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P.S: I noticed you reverting a lot of vandalism to articles; Keep up the good work!
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Thanks for catching my mistake and reverting it. I meant only to delete one duplicate section and ended up doing... something else. Anyhow, my apologies. Madman bum and angel18:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Haha. I have no life. Seriously, though, I just have a fast Internet connection and I'm pretty dedicated to my vandal-fighting. Twinkle helps, as does IRC (#vandalism-en-wp). Madman bum and angel23:54, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Vandalism warning
What level of warning did you give to 74.117.34.13? Technically, you are really start to do level one or two. --Umalee00:05, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
I gave him a blatant vandal warning, then a last warning. I thought it was reasonable, considering he vandalised the same article eight times. Apparently, so did the administrators. Madman bum and angel00:07, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Surprisingly enough, at 11 PM I'm not on Wikipedia constantly. But I'm glad to see you did indeed expand the article and remove the speedy deletion notice yourself. You can understand why when I reviewed this revision, I thought it met CSD A1, can you not? Madman bum and angel03:09, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
How did it meet Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#A1? Even the short article was about a Kansas Institution ... let them grow ... J. D. Redding
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Hello! Thanks for being interested. :) I don't think either that this is an encyclopaedic project but I sure would like to see this one happen. As I said, it doesn't need to be a bot, but possibly some general script similar to edit counters etc. In a bot form it should probably work in the way SuggestBot does: you file a request on its talk page and it posts a list of the most similar Wikipedians on your talk page later. But whatever your approach is, go for it. :) --ZeroOne (talk | @) 10:36, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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Most of what I see is one-off experiments where the user doesnt even stick around long enough to see a warning. If I see an IP more then once I'll add a warning, otherwise adding the warning is a pointless edit that does little but bump an editcount. -Mask?00:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Archive_1, thank you very much for your support in my successful RfA.
I am thankful and humbled by the trust that the community has placed in me,
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Again, thank you for your support, and happy editing! Hemlock Martinis22:38, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
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Nice Work
I wanted to drop you a line to let you know that you swayed my vote on a particular AfD. Your research and knowledge of guidelines is greatly appreciated, as well as the presentation of that material. the_undertowtalk21:33, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
I reverted the change to the Jordan talk page I already discussed this with Satyr when she/he added it. I also brought up the issue of the banner formats at the Village Pump where no consensus was reached see here. Previously Satyr and myself decided to leave out the shell format as it cluttered the page, this was also decided at Talk:Barack Obama and other talk pages. Quadzilla9914:58, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
My apologies. I was not aware that SatyrN had already attempted to change the talk page and an agreement was reached to change it back – it had not been removed from Template:WikiProjectBannerShell/Cleanup project. I have added a comment to the relevant talk page to ensure that no other participants in the cleanup project will change it, though that should not be a problem – I removed it myself from the to-do list.
Thanks for the note, it's kind of getting confusing per all the different options out there. Unfortunately we haven't been able to reach consensus as-of-yet if we ever will. Quadzilla9915:53, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
I still think the reduction of WikiProject banner clutter is critical. Personally, I prefer {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} to {{WikiProjectBanners}} and will continue working on the cleanup project. Most of the pages on that list have no container template at all; however, some have already gotten to them and transcluded {{WikiProjectBanners}}. I think I'll just leave those alone or strike them from the list; no conversion is necessary, though I do think it'd be helpful, and regular editors of the article can switch to {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} if they too like it better. Would that suit you as a temporary solution until consensus is established (if, as you say, it's established at all)? — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 16:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Well it's not really up to me, as you can see from the disussion above I brought up at the Pump and no consensus was reached. It's really a grey area, of course I'd like it if the banners were kept but obviously that's my personal preference. Quadzilla9916:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
"No I'd prefer the banners as you can see from my edit history I added them to a bunch today, but really my personal preference is irrelevant here, as things are done on a consensus basis here. There really is no consensus on this as you can see from here. In general I guess you can add to it any page you want but if an editor reverts it I would leave it alone. Quadzilla9916:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Well done!
The Original Barnstar
For great work on articles as well as contributions in a wide swath of project namespace areas, you have earned this barnstar. Keep up the phenomenal work! --TeaDrinker17:29, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
No, because it's not the same article. It was created by the same author, but it isn't about the pastor it was about (?!). In any case, I've proposed speedy deletion per CSD a7. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 21:49, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Re: Nice name!
Haha, it's always fun to come across people who have also read the series and recognize the name. I might have someone say something to me once every three months or so. :-) ZsinjTalk14:45, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
I've been nesting templates on pages I'm watching, and noticed you are keeping a list of those that don't have the "nested" parameter. I have three to add:
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As you have provided a reasonable explanation for semi-automated edits, I am unblocking. However, please keep your edit rate to no more than about 4 per minute per policy. If you need more than that, you should be request a bot account to allow for the higher rates. If you have questions regarding this, please let me know. Thanks.
So can you give me an example of the preg_replace you would use for adding a banner to WikiProjectBannerShell? I'm stumped by the nested brackets. Tks!!! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs)01:09, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
I made up a quick example using PHP; it hasn't been extensively tested, as I haven't used this routine in any bot. It's quick and dirty, but it should work, and it seems to support |blp=yes or |activepol=yes at that. Tell me if you have any problems with it. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 02:30, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
<?PHP
/* Example of the original contents of the page. This example contains {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}
in addition to other templates to make sure the regular expression is not too greedy. */
$contents = "{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=
{{WPBiography|class=GA|nested=yes}}
{{Screenwriters|class=GA|nested=yes}}
|blp=yes}}
{{GA}}";
/* Example transclusion of the desired WikiProject banner */
$transclusion = "{{Aids|class=GA|nested=yes}}";
/* Add the transclusion to the {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} */
$contents = preg_replace("/{{WikiProjectBannerShell\\|1=(.*}}[^{]*?)(\\|[^{]*)?}}/si",
"{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=\$1$transclusion\r\n\$2}}", $contents);
?>
Can I just say "wow"? See - I can't do that. <sigh> I'll give it a shot and see how it works! And I'll see if I can puzzle out the syntax :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs)04:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
If you'll remind me tomorrow (today; I'm going to bed), I'll try to explain the syntax as best I can. I'll have to figure it out first (I get it, but not well enough to explain it yet. ;)) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 06:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, but if there isn't one it won't kill the page; it just won't add the transclusion. I would just preg_match the regex first; if it's TRUE, do the preg_replace. If not, add it independently. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 05:11, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, but how is that usefull? I mean I dont see any significant differences between "That code changes this" and "to this". Shinhan06:39, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
It adds a banner. It seems simple, but it's obviously not; a bot has to compensate for every way a {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} can possibly be formatted. This does it with a preg_replace; it's possible to do it using other means, but they would be laborious, would use a lot more code, and would probably be a lot slower. And SatyrTN asked for an example after I requested of an editor who was going to use a bot to tag all articles in certain categories with a banner that if there were already two or more banners on the page to add the banner to {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} instead of leaving it floating. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 06:43, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
(Sorry if all of that was incomprehensible. It's almost 3 AM.)
Ahhh, now I get it. This is for adding new banner to a page that already has BannersHell. And I only now noticed that addition of Aids. Cool code Shinhan08:01, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey there! I'm glad to see you doing such hard work on the Template:WikiProjectBannerShell/Cleanup project, and I'm impressed to see that you got AWB to do some of your work for you, much like I have with my own browser. However, I'm somewhat concerned about tertiary edits like this one.
Please keep in mind that different WikiProjects have different standards for classes, and you could potentially get into a lot of trouble just applying a given class to all WikiProject banners willy-nilly. Just trying to look out for you; feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or if I'm viewing the situation incorrectly. Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 05:11, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your input, but as you may know, AWB still requires more-or-less manual edits, and I look at/tweak every one. The stub/start classification isn't part of my "replace" formula; I only assessed a limited number of articles to which I added WPBS, and I did it manually (pretty much because I came across funky templates or auto=yes boxes as I applied WPBS). I know diff projects have diff specs, but a stub is a stub and for the most part a start is a start. In the case of Guilford, I assure you it was not an automatic classification. I've got over 14,000 edits to prove I kinda know what I'm doing, LOL! TAnthony05:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
i wasn't aware of any discussion, policies, or guidelines leading to you unilateral decision to remove the to-do template from another that is transcluded on 500+ articles. i'm putting it back because there are currently articles utilizing it and you hve effectively broken them. i'd like to discuss your reasoning before it is removed again. please respond back on my talk page. -ΖαππερΝαππερBabelAlexandria14:59, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
i'm sorry i jumped the gun there... there's a lot going on in the poke-corner of wikipedia right now, and i know i should have checked the talk page before saying what i did. at any rate, i've responded on the template's talk page. i'm mostly interested in figuring out exactly why i broke usage with the wikiproject bannershell. in my mind though, the best way to solve these sorts of problems is to fix the code, not delete the feature. also it may not have been described in detail, but there used to be a lack of consistency between the to-do list for the Focus articles listed at WP:POKE, the improvements suggested at the actual article's talk page, and the to-do list displayed at the portal. utilizing to-do encourages people to centralize improvement discussion and takes the workload off of people trying to facilitate the editing process. -ΖαππερΝαππερBabelAlexandria15:34, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Quick question. In your most recent entry you write, "You stated: "At issue are the proposed mergers to make the..."". As I am interested in the discussion and trying to follow it closely, but I was not sure who the 'you' (which begins your statement) is addressed to. Is it myself, the other anonymous user, or Mister Fax? 66.109.248.11419:55, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
You said 'I would prefer just "comment" or "add comment"'. The way I structured the poll, I meant that if you have a new suggestion, you should add it. I've added them now. Please add your rationales accordingly. — Omegatron23:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
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He's absolutely right; I get 973 too. And I didn't know he was still updating that report. I clicked through the category's pages, and I got 1173; obviously I counted one more (next 200) where I shouldn't have. Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 17:01, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
You may have even counted correctly, but that darned category contains a lot of people's sandboxes, which of course is SO annoying to a perfectionist like me, LOL. TAnthony21:56, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Question for you re:API. Are you able to edit with it? It looks like the one section for getting an edit token hasn't been implemented yet - do you have a workaround? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs)07:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
You might remember this bot proposal. It looks like very few people are interested in my wikiproject proposal, so I would like a worklist for myself. If you would like to, you can make that list, but only with the articles starting with the letter J. Each page should be 70kb and the lists should be in subpages (/1, /2, /3, etc) of: User:The Psychless/Untagged. I will create the page if you are willing to do this task. I'd really appreciate it if you'd do it. Regards, Psychless19:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I am still interested in this. Could you please give me an answer on whether or not you'd like to do this? Thanks, Psychless22:15, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, but for some very strange reason you managed to leave your message on my redirect page. I usurped the username Psychless recently, and you must have clicked my old signature. Here's a convenient link you can use now :). Regards, Psychless03:28, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, however it was a lot less pages than I was expecting... Thanks for doing it, all that means is I might be back requesting another letter soon :) Psychless14:52, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
I made the userpage of SkyBot, before creating the account, so I had to create SkyBot 1. I already though of Usurpation, but I thought it would be an unnecessary waste of time. SkyBot 1 is just fine to me. Thanks, -- Anonymous DissidentTalk15:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Can you give me your bookmarklet? I still wanna help with BannerShelling, but fully manual way is too boring for me. If you can give me the bookmarklet, I'll ask for the bot aproval (got the second account ready) and I am aware that this is only a half manual way, not fully automatic. Btw, what do you think about User talk:Shinhan/AWB BannerSheller and can you code in C#/Python? — Shinhan < talk > 17:31, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
I can code in C# but not Python. I'm still very adamant in my belief that this process cannot be automated; there are huge drawbacks to the regexes you suggest, and proper ones would be MUCH too long. I think a human still needs to be involved because there are several human factors that cannot be neglected either.
Oh, definitely, I had no intention of fully automatizing it. Just to help a bit more than a bookmarklet can. — Shinhan < talk > 18:29, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
If you could. Without looking, I don't know how to tell how many more there might be. BTW - how did you find the ones that needed fixing, i.e. do you have a copy of the downloaded database, or did you use something that read all the articles in the category (just curious)? -- Rick Block (talk) 23:36, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page, thats about the 5th time that guy's signed back up and vandalised me--Jac1688823:42, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
The illegal immigration entry is completely biased. There are studies that I can quote that show the taxes an illegal immigrant may or may not pay do not offset the amount of public services they consume. Why isn't that study quoted? Or where is the information about the economic cost and impact to our schools, hospitals, jails, wages, etc? A study by Bear Stearns in 2004 shows the United States is losing over $20 billion a year due to the underground economy of illegal workers. I have so many studies that I can insert if need be.
Blanking sections of the article won't fix that; rewording them will. You can also flag the article with {{NPOV}}. I suggest you 1.) sign up for an account, 2.) use an edit summary that reflects the intent of your edits, and 3.) read WP:3RR. Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 23:45, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Illegal Immigration Entry
A dubious argument that higher immigration dramatically improve economic growth is false. According to the Congressional Budget Office, from 2007 to 2016 the Senate's immigration bill increases the economy's growth rate by about 0.1 percentage point annually.
Senator Kennedy said this about the 1965 Immigration Act "First our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Second, the ethnic mix will not be upset" are not evident today. His assurances were so false as it took away traditional quotas away from skilled worker and Europeans (the founders of America), and gave them to the unskilled from the poor Third World. Then came the 1986 amnesty, again drafted by Kennedy, which touted as a one-time-only event; now we know that amnesty actually increased illegal immigration. Now he's pushing Congress for citizenship to illegal aliens. If the first responsibility of our lawmakers is to ensure that their actions do not harm their fellow Americans, then all of the "comprehensive" reforms fall short, because none provide genuine protection or relief for our country's OWN disadvantaged citizens.
There is just reasons for laws that restrict and control immigration and define and secure our borders, despite the wanton ignorance of those laws and disregard for their enforcement. Our infrastructure, economy, public health, and safety all depend on the very delicate balance that has been so upset and is listing dangerously further.
Illegal Immigration: Contrary to popular belief, illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. The victims may not have a voice, but they are low-paid, low-skilled American workers. Another victim is the taxpayer. The U.S. may be foregoing up to $35 billion in lost tax revenue because of the growing size of the underground labor market using illegal workers in a cash economy, according to Bear Sterns.
From a national standpoint, all state and local costs associated with illegal immigration total $36 billion a year. The taxes that illegal immigrants may or may not pay do not offset the monetary value of the public services that they use (a study showed on average they pay $10,000 in taxes and use $40,000 in public services). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.86.173.253 (talk • contribs) 23:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Look, I'm not arguing with you, I'm just trying to protect Wikipedia's articles against vandalism. The way to advance your point of view (which should be a neutral point of view, I might add) is to add sourced material like that you posted above, integrating it into the article and adding in-text citations. It is not to remove sections of the article that oppose your point of view eight times. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:09, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
This is in ref. to the article Sindhi people. I apologize for the joke excerpt. However, I do feel the summary I included definitely gives people a better idea of the Sindhi culture than what is currently on the page.
If it's of an encyclopaedic nature, please re-add it to the page. However, I suggest you: 1.) sign up for an account, 2.) refrain from improper humour and not use SINDHI in caps every time (it makes it look like vandalism), and 3.) use an edit summary. Just a few suggestions. :) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 01:36, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you reverted the addition of copyrighted text on Private equity firms. However, you blanked the page. Could you please find the URL with which you can find the copyrighted text and add a {{copyvio}} template?
I can see where you're coming from, but it's well-disguised vandalism. See the discussion page. There's no evidence for the characters having existed, no episode summaries anywhere else on the net mention them, and the only places I could find discussing them are in relation to Wikipedia, pointing to it as an example of how anyone can introduce false information. Sorry the spelling correction got caught in that, I was a bit TO'd and didn't want to go through deleting all the false edits again, and got a bit overzealous. Thanks for cleaning up after. Lucky number 4903:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Well, I didn't know the article was protected anyways, so I guess I might have deleted it anyways. But thanks for the link. Never saw that before, and a very useful diagram. And I thought I knew everything there was to know about Wikipedia. LOL. Orangemarlin19:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
WikiProjectBannerShell bot proposal
Hey there, I left some positive comments at your bot proposal but wanted to suggest privately that perhaps the bot check for the presence of {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} itself before implementing it "again." This will probably not be an issue if the detection and correction processes take place around the same time, but I've occasionally come across pockets of pages from the "needed" reports that have already been corrected. TAnthony01:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Yeah. Like I said, as soon as it detects it, it'll see if it can correct it. But yes, it'll check the page during the correction process too. Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 01:44, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Possible task for your bot
Hello again. I was looking for a bot to take care of a job for Wikiproject Articles for Creation, and Wikihermit thought yours might be able to carry this out. It's rather complicated, so might not be possible, but I thought I'd check just in case.
Here's the deal: We could use a bot to look around for articles that have been created through the AfC process and tag them with {{WPAFC}}. There's rather a lot of them floating about from before the Wikiproject was created. Such articles can be found by looking at the article history - the very first edit should have the text "Articles for Creation" and/or and IP Address somewhere in the edit summary. That's the hard part that I'm not sure a bot can handle too easily. The easy part is simply adding {{WPAFC}} to the talk page. We don't really need it ranked for quality, but if the bot is able to pick up on any existing rankings from other projects that would reduce the workload a bit. Please let me know if you think this will work out - if not, I do understand. Thanks for your time. Hersfold(talk/work)19:52, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
It's certainly possible, and picking up on edit summaries isn't that hard. But I'm not familiar at all with the AFC process; I'll have to take some time to get familiar with it and to scope out this task. I'll let you know about its feasibility within a couple days on your talk page, all right? — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 20:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually, it's been requested by the BAG in the past to ensure that the community knows discussion is open. BAG discussions are considerably less well-known than discussions like RfAs. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:37, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Ah. That's because the text was changed -- it wasn't as you specified. I did output a skipped list, but I've since deleted it; I'll find out which ones I didn't edit. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:36, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for making me aware of this. I didn't even notice. But isn't it all right to do that as long as you are reverting what you take to be vandalism? Because that's what's those edits looked like to me. -- Gravitan(Talk | Contribs)21:14, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Reversion of blatant vandalism is an exception; since this wasn't quite blatant vandalism (it was just unexplained and disruptive), I thought it best to let you know. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 21:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Well thank you again for letting me know. :) But since my edits were made in reverting vandalism (whether blatant or not), would it be acceptable to remove the message from my talk page? -- Gravitan(Talk | Contribs)22:42, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
I just sat down for a few minutes of RC patrol, and you were literally everywhere. You have some fast fingers!--Kubigula(talk)21:28, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry; I must not have seen your message. I was held up doing another major bot task, but it's since been approved and I can work on yours. I assume I don't have to do the |oldid= as is being discussed? — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 15:18, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure I understand how your template would be employed. Can you give me a run-down? Your example page has -1 and +1 which I assume wouldn't be included in the actual pages. Thanks. -- Mufka(u)(t)(c)16:30, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I seem to be getting it wrong. I hope you don't mind, I've tested it on your sandbox. Can you look at it and show me what I did wrong? Thanks. -- Mufka(u)(t)(c)16:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
You put in 09/11 for the date but it displays it as 09/08. I also noticed that if I put 08/09 it displays as 08/01. -- Mufka(u)(t)(c)17:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi again. :) I just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know that I've taken the liberty of moving the template here. And thanks again for your help. Cheers Sup?17:32, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Not really sure what you were trying to tell me here. Is there anything you can teach me about programming and the like? I will accept full responsibilty for any damage my bot does to Wikipedia and I'll correct edits manually if I have to. I'm all ears if you can tell me what I need to know. Lord Sesshomaru17:50, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
No, I can't teach you the basics of Pywikipedia. I really would like to, but I don't have a great deal of time on my hands, and it's not the framework with which I am most familiar. You may accept full responsibility for any damage you do to Wikipedia, but the bot policy requires that any bot with a bot flag must be harmless; that is, its edits shouldn't need to be corrected manually. — madman bum and angel17:52, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
You have my trust, it will be as harmless as a fly. Now going to what Betacommand said to me, what pywiki modules should I use and with what settings do you suggest? I need to know what is available before I understand it, correct? Lord Sesshomaru17:59, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I may have your trust, but you must have the trust of the community, and in particular, the Bot Approvals Group. As for your question, you're the bot operator; you tell me. Why don't you read up on the modules? — madman bum and angel18:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hm. For future reference: when one edits a page, one gets < and > silently substituted to < and >. One must undo that before the submit or bad things happen. :-)
At any rate, I'm all set for a short test run on real new pages. Do you feel the automated search thingy is an obstacle to that? I can wait, but since weekends are where my Copious Free Time lives, I'd like to be able to call by 'bot "finished" (if software can ever be called that). — Coren(talk)03:13, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Actually, < and > aren't converted to HTML entities if you're making the HTTP request properly; it must be a problem with your code. In any case, I have no strong opinion on whether your bot should query Google at this time. I merely felt it prudent to point out that if your bot did query Google, that it would violate Google's terms of service.
Should that issue be resolved before your bot is given a flag and is free to check all new pages automatically? Absolutely. Is it strictly necessary for a trial? Perhaps not. However, if your bot is approved for trial, I would consider throttling your Google requests just as you must throttle your edit requests while your bot is unflagged. Two edits per minute is the maximum edit rate permitted by bot policy in a trial period; perhaps you should consider restricting Google queries to two per minute. — madman bum and angel03:21, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Indeed, I wasn't even considering running without an official okay except for a very limited trial run.
On another note: argh. More entities being squished. My request follows the docs to the dot-- I doubt > and < could ever not be substituted— it'd break the XML if they weren't. I just didn't expect other entities to also be translated. Argh. No visible documentation either. I suppose I should dive into the mediawiki source. — Coren(talk)03:28, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't break XML; they're substituted when the page is rendered. They're not substituted in the Wikitext. Do you mind posting your source code? I may be able to see what's wrong. — madman bum and angel03:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't, as long as you don't comment on how cruddy it currently is. :-) And there are no comments. And it's semi-automated (it currently checks just the one page from the command line, and has no throttling). Meep! That's why I usually wait for my code to be clean before posting it. :-) It'll be at User:Coren/csb.plin a few minutes. — Coren(talk) 03:52, 5 August 2007 (UTC) It's there now. — Coren(talk)04:07, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
It's to be noted that undoing the entities works and CorenSearchBot is now able to edit pages without breaking them. :-) — Coren(talk)04:19, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Nowiki tags make even worse hash of things; the whole code is interpreted as semi-raw html and becomes one, ugly block of running line noise (all whitespace gets merged). — Coren(talk)04:37, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I forgot to <pre> it. Speaking of which, try <pre><nowiki>. It's commonly used for JavaScript content. Or just point me at the page and I'll see how I can help. — madman bum and angel04:39, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Have you considered the Perlwikipedia framework? I think the standardized functions will eliminate little bugs like the ones you're having. — madman bum and angel04:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, the bugs are gone now. The reason I haven't used the Perlwikipedia framework is just that it uses the older API, and I wanted to use the newer one (under the presumption that it's Better(tm) and designed to be easier on the servers). — Coren(talk)04:49, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, it's up to the programmer. Query.php is legacy, but perfectly functional. Api.php is now a part of MediaWiki and is more developed. It depends on what you want. As long as it works... — madman bum and angel04:51, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Hehe, congrats on the new name. Here's an apple for the housewarming (you moved to the new name) gift: Ѽ. — Shinhan < talk > 09:45, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
List of road junctions in the United Kingdom: BOTREQ
Thank you very much for volunteering to create this list. It will help enormously in cleaning out the Template namespace. Can't wait to use it. Cheers. --MZMcBride04:33, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Whoops! Thanks for the comment; I forgot to post it.
Here's the thing: I started it, then aborted it about halfway through. This is really the kind of report that needs to be generated by way of an SQL query; since embeddedin can't use a generator, my bot had to make a seperate embeddedin query for each template... and that's expensive. I shouldn't be making literally millions of API queries (even appropriately throttled... which makes it take hours).
Located: /1/2/3/4/5. I figured you could just delete them when you were done.
Buyer Beware: I'm sure you know this already but just like Special:Unusedtemplates, templates listed therein are not transcluded on any pages. However, they may be intended to be substituted and may be heavily used that way. Case in point: {{Cfd}}. Tread carefully. ;) — madmanbum and angel07:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Good lord that's a lot of templates; I'm kind of in shock. Thank you very much for generating that report. I guess I have my work cut out for me now. : - ) Cheers. --MZMcBride17:28, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks
I appreciate the reverts on my talk page, and followed up via oversight. I removed your comments along with the troll's out of concern about feeding him beans; this isn't the first time this has happened. Acroterion(talk)16:54, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
And removed the articles it fixed from the cleanup list (of course, I could have just let you re-run your bot, but what fun would that be?) — madmanbum and angel07:14, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I didn't actually create the David Vernon article. Rather, the creator over wrote the David Vernon disambiguation page with this article. So I reverted back to a disambig page and put the David Vernon (professor) article into a new article. On doing that I thought it read rather well for a article created by a newbie so I checked it and found a substantive part of it was a copyvio. Thus I then flagged it as a copyvio in the hope that an admin would drop by and have a look. I'm not certain it was a speedy delete. I explained this all on the article's talk page. Gillyweed09:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I have a feeling your bot may have made an error...
I've just done some checking and there are 4,428 articles that use some form of {{blp}} - either through one of the {{WPBiography}} clones or just with BLP itself - where the WPBS doesn't have the parameter "|blp=yes". Does your bot check for that? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs)06:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Bleh. Sorry. A look at 10 of the "problems" shows a bunch of user-errors. Including one of mine! Your bot seems a lot better at the nesting thing - can you check for talk pages that already have the banner, have "living=yes", but *don't* have "blp=yes" -- and add that? Or I can keep kludging away at making my bot do it... -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs)17:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
That's quite a lot of talk pages. Interesting. It must just be from those who add {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} but don't know of that particular intricacy, not anyone involved with the cleanup project or my bot. I'd be surprised if my bot has edited 2,000 articles on that task. — madmanbum and angel21:29, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
The 4,000+ figure is an overstatement. My regexp only counted them properly if the "blp=yes" was on the same line as the {{WikiProjectBannerShell. So it's probably only 2,000 (?rough guestimate).
I need to see an explanation of why the "Test of maximum ..." article needs to exist otherwise I shall delete it soon. -- RHaworth17:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Apparently the author created it to turn a red link in the Help: namespace blue. I raised the possibility of having it #REDIRECT to Help:Page size on the talk page; if I don't hear from him soon, I'll go ahead and do it. Suit? — madmanbum and angel17:51, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Deletion of History of Chaves
Your name appears under the message saying that my article entitled History of Chaves was deleted for copyright violations. I wish you or the person responsible had consulted me before taking this step. I am the author of all of the prose included in the article, since I wrote the History of Chaves on my own website on portcult.com. I adapted the article to make the history of Chaves known by a wider audience. It cost me some time and effort and was deleted by someone who did not take the time to find out the situation of the article. I ask that you restore it. Vogensen18:55, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm afraid that it is not my job to find out the situation; the burden of proof is on you to verify that the text you submit is licensed under the GFDL. Your website had no indication that you intended to license your text under the GFDL, nor did you even leave a message on the talk page indicating such. You understand, since you are the copyright holder, that we don't want to run the risk of using your work without your permission. I suggest that you either post a notice on your web site asserting that you understand the GFDL and wish to license your contributions under that License, or that you e-mail permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Either way will serve to verify that we can use your materials and you may then re-create the article with no further problems.
rvlimit may be 500 if the bot is logged in (and is in the bots usergroup). Pull query-continue->revisions->rvstartid, rinse, and repeat. Cheers! — madmanbum and angel22:49, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Actually, I do want the contents of the revisions, but the api documentation shows how to do this. I'll give it a shot. Most of the stuff I write fetches content outside of a bot, using a bot only to update the results (this way I can use awk, or sed or whatever I want for text processing - call me a troglodyte). Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Looks like this works, although the line feeds in the source don't seem to show up (sigh). Maybe I need to rethink how I'm doing this (the goal is to figure out what user nominated each DYK article). -- Rick Block (talk) 04:10, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Ah, nevermind. Fetched in a browser, the browser doesn't show the linefeeds (duh, since it's XML), but in a file the linefeeds are there. So, I can happily awk the hell out of it (if it can't be done in shell and awk, maybe just awk, it's not worth doing). If you care, the API request is
Hmm. You don't seem to have your email enabled. I'd like to ask you a question or two offline. Any chance this might be possible? If you'd prefer, you can email me direct at rickblock that weird symbol pronouced at avaya.com (how unparanoid am I?). -- Rick Block (talk) 04:43, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey! Sorry about this edit, among possibly a few others. I'm still a bit new to Wikipedia, and was still trying to understand Lupin when I made that edit; it was a mistake. I'll try not to do it again, but just in case, I'd like to apologize in advance for any future damages I inflict. Thanks, Audacitor15:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for dealing with the queries on my talk page while I was gone. I do agree that running HermesBot, even manually, to remove the hack was stupid and I should of notified each person with it on their talk page that it messes with the mediawiki software/codes/ect. Thanks again though! ~Wikihermit04:24, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't attempt to detect if the article should be assessed as anything but GA or FA, since that's what you asked me to have it do. If you had it assess for any class, you might as well have a bot run the WikiProject. Cheers! — madmanbum and angel22:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I think I understand what you're saying. I'll do a check this evening (I'll have training all day) for all articles tagged with {{ChicagoWikiProject}} that are in Category:Wikipedia good articles or Category:Wikipedia featured articles but are not tagged as such. Suit? — madmanbum and angel10:59, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
bibliomaniac15 would like to nominate you to become an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact bibliomaniac15 to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Madman. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state and sign your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.
It's been a while since my last RFA candidate, User:DoomsDay349 succeeded, and I feel itchy to look for another good candidate before other people steal it. Anyway, I was looking on the requests for admin coaching, and I saw your sig and a short comment saying you might like to run some time in August. Well, I took a look at your contribs and stuff, and you're just the stuff we need for Wikipedia. Please reply immediately, and if you consent, I will create the page and we will see what happens. Thanks, bibliomaniac15Prepare to be deleted!21:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello Madman,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB.14:37, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Does API.php allow you to search for text inside an article? For instance, if I'm looking for the text "came out in", can I search all articles to find those that contain that text? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs)06:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Hm - are we not using a recent enough version? I note on the MW:API page above that it requires MW1.11, and we're using 1.11(alpha). The reason I ask is this doesn't seem to output anything. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs)04:53, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, all searches seem to be returning a null result set. We might need to wait for an update; I may try the latest build on my test installation. The only other thing I can think of is to poke a developer. — madmanbum and angel05:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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I think the reason PockBot does not edit anymore as the code is broken, so speedy approving the same code was probably not the correct move to make. QTC04:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Indeed it was, and I'm trying to figure out what to do about it other than not to use the {{BRFA}} template. There's already a BRFA/Chris G Bot 2, so I can't move it there. I just copied it as the operator wrote it. — madmanbum and angel14:19, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Like I said. That task was not listed on the bot's user page, and there was no related request approved by the BAG, so I had no way of knowing the bot was performing that function. Since ClueBot II has been approved, it should take precedence. I'll talk to SatyrTN. — madmanbum and angel05:20, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for helping out with the speedy deletion tagging of new articles. Can I ask a favor though? When you come across things like Island Hotels Group (I'm guessing you remember!) I think it's preferable to tag them with {{db-spam}} rather than with {{db-copyvio}} and to warn the user with a spam warning. Sure, they are copyvios but that concern is almost secondary because the tone and intent of the article are inappropriate regardless. Feel free to disregard that advice if it gets in the way of efficiency though! Cheers, Pascal.Tesson17:52, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
What the heck are you doing, reverting my edits and labelling them as vandalism. The bot made a mistake, a false positive which I have reported to the bot owner. The bot should not be tagging edits by admins and experienced users, per Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars. The community, by granting me admin status, has trust that I know policy and will not go around blatantly violating copyrights and such. Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars also applies to labelling edits as vandalism. Please don't do that again to any experienced user. --Aude (talk) 18:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
You used admin rollback without any indication as to why; a simple explanation would have sufficed. -1 non-violation is generally what we use. I had no way of knowing that you were an administrator, and it was perfectly plausible that a user who contributed content in violation of copyright would remove indications of such.
I do apologize, for the record; I should have immediately looked further into what was going on with that article, rather than waiting until I had dealt with the backlog. And selecting vandalism was a particularly grievous mistake of mine; it gives the impression that I was assuming bad faith, when on the contrary, I was simply electing to put the article back on the list for review. My apologies. — madmanbum and angel18:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Apology accepted. I normally don't watch the page and don't know how things work. But, nonetheless very frustrated with the time I have wasted. I'm done for the day with Wikipedia. The bot is a good idea, but could be made to work better by treating regulars differently. --Aude (talk) 19:07, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated you for an RFA here. I am sure you will do fine. Should you not pass, you will have succeeded in gaining much more experience for becoming a better user. Please check my opening statement to see if you'd like to have anything added or changed, and let me know if you do. Best of luck, bibliomaniac1515 years of trouble and general madness22:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
<Kl4m> AWB switched to my bot account (how???) without me realising it until after a couple of very unbot-like edits. How should I repair that?
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<ST47> Kl4m: ignore it and move on
It's me again. I souped-up the regex for replacement. It now moves the portal template appropriately.
Right Under the See Also title if present; else
Right under the External Link(s)? title if present; else
No move.
My regex-fu is strong so I'm pretty sure I didn't mess this one up. Anyway I'll still check the edits manually so my guess is that it's no big deal. -- Kl4mTalkContrib04:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
It looks OK from what I've seen; I haven't had time to review all contributions, though; I can really only do that during a trial period, when I have only fifty to review. It's best if these kind of enhancements get added then, but as long as you're not getting complaints, you should be fine... — madmanbum and angel06:04, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I have seen you tag User:Bmmccann with a copyright violation with one of his articles. I didn't tag another one of his because I don't know where you are along the lines with the editor. So I am going to give you the other article called Henry P. Rusk, and think that this is also a copyright violation.--Kranar drogin03:36, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I'll just send an e-mail to you using your Mail Me page. When you reply, confirming that you agree to license your site content under the GFDL, the copyright violation tags will be removed. — madmanbum and angel21:33, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Please do. I have sent a message to permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org as well. Oh, and please note that the pictures aren't covered since they are not my own work. // Liftarn
Speedy deletion
I'm watching CorenBot now, and noticed you placing speedy deletion tags on pages by User:Liftarn. He says the text is from his own site, and has left a message at User talk:Coren. It's appropriate to WP:AGF here and give the user time to sort this out. User:Liftarn has been around Wikipedia for a long time and deserves more good faith rather than hasty actions like tagging articles. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 21:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Please sort these things out before tagging articles for speedy deletion. I think being so hasty in tagging the articles is highly inappropriate. Treating long time users with lack of good faith is not the way to retain good users. I've seen too many leave the project. Chances are that Liftarn can explain. If he/she can't, the article can be deleted. But not without discussing with the user. --Aude (talk) 21:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
It's already taken care of, and with no major problems. I know you're concerned about our treatment of the regulars, but even a regular can make a mistake (incidentally, a user's contribution history is not usually thoroughly checked before an article is tagged as a copyright infringement). Adherence to the terms of the GFDL is of the utmost importance to this project. It's worth some minor inconveniences. — madmanbum and angel21:44, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Can you confirm that he is licensing all his text contributions from his site so I can safely ignore the articles he's creating on Spectrum variants that are copies therof? Exxolon22:07, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations, I have closed your RfA as successful and you are now a sysop! If you have any questions about adminship, feel free to ask me. Please consider messaging me on IRC for access to the #wikipedia-en-admins channel. Good luck! --Deskana(talk)21:39, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Shoot, I didn't see that you were up. Please accept my support nunc pro tunc based on your copious assistance over at WP:SCV. I haven't been an admin long myself, but if you need any guidance, I'd be happy to help out. Careful with that mop, Eugene . . . --But|seriously|folks02:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Barneca RfA thank you spam
Madman, first off, congratulations on your own successful RfA. Thank you for your support during my RfA, especially after the concerns that were brought up by other editors. I'll keep all of the comments in mind in the coming months, and will try again later. In the mean time, if you see me doing something stupid, please let me know. See you around. --barneca (talk) 12:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
No need. 17:58, 20 September 2007 Madman (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "KimboSlice (Talk | contribs)" (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 48 hours (Disruption, 3RR violation) (Unblock). — madmanbum and angel23:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about that invalid report. I guess I'm moving too fast with Lupin's tool and TW put together :]. I guess I imagined somehow that 3:08 is after 3:08 on a clock... :D. --(Review Me) RParlateContribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 03:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Sorry I screwed up with the cut-and-paste redirect. I should have done a move. Anyway, thinks for getting all the history in one place. Casey Abell15:34, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, it seems you have quite a bit of experience with bots (judging by your eagerness to take up bot requests). I was just wondering if you could point out a bot I could request to do some anti-vandalism work. 0870 number and 0845 number are often reverted to remove information about SAYNOTO0870.COM, and it would save me some work if a bot could revert it for me. I've tried to enter into a debate with the "anonymous" reverters, but this has largely failed. Sorry if I've missed something obvious here, but I did try trawling the bot policy pages and couldn't find a specific bot that would meet my needs. JGXenite04:27, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
That's because no bot will be approved to enforce a particular revision of article content. In the case of vandalism, users should be warned and then reported to WP:AIV. Disputes over content should be settled per WP:DR.
Thanks :). I'll put in a request for comment by the community. Unfortunately, entering into a debate with "anonymous" users seems an impossible task, and blocking the IPs wouldn't work either as they are dynamic IPs owned by BT. JGXenite04:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I did put in a request for both to be protected, but only 0870 number has been. I had thought 0845 number had been, but turns out the admin who did it didn't actually protect the page. I'll see if anything comes of the RFC. JGXenite05:38, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, my edits of Berkenthin and Berkenthin (Amt) aren't a cut-and-paste move, but a split of an article that was about two administrative units with the same name: the municipality (Gemeinde) Berkenthin and the larger Amt Berkenthin. I mentioned that in my edit summary for Berkenthin. MarkussepTalk20:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Some information for the second article was cut and pasted from the first, though. That was my only point. It's mundane enough that nothing really needs to be done to fix it. Just letting you know for the future. — madmanbum and angel20:59, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Also, here. There are at least 3 reverts here, too. Clearly, he's gaming the system.
Btw, the 3RR reporting above comes from Viriditas following my edits to a troll posting personal attacks on his user page, where Viriditas took up his cause. - Arcayne(cast a spell)03:24, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
As a non-involved third party, I'm just here to say that contrary to what Arcayne suggests, Viriditas is the model of propriety and what a good Wikipedian is all about. He is not one to "game" anything. Arjuna06:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Has a good history of vandalizing articles. He has once already vandalized the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team article and has just now gone on a second spree. I believe a second warning or perhaps a light block should be implemented. Could you please look into it?
Sorry to hear about your health issues. I had feared that I'd scared you away from my talk page because of my stentorian remarks about my use of sources, but that was not in response to you but in nervous clarification of stuff that I previously had said. Anyway, thanks for the remarks which you did make, they focused me on some needed work. The Tetrast03:10, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, Archive 1! Thank you for voicing your opinion in my RfA, which passed today with a unanimous 79/0/0 tally. It feels great to be appreciated, and I will try my best to meet everyone's expectations. If you have any advice or tips, feel free to pass them along, as I am sure that I will need them! Cheers,hmwith talk21:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Richard A. Cody
You labeled this as a copyvio. In fact, it is merely plagarism from a U.S. government source (U.S. Army website, to be precise) which is public domain. I added the source so it should be all set now. Rmhermen19:21, 4 October 2007 (UTC):T
I'm actually one of the admins at King's Quest Omnipedia, as well as one of the largest contributors there, so much of the wiki is my work. Yes, I admit I probably don't have a life, but it was something to do when I had nothing better to do :p. If you want me to confirm myself, just leave a message on my user:page there.Splintercell00707:23, 8 October 2007 (UTC)(AKA Baggins)
The problem is that you're not the only contributor on that Omnipedia article, and in order to use the materials under the GFDL, all contributors must agree to the licensure. Omnipedia as a whole does not license its articles under the GFDL, therefore we may not use them. Sorry. :( You're free to create an original work here, if you'd like. :) — madmanbum and angel07:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, we only have interwiki links to other Wikimedia projects and very few major wikis. Only developers may add interwiki links, and I think you'll find it difficult to prove that King's Quest Omnipedia is notable enough to justify yet another interwiki link. Sorry twice. :( — madmanbum and angel07:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Your bot has been "Consolidating" banners on lots of pages I watch. It's putting Template:Somerset within the nesting but it doesn't seem to hide it in the same way as all the others (example Talk:Bath Abbey) - I think this is because our wikiproject banner doesn't have the right code - but having spent about 6 attempts getting it to cope with importance ratings, I'm loath to fiddle further (when I don't know what I'm doing) - do you have a neat piece of code which will make this work with the Somerset banner?— Rodtalk21:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
I can make it compliant. MadmanBot assumes 100% compliancy because 100% of the templates used to be compliant; there's no recent report (that it generates), though, so there are likely some new ones. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! — madmanbum and angel03:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for this. I didn't realise {{WikiProject Somerset}} had been created. Does this mean that the Somerset one I was using needs to be replaced on all 1600ish pages where it has been applied? also does the new one cope with importance ratings & will the bot be able to work out the categories into which to put the class ratings & importance ratings - following this redirect?— Rodtalk07:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't need to be replaced; the redirect is just fine. The new one copes with importance ratings, I believe, and the bot doesn't do anything with categories or the minutiae of the template; it just tells the template to nest and the template is nested as the template designers told it to. You might want to ask these questions on Template talk:WikiProject Somerset(edit | template | history | links | watch | logs). — madmanbum and angel16:02, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
There is a problem with {{tl:WikiProject Somerset}} or it's operation & I can't work out what it is....
I originally created {{Somerset}} for Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset & had advice that is wasn't working properly & didn't "nest" on article talk pages. I also took ages to get it to handle importance ratings. Then {{tl:WikiProject Somerset}} was created & a redirect put on {{Somerset}} and I added a few importance ratings to several articles. The bot has now been round & is displaying the results in relation to class & importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset#Current status. In the process we have now lost about 500 articles which had the original banner (including most of the FA, GA & B class) & I can't work out why. Some examples:
Sorry not fully resolved.... Last week you helped me with the template at: Template:WikiProject Somerset. The bot has now run updating the numbers on Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset & it no longer shows any importance ratings (although we done over 100 of these). As you know I'm lost when trying to sort the template code & would appreciate any help you could offer.— Rodtalk12:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
I really couldn't tell you; I'd assume it's an issue with the bot. Maybe you should contact the bot operators? Bots should be able to handle redirects, but they have to be specially programmed to do so; I found that out with MadmanBot. — madmanbum and angel00:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Phew, thanks for tackling that backlog! It makes me uneasy when that page gets stacked up, and I haven't had time to work on it today. We need to draft some new SCV-ers. Many have gotten involved in other areas since they graduated to adminship. --But|seriously|folks02:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
A while ago we talked about creating a framework for a generic periodic bot (protected pages with bot code to be executed on whatever periodicity). Are you still interested in pursuing this? I have a generic bot sort of half written (retrieves the code, verifies its legit, then executes it) but haven't found the time to really follow up on this (real life keeps intruding). If you have the time and interest, I'd be willing to collaborate on this (subject to real life demands on either end). Wikitalk or email accepted equally. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Fiel a la Vega
Take it easy. I'm working on it right now. I had to move from one computer to another, and I had already copied the info of Fiel a la Vega (album) to the new article to use as a template. Just gimme some time and I'll finish it. Thief1223:44, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, it is an article about another album of the same artist, but I didn't know about that template. Thanx for the tip. Anyway, the article is finished now. Take care. Thief1223:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I understand the certian subjects are advertising and meant to be deleted but there are SEVERAL wiki pages for websites. Lightsource.com is the FIRST website to have free Christian streaming videos with many different pastors, authors, and speakers. If it a noteworthy site, then it should be included in wikipedia. I am trying to find negative press concerning the site to make it a more neutral pov. I will repost the page and ask that you look it over and tell me if it's not npov. If you got to the category: Christian websites, you will see that there are websites on wikipedia that are specifically related to Christianity.
Trudy1947, October 12, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by ForHisGlory (talk • contribs) 12:30, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
The LGBT studies project has been rather quiet of late. Though we've added over 180 new members in the last year, only a small percentage are active participants. If you haven't visited our project or talk page in a while, please stop by for a look. Also, if you happen to bump into another editor who you feel might enjoy working with us, please extend an invitation. There's lot's do do, and the active members would sincerely appreciate some help.
Our Peer review project is struggling at the present, with only a few people reviewing the articles. While it is certainly possible to submit articles for a general peer review, a review by members of the LGBT community can be of additional value for LGBT specific writing. There are several articles currently up for review on a wide range of topics. At the very least, reading the articles will undoubtedly broaden your intellectual horizons :-)
At the moment, David Le Brocq, Malmö Devilants and Trajectory Hermeneutics are up for deletion review. Please take a look at them and make your voice heard at the deletion review. Articles nominated for deletion also present a challenge for improvement. See what you can do, and watchlist our deletion review page.
The Pederasty articles continue to be a point of controversy both within and outside of our community. Various editors have suggested that to include them as LGBT Project related somehow taints the project and brings Wikipedia into disrepute. Other editors have stated that the articles, and especially the Pederasty article, are part of the core of LGBT studies. Well meaning editors continue to remove our tags from the articles themselves as well as the talk pages. If you have time, please read the articles and watchlist them to protect them from vandalism and well meaning but counterproductive edits.
The list of LGBT people has survived its 4th nomination for deletion. Please watchlist this list to protect it from vandalism and unsourced additions. There are many in Wikipedia who would like to see this Featured status list removed from the project. It is up to us to keep it to such a high caliber that it never is removed.
Our project member David Shankbone is now working as a journalist for Wikinews, as well as continuing to improve our project and Wikipedia as a whole with his photographs. A sincere thank you goes out to him for all of his hard work. Wikipedia would not shine nearly as brightly without your contributions, David.
Happy Halloween, everybody! Be happy and celebrate!
The surviving life partner of prominent LGBT rights activist Barbara Gittings recently called one of our editors and, among other things, complimented us on what a great job our project is doing on Wikipedia. Thanks to everyone who contributes to this project, either through their article edits or support for other project members. We really are making an difference here!
Member assistance
Some of our project members have been having difficulties related to editing on the encyclopedia. If you are feeling frustrated or distressed by your editing experience, please don't keep it to yourself. Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, and we are all here to help one another. Drop a line on our talkpage or on another editor's page, and other members of the LGBT project will happily give you the support you want and need.
Lastly, Halloween is just around the corner. More than most holidays, Halloween is a holiday embraced by and tailor made to our community (though God only knows why we are invisible in the Halloween article here. Perhaps somebody would like to rectify that editing oversight). Have fun, everybody, and remember to both trick and treat!
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Hi Madman, would you consider removing the protection at Ron Luther? While I see the need (from the vandalism), I removed the prod per the talk page and am going to list it on AFD. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:24, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
This IP belongs to VPN server of a LAN which consists of about 18000 users.
This way you block them all.
I don't know what should be done, I just inform... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.120.55.10 (talk) 01:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I reviewed it before; it's still almost exactly the same. It's not a major deal, but I wish you could find some more sources and write a new article in your own words. — madmanbum and angel01:57, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I just made the block indef. Its a clear legal threat and they must remain blocked until the threat is withdrawn. See WP:NLT for more. Obviously, if they withdraw the threat they need to sit out your original block first. Cheers. SpartazHumbug!22:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
For your contribution to My RfA, which passed with 8000 Supports, 2 Neutrals and no opposes.
The standards and dedication of the English Wikipeidan Administrators is excellent and I am privileged to stand among them. Thankyou for putting you trust in me, I'll not see it abused.
Also, special thanks for having supported me twice, on my first and on my latest RfA. It’s people like you that keep me coming back to this wacky-white-world. And now, I will dance naked around a fire. Party at my place! Cheers! Dfrg.msc 08:03, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Madman. This is related to the IP range block at the Fellowship of Friends page. I am an editor of that page and my company rents an office at a building owned by the Fellowship of Friends. Sometimes I do edits from the office, but since last Thursday I am not able to edit any Wikipedia page if I connect to the interned through the connection that I use at the office (it is included in the rent). Note that besides me there are more than 70 people working in this building that can't edit any Wikipedia page at the moment. The reason that was used for blocking the building's connection is COI. I can't understand this. Why is it that a person editing Wikipedia from this building is a case of COI but the same person editing from anywhere else is not? Wikipedia should block editors, not IP ranges, so I am asking for the IP block to be released. I am copying several administrators in this message. Mfantoni17:23, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I have a question: I'm the one who tagged with {{db-bio}}, so I fully support its deletion. The page that was the copyvio was an alumni profile at the university: http://www.eng.uc.edu/friendsalumni/alumniae/2007/kulkarni.html . I saw the cut-and-paste as well, but since there was no copyright info on the page, I didn't think I could assert copyvio. Should I have tagged it with {{db-copyvio}} instead? I would guess that takes prescedent over {{db-bio}}. Toddstreat100:32, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Either one works just as well. I was just working through a copyright backlog, so I picked the most appropriate criterion for speedy deletion. Keep in mind that if there is no copyright info on a page, that means it is copyright, per the Berne Convention. Everything is automatically copyrighted. Cheers! — madmanbum and angel00:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Inappropriate Block has expired. Surely the inappropriate pageprotect can do the same?
As the one inappropriate admin action has expired, surely you can see fit unprotect my talk page. If you all were trying to push me off the project, keep up the BS block crud. If such an action happens again, I will be out. It may not matter in the grand scheme of things, but I hardly think that WP policies were designed to chase good editors off the project. Removal of the pageprotect would be appreciated. K. Scott Bailey00:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
It's like links in a chain..IP to Netmonger to Mystic and finally to Lahiru_k - confirmed sockmaster. Nice detective work, madman! Dreadstar†20:07, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
He says he's not Mystic, yet he also says every edit from that IP is his and that it's a static IP assigned to his office. Well, he shouldn't have made that edit saying he was Mystic, then... It also contradicts his previous point about dynamic IPs. It seems to me that he's simply trolling, but I'm newer at this game than you are. — madmanbum and angel06:06, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about that -- I just cleared off about 30 items, finishing about 5 minutes ago. We'll miss you over there, as the tide continually washes new flotsam ashore. Anyway, as the Lucksmiths say, "Don't get well soon, get well now." --But|seriously|folks06:11, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Could you please supply me with the code from the page "Gordon McVie" that you recently deleted? And explain why you deleted it?. Thanks --Jonbirch24 —Preceding comment was added at 14:38, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Pegz
Could you please supply me with the text from the page "Pegz" that you recently deleted? I wish to recreate the page without the copyrighted material. Thanks --Korp703:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Category contents shell
Hi - Do you happen to have a shell script lying around that echoes the contents of a category, one line per member (suitable for piping purposes)? I've done this in the past by yanking the displayed content into a file and manually massaging the result (which doesn't really lend itself to anything to be done on a regular basis). Seems like it wouldn't be hard to modify pywikipedia's category.py to do this, but I thought you might have something handy. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Sure, though I would have to recreate the script, as I was told it was a one-time task. It's also only forty-nine articles; last time it was more than a thousand and more suited to a bot. Have you talked to anyone on the task force? They know the most about the process and they can keep an eye on the quality of the review and such while maintaining the backlog. — madmanbum and angel22:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I have, we're all slightly lazy :) If you have to recreate, don't bother (unless your really want to), I'll talk to them. But if it blows out, can we count on you? Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 09:14, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Actually, Madman's bot doesn't protect (or semi-protects) as it is unable to do so (it is not an admin). What it does is place the tag on articles which were already protected but without a tag. — Coren(talk)23:34, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, it followed the flow of the article... exactly, and it was nothing more than a minor rewording. I suggest you find more sources and write another article that's... more in your own words. Thanks! — madmanbum and angel17:17, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Strange deletion of comment by MadmanBot?
For some reason which appears to me inexplicable, the bot deleted a legitimate warning from a user talk page when it inserted the SharedIPEDU template. The relevant diff is here. Cheers! — Dave (Talk | contribs) 21:01, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Replying to myself... I see those two edits (the bot's and the one that was stomped) were only 7 seconds apart. Evidently, the bot 's change should have triggered an edit conflict instead of stomping, no? — Dave (Talk | contribs) 21:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
It should indeed not have done that; I can't see anything in the code that would have caused it to do so, unless it requested the current page content from a slave that was slightly lagged. I'll tweak the maxlag value and watch it for a bit. Thanks for the report! — madmanbum and angel21:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Deleting of Mail2World
Please explain to me how to add a wiki article without being deleted?
For one, you must assert notability of the article's subject. For more information on that and how it relates to corporations, please see Wikipedia:Notability (business). The article must also be written in a neutral point of view and its contributors must not have any conflicts of interests, such as the one you have clearly evidenced. You should leave contributions related to your business to other contributors and avoid editing articles with subjects with which you are associated. See Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information and feel free to post here once more if you have any further questions.
Hey, Peeps, it's that time of the month again (no not that time — get your mind out of the gutter): time for another monthly edition of the LGBT Project'sLove Boat newsletter from your cruise directorMiss Julie. So much has been happening this month and I just can't wait to tell you all about it!!!
Alice and her harasser
Let's start with some good news: Alice and the project lost the bothersome sock puppet who had been disrupting many articles we monitor, and now most of us can edit in relative peace. Congratulations, Alice, for being able to come out of semi-retirement. Benjiboi, on the other hand, has gained an anonymous IP stalker who seems to be more Catholic than the Pope and who has a hard-on for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. We seem to have a sort of Yin and Yang thing going on here, which helps both to keep us in balance and on our toes <bright smiles all around>.
Harry Potter and his homosexual teacher
Albus Dumbledore got outed this month, and was immediately adopted by our project. The international brouhaha surrounding this disclosure reached all the way to Wikiland, and his article was briefly locked due to homophobic vandalism (as well as well meaning editors who just couldn't believe that that nice man could possibly be gay). This is a wonderful article to add to your watchlist, and will surely give you hours of reverting fun on cold winter days.
"My Fellow Americans"
On a more serious note, Fireplace has suggested a new article series about LGBT rights in the United States, state by state. This ambitious topic will surely require many editors and a lot of research, but has the potential to add further prestige to our already prestigious project.
Same name, same sexuality: a riddle for the ages
Francis Bacon (not the new gay one, but the old gay one ... though they're actually both dead, now that I think about it) has also aroused passions here on Wikipedia, with editors opposing his sexuality being disclosed in his biography. The always helpful Haiduc has thoughtfully provided any number of sources, but it is slow going getting his point across. Anyone want to lend a hand?
Beat writer arouses Irish guy
And speaking of passions, Jack Kerouac has inflamed the senses once again with editors, including administrator Irishguy, mounting a spirited defense to keep him as heterosexual as possible for Wikipedia purposes. Why? I don't know. Perhaps some of you can drop by the talk page and ask your questions there. I feel certain a stimulating debate will ensue that will be enjoyed by all.
Love those Texas Longhorns
Did you know that one of our Featured articles, Lawrence v. Texas, lost its shiny gold star? That was a shocker. It has been suggested that we turn our attention to it in an effort to restore it to its former glory. I took a peek, and it does need our help badly. For our American editors, it would seem almost a civic duty to edit it (not that I'm hinting....).
Point and Counterpoint
Though it was far too intellectual a debate for a mere cruise director like myself to take part in, Intersexuality was certainly a hot topic a week or two ago. The thrust of the debate was over inclusion in our project. Lots of good editors had lots of good opinions. For those too lazy to check out the discussion, we decided to leave it out for now.
Drudgery on offer
Peer review is, as always, short staffed and seemingly unloved. Wouldn't you feel better about yourself and the world in general if you took a few minutes to read one of the listed articles and offer some helpful advice? I know I'd feel better if you did.
"My Fellow Americans" redux
The article LGBT movements in the United States certainly raised eyebrows last week, especially when it was discovered that copyrighted content had been added to our article. Tragedy was averted at the last minute, though, when the original hosts of the article where the material had been pilfered agreed to make it free to everyone. Our thanks to them, whoever they are. Busy Bee that I am, I haven't had time to read it, but I'm sure it's sensational.
Not content to run for Best Actress, plucky Bannon won a Best supporting actress Oscar... whoops, I meant to say Ann is also getting more than her share of womanly attention on the Good Article list. Joining her on this exalted plane are Freddy Mercury, Waylon Smithers and Lance Bass. Good articles indeed, and the last one mentioned just goes to show that one needn't admire the subject of an article to appreciate the effort put into making him worthwhile reading. What on earth Britney ever saw in him I'll never know. Truly a riddle cloaked in an enigma and wrapped around a puzzle.
On a personal note, your already overworked cruise director is being cyberly whipped almost daily by Nemissimo, who desperately wants to get the German BDSM translation copy edited and used as a replacement for the current one. It's such a ... err, stimulating topic that I am sure many of you will want to join the copy editing fun. Jump right in, folks! It's so lonely copy editing it all by my lonesome!
Late breaking news
A little birdie just whispered in my ear that our noble collaboration project was delisted from the Community Portal due to inactivity. When asked how this scandalous turn of events could have occurred, the answer I received was "we suck at stuff like that". Well. In the first place, I disagree that sucking should be considered a negative, but to each his or her own. In the second place, I have full confidence that we can and will collaborate with other projects in the future. So let's not view this as a setback (even though it is), but rather a challenge to improve (and good Lord, I sound almost Wikipedian!).
Champagne dreams and caviar kisses
Lastly, the holidays are rapidly approaching. Our American cousins are currently getting ready to slaughter masses of poultry in an effort to show their gratitude and generally peaceful demeanor, and those of the Canadian persuasion, trendsetters that they are, celebrated a bit early this year. I'm sure all us foreigners will join together in wishing them all a very happy Thanksgiving on their respective holidays, both already celebrated and forthcoming... though I would hope somebody would enlighten me as to why they don't celebrate it on the same day. I was awake all last night trying to figure that one out.
In the spirit of this peculiarly North American holiday, let me take a moment to thank all of our editors for their contributions to this project. It's people like you who make people like me...well, a "people person"! May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your Love Boat never turn into a Poseidon.
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Howdy! Could you clarify, on this speedy decline, if we have permission to use all PETA images filed with OTRS or is it just that image? Would you mind sharing a link to where I can verify that? Thanks! --Bloodzombie01:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I seriously do not understand why you had to delete the Don Diablo page so swiftly, while I was trying to restore it, so it would be deemed OK. Instead of giving pointers, speedy deletion was the only way to go? I think it was completely unnecessary, as I was trying to fix it. Furthermore, not ever biography reads the same and the most recent bio that was online, after my final edits was everything but advertisement, so this is a really strange move on your behalf. Since I'm not a super-experienced Wikipedia user, I can start all over again and invest time in building a page, while it could have done with a few edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oorbeek (talk • contribs) 01:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I can restore the page to your userspace. But the page was without a doubt blatant advertising, even given your revisions. Encyclopedia articles do not start: "Who is this Don Diablo guy everybody seems to be talking about right now!?" and continue with: "Here are fifteen basic facts you just have to know:". — madmanbum and angel01:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi -- not surprised at all to see that the CADAM (motorcycle group) article got speedied, but I'm wondering why the move of the original CADAM page to "CADAM (motorcycle group)" and then back. The main effect of that seemed to be to wipe out the original history for the CADAM page. Just for my own curiousity, what was the purpose? As I say, definitely not surprised or upset, just curious about the mechanism. Thanks --NapoliRoma17:15, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, first I did the history merge, because it's important that all contributions be properly attributed and on the correct page's history. Then I realized the CADAM (motorcycle group) was a blatant copyright violation and speedied it. If any contributions thus deleted were for the current CADAM article, then I'll restore them. — madmanbum and angel18:09, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure the CADAM article (which started out as an article about the software company) goes back a few years. I think my own first edit for that article was in 2006, but it's not in my contrib list; I guess it goes away completely when the article's history goes away?
The motorcycle stuff was only added sometime in the last couple of months. I spotted it and moved it into its own article yesterday, not knowing it was a copyvio. Even so, I was pretty sure it would get speedied for being non-notable, but I didn't want to just blow it away without giving the editor who added it a chance to do something with it.--NapoliRoma18:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Is anything ever simple? :-) Thanks. I notice that DaytonaPaul's additions (and my subsequent deletions as I moved them to the new article) are not reflected in the history now; is that part of the copyvio cleanup?--NapoliRoma19:29, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
You may have noticed that I boldly reverted your changes to {{User meta}}. However, it seems this was a sweeping change on your part. Was there any consensus for this change? I'm not saying it's a bad thing; I just think it should have been discussed first. Restore your revision if you want; I can just subst: my usage of the userbox and make it the way I like it. — madmanbum and angel22:00, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
The visual change was only to change user to editor (these are editing philosophies), and to add a link to meta which describes them all. What's your concern? - jc3711:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, for one, where it had said 'meta', it then said 'Phil' with no distinct visual indicator that it was a link (not your fault) or what 'Phil' was (who's Phil?). 'meta' is more intuitive and a link to meta:Metapedianism would be better. If a userbox espouses an individual philosophy, you'd expect it, if it links to anything at all, to link to more information on that individual philosophy, just as you'd expect a userbox espousing an individual religion to link to Christianity, say, as opposed to Religion. Also, given the nature of metapedianism, you'd expect 'editor' as opposed to 'user'. Cheers! — madmanbum and angel16:59, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Re: the message you sent me, as I'm a very new Wikipedia editor, can you please explain why someone would cite either Edward Ward or The Shopworn Angel (or any article, for that matter) for possible copywright violations without explaining why he thinks they are? Shouldn't there be some basis for the accusation? It seems obvious that the article about Ward in particular isn't violating anything since it really isn't much more than a list of his film score credits and Oscar nominations. I'm trying to understand why it was cited in the first place. Thank you for explaining. MovieMadness01:16, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
The reports you removed were indeed bot errors (Wherebot is having problems). However, your page was not tagged, so it shouldn't have caused any major disruption to your editing, and they would have been removed instantly, given that it was a null report. I thought I should let you know about the etiquette regarding that page in any case. Cheers! — madmanbum and angel01:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
List of films based on comics
I'm afraid you'll have to undo this move. It certainly wasn't uncontroversial as the Comics Project defaults to comics as comic book is more of an American term and so the naming doesn't fit especially as the films listed on that page aren't classed as comic books. I have been working on renaming categories and articles (emptying Category:Comic books for example).
If someone wants it moved they need to propose it properly but I'd suspect it would be strongly opposed.
Either way this all needs undoing. Thanks for the help with this, I know you were only following a request. Would it also be possible to undo this at the same time and I'll speak to the user involved pointing out the problem (as they appear not to be a member of the project or aware of the naming conventions). (Emperor14:16, 11 November 2007 (UTC))
Thanks for the prompt response. I have dropped them a line already and we should be able to resolve this pretty quickly. (Emperor18:30, 11 November 2007 (UTC))
UTF8 encoding
I'm a tad bit stumped on the UTF8 encoding business. When I edit an Illinois town (say Erie, Illinois), I don't see any characters by the Portuguese wikilink. And when I view the page through api I don't see any characters. But retrieving the page with "format=php", I get:
I'll respond to this when I have a chance to look into it more; however, I've never had any UTF8 problems with MadmanBot. I'd suggest upgrading to the latest PHP version and making sure you have extension gettext enabled. — madmanbum and angel02:53, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
This page, about a not-for-profit foundation, was deleted because of fear of copyright infringement. Per policy below, we are fine posting the material, which was retrieved from our existing materials and website, and licensing to the public under the GFDL. (The information is all educational, as we do not solicit.) How would you like us to affirm this?
Contributors' rights and obligations
If you contribute material to Wikipedia, you thereby license it to the public under the GFDL (with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). In order to contribute, you must be in a position to grant this license, which means that either
you hold the copyright to the material, for instance because you produced it yourself, or
you acquired the material from a source that allows the licensing under GFDL, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under GFDL.
In the first case, you retain copyright to your materials. You can later republish and relicense them in any way you like. However, you can never retract the GFDL license for the copies of materials that you place here; these copies will remain under GFDL forever.
In the second case, if you incorporate external GFDL materials, as a requirement of the GFDL, you need to acknowledge the authorship and provide a link back to the network location of the original copy.
You need to send that affirmation to permission-en at wikimedia dot org from an e-mail address associated with the publication. You could send it to me, but I'd just have to forward it. Cheers! — madmanbum and angel00:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
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Fyi, From my office email at The Kavli Foundation, I've sent an email to permission-en@wikimedia.org. Key text is below. Thanks for your help! Jcohenkavli17:59, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
To: "permission-en@wikimedia.org" <permission-en@wikimedia.org>
Conversation: Permission granted for The Kavli Foundation entry.
Subject: Permission granted for The Kavli Foundation entry.
To the permissions department.
Recently I tried posting an entry for “The Kavli Foundation” on Wikipedia and it was pulled for violating copyright rules. In fact, the materials were posted by The Kavli Foundation, which owns that website. (Note: we are a not-for-profit foundation that does not solicit funds and has created educational research science institutes at universities worldwide.) Per Wikipedia’s policy below, as the director of communications for the foundation, I extend permission to post the entry, which was built using copy retrieved from our posted web material, and licensing to the public under the GFDL.
Please let me know if there is anything else that is necessary to restore and add to our entry into Wikipedia.
About the selfblock? Because as noted by several administrators, it was just wasting time. The blocking policy recommends that nothing be done, and while I wouldn't call Porcupine's behavior trolling, he was being unnecessarily tenuous. I will note, however, that any administrator should feel free to revert; indeed, I meant to say so in my edit summary. — madmanbum and angel19:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
My apologies; this task was not supposed to run again until that bug had been fixed. I recently moved MadmanBot to a new server; the cron job came with, and I mindlessly re-enabled it. It has again been disabled and once I fix the bug, I will scan through all of its revisions to find any other assessments it may have maligned.
Hi. I see you reverted the cut and paste move, only to do a normal redirect on this page. Was that the best way to proceed? I ask because although imdb does list two films with that title from the silent era, they hardly seem important enough to force the main page to a longer title. Is there a good reason why the 1983 film needs the longer article title now? Thanks! --Karen | Talk | contribs01:26, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
I hate that, actually, since you ask. I see and appreciate what you're trying to do, but it adds a step for just about everyone. Please see my remarks on Talk:A Christmas Story (1983 film) - which is where I should have gone with my concern in the first place. If everyone disagrees with me I'll cope with the new set-up, but I really don't think the main article should have been moved from the bare name in the first place. If there's to be a disambig page, it should probably be under A Christmas Story (disambiguation), with an other uses tag that works at the top of the film article. Thanks for your work on this, even if we end up disagreeing about what to do! -- Karen | Talk | contribs09:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry; I'm trying. :) I wasn't the one who made the initial moves and created the disambiguation page; I'm just used my mop to clean up the history rubbish that resulted from the moves being made improperly. :p I would have kept the article titles the way they were. — madmanbum and angel22:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've blocked then unblocked beh-nam recently, he is vandalising pages so why are you not doing anything to stop him? I request that he be blocked indef due to his disruptive behaviour who is and has been vandalising pages after pages of national leaders by falesly inserting that they were child molestor, slave owner, facists, etc.[11], [12] He's been vandalising Pashtun people and many other articles for a very long time.[13], [14], [15]
He keeps removing the official government website from Afghanistan/Hamid Karzai article [16] and usually placing over it anti-Afghanistan blog sites, this after an administrator (Future Perfect at Sunrise) has warned not to mess with again. [17], [18] If anyone adds images of popular Pashtun leaders in the Pashtun article he will revert the page right away, probably that he does not want Pashtuns to appear good in the eyes of others. He is ethnic Tajik, a Persian nationalist, and anti-Pashtun or Afghan as well as anti-Turk.[19] He has an unusual extended block history which includes 2 indefs for which he was allowed back on condition to stop harrassing or personally attacking another ethnic group.[20]
Same as all other vandals, he will never change and will continue with vandalising pages by writing all sorts of untrue things about leaders who are not from his ethnic group. He reverts everyone who fixes his vandalism without explaining anything.[21] Beh-nam is working closely with a banned User:Tajik (who is hiding under anon IPs that start with 82.xx.xxx.xxx which is confirmed by several admins including User:Dmcdevit[22]) [23], [24], [25], and has User:Anoshirawan as his edit-war partner. He and his edit-war partner are going around changing the correct name Afghan (which is backed by the Constitution of Afghanistan, CIA world factbook, as well as all the government and media sites of the world) to a false afghanistani name simply because they like it. There is nothing that can be said to justify his actions, even if it comes from an administrator who knows him. Please ban this user indef so that the rest of us can have peace and finally fix all their vandalism slowly.--Hurooz (talk) 17:06, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Jrandi is an imposter of James Randi. The manner that the account edited (grammar/writing style, POV, edit warring) is definitely not the manner that Mr. Randi would behave. I have contact with Mr. Randi and have confirmed it is not him editing. It's a hoax or imposter. The block has been extended indefinitely. In light of that, you may want to reconsider the block on User:Jazz2006. That's up to you. Regards. --Aude (talk) 15:54, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the unblock, Madman. I apologize for what appeared to be edit warring, but it was not my intention to "war" with the other user. I was having a difficult time reverting the edits and had to do it manually, so it looked worse than it actually was. In any event, thanks again for unblocking me. I appreciate it. Regards, {Jazz2006 (talk) 19:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)}
The Draymin have played major festivals such as T in the Park and South By South West in the USA as well as supporting major acts such as the Skids, the Bluetones, the Paddingtons, the Law, Seargent (band) and The Enemy....
The Draymin have played major festivals such as T in the Park and South By South West in the USA as well as supporting major acts such as the Skids, the Bluetones, the Paddingtons, the Law, Seargent (band) and The Enemy....
Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland: clarification
Thanks for removing the copyvio flag. Appreciated.
So I understand why you also wished to removed the paragraph beginning "It is ecumenical, its members being ...", which was from the website.
But you also removed my own, original text, beginning "The Honorary President is..." to the end. Could you let me know, please, why you removed this particular text, which is mine (not the website's), and which I placed there under the usual wikipedia GFDL? I should like to re-introduce this particular text of mine, and assume is it OK for me to do so. Thanks. Feline Hymnic14:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Quelle Suprise! King James is a Queen!
Our dear Haiduc, never a stranger to controversy, recently decided to delve into the wardrobe of the British Monarchy, and what did he discover? King James had more than appreciative eyes for strapping young men! Naturally, Haiduc felt the need to share this news with the community, but instead of being praised for his scholarship, he was reviled. In fact, one rabid heterocentrist even rummaged around in his own wardrobe until he found an old pair of socks to play with. All seemed lost until astute editor Jeffpw noticed some odd postings and did some sleuthing of his own. The socks were uncovered, the Wicked Witch was melted and readers the world over were able to learn that Good King James regularly ordered tube steak from the menu of the day. Thank you, Haiduc! Thank you, Jeff! And let Miss Julie add (for readers who might not know) that tube steak tastes just like chicken!
It's Britney, Bitch!
Well, maybe it's not Miss Thang, herself, but it's the next best thing: Chris Crocker! he stirs up just about as much controversy as his idol does, even here on Wikipedia. Though it's all a bit of a muddle, one of our editors hopes you can drop by the talk page and leave a message of hope for those battling the forces of obstructionism in that little corner of the Wiki World. It is so hard to spread enlightenment. As Miss Parker herself said, "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think".
Game show for nerds
Wallowing in cash from the latest beg-a-thon, the powers-that-be have decided to sponser a little contest here to improve the articles, with a Grand prize of $100. Yeah. Just enough for a Burger King dinner for the family. Still, the thought is nice and the goal is noble, so we should support it. Our little Queer beehive has taken a look at what's on offer, and both the Greek Traditionalists and Daughters of Bilitis are well represented. The ever useful SatyrTN has made a little list, which can be found here (if that malignant bot hasn't archived it already, that is). So find a pal, roll up your sleeves and dive right in. Let's show this Encyclopedia just what Queers with firecrackers up their....err, I mean, let's show the others what we can do.
Jón Þór Birgisson
I can't pronounce his name, but he's awfully cute, he's deliciously foreign, and best of all...he's GAY! But he won't be for long, if certain users have their way. A concerted effort has been under way for a while now, designed to neuter poor Jon (pretend I put a little accent thingy over that O) and make him into a sort of rockin' Ken doll. So please watchlist this hunka man, and keep him queer! If anybody questions you, tell them "Miss Julie sent me".
TranSanta
Everybody loves a sequel
Readers not afflicted with Alzheimer's will remember that last month we had a little story about Alice and her harasser. That proved so popular that we bring you the sequel: Benjiboi and his stalker. After a chance meeting at the Michael Lucas article, this anonymous user took a shine to our Benjiboi, and has been showering him with attention on virtually every board on Wikipedia. Flattered though he is, Benjiboi finds the attention a bit distracting, and administrators have been seeking various remedies for this. It has proven difficult, as the stalker has an IP address that changes quicker than Superman in a telephone booth. So perhaps some of you would like to watchlist Benjiboi's page, and lend a hand if you see some love letters from an 11 digit friend. I was actually thinking we should get Alice's harasser and Benjiboi's stalker together. Then we could have another sequel, sort of like Freddy vs. Jason. Any bets as to who would win??
Not quite the second coming, but special just the same
Let me be the first to give a warm, wet, Love Boat kiss (though not with tongue) to our newest Project members: Jacksinterweb, Cleduc, Pigman, Becksguy and Iamandrewrice. Even in the month of our Saviour's birth, your popping into our Wikipedian lives is a blessed event indeed. As Jesus Himself said, "Live long and prosper". He did say that, didn't he? I think he said it. In any event, if he was standing next to me now, I'm sure he'd say it, and add, "Happy homo editing!"
Battle of the Wikipedia Stars!
Indomitable Ann Bannon is holding her own in Wikipedia's answer to American Idol: The Featured Article candidate list! For four feverish weeks, she has mastered the challenges and not been eliminated from the competition. Drop by the FAC page and show Ann you love her....or give her the hook (I'm not supposed to tell you how to vote). Giving our plucky Ann reason to hope is the recent promotion of List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Sa-Sc. If Miss Julie has her way, we will have the entire alphabet of Queerdom Featured here on Wikipedia soon! And I would be remiss if I did not give a warm, Lesbian salute to our own Belovedfreak, who showed Wikipedia with But I'm a Cheerleader that even pom poms are no protection from the Love that dare not speak its name, and got a gold star for her efforts.
Climbing the Wikipedia career ladder is User: Tim1965, who has not only written, but is now promoting Reel Affirmations to Good article status. Best of luck, Tim, and remember: there are no small parts, only small actors. We're sure you'll be trading that green circle for a gold star soon (assuming you get the green in the first place!).
Santa's on his gay way!
Santa needs elves
Yes, I know: packages need buying, trees need trimming, egg nog needs drinking. The holidays make many demands on our time. It's ...well, it's a bitch, is what it is. So I wouldn't blame you for skipping this little section and putting off my request until next year. But...think of the children. Our future. They need quality information about the homosexual "lifestyle" if we are to indoctrinate them properly. That's why I am asking you to drop by our Peer review area and give your meaning as to the efforts of your fellow gay Wikipedians. And think: in this season of kindness and good will to all, isn't it nice that I am pointing you to someplace where you can (in a Wikiloving way, of course) rip someone a new asshole? Think about it...and those children with their shiny, bright eyes, thanking you for contributing to their future.
Even more festively, consider joining in on the deletion discussions of our favorite articles. Here you can bandy about such words as "homophobia", "Right-wing Christian agenda" and my personal favorite, "just who do you think you're pushing around?!?!?". If you play your cards right, there might even be an extra present under the tree for you. :-D
Urgent Christmas appeal Tovojolo asked me to ask you to edit Elizabeth Bishop as part of the Collaboration Project. She's an old dead poet (Miss Bishop, not Tovojolo. I've never actually met Tovojolo. She's probably very young and attractive. Maybe somebody should ask if she's single), but she was a flaming homosexual long before most of us had even been conceived, so we owe her some respect. Tovojolo actually asked me for the last newsletter, but Miss Julie forgot. Bad Miss Julie. She was so busy boosting morale it just slipped right by her. Nemissimo, maybe you need to crack that whip again to get Julie back in line.
Surrender, Dorothy!!!!!!! Friend of Dorothy has attracted the attention of a group of....the more senior elements of our gay society. They disagree with our thesis that Saint Judy was the possible source of the term, and demand we change the article to reflect their contention that Dorothy Parker was the origin. The problem is, their source didn't check out. So we agreed to disagree. Well, we at the project did. They got kinda mad at us, said unkind things, and started edit warring. Though they are old, they are certainly quick, and could revert the article faster than my nimble fingers could press the undo button. To quote the divine Miss Parker, every time I saw the article on my watchlist, I thought to myself, "What fresh hell is this?". The page was protected by sympathetic administrators, but keeping an eye on it will keep Dorothy safe from future Wicked Witches of the West or East.
Ambrosia
Our dear Benjiboi has been busy indeed, lately. He recently made fruit salad out of Fruit, turning a once nasty word into a damn good article, and saving it from deletion! Congratulations, Benjiboi! I hear he has turned his attention from fruit to poultry now. Before he is through, he will have turned every major food group gay on Wikipedia!
Christmas came early
Yes, indeed! Valued administrator WJBscribe was raised out of the mire of mid-level management and placed squarely into the Pantheon of Bureaucracy! And Miss Julie is just too proud of him not to mention that he got the most support votes in the history of Wikipedia! Congratulations, WJB! We know you will not prove the Peter Principle correct!
You!
Yes, you! It's you who make this project shine! It's you who make Wikipedia such a valuable resource for all humanity! And it's you who make Miss Julie's dull life just a little bit better. So I want to take this moment to thank each and every one of you for all you do here. Merry Christmas, everybody! Happy Hanukkah! Festive Kwanzaa!Delirious Dong Zhi!Delicious Diwali! And for our oppressed Iranian brothers and sisters, I wish you a safe and joyous Yalda. And if I didn't mention your favorite December holiday, well, it's because I feel it's so special I should just keep it between you and me. Always remember: You light up my life!
May we all have a joyous holiday season, and a safe, healthy, happy and prosperous 2008.
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I'd like to ask you to respectfully reconsider this delete. The URL of the alleged copyright violation is not necessarily the owner or source of the text in question. It seems just as likely that it was copied from wikipedia in the first place, or that the same user contributed the content for both. Perhaps if it went into AfD or something it would give editors a chance to address possible copyright concerns (if they truly exist). Elpiseos (talk) 14:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
No real complaints. It's still ongoing, so I'm "back". I just hit my SCV bookmark, boggled at the backlog, and decided I'd try to put in some effort. — madmanbum and angel05:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Anyway, I've checked this; it is a direct lift, so I've sent a note to the original editor (User:Buaes; his talkpage). Also, I've added the website as an external link. If there's no response, I'll have a bash at it meself. Moonraker12 (talk) 09:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
As this article was indeed a blatant copyright violation, and no assertion of permission was made, it has been deleted per CSD g12, without prejudice to its recreation using non-copyrighted content. — madmanbum and angel19:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
You can re-create the page when you can find content that doesn't infringe on copyrights, or when you can determine that the original content did not infringe on copyrights. — madmanbum and angel01:47, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
you accused me of vandalism on the dead baby bikes page.. the page was atrocious and i salvaged what objective information there was and left the rest open in the case of someone wanting to put in a proper entry..
perhaps someone who takes the name madman and a bum.. (have trouble differentiating between negative and positive attention? let me guess your parents didn't give you honest praise or attention unless you got it by being bad)
what i did was not vandalism.. i did not deface the page.. i kept the relevant information..
you might also explicitly indicate somewhere on your site that Wikipedia has permission to use material from your site.
Which is exactly what I did. If this isn't good enough, then please have the common courtesy not to say that in your own policies. What exactly do you need me to say, and where? -- Roleplayer (talk) 03:42, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry for the confusion; that oversight will be corrected. The best procedure is to confirm that you agree to license the material under the GFDL, which means, among other things, that:
The text may be freely redistributed and used.
It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely redistributed and used.
Any redistribution must include the full text of the GFDL itself.
In all cases, the GFDL requires proper attribution of the author(s).
The GFDL allows commercial re-uses provided such re-use is also under the GFDL.
You do not give up any of your rights to use the text: you are still free to publish the text elsewhere or to license the same text to other parties under any other license. The requirement to include the full text of the GFDL with any redistribution also makes stand-alone commercial reuse of the item unlikely in practice, incidentally.
O Madam, the article Rashmi Kumari the content is typed by me and i put it on my website that is http://www.psca.ca.pn/. I put it on this encyclopedia not for popularity purposes. there is a huge list of champion players and their information with me. What abut these articles * R. Arokiaraj
these are also carrom players, But rashmi and other players with me are top grade and these are just kidae before them. Maria Irudyam is an arjuna awardee. Rashmi Kumari, P. Nirmala, Ravinder Gaud, Madhop Singh, Amarpreet Singh Johal, are todays championa and i put it on my website which again is not copyrighted.
If i simply put article u demand for references, if i create reference then you say its copyrighted what is this Madam????.....user:hpt_lucky —Preceding comment was added at 07:55, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't see what the problem is; I removed the article from the list of suspected copyright violations, as it's tentatively fixed/a non-violation and not enough infringing material to matter. Carry on. — madmanbum and angel19:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Really useful, thank you. It helped me get past the same fear of all those curly brackets... :) Anyway, I've taken that as a guide, beefed up the regex (has to be pretty watertight to go into a bot), wrapped it up in some logic, and I'm testing it in my plugin now. Thanks again! --kingboyk (talk) 22:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Ms Julie is .. unavailable .. this month, so Isaac and Gopher have stepped in to put this newsletter thing together. We may not be as funny as you're used to, but if you'd like a free drink, come see me at the bar. That might help. Maybe. And no, there aren't any flashing lights or fancy pictures this month - I'm still recovering from a whopping hangover. Julie's recovering too, but that's a story I'll let her tell.
Two New Featured Articles (and...)
Emma Goldman was promoted to Featured status on 2007December 27. If you don't know Ms. Goldman, she was a Lithuanian anarchist. Aren't many of those around, really, so having one of our very own is special. She'll be dancing the Cha-Cha on the Promenade deck later tonight.
Ann Bannon was promoted to Featured status on 2007December 3. Faithful readers may remember Moni moaning that we didn't mention this promotion in the last newsletter. Happy now?
The marathon efforts of Dev920 against her astonishing abilities of procrastination continued this month, and she managed to update the Portal's main articles. Whether she will finally beat her procrastination pixies in submission and update the biographies remains to be seen, but Jeffpw has leapt to the rescue and taken it upon himself to do all our lovely news. Friends, lend us your goodwill and your eyeballs, and mosey on over to see all Jeff's hard work.
Also, back in October 2007, Allstarecho and Benjiboi worked diligently on the "WP:LGBT Random Quote" and "WP:LGBT Random Picture" sections of the portal. They added many new quotes and pictures but, and yes here's the cat's meow friends... you can now use these on your own user pages! To add the "WP:LGBT Random Quote" to your own userpage, use: {{Portal:LGBT/Quotes}} And to add the "WP:LGBT Random Picture" to your own userpage, use: {{Portal:LGBT/Pics}} If you'd like to see it in action, check out Allstarecho's userpage for both in action and Benjiboi's talk page for the Quotes in action!
The long, slow race toward FP status continues...
Bisexual Awareness Month
Folks in Utah are celebrating Bisexual Awareness Month. For our own wikicelebration, Alison suggests we try to bring Bisexuality at least up to good article status. Working on the Utah article would be encouraged, but do it stealthily - they don't like us to be *too* open.
A cunning plan
In a move sure to bring her fame and fortune at last, Dev920 (talk·contribs) has proposed that an FA buddying system be set up, to help nudge frightened tikes who also happen to write killer ass articles over that initial first FAC hurdle. Anyone interested in shepherding duties, or anyone interested in being made to lie beside still waters (handcuffs are optional), do drop Dev an RSVP so she can start battering those darned pixies...
Zigzig20s has mentioned a desire to work on .. desire. Specifically literature by and about LGBT desire. To facilitate "LGBT Literature" taskforce, there will be shuffleboard and lesbian fiction on the foredeck later in the afternoon. Signup if you're interested.
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Hi, I'm confused as to why you templated me. I didn't move the recrystallization article, I split it. According to that guideline I attributed where the split went and where the new page came from. As such, all is good. Wizard191 (talk) 22:09, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Splitting an article is when you copy part of an article's content to a "sub-article" of sorts, because the original article was too large. There's really no better way to give attribution because you can't separate the edits to the split content from the edits to the rest of the content. You copied the entire article, and using the move tab gives attribution properly. Sorry about templating you; when working on copyright violation backlogs I'm used to dealing with new users, and I'm not in the habit of checking a user's history before leaving a message and moving on. Cheers! — madmanbum and angel22:30, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I see what your intent was. It wasn't clear, though, because that first edit copied the entire article, not just the portion you intended to split. Hmmm. When I get back into #wikipedia-en-admins a little later, I'm going to ask for a second opinion on what to do with that article now; the split edit summaries are misleading, and it's going to be problematic to move everything back. — madmanbum and angel22:34, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Actually, I think that your edits have completely undone what I did. I looked at your new recrystallization (chemistry) article and it now has the metallurgy and geology section again. The point of splitting it was so that each topic was at a seperate article. That's also why I created the recrystallization (geology) article (which consists of the paragraph of the same heading now in your (chemistry) article). I didn't actually copy the whole article to the new (chemistry) article when I split it. The metallurgy article already existed so I just deleted that section. Seeing as I'm not an admin I don't know how to fix this now. Wizard191 (talk) 22:40, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I'll fix it. The split got flagged by a bot, and I didn't look hard enough to see that the copy of the article didn't have those two sections. — madmanbum and angel22:48, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I've restored the original of Recrystallization before the split. Please redo your split and re-create the Recrystallization (chemistry) article. I could do it by deleting and restoring revisions but I don't want to break the article any further. I apologize for the inconvenience; please let me know should there be any further problems or anything else I can do for you. :( — madmanbum and angel23:29, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
