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Can you give me a copy of this deleted article, please. -- Wicked Cuyos
.... Yet again. StaticGull Talk 14:10, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy#Non-administrators adding blocking templates
Please review the above thread. Non-administrators should not be adding block templates, administrators will do so when appropriate. Also, this represents a personal attack. I see you have a history of being disruptive in this arena. There's no need to be taunting the users after you've had them blocked. – xeno ( talk) 12:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Seriously, how awesome is this? Enigma message 00:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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Awarded for creating the Admin dashboard. Enough said. J.delanoy gabs adds 04:28, 1 August 2008 (UTC) |
When I Usurped i tried to unify my account to all wikipedia projects and I was able to except for
--- Here Ford 16:28, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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thanks a lot for your help with my first effort!!!!! Travelingirl52 ( talk) 18:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is it very hard to read the 'cidic' on the default skin? Asenine 22:51, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the edit summary. Still a bit confused. What is the reasoning for leaving the parent account unblocked? User:Havesmite? Dbiel ( Talk)
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Hello! Can you help me on this issue? How can I make this page as a source? Best regards, Sdrtirs ( talk) 23:26, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, SQLBot won't generate my admin stats on User:J.delanoy/dashboard. What am I doing wrong? J.delanoy gabs adds 03:02, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Priceless. " If you're going to troll at least have the decency to put it in the correct place" :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 06:48, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you welcomed me a couple of weeks back, and you said if I needed help I could ask you. Well, when I created my account I didn't realize you could put spaces in your name. I am wondering if it's possible to be renamed, and how to go about it. I created a new signature to match the username I'd like. Thanks for help. how do you turn this on 13:43, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, As you are a very experienced editor, could you please review me at my editor review? The link is at my userpage. Thanks, HeLLboy2HeLL ( talk) 04:46, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Maybe you should go to the article case closed there's a big discussion about if the article should be called detective conan or case closed you don't have to do it just my opinion-- Spittlespat ( talk) 17:50, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
[3] If nobody picks up on the Resident Evil reference here, I'll go crazy. Tell me you got that one? :-) -- Koji Dude (C) 14:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could delete a redirection page -- Kevin perria, it was nominated last month and it is really a horrible redirection page. Thanks. -- eric (mailbox) 21:26, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [4]) Hey zeno, on the top of my browser were my account and talk and preferences show i get the online,bust,around and offline indicators but on my page it says unknown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Plyhmrp ( talk • contribs) 21:37, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [5]) I can still do it manually through going to the status I want and writing online,offline, around or busy. -- Plyhmrp ( talk) 22:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC)Plyhmrp
I've left my comments on her talk page. I don't recommend an unblock, but I won't stop you if you feel it's appropriate. Hersfold non-admin( t/ a/ c) 22:55, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
I suspect we have different feelings about User talk:Snooky1's ability to contribute. I blocked indef as a vandal only account, while you were adding a warning template. I'm open to suggestions of an alternate approach. Kevin ( talk) 02:22, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [6]) Hi Xeno - thanks for the clarification and the update in regards to the notice I received initially. Also, if you are interested, there's now a mediation page for Tom's, which I requested. You can see the discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2008-08-02_Tom%27s_Hardware#Discussion (if you are interested).
/ Tuan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bom tuannguyen ( talk • contribs) 08:04, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Jeez you are watching arnt ye :P «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 16:22, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
← User:Prom3th3an/Mediation << check it out, Im using a different mantif to my adoption center but its still just as good. «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 16:47, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
dont make me trout slap you (jk) :P «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 14:28, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks to everyone who participated in
my RfA, regardless of their !vote. I have withdrawn the nomination as a failure at 19 supports, 45 opposes, and 9 neutral statements.
As has been written and sung, you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need — and what I need is to go back to working on our shared project. Not everyone has to be an admin; there is a role for each of us. After reflection, I feel I don't have the temperament to secure community consensus as an admin at any point, and I will not be applying again in the future — and hey, that's all right, 'cause I stay true to the philosophy that adminship is no big deal: I tried, I failed, and now I'll return to doing what I've always done. I have an extremely strong belief in the consensus process, and the consensus was clear. I will be devoting my energies to volunteering at MedCab and working up a complete series of articles on the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, among lord knows what else. Thanks again to everyone who spared the time to weigh in on this one. It was made in better faith than it probably seemed.
Mr. IP 《
Defender of Open Editing》 14:55, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Appreciate your participation at my RfA. In the end, things didn't work out, but I probably should have expected that. There's so many other ways to serve the project, and that's what I'll be doing. Glad you liked my answer to Q4...always a puzzler, that one. Cheers! Mr. IP 《 Defender of Open Editing》 14:55, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I encountered this situation while scanning recent changes: Is 'god' capitalized in articles as a whole? The article in question was not pertaining to god. Not sure if that has any relevance. Are there any guidelines pertaining to this? Seems like a potential revert war situation. Washburnmav ( talk) 15:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind taking a look to this image? It doesn't have a copyright tag but it says "Exact licensing still being cleared up; owner has nonetheless agreed to release the images sufficiently freely for Wikipedia's purposes". This image is still like this for almost 2 months. Thank you for your time! Best regards, Sdrtirs ( talk) 17:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
When you block someone with {{
spamusername}}
, are you supposed to enable autoblock and disable account creation?
J.delanoy
gabs
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Hi, Xeno.
I'm back after a month or so of editing. (It's only right to ask the admin who declined me before.)
I now have over 500 edits, though some of that is to the user space. I feel much more comfortable getting around and know WP policy a lot better.
I have gained experience using Twinkle and the undo button. Though I don't fight vandalism full-time, I patrol for it almost every time I'm on Wikipedia. I've now dabbled in many areas of Wikipedia that I can help out in.
With your permission, I would now like to start using Huggle. I understand that rollback is only for blatantly nonproductive edits, like obscenities and gibberish, and should not be used if there is any doubt about whether I should use it. If I do receive rollback, I'll go through
WP:New admin school/Rollback before using it for real.
(Full disclosure: I do know of one edit I made about a month and a half back that I realize I shouldn't have used Twinkle for, and I apologize for that. Don't worry--the bout of spiraling, guilt-ridden depression ;-) I suffered after realizing that I had stained my soul with a single improper Twinkling has more than taught me not to do that again. I have, per Wikipedia procedure, ironed my hands.)
Thank you for your time—I know you're busy. SunDragon34 ( talk) 18:25, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
This guy messaged me saying that he need help with his userpage and it's obvious he has been copying from my userpage so it's okay if I delete some of the things he copyied from me? Also thanks for helping me with my userpage, anyway how do i adopt captain elmo?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you...
...for participating in my RfA, which closed with 119 in support, 4 neutral and 5 opposes. I'm honestly overwhelmed at the level of support that I've received from the community, and will do my best to maintain the trust placed in me. I 'm also thankful to those who opposed or expressed a neutral position, for providing clear rationales and superb feedback for me to build on. I've set up a space for you to provide any further feedback or thoughts, should you feel inclined to. However you voted, thanks for taking the time out to contribute to the process, it's much appreciated. Kind regards, Gazi moff 21:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC) |
Is this (what he said re strikethrough) correct? Washburnmav ( talk) 21:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
He Xeno I just want ed to let you know I was gone for two weeks at Manasquan, NJ. Just wanted to let you know I m back. It's been pretty quiet without me huh.-- Ezekiel 7:19 †alk 14:24, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Good detective work =) – xeno ( talk) 22:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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That block you left on Shapiros's talkpage was fucking halarious(forgive my profanity). DOWN WITH VADAR. DAMN VADER!!! Gears of War 2 15:25, 5 August 2008 (UTC) |
(Re [7]) You mentioned an issue with my username. That issue was settled some time ago. Please check the history. I have had it for years. Thanks, though. Adminster ( talk) 19:20, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
There is a BLP problem with Warren Kinsella and thought I’d ask a few opinions. Warren Kinsella himself appears to have objected to the article (see evidence here) and seems to have written an explanation of his objections on my talk page. There is also a small related discussion at Talk:Warren Kinsella. I’d like to simply remove all material that has been objected to, as I strongly suspect the article over-represents criticism of Kinsella, but I’m not the best person to ask so I think a few other non-involved opinions are needed. I've protected the page due to an edit war that was occurring over this issue. If you'd like to look into this, hopefully a formal approach won't be needed. Okiefromokla questions? 19:25, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [8]) Thanks, I noticed the comment on the watchlist. I'll use {{ done}} next time; apologies, I'm used to using {{ already done}} quite a lot so it's a habit I must break! :) Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 20:12, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [9]) I copy & pasted what you suggested into my monobook.js, but it did'nt work. See my tests on my IP's talk page. Any chance you could fix it in my monobook? All your help is much appreciated! Thanks John Sloan ( talk) 20:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Although the twinkle did'nt uninstall, it still added the shared IP notice! But we tried and it could still have a delay. I'll see how it goes. Again thanks for the help and feel free to re-delete the IP talk page :-) John Sloan ( talk) 21:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I have just a started a cabal. I inviting you to join the cabal and please, visit the page, join if you like, and invite more people(also I have a bunch of bootleg German tickets that come with every thing I do! I love bootleg tickets!(dont tell 5-0). Gears of War 2 21:15, 5 August 2008 (UTC) Gears of War 2 21:18, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this 3RR report I filed? I'm an involved editor at this point. Thanks. Toddst1 ( talk) 22:43, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Xeno, I am trying to revitalize WikiProject New Jersey and was wondering if xenobot could do a user page message delivery for me? I have the message already set at WP:WikiProject New Jersey/Bulletin and there is a memebr list at WP:WikiProject New Jersey/Members. If this can be done, I'd appreciate not having to manually deliver 60 messages. I believe it should be substed because hopefully that page will get changed more often in the future. Thanks. Jim Miller See me | Touch me | Review me 22:48, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi there Xenocidic. I was wondering, do you know any users looking in for adoption? I'm currently looking for one adoptee, but the adoptees looking for adoption at the adoption page show quite a lot of inactive editors. Since you do adopt, I was wondering if you knew any users who would like to be adopted. Thanks, RyRy Public ( talk) 23:58, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Quick question. Is xenobot only approved for news delivery? I usually use Shep but he's offline due to health issues. I'm asking for a stub-sorting purpose. If not, can you recommend someone? Just not TinuCherian since his bot just did something for me and I don't want to seem greedy. Thanks! TravellingCari 01:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [11]) Thanks Xeno. Must say I do like the dashboard. Saw it another editor's userpage and was most impressed. That PAGESINCAT function is very useful. Happy Editing - Peripitus (Talk) 04:23, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Xeno. No one appears to have yet pointed out to you this edit by your bot. -- zzuuzz (talk) 12:29, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to get my userbox re vandalism on my talk page to be on the right under the archives box? Just for aesthetics. Washburnmav ( talk) 13:39, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Cheers for catching that earlier. Regards, WilliamH ( talk) 13:44, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was just wondering whether you are still going to work on Radio Wikipedia? StewieGriffin! • Talk Sign Listen 11:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Okay, we got a bit of feedback at WT:VG and a couple of thumbs down, she we be bold and go ahead and make the taskforce. Gears of War 2 13:55, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Do you think that qualifies for CSD per {{db-ad}}? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Prom3th3an ( talk • contribs) 11:04, August 6, 2008 (UTC)
(Re [12]) Start here and work you way forward. It's how I'm doing it (I didn't know he was de-sysopped). This is troubling, since I would estimate he has over 100 semiprotections just sitting around (lots for libel), no expiry date set or anything. I'm just doing it manually, but you could audit his protection log (which is very long). - Royalguard11( T) 19:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [13]) WorshipGuy22 ( talk) 20:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Terribly sorry, but could I trouble you for another delivery? The newest edition is located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Newsletter/20080806 if you are able to deliver it. ( Guyinblack25 talk 21:19, 6 August 2008 (UTC))
Hihi. Sorry, I wasn't aware they were endorsed by Rare - however, at the bottom of the home page, it says "PinataIsland.info is in no way affiliated with Rare® Ltd., Microsoft Game Studios, or 4Kids Entertainment.". I'm just wondering what the story is? Thanks! Fin © ™ 22:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
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The header says it all dude. Gears of War 2 17:15, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
importScript('User:Xenocidic/statusChanger2.js');
I want to thank you for adding this as a task for adoptees like myself. I often find myself wondering what I can do to help without knowing where to start and this is a great step for me to help and achieve at the same time. I realise this has taken a large amount of time and effort and I want to acknowledge that I appreciate what you have done. I aim to complete these exercises/edits over time and gain the experience and understanding needed to one day become an admin and also to become a better and more effective wiki user. Lympathy Talk 17:25, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [14]) Hi and thanx. I don't often use those citation formats because it can be performed simpler and without finding the template as I tried to do -- but for some reason, it didn't work. Do you know why? It fit the same format as the other citations, XYZ.com, but wouldn't format properly. DRosenbach ( Talk | Contribs) 20:40, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Done. Without Xenovention.
