User talk:AzaToth/Archive 5

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Galerie Jeleni

Hmmm... good point. I'll revise it appropriately. --Deathphoenix ʕ 13:44, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Influenza GA review

I think the points you raised have now been covered. Have another look and tell me what you think? Regards TimVickers 04:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Have added data on Talk:Influenza (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs) _→AzaToth 15:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your thorough review, I hope I have dealt with your concerns and your comments have considerably improved this article. TimVickers 04:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:H5n1 spread (with regression).png

I'm not sure I understand. Why do you say that it should be an SVG? Is there a policy to that effect, or do you mean that you think it would work better as an SVG than as a PNG? Waitak 02:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Your change to Wikipedia:Templates for deletion

It seems like a nice system, but User:Zorglbot duplicated the last subpage and subpages seven days old would be automatically removed. I can't offhand think of a nice system to fix the second problem (except using a bot, which defeats the point). TimBentley (talk) 02:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with hepatitis C

Would you consider revisiting this discussion? Current opinions run 10-4 in favor of keeping the article and I think all the serious concerns have been addressed. Respectfully, Durova 20:34, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Templates for Deletion Automagic

It had to be undone. While I like automagic, it interferes with the bot that automatically transcludes each day's new entry, and archives those older than eight days. No harm done, though. Keep up the good work. RyanGerbil10(Упражнение В!) 00:36, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Carbon nanotube GA review

Hi AzaToth. You reviewed the article about carbon nanotubes some days ago, and I think I've corrected the things you said needed to be fixed up for it to become a GA. Could I get you to look at the article again and perhaps come with some feedback? Snailwalker | talk 11:52, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

hiddenStructure

Many thanks for your help on obliterating. Well done! (I think I've seen enough hS for the rest of my wikilife :-). --Ligulem 22:38, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Q

just a question. is your nick related with the book "In search for Kadath" by Lovecraft? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.234.110.198 (talk • contribs) 19:11, 24 Oct 2006 (UTC)

No. _→AzaToth 19:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Joan of Arc

How much research did you do before proposing the article name change to Joan of Arc? The modern French version of her name isn't more accurate or authentic than the modern English version. The matter is covered in footnote 1 of the article and discussed in greater depth at Joan_of_Arc_facts_and_trivia#Name. Talk archives for the main article page have extensive discussions on which versions to present in the introduction, but per standard practice at Wikipedia I don't think anyone has proposed changing the article name. Durova 22:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I was basing it on from what I felt was the more common name, and I did a quick survey on google, and got 2.3M result for "Joan of Arc" and 3.5M for "Jeanne d'Arc". And even if the english wikipedia is "English", I felt that the naming should be more consistent with it's roots than the anglotranslation. _→AzaToth 23:26, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

When I ran the same Google test on 25 August "Joan of Arc" came out ahead. See Talk:Joan_of_Arc#Name_change. It's a false assumption to suppose that "Jeanne d'Arc" is somehow more authentic. That's a modern form that was never used during her lifetime and remained virtually unknown in France for more than four centuries after her death. In comparison to original records it isn't particularly accurate. Durova 01:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

redundancy exercises

Thanks for your changes and comments. I'll look into altering or replacing the exercise at issue.

Have you thought of doing some reviewing at FAC and FAR/C? Good language technicians are sorely needed. Tony 03:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Edit conflict

Sorry AzaToth: I didn't use rollback or anything, there was an edit conflict in the middle of my edit and your other edit was lost. —Mets501 (talk) 19:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

0.999... image

FWIW, I like your 0.999... image: Image:999_Perspective-color.png. You might try placing the shadow in front of the image instead of behind it, though, and making it a different color so it stands out more. — Loadmaster 23:22, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Country templates

Reply made at [1]. (SEWilco 17:32, 27 October 2006 (UTC))

Your infobox on Talk:0.999...

The infobox you posted at the top of Talk:0.999... was entirely inappropriate. I've removed it. Next time, try not insulting the intelligence of those you disagree with. Supadawg (talk ·  contribs) 22:49, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Please be more civil and assume good faith next time. _→AzaToth 23:40, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

It's interesting to see you request civility after reading what you posted on Talk:0.999.... To be incivil would be to call you names. Instead, all I did was say that you insulted everyone else's intelligence, which is me being civil, yet angry. Also, I did assume good faith: I knew you weren't vandalizing, you were just being rude. Supadawg (talk ·  contribs) 00:05, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Wasn't ment to be rude, it was ment to be a short help. _→AzaToth 00:07, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Then don't title it "0.999... for dummies". The fact that there's a book series with the same name doesn't mean people won't take it the wrong way. How about "Resolved User Questions" or something like that? Supadawg (talk ·  contribs) 00:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Yea, that can be smarter. _→AzaToth 02:53, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

