User talk:Slakr

slakr's life is currently frolicking with chaos, so his activity and response times to queries will be highly variable. Leave a message and he will respond whenever he gets a chance— that is, assuming he gets a chance. Cheers =) zOMG!!! I need urgent assistance!!!1!! — banana? — kiwi?

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Regarding slakr: Why did my page get deleted? Please see Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? first. I have no idea what you're talking about. What's vandalism? If you received a warning from me and you're not logged in, you might have gotten an old warning I sent to someone who shares your IP address. On the other hand, if you've made recent edits and received a recent warning message from me and you genuinely believe that it's not vandalism, don't fret-- simply drop me a message below, because I could have simply made a silly mistake. :) Regarding SineBot: Why does SineBot keep signing stuff I've already signed? All comments should have a signature that includes both a link to your user page (slakr) and a datestamp (05:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)) (per signatures - internal links). This is most easily generated by placing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your contributions, which makes something like "slakr 05:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)". If you have an interwiki-linked user page, consider either creating a user page on enwiki that redirects to your preferred home wiki or simply opting out of automatic signing. If you're still having problems after trying that, post a message below. Be sure to include diffs to make sure I can reference the problem. I don't want my comments signed by SineBot. How do I get it to ignore me or my talk page? Please use one of the opt-out methods listed on its user page. SineBot forgot to sign something it should have signed. Usually this happens because the bot isn't sure if it really should sign something, so it defaults to not signing it (e.g., in cases of complex edits). It does this to avoid being annoying. Other times, a comment might be made when the bot is down for maintenance, so the bot simply never sees it. SineBot signed something that it genuinely should not have signed. Please let me know-- especially if you think it's not a one-time thing. Be sure to include diffs to make sure I can reference the problem. Is SineBot's source code available? Not currently. I'm signing with four tildes (~~~~) but it's still saying I didn't! You likely enabled raw signatures. Open your preferences, click the "User profile" tab, make sure that "Treat the above as wiki markup" is NOT checked, and click Save; it should be fixed. If you have an interwiki-linked user page, consider either creating a user page on enwiki that redirects to your preferred home wiki or simply opting out of automatic signing.

Seamus (dog)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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{{editprotected}} Several days ago, you put the Seamus (dog) page under full protection because of severe edit disputes. Based on the discussions on the Talk:Seamus (dog) page, it looks like some issues have been resolved, and some have not. I am requesting the following actions if possible.

1. Move Seamus (dog) to Seamus incident or Seamus dog incident. Based on the discussion under Requestion move section, just about everyone has reached a consensus that current name needs to changes, and of the suggestions, these seems to have no objections. Titles containing the words "Mitt Romney" or "controversy" were also popular, but there were some concerns about BLP violations with these titles.

2. Move the sentence about Gail Collins in the "Supplementary information" section to the "Political commentary" section, and retitle "Supplementary information" as "Later life". Based on the Supplementary information section, everyone agrees that "supplementary information" is an inappropriate title for an article section.

3. Extend article protection for a few more days. I'm not sure of Wikipedia's policies on timeframes for full protection, but based I what I saw over the weekend on the talk page for this article, I think that some of the other edit disputes could be resolved with a few more days of talking.

Thank you. HHIAdm (talk) 21:09, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

The {{editprotected}} template is for the article's talk page—not the protecting administrator's talk page. I'd suggest you copy this to the article's talk page—not here—so that you can establish that these changes actually have consensus. Any further discussion should take place there. --slakr^\ talk / 22:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

3RRN

This is inaccurate -- there were four clear reverts, including one after the warning I gave. At a minimum a warning is in order. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 06:26, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Beyond seeking a do-over on his or her trumped-up and frivolous (and near instantaneous, if you look he or she makes an habit of them) 3RR complaint here, the individual is edit-warring and mocking me as "darling" at the article. When the individual repetitively uses words like "undoubtedly a revert" and "clear reverts" and tells you what "is in order" and what is not, I trust you to look to the record rather than these words. Colton Cosmic (talk) 20:01, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

user wakwakwiki or Soufray

Hello,

The user uses the both names to vandalize the articles and my talk page. I've noticed him so many times but he always want what is in his mind not the truth. Will you please check his log? I've got tired from his bad actions. thanks in a dvance --H•f ^{Talk to me} 08:06, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Response to your comment at my talk page

