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Re: Welcome

Thanks alot. Best wishes Mr. Toker

VP in spanish or in Italian

I'm not a great contributor neither in Spanish nor in Italian WP, and haven't more than 50 edints in all, but if VP is ever going to move to those wikis, I can do all the translations User:Argentino

Mieciu K Kosovo Vandalism

This confused individual has been putting words into my mouth and into others, first he claims war ended on July 11th, then he removes all other info, you have to leave it like it was when Chopper 64 was shot down and 2 american servicemen killed, I never said they were shot down but I gave my best and most accurate assumption what might have happened SINCE NATO NEVER CONFIRMED IT OR DENIED, and as time went by they just did not want tot alk about, what does that tell you? It's time Mieciu K is blocked forever from wikipedia, since his country, poland, was part of nato attacks and he wants to look invincible. So it's time you unprotect it, remember this guy is going out of normal conversaion and he uses non-sense logic, comparing other things to God knows what and then putting words into my mouth, clearly very ignorant, when he replies like... Speak English and when I ask about other things to be looked at, he can never answer because he just does not know it. As you can see, the best version is in the link below. Let's have this done right without vandals like Mieciu. He has time for these games and I am sure his answer will make sense but only to a point. Again, both versions must be explained, what might have happened.

EasyPizza

Now that EasyPizza has appeared on BBC news 24 and SKY news as well as appearing in the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Times, and many other publications this issue of not being in the public interest and not being notable is a non issue. Now we can be sensible and post the EasyPizza page back up. Look at these links as examples [1][2] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.100.250.207 (talk • contribs) 03:10, June 22, 2006 (UTC)

Repeated vandalism... in your dreams!

Why hello AmiDaniel, my name is also Daniel. I don't know if this actually is the appropriate place to do this, but I'm a little annoyed and can't find anywhere better so it'll have to do I suppose..

You just blocked me, and I was in the middle of editing Hereditary elliptocytosis. The comment was, if I remember correctly, 'Repeated vandalism despite final warning. User was blocked using VP.'. I'd like to know why I was blocked, and I'd like to know where my final warning was posted (and all the others which I've been accused of accruing) - it certainly wasn't on my own talk page. The only thing I can possibly imagine I've done to incur your considerable wikiwrath is to change American/Canadian spelling to Australian spelling, but I've only done that in the course of improving articles for other reasons in order to maintain consistancy throughout the article (without encouraging/endorsing "incorrect" spelling). I'm not sure that that really counts as vandalism, do you?

Anyway... this all seems wierd to me, and I'd like not to be blocked anymore (or at least be told what I did wrong!).

--Daniel Adams 11:25, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mr. Adams, I apologize that you were unable to edit this morning; however, if you'll have a look at your block log, you'll see that neither I nor any other administrator has intentionally blocked your account. As Glen stated above, what happened is that you're likely connected through a shared IP address (Glen indicated that you were connected through 202.6.138.33, which is an Adamnet IP--I have no way verifying this for certain) and someone connected through that IP was vandalizing. By blocking the IP address, it then blocked all users, logged-in or not, from editing through this IP, which resulted in the collateral damage that was your being unable to edit. This is an unfortunate mishap that often occurs when blocking IP addresses, and currently there is no way to prevent such collateral damage from occurring (although a temporary fix is in the works). If this ever occurs again, please add {{unblock}} to your talk page, along with the full text of the block message, who blocked you, and your IP address, and the block will be removed as soon as possible. Also if you can get back to me with your IP address (check my log or try logging out and signing with ~~~ somewhere if you are unsure what your IP address is), I will attempt to take preventitive measures to keep you from being blocked in the future. Thanks for your understanding, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need help with anything else. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:17, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks AmiDaniel... The issue is fixed. I'll do what you suggest if it happens again. --Daniel Adams 09:52, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mitchell cunningham

None of the things mentioned actually exists. Aren't blatantly bogus pages speediable? Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 08:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No. Hoaxes are exclude from speedy deletion. See WP:CSD. AmiDaniel (talk) 08:33, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway, it exists, he just can't even spell the name of his own film right. It's got a grand total of 41 hits on ifilm. [3]. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 08:34, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that

^{24 June 2006 10:04} Ste4k wrote: I didn't know that a User Page would be edited if it had a maint tag on it. :P Thanks for letting me know. :)

It's no problem. I've made similar mistakes myself =D. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:31, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VandalProof

Hello!