AIDcur

Hi, AzaToth! Sorry to bother you, but I notice that you've been placing {{AIDcur}} at the top of articles. My understanding is that is a talk-page template, because otherwise it would violate WP:SELF, so I moved the one on coffee to the talk page. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 01:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I just followed Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive/Maintenance where it seems to state that the template should be placed in the article, and not on the talk page, but that can easly be changed :) _→AzaToth 02:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I made the change myself. Does it look alright to you? By the way, if you like, I can spam all the voters for the winner later tonight, if you would rather not do it. – ClockworkSoul 03:40, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

You helped choose Coffee as this week's WP:AID winner

– ClockworkSoul 04:12, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Numberal Ribbons?

Do you have any future plans for making numeral ribbons? I seem to be racking up a few of the same type of Barnstar and I would like to cut down on the clutter. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sharkface217 (talk • contribs) 00:19, 1 Nov 2006 (UTC)

To do list

That's cool. I don't know much about how AID works, but I just figured the to do list should list stuff... to do. :) Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 17:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Btw, that alert graphic is hilarious. --Fang Aili ^talk 17:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Revert to Tony1's subpage

You made this revert. Just to let you know, the matter is currently being discussed at User talk:Tony1 and User talk:Tra. The main issue is that fair use images should not be in userspace. Tra (Talk) 00:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

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Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your service to Wikipedia. Good job!Sharkface217 23:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks _→AzaToth 17:44, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

texvc

What exactly do you need with regards to Bug 7774 ? Technical help ? I'm fine with any changes to texvc as long as they don't break backwards compatibility and keep the whitelist security model if that's what you're asking :-) Taw 16:35, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I need some third part to verify that it doesn't break backward compability and to keep the whitelist security model. The problem is that the other devs don't know OCAML and/or TeX. _→AzaToth 17:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Ping!

Hi again AzaToth,

Template talk:Infobox Officeholder#Help!

Thought I'd ping you about this as you've edited the template relatively recently and I expect – hope! – you'll be able to assist. Thanks for any help in advance, David Kernow (talk) 22:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

...cesarb kindly rode to my rescue (as I guess you already know!)  Best wishes, David (talk) 13:26, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

WP:ACID

Hey AzaToth, it might be just my computer, but the dates and times for all of the nominations are completely messed up.

This is what shows up for environmentalism:

43 votes, Nominated August 31, 2006; needs at least 44 votes by Error: invalid timeExpression error: unrecognised word "error"

When this is the template:

{{acid|start=September 1, 2006|votes=43}}

Notice how no only is there an error message, but also the dates on the first part are a day early. Please help. Thanks, -Gphoto 14:12, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, I don't the that problem, I get: " 43 votes, Nominated 2006-09-01; needs at least 44 votes by 2006-11-17 ", perhaps it's some temporary problem. _→AzaToth 14:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

It's gone. -Gphoto 02:45, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Category tree

Might you expand somewhat on this rather cryptic contribution? Alai 23:48, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I hads forgot that one, wonder why I saved it there... (Should have saved it in my user space), it was during a question with a dev if it was ment to be possible for you to do that. _→AzaToth 15:47, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah, OK, thanks. There was a mini-debate about whether you were subtly trying to tell us something. :) Alai 07:53, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia utility templates

You appear to be the creator of this category. It contains Template:Acid and two clones of this template and nothing else. I was going to move these out to perhaps Category:Miscellaneous templates since having a category for this one template seems, uh, not particularly categorical. What do you think? —Doug Bell ^{talk•contrib} 12:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I didn't create that category, but the category did exist, but was empty, so I thought perhaps I could put these templates there (I found it to be an "utillity" template :))) _→AzaToth 15:43, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology/Collaboration of the Month

Thanks. :) – ClockworkSoul 17:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

WP:AID

I do not know if you are in the main editor for the creation and improvment drive, but someone needs to put up this week's collaboration instead of Mark Twain. I do not know how to do this, but if you can tell me who does, I willl be glad to contact them. Thanks, -Gphoto 17:28, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. _→AzaToth 18:36, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

You may be interested in this discussion Talk:Barnstar#Straw_poll. --evrik ^(talk) 15:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

GA Hold

You placed Hepatitis C on hold at WP:GAC 3 weeks ago. It's supposed to be resolved in 7 days. Please take care of this issue. Thanks. Rlevse 19:50, 10 November 2006 (UTC)...Ditto for Hamdan v. Rumsfeld...Rlevse 19:54, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, had forgot then, checking into it. _→AzaToth 19:14, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Pong!

