User talk:The Thing That Should Not Be/Archive 5

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thanks for all the great things you do here! andyzweb (talk) 05:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

You're quite welcome! Cheers! The Thing _{Talk//Sign//Vandalize} 15:26, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism on Charlemagne

Hello The Thing,

Recently, you reverted some vandalism on Charlemagne. Unfortunately, you missed some damaged. Charlemagne was long gone in December 2009 :-). Also, despite Pippin the Short is not completly wrong, the real name is more accurate as Pepin the Short.

I reverted to an older version fixing both of them.

Heracles31 (talk) 14:42, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Ah, good catch. Thanks. The Thing _{Talk//Sign//Vandalize} 15:26, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello again. After surfing on your personnal pages (and doing some vandalism on it :-) ), I founded your userbox counting time from the moment you received your rollback privilege. I chose to copy it on my own page and I modified it as "This user has been" instead of "I". Should you not agree about me re-using your code, just tell me and I will remove it. Thanks Heracles31 (talk) 19:53, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh, no that's fine, you can use it. Cheers! The Thing _{Talk//Sign//Vandalize} 22:14, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism on Theresienstadt concentration camp

Another one : when you restored Theresienstadt concentration camp sooner this day, you missed another vandalism done by 96.28.238.5. He removed a lot of legitimate information. I restored them. Leaving such deep vandalism behind in a revision done by a well-known editor and RCPatroler make it very difficult to find and fix. Other RCPatrolers like Acather96 and Tyw7 trust your version when doing their own cleaning. I've missed a few deep vandalism cases myself, so I know how difficult it is to catch them all... Heracles31 (talk) 20:54, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Ah yes, Huggle didn't show me that he had vandalized the article further, although I know that's no excuse for missing that. Thanks for catching that. The Thing _{Talk//Sign//Vandalize} 22:03, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Name "Asad"

OK, what am I missing here--the article currently says the name is written as Asad or as....Asad. Further down, "Assad" (two esses) appears as a variant. So, as currently written, the opening of the article makes no damned sense at all, but when I correct it, you revert it as vandalism??? 68.217.100.225 (talk) 13:22, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I've reverted my edit. The Thing _{Talk//Sign//Vandalize} 13:25, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

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Big oops

Noooooo! Sorry, my colon key (funny) is not working properly. Please do move it to where it should be ASAP. Thanks. Tiamut^talk 13:51, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Tiamut^talk 13:53, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Jeff East

Please, do not revert my edits on the article about Jeff East. I honestly believe that the amount of "o's" in "whoo" must be specific to accurately convey the length and sense of the quote. 69.120.222.12 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:42, 29 January 2010 (UTC).

The Thinker

Hello The Thing,

Here is another one for you : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Thinker&action=historysubmit&diff=327864449&oldid=326236176

You were not the first to miss it. Jusdafx missed it too just before you. Many good faith edits re-added a lot of the deleted site and it has been a pain to restore the list.

The article would still need cosmetic work (uniforming the list of sites) if you can help with that.

Have a great day,

Heracles31 (talk) 19:29, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

As soon as you catch one of my recovery as incomplete, I will add you to my personal success and failure log. Heracles31 (talk) 19:48, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

The Working Man's Barnstar

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	The Working Man's Barnstar is awarded to The Thing That Should Not Be for his tireless work in patrolling the new account creation logs for offensive or disruptive usenames. Keep up the Good Work! Mifter (talk) 04:33, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

I've been clearing out WP:UAA and your name kept popping up so I thought you deserved this :). Best, Mifter (talk) 04:33, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh, why thanks! Btw, I just reported another one... Cheers! The Thing // Talk // Contribs 04:39, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikiout

WuhWuzDat 23:27, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Are you saying that we should allow Wikipedia to be swamped with vandalism from April Fools jokesters while all the patrollers take a break? I'd rather not... After all, vandalism never takes a break. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 23:34, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Tfoxworth's reincarnations

Thank you for recently intervening in the near-daily ritual of reverting the vandalisms of the ever-changing sockpuppets of permanently banned User:Tfoxworth. His persistence over several years is flagrant and worse -- an invitation to others to mimic his evasions. But I believe he can be stopped with your continued help, as suggested here. Thanks for any consideration. FactStraight (talk) 04:02, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. I'll make sure to keep my eye on those articles in the future. Cheers! The Thing // Talk // Contribs 04:29, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

about your vandalism page

isn't that Just the: wikipedia:sandbox?

'MJfan9 (talk) 19:39, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

My vandalbox is more or less meant to divert vandalism from my userpage... Several other users also have vandalboxes meant for that purpose. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 19:43, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

next time please put Replies on my Usertalk so i can easily see when you do! but anyway the: wikipedia:sandbox is a vandalism page except its cleaned automatically every 12 hours but anyway its a ok idea!

