User talk:Alex Bakharev/Archive14

New article bot

Thanks for your new article bot; it's made the maintenance of the New Zealand new articles list much more efficient, and I manage to make some small improvement to almost every article on the list.

I've noticed a couple of time that when I remove an article which isn't NZ-related, it comes back again the next time the bot updates the list. For example, World Ship Society, which I removed in this edit, was readded here. The times I've noticed it happen have been when I've emptied the list completely. I entirely understand that some articles will be miscategorised; I have no problem with that. Is there a method to tag articles so the bot knows someone has considered them but not added them to the suggested list? For example, I could strike them out on the list.-gadfium 07:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

New article bot for cricket articles?

Hello Alex,

Your new article bot looks really useful. But I notice all the topics at the moment are geographical. I assume it can handle other types of topics? -- I'm thinking of cricket, specifically.

I suppose it would sometimes have to put an article in two categories. For example, a New Zealand cricketer would go in New Zealand and cricket.

Anyway, we have an active cricket WikiProject, who I'm sure would be keen to test your bot if you wanted to extend it to cricket articles.

Thanks,

Stephen Turner (Talk) 11:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Mardavich

this fine young gentleman is back in the scene, harassing another editor with 3RR. We took your suggestions and did precisely as you asked, avoiding the gentleman and went back to the article. Apparently, he was not pleased with your decision yesterday, and has stalked Bignole's edits, again misinterpreting Wiki policy. I was trying to avoid it, but I am beginning to think that an AN/I might be the only effective tool that helps Mardavich see the light. This person twisiting the sytem is simply not good Wikipedia contributor material. Can we ban a a user for wiki-stalking and empty complaints?Arcayne 12:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:College football

I'd like to add Wikipedia:WikiProject College football to your bot. We could have hundreds of new articles created a day and never know it. We have several templates and lists that can be used to help find or figure out what articles we should be notified for. Please let me know what I need to do to get our project onto your bot. Thanks. --MECU≈talk 12:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 13 March, 2007, a fact from the article Devichye Pole, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 13:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Personal attacks

User:Arcayne previously called me "devious" which you called a "mild attack", now he's calling me a "pariah" and "unethical". [1] How long am I suppose to tolerate this verbal abuse and character assassination? --Mardavich 13:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

The fairly apt descriptions have been entered as part of the response to yet another spurious attack on User:Bignole, User:Erikster, User:ThuranX and myself here. None of these descriptors are being used in open articles or Discussion pages, but are instead used exclusivley on User-Talk pages. He has attempted to work the system and filed reprisal 3RR attacks against two editors in the 300 (film) article, filed and AN/I complaint against one (while naming three others). You will recall that you asked us to focus on the article and not on each other. Mardavich chose instead to belittle your opinion and continue harassing us with accusation of OWN, meat-puppetry and virtually any Wiki-violation he can think of.

We don't like the guy, and I consider him a creep and a stalker who makes me personally uncomfortable. He needs to take a very, very long vacation from Wikipedia. After his complete nonsense and wasting of all of our time, we can be hardly be faulted for disliking this "gentleman".Arcayne 13:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Now I am being called "a creep" right here. Alex, is this appropriate? --Mardavich 13:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Request bot for Saints project

I'm not sure if your bot can work with such articles, but, if it can, we would welcome being added to your list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Saints. Thank you. John Carter 14:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

• We have to compile the rules. E.g. simply saint should be heavily inhibited from like of Saint Petersburg. Give me a few days to think it over Alex Bakharev 11:04, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Transcription issues

Hi Alex! I was given your name by User:Ghirlandajo, after we discussed some inadverdent article moves (regarding Russian skiers) by a now blocked user. The false moves (from correct English transcriptions to incorrect Norwegian(!) ones) have gone unnoticed for quite some time. Thus the affected articles have been updated a few times since then, so it also involves quite a bit of manual updating.

In short, these are the articles I suspect should be moved (in most cases back to their original names).

• Julija Tchepalova - Yuliya Tchepalova
• Sergej Shiriaev - ?
• Nikolay Zimjatov - Nikolay Zimyatov
• Svetlana Nagejkina - Svetlana Nageykina
• Mikhail Devjatiarov - Mikhail Devyatyarov
• Ljubov Egorova - Lyubov Yegorova
• Nina Gavriljuk - Nina Gavrilyuk
• Alexander Savjalov - Alexander Zavyalov
• Sergej Saveljev - Sergey Savelyev

I suspect there are a few more. You can have a quick glance at the categories Category:Russian cross-country skiers and Category:Soviet cross-country skiers.

If you, as an administrator, could make the needed article moves, I could undertake updating the articles themselves (and associated links).

Best regards Ståle Johnsen Guaca 15:06, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Alex! I was asked to fix those same entries, and completed Category:Russian cross-country skiers through Svetlana Nageykina. If you have time to finish the rest, go right ahead, otherwise I'll finish the remaining entries later this week. Gotta go now! Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 21:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Ezhiki, if you have time - please do it. Otherwise I will do this weekend Alex Bakharev 10:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, it took a lot longer than I anticipated, but both categories are now done.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!!!! Alex Bakharev 20:33, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

New articles bot support

Another request for support from your "new articles" bot: can you have it find new Caribbean-related articles for WikiProject Caribbean? Thanks, Jwillbur 16:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot Russia

Hi, Alex! Just wanted to bring your attention to the fact that the bot is finding and posting my little crappy dab pages again (e.g., Zalesovo or Talmenka). I think that started after the point system went into effect. Could you filter them out again, please? I'll probably be creating dozens more in the next few weeks; no reason to pollute the announcement board with those. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC) P.S. Congrats on publicity! :))—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Evaluation of the good article search

Hi Alex,

In order to try to help improve your bot's "good article" search I've looked through the articles created in the six-hour period on March 11 between 18:00 and 00:00.

During this period the bot found sixteen good articles. Of these all except Controversies within libertarianism (marked as {{weasel}}), Allsvenskan 2006 (consists almost exclusively of tables), VoiceWeb (not long enough if you don't count the tables), and List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women) (it is generally almost impossible to get DYK hooks out of lists) are more or less suitable for DYK. The history of football team articles aren't particularly useful either since they're not really new content since they were all split out of other articles, but I guess there's not really a way to get the bot to recognize such creations.

Perhaps you could have the bot also disregard articles with a weasel tag as well as articles, whose titles begin with "List of...". If that's possible, it would also be benificial if the bot would subtract the size of templates and tables in a particular from the total article size but I realize that could be really difficult.

Looking through the new articles page I found the following articles, which are suitable for DYK, but were not recognized by the bot because their reference sections had unusual titles: Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada, Operation Dollar Bill, Chess Informant, Robert Clark Corrente, Luana Reyes, Horse transports in the Middle Ages, Henry E. Eccles, and Sherry!.

Perhaps you could add those section headings to the list of titles the bot recognizes as reference sections.

The bot also disregarded the following articles: Stephen Hart (Primeval), Liénard–Wiechert potential, and Requiem (Ockeghem). I have no idea why. They all look alright, maybe you can figure out how you could get the bot to include similar articles in the future.

Thanks again for help,

-- Carabinieri 18:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps you could also have the bot check if an article is already linked from T:TDYK and exclude any that are. That way articles that have already been suggested for DYK won't appear in the list. If that isn't much trouble, that is... I have no idea.-- Carabinieri 22:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Yet another new article bot request

This time on behalf of WikiProject Football, where our new article list covers only a fraction of the football (soccer) related articles created. Thanks. Oldelpaso 18:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

The next new article bot request

Hi, congrats on the great idea and its implementation! Could you add Wikipedia:WikiProject Bulgaria#New articles to the bot? Thanks! Todor→Bozhinov 20:05, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome

Seems suspicious that you are keeping tabs on what's written on Biophys' page, considering there are so many users and so few admins. Why would you be keeping a watch on him anyways? CPTGbr 21:26, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Usually it considered a grave insult to allege something of that sort but as said Grigory Oster [2]

Дразниться лучше из окна,

С восьмого этажа.

Из танка тоже хорошо,

Когда крепка броня.

Но если хочешь довести

Людей до горьких слез,

Их безопаснее всего

По радио дразнить.

I guess you can have a courage safely libel using internet using without a danger to get a spat in your face. Anyway you may notice that I am one of the maintainers of P:RUS/NEW the list of the new Russia-related articles and even wrote a bot to make maintaining of such articles easier. I am trying to read, fix and NPOV all the new articles appeared there. Also both User:Biophys and User:Vlad fedorov have a habit of knocking to my talk page every few days asking to judge their feud. I am really sorry that I was busy and was not able to spend enough time to really help them, but I am trying. After this accusing me on stalking them is a sort of gross.