Hi again Carl (I finally remembered to use your name!),
Some days I bet you wish you didn't advertize yourself as a CSS expert...!  If/when you have a moment, any assistance or even just pointers you could provide some CSS strugglers here would be most welcome!  Grateful as always, David Kernow (talk) 23:05, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Add style="border-bottom: 2px solid DimGray;" to the bottom row _→AzaToth 12:01, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder about "border-bottom:". DimGray is a bit strong, so I think I'll try Silver first... Best wishes, David (talk) 01:50, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Ribbon Request

Can you create a ribbon for a "Smile", one of those non-barnstar things awarded to promote Wikelove?

Example here:

Sharkface217 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Thanks in advance. Sharkface217 21:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Awards News

There are several issues that the WikiProject needs to address.

1. Do we need a coordinator (or more than one) to coordinate our efforts and act as an arbiter? Please place your thoughts here.
2. Could someone work on archiving the talk page Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Awards?
3. Do we need to develop better guidelines for the Wikipedia:WikiProject awards?
4. Finally, could you please weigh in on the following discussions so we can move them to conclusion:
   1. LGBT Barnstar
   2. Islamic Award
   3. Working Man’s Barnstar.

Sincerely, --evrik ^(talk) 02:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

about: taxobox prototype

Because I are not a sysop for make a css class, when I see one I goingo to said. cooming I going to creater a better version! greetings! Faelomx 08:59, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Admin

Hi, sorry for the delay in replying. If you want to run again then do so. I would be happy to nominate you. Rich Farmbrough, 12:37 6 November 2006 (GMT).

Heh. I just came here to make the same offer. Of course, you may want to go with Rich instead of me given what happened at your first RfA. —Doug Bell ^talk 05:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Expand Mplayer

Can you please use Talk:MPlayer to say what you want expanded? --Karnesky 16:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Template:Roman

I've removed the font styling you added to {{Roman}} and hoisted it up to {{Year in other calendars}}. I think it makes the most sense for {{Roman}} to remain a purely functional template and for styling to be done in the informational templates and pages that use it. If you have any concerns, please discuss at Template talk:Roman#Font-family. Thanks. Mike Dillon 17:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

MathML

Thanks for your recent help with fixing some texvc bugs. I've a possibly large request you might be able to help with. There are a number of us in the mathematics community who are quite keen to get MathML output for equations. A standard for XML representation of mathematical equations.

The advantages of this are manifold, it could clean up the very messy display of mathematics in wikipedia, especially the differences in style of inline mathematical equations. It could reduce serverload as there would be less need for creating and fetching png images. Theres been quite a bit of work and the meta:Blahtex program has been written which can produce mathml output. However the process of actually getting it working on media wiki has stalled in [Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive14|June]. Theres been a few related media wiki bugs submitted [2] [3].

As someone who seems to be conversant with texvc and mediawiki, you might be able to help this process along. --Salix alba (talk) 15:57, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

I have looked up BlahTeX and it seems promising, the only major problem with MathML is the font requirements for the end user. Also it need to be backward compatible, and for wikipedia's sake it means that it need to be able to read the old texvc images, as it would be practically impossible to re render them all (there are over one million math images cached). Also it need to be able to read all the current available tags (my error then I added a few). _→AzaToth 16:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes fonts is a problem we are waiting on the STIX Fonts project which is due to release a new set of fonts under a liberal licence real soon now. I'm probably thinking that mathml support would be an optional preference not set by default, at least to start with. It did not take too long for me to get a reasonable set of fonts installed in my browsers. I think backward compatibility is not a big problem as it can default to using texvc, a bit of smart plumbing might be necessary to make this work though. Considerable work did go into fixing all the tex problems a while back User:Pfafrich/Blahtex en.wikipedia fixup, and its something we could restart when there is some prospect of things being implemented. --Salix alba (talk) 18:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

template:talkarchive

It has always worked for permalink archives, except when people make changes that break it.--Srleffler 15:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

this templates purpouse was not to be used in permalink archives. _→AzaToth 15:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

R.e: oldid 79101192

Your change to the page User talk:Henco was determined to be unhelpful, and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. Thanks. Suzy64 20:18, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

sorry for previous message. Simply south 12:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

You helped choose Death as this week's WP:AID winner

AzaBot 01:45, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Ribbon Request

Hey AzaToth, I was wondering if you could create a ribbon for the Generous User Award (it's one of the main barnstars under the "Category barnstars" category). It would be most appreciated. Whoops, nvm. Sharkface217 00:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in this log. -- RM 13:19, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Template:windowHome

windowHome template is widely used in Italian Wikipedia. I found nothing similar in English one. Of course, if any is available, I will be glad to use it. Otherwise I would appreciate if you could keep it. Thank you in advance.--Dejudicibus 14:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