'MJfan9 (talk) 19:49, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Not sure what I did to that particular IP, but your reverts are appreciated. TNXMan 21:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Glad I could help. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 22:03, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Nice

You're very very fast ;). Good work on all the anti-vandal stuff by the way. ^Noom talk 02:41, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Wow! How did you do that so fast? It looks like you reverted that vandalism within the same minute in which it happened, and Noomos commented on it within eleven minutes later! Wowest (talk) 03:07, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I use a program called Huggle to revert vandalism, which is a very fast, and powerful tool. I've been using it for close to 1 1/2 years, so I have a large amount of experience in reverting vandalism. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 03:12, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Your Huggle edit summary

Hi there. I'm currently patrolling recent changes with Huggle, and I just noticed that when you revert you have a bit saying "(report mistake)". I like that idea, and was just wondering how you set Huggle up to put that in. Thanks! -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 13:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I use a custom version of Huggle compiled by User:Sidonuke, which is configured to use global and project config pages that are in my userspace. I don't have the source code for this version, and Sidonuke seems to have vanished into thin air, so I can't have a version compiled for you. Sorry... if I ever get in touch with Sidonuke again, I'll be sure to pass on your request. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 13:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

That's a pity. Thanks anyway. -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 13:40, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

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hi delete my page!

i was going to make it but i am also making another article HP Pavilion dv 1658 so i typed in something stupid and went back to editing my article HP Pavilion dv 1658. HP dv 1000 (talk) 00:45, 3 February 2010 (UTC)HP dv 1000HP dv 1000 (talk) 00:45, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

NawlinWiki (talk) 17:08, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

UAA report

Heya, I wanted to let you know that one of your reports was removed. See this diff for the reasoning. Regardless, excellent work and thank you. NJA (t/c) 19:16, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me. I must point out that someone else possibly agreed with me, although they way the posted it was odd, copying my report character for character. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 19:20, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I think what happened is the bot also reported the name and it had made an error when it was automatically merging the two reports into one. Anyhow, please note the guidance and don't hesitate to report serious name policy infringements to UAA. Cheers, NJA (t/c) 19:26, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Advice taken. Also, the second report wasn't a bot... I reported the name first, then User:Paulmcdonald copied my report, signature and all for some reason... then the bot merged both reports, and since both reports were exactly the same, it looked as if I had reported it twice. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 19:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Re:My RfA

I have corrected my response to the question that your oppose was based on. I had mistakenly misread the question, and have corrected it accordingly. Thanks. Connormah (talk | contribs) 00:43, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Tfoxworth's reincarnations

I'm posting the following plea on the talk pages of some admins & editors, so please help: Please see diff. The only fix I can see is to block (even briefly, but swiftly) IPs as soon as he begins to use them, and the only way that can happen is if admins put the articles he edits (among others, Line of succession to the Russian throne, Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, Maximilian von Götzen-Itúrbide and Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky) on their watchlists. I realize this isn't how admins prefer to manage these vandals, but is there any other way? Waiting until each new act of vandalism is reported by other editors gives him what he wants: 1. evidence that he is succeeding at diverting Wiki editors from doing the productive article work they come here to do 2. time during which his vandalisms appear to the public as Wikipedia's legitimate voice 3. proof that he is sufficiently persistent to compel Wikipedia to allow his vandalism to stand, while that of others is reverted. FactStraight (talk) 05:06, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Nothing personal ...

Hello The Thing,

This afternoon, I founded O4E's challenge about anti-vandalism. The challenge asks for the recovery of at least 10 different types of vandalism. I posted a list of some of the recovery I did. One of the type is sneaky vandalism, defined as cases hard to find / missed by others. I gave links to the recovery of Charlemagne and The Thinker and noted that you missed both of them. I do not want to diminish the great work you are doing and I considered the fact that an expert like you missed them as a proof that they were hard to find. I prefer to tell you instead of you finding it another way or me hoping you would not find my description.

Have a good day,

Heracles31 (talk) 22:54, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh, that's alright. In fact I sometimes do a bit of stuff like this myself. About a month ago I spent nearly 4 hours looking for stray "Bold text, Italic text", stuff like that... I found a few bits of pre-existing vandalism while doing that: [1] Anyways, thanks for stopping by. Cheers! The Thing // Talk // Contribs 01:28, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Initiated

Best of luck, Sir! Icewedge (talk) 05:59, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 16:03, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

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IMHO

I think this edit was more of a personal attack rather than vandalism. Sorry for interrupting anyway. Minimac's Clone 17:16, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

And what have you learned today?

