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Galiano Pic's

Thanks, I'm kind of an amateur, just got a new camera a couple months ago. I'm just trying to get my bearing's on Wikipedia as I may be more of a contributor in the near future.

And about Wikipedia Commons, the last time I attempted uploading a picture onto the commons it seemed to be very complicated. I don't knwo if I'm dellusional or what! Any help with such things would be greatly appreciated. As you can see I contributed more to the Galiano article in terms of text. I intenend to do more as I know quite a bit about the Island as I have been going there every summer for my whole life. Gfrankson 21:05, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: BNS Vandalism

Thanks, I believe students are messing around at school, I think it would be best to block them anyway....i think its been done to some computers already anyway. If a lot more happens i'll contact you, thanks. Alex anaya 06:54, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Hispanic

I'm not sure what you mean. Would you like to post your message again on my talk page. Al-Andalus 07:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC).

I was in the process of moving that content up the page a few sections. One second away from doing it before you reverted. It's still there. Al-Andalus 07:37, 10 April 2006 (UTC).

RFA congratulations

I'm late, I know. I went ahead and unblocked that one guy (you know). Probably wouldn't have held water anyway. But the fact remains he's a frigging troll, so, whatever. — Apr. 10, '06 [09:55] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Tawkerbot2's Server

Went down (ahhhhhhhhhh) - I'm working on it but its taking a little time -- Tawker 06:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thx - and good luck getting it up again. Trödel 11:02, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

PS - congratulations on your RfA - go forth and do good everywhere ;) - Trödel 11:10, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Should be up Real Soon Now™ joshbuddy^talk 06:46, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Tawker! First, congratulations on the mop and broom. Second, thanks for the note on the scanner. I'm not sure what is up with those Saudi IPs--they seem to be part of a range but I don't know if security is still compromised there or not (obviously it was a month ago since squidward was able to use several of them). I unblocked two of the IPs as a courtesy to the person who posted to the noticeboard. Cheers! Antandrus (talk) 14:25, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

It's about time!

Finally! I was wondering how long it would take for you to become an admin. :) --69.145.122.209 23:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the unblock of 125.236.44.45. Brian | (Talk) 01:05, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep I'll do it :), um I have a Windows Machine, matter? Brian | (Talk) 01:19, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Okay, cool, I'll still give it a go :) Brian | (Talk) 01:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

"Give me five on the soul side"

Well, I've added another quote and three more references to the entry on Wiktionary for a total of two quotes and five references. Are you convinced yet that it is a real expression?--Primetime 05:58, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. No one on Wiktionary has admitted the same. However, it looks as if no one is restoring it. Since it is still going through an RFV, could you restore it? All you would have to do is unprotect the page and copy the entry I posted on Wiktionary:WT:RFV into it.--Primetime 18:12, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Check this out...

Hi Tawker! How's it going? Check out the history of this article. I think there might have been a false positive. Take a real close look :-) --HappyCamper 22:45, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

FIPS Place code deletions are not vandalism

I have been told the sub pages for FIPS Place code constitute (1) pages that are too big; (2) non-encyclopedic content; (3) original material. None of which I agree with, but since people don't want my content here, I am marking it for removal. I'm sick and tired of trying to make this encyclopedia better when my contributions are unwanted. So I'm removing the contributions in order to solve the problem.

I am marking the pages for deletion due to the disagreement as I have decided to get rid of the objections by getting rid of the pages. This is not vandalism, these pages have been dereferenced and I am marking them for deletion since people don't want them around.

Thanyou

Thankyou dearly Tawker for assisting with my block troubles.

A Barnstar!

The Jazzter of Righteousness For adhering to moral principles, I award you this Jazzter. Congradulations, √αʑʑρεɾ

You shall forever be a friend of mine. - √αʑʑρεɾ 02:52, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

70.174.26.71 Vandalism

User 70.174.26.71 is constantly vandalizing German as a minority language. I've reverted it a few times but 70.174.26.71 continues. I've already given 70.174.26.71 warnings. Please look into this matter ASAP.—GH 03:04, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

As of now, 70.174.26.71 seems to be temporarily blocked.—GH 03:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

lol :P—GH 03:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

142.22.16.58

Hello. I saw in the block log that you are sometimes on this IP. That is why I only did a 3 hour block. I just wanted to stop the immediate vandalism, since the vandal was ignoring the warnings. I'll probably go for an even shorter block the next time I see this. -- JamesTeterenko 03:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for unblocking me. You know, my opinion is that Wikipedia should not do IP blocks. This is because, yes, very often, many different people share a computer. If one of these people vandalizes, in this case my brother, everybody else who uses that computer will also be blocked (if it is an IP block, that is). But once again, thanks. FLaRN2005 (talk) 12:50, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Congrats

You are a classy guy, Tawker. Thanks for the barnstar, and please accept my congratulations on being made an admin. Please feel free to drop me a note or call on me if you ever need anything. --Krich (talk) 17:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

A public challenge: Can someone make a copyright problems bot?