Useight (
talk) 04:46, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
hi i was wondering if u could send a copy of my recently deleted article (user:Essrko, otherwise termed Erik Steven Smith) to my email address please, im not completely sure y they deleted it, i guess i made it too professional looking and they thought that it was meant to be an actual article instead of my wiki-profile...oh well, i would just really appreciate a copy, thank you very much and have a wonderful day -Erik —Preceding unsigned comment added by Essrko ( talk • contribs) 04:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Since you're online, could you delete this picture? Thanks, HeLLboy2HeLL ( talk) 13:10, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Yep. Gwen Gale ( talk) 14:10, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear Xenocidic,
I have been here since 2004, and I would like to be an admin someday. I was wondering if you can briefly screen my account, and see if at this point, I make a good candidate for admin. If not, can you give me some pointers as to how I can become one? Thanks! Arbiteroftruth ( talk) 19:46, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [16]) Yes, it would be a good idea to do so. I'd say wait for a couple of weeks (fair enough?). I will find a co-sponsor, it's just I was so busy IRL lately that I couldn't spare the time. Arbiteroftruth ( talk) 16:55, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
how should I make icons and how long have I been to wikipedia?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
what's a guest book could I make or have one?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
So it's like making an article I type in user:spittlespat|spittlespat in the search box and then create it?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 02:06, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I made a User:Spittlespat/my guestbook page now what? How do I put it in my userpage how do I create a new tab that says my guestbook? Make sure to sign my guestbook-- Spittlespat ( talk) 23:56, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
How do you make a link? LOL I'm so stupid!!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 00:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey now! You fixed the same thing I was trying (unsuccessfully) to fix! Guess I'm not the only one who is OCD ;-). Wikiwikikid ( talk) 17:38, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
With AN/K now gone, I guess AN/X is about to get a little more popular? - Adolphus79 ( talk) 00:33, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Xeno, humor me here. Am I off my rocker for believing that even registered accounts should be given and then vandalize after a final warning before being blocked? Is there some kind of an unspoken precedence at AIV for not necessarily letting that happen? I've seen it happen far too often in the past 2 weeks to consider anything but two possibilities: 1. Admins often take action without really looking into things (shocking, right?), or 2. I'm completely out of the loop, having been an admin for only a couple of weeks. Your thoughts? Okiefromokla questions? 16:39, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello again. It looks as if the ABN AMRO is unlocked now. At the writing, the only new edits are positive ones in which the last remaining mentions of "ABN Amro" were corrected to ABN AMRO. So we should watch the article closely to avoid more edit and renaming wars. Steelbeard1 ( talk) 17:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
how do you search a pages history for a particular day. in my case WP:RfP on Dec. 3 2006. Here Ford 19:06, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I was editing your adoption page and I was going to make my edit count to 99 and then something wrong happened and it looks like vandalism will I get banned quickly turn it bakc normal, p.s. I don't really get your adoption class thing do I get to adopt someone?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 22:18, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm already adopted so why am I at your adoption page?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 22:33, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
ok got it-- Spittlespat ( talk) 22:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Sign my guest book, no one signed it so far except for usesight-- Spittlespat ( talk) 00:22, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Question for you at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/George The Dragon — Giggy 04:19, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Great to know that your only defense is "edit the target article so no one can oppose your consensus-less move". Your argument would be great in a discussion, not in IGNORING a discussion. - A Link to the Past (talk) 15:50, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
So these are basically tasks that I can do that cover the areas of being an editor? If so, I would like to do them! JTBX ( talk) 13:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you both. JTBX ( talk) 18:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xenocidic - Would you mind looking at the edit history of tagged.com? I fear an edit war is beginning and I'd appreciate your thoughts. Thanks Ucanlookitup ( talk) 13:20, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
I was just wondering, could you delete this page? Its because I have no use for it now. Thanks in advance!! From, H2H ( talk) 13:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [17]) Can you please redelete the page? It was created by me, is not used by anyone, and I want rid of it. CSD G7 applies; it doesn't have to be in my user space. It's deletion will not affect the MfD discussion. PC78 ( talk) 17:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi thanks for blocking this vandal, but I need some assistance with him, as he has been ip hopping for a while after his account got a temporary block. Could you perhaps examine his sock puppetry case please? [[User:Giani g|Giani g]] ( talk) 17:54, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
O btw he just changed ip again, he just reverted everything, k thanks for that advice. [[User:Giani g|Giani g]] ( talk) 18:01, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
this Giani G is clearly a pro indian editor he makes changes to pakistani articles and doesnt even allow changes to indian articles i will edit indian mountains and he will go on to revert please look deeper beyong religion and stop taking sides you may like india but as a editor you must be neutral. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.70.179 ( talk) 18:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
its not about content dispute this editor giani g is a nationalist indian who only targets pakistani articles with un sourced data and when i do the same to indian mountains he has a sissy fit i did have a acount but i forgot to sign in one day and edited without it and then giani g pounced my ip is dynamic if you know what that means and blocking me wont acheive nothing look at his biased editing first on pakistani mountains which are un referenced or i shall continue reverting no justice no peace cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.70.179 ( talk) 18:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
your not really paying attention look at his edits hes the biased editor dont revert my edits as he provides NO SOURCES please dont take sides. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.70.179 ( talk) 18:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Such a lovely diatribe, I was expecting nothing less, is everyone who disagrees with you Indian? You've used that "I forgot to sign in" excuse a lot, I already asked you to start the topic at the India and Pakistani project pages before diving into edit wars, and I will continue to revert till a new consensus is reached. [[User:Giani g|Giani g]] ( talk) 18:25, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
a consensus has been reached when you edited K2 ring any bells nationalist giani people actively reverted your claims on k2 and now your shift your un sourced claims to gasherbrum and other pakistani articles maybe you should get a taste of your own medicine and i should urge pakistani editors to target indian mountian how about that ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.235.17 ( talk) 18:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Go for it, I'm pretty sure the Pakistani editors feel the same way you do, as for this discussion, log into your account and continue it on MY talk page. [[User:Giani g|Giani g]] ( talk) 19:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you delete this image for me? It is here: Image:2004 stellar quake full.jpg. It was an honest mistake, and it has been uploaded to Commons. Thanks, -- Meld shal 21:14, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, i'm really interested in being adopted by you. You seem to have a lot of adoptees, so if you're full, can you recommend anyone else? -- The reason I want adoption is because I still feel Inexperienced here! After half a year and two accounts, i'm still not really above basic edits and vandalism clean up. Don't get me wrong, I like cleaning vandalism (amongst other things) to All Grown Up! related articles. But, I just feel like I could and should be doing more! Thanks for your time :-) John Sloan ( talk) 14:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
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Just thought I'd let you know that my Twinkle is now working exactly as I wanted. Thanks for the help with it and enjoy the cookie :-) John Sloan ( talk) 11:27, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Wasn't this done a little hastily? He only had 2 recent edits, and only one of those was truly vandalism. Washburnmav ( talk) 16:57, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno! I was wondering if you could do me a small favor and check out The Rising Tide (album). Thanks NuclearWarfare contact me My work 17:21, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
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J.delanoy
gabs
adds 17:31, 11 August 2008 (UTC)I am considering cleaning up Guitar tunings#Open tunings, and I encountered the list of musicians you see there. It seems unnecessary and I was going to get rid of it and instead add a sentence saying, "Open tunings are used by many famous musicians including blah, blah and blah." Just talk about 2 or 3. I wanted to get a second opinion before I delete such a hefty amount of information. I would also copy it to the talk page to have for reference. Your thoughts? Washburnmav ( talk) 18:50, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
I found this article at WP:RPP. I've mentioned it at the BLP noticeboard, but i'd like you to have a look at it as well. It clearly has multiple issues and i've placed a few tags on it. But this article could have more serious problems and could also be a candidate for deletion. Thanks John Sloan ( talk) 19:36, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Just a little note to say thankyou for participating in my successful RFA candidacy, which passed with 96 supports, 0 opposes, and 1 neutral. I am pleasantly taken aback by the amount of support for me to contribute in an administrative role and look forward to demonstrating that such faith is well placed. Regards, WilliamH ( talk) 09:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Found your name amongst the administrators who might provide copies of deleted articles. Might I trouble you for Offset Paperback Mfrs., Inc. and Pocono Academy Systems? Many thanks. Fazul ( talk) 15:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
"Adopt an Article"
What do yout think? «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 02:44, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Did you see someone offered to nominate me for RFA? I declined the offer of course but found it amusing none the less. «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 03:08, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, I wanted to thank you for adding the adoption lessons for us. I've been really busy the last few days and have yet to pick one to start on. I'm not sure which would benefit me the most. I want to eventually finish all of them though. Thanks again, they will be very helpful looks like. Cheers, Landon1980 ( talk) 02:58, 12 August 2008 (UTC).
My personal information troll is back, could you shoot me an email whenever you get a chance? - Adolphus79 ( talk) 06:42, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm working to put a dent in the copyedit backlog by attacking the long list of cleanup tags that have been incorrectly put on talk pages and transferring them to the article or removing them entirely. Is this a worthwhile effort? Washburnmav ( talk) 19:31, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
It ain't so. This is in response to this. A very funny edit summary, thanks for making me smile. -- Figureskatingfan ( talk) 20:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [18]) What?! I thought only admins could, after they decided if it needed to be deleted or not Ctjf83 Talk 22:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you move Talk:Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, to Talk:Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. The article is located at Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, and the talk page is at a redirect. I would not let me move over a redirect. Thanks Lego Kontribs Talk M 04:37, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi dear Xeno
I'm former Vespa64 and newly Amirreza (You helped me changing my username!)
After changing my UN I made some Contributions, but today when I wanted to sign in with my new UN this eror occured:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)
from within function "User::saveSettings". MySQL returned error "1062: Duplicate entry 'Vespa64' for key 2 (10.0.0.235)".
Retrieved from "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin"
Can you help me?
Thanks
Vespa64 (
talk) 15:45, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
We've discussed this at the VP, Please don't remove the guideline tag unless you've actually looked at the entire discussion about this page. Thank you
Neuro√
Logic 16:47, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey. I know we haven't talked in a while, but I found this really cool video today of an
F-35 Lightning II and I had to show it to someone.... (and yes, it is free)
Image:F-35 verticle landing.ogg
Now that's cool! btw, great job with all the admin stuff you've been doing. I really can't believe how good a job you do. I would say you're easily in the top 3 best admins on Wikipedia and maybe even the best one out there. Keep up the good work man.
Thingg
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Xeno check your email. -- SkyWalker ( talk) 17:58, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Just thought I'd show you this. Steve Crossin Contact/ 24 03:57, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Decided that I'd answer this, as I don't intend to RFA. Anyways, given the fact that they had quite a history of vandalism, I'd be inclined to not unblock. The fact that they did have a constructive edit is a mitigating factor, however it doesn't really outweigh the previous vandalism that this user has done. However, if this was a user account, I'd offer them a {{
2nd chance}}
. I'm not sure if they can be offered to IP addresses. If they can, I'd be open to offering that, as well. The fact that they are somewhat apologetic is something I'd take into consideration, and the fact they did have a constructive edit adds to that. I'm all for assuming good faith and leniancy, but with a history of vandalism like they had, I'd be rather cautious to outright unblock them.