I'll listen to your words, and I respect your position. But I don't change what I said. Three against one is not a consensus. I don't think I've been disruptive editing," unless you take out the part about "improving the article and building the encyclopedia" (I say I've done both) and "degrading its reliability" (I say I've improved it); well wait I say virtually none of that applies to anything I've done, except maybe for chatty-chat comments like this, so I guess I'll take that risk you're talking about, until then I'll keep going like I've been. Colton Cosmic (talk) 21:55, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Turns out [1] that the contributing editor breakout on the position of the edit you appeared to caution me for is actually two-two. (I made no attempt or contact to influence him or her on the edit.) If you see fit, please acknowledge this at my talkpage. Colton Cosmic (talk) 21:20, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your intervention at USACK. The harassment by IP editors on my talk page has stopped as a result. Perhaps those individuals have wised up and realized they can't post material at will in violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. --Drm310 (talk) 02:35, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

User:Jason James Scott

Thanks for the note; I was hoping that a reply would come, but it looks like enough time passed before you "closed" it that none was forthcoming. Nyttend (talk) 11:11, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

SineBot is needed on ar.wiki

Hello! I'm a bureaucrat on ar.wiki,I would like to know more about SineBot's requirement to function on ar.wiki/other wikis, also I believe that the same concept of tracing the unsigned edits can be achieved by using the abuse filter extension to give a warning message before saving the page, I'm interested to know which method would be more feasible, lighter and flexible and your recommendation, best regards.--Antime •(Talk) 20:58, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Sinebot

Hello, Do you know if or when you will be releasing Sinebot's source code? THX, Ax1om77 07:29, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Multiple Edit Wars

About 5 1/2 hours after your "broad warning," MonkeyKingBar carried on one of the edit wars: [2]. 99.224.54.167 (talk) 14:59, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

And he's still at it: [3]. I'm pretty sure MonkeyKingBar is GoldDragon, who was banned for this sort of behaviour. See [4]. 99.224.54.167 (talk) 12:32, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Various Subarus

Hello Slakr - thanks for intervening in the giant argument. I am (naturally) sorry to see my rollback rights reverted; due to intermittent internet issues I wasn't able to explain myself much after filing the initial report. I reverted the Subaru Outback article three times (all on May 13, 2:52, 14:28, and 14:34) and then noticed that MarcusHookPa (who began the chain of reverts) created obvious POV forks at Subaru Legacy Outback and Subaru Impreza Outback Sport. I was under the impression that such blatant violations of policy were ok to simply rollback, I apologize if that is not the case.

The only thing I really regret reverting is the Baja, a move which I didn't even support - I had assumed that there was consensus, and very much regret not having checked it closer first. In any case, I just wanted to explain my thought process.

What I would like from you is a single place to discuss the best way to organize these various articles. We could leave bot messages on the various talkpages and one on the automotive project talkpage. Best regards,  ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃  (talk) 15:43, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and one more question: MonkeyKingBar deleted all of the S8 content from Audi A8. Since Audi S8 is currently a blocked stub, is it ok for me to restore the S8 material to A8 since the S8 is otherwise "in limbo"?  ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃  (talk) 15:53, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

If an edit war spans multiple pages, typically people open a request for comment (RFC) on the highest-traffic/highest-edit-warred page, and then add a "Head's up," "FYI," or "RFC at [[Talk:TheOtherTalkPage#TheActualRFC]]" sections to the talk pages of disputed pages, with a small blurb pointing anyone interested to the main one (e.g., "There's an RFC over at (whereever) over whether (something should be one way or this other way. Feel free to discuss there."). Check out some of the open RFCs for examples. --slakr^\ talk / 06:39, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Yup, I definitely would have. I figured that since one single editor had been reverted by three other editors, he'd be blocked before soon. Didn't quite realize that reverting his POV:FORKS would (apparently) count as reverting the same edit until I filed the report.  ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃  (talk) 07:57, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

I'd suggest, then, fully understanding the underlying policies to make sure you're following them before accusing others of violating them. Furthermore, I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from, but there was more than one person in opposition on both sides of the dispute. Had it truly only been one, and three people reverted that person, I would have been more inclined to exclusively block the offending editor. --slakr^\ talk / 14:51, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, and I'm sorry. On the other hand, by the time I filed the report (19:39 May 13) there was only one opposing editor as far as I could (and can) tell - MonkeyKingBar made his first edit to Subaru Outback on May 15, 28 hours later. So, yes, at the time there was only the one opposing editor. While I did two more reverts, one was of unrelated content at Subaru Baja (which I quickly regretted, I had mistakenly assumed that there was consensus) and the other was at the pov fork at Subaru Impreza Outback Sport. I hope that this information might do something to change matters.  ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃  (talk) 16:35, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for your help in quelling the disruptive editing on various automobile-related articles! I know that you set yourself up for a lot of work in appointing yourself watchperson of the various edit wars. Your efforts are much appreciated! Ebikeguy (talk) 16:34, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Appeal on Edit Warring noticeboard notice