I am working under my real name, I guess googling could somehow help to trace my biography, if interested. Also I used to be active in lj under the nick zanuda, in the forum of www.polit.ru under nicks roo and zanuda, in usenet under some bakharev related nicks. You can check if you want. Alex Bakharev 23:03, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Just in order to be objective CPTGbr, such edits like this are hardly helpful in advancing your personal opinion. You couldn't understand that Wikipedia is Encyclopedia, and Encyclopedia is a scientifical publication, where you required to source each sentence and each word. Rules of Wikipedia forbid writing here your personal (original) research - your personal opinion of FSB as a secret police. You could look at the article on Freedom House and my dispute here to understand that I have agreed that we here couldn't even publish information from the internet, that Freedom House is an organization sponcoring terrorism, although this is a site which is operated by Cuban Government and statements there are generally verfied by other sources, and as such are reliable and verifiable. I wasn't able to put them in the article because Cuban Government had done its website on Wiki engine!!! Consider this. I have cited you the respective pages from Encarta and Britannica on FSB and no one names FSB as a secret police. Would you complain on Encarta and Britannica? Are their editors working for FSB then? Vlad fedorov 05:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot and Africa-related articles

Hi Alex. I've noticed that the bot you are operating AlexNewArtBot is adding newly created articles inaccurately to Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board/New articles. Could you please try to fix that. Cheers -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 12:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

SIMUN

Hi again Alex,

I am still grateful for your help on restoring my PTS pages and all that you did. Now you see I am in a little bit of mess with a more notable subject that I created. Please see User_talk:Jeffrey_O._Gustafson#SIMUN which is a conversation between me and an admin who deleted the article. Can you help me to find an legitimate way of restoring the article?? SIMUN would really be a good article for Wikipedia, but I have made some mistakes and gone into confusion a little bit. It would be great if you can help!! --Jingshen 12:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

User:67.180.67.179

He is at it again, ingnoring the suggestions you made on his talk page.

• diff on Stanisław Saks

• diff on Mark Kac

You asked me to let you know if the behavior continues. Balcer 13:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

FSB troll squads a new masterpiece by Biophys

Have a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll_squads. Vlad fedorov 05:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

New Magic-related articles

Circusandmagicfan (talk · contribs) is trying to revive the Wikipedia:WikiProject Magic I started a long time ago. I think having a new article feed for articles related to magic and magicians would help. Could you talk to him/her and see if your bot can feed our project too? - Mgm|^(talk) 10:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot

Oh, I didn't expect the nationalist war to begin so soon. Someone deletes articles from AlbaniaSearchResult as "unrelated" just because they are about FYROM municipalities, despite their considerable Albanian population. Have there been some similar problems with ArmeniaSearchResult or AzerbaijanSearchResult? What can be done with this? Colchicum 13:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Mattawan Little League Softball Girls

Hello Alex, I'm Hurricane06 and I wish to have an answer on what is wrong with my article? I do have an idea on why it is going to be deleted but I want you to know that I would expand my article if it wasn't for musical rehearsal every night and also my homework on top of that. I am looking for more things to add to my article but please give me more time. I will greatly appreciate it! Also note that I am not mad at anyone about this. It is your job to make sure Wikipedia is great for all of us, but I am just frustrated about the lack of time that I had. Contact me on my webpage User:Hurricane06.

Mattawan Natives

In the Mattawan Natives section, I see that there is a person who put something very disgusting in my opinion and also is possibly considered vandalism. Here is the link to Mattawan where I found it. I think the name is the last one on the list. The description says that this person is a straight up BA and has a hott girlfriend. Please check it out. Hurricane06 00:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC).

DYK

On 15 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lupeni Strike of 1929, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Спасибо --BigHaz - Schreit mich an 22:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Roger L. Fitzsimonds

The google search actually has 840 results, NOT 1-10.Miaers 01:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

• OK, keep the article then Alex Bakharev 02:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Question about your Bot

I've been watching your bot (it's very interesting to me), and I noticed the bad articles page is getting increasingly longer with many red links. Is there any cleaning mechanism in place to remove those redlinks? Good job though :-) Always, ^demon^{[omg plz]} 02:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

• It is a good suggestion. As it is now, it does not cleans its search results, I can not see universal behavior for the different feeds yet. We have to have just manually prune it once at a time as I did just now.

Alex

AlexNewArtBot

Hi Alex! Would it be possible to include France-related articles in your bot assisted search? The articles would then be covered by WP:FR. Thanks in advance, STTW (talk) 09:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a ton for adding bot search to WP:FR. Some new articles listed are not actually France related. Is it possible manually to edit the list ie. remove the article not belonging to WP:FR? Or somehow give a feedback to the bot to improve its search process? Or am I asking too much :-) STTW (talk) 18:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

mattawan Little League Softball Girls

Thanks Alex. Now I understand how to work here at Wikipedia. I have decided that you can delete it. I'll work on it after the musical is over, which is about in another month. I will re-create it when I get some reliable sources. Hurricane06 00:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC).

Mattawan Michigan

OK, you took it off. But I thought that only administrators can do that stuff. Yes i know that everyone can edit but i thought that only administrators can take things off, espically if it's vandalism. Hurricane06 00:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC).

One other Thing From Hurricane06

I heard that some people are nominated for administrators and that some administrators can coach other people to at least become better or even become an administrator themselves. If you could find the time to coach and help me that would be great. If not, tell me how to get a coach or recommend someone else to me. Hurricane06 00:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC).

Explination

Can you explain to me the 3RRR rule or whatever it is called Hurricane06 13:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC).

George Albu, 1st Baronet

Hi Alex, may I ask for your help in moving this article which I wrote to George Albu from where it was moved. Many thanks Paul venter 16:07, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

• Done. I guess you could do it yourself. No admin tools were necessary Alex Bakharev 16:17, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Nope - afraid it doesn't work....could you have another look? Paul venter 16:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I think I done it, this time Alex Bakharev 23:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Definitely!! Thanks a mill! Paul venter 05:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Icar

Alex, I'm having a hard time with this person, who has, just today, left the following inflammatory messages about me: [3], [4]. In the past weeks, he has been In fact, an impressive number of his contributions are attacks aimed at me on various talk pages, or untrue and inflammatory claims made about me (all of his many complaints about stalking were dismissed - some because they were initiated by a sockpuppet of the infamous Bonaparte, others were simply not answered to because they repeated the lies). Most of his other contributions are disruptive edits in various articles. He was banned once for posting this type of messages, and recently received this reply to persistent claims he made about me "conspiring" with Khoikhoi - see this (note that he was again at it a quarter of an hour after being notified). Can you please look into it? It is simple, if noisy, trolling, and getting quite tiresome. Dahn 21:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

• I gave him a warning. On the other hand he looks like a newbee, try not to byte him Alex Bakharev 00:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Your bot feature suggestion

Hi Alex, I've tried your new bot and its seems to be great for me. Could we add some RSS functionality to it? Could we output it in RSS format? BTW, if it is possible in Wikipedia to output watchlist to RSS? Vlad fedorov 15:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

• It looks like RSS syndication is already supported (see Wikipedia:Syndication), so all you have to do is just syndicate the bot's articles. I have never tried it myself, though Alex Bakharev 00:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

No, Wikipedia syndication feature seems to support:

a) History of every page in Wikipedia;

b) New pages.