As an admirer of your Tawkerbot for dealing with vandalism, I wanted to bring your attention to a comment I've made at Administrators Noticeboard. To sum up, there is always a massive backlog at Wikipedia:Copyright_problems. The reason I know that no other admins like working this page is because the work is incredibly tedious, resulting in a two-week backlog. Very few of the copyright problems on the page require any insight--they are blatant violations with the original url in the copyright violation template. Because of this, I'm challenging everyone who has made a Wikipedia bots to see if someone can create a bot that would examine pages with the {{subst:article-cv|Article Title Here}}, compare the copy on the page with the link to the supposed original page, and then either delete the article if there is a match or remove the copyright violation template if there isn't. Any articles that are not a close match could be left for a human admins to examine. However, if the bot could catch most of the 80-90% of copyright violations that are extremely blatent, we admins would be able to get a handle on this extremely important issue. As an incentive, I will publically award a "Grand Poo-Bah of Bot Designers" award to the first person who creates a workable copyright violation bot. Any thoughts on this? If so, feel free to make them at Administrators Noticeboard. Best, --Alabamaboy 00:18, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again

Thanks Tawker. I appreciate the speed with which you responded to my request. Now that I've reviewed the history on Religious conversion I can see why my IP was suspect. Pierre 209.68.1.229 04:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Indents

Dear Tawker,

This is a relatively minor issue and I'm somewhat embarrassed to ask the question, but is there a reason you often over-indent your replies to others' messages? I've noticed that sometimes your replies are even indented almost to the center of the page when replying to a post with just a single indent/bullet. I'm all for individuality and such where signatures, message styles etc are concerned, but this particular habit is hard to overlook because it makes it very confusing to follow a thread in extended discussions. Please look into this. Thanks —Encephalon 08:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Delete

Hi Tawker, here's a few more that could warrant from the speedy delete process: sex kitten, rufaro, Ross (Anglo-Cantonese slang), reniform, Ravestar. --Dangherous 09:38, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

TawkerbotC

I just didn't like the rather presumptive manner the thread was proceeding in, with one editor offering to sweep any objections under the carpet, and then a new account specifically for being a copyvio bot. It's really not a great idea to do this kind of thing by bot; particularly not to handle deletions that way. We'd only find a heap of people on DRV complaining that their 'hard' work had been eaten alive by some automated process that was unable to provide an explanation. Now, at least, we can seek an intelligent explanation of why an action was done. Anyway, there is a significant amount of opposition on ANI now, and I imagine that for now is enough to squelch the idea of doing this by bot. -Splash^talk 11:02, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Splash, please see my comment on the admin noticeboard. As I said there, my reference to combative editors was meant to refer to people who insult instead of discuss and that it did not refer to anyone in the discussion. My apologies for not being more precise and for any insult you saw in my statement. Also, I have no intention to be the "one editor offering to sweep any objections under the carpet." As I've already said in the discussion, since there is strong opposition to any bot deleting articles then we should not allow that to happen. However, if a bot could allow a human admin to more easily deal with the large backlog on the copyright problems page, while still leaving the ultimate decision to delete up to the human admin, then I think that would be useful to have. Best,--Alabamaboy 13:38, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I replied on your talk page. -Splash^talk 14:11, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. You mean the ones that make pgkbot et al. go "ping"? Simply being a large page does not make it at all worthy of a bot-placed "are you breaking the law?" tag. If the bot could also point to a page that it might be copying then, yeah, maybe. But as pointed out on AN, the non-intrusive way to do this would be to tag the talk page, rather than the article, and anyway have a human come along and verify the violation before listing it on WP:CP for deletion. It doesn't seem like much would be achieved by that, apart from the creation of a backlog of un-humaned, bot-tagged articles to go with the backlog of undeleted violations. Now you must be thinking I hate bots by now. I don't. I just think that they need to have a good rationale to be brought into service and should otherwise be left unplugged. -Splash^talk 15:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I hate to say this, but I'm not sure having a bot search new pages for suspected copyright violations would help much. This part of the process work pretty well using human editors, who catch a good number (if not most) of the blatent violations. If a bot started doing this then we'd still have the problem of a large backlog of copyright problems which admins would have to deal with (and the backlog would be even greater since the bot would be adding to the backlog). The problem with the copyright backlog comes after human editors have tagged a page as a suspected copyright violation. Not that I'm opposed to a bot helping to find more violations, I'm just not sure it would help the backlog any and might even make the backlog worse. Best,--Alabamaboy 15:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

BTW, for what it's worth my experience with copyright violations has shown a strong, and obvious, correlation between new users and copyright violations (because of this I try to leave messages on their talk pages welcoming them and also letting them know that the article had to be deleted b/c of copyright concerns and inviting them to rewrite the article in their own words). While I occasionally catch a new large article being a copyright violation, most of the time the violations occur in articles in the 800 to 2000 byte range. There is also a strong correlation between linkspam and copyright violations, with companies using copy from their own websites to try and make a linkspam article seem like a legit article. These articles are usually also not notable.--Alabamaboy 15:53, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Question 5

"How would you respond to users who argue that your work has been almost exclusively in vandal fighting(even the article which you are most proud of you only have 14 edits, most of which are adding pictures) and that this lack of constructive (rather than anti-destructive) edits gives them reservations about making you an admin?" Probably needs fixing in your "canned set" as not every RfA candidate has only 14 edits... Hope that helps! ++Lar: t/c 11:37, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Bot request