Steve Crossin
Contact/
24 03:55, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Is it stub b class, a class, etc. (Also what rate is my userpage)-- Spittlespat ( talk) 21:27, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
| bgcolor="#ffbbbb" | (row contents)
like so ^ – xeno ( talk) 22:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Wow... I never knew one question could turn into a discussion with alot of people Lol! =P -- Spittlespat ( talk) 18:01, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Haha you have good humor!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 18:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
actually I'm not a page stalker-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:07, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Captian Elmo is starting to think Wikipedia is a fansite making cool userpages etc. Maybe you can teach him a few tricks, how about you read his talk page first!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 18:10, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm just saying that maybe you could ask him if he wants to be adopted and that you could teahc him a few of your tricks that's all but he's really treating Wikipedia like a big game-- Spittlespat ( talk) 19:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
I met Captian Elmo in real life he's my friend it's just that when I call him he's says that he doesn't like editing and all he wants to do is find secret pages on Wikipedia so all I want you to do is help him just a little like try helping him into getting more edits and not just have fun if he wants to play he should go to Runescape but if he wants to edit he should go here, maybe get some more people to help discuss this!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 19:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC) I'm just asking, so are you going to help?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:21, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry i dragged you into this, you're right about not forcing them to edit He justs needs a little more time though I told you about this was only because I thought If you had an account you have to at least make some edits well guess I'm wrong!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 21:56, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Captian Elmo is finally editing maybe the message I sent him worked!, Also did you write the "Can't someone else do it?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:08, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
c.e. (captian elmo) called me saying he wants to be in your adoption class and I done some more edits so I probably have more edits then what you have put on your adoption page, how many eidts does c.e. have?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:38, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [19]) Ah I see. Sorry I had no knowledge of that, I'm still fairly new to 'Pedia. I thought it was a typo or something like that =| A Prodigy Talk 20:34, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Anish mishra here can teach me how to upload images —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anish mishra ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xenocidic ! You may adopt me. But I am irregular (due to school/homework). Query: Is Xenocidic a base or an acid......-- Renault ( talk) 16:40, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Is your watchlist working properly? Mine has reverted to how it was earlier today and all my recent contribs have disappeared! But the pages still show my contribs in their history. I'm very confused! John Sloan ( talk) 18:33, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Just finished clearing the cleanup backlog of improperly labeled talk pages. I'm pretty sure there were about 150 of them. Sigh. Yay for putting a microscopic dent in that backlog... Washburnmav ( talk) 19:32, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [20])
xeno, it looks like I need more help. I am trying to remove ALL the drafts that I created (with the exception of my Sandbox); however they do not seem to be disappearing. So far the only one which disappeared is the one labeled "Aftermath_draft" (or the one in which you inquired about several minutes ago). Will you continue to help me, please? I no longer see a real reason to keep the remaining nine (or so) drafts. I have tried removing them but they still seem to be around. I inserted {{db-userreq}} in everything. (Incidentally, as I recall, there is a way to remove the entire group as one. Would you point me again in the right direction with a link for those instructions ? A procedure such as "group" will undoubtedly be much better than the slow process I used.) Thanks. Hag2 ( talk) 19:44, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
User:Narutolovehinata5/Page_nursery/No.2 article I am making may need more references, and may need expansion. But I am too busy to do it all. Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 12:23, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Come on IRC «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 14:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
made it simple Renaulte 15:49, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Raw isgnature was enabled :( Renaulte ( talk) 15:53, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Do you know this fellow BlueDevil :( musslim :(......Who i am accusesd as sock by prom3 Renaulte ( talk) 15:59, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
DoneNow I am testing my skills on bionictest...as a sysop :) Even I do not do IRC nor I know beyond google talk :)
Renaulte (
talk) 17:24, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I have heard of things called Bots. How can I get one of these. My job on Wikipedia is to find vandalism and sockpuppets. A bot will help.-- Master of Pies ( talk) 17:37, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I have a suspicion that this is a sock puppet. Reminds me of GENIUS(4th power). First edits being to your userpage and talk page, asking for rollback immediately, and immediately finding xenocidic are hardly typical traits of a newbie. Tombomp ( talk/ contribs) 19:04, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I am just here to say a few things.
-- Master of Pies ( talk) 21:15, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [21]) Thanks for the heads-up on my signature - I didn't realise there was a limit - well, I must have done (subconciously) to subst it - but on reading WP:SIG I realise the reasons! I've shortened the markup and now it doesn't take up a load of space in the edit window. Cheers! Booglamay ( talk) - 20:46, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi xeno, i reworked the madhukar article and added references and sources. It´s really perfect now. how to put it back into mainspace? Thanks a lot Syb ( talk) 14:07, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the vandal on my talk page! -- ɔɹǝɐɯʎ! Talk 12:26, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Read my updated (and better looking) userpage to find out my active schedule on Wikipedia it has something to do with school-- Spittlespat ( talk) 19:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC) Could you help me make a my link thing on my userpage and talk page I just can't seem how to make them if you don;t get what I'm talking I'll explain, it's basically like the thing on top that says my contributions my wacthlist, etc. But I want to put up two new things my vandalize ME! page and my guestbook (p.s. I don't care about what style you do just make it so it macthes my userpage-- Spittlespat ( talk) 00:22, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Xeno, thank you for your contribution to the discussion at my recent RfA and in particular for making mention of my attempts to rescue articles. Thanks again for the NSFW question too! If ever you have any concerns about my actions, adminly or otherwise, don't hesitate to let me know. Best wishes, Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 20:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
For recognisinig contibutors worthy of gold, silver and bronze wiki's. What u think? «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 11:19, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi xeno, are you going to ask your RfA question at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/It Is Me Here? If not, would you be okay with me asking it? Thanks John Sloan ( talk) 16:32, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
{{subst:User:Xenocidic/RFAQ|#|~~~ or other name link|Optional prefix text}}
FYI, Xeno, I stole your question too. :) Sorry! Haha. I put it on the newest RfA. Feel free to take a look. Glass Cobra 11:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. How do you rate an article that is not rated by its Wikiproject? (In other words, how do you rate an article that is just out there on its own?)
I can't find any instructions other than the ones to rate the article on its Wikiproject template. Thanks.
SunDragon34 (
talk) 23:19, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey Xeno. Sorry to seem "lazy" (it's actually usually a stupidity thing), but I used to have tabs up top that let me create an AfD with ease. After this recent spate of monobook changes, they seem to be gone. I went through the history, and I'm not sure what change fucked it up... any ideas? Tan ǀ 39 00:14, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
importScript('User:AzaToth/twinklexfd.js');
Is just hilarious! Shot info ( talk) 00:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Is this warning for this edit out of place. I'm told it is, so if it in fact is unwarranted I tend to remove it. Landon1980 ( talk) 02:44, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Seen the light, eh? :P — Giggy 07:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Well, it's fun to take people away from adminy chores/writing an encyclopedia, so I'm afraid I'm going to trouble you to expand on why you've reversed your position ;) NuclearWarfare contact me My work 07:24, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
OH SICK!!!!!!! WHO DID THIS? WELL NOT THAT SICK BUT GROSS< I DON"T GET THIS IS FUNNY-- Spittlespat ( talk) 18:40, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey xeno do you think it's funny?(Maybe I guess I can go on Wikipedia sometimes-- Spittlespat ( talk) 00:28, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Ah, thanks for the tip about WP:BLANKING. My understanding was that messages could be removed, but formal admin templates (such as block messages) had to stay. I'd seen unblock templates restored in the past, and thought it applied to block messages as well. Thanks for clarifying! -- El on ka 15:55, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#To big to delete – iride scent 17:11, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at this. I believe the article is better in this state than what Pensil keeps doing. The image on the right isn't even a soul patch; it's a strip. Also, I discovered this. Let me know what you think. Enigma message 17:18, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Stolen
User:Washburnmav/header.
Washburnmav (
talk) 17:58, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
.oOo. technically there's not supposed to be a trailing pipe but to each his own i suppose!! =) p.s. I am slowing working on grading the permissions ass'n. – xeno ( talk) 18:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't think I have recently given these rights to anyone, is there something you are talking about in particular? Prodego talk 21:15, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno! Can you delete this subpage of mine? I'm getting quite tired of it, and I don't really need it either. Chamal Talk 01:13, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Has mr.green quit Wikipedia?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 01:29, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
He goes to school? Anyway Om my gosh! There are tons of mistake on Marie Curie I'm writing down a biography about Marie Curie and whoever made the article Marie Curie needs way more improvement!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 01:47, 20 August 2008 (UTC) p.s. You need to switch your status to online! =)-- Spittlespat ( talk) 01:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, just looked at the message you left at this user's talk page, thought this template might be of use to you in the future: {{ subst:helpme-nq}}~~~~ —— RyanLupin • (talk) 13:46, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
see this you like? «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 13:49, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I added a description of the new functionality. -- Danorton ( talk) 14:10, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
If I knew how I'd give you a barnstar for improving my day with your comments here. Although, I don't really have a clue what the discussion itself is about the use of "gorram" IRL made me smile like a Cheshire cat. Thank you. Jasynnash2 ( talk) 14:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [23]) Sorry, I've had it with these people. Using Twinkle to create hundreds of edit summaries that (1) viciously attack another editor and (2) contain a link to a browser-crashing obscene website is about as bad as it gets. Also, if you look at the contribution history of these IPs, they're all schools in England with nothing but vandalism and multiple prior blocks in their histories. NawlinWiki ( talk) 15:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Can you do histmerge from this article to this article?. -- SkyWalker ( talk) 16:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hmm it seems despite my best efforts to trump my addiction, I subconsciously did it anyway. Is there a vandals anonymous meeting I can attend? *Sigh* The first step is to admit you have a problem.... Washburnmav ( talk) 16:59, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [24]) Hello. Sure, go ahead. It seems to be non-controversial, just a technical issue. - Darwinek ( talk) 18:52, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Hi Xeno, just wanted to drop a quick thank you for your discussion to defend my proposal at the village pump. I appreciate it, especially the idea which you had to calm down the opposing admin. So Why 18:59, 20 August 2008 (UTC) |
for accepting my request at AWB, but it looks like I won't be needing it after all. Thanks anyway for being helpful once again. -- Lord Sunday 23:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, Can you undelete Image:Arctic incident.jpg, I have found an article it can go in. Thanks, Lego Kontribs Talk M 23:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, I need your help again if you don't mind. An editor is telling me that music reviews cannot be used because they are opinion pieces. Is this correct? The reviews in question are published by the Rolling stone, New York Times, etc. It is over the genre emo and consensus on the article is the genre is to be included. So if you can't use reviews from reliable, published, third-party sources such as these what can you? According to User:Something X using reviews are prohibited by WP:RS. Cheers, Landon1980 ( talk) 03:22, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Don't forget to check for TWINKLE captioning in articles :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 14:19, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
What do you think of this section? Seems like a somewhat long list, and it is kind of an eyesore. Is there a better way to format this/ should some be removed? Wanted a second opinion. Stalker opinions are of course also welcome (I know you're there...) Washburnmav ( talk) 16:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
