very obvious advertisement was placed on its User talk page on 07:11, 24 November 2006. If you would like a copy of this, I will be happy to provide it to a confirmed email account. --slakr^\ talk / 14:38, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

If it helps any, since the talk page was old (i.e., it's at least a year old), I've removed the block message so that it should eventually be dropped from google's and other search engine indexes. --slakr^\ talk / 14:48, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Help me Vanish

Could you please make my account vanish along with any trace of my name; 'Fabrice Wilmann.' Thank - you --Fabrice Wilmann (talk) 10:55, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

I've forwarded your request to WP:BN. --slakr^\ talk / 14:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

SineBot broken

Hi, ur Sinebot keeps saying that my signature: ATMarsden ^{Whadda ya want?} is non-existant, and so keeps adding preceeding unsigned comment status!!! Plz make it stop!!! ATMarsden ^{Whadda ya want?} 14:15, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Your user name isn't "06018," which you're signing as. --slakr^\ talk / 14:23, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Pagemove vandalism

Hello Slakr,

Thanks for cleaning up pagemove vandalism. It seems that several pages still need to be fixed, however. Does the H++G++G++E++R? page contain valid revisions? If so, they should probably be merged into Milky Way Galaxy. Also, does the H++G+G++E++R?? page contain meaningful revisions? If so, they should be restored and merged into Mark Hamill; there are several redirects to this page (Talk:H++G+G++E++R?? should probably be fixed as well^[15]). Thanks, Korg (talk) 17:02, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Sinebot too aggressive?

I noticed an instance of Sinebot autosigning someone's edit within 1 minute of it being posted. The user, realizing they had forgotten to sign, went back and tried to sign their post, but it got mixed up with SineBot's HTML comments, breaking the comments and thus hiding all subsequent content on the page for 2 days (until someone figured out what was wrong). Does Sinebot really need to be that aggressive? Couldn't it at least wait more than 1 minute? Kaldari (talk) 19:00, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

SineBot blocked

See above. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:28, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

It helps when you sign as the username under which you're editing. In the future, I feel that you could save yourself a lot of trouble by simply reading both my and the bot's talk page archives for the numerous other answers to this exact same question— including this one, which is directly above. The bot isn't broken, and it has been in in a stable state for the last few months. You have the option to opt out personally, block it from pages using {{bots}}, or you may also perform the chicken dance to "Chocolate Rain;" however, I haven't gotten the last one to work... yet. Blocking it, at least to me, seems a little rash and excessive, but perhaps you have a really good reason. Ideally let me know so that I can restart it should you decide to do so. --slakr^\ talk / 02:42, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Ugh, never mind, it looks like someone might have changed the api without letting everyone know. Lemme investigate. --slakr^\ talk / 02:55, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Nope, never mind on the never mind. It should be working fine:

• 02:59:57, 29Jul08 ::: DEBUG ::: Watched pages loaded (225 monitored; 87 with subpages).
• 02:59:57, 29Jul08 ::: DEBUG ::: Populating opt out users...
• 03:00:00, 29Jul08 ::: DEBUG ::: Opt out users loaded (114 total).
• 03:00:00, 29Jul08 ::: DEBUG ::: Populating opt out users via template...
• 03:00:04, 29Jul08 ::: DEBUG ::: Opt out via template users loaded (277 total).

And it appears that the reason the bot signed the edits you gave is because you opted back in. So that when you made this post several days later, it signed it because, again, it thought you were impersonating an admin. Unless there's something I'm not seeing? Please help me understand. --slakr^\ talk / 03:04, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

"OR Add NoAutosign to your user page or your user talk page and allow up to 5 minutes for it to take effect." I figured that meant that some automatic process would add my name to some permanent exempt list or something. Pardon my ignorance, but usually bots don't make me go through hoops to not pester me. So I have to have some ugly thing on my talk page so I'm not erroneously followed around by a bot? I keep very minimal user pages to the highest possible degree - and some useless code on my pages, while meaningless to most, would fairly anger me because it would mean someone else is dictating what goes on in my space when I am doing nothing wrong (something I am not fond of). So I put the template back, I have to keep it there? That seems unnecessarily backwards. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 03:58, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

The template doesn't render any visible text. I added it as a feature for people who complained about having a category on their user/user talk pages. However, since the bot has been in operation now for over a year, if the only reason you are keeping the bot blocked is for aesthetic reasons (i.e., exactly 14 bytes of used space on your talk page), I would implore you to unblock it as soon as possible. --slakr^\ talk / 05:24, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Slakr, could you not possibly change the code to ignore Jeffrey's accounts automatically, regardless of the categories? I'm missing the bot already. J Milburn (talk) 09:59, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm not hard coding in an exemption for a person's sockpuppet. That's silly and a waste of my time. --slakr^\ talk / 17:32, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

I have unblocked it, but I ask that you look into some other method to create an exempt list. It makes absolutely no sense that users who do nothing wrong have to be the ones responsible for fending off the incorrect messages from someone else's bot. It is a completely unnecessary hindrance, and should be addressed. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 18:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr. Gustafson (talk • contribs)

