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Hey, you recently deleted some changes i made to an article about St. Paul Central High School. Not to be rude, but as a student of said school, I believe that I know more about it than you, and all of the information I put there was true. Gordon Parks did graduate from Central, the yearbook is pronounced "seh-HEE-zee-ehn," and the Quest program was created by Central teachers. I also reworded some poorly written sentences, fixed some grammatical errors, and deleted the code for a picture that wasn't there due to copyright reasons. I care about my school and its Wikipedia entry, and i believe that my revisions were accurate, clean, and interesting. I put some work into cleaning it up, and I'd really appriciate if you would revert it back (if you can), actually read the changes you delete, and stop referring to things you don't understand as vandalism.
P.S. I actually started that article about Central. So there.
This is the first time somebody vandalized my page. I wonder why? Thanks for fixing it! Death2 21:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Now I know everything. Except will this world ever become a better place? You should take a break. You've earned it!!! Death2 22:00, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
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Hello, Betacommand. Were you able to find the website from which User:WWE Down Under was copied? If not, you need to follow the instructions on Wikipedia:Copyright problems for listing articles without a source. Thanks, Kjkolb 07:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. Can't believe it took me 8 months to get my first vandalism though... it's like a rite of passage ;-) Fourohfour 12:17, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
from User talk:Encephalon
Thanks bud for your recent show of support at my RfA. Please leave me a note if you ever have a concern. Cheers! Jay(Reply) 02:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Betacommand, I am a member of Wikipedia:Welcoming Committee and I spot check new users to see how they are doing. I noticed your messages to User:FellowWikipedian who is a very new user. I don't believe it is appropriate to accuse a new user of vandalizing his own userpage and then threatening him for removing the warning from his talk page. Please read WP:BITE if you have not already done so. Thank you. --ElectricEye 14:27, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
I've been considering joining the CVU for a while now but I don't feel easy about joining. Is there anything I should do before joining or should I just join? Evan Robidoux 01:34, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I was just woundering why you replaced a bunch of my speedy tags Betacommand 04:05, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
What kind of anti-vandal javascripts do you have? Evan Robidoux 19:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Betacommand 20:57, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
just copy this to User:Evan Robidoux\monobook.js
For what it's worth, I don't personally think it's inappropriate to leave the stabbing survivor link on the dab page for now; the article is still on AFD, might even survive if the votes divide the way they have been, and if the article does get deleted, the link can always be removed at that time. Besides, there are a couple of articles which link to the undisambiguated title Michael Hill to mean the stabbing survivor. It's perfectly legitimate to leave the link there for now, I believe. Bearcat 01:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestion on my vandal list. Evan Robidoux 20:18, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
/(Merlinus), I am new at this Wikipedia stuff and am working on my user page. I saw your status change sign... so you can change it to say your here or not. I wanted to just copy it but was afraid that if I was so bold I would vandalize it by accident. Could you send me a copy please? --merlinus 16:07, 26 April 2006 (UTC)Merlinus:~)
also place {{User:Merlinus/Status}} at the top of your userpage.Betacommand 20:04, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, can you tell me why you reverted my edit, please? Vashti 20:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Ah, fair enough. I thought I'd got it all. Thank you. :) Vashti 20:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate you giving me the instructions. I've got it about 80% done but I can't seem to fit the last pieces in the puzzle to set up the status thing like yours. Could you or someone you trust take a look at my user page and take a look. Thanks. Marc. --merlinus 22:30, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Betacommand, I used to have a status changer like yours. Then, I changed mine. Now, I can put a smaller version in my signature and mine looks like a tab. This is how mine works. I have 3 pages. User:GeorgeMoney/Status, User:GeorgeMoney/StatusDiv, User:GeorgeMoney/StatusChange, and User:GeorgeMoney/StatusSig.