Support of syndication for your bot, would mean that I would be capable to watch for these new articles appearing in my RSS feed in real time without visiting webpage in Wikipedia (sometimes there are lags). Currently I am unable to do it. http://www.blinkbits.com/wikifeeds.php is of no help, since it links only to first page, not sub-page.Vlad fedorov 04:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Setting up a new feed

Alex, please check whether I've done well a new feed on law articles. How often does your bot scan Wikipedia? Vlad fedorov 10:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

• Vlad, I have fixed rules a little bit. Let's see if it would make sense. I run the bot every night (my time). I have started it just now, it would run for 6..10 hours Alex Bakharev 13:07, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Эххххх... See below - there is something wrong with bot. He is creating empty pages. See his contribs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/AlexNewArtBot. Vlad fedorov 15:07, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Your bot is on AIV

Wanted to let you know about [5] - see the approval page. ST47Talk 14:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I've just blocked it. Good luck bug squishing. --  Netsnipe  ►  14:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Funny article created by the AlexNewArtBot

The bot created articles titled (among other things)

• "Darth" Chef
• Glenn Heights Park & Ride
• Mr. Country & Western Music

(yep, with HTML entities and all) with only db-empty. There may be more. It may not be exactly be what the bot was supposed to be creating. =) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 15:02, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Problems

Alex, could you please pay attention to the Saint Petersburg March of the Discontented? Something is going on there, which is a pity, as the article was more or less good after it had been reviewed by numerous users during its nomination for DYK, but now I'd prefer not to interfere for obvious reasons. Colchicum 18:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow, I didn't know that it is this user who has taken this shot: [6]. Colchicum 19:00, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

And this: [[7]]. What a great photographer! Colchicum 19:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, anyway, let it be there. It looks incredibly funny. Colchicum 19:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I belive virtual account User:GoWest8, which was conviniently created on March 6th, 14:28 and who uploaded other images is their creator??? Vlad fedorov 19:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok I deleted obviously false information about licensing. But if I would upload these images to Wiki Commons, then I could repost them like other photos in the article? Because Commons haven't adopted the same licensing policy which is currently in Wikipedia? If we are to comply with these requirements then we virtually should delete every image and photo. I am pretty much sure that the rest photos in the article Saint Petersburg March of the Discontented are as unlicensed as those photos introduced by me. Vlad fedorov 19:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Ohh Alex, I just has found out that it was you who added photo of Marina Tsygankova to this article, please help me to add appropriately my images to the article. I have plenty of them:

• http://smolyak.livejournal.com/447942.html
• http://recepter.livejournal.com/412654.html?thread=4900334#t4900334
• http://www.idiot.ru/images/NR5-LPS-1_39-25m--18_resize.jpg
• http://pics.livejournal.com/blogik/pic/0007ar30
• http://users.livejournal.com/_sergiooo_/34447.html
• http://www.photosight.ru/photo.php?photoid=1957018&ref=author

Vlad fedorov 19:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Now Vlad adds screenshots of unrelated protests with some blurred text (in Belarus?). Everybody who has ever been to Saint Petersburg can realize it. Channel 5 has very different logo. Colchicum 20:51, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Could you help me find this photo again? I forgot my Google search terms?Vlad fedorov 04:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• Vlad, sorry, for been dense, but I have not got your question. The creator of the "Protestors beat a female OMON trooper" picture is Arseny Smolyak [8]. This is in the first reference in your list. I think he could give the permissions if we ask him nicely. I think he shares Vlad's POV so it is better if Vlad would ask him. Commons has much stricter copyright policy than En-Wiki and pictures from there can be used in any language project (e.g Ru-wiki). Thus, if you have an unquestinable Free (as a speech) photo then it is better to upload to commons. If we might have to claim the "fair use" clause of the American copyright law it is better to upload it here. For the TV-screenshots there is a fair use {{Tv-screenshot}}. It is a "fair use" tag so we have to prove that it provides enough value to be bothered with the possible copyright problems. Read WP:FU and WP:FUC for the details of the policies (not very poular and hotly debated) Alex Bakharev 05:18, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I doubt we could prove that this photo contributes significantly to the article. I guess Saddam hunging and Saddam corpse photos could meet democratic US regulations of Fair Use better than our photo in question. Anyway, as far as I see, Wikipedia enforces just US laws, although prohibition of legal threat is a violation of the First Amendment (Free speech) and of the Seventh Amendment (right to sue at common law) of US Constitution and violation of the Convenant on Poltical and Civil rights of 1968 (the major human rights document). So the best way is to contact Smolyak.Vlad fedorov 06:30, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• I guess we can contact Smolyak and ask for permissions to put this photo (might be of a lower resolution) on wiki with some copyleft tags. Many photo freelancers are happy to put a lowresolution pic on wiki. Copyleft license still requires references for the original author, low resolution is usually unsuitable for the paper publication, so in effect it is a free ad for the freelancer, who usually need it. As you want this photo, can you contact the guy? BTW somewhere in LJ there was a story about this photograph, it is very selective in time and cropped-out in space, the full photo or the picture of the same place in a few seconds looks quite differently Alex Bakharev 00:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Alex, I'm sorry that I have to ask you again, but Vlad is just spoiling the article. He deletes all the neutral information he feels uncomfortable with and doesn't tolerate any attempts to counter his edits. E.g. Gulyayev is not relevant according to him (despite being chairman of the organizing committee), preceding march with the same title and the same organizers in December 2006 in Moscow is also not relevant, it looks like everything that doesn't represent protesters as hooligans is not relevant. Besides, from what he says it becomes evident that he hasn't even read the External Links section, as he deletes perfectly supported material as unsupported, and his knowledge of the event is too limited and inaccurate (to the extent he has mixed up a picture of some unrelated protest in another former Soviet republic with this event) for him to be a major contributor. Note that previously this article had been contributed to by many different editors and had been based on some consensus. What we have now is pure Vlad's POV-pushing that is very difficult for other contributors to stop. Three edit history pages in one day is too much. Colchicum 14:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Please do not distort my posts by your falsehoods and uncivil attacks. That won't add to your authority here. I just wrote on the talk page here that we may delete the photo of Gulayev with megaphone, because it doesn't contributes significantly to the article. It bears no informational sense. There are numbers of much more interesting photos. As to POV, Colchicum, please look at the mirror. You have wrote that police blocked the car traffic, although it was protestors. You have put opinion of News.ru in the introductory paragraph as a fact, although it was just an opinion of News.ru. You left from the article facts that protestors were coming from Moscow and other cities, protestors broke through three police cordons violently (!!!). Kasyanov and Kasparov heroicly left the March before polcie dispersed it. Vlad fedorov 17:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Alex, please see how Colchicum pushes his POV here. Vlad fedorov 18:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

1) The article was contributed by many editors with very different attitudes towards the subject (including e.g. User:ellol) and was subject to silent attention of many Wikipedians after its nomination for DYK, and some consensus was reached. I have not created the page, and my edits were mostly technical (rearranging sections, changing transliteration, correcting grammar, providing sources etc.). Personally I prefer not to use newsru as a source, but there are many others below in the External Links section. So far Vlad has been the only Winkipedian that feels necessary to rewrite the article completely, and I don't think he is right.

Your problem. Colchicum, is that I never completely rewrittent the article. You lies and accusations are laughable. People could use history of the article in order to check this. You lies do not add to your credibility. As also false accusations of me wikistalking you. You just behave uncivil and make personal attacks on me. Instead of discussing the article you discuss me. Moreover, user Gowest2 is becoming more active as I see.Vlad fedorov 04:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

2) How is it possible at all to be engaged in POV-pushing on talk pages? It is perfectly natural and in accord with Wikipedia rules to ask for assistance, especially as I am not discussing Vlad, I am discussing the content of the article. I would do the same thing even if Vlad had been a fully automated bot, so nothing personal here. I don't think that Alex is interested in the discussion of personal issues. Alex' talk page has already become too lenghty, and BTW it is worth archiving it. Colchicum 21:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

How is it possible to completly rewrite the article by rearranging some weasel words WP:WEASEL and eliminating unsupported by references information and adding uncovered facts to the article? You want to create your right version of the article WP:WRONG and block it from editing?Vlad fedorov 04:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I think it is an excellent idea to involve a neutral administrator to look in the matter. Thanks, Colchicum. I do not remember much interaction with Redvers (except him rightly blocking my bot for misbehaving), but he is certainly not Pro-Putin or Anti-Putin, pro- or anti- Russian etc (I guess I know all prolific users who somehow contributed to Russia-related articles). Alex Bakharev 22:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. But what about virtual GoWest8 who is getting nasty?Vlad fedorov 04:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot

By the way, why the new feeds have disappeared from the list on the bot main page? The last one is now #22 Karnataka. Edit history shows nothing, so what is this? Colchicum 15:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• I do not know, it shows all the feeds for me. Might be the browser or a wikimedia slave server showing very old cache Alex Bakharev 20:22, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot suggestion

It would be convenient that the' bot will add the category Category:Newpage bot search results to search result page in the way I've done it in Russia result and especially "orphaned" Plant result. `'mikka 19:07, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Please see queries on talk COI/N about bot syntax. — Athænara ✉ 17:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

regexp

Could you please explain me which of the following 7 symbols

. , { } _ : - 

should be combined with \ to be interpreded literally in the bot rules? Colchicum 00:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Good question. According to my Perl help the following {}[]()^$.|*+?\ must be preceded by \ to be taken literally. On the other hand all the non-word characters has the same meaning when preceded by the \ . Thus e.g. \: is absolutely equivalent to just : and so the slash does no harm.