'Don't bother trying to become an admin here unless you want complete strangers coming out of nowhere and shitting on you.' HalfShadow 20:53, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

• So people should only be allowed to comment at RfA if they know the user? And it isn't "shitting on him"; virtually every oppose ran "you do brilliant work, BUT". Ironholds (talk) 23:42, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

1. My area of editing has plenty of that in the first place.
2. There's another thing learned... Resistance is futile.

The Thing // Talk // Contribs 20:57, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Sadly abuse is always a risk, and one that I'm glad I didn't have to face. Some of those comments really were shameful. Thanks for trying.--otherlleft 20:59, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Seems like it was a stressful one. Dont let it get to you down. I think your coming a long way with CSD, and AFD involvement (and unstopable with vandal hunting still ;) ). Keep at it, Good luck with your future edits. Ottawa4ever (talk) 21:01, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

The EN Wikipedia limits itself so very harshly to a tiny minority of interested and capable admin candidates. It is a weakness in the community. I am glad you contribute, and sorry the RfA was unpleasant. Happily, my contentious nature keeps me from temptation. I expect I'd bite them. Sorry to see the avalanche of "...but you fight vandals too much..." land on you. One RfA, the candidate had something like 100,000 edits... but "only" 5,000 (IIRC numbers, sorry) were manual edits. The level of whining about how they relied too much on the tools made me ... rather angry. I avoid reading RfA's unless I feel rather strongly that the candidate deserves a comment from me, good or ill.- Sinneed 21:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I am very sorry TTSNB, RFA is a bitch isn't it. I think the general philosophy most voters have is entirely wrong, but it is what it is. Don't let it get you down though. Icewedge (talk) 03:21, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

It's bullshit. You're still among friends. Shadowjams (talk) 10:14, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks everyone for supporting me. It's appreciated. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 13:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Sam burn

Was just about to mark this as A7. Not sure why you think it's an attack page..? Also, thanks for your support in my RfA :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 19:15, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

N/m, I see you've fixed it, don't get carried away with Twinkle! Thanks again, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 19:16, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I fixed my mistake. Still, thanks for coming by to tell me. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 19:17, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Wish you a good day

Enjoy it :-)

Despite the answer you received for you RfA, you remain an incredible contributor to Wikipedia and I hope you will keep doing your wonderful job. Heracles31 (talk) 19:46, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm not planning on retiring any time soon. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 19:59, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

re: Thanks

My pleasure :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 20:21, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Question

Could you block thos IPs for 24 hours? Those are my suitemates and they are trying to change my page as well as another. I'm not sure what they will do now, but I just don't want to hear them talk about vandalism and then go race to find it. Thanks. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:09, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, so I'm afraid I can be of little assistance. In any case, they haven't vandalized more than twice on the same range, so blocking would still be inappropriate. I have however issued one of them a 4im warning, and will do so for any others that vandalize the page. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 22:13, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Wow, totally thought that you were. The recent RFA threw me off there. Well thanks for the warning anyways. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:17, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the revert on my user page. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:13, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Glad I could help. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 22:14, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Comment

Do you have ANY problem with how much you use Huggle? Why every day? Consider this something to respond to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.25.243.248 (talk) 01:18, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Because vandalism never takes a day off... The Thing // Talk // Contribs 01:20, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and is the activity of Huggle users like you the reason that Wikipedia is losing editors? (This is not trolling, BTW) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.25.243.248 (talk) 01:36, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Also, you should fix your message at the top because you are STILL running Huggle. 173.25.243.248 (talk) 01:40, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Are you referring to the message about my RfA? The Thing // Talk // Contribs 01:41, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Where's the reply to the comment after "vandalism never takes a day off?" 173.25.243.248 (talk) 01:43, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

I believe that it isn't the reason, because hugglers like me are experienced... I should point out though that careless hugglers have the potential to drive away contributors. I don't consider myself careless... if I were, I'd have a lot more complaints than praise on my talk page... The Thing // Talk // Contribs 01:47, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

I understand that. What I'm also concerned about, though, is the frequency (by days) of users using Huggle. You used it every single day last month, making the percentage of frequency 100%. I've been waiting for one of Wikipedia's top vandalism reverters to not use Huggle in an entire day this month/year. So far, it's happened with User:J.delanoy, User:Alansohn and User:Tide rolls (although he has used it every day since January 26). I wonder what's going to happen to you after some months? I recorded J.delanoy's contribs from the first half of last year, and his day frequency of using Huggle was extremely high. I guess it comes to show that the longer you use Huggle, eventually the more tired you'll get from using it. What's your opinion on that? It's also clear that you know who this is now (don't shout it out!) 173.25.243.248 (talk) 01:58, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