If it's not already on the bot list, please add KISS (band). This seems to be a popular target for vandals. Thanks! --cholmes75 20:18, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Title of the anti vandal channel

Tawker, can I ask a favour? The ign...no, mustn't bite them, they are shiny new, in the IRC antivandal channel were not able to put a note in the title of the channel asking the admins who frequent it to release the CAT:SEMI entries. Many of the protections originate in there, and they aren't getting released. I was given a bunch of patronising "oh darling, have you heard of AWB and templates?" responses. I wonder if you might be so good as to club them over the...no....add a little note to the title bar for me? -Splash^talk 01:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

The Barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar "Tawkerbot2 has been a great thing on Wikipedia. When I am on RC patrol, I sometimes race against it to post warnings! I usually lose! Jonathan235 02:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Blocking proxies...

How are you blocking the proxies? Some of the blocks are repeated, and done in quick sucession...Just wondering... --HappyCamper 06:18, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

If it's easy to do, could you slow down the frequency of the blocks? :-) It's sort of making it harder to find out which blocks were made earlier by other users. There was a similar bot operated by another administrator before you arrived, although I can't recall the name at the moment. If I find it again, I'll let you know - there were some pretty interesting ideas you might find to be fun to implement. --HappyCamper 06:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I must say that well...the first time I read your post, I thought there would be 2000 consecutive blocks! But actually, now that I go back and check I suppose it isn't so bad. The old proxybot did something similar, but created pages and pages of blocks which rended the block log practically useless. I did notice some numbers might be good for lottery tickets though...Anyway, sorry about the bother. See you around! --HappyCamper 06:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

62.128.202.55

Port 80 worked perfectly as an open proxy on 62.128.202.55. I could test the rest of the links here if you want? Your scan did reveal Port 80 as open right? Ansell 07:48, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Results of my own NMAP scan

Starting Nmap 4.01 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-04-14 17:14 EST
Interesting ports on 62-128-202-55.iomart.com (62.128.202.55):
(The 65522 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT     STATE    SERVICE
21/tcp   open     ftp
22/tcp   open     ssh
25/tcp   filtered smtp
53/tcp   open     domain
80/tcp   open     http
110/tcp  open     pop3
135/tcp  filtered msrpc
139/tcp  filtered netbios-ssn
443/tcp  open     https
445/tcp  filtered microsoft-ds
1720/tcp filtered H.323/Q.931
1863/tcp open     unknown
5190/tcp open     aol

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1815.342 seconds

BTW, I would be interested in being involved in the Open proxy project. I have been fully active for two months now. I have vandalism {{test}} tags on my page due to my efforts to keep consensus material on the Jehovah's Witnesses pages, not because I have intentionally vandalised pages. If that still puts me outside of the requirements then its okay. I will continue to verify using Nmap and Firefox on my computer. It would be so much easier to have a server to do the scans for me. I don't know how reliable the webservers verification's are :) as shown above by the false negative. Browser proxy settings work fine for me so far. Tell me what you think when you get back from your wikibreak! Have a good one, Ansell 22:39, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Just so you know...

Hi,

Since you popped in on my conversation with Linuxbeak, I do want you to know that my opposition is not personal at all, and I'm sure you'll make a fine admin. For my own reasons, I tend to vote conservatively on RfA's, and many folks I've opposed have gone on to great adminships, proving that I'm mostly nuts. :) Best wishes and good luck!, Xoloz 05:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

My talk page

since when was there a rule that dictates what i can and CANNOT do on MY OWN talk page?

also, what's it to you? Drmagic 22:55, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

This is getting ridiculous

We need to have RandiRice blocked. The Flattbush article keeps getting vandalized. It's been well over 20 times that they have blanked out the entire thing, not to mention the vandalising that they do. It's time to ban them from wikipedia. P.S. The flattbush should stay up they have no right to get it pulled. They only want to lie to the public and create a false "triumphant"Communist image, when it could not be further from the truth and in actuality, the oppressive, exploitative ideals of Marxism should be out there and not hidden by any means. Let's begin to consider banning them.Stabinator 04:44, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm on a 56k dialup roaming connection for the next four days, I'll give the username a 24 hour block, that is getting a little crazy after warnings and their contribs do seem to be mostly vandalism. Please let me know if he starts after the block expires, I'm only on for an hour a day for another 4 days so I might be a little slow responding WP:AIV might be a better bet -- Tawker 04:54, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Will do. Have a great time, we'll take care of this after Easter, and Thanks for your help...Happy Easter.Stabinator 16:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

wikibooks vandalism bot

The bot appears to be massivley out of synch on its rc feed compared to computer4 (ive confirmed computer4 to be in synch maunally), i suspect it may need its static config tweaking as i suspect its reciving a wrong feed (are both static configs set right/exactly the same this often causes the problems after the rc feed crash) from somewhere, ive quieted it for now until you can have a look at it and set computer4 to speak Benon 07:47, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

joshbuddy has reset it and it appears to have fixed it, ill keep computer4 around just in case Benon 08:00, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Timeline of labor issues and events -- wrongly reverted

I received the notice "Your recent edit to Timeline of labor issues and events was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept our apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior..." My edit was not vandalism. Please read the edit summary. I just added sub-headings to specify the countries in which the issue or event occurred. I see you won't be back until Tuesday. Maybe I'll look into what that big shut off button is about. Seems it wouldn't be that easy to shut off the bot, but I'll see. -Barry- 02:35, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

It appears someone has fixed it for you, thats a tricky one to figure out, 99.9% of the time an edit like that occurs its vandalism but yours was good. Sorry about the bot being a little hard to shutdown, don't want vandals being able to kill the vandal fighter :) -- Tawker 06:52, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Spring celebration / Easter (as your preferences and beliefs dictate)

It's bunny time - Happy Easter Tawker! (I recommend a tall glass of cold beer to help the chocolate go down). --Alf ^melmac 16 April 2006

Here's hoping that if the bunny leaves you any beans they're this kind! ++Lar: t/c 14:56, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Moe is here to say Happy Easter! -- Moe ε 18:56, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Solanum

hey, sorry for getting back to you so late. Thank you for correcting my error. The reason I made that error was because I made my Wikipedia account just to add Solanum so I didnt really know what I was doing. I also, correctly may I say, linked Solanum (virus) on the disambiguation page to its article.

WikiProject on open proxies

Hi Tawker. I'd like to help out with this project. What do I need to do to get involved? Thanks TigerShark 16:59, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. When I click scan on the example, it prompts me for a username and password. I have tried my Wikipedia username and password, but it doesn't seem to work. Am I doing something wrong? Cheers TigerShark 07:11, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi again. I'm not sure if you tried emailing me yet, but it looks like the email isn't working (I have tried sending a couple of messages to myself - which haven't arrived). The email address is correct so I am not sure what is wrong, I left it a few days to see if they was some kind of email backlog but no joy. I don't suppose you're aware of any problems with email are you? I'll investigate further and will let you know when I can receive them. Cheers TigerShark 01:13, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've got it working now (by using a different address). Would you mind resending? Cheers TigerShark 01:27, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes it came through thanks. I'm off to bed now, but will experiment a bit tomorrow. Thank again TigerShark 02:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Master Jay's RfA

Andrew, thanks for your support at my recent RfA. If you have any concerns, leave a note here. Thanks --Jay(Reply) 00:49, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Buddha

heh? penis? hmmmm, I was copy editing large amount of text from other articles so I might have missed a valdalism. Anyway, I've done my edit so no problem. Have a nice sleep. :) Vapour

Yikes...

That's like fifty questions... (I didn't really count, but I'm sure it's somewhere around there ;-))!!! I'll take a peek and answer what I can. Thanks for taking an interest. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 21:38, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, after two days of typing, I finally managed to answer all of your questions. :-) You may not like all the answers, but I figured it would be better to let people know where I stand upfront. Hopefully they make sense. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 20:32, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

School IP

Regarding this edit, I believe that the IP should not be unblocked but should instead be indefinitely banned. It is the IP for a school, and kids at that school can still read Wikipedia just fine for research if they must, and if they want to edit, nothing is preventing them from creating a username and editing with that. If you unblock the IP or let the block expire, some students will make constructive edits; however, vandalism from others will strongly outweigh the positive contribs, and the IP will inevitably be blocked again. I also strongly discourage contacting school or school system IT. Another use already tried to and received no response. In fact, I know why he received no response. I have had first-hand experience with both the school and county IT and they are all (no offense meant to anyone) complete and utter morons. If you want, I can even send you letters written by them that prove how inept they are at everything technological, but I'd prefer not to because they are, shall I say, a bit sensitive. I could always give you quotes or an image with some text blacked out. --M@thwiz2020 23:54, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, 550 hasn't been fixed yet so they would be restricted to editing at home. I do agree that schools have a LOT of vandalism, I guess I was just trying to AGF and allow a good faith user upon request. I hear you with respect to school IT staff, most have no idea what a proxy server is let alone how to monitor WP access. Oh well, its a fact of life I guess -- Tawker 23:59, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't know you can't edit with a username from a blocked IP because, well, I never did anything to get my IP blocked :) What's the 550 error? I assume that's what doesn't allow you to edit from a blocked IP even with a username. That should stop a lot of vandals who vandalize with an IP and then try to with a username but can't because their IP is blocked. If only it worked the other way, too - once your username is blocked, your IP can't create more usernames. That would stop a lot of vandal socks. --M@thwiz2020 00:04, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Mass edits

It's my opinion, new users could feel rather confused about Wikipedia. I feel the newbies could use a welcome, and let them know about Wikipedia. I highly recommand trying to meet new users this way. Masssiveego 04:35, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Motherload Goldium Edition

Just spent some time cleaning up Motherload Goldium Edition, which you'd marked with a "prod", mostly so as not to bite a new user. Now it's a decent article for a game. Then I looked at the game website, and discovered that the game is a Flash clone of Namco's Dig Dug, circa 1982. It even looks 1982. It really wasn't worth an article. Cleanup was a waste of my time. There's no real reason to delete it now, although if someone were to do so, I wouldn't miss it. --John Nagle 18:35, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Blocked

I was blocked but my block ended today. I was blocked under a user name I created for the intention of creating a page. 75.3.4.54 23:34, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

It was AR and a bunch of random numbers. 75.3.4.54 23:38, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I am already unblocked, it's oaky. Thanks for the help though. 75.3.4.54 23:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

West Vancouver

Ahh, figures. I never really venture down there.

Michael J. Easley

Thanks for the help. ...Scott⁵¹¹⁴ 00:59, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

187combat

The 187combat page was recreated again, after you had deleted it twice. Page protection might be in order. Bige1977 04:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Masssiveego's 24 hour RFA time limit

Theses test question demonstrates several attributes. Even if they have a life outside of Wikipedia, it is quite rude not to inspect you own RFA. If the user in question is obviously on Wikipedia, and gave no regards to the rfa, to me, the person is not admin material. Masssiveego 04:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

AIV

Thanks! -- Samir (the scope) धर्म 07:02, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Galinda Hobsquatch AfD

Hi, you removed the AfD notice from the page Galinda Hobsquatch and replaced it with a {{prod}}. I was just wondering why? --blue520 07:37, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I was clearing out the speedy deletes and I think I thought someone subst'ed in the speedy template. Thanks for putting the AfD back, I'm leaning towards delete but I didn't think it was CSD A7 'able -- Tawker 14:36, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I presumed something like that, but thought to ask just in case I was missing something. I also can't see a strong argument for CSD A7, any way by the looks of it not speedy deleting it will not do any harm and it give people a chance to make something good out if it (may not possible though).--blue520 16:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Race

Your bot reverted my edit to Race. Based on the discussions we had in Talk:Race I was restoring the section entitled "Human genetic variation" until it could be summarized. Could go in there and put the section back together or somehow modify the bot so I can do that myself? Thanks, Aucaman^Talk 18:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

My name...

Yeah, like I was telling Dragon's Blood, I think as long as I am not trying to pass myself off as the real Lord Voldemort (which I'm not... obviously), and since I am in no way profiting from the name, I am probably in the clear. Thanks for doing the research on the trademark sites. See ya. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 21:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletes

Hi Tawker! Congrats on being given the keys to the caretaker's cupboard/janitor's closet! This evening you've speedy deleted a couple of articles that were on AfD. Whilst they were all suitable for speedy deletion (ie, wrong for AfD) you didn't close the AfDs behind you. I've done them for you. Cheers! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 21:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Not at all pretending in any way that I know what I'm doing, BTW - I still have to follow carefully the instructions at Wikipedia:Deletion process as the information just won't stick in my head! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞

IP Ranges

Hi could you perhaps undelete http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Onthost/IP_Ranges I was using it about a month ago to quickly reference the impact of range blocked placed by a newbie admin and felt it would be a good quick ref in the future. It was never intended to be an article, but rather to analyise range blocks. Mike _{(T C)} 22:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Moved text to a subpage of your user page -- Tawker 23:26, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, it was never really intended for anyone elses eyes excpet mine, I am not even sure how the person found it! Keep up the good work man, and thanks for the bot! Mike _{(T C)} 23:31, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh shoot! I didnt realize it was under Onthost/IP Ranges!!! I thought it was under User:Onthost/IP Ranges!!! WOW I feel like a dumbass! Mike _{(T C)} 23:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Jaranda

I unblocked upon IRC request because the 3RR was invoked removing a copyvio image and hence not falling under 3RR, I hope thats ok with you -- Tawker 00:02, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep, that's fine. Thanks for dropping the line. Stifle (talk) 00:06, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Request

Hi Tawker,

Would you be able to block someone for violation of the 3RR for me? I was going to ask you if the following is valid:

1st revert, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

Thanks. —Khoikhoi 05:22, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

RfD

Could you take care of this? Teke 05:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Meh, it's better with bread. Teke 05:54, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Thought I put the ;) in there. Teke 05:59, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

adminning

Thanks for the vote of support :) It's funny, there are things I would quite like to be an admin right now for, notably deleting stuff from the massive copyvio backlog, or carrying out prods. Vandal fighting doesn't interest me much. But yeah, if it's going to take 6000 edits and 100% edit summary use, then that's what it takes.

It's just really strange changing your habits...I've ended up using weird summaries on talk pages, like "weird comment that I can't summarise" or "rant" or whatver. And I still haven't decided what to use as a summary when I create a redirect. Sometimes I use "rd" or "make rd", which doesn't seem to add a lot of information. But the worst is when I'm editing my monobook.js - what the hell could I possibly want to say other than "trying to fix bug"? :) Stevage 08:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Archiving AfC

Hi Tawker. Would you mind taking a look at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Archiving Wikipedia:Articles for Creation? Cryptic and Uncle G have done similar tasks in the past, but neither is around these days, and your name has been suggested as one that might be able to help. If it's not something you can do, could you suggest another bot developer who might be able to help? As you can see, it's an extremely simple task, but it needs to be done every single day. Thanks a lot. ×Meegs 20:44, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, Crypticbot was my first thought too, but Cryptic hasn't edited in a month, if he returns, I will certainly ask him. Tawkerbot 2 is really great, and I don't want to take you away improving it, but if you could squeeze this in sometime soon, I'm sure all of those anonymous editors would really appreciate it ;) I don't know how it became my responsibility, but I've been doing the archiving myself since the end of February, but won't be nearly as reliable in the future. The problem is that the page grows very quickly and becomes unwieldy after not long if it's not archived. One quick question: User:Lightdarkness said he does not know how to move pages with the Python framework he uses; do you (using whatever you use)? Thanks. ×Meegs 01:09, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Deletion Question

Hello! I came across your name in the history of this page: Giovanni brent paulsantino. Now, I'm pretty sure that whole entry is made up and/or describes the user who created it. As I'm still pretty new to Vandal-busting, I was wondering if you could tell me what I can do. Should a deletion template be put up? Should I open a discussion? I'd appreciate any advice you can give me. Thanks! -Digresser 03:14, 22 April 2006 (UTC) (Tawkerbot2 rocks, btw)

why does it say i have new messages?

this is just a link to YOUR talk page, not myne

• yes, she just deleted my math article

About some of the questions

Hi, Tawker. Since you mentioned it during one of the discussions, I thought it would be more adequate to talk about this first here, in the "privacy" of your talk page (if you'd prefer to move it to the main forum, that's ok too). It's concerning the set of questions you've added to Ezeu's RfA. Not all of them, just a few:

• Question n.3: I fail to see a practical point in that question. It's highly speculative, and it would only serve a purpose if the candidate were to say something clearly inappropriate. But in terms of testing a "regular" user's aptitude for Adminship, it would seem to be of little service.

Well, I do admit, its a little bit of a "think tank" though I think it could be ommited ok

• Question n.8: Seems to be redundant with the standard Q1.

Well, Std Q1 asks what chores, this one somewhat is a "what motivated you to run" - I think I'll modify it to that extent

• Question n.9: It seems to me that it introduces a level of complexity to Adminship that really shouldn't exist (and I don't believe it does). It would seem that, even if Adminship is a big deal, it's not that big a deal. Yet.

In a sense, I grabbed that one from Rob Church, in short, I'm really looking for people to say that its not a powertrip and that its not a big deal, as admins by themselves have no more of a vote, no more of a say than any other user, and I like to see how the user percieves the role.

Would you agree with any of this? Redux 04:52, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I've enclosed some replies, please let me know if you have any questions == Tawker 18:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. Let's see:

• Q3: ok
• Q8: ok, but then it would be maybe best reserved for self-noms. Otherwise, even though the candidate still has to accept the nomination, it's more about accepting gracefully a huge (and flattering) token of confidence ("if people think I'm good enough, then why not" / "what motivated me was that other people thought that I was suited for the job/I got nominated"). Practically speaking, only self-nominated candidates put this kind of specific thought into their applying for Adminship.
• Q9: Well, if we want the candidate to answer either way, then the point would remain: it would cause an analysis of a complexity that shouldn't (doesn't?) exits. And if we want the candidate to answer that it doesn't really matter, since Adminship is not a big deal, then it would kind of make it a trick question, which I don't believe we should be asking. That's just my two cents.

Thanks, Redux 18:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

blocks

Hi, to save time can you mention the specific users involved? -- Curps 17:43, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

User:CasanovaAlive was a manual block, it's a sockpuppet of the "Vaughan" user, one of many socks that blanked the Talk:Simon Strelchik page. Take a look at the history of that page and the discussion currently at WP:AN/I and WP:RFCU. It was a housekeeping block cleaning up old sockpuppets, I've reblocked with a more informative edit summary. -- Curps 18:05, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Vandals

Hey, I've noticed that User:Yofoxyman has been vandalizing a whole lot of pages. I'm relatively new to wikipedia (been here for a month or two) and I'm not totally sure how to deal with it. I also figure that 70.24.156.28 and 72.136.39.180 are either yofoxyman or friends, because they have vandalized similar pages. They have been warned, but have continued to vandalize. Thanks for any help. Chinamanjoe 19:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

It has not been vandalism but merely exposing the truth and Chinamanjoe has had no right to delete the truthful information which I have provided from all the user talk pages. Chinamanjoe is a fraud and all the the pages he has created are complete lies. He has deleted the additions which I and others have made to the discussion pages to try and hide the truth. He should not be allowed to continue to conduct this sort of behaviour. Thank you. Yofoxyman 19:39, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Just a quick thanks for taking care of the {{db-owner}} request. — WCityMike ^{(T | C)} 21:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

TawkerbotX

Hey, just wanted to let you know that someone is creating a lot Tawkerbot accounts, ie Tawkerbot6 Tawkerbot7, etc. If its you or one of your minions, then no big deal, just wanted to make sure you were aware ;) --Hetar 21:32, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

They're mine, defensive registratiosn -- Tawker 21:33, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

*suppress "omigosh omigosh" excitement from the inside*

Thanks for your barnstar, that was certainly a pleasant surprise :) deadkid_dk 06:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: GoCard

I can't get any more recent than that, because that is from my graduating grade 12 year. However, from what I've heard and seen, that format is still in use today (it varies by school, but the basic format is still the same). As for the Wikipedia idea, if you start one I will join. :) Although I am thinking of starting a Wiki on Wikia that covers the film industry in Greater Vancouver instead.

