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Howdy there. I added myself to the approval list. I think that I have a lot to offer Wikipedia by monitoring new pages, and that I would be able to do a faster job if I were able to use NPWatcher. --Adam Riley ^Talk 01:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher Request

Hi! I was just wondering if I could get approval for NPWatcher. I know it says you must have 300 edits, but, does that mean mainspace? I only have half of that. But, I do Newpages patrol a lot, and most of the User Talk edits are for users that people have placed a {{db}} or similar tag. I think that if I get NPWatcher, I can build my experience with dealing with issues, and more newpages that violate any rule will be taken off.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Tyson Moore es 01:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the approval :)

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User talk:Sheogarath

Naughty boy! The blocking admin cant review an unblock request silly! Thats what they are there for, a second opinion lol! Glen 09:40, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nag

Well, you said "feel free to nag," so here I am. :) My request for NPWatcher approval has been pending for a week, so this is just a friendly reminder asking you to look at the Check Page. --Russ (talk) 12:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot

Can I ask a favour? There's some discussion over at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#Multi_FA_template (mostly provoked by me) about a bot to carry out FA status updating. Could you cast your eye over the proposal (near the bottom) to check that it is technically possible? I know it should be possible, but I've purposedly stayed away from bot writing, so I don't know the system limitations and permissions required - I can't see it would need admin privs but I might have missed something. I don't want to get further into writing the template if the bot isn't going to be practical. Cheers, Yomangani ^talk 13:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of coatofarms

Howdy - I noticed that your bot MartinBotIII is removing the coatofarms tag from images, leaving many of them with no copyright tag at all. For those images left with no copyright tag, it seems to me that your bot should also be adding {{nld}} and notifying the uploader. Otherwise someone else will have to go through and check all the images that your bot edited. Of course, there could be a very good reason for not doing this that I'm not aware of :-) -SCEhard T 21:17, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hrm, well it looks like OrphanBot is currently tagging coatofarms images with nld while leaving the coatofarms tag also. If you two could coordinate it would cut the overall number of edits in half. I'll let Carnildo know also. -SCEhard T 22:12, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Nevermind - I see you've already asked Carnildo about it :-) -SCEhard T 22:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher suggestions

Thanks for enabling me, Martin. I've tried the software and I have a few suggestions already. On the Maintenance tab, I'd suggest {{Uncategorized}} as an additional option. Also, instead of the button arrangement that only allows you to insert one tag per page, how about having checkboxes so that, if necessary, a user could place more than one maintenance notice at the same time? --Russ (talk) 21:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One more -- {{db-nocontext}} as an additional deletion option. --Russ (talk) 21:37, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(in)competent editors

Hi,

You raised an imprtant issue on my talk page. I replied there, but I will repeat my reply here, to make sure you see it.

Voting on matters on which one is incompetent is certanly NOT voting in good faith. Such users and such attitudes should be discouraged. Such behaviour patterns drive away highly qualified editors and lower the quality of the information on WP. The good guys get exhausted trying to clean up the little piles of dog poop left behind. linas 01:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your Bot Warned my IP

This is the warning: User_talk:203.187.209.207

D I promise you I did not vandalise the Solapur page! The bot FAQ says others might be using my IP. This is my desktop PC at home (not a cyber cafe or networked PC). Are IPs still shared? Can I/we do something to avoid this? I do always log in to my account to make edits. Anagha 17:43, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, that helps! Thanks :) Anagha 14:09, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Help

Thank you!Deedee19482 11:54, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RefdeskBot and Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2006

December 13th is MIA--172.128.124.189 13:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I've made the archive page and fixed the main desk. The reason it happens is that the bot sometimes dies half way through an archive due to my unstable internet, or (maybe more likely at times) wikipedia stops working. Thanks for reporting this M a rtinp23 13:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Juan Cole

So what is the next step in the mediation process? csloat 17:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Addressing distortions during mediation?

Isarig's statement has made several outright distortions of my position as well as of the issues at stake. I am tempted to address them one by one on the mediation page but I do not think that will be productive. Should I just wait until all have said what they have to say and then list the distortions? Or wait until you summarize each position and then only address those distortions actually relevant to the contested issues? Some of his comments (e.g. charges related to the Valerie Plame article) seem totally unrelated to the issue at hand and while I feel the need to address them for the purpose of truth, I don't see how that will help the mediation process. Similar issues may come up when the other two disputants have their say. Your guidance on this will be helpful; thanks! csloat 22:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thank you for handling the MG2s problem. I appreciate your quick response and action. I don't know how much longer I could have dealt with that. Pumeleon^T 19:25, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hi MArtin, Many thanks for the welcome! Rer my own case, it may well be that I can come to a reasonable settlement having had a frank exchange with khaosworks, but I won't take any cases until I have decided what to do about that thanks. I think it is an excellent idea to have some form of representation, and look foward to getting involved in due course. Many thanks, Rob 19:30, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eek!

Please be careful when removing {{coatofarms}} and it's ilk from images, as in this instance the image ended up without a licence tag! Thanx. 68.39.174.238 23:27, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That was fast... 68.39.174.238 23:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You!

Thank you for your input at my RFA, which successfully closed at 58/2/0. I will think about the 10 questions and answers I had, and I hope that I will use the tools constructively and for the benefit of Wikipedia. If you ever need any help, don't be afraid to drop me a line. I'm here to help afterall! ‎8) -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 23:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My Case

My current case seems to be going well. I do not need any help yet, if I do I will leave you a message. The reason for this is to ask you if you can tell me how I am doing in my first case.--Sir james paul 12:31, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Admin coaching request pages

Please comment here. Thanks! --Fang Aili ^talk 18:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping update the list! I'm working on matching people, so hopefully it won't take months to get to you. :) --Fang Aili ^talk