I took all but one day of February, and about half of December off in 2009, for what it's worth. Also, you sound familiar... The Thing // Talk // Contribs 02:01, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, but your contribution records show Huggle edits on February 6. I count that as a day when you used Huggle, unfortunately. 173.25.243.248 (talk) 02:12, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps my post was misread? I said all but one day of February... The Thing // Talk // Contribs 02:13, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm still confused... You probably aren't completely clear on how I keep track of the contributions of Wikipedia's top vandal-fighters. 173.25.243.248 (talk) 02:17, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

I said that I didn't use Huggle on all but one day of February. And what you've found shows the exact same thing. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 02:19, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

You have new e-mail. 173.25.243.248 (talk) 03:02, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

UAA reports

Heya, thank you for your reports about users SexGuy6969 and Santabutthead1. However, your reports were removed as UAA is for name policy infringements that are serious enough to warrant an immediate block. Santabutthead1 is not something that would seem to fulfil these requirements. As their edits were obvious vandalism, a report to WP:AIV as a newly created vandalism only account would have been more appropriate.

As for the other name, there was a recent discussion about a name Gayguy69, where overall it wasn't seen as a blatant or serious name policy violation. If the name you reported had made a series of bad faith vandalism edits, then they also should have been reported to WP:AIV and blocked as a vandalism only account, but not for username. As noted at WP:BADNAME, names that are general name policy violations should first be discussed with the user on their talk page. Also noted there is to report accounts that are vandalising to WP:AIV. You may also find the UAA instructions helpful. Cheers, NJA (t/c) 09:03, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for stopping my to tell me. Santabutthead1 was reported well before he began editing though, so at the time UAA seemed the appropriate choice. But as the name apparently didn't warrant an immediate block, I'll be more careful about reporting in the future. Thanks again. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:31, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for Amusing Edits

Hi, I liked your Username so I had a gander at your User page. Never thought I'd laugh so much on the Pedia - some of those amusing edits are high-larious, especially the coat-hanger one. Thanks!--Tyranny Sue (talk) 07:21, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks :)

Thanks for keeping an eye out on that anon user that was vandalizing articles and blanking my talk page. Appreciate the lookout :) Srobak (talk) 17:20, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:23, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Wish to help you

Hello The Thing,

Your RfAs were denied because many consider you as a HuggleBot and think you are nothing more. I wish to help you, so here is my idea.

Here are 3 edits you did today that still contain vandalism.

[1]

[2]

[3]

Clean them and make it more difficult to me finding such cases and I will do my best to convince people that you are not the HuggleBot people think you are. Should I not be capable of finding 3 cases like them in your last day of work, I will consider it as enough.

Are you interested ?

Heracles31 (talk) 20:11, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Those 3 are done. However, it's the fact that I have very little content that caused !voters to oppose me. Looking for preexisting vandalism isn't able to fix that, although in any case it's still beneficial to the Wiki. Cheers! The Thing // Talk // Contribs 22:39, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

I respect your choice. I will still tell you should I find something about your edits, but I will not concentrate my efforts on double-checking them. Should you think of a way I could help you, don't hesitate and ask right away. I will be pleased to do anything I can. Have a nice week-end, Heracles31 (talk) 23:30, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

E-mail

You've got one! Schfifty3 19:30, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Umm, I didn't get an e-mail response from you. Did you even read it? Thanks. Schfifty3 19:40, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I've been really busy over the weekend, preparing a dualboot (Win7/WinXP) for my tower and "downgrading" my laptop to Windows XP after hearing that Windows 7 has been crippling some laptop batteries. (In fact I think even my own battery may have been affected, it's life being reduced to 2 hours.) I don't have email set up in the Windows XP installations, but after I'm done I'll reply to your email. On top of that, my siblings stopped by for the weekend for my birthday, including my nieces and nephews. I'll most likely get to it this evening. Cheers. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 20:23, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

I was just wondering why this weekend there seems to be more vandal edits, and then i noticed here youve been busy away from the fight. So that explains it. Happy Birthday too!. Thanks also for posting this note about 7, i was actually going to install it soon on my new laptop ekk.....guess ill keep the downgrade.Ottawa4ever (talk) 21:06, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Another one has been zapped towards you. Schfifty3 04:20, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

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Hi. I hope you don't mind me pointing out that when you made this reversion, you actually only reverted one of six consecutive vandalism edits by various IPs (PS: Keep up the great anti-vandalism work) -- Boing! said Zebedee 16:08, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

I think that's a limitation of Huggle, in that it can't revert multiple edits unless they were made by the same person, and I've seen other people doing that all the time. The best way to handle a situation like that, I think, is to just find the last "good" revision and restore it manually. —Soap— 16:13, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure if Twinkle, which I use, is better - you do have to manually find the last good one and do your own diffs, but once you've done that it provides a "Restore this version" link. But as a general rule, if I see that a vandal edit immediately follows one or more other IP edits, I always look back further -- Boing! said Zebedee 16:25, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism work

Thanks for the quick help with the vandal that blanked my userpage! I'm glad you were there to catch it - I didn't notice until after you had already rolled back the damage. :) -^Avicenna_sis @ @ 07:12, 15 February 2010 (UTC) (forgot to sign! eek!)