What? first, there is no Template:windowHome, second... me? _→AzaToth 14:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Aha, now I see, that template I nominated for deletion three month ago, a little late? _→AzaToth 14:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I was really busy in the last few months because of a move. I just saw the deletion today. I used that template, and bnow my pages are garbaged. I do not debate about deletion, if anything similar already exists in English Wikipedia, but in the opposite case, I would appreciate if you could restore it. It was not a simple template to adapt to English Wikipedia and I have no more the source code. I did not expect it could be deleted.--Dejudicibus 15:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Then you should put it onto WP:DRV, I'm no admin. _→AzaToth

User page protection

Since it's not in the article namespace, userpages will be protected and may remain protected for long periods of time. Unless MER-C asks for unprotection, I don't think a request by another user will be valid here. Just wanted to let you know, AzaToth. =) Nishkid64 23:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't say anything about an exception of user pages, except if the user in question is blocked, and MER-C isn't blocked. _→AzaToth 00:15, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

See [4]. Nishkid64 19:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

That's about semiprotection, not fully protection. _→AzaToth 19:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

That also applies for fully protecting user pages. Policy doesn't have to be written everywhere, ya know. By the way, thanks for reverting my edit at RFPP. I thought it was an accidental edit, but I guess the links were just down for a while. Nishkid64 02:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

AIV report on 85.210.43.199

Did you get the right guy in your antivandal-tool? No recent edits. Agathoclea 15:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Anon

Your reply on my 64 talk page

I had problem with antranadus for over a year, he is one of the worse people I have seen on wiki, me and him go a long long way. ANd he was after me for no reason at ll. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.107.3.76 (talk • contribs) 20:14, 8 Jan 2007 (UTC)

Reports on WP:AIV

Hey Azatoth, keep up the great work keeping track of vandals. I've noticed the last few you've done, you've posted IPs up on AIV after giving them a test3 or test4. I just wanted you to know that AIV is best for when an account has vandalised articles after receiving a final warning, ie, when it's time to block the person. Thanks, Deathphoenix ʕ 02:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Root canal

Hey. I noticed you placed the "how-to" template on the root canal article. Since my interest is in improving dental-related articles, I would love to know what exactly in the article you think may be unencyclopedic and/or anything that would raise the quality of the article. Thanks in advance. - Dozenist talk 02:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I mostly reacted that a section was calling "Advice for patients undergoing root canal treatment". _→AzaToth 03:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

CSS/HTML query

Hi Carl,
My revisiting Template:Nordic Council (plus my patchy CSS/HTML know-how) led me to wonder whether there's any easy CSS/HTML way to float something without the text or other elements beside it being affected. For example, I can imagine {{Nordic Council}}'s code being far simpler if it were possible to float:right the image but keep the text beside it centered with regard to the template's full width... Hope you see what I mean; any advice anytime gratefully received. (I tried some wandering around the internet for information, but to no avail.)  Yours, David Kernow (talk) 14:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, have changed the template, better now? _→AzaToth 15:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Fantastic – I was sure there had to be something more elegant than the stodgy table syntax. Duly noted here. Thanks, Carl!  David (talk) 20:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

TfD on {{wdefcon}}

Hello. I saw you nominate {{wdefcon}} for TfD, on the following basis:

I have got the impression that this template is redundant and obsolete

Could you please provide a better reasoning? I think you might want to visit Template talk:Wdefcon and verify your impression by reading the results of previous nominations - I hope you'll understand why people find the template useful. Also, saying it's redundant should in my opinion be accompanied with presenting an alternative that made it obsolete - otherwise, I'm afraid, your nomination is invalid and therefore prone to an early closure. Cheers, Миша13 23:30, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Im not

Im not trying to vandalize. Fattdoggy 23:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Signature

You say that it is against the policy to have a template in my signature. First of all I would like to know where that is stated. Second of all does it really matter what's in your signature just as long as you leave something that shows who you are, when you signed, and links to places you can talk to them at or know more about them? Why1991 16:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, it's not a policy, mearly a guideline, see WP:SIG _→AzaToth 16:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Sick-little-Wolfboy

I know the user page and talk page for Sick-little-Wolfboy have been vandalized frequently today. I'm not sure if this is a bogus article or if it was just swamped by vandalism. That's just something to consider before deleting it. Wikieditor06 00:17, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Recommendation