If you are talking specifically about [9], I was trying to find the source of error in France rules, that forced the bot to stop processing of the French articles and all the rules bellow (I guess you noticed that the feeds were not updated for a couple of days). Eventually I found it was /\Port(-|\s)Royal/ rule (instead of /\WPort..). \Po was assumed to be equivalent to \P{o} something like \P{cyrillic}. Since there is no unicode property named o and the rule caused crash. Now I have put much better error diagnostic, so I hope it would be no problem in the future.

BTW I realised, the way the bot written there is no way to insert the / symbol to the rules. Lets see it as a limitation for the moment, I am to lazy to fix it. Alex Bakharev 01:33, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

As to /, its numerical unicode value might be helpful, no? But anyway, it will hardly be ever needed. Colchicum 01:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Agree on both counts Alex Bakharev 02:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Civility

This edit is unhelpful and borders with personal attack. I have reverted it. Please do not do it again. Alex Bakharev 01:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm really concerned with this admin's behavior, and would love to hear from him that he's not proud of his attitude. Would you help me to ask him for such compromise without the risk of sounding offensive? --Abu badali ^(talk) 01:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Would you help me on this matter? --Abu badali ^(talk) 03:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I do not up to speed with the matter so far. If you have a conflict with Alikvar, I would recommend to use some WP:DR e.g start a WP:RFC. If you want me to mediate the conflict, then you have to explain your grievances (otherwise I do not know whether I could accept to be a mediator or not) and Alikvar has to agree to my mediation Alex Bakharev 03:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It's not a "conflict". I just can't feel comfortable knowing there's a user with admin privileges out there that reacts to criticism from fellow admins ([10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]) by calling it "worthless crap" [16] and asking members of the community to "f* you very much" [17].

I just want to hear from him that he understand his behavior needs to be changed and that he plans to do that. That was not the first time this used asked fellow Wikipedians to f* themselves, and I believe he's here for quite a long time to understand this is not acceptable behavior.

So, how should I ask him for this compromise without sounding offensive? --Abu badali ^(talk) 14:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Alex Bakharev, are you still interested in intervene in this matter? --Abu badali ^(talk) 13:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Mediation

Abu, I am happy to mediate any disputes on wiki since I do not like disputes. There are two things that may be needed:

• You have to explain to me your vision of the conflict
  • If I have a conflict of interests or a strong preconceived opinion of the matter I will recuse, otherwise I am happy
• I have to ask Alikvar whether he wants my mediation. If he agree I am happy to start the work Alex Bakharev 10:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

As I told you, I don't fully classify this issue as an ongoing dispute. But anyway, a "mediation" could still be useful in this case.

I just would like to hear from this admin that he admits his behavior was wrong, and that he plans to do his best not to repeat it. It would become a dispute if he denies doing so. Would you take a part on this? --Abu badali ^(talk) 17:38, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Still interested? --Abu badali ^(talk) 23:26, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, quite a number of people seem to comment on this block already. So I guess he has noted this and would change his attitude to WP:BLP. If you have problems with him having the admin tools the correct place is WP:RFAR. I do not see any value with me adding another "me too" to his talk page. Alex Bakharev 01:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Alex Bakharev, his attitude to WP:BLP is not what concerns me. As I have explained, what concerns me is how he reacted to criticism. His reaction to the comments on his blocks was not to "change his attitude", but instead, it was to classify the comments as "worthless crap" and ask fellow Wikipedians to go f*ck themselves. Please, understand that this is what bothers me the most. One thing is an admin with an imperfect understanding of WP:BLP or WP:BLOCK. A completely different matter is an admin that ignores Wikipedia:No personal attacks.

So, would you help me in rewriting my message to him in a way that a native English speaker wouldn't consider offensive? I would highly appreciate your help, but I also understand you may have valid reasons to prefer not to do so. --Abu badali ^(talk) 19:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

your support for Chris Lawson

Are you sure you want to support this guy? Look at his source/quote for making the Red Baron jewish. read the discussion page on it. See the opposers views on his request page. Look at the diffs. It scares me. JohnHistory 08:36, 20 March 2007 (UTC)JohnHistory

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Manfred_von_Richthofen
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Clawson

Well, the enthusiasm over this dispute is indeed scary but this is only one edit war over a history of 5K+ contributions. No other arguments. Does not fly with me Alex Bakharev 11:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

SIMUN is getting deleted

Hi alex what's your pov on this? I think the boundary that they are setting for notability is too high. Since you helped me before I really want to know what you think. Is there room for improvement or is it just doomed to be deleted? --Jingshen 14:15, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Dissenters' March

Please note my opinion, thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Saint_Petersburg_March_of_the_Discontented#User_Vlad_fedorov_regularly_vandalize_this_page GoWest8 19:48, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

User Vlad fedorov again reverted that page without any explanations. Should I request for Arbitration Committee? GoWest8 13:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, what about that revert being made by GoWest8

diff. He continues to revert without discussion. Please take action like in my case.Vlad fedorov 04:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Stop write a bullshit. I reverted that page with explanations of all my actions (look for the previous revisions). GoWest8 13:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, Alex. Would you please explain why you deleted User:Mass Ave 975? --Sushiya 14:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Persian/Arabian Gulf dispute

Hi Alex,

Thanks for protecting these articles Persian Gulf naming dispute‎ (and Persian Gulf‎ by KhoiKhoi) realted to history, name translation, etymology and naming of Persian/Arabian Gulf as it looks highly violated from time to time and discussion is going hot with many political backgrounds. It looks like an edit war!

However, I ask you kindly to tag these pages as Disputed "template:neutrality" according to the policies of Wikipedia as it is higly controversial and disputed topic just like Sea of Japan naming dispute, Politics of Khuzestan, History of Palestine, History of ancient Israel and Judah and many other pages talking about this part of the world. I wish users of interested in editing these pages (including myself) reach NPOV as soon as possible. Thanks a lot... Ralhazzaa 10:44, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

• I have started a short straw poll on the tag on the Talk:Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute#Tag, if there is no consensus that the article is neutral, I would restore the tag Alex Bakharev 11:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I would like to report that Mardavich is accusing me making puppets, vandalizing (or urging to vandalize), and asking for POV. I would like you to trace my IP and get sure that IP users vandalizing this page is not related to me. Such words are irresponsible and uncivil. If I posted something in the talk page for someone, you may go and see my words that was not more than "you may discuss". If I urged someone to adopt my POV, then he is right and I will leave Wikipedia! Many Arab users adopted different POV of the one I have in this page. I highly consider this accusation as uncivil and impolite. In the same time, you may see this page even cited in our article as ex.link (u may not read Persian) but I can tell you that it is a report about this edit-war in an Iranian newspaper... our discussion in Iranian mass-media inviting people to involve in this edit-war.. and accusing me of spamming and creating puppets! Ralhazzaa 16:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

• Recently, Barnetj conducted kind of personal attack aginst me.

1. S/he posted me a "Warning" in my personal talk page and accused me "canvassing" as I asked one editor to (how to reply an accusation in Wikipedia.. and a request of legal advice). When accodring to canvassing rules, "reasonable amount of communication about issues is fine" and "The occasional light use of cross-posting to talk pages is part of Wikipedia's common practice".
2. S/he ask -openly- to get support from other users of his POV to suggest a punishment for me as an "abuser". S/he already suggested a "ban". That lead other users, of same side, to contribute the open attack against me [18].

Thus, I want to know how my request of advice or my contact with someone else can use my language -for better understanding- is to be considered as canvas if no clear request of adopting my POV is there?

So, I would like to know:

1. How legal is Barnetj's "warning" to me in my personal talk page
2. How legal is the open request for support of "ban" request from other users, of same political POV, that lead for open war against me by them.
3. How civil are the words used by him in his "warning" and "suggestion of punihsment"
4. What authority s/he has to warn me such "warning"
5. What authority s/he has to suggest a punishment

I would like to turn your attention that I asked him kindly to strike on (Strike-through text) his writing in my personal talk page and the open request of ban, as it is improper. But s/he refused and confirmed that s/he consider me as disrupter.