And if you want a userpage photo of me, it's in my "Hermit-Bio" section. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..SCREAM!!!.... 07:28, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I like the Ducks because I used to live in the Orange County/Anaheim area, and they grew on me. Besides, I think they're a cool team, especially now with Burkie and the return of Selanne. Buchanan-Hermit™..SCREAM!!!.... 08:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Just when I was trying to FORGET the exams... thank you. :P lol... It's alright. I'm 3 down, 2 to go (25th and 28th). Then I have a week off before my summer film production course. For the short movie project for that course, I'm making a modernized adaptation of The Hockey Sweater, with the Flames and Canucks. Planning to film most of it in Steveston. Should be fun. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..SCREAM!!!.... 08:34, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Redesign

I was wondering if you were still up for that user page renovation; I'd be glad to do it for you, but I was just wondering, what did you have in mind in terms of organization, color, etc.? I remember you were thinking about a Sango123-MoP hybrid, so thats a start. Take your time to choose, and cheers! :D _-M ^o P-_ 15:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Mathwiz2020's Sockpuppet

Yes, that was me - I didn't know though that I couldn't edit the monobook file myself. Actually, I had e-mailed User:Bluemoose and he blanked the faulty file just a minute after you blanked my monobook, so I was able to sort things out myself. My IP address was blocked for the sockpuppet, so I couldn't even edit from my username (as per the error you told me about a week ago). I couldn't even unblock, though, because the faulty script wouldn't let me view the unblock page! I've gotten everything back to normal now. Thanks again! --M@thwiz2020 21:00, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

69.225.158.113

Regarding 69.225.158.113 (talk · contribs). One person, using many IP addresses, has been vandalizing the article on University of California, Los Angeles (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) regularly for months now. He originally started by removing half the images. Now he reverts back to that old version, which is quite obsolete by this time. Since he rarely uses the same IP, it isn't possible to block him, forcing usa to semi-protect the article for long stretches. In this instance he did stick with an IP for a while so I blocked it to get his attention. The unblock request was entirely unconnected. That was placed by a user, Legendary Steve (talk · contribs), who was looking to pick a fight and objected to the block simply because I made it. For that reason I removed the tag. However I'll remove the block since the vandal has probably moved to another campus computer by this time. Cheers, -Will Beback 21:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser

Do you know what is a Checkuser?—G.He 01:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

User:4.236.222.150

I just reverted this vandal again, and I see that you've already test4'ed them... since I'm not an admin, I'll let you figure out whether to block or warn them, ok? thanks! bikeable (talk) 01:45, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Fake block messages

What did you do with those??? I am refering to User:68.185.73.62, whom I put on AIV. Thanks, just want to know what to do in the future, because I have never seen that...Eagle (talk) (desk) 06:55, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Oops, you and I edited on each others page at the same time, nevermind!!!

Tawkerbot seems to have a date bug

In some cases it seems to update the prod template with the date it runs rather than the date the template was added. In another case it seemed to use the day before the temlate was added. Dlyons493 Talk 20:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, it was susposed to grab the day the prod was first added and use it, not too much I can do to fix it now that its run, and I don't think its a big deal if its a day off , fair PITA to fix it -- Tawker 21:07, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

24.119.155.147--Personal Attacks

I just want to notify you that 24.119.155.147 (Contribs) has vandalized my user page twice now ([1] & [2]). I'm guessing that 24.119.155.147 might be taking offense because of the warnings I posted about the vandalism on Super Mario World a while back. I'm guessing he might've already been blocked back then for vandalizing Super Mario World since theres a block message on his talk page. Can you please look into this matter and find the best possible resolution? Thanks.—G.He 21:28, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

24.119.155.147 has vandalized my page again.—G.He 21:45, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Yahoo!

Something's wrong with Yahoo!... can't seem to revert...—G.He 00:28, 25 April 2006 (UTC)  (Resolved)—G.He 00:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

You should rename tawkerbot2 to...

..."Syrisstalkingthisbotandprobablyblockingunrepentantvandalsitjustwarnedbot". I swear I blocked 5-10 different ips that were repeat vandals after seeing tawkerbot2's message pop up on their talkpages that I have watched. :D --Syrthiss 03:13, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Mirador Instant Messenger

Hey Tawker, you just deleted the article Mirador Instant Messenger citing CSD/G1. I originally tagged this article for speedy deletion; however, after the user contacted me, I've looked a little more into it, and I believe it may be notable enough (31.900 hits on Google). This is a n00b's first article, and I think he's just having some trouble with formatting, language, etc., thus why it appears to be patent nonsense. In any case, I'm going to try to salvage the article and then perhaps prod or AfD (as it smells a bit like an advertisement to me); I hope you don't mind my recreating it. You may want to see my note on Talk:Mirador Instant Mesenger (was originally misspelled and I forgot to move the talk page with it). Thanks. AmiDaniel (Talk) 06:02, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Open proxy?

Hi Takwer,

Do you know how to determine if 12.4.27.44 (talk · contribs) is an open proxy or not? It's an obvious sock of the permabanned User:Bonaparte anyhow. Thanks. —Khoikhoi 08:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Reply to Tawker regarding Ayn Rand cult

To note in the article that followers of her creed were primarily white, young men is hardly racism. Her Nietzschean-like obsession with "American values of egoism and individualism", and her opposition to women's rights, is well documented. As for the noted adherents, did you read their entries in Wikipedia? Also, I provided a fairly extensive list of references; including two external links with analysis by Murray Rothbard and Michael Shermer. The "George W. Bush" article is a "POV war magnet", yet it remains undeleted so I ask you to please undelete "Ayn Rand cult", irregardless of your personal opinion regarding this very well-documented phenomena. -Dna4salE 15:41, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. One of the closest to Rand was Nathaniel Branden, a young philosophy student who joined the Collective in the early days before Atlas Shrugged was published. In his autobiographical memoirs entitled Judgment Day (1989), Branden recalled: "There were implicit premises in our world to which everyone in our circle subscribed, and which we transmitted to our students at NBI." Incredibly, and here is where the philosophical movement became a cult, they came to believe that (pp. 255-256):

• Ayn Rand is the greatest human being who has ever lived.
• Atlas Shrugged is the greatest human achievement in the history of the world.
• Ayn Rand, by virtue of her philosophical genius, is the supreme arbiter in any issue pertaining to what is rational, moral, or appropriate to man's life on earth.
• Once one is acquainted with Ayn Rand and/or her work, the measure of one's virtue is intrinsically tied to the position one takes regarding her and/or it.
• No one can be a good Objectivist who does not admire what Ayn Rand admires and condemn what Ayn Rand condemns.
• No one can be a fully consistent individualist who disagrees with Ayn Rand on any fundamental issue.
• Since Ayn Rand has designated Nathaniel Branden as her "intellectual heir," and has repeatedly proclaimed him to be an ideal exponent of her philosophy, he is to be accorded only marginally less reverence than Ayn Rand herself.
• But it is best not to say most of these things explicitly (excepting, perhaps, the first two items). One must always maintain that one arrives at one's beliefs solely by reason.

-Dna4salE 15:41, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

A thank you, and a request

Hello! Thanks for your assistance on my Talk page. I'm wondering if you may be up to a favor? I'm hoping you're CheckUser capable, because I'd rather handle this one-on-one than go to WP:RCU if I can help it.

The Reader's Digest version, if I can: Starting with problems with User:Jim16, an account that appeared to be created so the user could vandalize as User:66.17.116.148 while logged off—except, he appeared to forget several times who was which, leading me to initiate this RCU (that first example alone convinced me: look at the next two edits). Within the last few days, User:Jim16 apologized for and claimed to renounce vandalism, and asked me for help with an article he had created in January. Six hours later, User:Elliott Johnson (created in mid-March) showed up (after four edits to his own pages, two productive edits and then nothing for a month), ostensibly with a legitimate editing question, only to vandalize my page less than 20 hours afterwards. A similar attack came only 90 minutes later from User:Goat322, who tried lamely to cover that he aimed at me alone before doing it again.

How is this potentially tied? User:Jim16 says he's "a liberal Democrat from South Dakota"; IP 66.17.116.148 traces to Swiftel Communications, Brookings, SD (these two are tied for sure, as above); User:Elliott Johnson claimed to be from Brookings, SD, before erasing it; and, the timing from User:Goat322 certainly raises eyebrows.

I do so much want to WP:AGF, but this is awfully suspicious... RadioKirk talk to me 16:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Deleted Bible as Myth

Hi. Would you please the deletion of The Bible as myth on Talk:The Bible as myth? Thanks. --JBJ 20:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I meant would explain the deletion of The Bible as myth. Sorry. To my knowledge there was never any nomination for deletion or other discussion. --JBJ 02:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Bible as myth -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 02:13, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. For the record, it wasn't conscously a fork or original research. It's actually a very well known idea in the scholarly theologian community, but it hasn't filtered down well to pop-religion. Literary myth is too often confused with

Just another RFA thank you note

Dear Tawker, I appreciate your vote and your kind words in my RFA. It has passed with an unexpected 114/2/2 and I feel honored by this show of confidence in me. Cheers! ←Humus sapiens ну? 03:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Super-admin

Hi, I just wanted to say that lately, I have been coming across you a lot. I don't know of it's just where I look, but you are the most active editor/admin I have ever encounterted. You have done more for WP than any other user I can find. You are an admin on 2 wikis. I think that they should create a new rank for admins like you, ones so involved that they are beyond admins. How about a new cat, "super admins", admins which are not just admins, but are the best of the best. The cat should be created and you should be the first person to go. Tobyk777 04:47, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

KOMPRESSOR

I removed your {{prod}} from KOMPRESSOR. The article had previously been nominated for deletion and was a unanimous KEEP with 15 votes. Aside from KOMPRESSOR's well-documented notability on the article and talk page, given this previous result your tag was not appropriate. NTK 05:02, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem; everyone gets fatigued with those kinds of repetitive tasks. I think I had tagged the previous KOMPRESSOR image as a copyright problem myself, and certainly if you hadn't heard of KOMPRESSOR before that would be a red flag. NTK 05:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)