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You could probably go ahead and move the article explaining your reasoning in the edit summary box and/or leaving a message on the talk page explaining why you moved it. Also, I blocked the IP for three days (we're really not supposed to make them too lengthy the first block). jj137(talk)22:19, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, the category should start filling up, when new article are created. So, I think this will finally be one of the little wikiprojects that say '0' under 'unassessed' :) - Milk'sFavoriteCookie23:47, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Woooooow! What I do is at the "action complete" screen, I copy-and-paste the warning template, from my userpage (bottom), to the vandals talk page. It's slower than other systems but it works for me. Burner0718JibbaJabba!05:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I saw you left a talk comment for hatterdallax. I will go ahead and say the edits being made are intentional, and that he simply has little discretion. The subject of his edits is a very popular somethingawful.com adventure thread entitled "Microbe! He's the best" located here [1] The thread has generated a lot of enthusiasm, and unfortunately that includes the negative kind. Just wanted to drop by and let you know.That Lamer (talk) 04:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I will say I was a little confused by that edit, but since I saw "obviously The Best" I thought it could probably be considered vandalism. Thanks for telling me. jj137(talk)04:59, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I can has thankspam?
Quick, let's delete the front page!
No seriously, thanks for contributing at my RfA which ended 68/0/0. I'm amazed and humbled by the result, and the warm and supportive comments that went with it. I've put the pic of Tiger here because although I know not everyone appreciates lolcats, to me it illustrates the possibility of taking things seriously with a light heart. I will try to do so, and remain open to the being slapped down if I do start being impossibly pompous.
Thanks Pedro : Chat for your generous nomination, and also to Master of Puppets for ripping off his thankspam without so much as a by-your-leave. To all who contributed - especially the eventually withdrawn (but very interesting) neutral and oppose - thank you! Now it's off to new admin school for me, before I dare do anything for real...
I'm sorry to post on this one but I need help How do I do synthetic division on a question like (6f^2-11f-13/3f-4)?
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Mentor
Do you think you could be my mentor? I sure would appreciate it, but if you can't I have a few others I could ask so don't worry. --ChetblongTC02:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Yeah - I just created it 2 days ago. Just trying to create some off of this list. The ones with link are not baseball players. Those articles should be made with ___________ (baseball) obviously. I just have completed 1 so far. :). Also can you delete this? And, this seems to be moving forward. I have no idea what E means though (since you are going to help me out...) What does he mean? - Milk'sFavoriteCookie18:20, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I think he means you should explain what parts of AWB you will use to fix typos. As in, are you going to use AWB's RegexTypoFixer with some find and replaces added? jj137(talk)19:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive reverting. The next time you beat Compwhizii to a revert, you will be blocked from editing. :) Compwhiz II(Talk)(Contribs)22:22, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I have reverted a change you made in November 2007, as the stub reads "This biographical article related to a Dutch football biography is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.", before my change (my bold wording; note the double use of 'biography' references!). It now reads "This biographical article related to Dutch football is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.", after my change. I hope you will agree that, in the interests of correct English usage, my amendment was needed? Thanks. Ref(chew)(do)22:24, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I dunno. What I do know is that I see an IP edit in recent changes with an addition (or deletion) of more (or less) than 500 bytes (it's bold then, so it stands out), I click on "diff" then on "rollback". This takes me somewhere between 3 and 6 sec. depending on how the net is doing (and how obvious the vandalism is). If it is something you or Cluebot would be likely to notice easily, like hundreds of exclamation points, around 95% of the time you (or Cluebot) will beat me. I see no obvious difference in the prevalence of Wikipedia's servers informing me that you beat me to the revert as opposed to it saying that Cluebot beat me. I really can't wait for Huggle to get to version one point zero. When it does, all vandals will be doomed. J.delanoygabsadds00:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the implied hint. I don't have Huggle (or anything other than rollback), so I didn't know for sure how it works. In any case, I was just trying to say that Cluebot generally can't find "subtle" vandalisms very easily and it takes humans an appreciable amount of time to decide if they are really vandalisms. With obvious vandalisms, you and/or Cluebot almost always beat me, and that is a good thing. (I seem to have talked myself into a corner. I'll shut up now.) J.delanoygabsadds02:42, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Have you given a user conflicting instructions? You indefinitely blocked Keejs Criouano (talk·contribs) stating "You are encouraged to create a new account and contribute to Wikipedia under an appropriate username". Yet your block log states "20:31, 18 February 2008 Jj137 (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "Keejs Criouano (Talk | contribs)" (account creation blocked) "
Either this person's block should be modified to allow account creation or your blocking reason needs to be changed. I have not looked at the edits so I haven't determined which is the correct action to do.