I code at the moment my own anti-vandal-tool in VB6, too; and I have some problems and hope you can answer me these: 1) How do you get the RC feed (and how do you parse it; VBs RegExp library sucks) 2)how do you do control the IE (why on earth does the attribute POST in brwWeb.Navigate() not work?

Thanks in advance, HardDisk 10:20, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS: If you want the sourcecode, email me at cdl-klever AT gmx DOT net

Nakhichevan

Hi. I just draw this map of Nakhichevan region and intended to post it into Nakhichevan article, but I noticed that article is protected and it was you who done this. So, can you post this map into article instead of me? I did not read about what dispute in that article is, but I do not think that this map will be disputed for anybody. You can post map somewhere in "History" or "Geography" section. PANONIAN (talk) 15:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Let me know if it needs to be adjusted at all. Hopefully the article won't need to be protected much longer. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:23, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion

You closed Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion#Articles for deletion .E2.86.92 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion as a delete yesterday. However, it's been recreated again. -- JLaTondre 15:42, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Cyde has now deleted and salted it. Thanks for letting me know. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:24, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please help!

I noticed that you are part of the anti-vandalism unit, so I thought I would contact you. An article recently has been vandalised a lot. The article is on the furry fandom. One user, who seems to be using different names is repeatedly deleting sections of the article, and some the whole article. He/she has also vandalised the talk page a view times. We always correct the article back again, but the vandal keeps seem to return. Can you please help us? Can you help make it a protected article so that this sort of thing stops? ISD 18:07, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really think that there's enough vandalism to justify protection; however, I did add it to the watchlist for the IRC bots, which will likely help keep it under control. Let me know if there's any other way that I can help you. Thanks. AmiDaniel (talk) 03:31, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help, but the page is still being vandalised. It was attacked earlier today. ISD 10:17, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's alright, the AntiVandalBot has started working. Thank you very much! ISD 20:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

query - "on the top"

both filtering and flag are done, should be available shortly. --Yurik 19:24, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
backlinks & namespaces - done. --Yurik 20:49, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Yay!!! Thank you so much; I absolutely love your query API. I owe pretty much all the credit for my next release of VandalProof to you. Let me go try them out and see if everything works right. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Minor problem :( The queries are ok, but there are indexes missing, so its not fast at all. Make sure you comment on the bugs (linked from query home page). --Yurik 05:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikinews

I'm sorta familiar with it. Gang sta E B EA 21:28, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trouble...

On User:AmiDaniel/EditCounter the first link gives an extentionless file because of the space (I'm assuming, since everything after that is lost) and the second link 404s. 68.39.174.238 02:02, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The first link is freepository, which has problems downloading from FF/Opera. You can solve the problem pretty easily either by adding .exe to the filename, or you can download using Internet Explorer. The second one was being mirrored by User:Nathanrdotcom, but I guess he's stopped mirroring it. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:07, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

207. AOL vandal

Hi Ami. It's a pain in the a**, this AOL shared IP vandal. I hate range blocks but what do you suggest? -- Szvest 10:46, 26 June 2006 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}[reply]

Kabbalah Centre

Hi, I wonder if you could have a quick look at this page for me? A single editor, 74.12.79.132, is making lots of apparently contentious POV edits, and I'm wondering how best to tackle this. When reverted, he/she simply reverts back again, without comment. In recent weeks, other editors seem to have pretty well given up on this page. I'm reluctant to get into an edit war here, which I'm fairly sure would happen if I smply deleted some of the changes that have been made. I don't yet have much experience of dealing with this, and I'd appreciate any advice you can give. Do you think the edits are such obvious POV that they count as vandalism? --MichaelMaggs 14:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Parsing of Tool2

I'm going to try and write a small bot to parse Interiot's Tool2 in various ways, but I cna't just grab the HTML as it obviously requires JavaScript. How do you have it hidden in VP? I hope to use VB.net (yes, I know ;), so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. —Xyra e l _{/ 19:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)}[reply]

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Thanks

For the revert of my talk page. .--Dakota ~ 03:51, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

THANKS MATE!!!!!!!!

Thanks for your help. as a token of my greatfulness i reward you with Che.

No problem. Sorry about all the inconvenience last night--there's a bug with the autoblocker when accounts are indef-blocked that's often quite a pain to repair. Let me know if I can do anything else for you. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:39, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SPLICE bits

Hey, mate. As you seem to be the only other person who works with this page frequently, as I do, I'd love your thoughts here and here. Cheers! Snoutwood (talk) 15:21, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mod TBC

Since the rename (to Tree Biting Conspiracy) TBC mod edits have been rejected [4] [5] [6]. I believe this may be because you used spaces rather then underscores when you set him/her as a moderator, but that is just a wild guess. Prodego ^talk 17:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm ... yes, User:Eagle 101 has had similar problems with this, and apparently mboverload still isn't being recognized as a mod. I'm not entirely sure what's going on, as User:AmiDaniel TestAccount (which has a space) has had no problems being recognized as a mod. This will hopefully be fixed with the next release with the new organization of userlists, etc. On another note, I asked Essjay if he could use my help as RfCU clerk, and he told me to talk to you, so I was wondering if you could use any assistance over there, as I'd like to help out in anyway I can. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, really? I had no idea I was an unofficial 'lead clerk', although I did (with the help of Thacher and Essjay) set up the subpage system. Help is always appreciated, especially admin help. Notably there is a lack of following up, blocking confirmed malicious socks. Other then that we are pretty good. Prodego ^talk 22:56, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note that a lot of help is needed in transferring old RfCUs over to the new system, although you do not need to be a clerk to do that. ;-) Prodego ^talk 23:02, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, well, I'll go ahead and add my name to the clerks then, and let me know what needs to be done. As for converting the old reports to the new format--that sounds like something a bot would be good at. Have you thought about requesting one? I'd be glad to code it if I could get approval. AmiDaniel (talk) 00:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

block

Hi there: sorry to see that you're experiencing health problems. You just blocked me, although only for a few minutes, apparently under the impression that I was a user called, I think, Polikarpos. I don't suppose you would care to explain to me what precipitated this, given that that I am leading a blameless and productive Wiki-life?--Anthony.bradbury 20:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have not blocked your actual account, as you can see from your block log, and so it sounds you like you were autoblocked. Polikarpos doesn't ring a bell with me, but he may well have been someone I blocked, and so what happened is that this blocked user attempted to edit, causing the IP address he was using to be autoblocked. Then you went to edit from that IP address causing the autoblock to trigger and block your account. I'd guess you're probably connected through a shared IP adress (if you're using AOL, Verizon, Adamnet, etc.) or otherwise using a connection that was used by this blocked user. In any case, neither I nor any other administrator has intentionally blocked your account. Should this happen again in the future, please add {{unblock}} to your talk page along with the full block message you see when attempting to edit, including your IP address, who blocked you, and which blokced user attempted to edit through your IP address. Sorry for the inconvenience. AmiDaniel (talk) 22:34, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, fine; but I am not using a shared IP address - I am on a home PC and there is only me here. But thank you for your answer. I am not on AOL Verizon, Adamnet, etc. My ISP is BT Yahoo.--Anthony.bradbury 23:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bingo Prodego ^talk 23:21, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As Prodego has pointed out, the blocked user in question was Politakis. I was not able to get back to reconfirm his name. That was a worrying episode. Am I being over-sensitive?--Anthony.bradbury 17:16, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Protection

My userpage only should be updated to full-protection. Talk page stays at semied. ForestH2 not logged in. ForestH2 01:21 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. AmiDaniel (talk) 01:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Get well soon!

Sorry to hear that you are ill - I hope you feel better soon! -- Natalya 03:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Counter Install

This tool sounds really useful but I have no idea how to install it! I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to any type of computer code apart from HTML :P

If someone could please give me instructions on my user_talk page I would be very grateful.

And sorry for double posting but no one seems to be visiting the Edit Counter page. --Tobes

New AWB features

Martin, what is your vision for this functionality? Are you planning on challenging VandalProof for the role of defacto antivandalism tool, or at least take part of its marketshare? --mboverload@ 08:44, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

lol, well I don't really gain much from market share, and to be honest I haven't used VandalProof, but from what I can see it looks like it [VandalProof?] would gain a lot from using the IRC feed. At the moment this program doesnt even do the same thing as VandalProof, as it doesnt have any of the stuff to rollback, however it will do soon hopefully. Of course anyone is welcome to help in its construction. Martin 08:55, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Mboverload and User:Bluemoose(Martin) on the new AWB features. I think that VandalProof would gain a lot from an interface like that, a live RC option, a Log check, and the like. Check it out. Prodego ^talk 17:11, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please review an deletion made contrary to consensus

Please review the deletion of Names of European cities in different languages, and the related articles Names of Asian cities in different languages and Names of African cities in different languages. These were discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Names of European cities in different languages, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Names of Asian cities in different languages, and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Names of African cities in different languages.

The vote was: Keep: Future Perfect at Sunrise Interlingua Trialsanderrors Atillios Carlossuarez46 (me) Kierant Adam78 Khoikhoi Goldom Pasquale Eivind F Øyangen Fastifex Aguerriero Slowmover Lambiam Irpen Olessi Travelbird Nightstallion Agathoclea Folks at 137 Lethe Qviri Riadlem Peteris Cedrins Reimelt Nick C

Delete: Motor Theoldanarchist Mangojuice Dawson Isotope23 WicketheWok Centrx Angus McLellan Masterhatch Tychocat

That is: 27-10 to keep. While I know that it’s not a strict vote-counting exercise, the usual rule of thumb is not to delete unless there is a strong consensus expressed to do so – i.e., give the benefit of the doubt toward keeping. Here, process was thwarted.

The administrator closing the AfD acted contrary to the consensus expressed at the AfD by making his/her own judgment that the content was not encyclopedic. The whole issue of alternate placenames is very much encyclopedic and has been the subject on ongoing debate among Wikipedians, for example at: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names) and the various disputes about whether to use “Danzig” or “Gdansk” for that city near the Baltic, etc.. Also, similar articles remain extant in several other Interwiki’s (since the article is deleted, the interwiki links are gone too, otherwise I could cite which), so they appear encyclopedic to people who speak other languages. Please restore the articles. Carlossuarez46 18:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Main page oopsie

Holy cow! What happened? Collabi 09:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that's embarassing!! I was trying out a new tool written by User:MichaelBillington, and when I went to revert an edit to the article Pea, I suddenly found myself pasting the contents of Christianity on the Main page. This is why you shouldn't try out foreign tools while logged in as an admin!!! Sorry about that. =D AmiDaniel (talk) 09:27, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Illness

Hope that you'll feel better soon. :-) Anonymous__Anonymous 10:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maturelife1

[[7]] I'm suspect of this editor's Self license tags. Notice every description has a different name. Some that already were deleted could be found here: http://www.mvinquirer.com/ ccwaters 11:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

Sorry to bother you, but my talk page needs semi-protection again. ForestH2 not logged in. ForestH2