User talk:Xaosflux/Archive18

CfD Talk Page Deletions

Hello. I noticed that you deleted some of the categories that I emptied at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working. It looks like you accidentally deleted the new talk pages instead of the old ones, probably since the old ones were redirects created by the page moves. I think it is just for the ones for Giant Panda and Indianapolis Ice. Also, I know that has happened with some others that I worked with other admins on, so I would appreciate any suggestions that you might have (perhaps intentionally break the redirect?) Thanks. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 15:04, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, you got them all. BTW, is it just me or has the site been a little slow today? --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 01:31, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Talk about getting sucker punched

The Nomintor of the Second MfD of the CVU was non other tahn Bobby Boulders. Anyway we can get the thing closed since it was a bad faith nom? Æon ^{Insanity Now!}_EA! 18:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Roger that. Lets hope that the one closing that seees that. Æon ^{Insanity Now!}_EA! 01:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again

Sorry Xaosflux, but do you think you could check out the WP:BRFA page again, there's a backlog starting again. Hopefully your burdened will be lessened soon with the new approvals group members! Thanks so much! (No big rush, just letting you know) —Mets501 (talk) 19:38, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks xaosflux for everything! —Mets501 (talk) 10:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome

Not a problem. Glad my mediocre html knowledge could help. --tjstrf 02:49, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I didn't even know that could be done. alphaChimp^(talk) 02:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT

RE: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DraiconeBot's awb delay in 'off peak' time

Hi xaosflux, Sorry to take your time, but I had just one last question. You mentioned I should set the AWB delay time to 12 seconds during off peak times. Could you please give me an indication of what these times are? I live in Australia (GMT+10) so I assume the time at which i run the bot would be around 6 in the morning for the majority of users (4-6 pm approx GMT+10). --Draicone ^(talk) 06:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Your thank you note

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my userpage. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. — blobglob talk 05:48, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Block

Um...what? [1] I'm not blocked, as far as I can see... Sam Vimes | Address me 00:10, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Permanent User Pages...

I have heard that once you set up a user page it cannot be erased. What would happen to that user page in the event of the person's death?. - —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.237.253.37 (talk • contribs) . 14:10, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

All pages can be deleted, but they require deletion by a sysop. Typically there is no pressing need to delete a user page for a dceased editor, although an edit-block may be placed against that account. To nominate a User page for deletion, please see WP:MFD. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

re: userpage

Thanks for the message, xaosflux. I understand how this can confuse people, and give the impression of either a newbie or a departing editor (As with the way people were shocked when all the userpage links in User:CanadianCaesar's signature went red a few days ago.) I've already changed my signature in preferences so that it reads as [[User talk:Picarcoon9288|]], and am prepared for people to wonder what has happened to me/whether I'm a noob (who must be a sockpuppet because he is citing policy on afds!! ;D). However, I've already had a talkpage link in my signature for at least a month, and places older than that where I have signed my name are unlikely to be stumbled across. If there is a significant amount of trouble, I will heed your words and recreate the page as a redirect to my talkpage (I'm not a very prominent editor, so I doubt there will be). However, for now at least, I would like it deleted. Just so you don't have to check through the history, making sure there is nothing of reason to keep, the only editors have been myself, vandals, the vandalism reverter(s?), and mass template and category fixers (I'm not suggesting that you wouldn't assume good faith, just making sure you don't have to bother looking through the whole history.) Also, my ip address is in the page history, and eliminating that, as well as the stated vanity distraction, is an added reason to restate my request for deletion. Thanks, xaosflux. Picaroon9288 19:06, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Again, thank you, xaosflux. On another note, thanks for fixing up the work I did in the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Standards area a week and a half ago. Picaroon9288 20:21, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AP.BOT

Qs answered.--Andeh 23:03, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Slightly surpassed 300 edits, awaiting function approval. Thanks.--Andeh 16:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot approvals subpage

Hi! I've noticed that there is an occasional backlog regarding the flagging off a bot by a 'crat. I suggest you create a subpage where the trascluded approved requests are placed by the approvals committee. A bureaucrat can then come along and set the flag. This would be very helpful to us as we would be able to put it on our watchlists and archive it. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Approvals group

hay I see you protected the page. There is one slight problem Im not an admin and thus cant edit it can you add my sig to the page? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Process is Important

Hi, could we discuss this? For now I've marked the page as deleted but obviously the earlier versions can be consulted by those who want to. Why do you think this essay is acceptable? --Tony Sidaway 23:27, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Could you please list my edit count like long ago and teach me how to do that myself? Thanks in advance! --HolyRomanEmperor 19:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

You have my gratitude. --HolyRomanEmperor 14:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

No problem! — xaosflux ^Talk 23:34, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

the Userpages

I listed them for speedy becuase of child protection issues (9 year old) (And the Ban was for that as well and a few other issues). I just didn't want to come out and say it for those reasons. (You never know who is out there) Æon ^{Insanity Now!}_EA! 13:31, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Xaosflux/Infobox - Please change categ.