[25] Warnings have been tried. He undoes them. Edit-warring across multiple pages. Enigma message 02:21, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Because my participation as a Wikipedia editor has been questioned, and if I continue as I have in the past, I can expect future challenges as well, I have begun a standing RfC in my user space, at User:Abd/RfC. There is also a specific incident RfC at User:Abd/RfC/8.11.08 block. I understand that you may not have time to participate directly; however, if you wish to be notified of any outcome from the general or specific RfC, or if you wish to identify a participant or potential participant as one generally trusted by you, or otherwise to indicate interest in the topic(s), please consider listing yourself at User:Abd/RfC/Proxy Table, and, should you so decide, naming a proxy as indicated there. Your designation of a proxy will not bind you, and your proxy will not comment or vote for you, but only for himself or herself; however, I may consider proxy designations in weighing comment in this RfC, as to how they might represent the general community. You may revoke this designation at any time. This RfC is for my own guidance as to future behavior and actions, it is advisory only, upon me and on participants. This notice is going to all those who commented on my Talk page in the period between my warning for personal attack, assumptions of bad faith, and general disruption, on August 11, 2008, until August 20, 2008. This is not a standard RfC; because it is for my advice, I assert authority over the process. However, initially, all editors are welcome, even if otherwise banned from my Talk space or from the project. Canvassing is permitted, as far as I'm concerned; I will regulate participation if needed, but do not spam. Notice of this RfC may be placed on noticeboards or wikiprojects, should any of you think this appropriate; however, the reason for doing this in my user space is to minimize disruption, and I am not responsible for any disruption arising from discussion of this outside my user space. Thanks for considering this. -- Abd ( talk) 02:51, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I hope you remember expressing serious concerns regarding category based WikiProject tagging by bots here. I made this FAQ list which tries to answer some of your concerns. Let me know if you have any questions . Thanks -- Tinu Cherian - 11:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the edits, it works perfectly. It could not believe how easy you made it looked, yet I could not work it out. Thanks again :-D -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 17:53, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Will you adopt me?-- Master of Pies ( talk) 23:21, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
can i take the exam on vandalism?-- Master of Pies ( talk) 00:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I am done. Go to the user subpage.-- Master of Pies ( talk) 01:06, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I noticed my edit count is grossly underestimated in the adoption center :P Washburnmav ( talk) 19:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner; I was at the New York state fair yesterday... As to your question, I dunno man. I'm not sure if it's possible to fix it without modifying the MediaWiki software. The problem is the server is parsing the "=" symbol to its ASCII hexadecimal value of "3d" when it processes the internal link (MediaWiki apparently urlencodes all internal links before rendering the html) and at the same time, the server won't recognize a link to a page such as http://pinataisland.info/viva/Arocknid#tab%3dTV_show where the "=" is replaced with "%3d" because the "=" in this case is part of a server-side command ( $_GET) that is processed before the "%3d" is parsed to display the "=". The only way I can think of to get around it is to use the full url of the tab. (GAAAA!!!!!!) sorry man, but I can't figure out any other way to get it to work. If it would help you, here's a link to the MediaWiki source code that parses internal links. Thingg ⊕ ⊗ 20:22, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Is this a reliable source?? Washburnmav ( talk) 22:10, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
A few questions (well, mostly the same question!) -- How do I get one of those status things at the top of the talk page? And, how does it work? Do you have to update it manually? Does a bot update it? Thanks John Sloan ( talk) 22:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
importScript(' User:Xenocidic/statusChanger2.js');
if (typeof(statusChangerConfig.statusList) == 'undefined') { statusChangerConfig.statusList = [ 'online', 'busy', 'around', 'offline' ];
^ this piece of code is what provides a user-definited statuslist. but I'm not sure what the end-user writes in their monobook to define it. – xeno ( talk) 14:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey xeno, this tickled my funny bone! You may wish to add it to your list of funnies :D -- Good day :-) John Sloan ( talk) 21:35, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
You know someones been adding CMR to alot of pages latly such as WP:BITE and WP:CVU. They have gotton it from my userspace because they have copied and pasted my dodgy syntax where variable 2 of the cquote template is Xenocidic. Just though you'd be chuffed ;) «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 12:02, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
It's on my userpage so start looking!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 01:39, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
How about trying to find my page without cheating?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 22:13, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a faster way to view someones contribs? Obviously some have subpages with it and whatnot but right now the only real way I have to view a user's or ip's contribs is to type the Special:Contributions/their name in my browser which is pretty slow. Sometimes names pop up with 'name(talk-contribs') but not often. Is there a faster way to do this, or a shortcut of some type? Washburnmav ( talk) 16:51, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Xeno, I need your help on this article. The same user is still deleting emo from the genres. He/she has atempted to remove emo for several months now. This is the same user that said reviews may not be used. Consensus on the article is that emo belongs. Consensus is also that reviews may be used on the thread the user started on the reliable source noticeboard. Several editors have warned this user about this. User:Neon white left him a warning as well and here is his response to the warning. This user has received warnings for personal attacks and for blanking in the past. Will you take a look and take whatever action you see appropriate? Landon1980 ( talk) 17:25, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey there Xeno. I was just wondering, exactly how do you upload pictures onto your userpage (or articles even)? I took some pictures of various F1 cars and I just wanted to display them on my userpage. Plus, is there anyway I can stop others from 'stealing' the pictures and claiming that they took them instead? Thanks if you have the time to respond :-) A Prodigy Talk 17:36, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure it is impossible. I tried the following in my sandbox: {{#ifeq: {{{t|no}}} | yes |{{User:Xenocidic/UBX/{{{1}}}|{{{2}}} }}| {{subst:User:Xenocidic/UBX/{{{1}}}{{!}}{{{2}}}}} }} and it works, sort of. {{subst:User:Thingg/sandbox|Xbox Live|thingg}} produces:
Unfortunately, the above code does this by producing the following wikitext: {{#ifeq: yes | yes |{{User:Xenocidic/UBX/Xbox Live|thingg }}| {{subst:User:Xenocidic/UBX/Xbox Live{{!}}thingg}} }}, which shows the correct userbox, but doesn't give you the correct wikitext. Also, {{User:Thingg/sandbox|Xbox Live|thingg}} simply produces the text "{{subst:User:Xenocidic/UBX/Xbox Live|thingg}}" without actually including the code from {{
User:Xenocidic/UBX/Xbox Live}}. It appears you can't "double substitute". :/ Anyway, thanks for the challenge. I always enjoy wrapping my brain around stuff, even when I fail.
Thingg
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i was wondering could u help me out with my article -- Daisy404 ( talk) 20:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)daisy404-- Daisy404 ( talk) 20:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
This decision of yours bothers me, and is the main reason I have stopped contributing to en.wp. The reason it bothers me is that two sides in a dispute were not treated equally, and I would like to give you a chance to explain. This is what I saw:
I repeat what I said then that the intention of my reverts was to take the dispute to the talk page, where it could be discussed and resolved without disruption to the article. If you see that as edit-warring that is fair enough. What I cannot understand is the unequal treatment. How do you justify it? Thunderbird2 ( talk) 12:23, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Given all that effort—and in addressing where T-bird should next go—it should come as no surprise that none of the three of us relish the notion of going into mediation. Why? Because compromise solutions are often the result in mediation. “Split-the-baby-down-the-middle” compromises were tried with the binary prefixes for much of the last three years and the result was that some articles used the unfamiliar and baffling “mebibyte” (MiB) whereas still other articles used the conventional terms like “megabyte” (MB). That was no way for an encyclopedia to operate—the term “megabyte” had a different meaning in different articles and even the proponents of the IEC prefixes agreed that they were entirely unfamiliar to the typical reader.
Now, several times in a variety of venues (T-bird forum-shops all over the place on this issue), I’ve challenged him not to mediation but to various forms of binding arbitration. My first challenge was here, where I suggested that we simply conduct a new huge, Wikipedia-wide vote on the issue and would have the debate and voting monitored by a three-member panel of arbitrators, who would merely ride herd to ensure the entire process was fairly conducted. In later challenges to T-bird and/or Tom94022, I proposed that the binding arbiters merely review the entire process that Headbomb did a Herculean effort overseeing ( B11, B12, and B13), and simply rule whether or not it was properly and fairly conducted.
Headbomb, Fnagaton, and I, between us, have probably 60 man-hours invested in responding to T-bird in the various forums ever since the new MOSNUM guideline was adopted. No rule in a decent and civilized society requires this much leaning backwards for one editor who simply won’t let go. How many additional hoops should the Wikipedia community have to jump through? May I draw your attention to something? Over the course of a single, fourteen-hour period, T-bird made 74 edits to his sandbox, where he maintains a list of articles “damaged” because they no longer use the IEC prefixes. It even has a list of 56 incidences of “harassment.” And now he is saying he will no longer participate in en.wp because—really—he’s simply not getting his way. This is beginning to look like an unhealthy obsession.
I would propose that rather than inviting T-bird yet another forum to exploit (WP:RFC), that you simply invite him to go to WT:MOSNUM and propose that we convert all of Wikipedia to the IEC prefixes. This is in keeping with Dweller’s philosophy of “What consenting mathematicians get up to behind closed doors is their business, but please don't do it in public.” The proposal would be simple: all articles would only use “kibibyte” (KiB) and “mebibyte” (MiB) for denoting binary memory. It wouldn’t matter if no other general-interest magazine uses such terminology, Wikipedia will Lead the way to a brighter and better future via example.®™© And we’d be more consistent than we’ve ever been before. When we are in edit mode on an article, up at top, it would say “This page is 76 kibibytes long.” Editors can teach their spell checkers to ignore these terms, since all spell checkers flag the IEC prefixes as unrecognizable and the latest Microsoft dictionary of computer terms (print edition) doesn’t have them either. Headbomb, Fnagaton, and I would be free to speak up too on WT:MOSNUM, but largely, we’ll try to let others respond to his proposal. I’m hoping you will see just how well received Thunderbird’s proposal will be. If he won’t “let it go” after that, I would submit that it is time to start dealing with T-bird in a way that decisively goes to the heart of the problem. There… another post because of T-bird. Make that 60.75 man-hours. Greg L ( talk) 00:43, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno. Can you do a newsletter delivery for WikiProject New Jersey for me? If so, the current issue is at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Newsletter/20080826 and the delivery list is at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Newsletter/Signup. Thanks. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 15:30, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey, check out the current discussion on the request an account talk page, we've having trouble trying to amend the acc template, regards —— RyanLupin • (talk) 08:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno
Would you mind giving me rollback right? I've mostly been fighting vandals recently and that would really be a big help for it. Since my english is not too good to really contribute with much article content (lacking all those fancy special expressions one needs to use to write high-level encyclopaedic articles...), that's one thing I can help out with quite well. I've had over 300 edits here, I also have more than 4000 Edits on dewiki and I do have "editor" rights there (which includes rollback). -- PaterMcFly ( talk) 15:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Xeno, would you mind deleting this page? It is a unnecessary page that is now a redirect to Vijendra Kumar. The IP creator has requested its deletion here. Thanks. Washburnmav ( talk) 19:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xenocidic. I posted a request on Philip's talk page and then saw your post on that same page about Proposal to discourage pagemove archiving. I didn't realize that this was controversial and do not know the ins and outs of the issue. I requested that the history of the archive pages for "Talk:List of events named massacres" be merged back into the main talk page (back into "Talk:List of events named massacres"). The history merge request is posted here. Since you seem to know the ins and outs of the issue, I think it would help to have your comments at the request. If you have a chance, please consider commenting here. Thanks. Suntag ( talk) 19:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello! In case you care of Wikipedia being fair and equal for anyone, you can pronounce at Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Image:Velasquez, Vosloo.jpg about an image that I uploaded, and later deleted, and for using this image I was blocked in Wikipedia. Seeing the blocker contributions, I found a similar image with similar propose and it wasn't delete neither the uploader blocked. I'm feeling discriminated in Wikipedia. Hoping you can help me, regards, Sdrtirs ( talk) 13:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I made the page Zachary David Pressley, I know it was complete nonsense but i needed to save a copy of my story somewhere where i could retrieve it later. I did not know about Sandbox at the time so if you could please send my a copy of that page i would greatly appreciate it. Absentzach ( talk) 15:19, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for handling recovery from the page vandalistic moves by Cyberdemon4. There appears to be one move left to undo, namely Good bacteria (& its talk page). I tried doing it myself, but lack the experience and/or proper tools. It awaits your attention. Hertz1888 ( talk) 19:29, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you offer your opinion on the grammar in the above article? It has been nommed for FL status but is encountering resistance as the list entries are not technically complete sentences. I believe personally that it reads well, and it follows the same format as the FL List of Telecaster players. Apparently there are also similar published lists that follow this format. The discussion can be found here and a little here. Stalker opinions are also welcome. Washburnmav ( talk) 18:03, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, can you re-instate my ACCT rights back on my account? I will be using it more often now. Thanks. -- eric (mailbox) 04:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno-
Well, it's been a month and it's time again for the Jewish Newsletter to be delivered. Shep hasn't edited in a few days so I'm not sure he will be able to have Shepbot deliver it. Can Xenobot do it again this time? Tonight would be great but I understand if that's not enough notice.