I suggest to ignore this. It's irrelevant for your RfA. Keep cool and good luck! -Ligulem 22:07, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Oops, to late :) _→AzaToth 22:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. I've a question for you over there as a follow up. I really wonder why this code publishing thing is important to the point opposing this bot. Don't you believe that if the observable behavior of the bot is bad it will be shut down and blocked by other admins/stewards? I mean the code is rather trivial to write from the spec. If you distrust Dragons flight / admins / stewards up to this level, don't you think it would be easy for Dragons flight to publish one version of the code and run another one? I bet nobody would notice that (I wouldn't expect that, but this is for my reasoning). --Ligulem 00:03, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

My mistake

I took back my comment and undid my revert. I guess you were already replying at that time. You are right on this one. Sorry. Jerry lavoie 17:47, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Well .. not completely. There was originally vandalism, but I saw this addition to AzaToth's userpage, and was surprised. I guess the article is now at the revision of this morning. For sure the vandalism was not AzaToth's, but the reversion was a mistake. Hope this settles all. See y'all around! Happy editing. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I was mostly reacting on the last sentence in the addidition that refered to wikipedia in context. _→AzaToth 17:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

You beat me to the draw posting 65.30.23.196 on the IPban page. I gotta get quicker on cut and paste :-) --Xiahou 00:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

1a

Please answer my 1a question on your RfA Alex Bakharev 00:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: about User:24.68.128.25

I see. Apparently, the user has not continued afterwards (unless his new articles are being deleted on sight). I will keep him in watch for an hour, and if he does do anything wrong, I will block him. -- ReyBrujo 17:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Question on RfA

I am not sure you've seen it, since it's been nearly 24 hours, but I posted a follow-up to my original question at your RfA. -- Renesis (talk) 23:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Your User page

68.92.249.66 attacked you and hit your user page just a heads up but he might be back after the block.--St.daniel 02:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Topusertalk, or some such template

Thanks for pointing it out. I kinda screwed that one up... Clearly, the result should be to delete, so rather than post to WP:DRV, I simply changed the result after the fact, invoking WP:IAR. Again, thanks. Best regards, RyanGerbil10(Упражнение В!) 02:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem, it was a rather strange TfD, as some people thought the template was the opposite. _→AzaToth 02:53, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Why were my Burt Bacharach & Brian Wilson biographical additions deleted?

I spent quite a bit of time updating the Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson biographical pages, and I was surprised and annoyed to see the pages reverted to a previous version, with a notation about "Vandalism."

Noting I said or wrote was opinion; it was 99% factual, and added to much of the information there. What I wrote was far from vandalism, and I object very strongly to that characterization.

As a published author myself, I'm surprised and bewildered at the way Wikipedia works. It seems to me that you people should try to read what's written first before summarily deleting it.

I initially believed I had a lot to contribute here, but I'm discouraged enough now that I'm going to avoid returning to the site. The concept of Wikipedia is a good one, but if it's being run by despots, I don't think it's something to which I can contribute. -The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marc Wielage (talk * contribs) 08:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC).

Burt Bacharach was redirected to Fag, you have no history in editing that particular page. _→AzaToth 12:09, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I havn't even edited Brian Wilson _→AzaToth 12:14, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Uh, can you answer that in English please? -The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marc Wielage (talk * contribs) 19:15, 13 Jan 2007 (UTC)

Can you point to the particular edit? _→AzaToth 19:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

GameCube

Thanks for reverting the GC vandalism, I've blocked the offender. --Oscarthecat 21:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Why?

why did you remove my nomination for Garycocker off the AIAV page? Fethroesforia 21:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, havn't been my intention, perhaps it was edit conflict or something. _→AzaToth 21:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

My apoligies:) Fethroesforia 21:58, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Mattythewhite

I was a bit confused when I came across a {{pa}} warning on this user's page. He is an established user whose page was on my watchlist because I posted a message on his talk page a few days before and I forgot to take it off. My first instinct was to take it up with you because what I saw did not amount to a personal attack, rather an unfortunate customised vandal warning. However, when I looked closer, I found myself agreeing with you. He should know better with that amount of edits. I applaud you for your astuteness and apologise if I had any doubts even for a second. I don't agree with giving established users a standard template, even for personal attacks, but this is by the by. I have "adjusted" his next edit for the reasons given in the edit summary. Keep up the good work, and good luck. Bubba hotep 00:45, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm

Yeah, I've noticed that but never paid much attention. I'm not even sure what my script is. I'll check it out. DoomsDay349 19:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Tis not working. I dunno. DoomsDay349 19:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Gah! Nothing works. DoomsDay349 19:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, isn't this nice. Now nothing on the damn monobook works. Great. Just great. DoomsDay349 20:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Oops, sorry :) _→AzaToth 20:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Meditation cabal

Oh, Carl. Meditation cabal? Thanks for that joke :-). Maybe we should start a new wikiproject.... If it's not too much work, I would sign up :-). --Ligulem 23:36, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, I always type it wrongly :) _→AzaToth 23:37, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Go fix it on your last post on the RfA! Immediately!!! --Ligulem 23:39, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Question

I've added a line at Template talk:Noadminbacklog, please take a look. - xaosflux ^Talk 05:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

What, not courteous?