Would you please take an action? I would like to ask Barnetj through you to strike on his illeagal and improper "warning"^[19] and his open & clear request of "banning" from other "friends"^[20]. Thanks --Ralhazzaa 04:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Stalking by User:Dahn

You have left a note on my talk page about the content I am adding. Thank you for your advice. Consider now these three reverts (all of them only 2 minutes apart): [21], [22] [23]. The historical truth is that the decision to unite with Romania was taken by Transylvania's Romanians and Germans in 1918, THEN Transylvania was occupied by the Romanian army in 1919. There can be no ambiguity. Could you explain why User:Dahn, who manifestly stalks my contributions, pushes the incorrect version? What is your advice in such a situation? Thank you for your help. Icar 13:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC) (PS. you will certainly get very soon User:Dahn's opinion).

• Well, Dahn has edited the Romanization page before [24], so I guess it is on his watchlist. Still I would check Alex Bakharev 13:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it must be on his watchlist. The thing is that all my contributions in the past month must be on his watchlist, because they have been reverted by that user, who ignores the info from the discussion pages only to revert me. Only one article about a painter escaped so far... Even edits where I correct obvious typos or mistakes are reverted by that user and his collaborators. Icar 13:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:1958_Sakharov_Kurchatov.jpg

Hi, I recently closed the IFD on Image:1958_Sakharov_Kurchatov.jpg as a keep. The image is going to need a fair use rationale, though. In addition, I'm not so sure about the historic photo claim; that'd work for an article describing the photo itself, not the content of the photo. Thanks! — Rebelguys2 ^talk 18:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

AlexNewArtBot

I have a suggestion for the bot. I realize it hasn't been approved to run automatically yet, and you're probably still working on it. It tagged this article, Glock 7, as a stub. My suggestion would be for it to skip over articles with speedy deletion tags on them, or come back to them when the tag is off. Is this worth looking into? Is it feasible? Leebo ^T/C 13:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it is a good suggestion. The next time I run the bot I would try to implement it Alex Bakharev 13:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Paul Goma

You have recently shown interest in this page. There is an ongoing dispute about content [25]. It appears from the quoted references according to the discussion page [26] that Goma was dismissed by Tismaneanu for the reasons mentioned in the archived version [27]. however one editor keeps reverting despite being offered ample explanation in the talk page. Could you help in restoring the truth? Icar 15:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Siberian/Nort Russian language

Hi, but I would like to come and talk to you about deleting that page.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Dealcountries (talk • contribs)

• Come and talk then Alex Bakharev 23:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for support in my unsuccessful RfA. I appreciate the support, and am disappointed on being judged by what in most opinions seem to be the wrong things. Until next time, edit on! :) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 03:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Ralhazzaa

Please read the 25 recent diffs on Talk:Persian Gulf naming dispute, manipulating sources and considering others as racist and anti-arabist (several times), can not be neglected. I don't say anything else just read them and make a decision. regards,--Pejman47 14:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

If you can't realize that others also have the truth -as mentioned referentially in that talk page- in a different way of yours, Pejman47, then it is not good for you to consider other's POV as manipulation and violate cultural rights of other nationas repeatedly. Fortunately, we also know the history of this gulf as we can read and cite references in our discussions.. also, our grandfathers, who passed away before Nasser, told us about it. This is English Wikipedia that is for all neutral users but not just for Iranians and their POV as you are doing in the Persian Wiki ^{[28] [29]}... no one can accept confiscation of information Ralhazzaa 11:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Template:MosNews for deletion at commons

See commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Template:MosNews for details. I thought you might be interested into keeping it in some way. --Hardscarf 10:47, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your remark. I did not understand your comment on Kriya Reiki. What is the status of the articles now? Many of my students are curious to get the info about these methods thro' wikipedia.

Rekhaa Kale 17:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Dmitry Salita

Maybe a webmaster might explain a Dmitry Salita fan what belongs in an encyclopedia and what doesn't (nuthugging, sigh).(see Salita-discussion too). The man doesn't understand it. German.Knowitall 19:17, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

New Article About Musician Linked by The "Wars" Bot

I started a new article on a New Orleans musician [[James Singleton (musician)]] and see that the following bots have linked to it.

• User:AlexNewArtBot/GoodLog
• User:AlexNewArtBot/LiteratureLog
• User:AlexNewArtBot/WarsLog
• User:AlexNewArtBot/CinemaLog

Plus... the following quote from User:AlexNewArtBot "Currently Supported" is a little disconcerting:

20. rather pathetic "Bad list" (Search result, Log, Rules)
21. even more pathetic "Good List" (Search result, Log, Rules)

The words "even more pathetic" are not quite what I'd hoped to see describing the new article. I'm not sure about the extent of your project here... just wanted to make sure there is not a problem. - Steve3849(talk) 19:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanation. - Steve3849(talk) 04:40, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Disputed article- Persian Gulf

Dear Alex,

As discussion in talk page of Persian Gulf showing how much info in this page is controversial, disputed and biased. I would like to request tagging it with the neutrality tag as biased according to:

1. dispute of name translation to Arabic. Iranian users insist it is called Persian Gulf in Arabic! Not allowing Arab users to show real name in their own language which is الخليج العربي "al-khalīj al-arabī" (as shown in Global Arabic Encyclopedia here and used officially by UN, governemnts and national organizations in 22 Arab country, and by 300 million Arab)
2. dispute of Etymology section
3. dispute of naming

Thanks Ralhazzaa 11:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Your bot

How about excluding disambig pages so your bot does not add a unreferenced tag to those? For example this result. Otherwise, good job with your bot! --FateClub 23:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

• Great suggestion, I will implement it before running the bor the next time. I did not realized that some disambig articles are not tagged by a {{disambig}} or similar that would have stopped the bot from tagging but by directly adding the Category:Disambiguation. I would fix it. Alex Bakharev 23:23, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Question

Zdravstvuyte, Alex. I have a question regarding Salatyn Asgarova article. It’s been nominated for deletion, but I see no reason why. The article is properly referenced and states only facts. I believe its content does belong in an encyclopedia. This article can be edited and improved, but should not be nominated for deletion. Please let me know how to proceed. Thank you very much! --Zondi 01:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

• I have voted Speedy Keep Alex Bakharev 01:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Thanks, appreciate it.--Zondi 05:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Made an edit to User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult

Hello Alex. I saw that you had transcluded a page onto WP:COI/N. Since I checked out the SAML 2.0 article and it seemed OK I figured I should record my findings in the file User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult. Let me know if this was not correct. EdJohnston 03:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

ArtBot picking up TV as film

Sometime today the bot picked up about 50 TV stubs & tagged them as film - I reverted, but thought you should know; including: (Yin Yang Yo! episode) Night Fall, 600 Channels of Doom!/ An Oldie But a Goodie, A Match Not Made in Heaven/ The High She-as, Attack of the Lesson/ A Case of Evils, Attack of the Vidiots/ Fit to be Tried, Doomed to Repeat It/ The Gig is Up, just look at my contributions about this time "correct stub" if you want the full list. Thanks. SkierRMH 05:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

You're right - the only clue in the wording that seemed to be consistent that would exclude it from "film" would be either "series" or "Episode". The "series" films ended in the 1930's, so that would probably be a good exclusionary/differentiation term. I can't really think of many times I've seen the word "Episode" in a film stub either. Both of these would apply for "made for TV" films as well. Don't know if that helps, but hope it does. Also, probably best to leave it as 'film' stub for now, until something can be done to differentiate the two. Thanks. SkierRMH 05:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Alex, again personal attacks by Biophys

Alex, I don't know how many time this individual could call me "vandal" without any fear of being punished. He knows perfectly all my arguments but constantly tries to abuse me, rather than reedit his articles and get rid of hoaxes and conspiracy theories. Please see the following his edits in actual time line: first, second, third, fourth, fifth. Please note that first he writes on my page, although he had got already an answer from admin here. Could you make him polite and civil? Vlad fedorov 06:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Kars Treaty

Hi, I noticed you protected the page, and asked to find the compromise on the talk page. The thing is, the compromise has been found throughout the Azerbaijan-Armenia pages, which is to use third party sources. I have removed all non-third-party sources, and am supported by an independent, third-party editor user:Petri Krohn, whilst users Aivazovsky and others keep on inserting Armenian URLs whilst at the same time removing Turkish and Azerbaijani, and claiming that they do that in the name of NPOV'ing the article! The same user Aivazovsky has been arguing against, and reverting, the fact that the treaty was signed by 5 republics/parties. Only after weeks of deliberations he finally appologized and confirmed that he now took time to research the facts (that is, before he was just arguing for the sake of arguing). Please take a look at the Talk page, and unprotect the page, so that we can revert it to the NPOV version. --adil 06:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