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Can you give me a copy of this deleted article, please. -- Wicked Cuyos
.... Yet again. StaticGull Talk 14:10, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy#Non-administrators adding blocking templates
Please review the above thread. Non-administrators should not be adding block templates, administrators will do so when appropriate. Also, this represents a personal attack. I see you have a history of being disruptive in this arena. There's no need to be taunting the users after you've had them blocked. – xeno ( talk) 12:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Seriously, how awesome is this? Enigma message 00:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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Awarded for creating the Admin dashboard. Enough said. J.delanoy gabs adds 04:28, 1 August 2008 (UTC) |
When I Usurped i tried to unify my account to all wikipedia projects and I was able to except for
--- Here Ford 16:28, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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thanks a lot for your help with my first effort!!!!! Travelingirl52 ( talk) 18:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is it very hard to read the 'cidic' on the default skin? Asenine 22:51, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the edit summary. Still a bit confused. What is the reasoning for leaving the parent account unblocked? User:Havesmite? Dbiel ( Talk)
Thanks for uploading
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Hello! Can you help me on this issue? How can I make this page as a source? Best regards, Sdrtirs ( talk) 23:26, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, SQLBot won't generate my admin stats on User:J.delanoy/dashboard. What am I doing wrong? J.delanoy gabs adds 03:02, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Priceless. " If you're going to troll at least have the decency to put it in the correct place" :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 06:48, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you welcomed me a couple of weeks back, and you said if I needed help I could ask you. Well, when I created my account I didn't realize you could put spaces in your name. I am wondering if it's possible to be renamed, and how to go about it. I created a new signature to match the username I'd like. Thanks for help. how do you turn this on 13:43, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, As you are a very experienced editor, could you please review me at my editor review? The link is at my userpage. Thanks, HeLLboy2HeLL ( talk) 04:46, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Maybe you should go to the article case closed there's a big discussion about if the article should be called detective conan or case closed you don't have to do it just my opinion-- Spittlespat ( talk) 17:50, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
[3] If nobody picks up on the Resident Evil reference here, I'll go crazy. Tell me you got that one? :-) -- Koji Dude (C) 14:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could delete a redirection page -- Kevin perria, it was nominated last month and it is really a horrible redirection page. Thanks. -- eric (mailbox) 21:26, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [4]) Hey zeno, on the top of my browser were my account and talk and preferences show i get the online,bust,around and offline indicators but on my page it says unknown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Plyhmrp ( talk • contribs) 21:37, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [5]) I can still do it manually through going to the status I want and writing online,offline, around or busy. -- Plyhmrp ( talk) 22:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC)Plyhmrp
I've left my comments on her talk page. I don't recommend an unblock, but I won't stop you if you feel it's appropriate. Hersfold non-admin( t/ a/ c) 22:55, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
I suspect we have different feelings about User talk:Snooky1's ability to contribute. I blocked indef as a vandal only account, while you were adding a warning template. I'm open to suggestions of an alternate approach. Kevin ( talk) 02:22, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [6]) Hi Xeno - thanks for the clarification and the update in regards to the notice I received initially. Also, if you are interested, there's now a mediation page for Tom's, which I requested. You can see the discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2008-08-02_Tom%27s_Hardware#Discussion (if you are interested).
/ Tuan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bom tuannguyen ( talk • contribs) 08:04, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Jeez you are watching arnt ye :P «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 16:22, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
← User:Prom3th3an/Mediation << check it out, Im using a different mantif to my adoption center but its still just as good. «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 16:47, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
dont make me trout slap you (jk) :P «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 14:28, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks to everyone who participated in
my RfA, regardless of their !vote. I have withdrawn the nomination as a failure at 19 supports, 45 opposes, and 9 neutral statements.
As has been written and sung, you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need — and what I need is to go back to working on our shared project. Not everyone has to be an admin; there is a role for each of us. After reflection, I feel I don't have the temperament to secure community consensus as an admin at any point, and I will not be applying again in the future — and hey, that's all right, 'cause I stay true to the philosophy that adminship is no big deal: I tried, I failed, and now I'll return to doing what I've always done. I have an extremely strong belief in the consensus process, and the consensus was clear. I will be devoting my energies to volunteering at MedCab and working up a complete series of articles on the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, among lord knows what else. Thanks again to everyone who spared the time to weigh in on this one. It was made in better faith than it probably seemed.
Mr. IP 《
Defender of Open Editing》 14:55, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Appreciate your participation at my RfA. In the end, things didn't work out, but I probably should have expected that. There's so many other ways to serve the project, and that's what I'll be doing. Glad you liked my answer to Q4...always a puzzler, that one. Cheers! Mr. IP 《 Defender of Open Editing》 14:55, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I encountered this situation while scanning recent changes: Is 'god' capitalized in articles as a whole? The article in question was not pertaining to god. Not sure if that has any relevance. Are there any guidelines pertaining to this? Seems like a potential revert war situation. Washburnmav ( talk) 15:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind taking a look to this image? It doesn't have a copyright tag but it says "Exact licensing still being cleared up; owner has nonetheless agreed to release the images sufficiently freely for Wikipedia's purposes". This image is still like this for almost 2 months. Thank you for your time! Best regards, Sdrtirs ( talk) 17:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
When you block someone with {{
spamusername}}
, are you supposed to enable autoblock and disable account creation?
J.delanoy
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Hi, Xeno.
I'm back after a month or so of editing. (It's only right to ask the admin who declined me before.)
I now have over 500 edits, though some of that is to the user space. I feel much more comfortable getting around and know WP policy a lot better.
I have gained experience using Twinkle and the undo button. Though I don't fight vandalism full-time, I patrol for it almost every time I'm on Wikipedia. I've now dabbled in many areas of Wikipedia that I can help out in.
With your permission, I would now like to start using Huggle. I understand that rollback is only for blatantly nonproductive edits, like obscenities and gibberish, and should not be used if there is any doubt about whether I should use it. If I do receive rollback, I'll go through
WP:New admin school/Rollback before using it for real.
(Full disclosure: I do know of one edit I made about a month and a half back that I realize I shouldn't have used Twinkle for, and I apologize for that. Don't worry--the bout of spiraling, guilt-ridden depression ;-) I suffered after realizing that I had stained my soul with a single improper Twinkling has more than taught me not to do that again. I have, per Wikipedia procedure, ironed my hands.)
Thank you for your time—I know you're busy. SunDragon34 ( talk) 18:25, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
This guy messaged me saying that he need help with his userpage and it's obvious he has been copying from my userpage so it's okay if I delete some of the things he copyied from me? Also thanks for helping me with my userpage, anyway how do i adopt captain elmo?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you...
...for participating in my RfA, which closed with 119 in support, 4 neutral and 5 opposes. I'm honestly overwhelmed at the level of support that I've received from the community, and will do my best to maintain the trust placed in me. I 'm also thankful to those who opposed or expressed a neutral position, for providing clear rationales and superb feedback for me to build on. I've set up a space for you to provide any further feedback or thoughts, should you feel inclined to. However you voted, thanks for taking the time out to contribute to the process, it's much appreciated. Kind regards, Gazi moff 21:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC) |
Is this (what he said re strikethrough) correct? Washburnmav ( talk) 21:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
He Xeno I just want ed to let you know I was gone for two weeks at Manasquan, NJ. Just wanted to let you know I m back. It's been pretty quiet without me huh.-- Ezekiel 7:19 †alk 14:24, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Good detective work =) – xeno ( talk) 22:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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That block you left on Shapiros's talkpage was fucking halarious(forgive my profanity). DOWN WITH VADAR. DAMN VADER!!! Gears of War 2 15:25, 5 August 2008 (UTC) |
(Re [7]) You mentioned an issue with my username. That issue was settled some time ago. Please check the history. I have had it for years. Thanks, though. Adminster ( talk) 19:20, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
There is a BLP problem with Warren Kinsella and thought I’d ask a few opinions. Warren Kinsella himself appears to have objected to the article (see evidence here) and seems to have written an explanation of his objections on my talk page. There is also a small related discussion at Talk:Warren Kinsella. I’d like to simply remove all material that has been objected to, as I strongly suspect the article over-represents criticism of Kinsella, but I’m not the best person to ask so I think a few other non-involved opinions are needed. I've protected the page due to an edit war that was occurring over this issue. If you'd like to look into this, hopefully a formal approach won't be needed. Okiefromokla questions? 19:25, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [8]) Thanks, I noticed the comment on the watchlist. I'll use {{ done}} next time; apologies, I'm used to using {{ already done}} quite a lot so it's a habit I must break! :) Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 20:12, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [9]) I copy & pasted what you suggested into my monobook.js, but it did'nt work. See my tests on my IP's talk page. Any chance you could fix it in my monobook? All your help is much appreciated! Thanks John Sloan ( talk) 20:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Although the twinkle did'nt uninstall, it still added the shared IP notice! But we tried and it could still have a delay. I'll see how it goes. Again thanks for the help and feel free to re-delete the IP talk page :-) John Sloan ( talk) 21:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I have just a started a cabal. I inviting you to join the cabal and please, visit the page, join if you like, and invite more people(also I have a bunch of bootleg German tickets that come with every thing I do! I love bootleg tickets!(dont tell 5-0). Gears of War 2 21:15, 5 August 2008 (UTC) Gears of War 2 21:18, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this 3RR report I filed? I'm an involved editor at this point. Thanks. Toddst1 ( talk) 22:43, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Xeno, I am trying to revitalize WikiProject New Jersey and was wondering if xenobot could do a user page message delivery for me? I have the message already set at WP:WikiProject New Jersey/Bulletin and there is a memebr list at WP:WikiProject New Jersey/Members. If this can be done, I'd appreciate not having to manually deliver 60 messages. I believe it should be substed because hopefully that page will get changed more often in the future. Thanks. Jim Miller See me | Touch me | Review me 22:48, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi there Xenocidic. I was wondering, do you know any users looking in for adoption? I'm currently looking for one adoptee, but the adoptees looking for adoption at the adoption page show quite a lot of inactive editors. Since you do adopt, I was wondering if you knew any users who would like to be adopted. Thanks, RyRy Public ( talk) 23:58, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Quick question. Is xenobot only approved for news delivery? I usually use Shep but he's offline due to health issues. I'm asking for a stub-sorting purpose. If not, can you recommend someone? Just not TinuCherian since his bot just did something for me and I don't want to seem greedy. Thanks! TravellingCari 01:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [11]) Thanks Xeno. Must say I do like the dashboard. Saw it another editor's userpage and was most impressed. That PAGESINCAT function is very useful. Happy Editing - Peripitus (Talk) 04:23, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Xeno. No one appears to have yet pointed out to you this edit by your bot. -- zzuuzz (talk) 12:29, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to get my userbox re vandalism on my talk page to be on the right under the archives box? Just for aesthetics. Washburnmav ( talk) 13:39, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Cheers for catching that earlier. Regards, WilliamH ( talk) 13:44, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was just wondering whether you are still going to work on Radio Wikipedia? StewieGriffin! • Talk Sign Listen 11:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Okay, we got a bit of feedback at WT:VG and a couple of thumbs down, she we be bold and go ahead and make the taskforce. Gears of War 2 13:55, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Do you think that qualifies for CSD per {{db-ad}}? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Prom3th3an ( talk • contribs) 11:04, August 6, 2008 (UTC)
(Re [12]) Start here and work you way forward. It's how I'm doing it (I didn't know he was de-sysopped). This is troubling, since I would estimate he has over 100 semiprotections just sitting around (lots for libel), no expiry date set or anything. I'm just doing it manually, but you could audit his protection log (which is very long). - Royalguard11( T) 19:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [13]) WorshipGuy22 ( talk) 20:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Terribly sorry, but could I trouble you for another delivery? The newest edition is located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Newsletter/20080806 if you are able to deliver it. ( Guyinblack25 talk 21:19, 6 August 2008 (UTC))
Hihi. Sorry, I wasn't aware they were endorsed by Rare - however, at the bottom of the home page, it says "PinataIsland.info is in no way affiliated with Rare® Ltd., Microsoft Game Studios, or 4Kids Entertainment.". I'm just wondering what the story is? Thanks! Fin © ™ 22:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
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The header says it all dude. Gears of War 2 17:15, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
importScript('User:Xenocidic/statusChanger2.js');
I want to thank you for adding this as a task for adoptees like myself. I often find myself wondering what I can do to help without knowing where to start and this is a great step for me to help and achieve at the same time. I realise this has taken a large amount of time and effort and I want to acknowledge that I appreciate what you have done. I aim to complete these exercises/edits over time and gain the experience and understanding needed to one day become an admin and also to become a better and more effective wiki user. Lympathy Talk 17:25, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [14]) Hi and thanx. I don't often use those citation formats because it can be performed simpler and without finding the template as I tried to do -- but for some reason, it didn't work. Do you know why? It fit the same format as the other citations, XYZ.com, but wouldn't format properly. DRosenbach ( Talk | Contribs) 20:40, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Done. Without Xenovention.