The person's name is not really similar to Jeske's. I do not believe this is a valid reason for block. Sockpuppetry by V-dash might be but this is not explained in the talk pages. Archtransit (talk) 00:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Wow. I warned 600 people today, 50+ AIV Reports, and 20+ blocks. :) And I made a total of over 1000 edits today. Lol. And can you delete this image. - Milk'sFavoriteCookie02:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I think my editing of the fore mention page is constructive. The reasons why is because the issue about the seceding province of Serbia called Kosovo AND Metohia hasn't been solved yet. The region in question cannot be taken as an independent state only because they proclaimed independence. By the Serbian Statute and International Law their proclamation of independence is null and void. I would also like to mention that the flag and the coat of arms shown on wikipedia is also wrong since even the countries that supported the independence didn't agree with their choice (namely EU is strongly against their flag, coat of arms and national anthem). If you are still in doubt about the edit of my page then I'll send you the coat of arms, flag and national anthem in MP3 of my own state for which I will proclaim independence. Though the territory will be only 83 square meters (which is the size of flat) I DEMAND my country to be on the list of sovereign European countries since my arguments are as valid and as strong as Kosovo's proclamation of independence.
Thank you for participating in my 2nd RfA and supporting me! My RfA passed unanimously at 79 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral. I would like to take this opportunity to thank AndonicO and Rudget for nominating me. I also want to thank LaraLove for persuading me to keep going after I failed my first RfA.
To be really honest, I am surprised that my RfA passed without any oppose or neutral. Being an administrator means more responsibilities, especially when I'm now an administrator on both English Wikipedia as well as WikiSpecies. I promise everyone that I will use the tools effectively to serve the community. If you need help on anything, don't hesitate to leave me a message on my talk page and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Last but not least, remember the motto for Ohana: "When it comes to family, nobody gets left behind."
Hello, Jj137.
I just asked MFC if he wanted me to nominate him for an admin, and he said that you said you were going to nominate him on March 15. If you don't mind, I would like to co-nominate him. Let me know what you think.
Thanks. J.delanoygabsadds23:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. That was me whose edit you just reverted; I forgot to log in. I thought my edit summary was informative, though. And to back up the edit itself, note the websites of 10tacle Studios and Blimey! Games: in both cases, the unusual spellings are correct. Loganberry (Talk) 03:31, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I guess so. If you see a user with less than 500 edits that does not explain a reason for wanting AWB, I don't see a problem with removing them. jj137(talk)03:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Help out with a spammer problem
Hiya! There's been a pointless edit war happening in the coil gun section and I created a talk page to settle it out but an unamed IP address keeps making changes and trying to delete the talk page section.
Anyways, just wanted to let you know since they don't seem to be leaving.Wonkothe31337 (talk) 01:45, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
How am I a spammer? I am not the one throwing links all over articles. I havent posted one link, so I dont think I fall under the "spammer" qualification. I created the talk page, but you decided to delete an replace it with your own words to make your blog link look better, anyone can see that in the edit history so I dont see why you think lying will get you anywhere. --75.187.254.159 (talk) 19:06, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
No, I doubt he'll be back. :). And, Lol, one of the the first time I've seen you miss an edit summary. And you're not going to believe this: I clicked save, and I missed my own edit summary, but I had the reminder thing on, so... - Milk'sFavoriteCookie14:26, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field - please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. - Milk'sFavoriteCookie21:24, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Yeah. Hmm, well sure go ahead and protect it :). But I can guarantee you, that when they come to protect my userpage, and they can't, they'll go for my talk page. Obviously you can't semi protect a user talk page. - Milk'sFavoriteCookie21:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Oh. Can you just protect my userpage? My little brother vandalized my talk page, and my userpage. I found out so I went to his room and punched him :) - Milk'sFavoriteCookie00:15, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Yeah. When Rkitko first contacted me saying I was messing up using the expand template on Wikipedia (way back in the day :)), I saw his userpage, and it said that he had 10000+ contribs. I was like "yeah, I might reach there in a 100 years". And here I am with more edits than him. - Milk'sFavoriteCookie00:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I deleted Death Race from the list of movies based on video games. It was reverted and it is not based on a video game, it is a remake of Death Race 2000. Though true that there is an upcoming film with the title Death Race, but it is based on the movie, the game was inspired by the movie.
Hello, last night we attempted to submit an article on the magazine Motor Car Market by replicating the content and style of the entry for Automobile Magazine in which the founder is from. It was blocked. Can you help us to understand why or make corrections to keep it listed? 68.5.46.22 (talk) 14:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC) Motor Car Market
Hi, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, my browser pages do not have the blocked information anymore. The original account was Motor Car Market and the second one, when that one was blocked, was StickwithRWD. Is that the information you need? 68.5.46.22 (talk) 20:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
editing posts
The edit I made concerning the article "David Chiang" was not vandalism. I was actually trying to correct it because the guy's name isn't David Chiang, it's John Chiang.