Basic decency and commonsense suggests that when one nominates anything for deletion that you discuss or at least notify the originator about such. Particularly when the matter is somewhat complicated, and it is self evident you are trying to tear down a building by lifting out it's keystone, which is to say, you did not analyze it's role, nor understand the affect it has, nor that of your application of the {{cfd}} where you did... Note how I moved your cfd tagging--you were autocategorizing many important templates as being for deletion.
   Granted the pirahna-like wanna-be admins chasing vandalisms, experiments, cruft and such on Afd have their reasons for not extending such elemental courtesys I would hope anyone around long enough to play around with templates seriously should know the difference, as the guidelines DO suggest it as the proper and preferred action for CFD, MFD, and TFD matters, and it WOULD be policy if you parse those discussions, except for such junk articles.
   I'm not sure what part of this you were judging as broken, but the only problem it had was one of overrun on template expansion space. It did need an update though, so I thankyou for motivating me into that. Submit you need to analyze things better before incorrectly nominating something with the scope of this. I've spent a good solid man-month putting together the project proving scheme, and it's still a newborn. If you had questions about it, I take them from newbies all the time and am glad to field them from more experienced persons like yourself at any time, so ask before pulling triggers. I even take email... no extra charge.
   I'm sorry it's not farther along, but you can see that I was off feeding the wife and kids almost all of last fall if you look at my contribs, save for an odd weekend moment here and there. Travel of that extent sucks, as did being away from the wikis. Please consider unnominating it. No one needs to waste time on this. Thanks. // FrankB 22:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I has been too harsh. I have tried to understand these templates, and when and where to use them, but have failed to found any real information about the usage and purpose. Also as standard among templates, if the template name contains "tmp" it's assumed it's a temporary template. Can you explain who is adding and maintaining these? is it some bot somewhere? is it a project that is in charge of it? _→AzaToth 22:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

More, I'm sorry I didn't notify you, I felt that because there wasn't any progress on the template, no linked project in charge, and seemingly not fully operational, I assumed it was in fact a failed test template. _→AzaToth 22:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

ARV

What changes have you made? --lightdarkness ^(talk) 21:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

These: http://pastey.net/5201 _→AzaToth 21:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I gave my reason

What I did was stop vandalism not create it the person who placed the notice gave no reason therefore vandalism--Cowboy From Hell 20:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)DJ BatWave

There is reason given on the AfD page. _→AzaToth 21:05, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Night At The Museum

As discussed on the talk page, it was stated that "After it is a plot summary, providing more detail about the film. According to Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Style guidelines, plot summaries should be between 400 and 700 words which this one follows." The Night at the Museum article totals over 1000 words in the plot summary alone. My plans to shorten it to a reasonable length were agreed on it just about every paragraph on the talk page. I shortened it to the edits by Revision as of 14:35, January 20, 2007 (edit) 72.150.23.38 (Talk), since it was the appropriate length. Please explain your reasons more fully for reverting my edit to the article. ~Gatorgirl623~ 04:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps it was a bit harsh from my side, I was reacting on the edit summary. I'm sorry. _→AzaToth 05:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Feedback

Okay, I have used TwinkleFluff (tm) for a dozen or so reversions, and I did not detect any significant functionally defects. The tool rapidly performed its setup queries and submitted the reversion to the database in what felt like twice as fast as the modified popups script I am using. I have no specific metrics to support that, however. The popup box with the reverted user's talk page is a nice touch, and I was easily able to whitelist wikipedia in my popup blocker to take advantage of this feature. I would not have know it was there if you had not mentioned it. As a personal preference (a possible configurable option?), I usually go to the user's contribution list first to help me decide on the level and type of warning (i.e. was this a cheap first mistake, or is there a pattern of vandalism). Otherwise, I could see not glaring problems. Thanks for letting me kick it around! Kuru ^talk 05:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I can see that Frymaster has provided some level of metric for the speed of the script below!  :) Kuru ^talk 06:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

your crazy rollback script

on the rc patrol circuit tonight i got my pants handed to my by User:Kuru -- he beat me to just about every vandalism rollback no matter which tool i used. he credits his success to a rollback button you've written that loads faster, and i'm wondering if said script is freely available. -- frymaster 05:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