Hello! I've been unable to edit User:Xaosflux/Infobox due to protection while I was doing a re-categorisation per CFD. Please change [[Category:Wikipediholics]] to [[Category:Wikipediholic Wikipedians]] when you get the chance. Thanks --Sagaciousuk ^(talk) 12:37, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I've killed the cat all togehter. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:22, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I've updated this. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:54, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

some notes about your userboxes

There are some userbox categories shifting names on CFDU, and your code is so involved that I wonder if you'd fix yours yourself. These changes would be made: Delete:

• Wikipedians whose user pages have been vandalized
• Vandalized Users Pages
  • Awaiting response from deletor User talk:Kbdank71. — xaosflux ^Talk 21:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
• IRC users (this has been renamed)
  • Fixed, — xaosflux ^Talk 21:24, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
• Lynx users (this has been renamed)
  • Fixed, — xaosflux ^Talk 21:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Rename:

• Wikipediholics to Wikipediholic WIkipedians
  • Fixed, — xaosflux ^Talk 21:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
• Wikipedians whose usernames are initialed a lowercase letter to Wikipedians with usernames with lowercase initial letters
  • Fixed, — xaosflux ^Talk 21:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!--Mike Selinker 15:14, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

• Just so' you know, you don't seem to have fixed category:Wikipediholics (and are thus its only member!). So if you could take another whack at that, we can delete that category.--Mike Selinker 19:05, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
  • AH, looks like I had myself in that cat TWICE, fixed it, and deleetd it. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:58, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

CfD

Category:Lynx users was moved to Category:Wikipedians who use Lynx. See CfD. So anyways, I'd fix it for you, but the page seems to be protected. Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 20:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Fixed, Thanks! — xaosflux ^Talk 20:53, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Also, Category:IRC users was moved to Category:Wikipedians who use IRC (same CfD). You're welcome. : ) Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 20:58, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Fixed, — xaosflux ^Talk 21:23, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Apparent discrimination?

Hi Xaosflux

I do not understand what is going on. Sloppy fact checking? Discrimination? What?

A while back I put my offical bio up on Wikipedia under my name because I am a best selling author and a public figure and people always want to know more.

I write my own words and publish my own photos and hold the ownership on all of it, as my own property. In other words I can do anything I wish with my own personal property and have full rights to it, and I chose to post it on Wikipedia, yet, you deleted my Ed McCabe pages. You have the bios of other authors listed, why are you discriminating against me?

Without even asking me about it or checking any self-evident facts, you deleted my page and assumed to tell me to write it in my own words, which it already was, and to not borrow images that were not borrowed from anyone or anyplace.

Please explain your apparent discrimination and heavy handedness.

Mroxygen 19:05, 18 September 2006 (UTC)mroxygen, Ed McCabe

I just discovered THIS BELOW IS WHAT YOU SAID and DID

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the "Ed McCabe" article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! — xaosflux Talk 16:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC) [edit]

Welcome Mroxygen! Hello, Mroxygen, I'm xaosflux and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

   * The five pillars of Wikipedia
   * How to edit a page
   * Help pages
   * Tutorial
   * How to write a great article
   * Manual of Style
   * Picture tutorial

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (Mroxygen 19:05, 18 September 2006 (UTC)); this will automatically produce your name and the date, and use edit summaries whenever you change a page. If you have any questions, need help or assistance, check out Wikipedia:Ask a question or contact me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Enjoy Wikipedia!!

— xaosflux Talk 16:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC)c.

(copied from your talk) Personally I have no opionion as to the content of that page, however the entire text of that page appears to be the same as the text on amazon.com, of which they have claimed copywright (© 1996-2006, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates). If you are the author of that text, it appears as if Amazon is attempting to pass it off as their own, and you should contact them for clarifiaction. If this is an autobigoraphical article, please see Wikipedia:Autobiography for editing details. If you have further questions please feel free to contact me. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:20, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Open Proxy

I just removed this entry from WP:AIV, and failed to detect it as an open proxy, can you provide OP results to support that claim? — xaosflux ^Talk 02:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

The only edit to date shows the insertion of "\'" when it should just be an apostrophe. This is extremely common in open proxies. Ryūlóng 02:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:AN

Thank you! That is a wonderful page more users should know about. Desertsky85451 15:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Identity verification

The page is in no way related to any ongoing discussions - it hasn't been referenced in ages, and didn't come up at all in the Dave Carter discussion. I think it is in very poor form to keep an article that had unanimous consent to delete, and intend to reverse your decision - is there a good reason for me not to? Phil Sandifer 02:16, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Don't bother with a DRV on Wikipedia:Identity verification, I assumed too much good faith in the comments made in the deletion discussion, after a much more thorough review there is no reason to hold up the emerged consensus in that discussion. I've deleted the page, it's talk page, and it's redirect, and updated The MFD record. If you have any other questions, please let me know. Thanks, — xaosflux ^Talk 02:31, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Grimsby

Thanks for the semi-protection. The article seems to be attractin a lot of weird people lately. Hopefuly this will make it stop. Good night, Asterion^talk 02:30, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Benon/sceptre

I have no problems with the course of action taken, I agree this is a tenuious situation, and as I have stated previously one I would rather not have have had to have gone down and as lar has hinted at the only road the situation left open to me. I will be making good on my own decison to have the page deleted in the near future. Un-fortuatley as many users had pointed out to me an mfd so soon after the event has done nothing but "add fuel to the fire" Benon 03:53, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

admin assistance, but what kind?