Useight (
talk) 04:46, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
hi i was wondering if u could send a copy of my recently deleted article (user:Essrko, otherwise termed Erik Steven Smith) to my email address please, im not completely sure y they deleted it, i guess i made it too professional looking and they thought that it was meant to be an actual article instead of my wiki-profile...oh well, i would just really appreciate a copy, thank you very much and have a wonderful day -Erik —Preceding unsigned comment added by Essrko ( talk • contribs) 04:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Since you're online, could you delete this picture? Thanks, HeLLboy2HeLL ( talk) 13:10, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Yep. Gwen Gale ( talk) 14:10, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear Xenocidic,
I have been here since 2004, and I would like to be an admin someday. I was wondering if you can briefly screen my account, and see if at this point, I make a good candidate for admin. If not, can you give me some pointers as to how I can become one? Thanks! Arbiteroftruth ( talk) 19:46, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [16]) Yes, it would be a good idea to do so. I'd say wait for a couple of weeks (fair enough?). I will find a co-sponsor, it's just I was so busy IRL lately that I couldn't spare the time. Arbiteroftruth ( talk) 16:55, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
how should I make icons and how long have I been to wikipedia?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
what's a guest book could I make or have one?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
So it's like making an article I type in user:spittlespat|spittlespat in the search box and then create it?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 02:06, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I made a User:Spittlespat/my guestbook page now what? How do I put it in my userpage how do I create a new tab that says my guestbook? Make sure to sign my guestbook-- Spittlespat ( talk) 23:56, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
How do you make a link? LOL I'm so stupid!!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 00:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey now! You fixed the same thing I was trying (unsuccessfully) to fix! Guess I'm not the only one who is OCD ;-). Wikiwikikid ( talk) 17:38, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
With AN/K now gone, I guess AN/X is about to get a little more popular? - Adolphus79 ( talk) 00:33, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Xeno, humor me here. Am I off my rocker for believing that even registered accounts should be given and then vandalize after a final warning before being blocked? Is there some kind of an unspoken precedence at AIV for not necessarily letting that happen? I've seen it happen far too often in the past 2 weeks to consider anything but two possibilities: 1. Admins often take action without really looking into things (shocking, right?), or 2. I'm completely out of the loop, having been an admin for only a couple of weeks. Your thoughts? Okiefromokla questions? 16:39, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello again. It looks as if the ABN AMRO is unlocked now. At the writing, the only new edits are positive ones in which the last remaining mentions of "ABN Amro" were corrected to ABN AMRO. So we should watch the article closely to avoid more edit and renaming wars. Steelbeard1 ( talk) 17:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
how do you search a pages history for a particular day. in my case WP:RfP on Dec. 3 2006. Here Ford 19:06, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I was editing your adoption page and I was going to make my edit count to 99 and then something wrong happened and it looks like vandalism will I get banned quickly turn it bakc normal, p.s. I don't really get your adoption class thing do I get to adopt someone?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 22:18, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm already adopted so why am I at your adoption page?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 22:33, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
ok got it-- Spittlespat ( talk) 22:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Sign my guest book, no one signed it so far except for usesight-- Spittlespat ( talk) 00:22, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Question for you at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/George The Dragon — Giggy 04:19, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Great to know that your only defense is "edit the target article so no one can oppose your consensus-less move". Your argument would be great in a discussion, not in IGNORING a discussion. - A Link to the Past (talk) 15:50, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
So these are basically tasks that I can do that cover the areas of being an editor? If so, I would like to do them! JTBX ( talk) 13:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you both. JTBX ( talk) 18:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xenocidic - Would you mind looking at the edit history of tagged.com? I fear an edit war is beginning and I'd appreciate your thoughts. Thanks Ucanlookitup ( talk) 13:20, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
I was just wondering, could you delete this page? Its because I have no use for it now. Thanks in advance!! From, H2H ( talk) 13:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [17]) Can you please redelete the page? It was created by me, is not used by anyone, and I want rid of it. CSD G7 applies; it doesn't have to be in my user space. It's deletion will not affect the MfD discussion. PC78 ( talk) 17:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi thanks for blocking this vandal, but I need some assistance with him, as he has been ip hopping for a while after his account got a temporary block. Could you perhaps examine his sock puppetry case please? [[User:Giani g|Giani g]] ( talk) 17:54, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
O btw he just changed ip again, he just reverted everything, k thanks for that advice. [[User:Giani g|Giani g]] ( talk) 18:01, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
this Giani G is clearly a pro indian editor he makes changes to pakistani articles and doesnt even allow changes to indian articles i will edit indian mountains and he will go on to revert please look deeper beyong religion and stop taking sides you may like india but as a editor you must be neutral. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.70.179 ( talk) 18:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
its not about content dispute this editor giani g is a nationalist indian who only targets pakistani articles with un sourced data and when i do the same to indian mountains he has a sissy fit i did have a acount but i forgot to sign in one day and edited without it and then giani g pounced my ip is dynamic if you know what that means and blocking me wont acheive nothing look at his biased editing first on pakistani mountains which are un referenced or i shall continue reverting no justice no peace cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.70.179 ( talk) 18:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
your not really paying attention look at his edits hes the biased editor dont revert my edits as he provides NO SOURCES please dont take sides. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.70.179 ( talk) 18:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Such a lovely diatribe, I was expecting nothing less, is everyone who disagrees with you Indian? You've used that "I forgot to sign in" excuse a lot, I already asked you to start the topic at the India and Pakistani project pages before diving into edit wars, and I will continue to revert till a new consensus is reached. [[User:Giani g|Giani g]] ( talk) 18:25, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
a consensus has been reached when you edited K2 ring any bells nationalist giani people actively reverted your claims on k2 and now your shift your un sourced claims to gasherbrum and other pakistani articles maybe you should get a taste of your own medicine and i should urge pakistani editors to target indian mountian how about that ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.235.17 ( talk) 18:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Go for it, I'm pretty sure the Pakistani editors feel the same way you do, as for this discussion, log into your account and continue it on MY talk page. [[User:Giani g|Giani g]] ( talk) 19:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you delete this image for me? It is here: Image:2004 stellar quake full.jpg. It was an honest mistake, and it has been uploaded to Commons. Thanks, -- Meld shal 21:14, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, i'm really interested in being adopted by you. You seem to have a lot of adoptees, so if you're full, can you recommend anyone else? -- The reason I want adoption is because I still feel Inexperienced here! After half a year and two accounts, i'm still not really above basic edits and vandalism clean up. Don't get me wrong, I like cleaning vandalism (amongst other things) to All Grown Up! related articles. But, I just feel like I could and should be doing more! Thanks for your time :-) John Sloan ( talk) 14:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
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Just thought I'd let you know that my Twinkle is now working exactly as I wanted. Thanks for the help with it and enjoy the cookie :-) John Sloan ( talk) 11:27, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Wasn't this done a little hastily? He only had 2 recent edits, and only one of those was truly vandalism. Washburnmav ( talk) 16:57, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno! I was wondering if you could do me a small favor and check out The Rising Tide (album). Thanks NuclearWarfare contact me My work 17:21, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
{{
admin dashboard}}
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J.delanoy
gabs
adds 17:31, 11 August 2008 (UTC)I am considering cleaning up Guitar tunings#Open tunings, and I encountered the list of musicians you see there. It seems unnecessary and I was going to get rid of it and instead add a sentence saying, "Open tunings are used by many famous musicians including blah, blah and blah." Just talk about 2 or 3. I wanted to get a second opinion before I delete such a hefty amount of information. I would also copy it to the talk page to have for reference. Your thoughts? Washburnmav ( talk) 18:50, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
I found this article at WP:RPP. I've mentioned it at the BLP noticeboard, but i'd like you to have a look at it as well. It clearly has multiple issues and i've placed a few tags on it. But this article could have more serious problems and could also be a candidate for deletion. Thanks John Sloan ( talk) 19:36, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Just a little note to say thankyou for participating in my successful RFA candidacy, which passed with 96 supports, 0 opposes, and 1 neutral. I am pleasantly taken aback by the amount of support for me to contribute in an administrative role and look forward to demonstrating that such faith is well placed. Regards, WilliamH ( talk) 09:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Found your name amongst the administrators who might provide copies of deleted articles. Might I trouble you for Offset Paperback Mfrs., Inc. and Pocono Academy Systems? Many thanks. Fazul ( talk) 15:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
"Adopt an Article"
What do yout think? «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 02:44, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Did you see someone offered to nominate me for RFA? I declined the offer of course but found it amusing none the less. «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 03:08, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, I wanted to thank you for adding the adoption lessons for us. I've been really busy the last few days and have yet to pick one to start on. I'm not sure which would benefit me the most. I want to eventually finish all of them though. Thanks again, they will be very helpful looks like. Cheers, Landon1980 ( talk) 02:58, 12 August 2008 (UTC).
My personal information troll is back, could you shoot me an email whenever you get a chance? - Adolphus79 ( talk) 06:42, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm working to put a dent in the copyedit backlog by attacking the long list of cleanup tags that have been incorrectly put on talk pages and transferring them to the article or removing them entirely. Is this a worthwhile effort? Washburnmav ( talk) 19:31, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
It ain't so. This is in response to this. A very funny edit summary, thanks for making me smile. -- Figureskatingfan ( talk) 20:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [18]) What?! I thought only admins could, after they decided if it needed to be deleted or not Ctjf83 Talk 22:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you move Talk:Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, to Talk:Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. The article is located at Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, and the talk page is at a redirect. I would not let me move over a redirect. Thanks Lego Kontribs Talk M 04:37, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi dear Xeno
I'm former Vespa64 and newly Amirreza (You helped me changing my username!)
After changing my UN I made some Contributions, but today when I wanted to sign in with my new UN this eror occured:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)
from within function "User::saveSettings". MySQL returned error "1062: Duplicate entry 'Vespa64' for key 2 (10.0.0.235)".
Retrieved from "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin"
Can you help me?
Thanks
Vespa64 (
talk) 15:45, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
We've discussed this at the VP, Please don't remove the guideline tag unless you've actually looked at the entire discussion about this page. Thank you
Neuro√
Logic 16:47, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey. I know we haven't talked in a while, but I found this really cool video today of an
F-35 Lightning II and I had to show it to someone.... (and yes, it is free)
Image:F-35 verticle landing.ogg
Now that's cool! btw, great job with all the admin stuff you've been doing. I really can't believe how good a job you do. I would say you're easily in the top 3 best admins on Wikipedia and maybe even the best one out there. Keep up the good work man.
Thingg
⊕
⊗ 17:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Xeno check your email. -- SkyWalker ( talk) 17:58, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Just thought I'd show you this. Steve Crossin Contact/ 24 03:57, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Decided that I'd answer this, as I don't intend to RFA. Anyways, given the fact that they had quite a history of vandalism, I'd be inclined to not unblock. The fact that they did have a constructive edit is a mitigating factor, however it doesn't really outweigh the previous vandalism that this user has done. However, if this was a user account, I'd offer them a {{
2nd chance}}
. I'm not sure if they can be offered to IP addresses. If they can, I'd be open to offering that, as well. The fact that they are somewhat apologetic is something I'd take into consideration, and the fact they did have a constructive edit adds to that. I'm all for assuming good faith and leniancy, but with a history of vandalism like they had, I'd be rather cautious to outright unblock them.