Er, wait, nevermind. I'll match you with a student soon. --Fang Aili ^talk 18:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. I can't wait until all the old requests are filled-- then the "project coordinator" will not really be necessary. I have sent out several messages asking if people are still interested in coaching, so if one is you'll be first to get a student. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 18:41, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've matched you with User:Khukri. Please contact him to get started! --Fang Aili ^talk 18:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Evening Martin, first of all thanks for agreeing to take this on. I'm not necessarily looking for adminship at the moment. Not sure if you read my reply on Fang Aili's page, so here you go gratuitous cut n paste alert. I recently self nominated for an RFA as I believed it would aid my work looking after the WikiProject on user warnings. I withdrew my nomination after a couple of opposes came in and my thoughts can be seen on my talk page. Having sat back and thought about it, I didn't remove my name from the coaching as I think that this can aid me in gaining a greater understanding in policy and practice, and does not necessarily require someone to have the mop n bucket as the end goal. About me, been here in one form or another for nigh on two years, first logged in edits were exactly a year ago today! I've around 4,000 edits mainly in RC patrolling, equiped with most of the vandal tools. About 2 months back I took over the WP:UW project as it had stalled and with one other editor have got it to a position now where we are a month or so away from overhauling all warning templates. What do I want...... not sure to be honest, wikipedia for all it's good points isn't the most intuitive of websites, and it can take quite a while to find pertinant policies on vandalism, who's doing what, who looks after waht etc. So I think I'd like to pick your brains for the secret squirrel stuff. Please have a look through my history, project work, RfA and talk pages and it'll give you a better idea of who I am. My e-mail is enables, can be got hold of on IRC or MSN. Anyway thanks again and I'll speak to you soon. Cheers Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 19:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Posting again to avoid archival - sorry for the delay Khukri, I've just got some unexpected stuff happening in real life. M a rtinp23 23:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unexpected stuff which automagically vanished! M a rtinp23 20:34, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. -- RM 16:37, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

help

I frogot how to enter my password on the IRC. Can you tell me how on my talk page?--Sir james paul 16:57, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do something about this

This user, User:Big black penis has been on Wikipedia for a while and nothing has been done. Please block him. Nitro calibur 17:37, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Department Store Vandal

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll get on it right away. By the way, I myself have pretty much no knowledge of this subject either, I've never even shopped at a Lord & Taylor in my life (though I think I walked through the store that used to be in Manchester, Connecticut on the way to the mall once...) It is due to this fact that I insisted to the other editors working on the article to dig up citations to differentiate the fact from the fiction on the page. I guess even vandalism can have some positive effects! LOL! --Elipongo ^{(Talk|contribs)} 19:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Totally-disputed template

Hi Martinp23, I see that the TfD was closed as a 'weak keep', did that happen to include the very large number of entries deleted by an annonymous user: [1]? I'd like to see all the votes counted and become a part of the archived debate...perhaps that section can be restored, counted and become part of the archive. Thanks! Dreadlocke ☥ 00:19, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent! I'm glad to have helped out! Dreadlocke ☥ 17:34, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! I just saw where you gave me credit for reporting the deleted items! That is so cool! Thanks!! Dreadlocke ☥

OTRS intro.

Please see meta:OTRS/volunteering#Martinp23. We've got a backlog again and sure could use the help. -- Jeandré, 2006-12-17t19:53z

[2] [3].

I'll try and meet you in the OTRS IRC room tomorrow 2006-12-18 after about 18:00. After reading the meta OTRS pages, have a look at [4] - our system is slightly different, but it'll give you a general idea of the interface. -- Jeandré, 2006-12-17t20:52z

Replacing after EssjayBot IV archived M a rtinp23 15:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do something about this

This user is using two sockpuppets to run wild blanking pages and replacing them with abuse. I can see that this is true due to the user names of the two accounts and the contributions.

The puppet is: User:Tom-3124(back again) The puppet has been blocked, but the puppetmaster is still free, they will come back after the autoblock to cause more trouble.

The puppeteer is: User:Tom-3124

Nitro calibur 18:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Molag bal

What? Nitro calibur 21:07, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm no sockpuppet, and besides, I haven't done anything wrong anyway, so why are you doing this to me. Nitro calibur 21:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously I'm not a sock, I don't know what's going on. How can my contributions of reverting vandalism, warning users, creating geograghy pages and all that refer me to a banned user. There must be somekind of mistake. I just got wikipedia 3 days ago, I think you've got the wrong guy. I don't know what "Molag bal" is. But I'm going to have to backmyself up if you're going to accuse me of this sockpuppetry business. Nitro calibur 21:16, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you think I'm a sock, and what the hell exactly is wikiyouth??? Nitro calibur 21:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

   == Molag bal ==

What? Nitro calibur 21:07, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm no sockpuppet, and besides, I haven't done anything wrong anyway, so why are you doing this to me. Nitro calibur 21:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you think I'm a sock, and what the hell exactly is wikiyouth???

Nitro calibur 21:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Haha...What do you want to do now, Martin? Nishkid 64 23:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher

Thank you for the approval to use NPWatcher. However, after I had downloaded it from the link provided at WP:NPW, I couldn't run NPW. I've checked WinZip, and that's working properly :s A ecis ^{Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984.} 23:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AMABot

I know that your kind of busy (kind of an aspiring Essjay), but Wikipedia:AMA Requests for Assistance/Requests/By Date Filed isn't being done right still (or maybe just the backup). It's just forgetting the *'s in front of cases. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 03:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry about that

Sorry, I knocked off that comment by accident when I was writing in a new section. Will you please believe me, I' am not this banned user. I don't want to make enemies with you. So just listen to my point of view for once, instead of taking me for granted. Nitro calibur 17:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC) DON'T you ignore me, you're just proving to me that you've made a bigger and bigger mistake on this incident. Nitro calibur 17:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No Martin, you are not going to block me, that would be totally unfair, as actually I haven't done anything wrong at all. You can check my contributions but I haven't vandalised anything at all, I've helped this website a lot. I' am not this sockpuppet and if you think I' am I want to see this evidence. Nitro calibur 17:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

and a little something else, Nishkid64 isn't here at the moment, I can see this by the gap of time in the contributions and the fact that it says "Offline" on his or hers page. Nitro calibur 17:51, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but it doesn't mean I can't be in discussion with him! Just as an aside - why are you editing from an IP? M a rtinp23 17:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Martin, I beg of you, I'm not this vandal, don't block me. I don't deserve to be blocked. Nitro calibur 18:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure your a nice man Martin, but can't you see, you have made a genuine error, I made an error earlier, while I was skimming through pages I seen this edit, and I accidently warned the user for advertising. But I do a lot of good things on Wikipedia. I welcome users, I warn and catch vandals, I create articles, work with other users, and contribute nicely. I' am not anything of this vandal and I don't deserve being blocked. Perhaps you might tell me who this vandal is and what they have done wrong. Nitro calibur 18:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AMA