Thanks a million. If it's any consolation, on a whim I added a static exempt list if you happen to be interested. --slakr^\ talk / 19:11, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, I am interested in being added to such a list. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 19:16, 29 July 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr. Gustafson (talk • contribs)

Done (well, should be). Double check by using them to post to User:SineBot/Sandbox. which should give you instant feedback. I added it to both of your accounts, though the primary account is probably redundant since it ignores people with high edit counts, assuming they know what they're doing. :P --slakr^\ talk / 19:23, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

It seemed to work. Thank you. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 19:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm not actually involved with this, just a random programmer with a suggestion - if you don't like a hardcoded exempt, and certain users don't like having to use a template, then how about making a subpage of Sinebot, User:SineBot/Exempt or something, which is a list of usernames that people can add their name to, to be exempt from Sinebot? As I said, just a random suggestion, feel free to ignore if you wish :) Xmoogle (talk) 01:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Hagermanbot did this; but, there were a couple of issues I was worried about in terms of ease of use, vandalism, bandwidth, signature formats, future-proofing for bot independence, and what I simply felt like doing. Thus, this method was chosen. --slakr^\ talk / 02:30, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Fr-WP

Dear Slakr, I'm an administrator, from the french wikipedia. I've a bad english, but I hope you'll understand me. Recently, we've spoken of the comments unsigned on our wikipedia. And, there was some times, I've seen your SineBot who take what we want. Is-it possible that he takes same thing on fr-WP : It will automatically add {{Unsigned}}, {{UnsignedIP}}, and {{Undated}} templates to comments left by registered and anonymous users, respectively ?
Please, can you answer me on fr:user talk:Stef48 ? Thanks. Regards Stef48 (talk) 09:24, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Russia

Thanks administrator! You are doing a good job of supporting experienced edit warriors at wikipedia. But unfortunately it somehow doesn't benefit to the project. If you would not be so rush about actions, and take a time to read the talk page of that article... well nevermind. Thanks to unleashing nationalists to pushing theirs POV! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.122.83.159 (talk) 23:18, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
By the way, this guy have just violated 3RR on the same page! =) Thank you again for your support of experienced edit warriors. 91.122.83.159 (talk) 23:24, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

No prob. Anything I can do to help. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 23:43, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Your response above is classic. It made me laugh quite a bit, actually. :) Rudget 14:04, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I noticed that you wrote "Also, blocked for three days as this was directly after release of previous block" - just thought I'd point out that this user was not released from his previous block, he was still under a block (for block evasion and 3RR violations),[16], he was evading this block via socks.--Miyokan (talk) 02:13, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

identifying proxy servers

How do you do it? J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:45, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Heh, looks like you posted on my talk page the same time I posted on yours. Should I unprotect that page to try to attract some more bees? (I'd also like to know how you find out that an IP is an OP) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:48, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

(ec) It's kind of complicated. It involves running a program that tests for proxies on many of the common and less common ports and tries to use them to connect back to my server. I think if you become a "verified proxy checker" you get a login to a bunch of tools. Dunno, though. :P --slakr^\ talk / 03:53, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Nah, we don't need to make a honeypot... there'll always be plenty of open proxies to block. The semiprotect at least fixes the problem for now. :P --slakr^\ talk / 03:54, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

The only thing you can possibly get by becoming verified is AmiDaniel's Nmap. But it's nearly impossible to get verified (no one really watches the page) Calvin 1998 ^(t-c) 05:59, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of MyMedia

Hello,

One of the users from our site has created a page on our Media Network, we are the number one entertainment network in Australia. Our Alexa ratings, Nielsen and Hitwise ratings indicate we are a media company of a significance.

What should we do to avoid deletion?

Thanks, Roy

Director MyMedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by RoyHuiMrWii (talk • contribs) 06:20, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Simple: assert notability for corporations and avoid making it sound like an advertisement. Then, be sure to cite some secondary sources for verification. Also, please check out our business FAQ and our information on conflicts of interest. --slakr^\ talk / 06:22, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

Sorry, I am very unfamiliar with how to communicate within this format.

It was done by a younger member of our community, and we are now aware of this page, our objective is not advertising, but notability. Since we are aware of this deletion, we will ensure it includes links from references such as Alexa, and remove the Advertisement tone. Our main objective for this page is the notability of the most popular Video Gaming Network in Australia. I thought it was a wiki and allowed an improvement of the description over time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RoyHuiMrWii (talk • contribs) 06:30, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

It does, however, we have certain policies and guidelines that apply to its content and editors. The article edited by whomever in your company failed those policies and guidelines, as it both failed to indicate notability and was written in an advertising tone. Moreover, it was written by someone with a clear conflict of interest. --slakr^\ talk / 06:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. We now have a better understanding of how to create content like this, can we please be given a chance to try again? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by RoyHuiMrWii (talk • contribs) 06:54, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Sure. Be sure to read the business faq as well as "Your First Article." Those should get you started. --slakr^\ talk / 06:56, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help, we will give it another go a bit later.

You may now delete this entry :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by RoyHuiMrWii (talk • contribs) 07:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)