Hello, you recently responded to a notice I put up for Good Crazy [5]. I would like to appeal your decision. The IP whom I reported has increasingly become highly uncivil after the protection was placed. Please these two comments from Talk:Good Crazy [6] [7]. From their comments, it is clear they do not realize that their edit warring has at least partially contributed to the protection of the page. There is no doubt that they have learned zilch about how their behavior was unacceptable by just protecting the page. I am fine with the page itself being full-protect, but I would please ask that you also consider putting a range-block on this IP to attempt to discipline this user. Thanks. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 22:57, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

We don't use blocks punitively. Additionally, I have zero interest, comment, or care about whether the edit in question is included or not, and whatever version was the latest when I protected it is in no way an endorsement of the version of the page it was on. I've adjusted the protection tag on the page to reflect this accordingly. The level of protection primarily reflects the amount of involvement by non-anonymous versus registered users, the nature of that involvement, and the lack of (or clear) consensus for/against edits in question. When numerous editors are edit warring, the likelihood of full protection increases. As far as civility goes, feel free to open a thread at Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance if you feel there's a civility issue or WP:ANI for truly serious/blatantly problematic issues. --slakr^\ talk / 06:57, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions. SwisterTwister talk 04:17, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

FYI

A discussion about SineBot that has popped up on Talk:Abraham Lincoln might interest you. Shearonink (talk) 00:53, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Meh... I don't really need to defend the millions of edits my bot has made over the last 5 years. If people are surprised that newbies post inappropriate threads to the talk page of as high of a traffic page as Abraham Lincoln, and they find that reverting two revisions at once is too hard/complex of a process, and if they're silly enough to not actually research how frequently it happens on the talk page/check how often the bot ignores it, and they don't actually check Special:Contributions/SineBot... *takes a breath* then nothing I post is gonna convince them otherwise. :P --slakr^\ talk / 01:30, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Meh-meh, okey-dokey. Carry on, Shearonink (talk) 01:48, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Roseville, NSW

Hi. I saw your entry at User_talk:OSX about the edit warring. The following example is a relatively trivial one, but OSX has consistently deleted from Roseville, New South Wales an image of a cottage called Ambleside, which is relevant to and supported by the text, while always replacing it with excessive pix of Federation cottages. He hasn't been very responsive to debate. Not the most important issue at Wiki, but I leave it with you in case you have nothing better to do.

Sardaka (talk) 09:22, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Article: Kazantip

Hi, you declined the request to protect the page Kazantip and told that "prior protection just expired". Does it mean it was protected before? I was checking that page since last autumn and it wasn't protected. Would you please explain me the reason further? Thanks in advance and best regards, --Xapmc (talk) 23:39, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

this --slakr^\ talk / 23:46, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick answer. Maybe I should mention that both events will take part simultaneously at the beginning of August, so I suppose that Portugal "kazantip" will by much more active in the next two months. The same German page is protected for indefinite period of time for the same reason as that company tried to sabotage it. Could you kindly explain the reason why the external links cannot be protected? People who want to make the article better still can work on it, only their changes must be confirmed. Or am I getting it wrong? Thanks again, --Xapmc (talk) 00:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

helpme test

{{helpme}} Ignore this. I don't actually need help; I'll deactivate in a few moments. --slakr^\ talk / 17:32, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Duly ignored - posting only to give you an idea of response time, if that helps... JohnCD (talk) 17:34, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Ignored. AndrewN ^talk 17:53, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Lol, sorry, guys, was testing to see if the bot regularly echoed to the chan without prompting. --slakr^\ talk / 17:56, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Great response time, though :D --slakr^\ talk / 17:56, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Your bot

Hi, I (and some other sysops on svwiki) are stalked and harassed on enwiki by some weird person on my user page and on my talk page. It’s always unsigned and written in Swedish and your bot has the awkward habit to sign the insults. Is it possible to teach the bot only to take care of unsigned messages in English? Rex Sueciæ ✎ 19:20, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Edit warriors

I don't know if this violates the warning, but I feel that I ought to tell you about it. Thanks,  ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃  (talk) 22:20, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Subst for unsigned/dated templates

Would you consider adding the functionality to SineBot automatically add subst: to the use of Template:Unsigned, Template:UnsignedIP, Template:Unsigned2, Template:UnsignedIP2 & Template:Undated when using the normal transclusion markup? I'd offer to help code a new bot which did this itself, but I'm new to wikibots (though if you'd guide me through the process then I'd be happy to give it a go!) There are currently huge backlogs for each template which could be used as a list for the bot to work from. Cheers. --xensyria^T 14:51, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