User:AzaToth/VoA.js

Hey, did you want User:AzaToth/VoA.js deleted? I found it in CAT:CSD, but I didn't see {{db-user}} on the page itself. If you want it gone, just lemme know. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 06:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, no, it's probably some strange effect of a csd object in some script, I'll look it up. _→AzaToth 15:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Math function patch

Hi,

I like to try your patch [5] on my wiki. Is there a link to the new versions of the two files? Or are people supposed to make the changes manually, or by running a script to apply the changes?--Patrick 11:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I made the changes to Expr.php manually, and provided the adapted file, see mw:Extension:ParserFunctions patch.--Patrick 02:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting my talk page. Bushcarrot (Talk·Desk) 19:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:TWINKLE

Hey AzaToth, just saw the above. Great work! I assume it rollsback the edit and opens the vandals talk like VoA's did/does?

Tell me, how easy/difficult would it be to create a version of the above that utilizes admin rollback for admins? I only ask as I find VoA's script incredibly helpful - however several weeks ago it stopped working for me and for the life of me I cant fix it (may have coincided with the intro of the undo function not sure). Thanks in advance!  Glen  00:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I havnt considered the admin rollback function, as I frankly don't know exacly how it works :). Mine is simlar to VoA's scripts, but's it's a total rewrite of code, and no sending querystrings all over the place. _→AzaToth 00:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

More, the admin rollback button is still available, so that function isn't overrided as of yet. _→AzaToth 00:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Hmmm, bummer. I'll give it a whirl. The advantage of admin rollback is that when we use it, it automatically blacklists the user so all future edits are listed in the VCN channels. Thanks anyway  Glen  00:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

hmm, I see, the problem with the admin rollback function, is that it can't be "changed". _→AzaToth 00:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

That shouldn't count.

It's clear, as I stated, the article was brought up as an AFD strictly as a form of abuse. It's no different than a form of vandalism. Check his edit history; he's even fishing for votes. If you insist, I will stop, but it seems to be malicious. HalfShadow 02:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

ok, it's a difficult problem. I would recommend putting it up on WP:ANI for input, let an admin decide. _→AzaToth 02:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

It has been. That's why I heard of it. I'm not trying to cause trouble at all, my edit history can attest to that. I just saw this as being malicious and took steps against it. If I did anything incorrect, it was unintentional, I only wanted to see right done. HalfShadow 02:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Keep On Pumpin' It

You shouldn't have rushed me! =) --IceflamePhoenix 13:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

hehe _→AzaToth 13:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Great Fire of Smyrna

Instead of flouting your bias why dont you stop supporting Turkish propaganda and let other opinions be heard. What gives you the right to allow the Turkish user Mustafa to post three consecutive edits while deleting my previous additions?

Are you aware of the concept of litigation? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tedblack (talk • contribs) 13:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC).

I only saw that particular edit as a failed edit that misstacly removed too much data. It thus might be a content disspute, and some paranoia, I'll put it on ANI. _→AzaToth 13:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

User:AzaToth/VoA.js

I know that this is weird, but your subpage User:AzaToth/VoA.js showed up in Category:Articles for deletion, I think because it contains the string "General Note: Removing {{afd}} templates". This is a bit annoying, because that subpage of yours keeps showing up in various bot-generated reports. May I ask you to replace the above string with something like "General Note: Removing {{a" + "fd}} templates"? This should solve the problem (while not changing the js functions). Thanks. Tizio 16:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Your command will be done! _→AzaToth 16:13, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

(EC)Now that I look better, there are actually three strings containing {{afd}} in that file. Changing all of them as I suggested should solve the problem. Tizio 16:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Everything looks fine now (User:AzaToth/VoA.js is not up for deletion any longer:)). Thanks. Tizio 16:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Tools

Hi, thanks for warning the guy :). Which tool are you using for vandal fighting? The new warning templates no longer need to have the signature appended to them :). Regards, -- lucasbfr ^talk 21:01, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm using Twinklefluff (tm) _→AzaToth 22:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Contemporary Sociology

Hi Aza, I've got a telephonebook of New York. Should I ad it? It's very important to understand the city. Chris —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.247.29.118 (talk) 02:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

Min and max error handling

I adapted your ParserFunctions patch [6] to a later change in the error handling in ParserFunctions.php, see mw:Extension:ParserFunctions_patch#ParserFunctions.php (extended).--Patrick 11:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Twinkle glitch