I decided to try your vandal warning script. I like it, it makes warning vandals alot quicker. I noticed it only works for IP's though. So I put the warning templates in a Notebook file and copy-and-paste between windows now for registered vandals. It's an extremely simple system but it works for me. Burner0718JibbaJabba!04:17, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
That's good. If you want, I can add registered users to the script; I just didn't initially add them, but it wouldn't be a problem. jj137(talk)17:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
This may be a tough one (Don't worry about it if you can't make it). Similar to the 'Summary' Tab you made a long time ago... Could you make a script that if I click on it, it will automatically insert the Vandal name/IP, and I can type in the article he/she vandalized. Take a look at the format here. Again, don't worry about it if you can't make one. - Milk'sFavoriteCookie16:00, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Sure. I have a vandal script written, and I can modify it to whatever customized warnings you want. Should it work for IPs and registered users (all user talk pages), or just IPs? jj137(talk)17:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I never use WikiEd unless I need F+P. But when I put it in, clicked refersh, Twinkle disappeared, and I don't see a tab for the script. Any suggestions? - Milk'sFavoriteCookie18:08, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok. I clicked referesh 17 times, and it started working. BTW....
Including you (thanks) yeah. And someone emailed me and said they would vote 'Support' :). So, I know I will have more than 5 supports :). Unless of course, one of the co-noms or you :) vote 'Oppose' :( - Milk'sFavoriteCookie21:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Once upon a time... Last year, I got a Rubix Cube ^.^. I tried to solve it every day. Every Day And so... Every DayEvery DayEvery DayEvery DayEvery DayEvery Day. It was later, when I finally gave up (about a month later), I took it to a good friend of mine who seemed to be good at solving Rubix Cubes. And you know what he tells me: "Uhh...The Rubix Cube is broken dude, it's not suppose to turn diagonal..." Every DayEvery DayEvery Day....... And now every time I look at a Rubix Cube...Every DayEvery DayEvery Day - Milk'sFavoriteCookie00:00, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
OK, I will cite some sources to back my edits. Sorry for my behavior but I am fed up by people who come across and revert my edits. I take hours of reasearch and editing in some of the topics and it's pretty easy for someone just click a link and delete all my work. Thanks. --TheTerminator4 (talk) 00:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
00:54, February 22, 2008 AndonicO (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "Jj137 (Talk | contribs)" (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 29 years (Vandalism past final warning; user request.) (Unblock])
Good man; help me revert before Keilana does... we're racing to 30K, and she's only 500 edits away (as opposed to 2K for me...). · AndonicOHail!02:22, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
RFA
Thanks for participating in my RFA, which closed successfully with 40 supports, 13 opposes, and 4 neutrals. For those of you who supported my RFA, I greatly appreciate it. For those who did not, I'm also thankful for your constructive criticism. If you need some advice or have some pointers for me, you know where to reach me! A special thank you to Majorly for all his time and effort he has placed in my nomination. Once again, thank you all for your helpful comments. Now off to new admin school! Cheers, Icestorm815 • Talk01:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
How is "people used to think that the oceans had sea monsters in them" the kind of language that ought to be in a serious reference work? 76.102.100.52 (talk) 02:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
You obviously did NOT read the edit summaries but simply did a instinctive revert. Otherwise you wouldn't have warned me to provide edit summaries when I DID give them. Please read WP:MOS regarding sections repeating the article name before reverting stuff. 125.236.217.145 (talk) 03:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Your User Page
While reading trough the AIAV history to see who blocked my school vandal (You did that, thanks for that) i stumbled across your account. What i kind of noticed was this line: Hey there! This userpage is pretty bad right now, so feel free to suggest any changes to me or go ahead and make them.. If you are interested, you can use the templates i designed for my own user page. It should be simple enough to do so, so if you feel like it / like the design, go ahead and use them :). Excirial (Talk,Contribs)21:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Of course! Feel free to take whatever part you need of them. I don't mind if you take a part, all of it, edit it, give it a different color, add things, remove things or anything else. In fact, do with it what you like.
Just make sure you copy the entire structure at first, since the main pages load sub pages (Example: The main page which contains all the interface HTML loads a separate "Content" page to make sure that editing the text can be done without having to deal with a;; the HTML). Also, make sure you rename those subpages with your own names, since i dont think you want Excirial/Content as your content page. Have fun with it :)
That's great. What I meant was that he didn't sound as enthusiastic enough to go out and make a colorful rainbow explosion of a page. Basketball110what famous people say00:32, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
You're not going to believe this: Someone reported me to WP:AIV today. And then when it got removed, he asked an admin to block me, because I accidentaly removed someones edit from an article that he made, and when I reverted it, it actually took it back to vandalism. All that for a mistake. I had to laugh. - Milk'sFavoriteCookie03:14, 22 February 2008 (UTC)