You're quite welcome. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 23:44, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

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		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for your revert of that recent vandalism on my talk page. And great work on the vandalism reversions just now :). Best, Kingpin13 (talk) 14:53, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Question

How did you add the (Report Mistake) to your rollback edit summary? I would like one similar to it. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 14:13, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

I use a custom version of Huggle made by User:Sidonuke. However he has not edited for a few months now, and I don't have the source code, so I wouldn't be able to compile a version to use project and global config pages that would need to be created in your userspace. Sorry. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 15:42, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

My version of Huggle was simple. I no longer have the sources but I just reviewed the code again and its just a matter of redirecting the global config page to a use page.

» http://huggle.googlecode.com/svn›trunk›Requests›ConfigRequests.vb Line 12: Change the project to "en.wikipedia"

» http://huggle.googlecode.com/svn›trunk›Config.vb Line 23: Change the "Huggle/Config" to a custom like "User:Sidonuke/GlobalConfig.js"

It's simple mods to the how it loads configuration which allows you to change many of the variables without effecting all huggle users.

Ohhh yeah.... *Runs off and hides once more* (Email me if you want me :P)--Sidonuke (talk :: contribs) 20:20, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Didn't you also fix a couple bugs in the program as well? The Thing // Talk // Contribs 22:06, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

I wouldn't remember, Sorry --Sidonuke (talk :: contribs) 00:35, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up re: 4chan

The link had expired by the time I saw it. Was it one poster, or did folks jump on the thread? No signs so far of anything nefarious, but I'll be on guard.

Thanks again! Pfranson (talk) 14:13, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for the reversion to my user page. something lame from CBW 15:50, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, me too. Guess we're doing something right. --CliffC (talk) 22:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

You're all welcome. Cheers! The Thing // Talk // Contribs 07:07, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Just a comment

Erm... I hope you didn't patrol Wikipedia for vandalism for 24 hours. You seem to pop up every second. K.efm Bopz uifnpuif sgvdlfs (talk) 06:22, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Erm... I hope you don't think of ways to vandalize J.delanoy's unprotected talk page for 24 hours. You seem to pop up every second. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 06:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks.

Thank you for reverting the vandalism done to my userpage. Since you're not on Huggle, I've taken care of warning it. - Zhang He (talk) 07:05, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. Cheers! The Thing // Talk // Contribs 07:07, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism from 66.228.80.2

I just wanted to inform you, that User 66.228.80.2 has made yet more unconstructive edits to wikipedia here and here. I'm not sure what the normal procedure is in this case but given this IP's history, wouldn't it make sense to just block it permanently?--U5K0 (talk) 18:44, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) In general, IPs shouldn't be blocked permanently because they change and may impact someone else. Instead, temporary blocks are generally sufficient. Typically the damage that is done can be quickly handled and a reblock can be applied if the block expires. Thanks for pointing him out though. If the disruptive editing pattern continues he will likely be reblocked. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 18:50, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Al dente

Something was wrong (→edits 01:07) ... ;-) Greetings --Jivee Blau (talk) 01:10, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

lol

Messenger of fear in sight Dark deception kills the light!!! Love that album. Sorry about the vandalism, I'm just messing with people stupidly. I'll stop now :) 24.60.24.18 (talk) 06:43, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Are you up late or early? Doesn't really matter..I appreciate the the help in any event :) See ya 'round Tiderolls 08:01, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

It's about 1 AM here, and was just about to go to bed and close down Huggle when I saw that. Anyways, glad I could help. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 08:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

for reverting all of those edits to my pages pal! Give yourself a barnstar :)--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 22:14, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Give myself one? Ok!

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Tfoxworth rampage

See edits by 195.242.152.14. FactStraight (talk) 06:51, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

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Have you read my message yet? NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 03:47, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

BTW, I created my own vandalism space. Hope you don't mind. Cheers. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 04:28, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh no, that's perfectly fine. Quite a few editors have these. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 04:30, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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See, I'm not the only one who thinks the old vandalism should be brought back. Alzarian16 also agrees with me that the old vandalism should be restored. Take this as something to think about. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 22:51, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

How about an archive of your vandalbox? That way, we can still view old vandalism while keeping the current vandalbox relatively clean. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 05:10, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		This is for repeatedly beating me to reverting pages -- I've run into you about three times in the past few minutes! It looks like you're doing great work keeping this Wikipedia clear of vandalism :] GorillaWarfare talk 17:35, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:43, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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Hello. There was some discussion about one of the edit filters, specifically Filter 18, the "test edit" tag. One of the other users thought you may [have requested]/[be running] a bot to help clean these out. Although the other user and myself have looked through WP:BRFA and have not found any record of such, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. So, rather than search through it again, I'll just ask: Do you run any bots? (I assume I know the answer, since I see no mention of it anywhere here.)

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No, I don't run any bots. I requested a bot to clean up test edits here. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 03:56, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Vandal might to a degree ... still needs to be NPOV

today's Napolitano statement calling Fort Hood Terrorism seems to be sufficent to me to add the terror cat Weaponbb7 (talk) 05:04, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my userpage. Here, have a cheeseburger:

Acather96 (talk) has given you a Cheeseburger! Cheeseburgers promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a Cheeseburger, whether it be someone you've had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy eating!

Spread the goodness of Cheeseburgers by adding {{subst:Cheeseburger}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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Ooo, why thank you! *Om nom nom nom* The Thing // Talk // Contribs 23:23, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Random IPs.

As this has been going on for a few days and I have little interest in whack-a-mole, I have suggested both your talk page and mine for semi-protection. HalfShadow 03:50, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Actually I request that my pages stay unprotected. He's only come by every couple of days. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 03:51, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Page protection request edited; hey, it's your backyard. HalfShadow 03:58, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Fearless vandal fighter! Thank you for your consistent, ongoing cleaning of articles

Thank you for your consistent, ongoing cleaning of articles, especially in the Greek mythology area. You should know that your edits are noticed and appreciated. --Wetman (talk) 05:16, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Seconded! -Etoile (talk) 18:36, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you both. I'm glad I could help. Cheers! The Thing // Talk // Contribs 23:19, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Scam of readers via wikipedia content

Please read and help Free Wikipedia articles are on sale as printed books for 50 dollars each in Amazon.com with no prior warning Kasaalan (talk) 14:06, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Um... I'm really not the person to be discussion this with. Perhaps keeping the discussion to the village pump would be prudent? The Thing // Talk // Contribs 23:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Utah Meetup

We're currently discussing a possible meetup in the near future, should you care to join in. Useight (talk) 15:45, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Huggle

How do you customize the edit summary from Huggle edits? I want to have the report mistakes link like yours, but I can't figure out how to do it. Hamtechperson 18:06, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Did you read the notice at the top of the editing page? NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 21:39, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Actually that notice is gone, due to Sidonuke coming out of nowhere :). Anyways, I use a custom version that uses project and global config pages in my userspace. He has told me how to change the source code, but I don't exactly know how to compile it, so I can't help you at the moment. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 21:42, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Can you point me to those custom config pages, maybe I can figure it out if I can see those pages. Hamtechperson 03:34, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

TTTSNB, Have this!

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		Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage! Hamtechperson 03:47, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

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		You're too fast at reverting vandalism. Maybe it's your hacked version of huggle... Hamtechperson 16:49, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Also, my config pages are here and here. The discussion where Sidonuke describes the modifications is here, where Huggle is pointed to one's userspace pages instead of the normal project config. (If you're competent in .NET, you can probably change and compile it yourself.) The Thing // Talk // Contribs 16:57, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Vandal on my talk page.

Leave it to me. I'll take care of reverting it. :) - Zhang He (talk) 01:57, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh it's fine, I can keep an eye on it. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 02:02, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

In that case, thanks for helping me fight the vandalism. I added a sock notice to the second IP's userpage, because that second IP was obviously a sock of the first. - Zhang He (talk) 02:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

JAKAZiD

With regards to JAKAZID i have moved it to the trivia section as it is a well known fact —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.168.245.84 (talk) 17:15, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Claims such as the one you have been adding require a source in order to be included on Wikipedia. Our Biographies of living persons policy states that negative or libelous information that is not sourced cannot be in any BLP. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:17, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I understand that however how is someone being gay a negative thing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.168.245.84 (talk) 17:19, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Homosexuality often carries a negative stigma... Thus we don't add things like that unless they are cited by a verifiable source. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:23, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

To be fair tho that looks at it in a negative way, because there is nothing wrong with someone being gay & people should not be judged if they are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.168.245.84 (talk) 17:25, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately a lot of people would disagree... Either way controversial claims needs to be sourced. If you can't find a source, then it does not belong on Wikipedia. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:29, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Here is a link which i found: http://thehobbyscene.blogspot.com/2010/03/jakazid-is-gay.html please readd the trivia, thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.168.245.84 (talk) 17:33, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

That is a blog, and blogs are not acceptable as a source. Perhaps you should read up on our sourcing policy, located here. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:37, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Why are they not acceptable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.168.245.84 (talk) 17:38, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

From the policy page I linked: "Anyone can create a website or pay to have a book published, then claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason self-published media, whether books, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, blogs, Internet forum postings, tweets, etc., are largely not acceptable." The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:40, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Ok however anyone can make a website (blog or otherwise) so how come 'proper' websites are ok then?

Please read this, which should explain everything. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:46, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Seems unlogical to me as anyone can make a website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.168.245.84 (talk) 17:50, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

That's why self-published sources generally aren't allowed. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 17:51, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes i understand that however what i meant was that it should be the same for 'non' personal websites because anyone can make one of those also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.168.245.84 (talk) 18:01, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for the swift catch on my talk page. Cheers. :) ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 20:55, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 20:57, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Btw that's a very... interesting signature you have... Strangely reminds me of the art that Picasso made... The Thing // Talk // Contribs 20:58, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Picasso! That's either a complement or...or you're saying my sig is totally weird. I'm going to assume bad faith and report you to ANI for calling my sig weird. ;P ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 22:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

¡Muchas gracias!

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		Thanks for catching the vandalism on my talk page so quickly! upstateNYer 21:56, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar! The Thing // Talk // Contribs 23:44, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

A message from a humble user

You hast been "Thanx yuu"'d by moi. This is a prestigious honor, meaning you rescued my userpage. A man's home is his castle, and a user's page is their self-worshiping altar by a picture window. Nobody likes having trash on the altar. I speak in metaphors, if that's OK. 2J Bäkkvire Maestro ^{communications} _{accomplishments} 22:52, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

BTW, what kind of user name is that? I certainly hope you aren't contemplating ceasing existence! That would be a shame to the wiki.

You're welcome. And my name is based off of a Metallica song. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 23:43, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

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Thank You

Thank you for reverting vandalism to my user pages MaenK.A.Talk

MaenK.A._Talk 15:33, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 15:34, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Funkmaster Flex

Sorry, didn't realize I wasn't logged in. The change I made to the article Funkmaster Flex was to capitalize proper nouns, and revert a deletion that left a sentence fragment. --DOHC Holiday (talk) 17:56, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks!

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		Many thanks indeed for dealing with the less-than-inspiring new edits to my userpage! :-) Colds7ream (talk) 07:54, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 16:26, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

RSRC

I am just letting a Wikipedia friend know that my new show thing is coming up . Am I doing anything wrong? (98.231.219.50 (talk) 02:22, 5 March 2010 (UTC)) or RSRC

btw why did u put up the warning sign

respond on my talk page plz

Nice work

With the recent changes patrol, you keep beating me to it ;) -Regancy42 (talk) 12:53, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Why thank you. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 12:54, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Lahey

Hey loser, my edit on the page of Raymond Lahey was completely valid fact and not vandalism. If you're going to make a reversion, maybe try looking at the content?

You have to provide citation that he resigned and why. - Altenmann >t 07:46, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

There was information regarding that right underneath. You guys really are lazy little hypocrites — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.152.173.9 (talk)

User who you keep vandalizing

Please stop vandalizing my userpage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.125.148 (talk) 18:49, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

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New section

Tinchy Stryder likes bananas. I have spoke to him and he has confirmed this. This is not vandalism. Thanks 90.208.59.58 (talk) 22:05, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

This is irrelevant to the article, and is not needed. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 22:06, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Likewise ...

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Header added

Please ban IP ADDRESS 173.14.175.205 They are frequently making nasty sexual misplaced comments in the Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.97.201 (talk) 23:01, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done Blocked by User:PeterSymonds for 1 week. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 01:42, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for getting the page deleted with little or no discussion with me, the page creator. It was a legitimate page, and how quickly it got deleted is an outrage. Really, thanks a lot. Wolfknightwhite (talk) 21:33, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I find it hard to believe that the person could be born in both 1975 and 1993, live in the White House, have a spouse supposedly from the first year they were born, and have Brad Pitt as a domestic partner, all with no sources of any kind to back up these claims. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 21:44, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey, if you want to go and delete pages based on lack of citation etc, how is it your little ego parade is permitted? I think it is entirely hypocritical. You deletionist scum have ruined this site one article at a time. I want to know how is it that you think your little page of e-penis stroking is in any way relevant information in an encyclopedia.

This is a userpage that is not exactly constrained by the Verifiability and Notability requirements outlined in our policies. Also, if you are who I think you are, using an IP in this manner is considered sockpuppetry, and is a blockable offense. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 00:01, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Who am I? give me a name, I will tell you if it is correct. However, this is not my main ip. As I have said in nerdy's page or whatever, I think your policies on this site are entirely hypocritical and frankly need to be looked at. My edit of your page is entirely my own initiative and not in any way through the proxy of an individual so the accusation of sock puppetry is merely pushing me to the side in a dismissive sweep and frankly I think you are being more than a bit close minded. So who do you think I am? How is my action here in any way sock puppetry? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.186.178.171 (talk) 00:08, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Because your behaviour is uncannily similar to the account which started this section. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 00:10, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

a little too speculative I think, You guys have to be the most paranoid lot of aspies ever. Seriously, is raising issue with policy and trying to get the interest of users in questions really that horrible a thing? How is it you feel that you must demonize me for raising issue with your behavior, policies and attitudes as an organization. Again, who am I? I more than invite you to name me. Who do you think is my evil twin? It isn't that I am not going to own up to my past edits but I SINCERELY doubt you know who I am, I have made additions to wikipedia from many different countries in my travels and you know, I wonder why I ever contributed to this site over the years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.186.178.171 (talk) 00:14, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

I see, you think I am this wolfknight guy. Actually that is far from the truth. Is your policy so fragile that it does not stand up to scrutiny? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.186.178.171 (talk) 00:27, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

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sorry... was kinda confusing... Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 23:44, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Heh, no problem. The Thing // Talk Happy St. Patrick's Day 23:52, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Watching your page

Remind me to stop when you draw the wrath of bigoted children. Jeebus that was a long list of edits. Millahnna (mouse)talk 00:40, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, but I'm watching it. The Thing // Talk Happy St. Patrick's Day 00:45, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Apparently I should be more clear. I watch it because of some conversation we had at some point and because you always post funny reverts. I got here long after the bulk of the vandalism today. I just meant remind me to take it off my watch list when some kid goes crazy like that. It was a crapload to scroll past on my way to edits I actually needed to look at. And now my original comment seems much less funny. =( Millahnna (mouse)talk 00:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Ooooh, I see now. Alright I will keep that in mind. Cheers! The Thing // Talk Happy St. Patrick's Day 00:55, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Protected then unprotected after seeing your request

Saw excessive and childish vandalism on your page, Protected and then saw you had placed a request not to unless you specifically request protection. Don't understand it but that's your wish, so I immediately unprotected. Sorry for the misread. Page watched. -- Alexf^(talk) 01:31, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Heh, yeah thanks. That was 4chan attacking me... I don't like to request protection because then they'll move onto another page, likely an article. I'd rather have them waste their energy here than have them do so on an article. The Thing // Talk Happy St. Patrick's Day 01:34, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

It is, however, move protected. let NawlinWiki know if you want that taken off too, though I'd advise leaving it on. GedUK  09:15, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh yes, I want the move protection left on... there's really no reason for anybody but me to be moving my userspace pages, which I do quite rarely, and I can easily request that temporarily taken off if I needed to. The Thing // Talk Happy St. Patrick's Day 11:56, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the star! NawlinWiki (talk) 12:17, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 12:18, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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FYI

You recently participated in a discussion here. This issue has been raised again here, where you may wish to comment. Best regards, –xeno^talk 15:27, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Ahem

When you reverted on Aston Merrygold, you added back more vandalism. Perhaps you should be a bit more careful. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 20:55, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, lovely. That should have been a revert back to Cluebot, and not to the vandal-user. Thanks for the heads-up though. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 21:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

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ROTFLMAO(ASTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&diff=352072976&oldid=352072918

Love it. :-) Tonywalton ^Talk 00:23, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Heh, yeah I meant to report that AntonioFop character... ;) The Thing // Talk // Contribs 00:25, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm about to report myself for repeatedly vandalising AIV Tonywalton ^Talk 00:30, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Double ROTFL!

I tell you, I really need to start doing more writing and improving and less time swatting the little children who run roughshod on the article space... :) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:33, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh, well right now I'm free to do some swatting at the moment. Just got back from registering for classes at my college. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 00:36, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Huggle

Please stop using modified versions of Huggle that give the impression you are likely to make mistakes. Getting rid of that horrible rainbow flashing edit notice that makes me scroll down two pages just to leave you a message wouldn't hurt either. Gurch (talk) 13:00, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

As you wish... I've toned down the box a bit, and I'll change the edit summary... The Thing // Talk // Contribs 13:17, 26 March 2010 (UTC)