Hi. I recently began using Twinkle (by recently I mean earlier today) and am really impressed with the ease of use. The only problem I've noticed is that if you add the "last" tab to the top of pages, it also shows up on special pages, which have no edit history to speak of. It's harmless, but I thought you'd like to know. Cheers, --Captain Wikify ^Argh! 03:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. _→AzaToth 17:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Dont be niave

The guy even admitted he had blanked a page, those sympathy messages need to be fomerly retired, because these people need to be told that what they are doing is unacceptable and action WILL be taken against them. 1B6 16:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Which article are you referring to? _→AzaToth 16:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

twinklefluff deserves a barnstar

fired up twinklefluff for the first time on this evening's rc patrol. in a word: wow. my highly-nonscientific feeling is that it's about 25%-40% faster than my modified popups. and since every second shaved off vandalism reverts means less people who see vandalized pages, here's a barnstar:

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		for your work on twinklefluff. i might never use popups again! frymaster 01:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, hope you like it :) _→AzaToth 01:30, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Twinklefluff

I saw you were using it for vandal-fighting, and I decided to give it a shot. I think I added everything properly to my monobook.js, but it seems like it went a little screwy for me. When I go to the warning tabs (NOTE: I also have a DYK crediting tab next to it), it starts spazzing uncontrollably and I can't click any of the warn options. It's pretty weird. It might just be me, though. I tend to have problems with these scripts from time to time, and I fix them up by accident. Nishkid64 02:23, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Sigh. I guess it will spazz like that only in 800x600 mode. I went to 1024x768 and it started working fine. In fact, I saw that there are more tabs lol. Nishkid64 02:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Have you tried to resize the window? I know sometimes the addlimenu may create a spasmy menu if it's in the corner or something. I will try to create a more useful alternative. (edit conflict), Ok as I thought :)_→AzaToth 02:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

for the record, i also run an extra tab (a p-cactions) with twinklefluff and have had zero bad behaviour. -- frymaster 02:30, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

twinklefluff and popup blocker

okay, i admit i turned the popup blocker on. basically, i'm extremely conservative with {{test}} tags. i realize that it's important to identify repeat vandals and all that, but i've come to the conclusion that a not insignficant portion of the blocks that eventually result from test tags aren't what i'd personally consider productive, notably blocks on shared ips (shutting down an entire highschool because of one bozo in the back row) or blocks that are punative rather than preventative. not to say that blocking isn't important or even that exteme blocking that borders on punative isn't sometimes necessary (the whole posse of on-wheels types, for instance), of course... just that in my experience by the time the test tags rack up enough or the aiv goes through, the class bell has rung or the simpsons has come on and the vandalism from that user is gone anyway. call me an optimist, i guess! -- frymaster 03:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

that I can understand, but remember that the vandal will be back then in an hour. Also, there are more than test templates, I'm mostly smacking other types of templates, not the exact test type. _→AzaToth 03:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Donut!

You have been given a doughnut for your fantastic vandal fighting script! Congratulations! --Captain Wikify ^Argh! 03:23, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism to Your User Page.

71.252.171.13 (talk · contribs) vandalized your User Page, and I reverted it. Acalamari 04:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Hahahaha, thanks :) _→AzaToth 04:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed it when this User vandalized Michael Richards, so I checked their contributions and saw that they came here. You're welcome. Acalamari 04:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

User talk page maintenance

Where's the policy that says I can't archive my talk page? 71.231.107.188 04:38, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

The problem is that you removed rather new warnings. _→AzaToth 04:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Did you look at why it flagged it? Only because I included "?!?" in the edit summary because I questioned the article's claim: "Every singer in the business has taken something from Crosby. Every male singer has a Bing Crosby idiosyncrasy." The bot had no problem with the actual edit. 71.231.107.188 04:44, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

And flagging carefully documented talk page archival as "vandalism" seems way over the top even if you found it "suspicious" or "improper". 71.231.107.188 04:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, have reviewed the edits, and it seems to be the bots fault, sorry for the inconvinience. _→AzaToth 04:47, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for changing it back. 71.231.107.188 04:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Wild beasts vandalism from my account

Hi, you recently posted on my user page that I have vandilised the wild beasts, checked the page history and my account did vandalise the page - however it wasn't me hat did it!! At that precise time, i was tucked up in bed! Don't have a clue who's been using my account. Have you got any ideas of what I can do so people don't think I'm a vandal? I'm normally the one handing out the warnings to other people! Anyway, cheers for sorting it out RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 08:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism response

Hey thanks for removing vandalism from my user page. you're a real pal. -Taco325i 12:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)