• Protection is not endorsement of a version, but I will try to look Alex Bakharev 07:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Portal:Cricket/New Articles

Thanks for creating this extremely useful article. Hope your bot will keep it upto-date. Tintin 08:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot/OperaSearchResult

Hi, Alex. I've had a look at today's results and the log. A great deal of noise is being created at present by the inclusion in new articles of the phrase "soap opera". Could you organise things so the bot only picks up articles containing "opera" if the word isn't preceded by "soap"? Then we can see what else might need doing by way of fine-tuning. Best. --GuillaumeTell 10:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

• I realized it as well and fixed the rules. Lets see what we would get tomorrow Alex Bakharev 11:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

DYK

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WPKU

Dear Alex, Please check this link to see editsummary and history of User!!.Any commends? sock??. Regards. Mustafa Akalp Must.^{T C} 16:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Dear Alex, the link over there must not show, that this is my sock. It can be a person who is against me. For this reason you can't say, that this is my sock. Please revise your assertion. Thanks. --Bohater 18:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Exactly. That is why the template said "sock of imposter" I do not hold anything against you Alex Bakharev 22:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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Reverend Peter Fontaine

AlexNewArtBot added a French stub tag and the Wikiproject France tag to the page I've created on Reverend Peter Fontaine...Are you sure he was French? Zigzig20s 17:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

• No, the bot is stupid. If it is not correct, just fix its changes Alex Bakharev 22:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

BRFA

Hi - could you take a look at your bot's BRFA when you have a moment? Thanks, Martinp23 22:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Salatyn Asgarova

There's nothing about her, online or anything, so I requested deletion no reliable sources, third party google lacks only 3 sites on her. Artaxiad 04:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

That's not true, user Artaxiad is acting in bad faith and trying to delete Azerbaijan related pages. Here's about Salatyn from Russian sources: [30], [31], [32] --adil 05:38, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm guilty is that what you want me to say? theres nothing about her online! what good are Russian sources? if this was a Armenian article I would do the same, but I would google it first, those Russians sources don't seem important expand it than. Artaxiad 01:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

So there is nothing about her in English language? How about this from International Federation of Journalists [33],[34] or International News Safety Institute [35]. --adil 05:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

George Livingston Robinson

I wrote the article. I'm brand new and do not know html, xml, etc. I tried the on-line help but it really doesn't explain how to enter a reference. I think I placed a link that would be useful but instructions are more oriented toward form than how to do it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.171.171.146 (talk) 07:20, 28 March 2007 (UTC).

Bot Mistake

I believe your bot is making a mistake here[36]. It has done so twice. Please stop it. --Christian39201 22:11, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

• Yes, you are right. I will check the bot code today. Alex Bakharev 23:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you should leave out disambiguation pages

Ditto per above. You tagged a disambiguation page and I reverted it only to find it tagged again. Maybe you could look for Category:Disambiguation and not touch those pages. These are typically just lists of links and it dosn't make sense for them to have references. Thanks! --Infrangible 01:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Fifth Melbourne meetup

The fifth meetup of Melbourne Wikipedians is being planned as a breakfast meeting in the city with Jimbo Wales (at a venue to be arranged) on Friday, 27 April 2007.

Jimbo has proposed breakfast as the one real window of opportunity during his tightly scheduled stay in Melbourne. Tbe precise time has to be sorted out with Jimbo, but the arrangements for the equivalent Adelaide meetup a few days before may give a good idea.

Feel free to edit the relevant page in any way that might be helpful. I feel like a bit of an interloper, not having attended previous meetups. If there's anything you can do to help, I'll be grateful. Please think about whether you'll be able to make it, assuming the arrangements are similar to those Adelaide is adopting (i.e. a block of time with people being fairly free to arrive when it suits them). Some indication on the page of your possible participation would be really helpful.

(Alex, I realise you probably can't make this, but this is to show you what I'm telling everyone on the participation list, and in csse you can end up getting their afterall.) Metamagician3000 06:12, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Grrr @the typos in my parenthetical note to you. Er, "case" and "there". Planning seems to be coming along. Metamagician3000 05:34, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Alex Bakharev 05:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Offstage aside

[37]: Maybe Wasserman thought "former" meant "dead". - Jmabel | Talk 16:22, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Opera bot

I am wondering whether it might be possible to tighten up the rules in User:AlexNewArtBot/Opera? At the moment most of the articles identified are theatre and music-related rather than opera per se. Thanks for your work and best regards from the [Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera|Opera Project]. - Kleinzach 00:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Please also note that I have moved the results from our project page (which is getting too long) to a sub-page Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/New article bot. Regards. - Kleinzach 08:49, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand

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An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand/Workshop.

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Overprotection

Alex, I think we need to be more careful about protecting articles like Azerbaijan (Iran). IT was protected for several weeks and thee was no talk on the discussion page for two weeks. No disputes were being resolved; it was just being protected unproductively. But when I unprotected it, the same parties who hadn't discussed just when right back to edit warring: the solution here is blocking. They have already demonstrated that protection won't help them resolve things politely, so rather than harming the public by chronically disallowing all editing for weeks at a time, we should instead target the solution for the misbehaving few. Reprotecting at the drop of a hat like that is just encouraging edit warriors to try to revert in case their version is the protected one this time, with no incentive to work together. Remember, page protection is considered harmful. I'm going to warn the edit warriors at Azerbaijan (Iran) that if they make any more reverts, they will be blocked, and then unprotect the article again. Dmcdevit·t 01:56, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Was this you? Probably not!

Hello Alex. I'm guessing that this edit to Calgacus's user page wasn't you, but I thought I'd better check. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

List of Backyardigans episodes

Thanks for the semi-protect; it's not physically possible for that ip to have even seen the episodes in question yet. They were literally just released today. America won't get them for a month or two. HalfShadow 03:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Opera bot (again)

(Carried on from above). Can you possibly put the list on our project subpage as indicated and not on the main page where it adds clutter. Thanks. - Kleinzach 02:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

• Done. The bot search result is just a template: you can transclude it wherever you want Alex Bakharev 03:57, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Colayer

Colayer: The page which I had created before has been deleted. Can I know why? ALso can I get the contents back from somewhere? Thanks for answering. 11:29, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

• Answered at the user's talk page Alex Bakharev 11:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Colayer: Thanks a lot for restoring Alex

moved from userpage by Dina 12:23, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Photo of 1972 Israeli Olympic team

Thank you for your assistance as far as getting that nutjob Abu Badali off my back regarding this photograph. While I may not be an experienced uploader to Wikipedia and may not have completely understood what I was supposed to do, I'm glad that a cooler head was able to complete the fair use rationale info that I couldn't (or that Abu Badali just didn't want to accept). I always felt that the photo qualified - that's why I posted it in the first place.

What's his friggin' problem, anyway?

BassPlyr23 Talk 14:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

References to Armenian genocide

I received a warning from you saying I should discuss before removing References to Armenian genocide without discussion. I am shocked.

If you look at Ordu talk, I have discussed it thoroughly for the last 4 months. However, user Khoikhoi has constantly reverted my edits - not reverts mind you but edits where I spent hours and hours on research disproving his claims. He ignores my discussions, and reverts to the POV sources (or no sources at all) over and over without discussing - ok maybe once or twice he discussed something. And now I am the one being warned for not discussing and making reverts? I feel as if Khoikhoi has some "special" untouchable status on Wikipedia and he can whatver he wants. He stalked use Coolcat and reverted all of his edits, and nobody said anything (check his log). He has reverted EVERY single entry I made regarding to Armenian Genocide - and like I said I had provided sources over and over again and discussed my changes.

I on the other hand still continue to discuss (thouroghly as I am now) before I make reverts, or at the very least make comments in the edit box. But user Khoikhoi however does not provide such pleasantries most of the time. He also makes reverts where the Armenian genocide claim was originally inserted by an anonymous editor with the IP 70.82.54.38, as in with Ordu here [38] and SebinKarahisar. I don't know if this user is working with other users, who are Armenian, to inject the Armenian Genocide related claims to any Turkish page they can, but here's a Google result [[39]] that returns 1,290 results from Wikipedia that contain the words "Armenian Genocide" and here's one with Khoikhoi included [[40]] which returns 175. But Jewish Holocaust only returns 196 hits from Wikipedia "jewish holocaust" site:en.wikipedia.org. There is Ssomething wrogn with that. His name is also on the logs of 99% of all pages containing the words "armenian genocide".