It looks like the case Wikipedia:AMA Requests for Assistance/Requests/December 2006/Animedude360 will be done on the 21. 3 day's before we planned on getting it done. Merry Christmas--§Sir James Paul<<--wikiholic§ 03:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Approval

Can you please approve me for use with NPwatcher? FirefoxMan 12:43, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:TfD

Thanks - sorry for creating extra work :-) Sandy (Talk) 14:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Naradasupreme

Hey. Remember Naradasupreme (talk · contribs)? Looks like he is back as 84.40.234.115 (talk · contribs). He blanked the sock puppet warnings sometime today. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 18:43, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. It is beyond me why this guy wants to keep clearing his old account and talk pages. If he was smart, he'd leave the pages alone and start fresh without going back to them. I don't care if the guy edits on Wikipedia, provided he is within the set policies. However, I doubt that will ever happen. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 18:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seems that he is trying to say that you have a vendetta against him. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 19:34, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see that somebody else has gotten involved. Good grief. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 22:50, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now he's editing out his sock puppet warning. You'll want to check out the history to Oldschoolfreak's talk page. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 19:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Assume good faith, please

Hi Martinp23,

It appears you have been accusing Nitro calibur of sockpuppetry. I'd like you to assume good faith, since you don't have any reason to think otherwise. If you do, I'd like to hear it.

Cheers, Yuser31415 (Review me!) 21:15, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really want to enable email at present. However, why not just talk about it here or on my talk page? If the evidence is conclusive, there's no harm even if Nitro got hold of it. Yuser31415 (Review me!) 21:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. I hope the issue is cleaned up as quickly as possible, whether conclusive or not. Yuser31415 (Review me!) 21:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hammertime, then? Yuser31415 (Review me!) 21:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like we just cleaned it up. Cheers! May Wikipedia live in (relative) peace! Yuser31415 (Review me!) 00:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're not going to do anything

Even if I' am Molag bal. I haven't done anyharm so far. So you'll just have to wait. Nitro calibur 21:49, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You can't block me at all. If I' am a puppet of this user, I can only be blocked for vandalism and personal attacks. I haven't done that at all on this account, therefore, you can't do anything, so leave me alone. Nitro calibur 22:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No blocking about it. I'm not doing anything wrong, so don't bother. Nitro calibur 22:10, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Martin, he's admitted [5] he's Molag Bal. What do you want to do now? Nishkid 64 22:22, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, he's blocked indefinitely. Nishkid 64 22:31, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So were you, for a few seconds :)

M a rtinp23 22:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, I noticed that. I was just adding the {{indefblock}} tag to the user talk page when it said I was blocked. Oh no!! Now I have a permanent record! Nishkid 64 22:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks. =) Nishkid 64 22:38, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Juan Cole Mediation

How long do we need to wait for the other users to enter mediation? Is it reasonable to make changes to the article that both Isarig and I seem to agree on at this point (the removal of Frontpagemagazine citations and the restoration of Cole's response that was deleted by Armon after the article entered mediation)? Thanks again. csloat 01:22, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thanks. I'll leave it alone another day or two for now. csloat 22:32, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher bug

This may be a bug, when I time my username with the first letter lowercase, I get denied. Could this be corrected, or would that put me in the system twice? FirefoxMan 02:02, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jared Colinger's Page

To a degree I understand your position, but I also disagree - notability is definately an issue up for debate. I listed Jared's releases, compilation appearances and a short bio - all of which would be considered notable by his fans and related groups. He has a strong following with the west coast independent music scene, as well as being a major contributor to his original home town in TN - therefore I think deleting the page for not being 'notable' was a mistake. Allalom 16:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

According for the notability guidelines for the inclusion of bands, which is a touchy subject to begin with, the Jared Colinger page did meet me basic requirements - and even if that is in dispute, according to the guidelines page that does not create a basis for a speedy deletion, it should have followed the standard articles of deletion process. Allalom 16:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I would prefer that, as it gives me time to state my case, and, if necessary, add additional information to prove its notability. thank you. Allalom 16:50, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Approval request to use NPWatcher

Have just added my name to the list of users requesting approval to use NPWatcher. thewinchester 17:02, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher Approval

I have requested to use NPWatcher, hope you oblige! Kalani ^[talk] 20:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that was a very quick response! Kalani ^[talk] 20:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher for Mac?

Is there a version for the Macintosh, or is this platform-independent? D enni ^talk 23:16, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

English language

I've restored this; it's a major article, with thousands of articles linking to it, and it had been deleted for over half an hour (according to the admittedly somewhat dodgy timestamps provided by Wikipedia). Had you really deleted it, or was that a glitch in the system? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:45, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The server has been playing up a little today, which might account for it. Anyway, all's well that ends well. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sig

Will you tell me how to make a link to esperanza, and concordia in my sig. Also how do you change its color. Merry christmas.--§Sir James Paul<<--wikiholic§ 18:48, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Winterval(s)!!!! (12-22-06)

Dear MDP23/Archive5,

I wish you a very, very merry Winterval!

And since I don't know which you celebrate, I hope you have/had/will have a very happy Holiday!. Hope you and your family have a magnificent day, or series of days! You might wanna install the "SaucyMillionaire" font to see this correctly. Cheers, mate!:) —Rand fan !!

God (or your deity/deities) bless you and your family! —¡Rand fan !^{Sign here?} 02:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

-I was planning to hand these out on the 22nd of Dec. but things got in the way.... Happy holidays! —¡Rand fan !^{Sign here?} 18:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bots

I am wondering, how do you go about in making bots? I am planing on making a anti-vandalism bot because as you may know fighting vandalism here is the most important thing to me. You must know because you have some bots yourself. God bless you and everyone you know.--§Sir James Paul<<--wikiholic§ 19:04, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to make another anti-vandalism bot. I think we still need more that revert vandalism. There is a lot of vandalism that the current bots miss. Would you be interested in co-owning a bot with me? I would not be able to program it but I would be able to answer questions and maybe someday program it to make it better.--§Sir James Paul<<--wikiholic§ 20:29, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The people at wikipedia simple english do not want a anti-vandalism bot. There is quite a problem with vandalism at wiktionary though. Maybe we could set up a bot there. Do you have a account over there? --§Sir James Paul<<--wikiholic§ 20:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Out of all the wikimedia projects this place has the biggest problem with vandalism. That is why I want to make a anti-vandalism bot here. If you tell me how I'll operate the bot when you are not.--§Sir James Paul<<--wikiholic§ 20:42, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think that you could set up a bot that fixes typos?--§Sir James Paul<<--wikiholic§ 20:56, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays!

File:Julekort.jpg

Wishing you a Happy Holidays
from sign here • HAPPY HOLIDAYS! — s d 3 1 4 1 5! 19:53, 23 December 2006 (UTC) (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your signature and comment!

NPWatcher

Turns out I never installed .NET Framework ... It's working perfectly now. A suggestion though: I noticed that there is no "Mark with {{uncategorized}}" button in the Maintenance tab. This could be useful, because many new pages haven't yet been categorized. A ecis ^{Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984.} 22:52, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Firefoxman

I hope you have not made a mistake giving the above the New Page gizmos. He speedily deleted a stub I had started on the highly notable Master of the Playing Cards (now redone) within about 3 minutes of my first edit. His reasons for doing so escape me completely - any cursory check would have shown many redlinks for this artist, who has his own Commons category etc. Incidentally he left an automated message on my talk page which did not begin a new section.

Looking at the surviving articles from his contributions, his ability to assess notability would appear to be unacceptably poor - look at Rede Lecture!!

Please monitor his usage of his new toys carefully!

Happy holidays Johnbod 22:55, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

more on the Cole mediation

Well, I made the change that Isarig appeared to agree to, and he quickly reverted it, claiming it was "mere name-calling." I don't think it is any more name-calling than the original charge by Karsh that Cole is responding to (you can see Isarig's revert here). I did not revert his revert, but I am concerned about the situation. Because I am the one who initiated mediation and because I am trying to be reasonable about the process, I feel as if my side of the mediation is being punished -- Armon reverts when the page enters mediation, I make a good faith edit to restore it to its pre-mediation state, based on Isarig's own statements in mediation, and he quickly reverts again without any attempt to respect the process of mediation. Frankly, I've been tempted to abandon Wikipedia completely as a result of my interaction with these two users -- I've been here for two years roughly and have had other sour interactions with individuals I don't agree with, but never have I felt this way about the project. It appears that a few organized users can easily take over any page they want, in this case turning what should be a biography of a notable individual into a scurrilous hatchet-job. My attempts to interact with these users are often met with ridicule and the debates degenerate into schoolyard taunting and bullying (look at the recent interaction I had with Isarig over an otherwise totally noncontroversial point that I made over at this page). Thanks again for agreeing to mediate; I think it will be a difficult job. csloat 02:51, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher Request

I have applied for use of NPWatcher.--Natl1 23:24, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And I have too, thanks --Steve _(Slf67)^talk 02:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have as well. Dekimasu 06:51, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas.

In the spirit of the Reason for the season, may I take privilege of offering a simple greeting: Merry Christmas. :) { PMGOMEZ } 17:53, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher request

RefDeskBot

Hey Martin, We've not met (I think) but there has been some complaining at RD talk that RDB seems to be missing in action. I've only come to tell you this in case you were unaware. I've jumped (yesterday) to do the date headers but the the archiving is a bit more of a challenge. I'll be glad to fill in as best I can if necessary but may need some help from you about stripping (I mean ripping) the section titles as nicely as RDB does (not manually I hope). Let me know how to proceed. Thanks, --hydnjo talk 01:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Infobox Philippine High School

No article uses it now, unless someone reverts it. Gave a note at WP:SCH already, waiting for their response. --Howard the Duck 03:50, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

But there are! Take note that these were not reverts. Info were omitted as well by previous editor to accommodate Infobox Secondary school. { PMGOMEZ } 02:38, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of using Infobox Philippine High School, use Infobox Secondary school to accomodate missed info. How hard is that to do? The infobox you've created is as good as dead. All development should go to Infobox Secondary school. --Howard the Duck 03:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Then you'll need to catch up. Besides, it's tremendously STUPID to add the following to Infobox Secondary Schools:

Barangay
NEAT MPG
NSAT MPG
NEAT MPS
NSAT MPS
NAT Ranking

as these are only true for the Philippines. { PMGOMEZ } 06:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For example, this edit was marked as "minor" yet you changed the infobox, which sure isn't minor. Why did you change it? There was no omission. --Howard the Duck 04:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Minor for me, look for the omission. { PMGOMEZ } 06:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was certainly not minor. Can you stop playing games and say what the omission is? For example your edit omitted the school hymn. --Howard the Duck 07:05, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Look at Xavier School for instance. A lot of info were omitted when template was changed to ISS. But since IPHS was deleted prior to their implementations being fixed, all we can do now is to fix the affected implementations or ask the admin/s to restore IPHS. { PMGOMEZ } 02:12, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As for Martinp23, I apologize if we're trashing your user talk page. --Howard the Duck 07:05, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for acknowledging that you're trashing his talk page. { PMGOMEZ } 02:12, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed this whole issue after protection was requested on WP:RFPP. Seeing as it's not being used in any articles anymore I've deleted it. Martin, feel free to restore if there's anything I've missed. -- Steel 15:54, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hay, if only there was no quake in Taiwan and the 'net was working ... oh well, never mind. { PMGOMEZ } 02:12, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Restore

From Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_16#Template:Infobox_Philippine_High_School... "Once this is done (with the blessing of WP:SCH, leave me a message on my talk and I'll delete."

Problem is, there was no "blessing {from} WP:SCH". { PMGOMEZ } 02:27, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou.

Thankyou for your kind words, and I hope Admin coaching is successfully spun off (though I think you will need to rename it to avoid misunderstandings)! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:34, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher suggestion

Could you add a button to the prod section. In addition to using the provided rationale or giving a custom rationale, I would like a button with a generic prod message. My suggestion is "Article or userpage proposed for deletion undisputed for at least five days". Thanks - crz crztalk 03:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RefDeskBot snafu

See, e.g., [6]. --Lambiam ^Talk 00:38, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There were also problems at WP:RD/MA, which I fixed by hand. --Lambiam ^Talk 05:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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NPWatcher malformed AfD

Hi Martin, I used NPWatcher for the first time yesterday and listed an AfD here. All worked except the log entry was malformed as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 rsday, 28 December 28. I had to manually add to the entry to the correct log Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 December 28. I use 'no preference' for dates in my preferences, if that would make a difference. Thanks for looking, it's a great tool. --Steve _(Slf67)^talk 22:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, should have stated that. I installed .NET 2 especially to run NPW. I had 1.1 prior, and didn't upgrade to 3 as I saw you mentioned there were problems. --Steve _(Slf67)^talk 22:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, that latest build didn't change things. Malformed log entry shown in my contributions. Can you delete it a second time! Good luck tracking down the issue. --Steve _(Slf67)^talk 23:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Success! Logged a perfect AfD --Steve _(Slf67)^talk 23:58, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

FYI WAS 4.250 22:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy new year in advance

Wish you and your family a very Happy and proseperous New year from Sushant gupta 07:42, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher request

As a new page patroller, I would love to use it to handle this job faster. I first saw it in use when checking out the deletion status for Groundhog Day (2009 film) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), which I moved and thought was a real page. Please send me an approval message soon. --Slgr a n d s o n (page - messages - contribs) 04:28, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RefDeskBot mixup

Hi, RefDeskBot archived 2006 December 30 pages to 2007 December 30. I manually moved the pages, except the Computing and Language pages which I had moved with cut-and-paste, thinking the pages hadn't been archived at all.

Another thing is the "The page you are currently viewing is {{#ifexist:Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2008 January 9|an archive page|a [[Wikipedia:Transclusion|transcluded]] archive page}}." message; it used 2008 instead of 2007.

Hope this helps in getting RefDeskBot back to its full capacity. :) Cheers, --Kjoonlee 01:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. :) Should I nominate these pages for speedy deletion? Happy new year to you too.. :D --Kjoonlee 01:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: NPWatcher

Hi, glad to hear the code works. Unfortunately there still seems to be bugs with the actual implementation of the image deletion buttons as of version 0.8.5.0. I just deleted a number of "no license" images using NPWatcher, and none of them where automaticaly de-linked. In fact nothing visibly happened at all, previous versions have reloaded the page after deleting something, now nothing happens. Had to manualy reload the page to see that it had even been deleted (it had), but file links where still present, no fancy image syntax that should have tripped up the removal code either [7] [8] [9]. --Sherool (talk) 14:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Verison 0.8.5.1 seems to work much better. There are still some issues with lowercase first letters though, MediaWiki will tolerate links like [[image:new image.jpg]] even though strictly speaking it should be [[Image:New image.jpg]] (case of first letter (and only first letter) in namespace and page name are optional). When I use WP:AWB to replace images I tend to use regex patterns like [Ii]mage:[Nn]ew[_ ]image.jpg to catch all possible permutations of the image name, dunno if that's any help. --Sherool (talk) 21:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here are a couple of examples of images that where not removed automaticaly (diff of me taking them out manualy) [10] [11]. --Sherool (talk) 21:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanza Bot

Just so you know, it's ridiculously easy to do in AWB. In fact, I already have Alphachimpbot set up to do it. alphachimp. 18:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Qatar

Thank you for softening the block of Qatar. I had no idea this was the only IP address used by an entire nation. --Yamla 20:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: You've made the BBC news Martin, you've settled what could be a major conflict. Jimbo Wales inserted a link to it on the Ip talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rasillon (talk • contribs)

Happy new Year

Hello Martinp23, hope you've had a happy new year.--Rasillon 21:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Undelete!

Sorry to bug you, but a while back, about everything I did (creating pages and adding images relating to Trainz) got deleted. This was my fault, because I indeed did things on purpose, such as blanking the TRS2006 page and adding a delete template, and adding things like "i stole this from auran without permission" on the image pages just to get them deleted. Well, I was very upset about something at the time, and I was wondering if you could undelete the images and articles I made? I'm sorry, I'll make sure not to let stuff get to me that bad again. Check my contribs to see all the pages. --Red Pooka 21:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Undelete Template:Trainz, pages such as the TRS2006 one, as well as the Wikipedia:WikiProject Trainz. I think it is worth mentioning that JzG deleted most of them. --Red Pooka 22:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks. And btw, TRS2006 is a redirect to the Trainz page. I was referring to Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006 which was deleted. :) --Red Pooka 22:42, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AWRIGHT! Thanks! --Red Pooka 22:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher Request

As a NP patroller and an RC patroller, I would love to use this tool. Please reply. Nearly Forgot... Happy New Year Oliver202 (talk · contribs · count · block log) --Oliver202 13:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trolls fridge

Have you seen the new trolls fridge feature I've added to my page? Its a fun little thing I invented which people can "feed" the troll by adding food to his fridge, (pictures of food and a comment) so he won't feed on us. I think its a brilliant idea :). Rasillon 15:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sock puppet accusation

Martinp23, someone named "Stbalbach" attached a sock puppet accusation on My Talk page. I just reverted the page but I think this was malicious and I told him so on his Talk page. I only have one account and I do not use sock puppets. I'm wondering how can someone get away with making such an accusation without proof. I am requesting your help in this matter. Can you please advise me or handle the situation in whatever manner is appropriate? I would appreciate your time and help. Thank you. Jtpaladin 22:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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NPWatcher Request Hey, I just downloaded NPWatcher, but it said I should request permission to use it from you, would you mind helping me out (/is there anything i need to do to get permission?)?
Thanks in advance!
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Protect Big Brother?

A new version of Celebrity big brother is going to start tonight. I suggest you Semi-Protect the page, as when such things as this occur, it causes a rush of vandalism to the page. As I experimented this with the X-Factor, which was also flooded with vandalism on the final night.--Rasillon 09:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mass-untagging of images.

Greetings Martin.

During the middle of December, you removed the tag {{coatofarms}} from a very large number of images following a debate on TFD, however people on WP:HV don't normally frequent TFD debates, so it looks like this debate wasn't noticed at all by the people editing the affected articles. Since finding coats of arms images is often somewhat complicated given that many of them are no longer in active use or because we have to look for old images, it would have been a nice gesture if you'd notified WP:HV about what you were about to do or at least made a list of the affected images afterwards, so we would have at least a possibility of assessing the situation and analysing the affected images. As I am writing this, Orphanbot is running amok on the heraldic material and this will result in tons of extra work for us. E.g. official German heraldry is PD by law, but this is getting removed along with the rest. Other insignia come from a 100 year old Swedish encyclopedia, just to name two examples.

I am aware that you are doing a lot of work on TFD, but next time, please warn any affected project before untagging hundreds of images. Somebody has redirected the affected template to {{Logo}} which is not entirely inaccurate, although {{symbol}} would be probably be better in 90% of all cases. These images are generally used under a fair use claim since not only copyrights but also other legal concerns have to be taken into account when it comes to government symbols. Given that a new TFD debate seems to be about to delete the {{Insignia}} warning as well, I don't see any other option than to reclassify many images from PD-old to fairuse to warn people about potential legal for unauthorized use. I found the deletion debate in the TFD archive and if editors found this template so inadequate, I find it very odd that noone chose to inform WP:HV about such concerns. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 10:09, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That was indeed an option, but with the luck WP:HV is having at the moment, a third bot will probably come along and delete the images altogether. Since I'm 100% sure of the German legal situation, I'm focussing on finding as many images I can before the bot gets them. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 11:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Coat of arms on deletion review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:Coat of arms. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- Evertype·✆ 11:48, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

coatofarms tag

I'm spending a lot of valuable editing time adding the {{seal}} tag to images from which your bot has removed the deprecated {{coatofarms}}, without replacing it with anything. I'm trying to keep up with them as Orphanbot finds them, but some are getting deleted as having no tag (which they dis when they were uploaded). Any chance your bot can substitute {{coatofarms}} with {{seal}} rather than leaving the image untagged? Lozleader 10:25, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm. It looks like I shall be busy for the next few days. I had removed images from my watchlist so it came as a big surprise. I can probably forget about adding any content for a while :-( Lozleader 16:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher Approval request

Hi, I've just added myself to the approval request page, but then noticed that I don't actually meet the edit count required. However, I've been doing New Pages (and Recent Changes) patrolling for some time now, and feel that access to NPWatcher would make things a great deal more efficient. I hope I qualify on that basis. Many thanks, Chrisd87 11:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken, my apologies. Having seen quite a few obviously non-notables, I got a little bit snap-happy. Taking a deep breath and proceeding with more caution. Once again, apologies for the screw-up. Chrisd87 22:48, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, always glad of the tip. Very much impressed with the software by the way. Couple of comments from initial bit of use - the AFD button seems a little balky - it only put in half of the tag on the actual article (someone speedied it anyway, so no big deal in the end). Also, on the maintainance panel (while you were asking for ideas), any chance of a button in the next update to tag an article as needing translation? In the meantime, thanks for a great piece of software, and for the constructive advice. Regards, Chrisd87 23:03, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your support

Thank you for your support in the RfA on my behalf. It is an honor to have received your expression of confidence. To be chosen as an administrator requires a high level of confidence by a broad section of the community. Although I received a great deal of support, at this time I do not hold the level of confidence required, and the RfA did not pass. It is my wish that I will continue to deserve your confidence. Sincerely, --BostonMA ^talk 22:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Advice needed

Just had a crack at a couple of TfD's and saw you finshed off the ones I've done. The last one here I could use your advice on. I think officially it should be a Keep or No concensus, but personally I would delete it. Whaddya think. Cheers Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 23:25, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers fer that, so when I relist it, is it as simple as a cut n paste from one log page to the other. Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 23:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NPW shortcut

Can I ask you to subst all existing versions of this shortcut and delete it? Cross-namespace shortcuts are a headache for mirrors, as well as giving a pseudo-stamp-of-approval to something in your namespace: This should not have a "WP" prefix. - brenneman 01:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MartinBotII for Wikipedia 1.0

Hi Martin, and Happy New Year. I hadn't heard from you in a while, but can I assume that use of the bot has been approved? I've come up with a new draft algorithm for picking articles for Version 0.7, and I think we're ready to start trying out the bot on a wider group of projects. Do you have a little time in the next few weeks to work on this? Thanks, Walkerma 07:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply, glad your around. It's bedtime now, but I'll set up a new page Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/MartinBotII tomorrow where I'll give full details of the proposed algorithm, along with what we used before. A key aspect of the whole thing (IMHO) is how we rank the importance of an article. The plan is to make it dependent on (a) the intrinsic importance of the article (see below) as far as we can judge that, and (b) the importance rating given by a WikiProject and (c) the importance rank of that WikiProject (could be contentious, but I have some parameters to judge it).

(Inserted later): The idea described below was something I wanted you to mull over while I worked on getting the new page written up. As usual, I'm trying to think 7 steps ahead of where we are now, I hope I'm not confusing you! So the part below is not urgent, though I'd like your feedback on it at some point. The main thing I'd like you to look at is the new page describing the proposal, at Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/MartinBotII. Thanks! Walkerma 07:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the meantime, there's something I wanted to raise. In discussions at Wikimania (with mav, I think) we talked about ranking the importance of an article by looking at how many other articles (i.e., mainspace only) link to it. I'm not a fan of using this as the sole criterion - for example Picasso scores only 269, whereas Star Wars gets 3381, and Jean-Luc Picard gets about twice the number achieved by Dominique de Villepin, PM of France. Nevertheless, it would be more objective than most other criteria we have available. Is it easy for you to incorporate this into the bot's script? There would be two ways of doing it, as far as I can see:

Just a simple number - 346 articles link to this article.
A more complex algorithm that would factor in the importance of those 346 articles, perhaps via iteration. I imagine a first run that ignores this factor, then later runs phase it in gradually. You would have the bot read a table called (say) ImportanceOld that contains the full listing of importance numbers generated on the previous run, and use that in generating ImportanceNew; at the beginning of the next run the bot would copy ImportanceNew over ImportanceOld.

I'm assuming that the first is easy, and the second much more challenging. If the second could be done, even if it required a fair bit of work, it might be worth the effort, because

It would be much less contentious than ranking WikiProjects (people from WikiProject:Obscure Sci-fi TV show get upset if we judge (subjectively) that their project ranks lower than WikiProject:Chemistry).
It reduces the Villepin/Picard problem outlined above - Villepin would be cited in top-importance articles such as France, whereas much of Picard's score might come from articles on specific Star Trek episodes that would rank quite low.

I am aware that doing all this would slow the bot down dramatically, but as we said before, a weekly run should suffice so hopefully it wouldn't be a problem. Is any of this feasible? Thanks, Walkerma 07:25, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher Request

Hello, I would love to be able to use NPWatcher--I've spent a lot of time recently monitoring recent changes and cleaning up vandalism, and I want to expand my contributions to Wikipedia with this tool. Thanks so much for your investments and contributions, I have great faith in the Wikipedia community, and love being a part of what I see as an essential project for the advancement of knowledge. Viperphantom 04:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a little something

You are infact an excellent admin on Wikipedia, a tireless contributor, and a genius at creating helping bots, articles, and your skills at catching vandals and sockpuppets are brilliant.--Rasillon 22:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For being hardworking, a tireless contributor, and also having thousands of edits on Wikipedia, I award you this, well done.

Copied (but not cut) to awards page. Mart inp23 20:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for updating the tags on the images in my Ernest Emerson article and the speed in which it was handled! --Mike Searson 00:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mediation

No probelm - I thought you wnated us to comment on the issue of MEQ/antiwar.com, but if you'd rather do it as a round-by-round kind of thing, I'm a happy to do so. One requeest - I just noticed you were asking for 3rd party views of these publications,and I want to add a 3rd party view of MEQ - could I add that? Isarig 01:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another NPWatcher 'feature'

Hi again. I used "Delete (nonsense) and warn" but it didn't do the warn. But it did when I clicked it with "Leave notability warning" checked, and left two warnings. You can see the result here [12]. I'm using the latest download, still with .NET 2. Thanks as always. --Steve _(Slf67)^talk 04:51, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bots

I have a new bot up for approval Martin. User:Nitrobot--Rasillon 17:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know, I did a little mistake there. It can't block users, but its concept is valuble, its an anti-troll bot, which reverts and detects comments from trolls on userpages, and reverts any use of bad language. Which is excellent because language should be kept clean on Wikipedia.--Rasillon 17:26, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The programming language is AWB, I thought it meant "Language" language, like; English, German Etc.--Rasillon 17:47, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jamie White

I noticed that you speedily deleted Jamie White for non-notability (I also noticed that it was previously deleted as an uncontested {{PROD}}). I would like to ask you to restore all previous edits to this page, as I believe there should be no question as to her notability, at least in the Los Angeles area. I was looking for information on her recent firing when I noticed the article was gone. She had been a morning host on KYSR for quite some time, on the number 1 show in the area for at least a portion of that. At one time she co-hosted with Danny Bonaduce. Further, there are mainstream articles which reference her or her show, e.g. The Los Angeles Times, (another LA Times article), The Orange County Register, and E! Online. If the article needs improvement to establish her notability, I will gladly do that after the page is restored. Thank you. DHowell 20:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for restoring the original article, which I have now greatly improved. I was also wondering how Jamie could be simultaneously married to Tom Welling, while being engaged to the father of her baby son, until I figured out that these were two different people named Jamie White. I added a disambiguation sentence at the top to hopefully prevent future confusion. I don't think Tom's wife is yet notable enough for her own article, but if she does become so, the middle initial (found here and here) should help distinguish. DHowell 02:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dotnetwikibot

Hi Martinp23. I'm trying to learn how to use the dotnetwikibot framework, and I was wondering if you could send me the source code for one of your bots that uses it (such as MartinBotII) so I can learn by example. If you'd prefer not to publish the source code that's fine also. Thanks! —Mets501 (talk) 23:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dotnetwikibot

Hi - I'll be happy to send you some code - the main pile of code for MartinBotII is a mess - I'm porting it off into seperate sub projects now (all the tasks were in one file, then I realised how bad it really was). I've got the peer review task in a seperate project (and it works), so I'll tidy it up and send it you. If I have one issue with the framework - it's the number of page loads it makes - it logs in before every page fetch, and uses special:Export a lot, which leaves it very prone to Wikipedia errors (502 bad gateway is a frequent one now), so I've started to make my own ~~framework~~ just a class right now for the simpler stuff (page loading, saving, getting categories and finding the creator of a page), which uses Httprequests with shared cookies, so you don't need to log in every time (and uses query api to get page data, rather than special:Export). Anyway, you'll find out what I mean if you try to use it a lot :). I'll send you an email when I upload it to a server. Thanks, Mart inp23 23:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Thanks a ton! I see what you mean about the problems with that framework, but it's OK; I'll check it out and don't intend to use it for anything massive. —Mets501 (talk) 00:13, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approval to use NP watcher

Hello, I would like to get approval to use NPWatcher. I go on page patrol while sitting at home. I have been awarded two Barnstars and contributed directly to the deletion of 18 pages. I also do rv vandal edits and watch 198 pages of interest to me. Thanks, Ronbo76 13:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with User:RefDeskBot

Can you please join the discussion of the problem at Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#Reference_Desk_Problem ? StuRat 05:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Entertainment Desk archive?

I cant find the Entertainment Desk archive? here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives ? --Delma1 12:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Subst

But if you use the subst before the template, any edits done will not be done on the actual template, so then the archive will be useless. Do you get me? This is regarding using subst on the current ref desk page in the archive template. --Foundby 13:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You

Anyways I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work for helping the Ref Desk. Thnx. --Delma1 13:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Juan Cole Mediation

Sorry, I didn't mean to disrupt the mediation.--CSTAR 00:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that was his intention, I responded to CSTAR because I thought he made a good faith effort to support csloat's position. Easily as much my fault for responding to outside comments -sorry, I didn't realize it was problematic. <<-armon->>

Re: "Subsection a" -aren't we waiting for csloat to come back from his break? Re: "subsection 2 (Karsh)" I've added an additional comment, do you have any comment on the issues I've raised which Elizmr seems to have echoed to a degree <<-armon->> 00:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jan 7

Now there are two of these. The way i was doing it was putting it in when they moved to the different dates but forgot about time differences. Simply south 13:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ref desk Simply south 13:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, you're welcome Simply south 14:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If it is anything to do with you, it is good to see the bot working again. Simply south 00:18, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My editor review

I'd like to invite you to comment on my editor review, in possible preparation for another RfA. Walton monarchist89 17:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher truncating usernames

I noticed yesterday that the nn-warn username is being truncated by 1 character, meaning the talk pages are created but not to the right editors. Someone else noticed too, and left some examples on my talk page, FYI. Thanks again. --Steve _(Slf67)^talk 23:20, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seen the NPWatcher talkpage and that you've already fixed it! Thanks --Steve _(Slf67)^talk 23:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've tagged all of the bad talk pages with db-talk if you get a chance to delete to them. They currently make the bulk of the candidates for speedy deletion cat! Thanks, --Steve _(Slf67)^talk 02:24, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RefDeskBot stuttering

RefDeskBot is (still? again?) stuttering the first line on each edit:

--Lambiam ^Talk 03:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Smile

Sir james paul 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!

03:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

ban

Hi,

I was just casually browsing Wikipedia on my work computer and a message came up saying that my IP address has been banned from editing pages. I wasn't trying to anyway but I was just wondering why you've done this? The reason cited is chronic vandalism and spam. Does that mean someone at my office has been messing about? I've got utmost respect for Wikipedia and would be very dissapointed if one of my colleagues has been behaving in such a manner. If you have any time please let us know what's happened. Yours faithfully, Joe Williams, Reporter, Qatar Tribune newspaper. 03:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello...

Martinp23...i recently typed an entry regarding the incredible amoeba which was deleted...i have just re-typed the entry including better information about the subject. is this acceptable? i wasn't sure what the protocol was... thanks, matt 03:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks...

very much! cheers matt f. 03:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

NP Watcher adding messages incorrectly to user talk pages

When NP Watcher added speedy delete comments to a user's talk page, it is incorrectly formatting the header for the comment. There is a space before ==Image:blahblahblah listed for deletion==. This creates the text as preformatted text and does not insert it as a header thus is becomes just another comment under an existing header.

For an example, check out the my talk page. I have edited 20K Leagues Under the Sea - WDW.jpg to be correctly formatted. Directly below that is Big thunder wdw.jpg in the incorrect format.

Epolk 17:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help thus .....

		The Rescue Barnstar
		I award this barnstar to Martinp23 for coming to the rescue with your bot and helping out with my template work. Also for trying to point me in the right direction with my coaching. Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 21:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Bullying OTRS Tag

Hi, I wonder if you have any more information you can give me about the specifics of the request on Ticket ID: 2006122210009701 ? I am not denying the article needs a cleanup, it does, but I am having trouble finding the typos and stereotyping alluded to. Also i am not too sure when it would be appropriate to remove the tag? --Zeraeph 10:40, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah thank you...I feel that we have achieved more than we thought we had with that article now...but it's only "good enough", it still needs all the good serious work it can get.--Zeraeph 20:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My Request for Adminship

Thank you for your support in my my RfA, which passed with a tally of 117/0/1. I hope that my conduct as an admin lives up to the somewhat flattering confidence the community has shown in me. As far as I am aware two unprecedented (or at least very rare) things happened with my RfA both of which you noted: I accepted at the exact start of the new year (I think hasn't been attempted before) and Taxman closed it after exactly 7 days :) Please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page should you need anything or want to discuss something with me.--Nilf anion (talk) 15:44, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bye

It was nice knowing you. --Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 01:11, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HD archive header

I'm not exactly sure what's gone wrong but I've manually subst'd the template, and it seems fine, so the problem must be with RefDeskBot -- VectorPotential 15:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Congrats

Due to my withdrawal from the race, you are now a Deputy Coordinator. G e o. 17:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot

Thanks a lot for blocking me on Msn. I needed to ask you, why did you tell me that Wp: is not censored though?--Rasillon 19:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: And the WP: Is not censored thing?Rasillon 19:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

(talking to on MSN now) Mart inp23 19:17, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support

Thanks for your support. Have a nice week and god bless. --Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 03:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for your vandal-tackling iron fist. Show no mercy! :-) Regards, Hús ö nd 22:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

please stop removing things without explaining yourself

I removed it from the article because I supplied it on the image. I am not violating anything, what is your issue why did you remove the rationale I supplied on the image page. I am going to report you to an aministrator if you don't stop with your destructive unexplained edits edits. You have no right to remove my fair use dispute. --E tac 22:45, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By the way I never removed the tag from the image, you removed my dispute. As far as I lnow it isn't required to display that it is tagged on the article. --E tac 22:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An email from who? I see no difference between a post on a forum and an email. --E tac 22:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That forum is linked to from the bands official webpage see here so it is hardly ambiguous. An email would be harder to verify than this in my opinion. --E tac 23:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I took your advice and forwarded an email with the permission.

-Noregret1 06:36, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bees and drunkeness

I heard in a documentary that some bees become notorious drunks and are kept out of the hives by "bee bouncers" until they sober up. When the bees are repeat offenders, the bee bouncers might punish them by chewing their legs off. Comments?--Filll 16:56, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPWatcher

Hi. I took the liberty of adding myself to the permission list, as admins are invited to to. I wanted to thank you anyway for making the tool, and I am looking forward to try it. Best wishes, -- Chris 73 | Talk 20:59, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

question

Why are images that have uploaded being tagged as not meeting FU requirements, when this one Image:IronMaidenBand.jpg offers no better explanation than anything I have uploaded, is on a much more famous bands page so it is seen much more, has been there much longer, and yet has seemed to slip by untagged? --E tac 22:21, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]