I hope you like my version better and decide to use it. --GeorgeMoneyTalk Contribs 23:44, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
The stuff about Marty Meehan is unecyclopedic. It might mean something to some members of wikipedia, but it means absolutely nothing anywhere else. It looks like a joke. At first, I thought it was vandalism. 75.3.4.54 02:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
It doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. Does wikipedia want to be an encyclopedia or not? They aren't going to put that in any other encyclopedia. 75.3.4.54 03:06, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Put it somewhere else. If you put something like that in a person's encyclopedia entry, people will not take it seriously. If that is interesting to wikipedia members, mention it at like a wikipedia forum, but don't make an encyclopedia entry look like a joke. 03:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
If you are currently online, why haven't you responded to me yet? Do you realize how wrong you are? 75.3.4.54 03:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I rolled back that anon accidently. Sorry about that Betacommand. I suggest you pay as little heed to him as possible, from what I can see of his contributions he seems to be wanting to cause trouble. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Happy Camper just sent me a note that I needed to be careful to place "edit summories" and not just "stuff", :~), or random signs. I am slowly learning. Thanks again for trying to help me with the Status Change. If you have any simple stuff tedious Wiki stuff that needs to be done... that might help me get more aquianted with Wikipedia I would be grateful. Thanks, Marc. --merlinus 20:03, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
The formatting of the page was fugly. I fixed it. It is no longer fugly. Joy. --WhyBeNormal? c · t · m 01:23, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
First of all:
Do not remove messages from my talk page!
Second of all: STOP SPYING ON ME!!!!!! --WhyBeNormal? c · t · m 01:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Why do you think that all stubs need to have an international focus? Hundreds of American football players stubs are not internationally focused. Most athletes are not internationally focused. Give me a break--Thomas.macmillan 00:50, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I have just removed from this IP talk page a test4 that you placed, referring to the IP's alleged vandalism of Australian rules football in Canada. The edit history of that article shows the IP making perfectly reasonable edits like this, which you have reverted without giving a reason. Can you explain why you treated these edits as vandalism? Snottygobble 02:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
The criteria seems strange, but I did not mean to get you all worked up with vandalism. I apologize for being a Wikipedia n00b. 06:08, 05 May 2006 (UTC)
Excuse me, I was editing the Poor Richard's Almnac Page, from what your Benjamin Franklin article had said. Please tell me how that was vandalism thanks. 06:09, 05 May 2006 (UTC)
Euphemism for "I assert this is no longer current, but I'm too busy to explain my reasoning". Please see Wikipedia:Five pillars #4. — JEREMY 07:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
WADR, I think you've removed "current" from articles that are, indeed, current. I noticed, e.g., Patrick Fitzgerald and Plame Affair. If those aren't current, what is? (I see a story on the case on the front page of today's Wash Post -- Sholom 12:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
The mumps outbreak in the U.S. is happening presently, thus making it a "current" event. Heathhunnicutt 15:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I used to write borgs to play netrek. If you try out new features on a small sample space, you can debug them. HH
Regarding the "no longer current" business. I suspect you looked for current event tags that had been added a certain amount of time ago. The tag for current events remarks that the section may be under rapid edit. (How do you escape a template, again?) HH
In mumps, you could tell by the edit history that the section which was under "Recent Outbreaks" was being editted once or twice daily. So it seems that the description of the template (rapid edit) suggest a way to automatically validate it -- have there been (recent) rapid edits? Maybe your borg could look at that as a filter. Heathhunnicutt 15:18, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
you removed the current event tag - which is correct because it is an ongoing even in the club (the buy has not yet been confirmed), so what was your reason for deleting it. I am from the area so I have the latest information about what is going on in respects to the takeover...Fyver528 08:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Is my talk page set up for your Bot? Betacommand 19:58, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
--WhyBeNormal? c · t · m 20:03, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
You recently tagged Chupacabra as a copyvio of http://www.crystalinks.com/chupacabras.html. I find this claim highly unlikely — based on the edit history of the article and the past versions of the crystalinks.com page found at archive.org, it appears to me that it is in fact the crystalinks page that is infringing our copyrights, rather than us infringing theirs.