Having said all of that, I have no issues or problems with this user but he obviously is stalking me and is reverting my edits without show cause. He also reports me every chance he gets and I see no reason for me being reported or warned in this case at all. Yes it's a sensistive subject, but that does not make it OK for some people to revert and inject unsourced and inbiased claims all over Turkish pages or wherever they can. that is ridiculous and I hope you are not defending that position. Also, I would like to see where I made any change without commenting or where it wasn't justified.

I want him banned for stalking, for one week, as Wikipedia did to me (becasue I reverted 2 of his edits!). Fair is fair. I also want him to explain and discuss HIS reverts and not shift the blame on to me. I also would like to know why HE is on almost every single page where the "Armenian Genocide" claim appears. Is he an historian?

I would also like his IP cross referenced with all the anonymous edit's IP numbers.

--Oguz1 16:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Bot

Hi!

I wonder if the bot is able to handle some code similar to this one:

 @@20@@
 /\W(is|was|are|were|has\sbeen|have\sbeen)\sa?(n?\s\w+)?\srussian/
 /\W(is|was|are|were|has\sbeen|have\sbeen)\s(an?)?\s(\w+\s){1,2}(in|of|to)
\s(russian?|the\srussian)/
 20 /\Wrussia(-\w+){0,2}-stub\}\}/
 20 /category:(\w+\s){0,2}russia/

If so, this might be a more helpful tool of automatic categorization.

Colchicum 20:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

• It should work although I have never tested it. Maybe we should create a feed Test where put all potentially usable but suspicious rules and see what the results they would produce? Alex Bakharev 01:41, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

• • Yes, it works. Colchicum 18:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Col Cat - Anti -Kurdish

Hallo, whould you please, check the nationalist and anti-Kurdish Edits from Col Cat. Here are some Cat' s Edits. Thanks. [[41]], [[42]],[[43]], [[44]] --Xandel 20:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

FYI, user has been blocked indefinately. -- Cat ^chi? 20:40, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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Could you please delete this redundant map I uploaded per this? --Irpen 04:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

• Done Alex Bakharev 06:18, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets

On 6 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

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Internet Troll Squads

Alex, please, undelete somewhere the article Internet Troll Squads. We need it to compare it with the new article by Biophys Internet brigades.Vlad fedorov 05:04, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

• I have temporarily restored it as User:Vlad fedorov/Internet troll squads. Please let me know when I could delete it back Alex Bakharev 05:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

After AfD surely.Vlad fedorov 10:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

AlexNewArtBot

I suggest you use the {{user11}} template instead of the {{User}}. Happy editing, Snowolf ^(talk) _CON ^COI - 09:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

• I am not sure I like the proposal. User11 is more verbose than User, the Count link is not very helpful and the Block Log link is sort of embarrassing for the most cases (and is already one click away from the Contribs anyway). If somebody else read my talk the feedback would be helpful. Alex Bakharev 23:23, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I hate to bother you, but

Hi. I hate to bother you, but the libel campaign continues as ever before: [45], [46], [47], [48]. Not only is this an attempt to discredit a valid source, but I am being under constant attack for political views I supposedly expressed in an unrelated conversation with another user (all taken out of context, all inflammatory). I have filed a complaint about these occurrences in the past, can you please advise me on what I am supposed to do? Dahn 16:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Suspected Sockpuppets of Bohater

• User:Antivandalism

Is there a reason for the suspicion? (Not that I am disputing/supporting). Maybe a checkuser request should be filed. You are familiar with the case I presume.

I also have reason to believe if such a connection exists the two other users below may be related.

• User:Webmaster (Already blocked - Bad username)
• User:Xandel (Already blocked - open proxy)

-- Cat ^chi? 16:23, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Here is the [reason.Regards.Must.^{T C} 16:35, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, please consider this [[49]] too. Thanks. --Bohater 16:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

• OK, since the {{sockpuppet}} is mostly used on sock-puppets and the Antivandalism is most probably an impersonator I have changed the wordings of User:Antivandalism Alex Bakharev 23:18, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

A project for your bot?

A big thanks from WikiProject Oregon for having your bot look for new Oregon-related articles. Is is it possible to program your bot to make one pass throuh to look for *old* Oregon-related articles/categories/templates that aren't already tagged with the {{WikiProject Oregon}} tag and its variations? Because I run across these these all the time when I'm checking through the Oregon categories, sitting there being orphaned until someone finally puts them in the appropriate category or stub category. I realize that this would amount to thousands if not tens of thousands of articles. Let me know. I saw a bot go through and do this for California, (though this was for articles that were already in a California-related category) and actually tagging the articles with the project tag, but I think it would be better to have it make a list that we could check manually. Thanks! Katr67 02:35, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

• It is an interesting idea. I have to significantly speed up the article's analysis to get all the 1.6M wikipedia articles processed. To give you an idea, currently the overnight processing of 3K New Articles for 100+ news feeds takes ~10h with more than a half of the time is the actual processing time and the rest is fetching data and housekeeping tasks. I could greatly speed up the task by downloading the whole wikidump locally, by using faster hardware, by some software modification. Before I will do it, let the bot work for a couple of week so Colchium and me could tune up the rules.
• BTW it seems like a trivial task to list all the articles in the categories descendant from Category:Oregon that are not labelled with the project tag. Would you want it done? Alex Bakharev 03:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

1) Cool, thanks for thinking about it. 2) Yes, if making a list like that is trivial, please do! I went through once and did most of them one time but I missed a few branches and I wasn't really looking forward to retracing my steps. Thanks again! Katr67 04:11, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Merzbow and his attacks

Look at this please: [50] and [51]. Despite my bringing up legitimate grievances of the article I am attacked as being "easily offended" even they are promoting conspiracy theories like Eurabia by Bat Ye'or as "criticism of Islam" and calling Pat Robertson a "critic" of Islam (he calls Muslims devils and believes Muslims will burn in hell) even though they are clearly bigots. The double standard here is that if Bat Ye'or was promoting a similar conspiracy theory about Jews taking over Europe, she would be labeled a anti-Semite not a "critic" of Judaism. Can you please help there with the bullying or at least raise the issue with other admins if you don't want to look into it? Merzbow's actions in particular are reprehensible with his pasting of "This guy is a Christian, I'm easily offended" all over the place and calling me a troll. I have also reported this to Khoikhoi and Tariq, but I wanted to also let you know in case they were busy. Khorshid 05:44, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Khorshid, the 2nd link you gave to Alex was actually a Wikipedia bug (see his talk page). You should have first contacted Merzbow, instead of bothering an admin first.

Alex, the admins must be tired of directly dealing with Islam related issues. I'm guessing out of the 1000 or so admins, atleast 10 must be regularly bombarded with Islam related issues. There must be a strong solution to this. Maybe users could be told "Please follow policies and procesdures (RfC, DR, etc) if you have concerns, dont bother us with the issues directly", becuase this really drains admins and takes up their time over small matters and thus makes Wikipedia suffer. Am I correct Alex? Or is it ok for people to keep bothering admins directly? If they spend time over these small bickerings and conflicts, they might be taking away their valuable time and efforts away from more important Wikipedia related stuff. I am seeing this happen on a regular basis. --Matt57 12:11, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed the discussion about the second link myself and told Khorshid that it seems to be a bug. I have never seen the diff like this before, it is no wonder many users are confused over it. I guess Wikipedia conflicts over Islam-related articles somehow reflect the real life conflicts. It is a challenge not to censure facts and notable opinions but at the same time prevent harassment of religious believes of users. There is a narrow path between censorship and hate-mongering and we have to tread this path. If it require extra admin work it is only fair. It is better to clear a misunderstanding before it grows into an Arbcom matter and require banning scores of good-faith editors just to stop the disruption. Thus I am thankful for any heads-up. On the other hand I feel I have bit on Wiki more than I can (or rather have time to ) chew, thus, if you feel my response been slow or inadequate I don't mind if you ask another admin Alex Bakharev 12:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

"It is a challenge not to censure facts and notable opinions but at the same time prevent harassment of religious believes of users."