Steve Crossin
Contact/
24 03:55, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Is it stub b class, a class, etc. (Also what rate is my userpage)-- Spittlespat ( talk) 21:27, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
| bgcolor="#ffbbbb" | (row contents)
like so ^ – xeno ( talk) 22:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Wow... I never knew one question could turn into a discussion with alot of people Lol! =P -- Spittlespat ( talk) 18:01, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Haha you have good humor!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 18:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
actually I'm not a page stalker-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:07, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Captian Elmo is starting to think Wikipedia is a fansite making cool userpages etc. Maybe you can teach him a few tricks, how about you read his talk page first!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 18:10, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm just saying that maybe you could ask him if he wants to be adopted and that you could teahc him a few of your tricks that's all but he's really treating Wikipedia like a big game-- Spittlespat ( talk) 19:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
I met Captian Elmo in real life he's my friend it's just that when I call him he's says that he doesn't like editing and all he wants to do is find secret pages on Wikipedia so all I want you to do is help him just a little like try helping him into getting more edits and not just have fun if he wants to play he should go to Runescape but if he wants to edit he should go here, maybe get some more people to help discuss this!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 19:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC) I'm just asking, so are you going to help?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:21, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry i dragged you into this, you're right about not forcing them to edit He justs needs a little more time though I told you about this was only because I thought If you had an account you have to at least make some edits well guess I'm wrong!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 21:56, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Captian Elmo is finally editing maybe the message I sent him worked!, Also did you write the "Can't someone else do it?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:08, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
c.e. (captian elmo) called me saying he wants to be in your adoption class and I done some more edits so I probably have more edits then what you have put on your adoption page, how many eidts does c.e. have?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 20:38, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [19]) Ah I see. Sorry I had no knowledge of that, I'm still fairly new to 'Pedia. I thought it was a typo or something like that =| A Prodigy Talk 20:34, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Anish mishra here can teach me how to upload images —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anish mishra ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xenocidic ! You may adopt me. But I am irregular (due to school/homework). Query: Is Xenocidic a base or an acid......-- Renault ( talk) 16:40, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Is your watchlist working properly? Mine has reverted to how it was earlier today and all my recent contribs have disappeared! But the pages still show my contribs in their history. I'm very confused! John Sloan ( talk) 18:33, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Just finished clearing the cleanup backlog of improperly labeled talk pages. I'm pretty sure there were about 150 of them. Sigh. Yay for putting a microscopic dent in that backlog... Washburnmav ( talk) 19:32, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [20])
xeno, it looks like I need more help. I am trying to remove ALL the drafts that I created (with the exception of my Sandbox); however they do not seem to be disappearing. So far the only one which disappeared is the one labeled "Aftermath_draft" (or the one in which you inquired about several minutes ago). Will you continue to help me, please? I no longer see a real reason to keep the remaining nine (or so) drafts. I have tried removing them but they still seem to be around. I inserted {{db-userreq}} in everything. (Incidentally, as I recall, there is a way to remove the entire group as one. Would you point me again in the right direction with a link for those instructions ? A procedure such as "group" will undoubtedly be much better than the slow process I used.) Thanks. Hag2 ( talk) 19:44, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
User:Narutolovehinata5/Page_nursery/No.2 article I am making may need more references, and may need expansion. But I am too busy to do it all. Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 12:23, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Come on IRC «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 14:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
made it simple Renaulte 15:49, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Raw isgnature was enabled :( Renaulte ( talk) 15:53, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Do you know this fellow BlueDevil :( musslim :(......Who i am accusesd as sock by prom3 Renaulte ( talk) 15:59, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
DoneNow I am testing my skills on bionictest...as a sysop :) Even I do not do IRC nor I know beyond google talk :)
Renaulte (
talk) 17:24, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I have heard of things called Bots. How can I get one of these. My job on Wikipedia is to find vandalism and sockpuppets. A bot will help.-- Master of Pies ( talk) 17:37, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I have a suspicion that this is a sock puppet. Reminds me of GENIUS(4th power). First edits being to your userpage and talk page, asking for rollback immediately, and immediately finding xenocidic are hardly typical traits of a newbie. Tombomp ( talk/ contribs) 19:04, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I am just here to say a few things.
-- Master of Pies ( talk) 21:15, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [21]) Thanks for the heads-up on my signature - I didn't realise there was a limit - well, I must have done (subconciously) to subst it - but on reading WP:SIG I realise the reasons! I've shortened the markup and now it doesn't take up a load of space in the edit window. Cheers! Booglamay ( talk) - 20:46, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi xeno, i reworked the madhukar article and added references and sources. It´s really perfect now. how to put it back into mainspace? Thanks a lot Syb ( talk) 14:07, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting the vandal on my talk page! -- ɔɹǝɐɯʎ! Talk 12:26, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Read my updated (and better looking) userpage to find out my active schedule on Wikipedia it has something to do with school-- Spittlespat ( talk) 19:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC) Could you help me make a my link thing on my userpage and talk page I just can't seem how to make them if you don;t get what I'm talking I'll explain, it's basically like the thing on top that says my contributions my wacthlist, etc. But I want to put up two new things my vandalize ME! page and my guestbook (p.s. I don't care about what style you do just make it so it macthes my userpage-- Spittlespat ( talk) 00:22, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Xeno, thank you for your contribution to the discussion at my recent RfA and in particular for making mention of my attempts to rescue articles. Thanks again for the NSFW question too! If ever you have any concerns about my actions, adminly or otherwise, don't hesitate to let me know. Best wishes, Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 20:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
For recognisinig contibutors worthy of gold, silver and bronze wiki's. What u think? «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 11:19, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi xeno, are you going to ask your RfA question at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/It Is Me Here? If not, would you be okay with me asking it? Thanks John Sloan ( talk) 16:32, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
{{subst:User:Xenocidic/RFAQ|#|~~~ or other name link|Optional prefix text}}
FYI, Xeno, I stole your question too. :) Sorry! Haha. I put it on the newest RfA. Feel free to take a look. Glass Cobra 11:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. How do you rate an article that is not rated by its Wikiproject? (In other words, how do you rate an article that is just out there on its own?)
I can't find any instructions other than the ones to rate the article on its Wikiproject template. Thanks.
SunDragon34 (
talk) 23:19, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey Xeno. Sorry to seem "lazy" (it's actually usually a stupidity thing), but I used to have tabs up top that let me create an AfD with ease. After this recent spate of monobook changes, they seem to be gone. I went through the history, and I'm not sure what change fucked it up... any ideas? Tan ǀ 39 00:14, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
importScript('User:AzaToth/twinklexfd.js');
Is just hilarious! Shot info ( talk) 00:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Is this warning for this edit out of place. I'm told it is, so if it in fact is unwarranted I tend to remove it. Landon1980 ( talk) 02:44, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Seen the light, eh? :P — Giggy 07:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Well, it's fun to take people away from adminy chores/writing an encyclopedia, so I'm afraid I'm going to trouble you to expand on why you've reversed your position ;) NuclearWarfare contact me My work 07:24, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
OH SICK!!!!!!! WHO DID THIS? WELL NOT THAT SICK BUT GROSS< I DON"T GET THIS IS FUNNY-- Spittlespat ( talk) 18:40, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey xeno do you think it's funny?(Maybe I guess I can go on Wikipedia sometimes-- Spittlespat ( talk) 00:28, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Ah, thanks for the tip about WP:BLANKING. My understanding was that messages could be removed, but formal admin templates (such as block messages) had to stay. I'd seen unblock templates restored in the past, and thought it applied to block messages as well. Thanks for clarifying! -- El on ka 15:55, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#To big to delete – iride scent 17:11, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at this. I believe the article is better in this state than what Pensil keeps doing. The image on the right isn't even a soul patch; it's a strip. Also, I discovered this. Let me know what you think. Enigma message 17:18, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Stolen
User:Washburnmav/header.
Washburnmav (
talk) 17:58, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
.oOo. technically there's not supposed to be a trailing pipe but to each his own i suppose!! =) p.s. I am slowing working on grading the permissions ass'n. – xeno ( talk) 18:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't think I have recently given these rights to anyone, is there something you are talking about in particular? Prodego talk 21:15, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno! Can you delete this subpage of mine? I'm getting quite tired of it, and I don't really need it either. Chamal Talk 01:13, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Has mr.green quit Wikipedia?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 01:29, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
He goes to school? Anyway Om my gosh! There are tons of mistake on Marie Curie I'm writing down a biography about Marie Curie and whoever made the article Marie Curie needs way more improvement!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 01:47, 20 August 2008 (UTC) p.s. You need to switch your status to online! =)-- Spittlespat ( talk) 01:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, just looked at the message you left at this user's talk page, thought this template might be of use to you in the future: {{ subst:helpme-nq}}~~~~ —— RyanLupin • (talk) 13:46, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
see this you like? «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 13:49, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I added a description of the new functionality. -- Danorton ( talk) 14:10, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
If I knew how I'd give you a barnstar for improving my day with your comments here. Although, I don't really have a clue what the discussion itself is about the use of "gorram" IRL made me smile like a Cheshire cat. Thank you. Jasynnash2 ( talk) 14:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [23]) Sorry, I've had it with these people. Using Twinkle to create hundreds of edit summaries that (1) viciously attack another editor and (2) contain a link to a browser-crashing obscene website is about as bad as it gets. Also, if you look at the contribution history of these IPs, they're all schools in England with nothing but vandalism and multiple prior blocks in their histories. NawlinWiki ( talk) 15:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Can you do histmerge from this article to this article?. -- SkyWalker ( talk) 16:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hmm it seems despite my best efforts to trump my addiction, I subconsciously did it anyway. Is there a vandals anonymous meeting I can attend? *Sigh* The first step is to admit you have a problem.... Washburnmav ( talk) 16:59, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
(Re [24]) Hello. Sure, go ahead. It seems to be non-controversial, just a technical issue. - Darwinek ( talk) 18:52, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Hi Xeno, just wanted to drop a quick thank you for your discussion to defend my proposal at the village pump. I appreciate it, especially the idea which you had to calm down the opposing admin. So Why 18:59, 20 August 2008 (UTC) |
for accepting my request at AWB, but it looks like I won't be needing it after all. Thanks anyway for being helpful once again. -- Lord Sunday 23:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, Can you undelete Image:Arctic incident.jpg, I have found an article it can go in. Thanks, Lego Kontribs Talk M 23:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, I need your help again if you don't mind. An editor is telling me that music reviews cannot be used because they are opinion pieces. Is this correct? The reviews in question are published by the Rolling stone, New York Times, etc. It is over the genre emo and consensus on the article is the genre is to be included. So if you can't use reviews from reliable, published, third-party sources such as these what can you? According to User:Something X using reviews are prohibited by WP:RS. Cheers, Landon1980 ( talk) 03:22, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Don't forget to check for TWINKLE captioning in articles :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 14:19, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
What do you think of this section? Seems like a somewhat long list, and it is kind of an eyesore. Is there a better way to format this/ should some be removed? Wanted a second opinion. Stalker opinions are of course also welcome (I know you're there...) Washburnmav ( talk) 16:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
[25] Warnings have been tried. He undoes them. Edit-warring across multiple pages. Enigma message 02:21, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Because my participation as a Wikipedia editor has been questioned, and if I continue as I have in the past, I can expect future challenges as well, I have begun a standing RfC in my user space, at User:Abd/RfC. There is also a specific incident RfC at User:Abd/RfC/8.11.08 block. I understand that you may not have time to participate directly; however, if you wish to be notified of any outcome from the general or specific RfC, or if you wish to identify a participant or potential participant as one generally trusted by you, or otherwise to indicate interest in the topic(s), please consider listing yourself at User:Abd/RfC/Proxy Table, and, should you so decide, naming a proxy as indicated there. Your designation of a proxy will not bind you, and your proxy will not comment or vote for you, but only for himself or herself; however, I may consider proxy designations in weighing comment in this RfC, as to how they might represent the general community. You may revoke this designation at any time. This RfC is for my own guidance as to future behavior and actions, it is advisory only, upon me and on participants. This notice is going to all those who commented on my Talk page in the period between my warning for personal attack, assumptions of bad faith, and general disruption, on August 11, 2008, until August 20, 2008. This is not a standard RfC; because it is for my advice, I assert authority over the process. However, initially, all editors are welcome, even if otherwise banned from my Talk space or from the project. Canvassing is permitted, as far as I'm concerned; I will regulate participation if needed, but do not spam. Notice of this RfC may be placed on noticeboards or wikiprojects, should any of you think this appropriate; however, the reason for doing this in my user space is to minimize disruption, and I am not responsible for any disruption arising from discussion of this outside my user space. Thanks for considering this. -- Abd ( talk) 02:51, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I hope you remember expressing serious concerns regarding category based WikiProject tagging by bots here. I made this FAQ list which tries to answer some of your concerns. Let me know if you have any questions . Thanks -- Tinu Cherian - 11:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the edits, it works perfectly. It could not believe how easy you made it looked, yet I could not work it out. Thanks again :-D -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 17:53, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Will you adopt me?-- Master of Pies ( talk) 23:21, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
can i take the exam on vandalism?-- Master of Pies ( talk) 00:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I am done. Go to the user subpage.-- Master of Pies ( talk) 01:06, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I noticed my edit count is grossly underestimated in the adoption center :P Washburnmav ( talk) 19:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner; I was at the New York state fair yesterday... As to your question, I dunno man. I'm not sure if it's possible to fix it without modifying the MediaWiki software. The problem is the server is parsing the "=" symbol to its ASCII hexadecimal value of "3d" when it processes the internal link (MediaWiki apparently urlencodes all internal links before rendering the html) and at the same time, the server won't recognize a link to a page such as http://pinataisland.info/viva/Arocknid#tab%3dTV_show where the "=" is replaced with "%3d" because the "=" in this case is part of a server-side command ( $_GET) that is processed before the "%3d" is parsed to display the "=". The only way I can think of to get around it is to use the full url of the tab. (GAAAA!!!!!!) sorry man, but I can't figure out any other way to get it to work. If it would help you, here's a link to the MediaWiki source code that parses internal links. Thingg ⊕ ⊗ 20:22, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Is this a reliable source?? Washburnmav ( talk) 22:10, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
A few questions (well, mostly the same question!) -- How do I get one of those status things at the top of the talk page? And, how does it work? Do you have to update it manually? Does a bot update it? Thanks John Sloan ( talk) 22:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
importScript(' User:Xenocidic/statusChanger2.js');
if (typeof(statusChangerConfig.statusList) == 'undefined') { statusChangerConfig.statusList = [ 'online', 'busy', 'around', 'offline' ];
^ this piece of code is what provides a user-definited statuslist. but I'm not sure what the end-user writes in their monobook to define it. – xeno ( talk) 14:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey xeno, this tickled my funny bone! You may wish to add it to your list of funnies :D -- Good day :-) John Sloan ( talk) 21:35, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
You know someones been adding CMR to alot of pages latly such as WP:BITE and WP:CVU. They have gotton it from my userspace because they have copied and pasted my dodgy syntax where variable 2 of the cquote template is Xenocidic. Just though you'd be chuffed ;) «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 12:02, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
It's on my userpage so start looking!-- Spittlespat ( talk) 01:39, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
How about trying to find my page without cheating?-- Spittlespat ( talk) 22:13, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a faster way to view someones contribs? Obviously some have subpages with it and whatnot but right now the only real way I have to view a user's or ip's contribs is to type the Special:Contributions/their name in my browser which is pretty slow. Sometimes names pop up with 'name(talk-contribs') but not often. Is there a faster way to do this, or a shortcut of some type? Washburnmav ( talk) 16:51, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Xeno, I need your help on this article. The same user is still deleting emo from the genres. He/she has atempted to remove emo for several months now. This is the same user that said reviews may not be used. Consensus on the article is that emo belongs. Consensus is also that reviews may be used on the thread the user started on the reliable source noticeboard. Several editors have warned this user about this. User:Neon white left him a warning as well and here is his response to the warning. This user has received warnings for personal attacks and for blanking in the past. Will you take a look and take whatever action you see appropriate? Landon1980 ( talk) 17:25, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey there Xeno. I was just wondering, exactly how do you upload pictures onto your userpage (or articles even)? I took some pictures of various F1 cars and I just wanted to display them on my userpage. Plus, is there anyway I can stop others from 'stealing' the pictures and claiming that they took them instead? Thanks if you have the time to respond :-) A Prodigy Talk 17:36, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure it is impossible. I tried the following in my sandbox: {{#ifeq: {{{t|no}}} | yes |{{User:Xenocidic/UBX/{{{1}}}|{{{2}}} }}| {{subst:User:Xenocidic/UBX/{{{1}}}{{!}}{{{2}}}}} }} and it works, sort of. {{subst:User:Thingg/sandbox|Xbox Live|thingg}} produces:
Unfortunately, the above code does this by producing the following wikitext: {{#ifeq: yes | yes |{{User:Xenocidic/UBX/Xbox Live|thingg }}| {{subst:User:Xenocidic/UBX/Xbox Live{{!}}thingg}} }}, which shows the correct userbox, but doesn't give you the correct wikitext. Also, {{User:Thingg/sandbox|Xbox Live|thingg}} simply produces the text "{{subst:User:Xenocidic/UBX/Xbox Live|thingg}}" without actually including the code from {{
User:Xenocidic/UBX/Xbox Live}}. It appears you can't "double substitute". :/ Anyway, thanks for the challenge. I always enjoy wrapping my brain around stuff, even when I fail.
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i was wondering could u help me out with my article -- Daisy404 ( talk) 20:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)daisy404-- Daisy404 ( talk) 20:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
This decision of yours bothers me, and is the main reason I have stopped contributing to en.wp. The reason it bothers me is that two sides in a dispute were not treated equally, and I would like to give you a chance to explain. This is what I saw:
I repeat what I said then that the intention of my reverts was to take the dispute to the talk page, where it could be discussed and resolved without disruption to the article. If you see that as edit-warring that is fair enough. What I cannot understand is the unequal treatment. How do you justify it? Thunderbird2 ( talk) 12:23, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Given all that effort—and in addressing where T-bird should next go—it should come as no surprise that none of the three of us relish the notion of going into mediation. Why? Because compromise solutions are often the result in mediation. “Split-the-baby-down-the-middle” compromises were tried with the binary prefixes for much of the last three years and the result was that some articles used the unfamiliar and baffling “mebibyte” (MiB) whereas still other articles used the conventional terms like “megabyte” (MB). That was no way for an encyclopedia to operate—the term “megabyte” had a different meaning in different articles and even the proponents of the IEC prefixes agreed that they were entirely unfamiliar to the typical reader.
Now, several times in a variety of venues (T-bird forum-shops all over the place on this issue), I’ve challenged him not to mediation but to various forms of binding arbitration. My first challenge was here, where I suggested that we simply conduct a new huge, Wikipedia-wide vote on the issue and would have the debate and voting monitored by a three-member panel of arbitrators, who would merely ride herd to ensure the entire process was fairly conducted. In later challenges to T-bird and/or Tom94022, I proposed that the binding arbiters merely review the entire process that Headbomb did a Herculean effort overseeing ( B11, B12, and B13), and simply rule whether or not it was properly and fairly conducted.
Headbomb, Fnagaton, and I, between us, have probably 60 man-hours invested in responding to T-bird in the various forums ever since the new MOSNUM guideline was adopted. No rule in a decent and civilized society requires this much leaning backwards for one editor who simply won’t let go. How many additional hoops should the Wikipedia community have to jump through? May I draw your attention to something? Over the course of a single, fourteen-hour period, T-bird made 74 edits to his sandbox, where he maintains a list of articles “damaged” because they no longer use the IEC prefixes. It even has a list of 56 incidences of “harassment.” And now he is saying he will no longer participate in en.wp because—really—he’s simply not getting his way. This is beginning to look like an unhealthy obsession.
I would propose that rather than inviting T-bird yet another forum to exploit (WP:RFC), that you simply invite him to go to WT:MOSNUM and propose that we convert all of Wikipedia to the IEC prefixes. This is in keeping with Dweller’s philosophy of “What consenting mathematicians get up to behind closed doors is their business, but please don't do it in public.” The proposal would be simple: all articles would only use “kibibyte” (KiB) and “mebibyte” (MiB) for denoting binary memory. It wouldn’t matter if no other general-interest magazine uses such terminology, Wikipedia will Lead the way to a brighter and better future via example.®™© And we’d be more consistent than we’ve ever been before. When we are in edit mode on an article, up at top, it would say “This page is 76 kibibytes long.” Editors can teach their spell checkers to ignore these terms, since all spell checkers flag the IEC prefixes as unrecognizable and the latest Microsoft dictionary of computer terms (print edition) doesn’t have them either. Headbomb, Fnagaton, and I would be free to speak up too on WT:MOSNUM, but largely, we’ll try to let others respond to his proposal. I’m hoping you will see just how well received Thunderbird’s proposal will be. If he won’t “let it go” after that, I would submit that it is time to start dealing with T-bird in a way that decisively goes to the heart of the problem. There… another post because of T-bird. Make that 60.75 man-hours. Greg L ( talk) 00:43, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno. Can you do a newsletter delivery for WikiProject New Jersey for me? If so, the current issue is at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Newsletter/20080826 and the delivery list is at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Newsletter/Signup. Thanks. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 15:30, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey, check out the current discussion on the request an account talk page, we've having trouble trying to amend the acc template, regards —— RyanLupin • (talk) 08:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno
Would you mind giving me rollback right? I've mostly been fighting vandals recently and that would really be a big help for it. Since my english is not too good to really contribute with much article content (lacking all those fancy special expressions one needs to use to write high-level encyclopaedic articles...), that's one thing I can help out with quite well. I've had over 300 edits here, I also have more than 4000 Edits on dewiki and I do have "editor" rights there (which includes rollback). -- PaterMcFly ( talk) 15:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Xeno, would you mind deleting this page? It is a unnecessary page that is now a redirect to Vijendra Kumar. The IP creator has requested its deletion here. Thanks. Washburnmav ( talk) 19:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xenocidic. I posted a request on Philip's talk page and then saw your post on that same page about Proposal to discourage pagemove archiving. I didn't realize that this was controversial and do not know the ins and outs of the issue. I requested that the history of the archive pages for "Talk:List of events named massacres" be merged back into the main talk page (back into "Talk:List of events named massacres"). The history merge request is posted here. Since you seem to know the ins and outs of the issue, I think it would help to have your comments at the request. If you have a chance, please consider commenting here. Thanks. Suntag ( talk) 19:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello! In case you care of Wikipedia being fair and equal for anyone, you can pronounce at Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Image:Velasquez, Vosloo.jpg about an image that I uploaded, and later deleted, and for using this image I was blocked in Wikipedia. Seeing the blocker contributions, I found a similar image with similar propose and it wasn't delete neither the uploader blocked. I'm feeling discriminated in Wikipedia. Hoping you can help me, regards, Sdrtirs ( talk) 13:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I made the page Zachary David Pressley, I know it was complete nonsense but i needed to save a copy of my story somewhere where i could retrieve it later. I did not know about Sandbox at the time so if you could please send my a copy of that page i would greatly appreciate it. Absentzach ( talk) 15:19, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for handling recovery from the page vandalistic moves by Cyberdemon4. There appears to be one move left to undo, namely Good bacteria (& its talk page). I tried doing it myself, but lack the experience and/or proper tools. It awaits your attention. Hertz1888 ( talk) 19:29, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you offer your opinion on the grammar in the above article? It has been nommed for FL status but is encountering resistance as the list entries are not technically complete sentences. I believe personally that it reads well, and it follows the same format as the FL List of Telecaster players. Apparently there are also similar published lists that follow this format. The discussion can be found here and a little here. Stalker opinions are also welcome. Washburnmav ( talk) 18:03, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, can you re-instate my ACCT rights back on my account? I will be using it more often now. Thanks. -- eric (mailbox) 04:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Xeno-
Well, it's been a month and it's time again for the Jewish Newsletter to be delivered. Shep hasn't edited in a few days so I'm not sure he will be able to have Shepbot deliver it. Can Xenobot do it again this time? Tonight would be great but I understand if that's not enough notice.
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