Specifically, here's the latest archived version of the crystalinks page, from 8 February 2005, and here's our version from the same date. Notice that the old version of our article contains several distinctive phrases that are found in the current version of the crystalinks page, but not in the contemporary archived version. I therefore find it fairly evident that the crystalinks site is using content from Wikipedia without properly attributing it. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Whatever you were trying to do with interwiki links, it didn't work. -- Curps 04:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Betacommand, the information I added to this article was correct. Maybe a tad harsh on the language, but accurate. You should have reverted, not deleted. It wasn't a vandalsim attempt. (he has personally been quoted as admitting the information for further proof) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.136.255.30 (talk • contribs) 01:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
What was this edit doing? If you subst, please do it properly. Kusma (討論) 01:57, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
It looks like you have started substituting the templates without going through the policy. WP:SUB clearly states that: "Template substitution is a permanent change that removes functionality". This is especially true while the templates are dynamic lists which are updated only on the master page. What you have done on my userpage is substituting all templates (without consent) irrespective of whether they are debated (like substitution of userboxes) or completely unwarrented (like the dynamic lists). Morover, your substitution has left my page in a mess making it quite illegible. Please note that the policy clearly states that when template changes/improvements are expected to be incorporated, they should never be substituted. Only static archives are to be substituted. Also, "Policy' shouldn't really concern itself with server load except in the most extreme of cases; keeping things tuned to provide what the user base needs is our job." So, its my request to stop using what you don't seem to know about, that too without consulting the users. Reading the other comments on the page makes me feel that you have done it en masse. I am reverting your edits, and hope you don't do it again without consultation. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Please stop editing my user page without any permission or notice given to me. I have reverted your edit, but if you need to really edit my page, please use my user talk page and write a request. Alastor Moody 18:11, 18 May 2006 (PTC)
Please stop editing my user page without any permission or notice given to me. I have reverted your edit, but if you need to really edit my page, please use my user talk page and write a request. Alastor Moody 18:11, 18 May 2006 (PTC)
After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:07, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:You know you're a Wikipedian if --WhyBeNormal? c · t · m 03:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I store templates there sometimes.--BigCow 02:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
The template was template test, and the page you linked to has only user talk pages up for substitution, it was my main user page you can get to from my profile link. Basically it's nice to store template somewhere sometimes.--BigCow 02:39, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Yo. When your bot removes a category from an article, could you please link to the specific log page rather than just the main WP:CFD page? This helps for those of who are curious to see the discussion which resulted in the deletion or change in the category when it is removed from articles on watchlists. Cf this edit to Ian Chesterton doesn't tell me specifically where the deletion of Category:Fictional British knights was discussed, which it would be helpful. For an example of this, see . Hopefully you can implement this soon. Thanks!--Sean Black 07:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
All of the links to sock puppet categories now come up to empty categories. (For example, the bot did this , now this blue link goes to an empty page: category:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of Shran. Can you run a bot to create a redirect from the old category pages so that links will still work? -Will Beback 07:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
All of the files you requested to be speedied have been deleted. --Woohookitty(meow) 07:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Please note that speedy deletion is restricted to a small set of reasons; a number of the articles you have been tagging as speedies recently have not been eligible for speedy deletion. However, proposed deletion works nicely as an alternative; you may want to take a look at that instead. Zetawoof(ζ) 05:44, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
{{hangon}}
to the page, and then immediately add such an assertion.I have a modified version here of your monobook js that has tabs on usertalk pages when not in edit mode.Voice-of-All 21:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for watching my page!-- Kim van der Linde at venus 03:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Subject is notable (Congressman from Tennessee), but he already has a page under Van Hilleary. It'll get speedied for that, too. --DarkAudit 04:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
71.28.244.232 IS ME! That's my IP. GangstaEB (talk • contribs • count • ice slides) 18:22, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey, what js code should I use to get a revert button like yours? Mine isn't working again. Thanks. --WhyBeNormal? c · t · m 21:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I am WinBot in IRC~ Sorry for the confusion, I originally was AFK (thus changed nick to my bot :D) but just jumped back after seeing those lines. Thanks for sending me the config, both Vandal Fighter and your config looks pretty good to me, together they are working like a charm in vandal fighting.--WinHunter (talk) 15:56, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
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