I need some help with continued over- fansite- ing of Natalia Tena. User:Ayashe (and what I suspect is her sockpuppet, User:Poifect) repeatedly add fansites to that article, in violation of WP:EL and I'm not sure what course of action to take. I've posted to Ayashe's talkpage regarding WP:EL and I thought that solved it, but she replied a week later:

I know exactly what the WP:EL states regarding fansites, and if you'd read the Natalia Tena talk page, you'd know that. "On articles about topics with many fansites, including a link to one major fansite may be appropriate, marking the link as such. Fanlistings are generally not informative and should not ordinarily be included." See the keyword here is many. Many. Say it with me. Many. That means constituting or forming a large number; numerous. On articles about topics with many fansites, including a link to one major fansite... If you want to change the Wikipedia policy, I suggest you take it up with the admins. But I really don't know what's wrong with you. I'm a liberal too but I don't go around being a bitch just for the sake of it. You are so mean and rude to people, and talk down to them all the time on here. That sounds more REPUBLICAN to me, and troll if I ever saw one. I find it hard to believe we are both Democrats, NPR listeners, Daily Show fans, and LGBT supporters. And BTW, it's not spamming when it's not your site, and you have nothing to do with that site.

Almost immediately after that rant was posted to my talk page, user Poifect added another fansite to the external links. Anyway, I just want this to end, but I don't know how to go about it. Please advise? Desertsky85451 15:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I think I'll go to the mediation cabal for now. Since the sockpuppets aren't really vandalizing, and WP:EL isn't a rule so much as a suggestion, I'm not going to CHECK them yet. Desertsky85451 17:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Why!?

Why did you delete and protect Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Willy on Wheels?--B&W Anime Fan 21:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

well, that was quick

I did that rename to show that they (the metro systems) were in London but looking at you reasoning and thinking over some other categories and the like, i agree with you. However, now i want to put Category:London metros up for speedy rename again but this time to Category:London metro systems as metros is rather informal and i don't really think that would apply to convention either. What do you think? Simply south 15:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll be okay. Thanks. Simply south 15:55, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

MFD

User:Xaosflux/UBX/User religion flying spaghetti monster not really is listed at MFD (in case you hadn't noticed and want to chime in). Cheers, Yomangani^talk 18:08, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

User religion flying spaghetti monster not really

My mistake... I thought the mfd had been closed already. Looking at the consensus it probably should be anyway! Regards! Stubbleboy 22:18, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

User page vandalism

I semi-protected my user page following malicious editing by unregistered vandal(s). It seemed to have stopped the problem, but you have deleted the semi-protection. Can you advise me about what to do if the problem starts up again? I cannot see why anyone, let alone unregistered users, other than myself should want to edit my user page. Issues can be raised on my talk page. Viewfinder 01:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Um?

I'm trying to contact you via a variety of different media, re: a certain userblock (since I'd rather avoid a wheel war), and things are... peculiar. Let me know how to contact you, please? DS 16:25, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

User:MelancholieBot

Hiya Xaosflux! If you and the BAG people wouldn't mind taking a look at Special:Contributions/MelancholieBot and do whatever it is y'all do to get Melancholie working correctly, I'm sure both Melancholie and the wiki community in general would love you even more for it! :D

Ja! ~Kylu (u|t) 04:37, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Cronbot

Hi, Xaosflux -- hope it's okay to bug you with this.

This is just to say, "sorry for wasting your time, but I quit". The concept of my bot has been obsoleted and I'd like to cancel its approval request and end its trial period. My reasoning is here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Cronbot#Nevermind

Could you help me with this? Thanks again. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 06:46, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

User:TawkerbotTorA

Pretty much that's the connecto list that tor uses to work, it's pretty much as confirmed as possible. That site confirms everything - administrators already block on said information so I don't think it's a massive concern. The "bot" is moreso a script - Werdna wrote it but as he doesn't have the +sysop flag Jimbo suggested he asked someone else to run it. I get to be the monkey pressing the switch :) -- Tawker 13:01, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Meta block list. It's a dynamically generated list off SBL's. AFIAK I don't even know if it's working, I thought we disabled that a while ago due to privacy fears. In any case, a proxy blacklist on meta (like the spam blacklist) (perhaps the list generated by a program - yes, I like automating non-human intervention needed tasks) would be better - this script is more of a stopgap than anything else. -- Tawker 06:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)