Indeed. The solution is, I believe, is, in most circumstances, for editors of all persuasions to keep their personal beliefs to themselves and to not attempt to confront the beliefs of others. Comments which do otherwise ought to be removed. This will not stop POV pushing, but will definitely restore some semblance of order to talk pages, and establish an environment which psychologically encourages a more detached approach.Proabivouac 22:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

carandbikeforums.com

I noticed you removing some linkspam on the Mitsubishi Outlander and Mitsubishi Pajero pages placed there by User:122.164.133.24. Unfortunately, a similar load was dumped by User:122.164.144.84, which I tidied myself. However, I've seen this URL many times over the past year, always added in batches, always by an anonymous IP. Would it be possible to have it added to the spam blacklist? Looking at the talk page it seems like I should just report it, but I wasn't sure if you were aware of a "threshold" the spamming had to reach before it qualified. --DeLarge 13:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Please check your mails~.Regards.Must.^{T C} 13:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Praise for the AlexNewArtBot

... probably just because my new articles show up there under "good search result" when I click "what links here". Thanks for your work! That made me feel good.  :) Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 02:44, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

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Alex I have inserted my deleted edits into Boris Stomakhin article

I have inserted my deleted contributions to Boris Stomakhin article. All if them are referenced to reliable sources and do not violate BLP. Please note that in this edit I don't "sterilize" Biophys contributions. I want you to acknowledge this fact, because empty accusations have grown into "allegedly real".Vlad fedorov 07:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination

On March 22 you expressed an interest in this proposal. The WikiProject has gone live. Your participation is welcome. Durova^Charge! 18:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Russian history project

Hi Alex,

what are your thoughts about Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian History? User:MarshallPoe hasn't really edited since February, many others haven't edited at all except for putting their name on the member list or have stopped shortly after doing that.

Regards, Errabee 16:20, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking of proposing that the Russian history project should be turned into a work-group of WikiProject Russia. That way we can get rid of the double tagging, while the Russian history guys still have their own place to work. I am not sure what the correct way is to propose such a merger, and neither do I have the skills to adjust Template:WikiProject Russia to include work-groups. Errabee 11:12, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Vasily Zavoyko

I noticed you added some information to Vasily Zavoyko, and it is much appreciated. However, the citation you used was a tad vague. Seeing as I don't speak Russian, and you're already familiar with the source, would you mind adding a more standardized in-line reference to the article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cryptic C62 (talk • contribs) 04:22, 14 April 2007 (UTC).

Hey man, I don't know if you noticed, but...

On 15 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vasily Zavoyko, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Huzzah! --Cryptic C62 · Talk 15:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Alex, Please lift the protection on "Tabriz" and let the truth be known.

This protection is a slap on the face of truth and justice. This protection helps an article with several unconfirmed and seriously biased references, an article that promotes nothing but ethnic hatred and destruction, and an article that needs serious editing with verifiable sources. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.193.216.191 (talk) 06:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC).

• I have had to semiprotect the article because it is quite likely that a banned user took place in the discussion. The easiest way to edit a semiprotected article is to request changes on the talk page (supporting it by WP:RS). Alternatively you can get yourself an account Alex Bakharev 08:12, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Russophobia

A comment related to the CfD: the Anti-Russian sentiment may be better if split into two parts - historic and "modern" Russophobia. The historical part could be then expanded - with jingoism, that funny drawing of the armed Russian bear etc. It is quite an interesting topic and deserves more than be a corner of a warzone. Pavel Vozenilek 11:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

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Ukrainian-German collaboration during World War II, the war of versions

Alex, что-то надо делать с войной правок по этой статье. Я пытаюсь откатить к вашей последнему варианту, ссылок добавил, так вроде сбалансированно, но "коллеги" выдалбливают только свою точку зрения, в которое украинские коллаборанты просто замечательные парни. Нельзя ли запретить хотя бы незарегистрированным пользователям там резвиться? Ben-Velvel 16:17, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

• Done Alex Bakharev 21:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I think tou didn't even read what was in that link ... If you had, you wouldn't have written this... (except ukrainophobia)

Tobias Conradi

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Floating nuclear power station

Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Floating nuclear power station, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on April 16 where you can improve it if you see fit. Regards, howcheng {chat} 17:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks

Much appreciated. Unnamed admin 01:16, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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Yarn Vandalism

Thank you for fixing the Yarn page. I was just inquiring how to go about this. --Edna H. 02:35, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Minorsky

Hi Alex. I checked the article about prominent Russian scholar Vladimir Fedorovich Minorsky, and it says:

Vladimir Fedorovich Minorsky, Russian: Владимир Фёдорович Минорский; other name: Russian: Похоронен Pokhoronen (February 5, 1877 - March 25, 1966)

There’s definitely something wrong there, I don’t think pokhoronen (buried) could be a name. Could you please check? Thanks. Grandmaster 12:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

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Can you please take a look at the talk page of PKK? Thanks. deniz^T_C 12:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Please revert to earlier version, at least the lead. Apparently Khoikhoi has no objection. Also please take a look at Republic of Ararat. Please do not protect it with Khoikhoi's version again. I want to AGF. Deniz^T_C 06:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

So? Deniz^T_C 13:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Protection request

The saga continues. Would you consider imposing some level of protection on Mark Kac and Stefan Banach, to prevent anon ip editors from making malicious and hateful edits? Balcer 20:15, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Balcer 00:23, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Drinker, Biddle & Reath

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Hey, dude

You seem to be campaigning for an admin to block me in your recent comments on the incidents section of the administrator noticeboard. I bring to your attention a recent poll on the request for adminship talk page which demonstrated a clear consensus that I should not be prohibited from voting on Requests for Adminship. I believe that any block predicated on a claim that my voting habits there are disruptive would fail to have consensus support, and the admin responsible for it would likely suffer a severe reputational loss.

I urge you to set this idea to the side. Campaigning for it only serves to create drama, and I'm sure you don't want to become known as a drama queen. I would also ask that you refrain from calling me a troll, but I suspect that request would fall on deaf ears, so I won't actually make it. Kelly Martin (talk) 11:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Gromovb.jpg

What are the chances of it being kept? Can I ask you to take a vigilant stance it favour of doing so? BTW I will be pushing Kuban Cossacks to GA/FA so I do welcome help. --Kuban Cossack 13:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Bronze Soldier

Please have a look at this guy's edits. He seems to be here only to push a POV. -- Petri Krohn 14:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

• I gave him a 3rr warning. BTW there were a lot of chaotic editing of the page. I am stopping editing so to accidentally did not violate the 3RR myself Alex Bakharev 14:54, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

He has not yet reverted 3 times. What he is doing is clearly blatant edit warring; he has made intentions clear by doing multiple undos (on different edits) without explenation. The problem with the article is, that it is bombarded by a barrage of POV-pushing IPs from Estonia. Apart from you, there does not seem to be a single Russian speaking editor working on the article. I have been trying to "maintain the integrity" of this front page article, but my resources (and reverts) are limited. We could consider soft protecting the article, either now or after one more round of edit warring. The fact that this highly controversal article has remained without protection so long seems to be exeptional. -- Petri Krohn 15:11, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I see you alrady gave a warning on his user talk page. I was planning to do something similar, threatening to ask for soft protection. Your arguments are more convinsing. Thanks! -- Petri Krohn 15:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

The accusation that my undos are "without explenation" (sic) are baseless. They're among the better-documented changes in the history altogether!

However, in attempt to better explain what I'm doing, I'll now take extra care to also explain the changes on the discussion page. Digwuren 19:22, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for this addition (Amnesty International). -- Petri Krohn 13:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC) (P.S. beware of this)

NewAllexBot

User:AlexNewArtBot/LiteratureLog grabbed Srednekansky District:

Article Srednekansky District matched rule publisher 5 points

Lead of the article Srednekansky District matched rule publisher 10 points

I guess fine tuning needed. `'mikka 20:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

• Fixed Alex Bakharev 23:58, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your banning of IP 194.150.212.6

I've noticed that you have blocked the IP 194.150.212.6 for anonymous edits, one of the common IPs from my workspace. As vandalism in itself is a nuiscance on Wikipedia, it is a problem when you don't specify the vandalism so that others have a means to follow up.

When you, as an admin, block on the basis of common IP addresses, it would be appropriate and helpful to use the proper vandalism template parameters to inform about which pages allegedly vandalized by this IP, so that this can be dealt with on our end.

Thank you for your understanding.

• It is not that difficult to follow up. The history of editing is here. As specified on the talk page of the IP the vandalous edits happen to be on the April 30. Please check yourself Alex Bakharev 14:08, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Bot for new articles on Iceland

I have created rules for a bot for new articles on Iceland, but I am not sure I 've made everything right and the syntax is OK. Admittedly, I am an amateur with technical, computer syntax. --Michkalas 12:25, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

• Looks good, I have added a rule for Althing. Tomorrow the bot will pick the rules up Alex Bakharev 14:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC)