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Hmm... the semicolon got lost in translation; it was there when I first copied it to Wikipedia (check out the history...). Thanks for catching it! Did your .txt file have a "*" in front of every line? That may be the problem — when I copied and pasted the contributions, the bullet point got turned into an asteric; the StringTokenizer would have counted that. Without that, the Tokenizer would have been trying to collect data on the word before. Let me know how it works out. Thanks again! Flcelloguy (A note?) 02:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I asked our new friend ∙ (talk·contribs)politely to change his username. Could you (if you do agree; I did have to go and find the special dot character; this of course is the inherent problem). Tell him to change his username (possibly with template:usernameblock. I don't want to give the impression I'm bullying him and taking unilateral action or for that matter respond to his reply which was a bit trollish. I'm just a lowly admin. Tell him it's nothing personal. — Dunc|☺21:28, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
The three articles that are nominees for translation of the week have already been translated, seem to be machine translated or very poorly translated. Should we re-translate the articles or try to clean up the grammar? — J3ff22:44, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, lad. I noticed you talking about this somewhere, so I'm assuming that you understand how it works. Would you be so kind as to enlighten me? It looks like it's a way to keep track of the edits of newcomers, but I can't tell who gets on the list and who doesn't, when you get off it, whether or not IPs are on it, along with some other things—and there doesn't seem to be a help page on it (maybe I'll create one?). *sigh* Anyway, any info would be appreciated. Thanks, and take it easy, Blackcap(talk)01:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. Even though it failed with a with the final tally of 55/22/6, I want to thank you anyways. I don't want to be one a admin anymore until I reach 10,000 edits now that it's over with. Thanks --Jarandawat's sup03:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
User Subpages
Hey Tito, I was wondering if you could tell me how to create a user sub page? I'd like to use it to practice certain tasks before forging straight into them. Thanks. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk04:49, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
LMAO I repeat just practice lol. Did you read the disclaimer. THIS IS JUST PRACTICE.... Let's just pretend that they are real user's and not sockpuppets. I've updated the reasons for D and K make more sense? I made an other one check back soon. At least it's funny right? KnowledgeOfSelf | talk06:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Practice Tito :-D. I'm teaching myself here and you know the DP is rather confusing if you don't know what your doing. :-D how about some positve criticism lol. I know your getting at least a chuckle out of this. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk06:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes sir:Thanks again Tito I was useing the subpage to practice the procedure of closing keep AfD's. Thanks it helped a bunch. I have no delete powers :-D KnowledgeOfSelf | talk06:33, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
LOL I made that last one just so you'd get a laugh to be honest with you. I think with a little practice and study of policy I could handle keep debates to start. That last one was just for kicks. lol.KnowledgeOfSelf | talk06:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
The Quitting Thing
Yeah, I just assumed that I had lost face and would have to do things that would make me have to leave in order to make things work out and blah, blah, blah. Thanks for the intervention, here's a barn star for your trouble, my friend. Please let me know if I can help out in the future. karmafist04:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey, thanks alot! I wasnt sure if I had done it yet, so, now I know. Thanks again for going out of your way to let me know Banes06:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Great work, Titoxd! I haven't taken a close look at the code (just like you, I'm still extremely busy right now) or run it yet, but great work in breaking up into classes and creating a Contribs class. From a brief glance, you're parsing from the "View source" of the person's contribs page. However, when I tried saving the page, it didn't let me save as a .txt, and instead had to save as a "HTML file". Can BufferedReader read from anything other than .txt? Hmm... excellent job on everything, especially on breaking up into methods and classes and saving everything (timestamp, etc)! This is a great start. There's many advantages into the using the source code for the page instead of copying & pasting — with copying and pasting, I was having some problem with changing the whole article text/namespace into one token (i.e. replace the appropriate spaces with underscores), but that's not a problem with the source code. I'll test it out soon, but again, great job, and many thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:10, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
A thank you from Ann
Hi, Titoxd. I just want to thank you for voting to support me in my RfA. I know I'm very late thanking you, but I've been a bit caught up with college work. I hope I'll live up to the expectations of those who voted for me. Please let me know if you ever have a problem with any admin action that I carry out. Thanks again. Cheers. AnnH(talk)20:41, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
A small request
Sir, I see you have reverted my edit of the Brian Larsen article. Please reconsider. I realize the revised version may not have been very neutral, but the subject matter really doesn't merit an article of such length. Mr. Larsen has often used false identities on the Internet to agree with himself and to brag about his "accomplishments", true or not.
At the very least, the supposed connections between him and Fleetwood Mac should be looked into, to prevent Fleetwood Mac fans from wondering.
Yes, when collaborative editing works, it really works, doesn't it? I hope the posting anon comes along and takes a look and joins in, too. -Splashtalk04:41, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
WikiProject Numismatics
Dear WikiProject Numismatics member:
You may have noticed the edits made by user:mom2jandk, and you may have also noticed that I have reverted most of them. I would like to leave this note as an explanation.
mom2jandk is a new user and a clearly enthusiastic member of WikiProject:Numismatics. However, he/she has made several changes (specifically to the categorization scheme) that I reverted for various reasons. Among them, he/she:
Moved most of the articles in Category:United States Mint to Category:United States mints. This seems to serve no purpose; the United States Mint is the proper name of a government agency (that you are all no doubt familiar with) and its category was created as a home for articles relating to it.
Created Category:United States Mint officers. This is problematic for several reasons. Firstly, while any number of persons employed by the Mint might be correctly referred to as "officers," I've never seen the term used. Secondly, virtually all of the articles in the category would fit under Category:United States Mint engravers or Category:Directors of the United States Mint. Thirdly, even if there are articles about persons who were neither engravers or directors, there would likely not be enough to warrant a subcategory, and therefore such an article should be placed in Category:United States Mint.
Created several other categories that either do not fit or fit awkwardly into the categorization scheme.
Nominated several categories for deletion, including United States Mint, United States Mint engravers, and others.
On the deletion vote for Cat:United States Mint, he seems to be confused as to the purpose of the category; it is, as I said, for articles relating to the government agency known as the United States Mint. There are mints in the United States that are not part of the United States Mint (i.e. the Franklin Mint) and his confusion over this fact seems to be the impetus for the nomination.
You might also notice that he nominated cat:Directors of the United States Mint; his explanation is that he broadened the category to "United States Mint officers" so that a Superintendent could be included. The "superintendent of the Mint" to which he referred was Roswell K. Colcord, who was superintendent of the Carson City Mint; there is no such office as "superintendent" for the entire United States Mint (or, if there is, it is distinct from Director of the Mint.)
After reading this fairly lengthy message, you might get the impression that I am attacking either mom2jandk or his/her edits; this is not the case. I have a great deal of admiration for him/her as a new user who is not afraid to jump in and try to improve Wikipedia and the Numismatics project. I hope he/she continues to contribute, and I believe he/she has a great deal to offer. This message is quite long because I wanted to explain the specifics of the categories (many of which, incidentally, were created by me.)
Note that I placed merge tags on most of mom2jandk's categories.
It goes without saying that, if there are any categories that should be altered and/or deleted, by all means make such changes, regardless of whether I or anyone else created them; neither I nor my edits are perfect.
Apologies for using he/she; I assume mom2jandk's user name reflects her role as a mother but I wasn't completely certain.
We reverted almost simultaneously, but you un-reverted yourself so it didn't show as an edit conflict. Why did you un-revert? --AySz88^-^04:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
The two sources seem to match: your example explicitly doesn't include 2 from Ohio, 1 from Kentucky, and 57 "evacuees" that are in the blog article. I guess I'll go update the article. --AySz88^-^04:26, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm in the middle of changing it, but what exactly is an "official state total"? If it needs to be a quote from a government official, I don't think I have a source. --AySz88^-^04:45, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Okay, at least one of them is a loop from Wikipedia itself. The Ohio number is cited as from [1] which got *their* table from Wikipedia (even the colors look the same). I guess I shouldn't use that number, at least, then.
Seeing as there was one USA today article that copied Wikipedia infoboxes, I'm concerned the rest of the numbers might be feedback from Wikipedia too. Also, the official counts don't seem to count indirect deaths, and there's no distinction in either article. I don't know if I want to touch the table. :p
I'm going to take the liberty to respond to you in numbers. :-)
1. No, not yet; just like you, I'm also extremely busy at the moment. I'll probably get some free time (hopefully) over the weekend, if not sooner, to take a look at it. It sounds wonderful - I haven't done GUIs in a while and was thinking of relying on JOptionPane, but GUIs is probably a better idea. I'll look at it soon. In the meantime, Kate's Tool is back up, giving us some time. My vision of our tool is not just to be a backup to Kate's Tool, but to be also be a statistics tool that offers options Kate's Tool does not (yet) have (i.e. minor edits, edit summary, and I'm also thinking we could code average edits per day and other statistics; that won't be too hard because we're parsing the time and date already). Thanks a lot for all your great work; it's greatly appreciated!
2. OK, I'll have a look and respond there.
3. Check out the talkpages; I'll make an "announcement" with all the pertinent info there.
How cool is this? Good work! That reminds me: that image that you have gracing our main page — if you were to add and to the shaded area, we could put those limits on the definite integrals instead and generalise it a little. :) -Splashtalk21:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, sorry. Got distracted. You mean because of editing a protected image? Hmmmm. Probably not, since admins edit the protected main page stuff all the time; there's sort of a convention that it's ok, I think. Great new pic! -Splashtalk22:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Tito, if an anon 70.81.202.97 like this gets to a test 4 and then makes a user name to avoid that test 4 should he be blocked anyway? Pyrics is making the same vandalism edits as the anon IP. If you could take a look to confirm if it is the same type of vandalism, and let me know what the verdict is I'd appreciate it. Thanks KnowledgeOfSelf | talk03:51, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with undoing the vandalism on Wikispecies. Looks like there were no admins around at that time. lycaon10:31, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
A strange laugh
Hi Titoxd! I was passing by and saw that your Wikistress is still huge (for obvious reasons). I wish there was something I could do, but there isn't. So I thought I'd send you a picture of a Laughing Gull. It makes no sense, I know, but it is laughing. Apparently. :) ➨ ❝REDVERS❞21:59, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Oops! Sorry about that, I meant to hit tab not enter..anyway, lol. I'm just wondering how many templates for blanking there are for warning vandals. I only know of 3 {{blanking}} , and the test2a and 2b ones are there more? Thanks KnowledgeOfSelf | talk04:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
How in the world did you notice activity on that most-out-of-the way corner of the world? I use a somewhat clumsy translude/copy-paste/delete in order to get AfD results for analysis. If you'll look at the history, you'll see that this spot is just a holding space. I'm trying to be low-key, but not going totally cold turkey. Thanks for being alert, though.
144.53.251.204:52, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Mcfly85
HI there Tito, it's Moe. I was wondering, is it against Wikipedia policy to have what I have written on my user page about Mcfly85. If it is, I'll remove it. Mcfly85 says it is but I would rather hear it from someone like you. Is it? Also, Mcfly85 wont leave me alone. I kindly asked him to just leave me alone and he keep on leaving messages on my talk page. Thanks! — Moeε16:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
News from Esperanza
Hello, fellow Esperanzians! This is just a friendly reminder that elections for Administrator General and two advisory council positions have just begun. Voting will last until Friday, December 30, so make sure you exercise your right to vote! Also, I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Esperanza mailing list. I urge all members to join; see Wikipedia:Esperanza/Contact for more information. All you need to do is email me and I will activate your account. This will be a great way to relax, stay in touch, and hear important announcements. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?)
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Numismatics Project archive talk page
I was wondering if you'd archive the Numismatics talk page when you get a chance. You mentioned before that it's easy, and I think the length is way out of hand (I know I have trouble finding stuff). I'll be happy to help figure out which sections are currently active and create new topics or however that should be handled. If this is something I could do as a non-admin, please tell me how. Thanks Ingrid20:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Titoxd, I have been renominated! Strange sequence of events. First Mcfly85 has been caught by the CheckUser and now this. — Moeε20:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Just a note, its not a big issue as there was a clear consensus, but generally you want to avoid closing deletion discussions that you have participated in. Best regards, ËvilphoenixBurn!22:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey, it's no big deal, I'm certainly not going to press it, it's more that there's a (slight) potential for upsetting people. If you'd like, you can always ping me on any discussions that you're involved in that need closing on there, I'd be glad to help. ËvilphoenixBurn!22:50, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Are you on IRC right now? I've run into problems on a few different computers so I am wondering if this problem is affecting everyone. Thank you ahead of time.
I haven't had a chance to take a look at the edit counter yet, but I will soon (hopefully, computer complying... :-)) I'll take a look at the voting page now. Is it your birthday today? You share a birthday with Beethoven? Happy birthday! Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:13, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
YAYYY! Oh, and good luck with your Admin Gen election! I look foreward to working with you. I can only hope they impliment this soon (it shouldn't take too much coding, I imagine), so the sooner the better :). -Mysekurity(have you seen this?)02:30, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Please do not use rollback to revert something that is not vandalism (in fact, the reversion to a redirect is close to vandalism, as no merging was done). --SPUI (talk) 02:45, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
As far as making it so it doesn't show your every email..I don't know. Kizzle and I used it months ago to try and get anon ip's from being able to edit pages like GWBush and were unsuccessful...but I like semi-protect a lot better anyway. I get a few emails a month as I only contributed a few comments there months ago and I haven't been back since. Maybe it has a preferences link?--MONGO04:31, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Oh I see...no problem, post there in a minute...my understanding is that we are only waiting for the developers to implement it right? Also, to hide my email, I just filled out some lengthy log in thing, but can't remember how I did it. I am correct that this has passed and it is up to the developers, correct?--MONGO04:38, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks...this is great news...I had dropped out of the conversation and saw that it appeared to have passed but wasn't positive all the details. I'll post a comment now.--MONGO04:45, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I left a message on Bugzilla...hopefully we can implement this at GWBush and put a virtual end to the nonsense there.--MONGO09:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you!
Thanks for voting on my RfA! The final result was (36/1/2), so I'm now an administrator! COME MR. OPERATOR MAN, TALLY ME A VOICE NOW! DAYLIGHT COME AND ME WANT FIGHT VANDALS! ...yeah, that was pretty stupid. Mo0[talk] 06:22, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!
Unless I'm much mistaken, I'm the first Birthday wellwisher. Have a great day Tito, and good luck in the elections - looks like we're heading for a tie... :) --Celestianpowerháblame17:41, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
You think maybe it's time to change our sigs? Or do we still want to create awareness? Remember—NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER! We must push until this becomes a reality! (Oh, and word to getting on the 100 list) -Mysekurity(have you seen this?)22:03, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Moe Epsilon RFA
I want you to see the comment under the "comments" section I left at My RFA. It partially involves you. — Moeε22:34, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