If you add the templates to Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted (possibly by adding |auto=yes to {{subst only}} in each template's documentation), and convince an admin to add the templates to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force, AnomieBOT will take care of substing them. Anomie⚔ 17:03, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

What Anomie said. Since there are already bots that handle this, I'd like to avoid scope creeping. Good idea though =) --slakr^\ talk / 21:10, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks :) I've realised I don't have the privileges to make the changes yet, so I've put it up here if you'd like to take a look, and I'll ask a few other relevant admins too. --xensyria^T 19:23, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

for responding to my request at WP:RPP. I really was at a loss for how else to deal with the situation. If the other party refuses to discuss their edits and has an IP that shifts over time, it's very awkward. Rivertorch (talk) 05:08, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

2012-13 NBA season by team

Why Is There no template For The 2012-13 NBA season yet174.70.170.16 (talk) 02:45, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

How to protect a page and Request to protect the Characters of Kingdom Hearts page

Slakr, I would like if you show me how to protect a page on a wikia and can i try it on the Characters of Kingdom Hearts with the page protection. Can you show me how?--DisneyGirlovestacos95 (talk) 02:01, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

About the SineBot

I LOVE the humor and coincidences you used when creating SineBot

CosineBot is cool as well, in an antagonizing way.

67.163.104.111 (talk) 15:03, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

SineBot acting up

[8] and [9] are completely wrong. There's something the bot seems not to be able to handle. __meco (talk) 19:09, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

 Fixed — example. Bot should now correctly skip the oldest of any back-to-back unsigned posts. The Right™ way of doing this would be to sign both, but it's on the back burner until I get around to it. --slakr^\ talk / 03:17, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Appreciated. __meco (talk) 08:17, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

hi how do put

a wabsit Joshua melton singter — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshmel (talk • contribs) 22:01, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Note

Hello, If you have a time, could you please have a look at user:banimustafa contributions, he just want to delete info from articles. Look here please. He has a history of vandalisim; user:Wakwakwiki is a banned[10] sockpuppet of Banimustafa,[11] who has his own history of blocks[12] user:soufray is a banned souckpuppet of Banimustafa also. user:jerashray user:strickwikieditor I've notice him several times, and I don't want to enter with an edit war with him. could you please, take an action for that. Thank you very much.--HF► 14:49, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Confusing edit summary

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This is a reply to this archived discussion.

You missed my point. I'm talking about the line "Added {{tilde}} note.". Your bot used this line here. As said I find this line very confusing. It looks like your bot tried to use a template in the edit summary. Even without the brackets this line is completely useless for the most likely new and unexperienced users. Please change it to something like "Please sign your posts.".

If you are sick of people complaining about your bot, here is a hint: Slow the bot down a lot. Currently it's impossible for a user to learn from it's mistakes and fix them itself. The bot blames the user for being a moron within seconds. Even if a user notes his mistake and tries to add the missing signature he will run into a conflict (or worse) because of the bot. It's like you are in a shop looking at the products with the manager right in your neck, rearranging everything you touched. This drives me crazy. --TMg 16:39, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

I actually understood your point perfectly, hence my reply, "Templates actually never expand in edit summaries—only wikilinks do." Put another way, it's not a bug; it's expected behavior. Furthermore, an edit summary is a description of what changes were made to a page. "Added {{tilde}} note" is a precise description of the change that were made to a user's talk page. An edit summary of, "Please sign your posts," however, is not a description of the change that was made to the user's talk page.

Your other two points have already been addressed:

1. It already has a delay of about a minute before applying signatures, which is intentionally bypassed on high-priority/frequently edited pages (in order to avoid edit conflicts). So, even if a user has neglected to use the Show Preview or Show Changes buttons before actually committing their edits, they still have about a minute to go back and edit it to add their signature under normal circumstances. This delay will eventually automatically scale with the average recent activity of the page (e.g., a page averaging only an edit a week will have a longer delay than one averaging edits every few minutes), but this isn't set in stone, will require plenty of testing, and hasn't been implemented yet; no, there isn't an ETA. As if this wasn't enough, when it comes to established editors (>800 edits), the bot will only sign their posts if they explicitly opt in to autosigning.
2. {{tilde}} notes are only added on the third unsigned comment. Taken in concert with the aforementioned delay, the allegation that the "bot blames the user for being a moron within seconds" is woefully inaccurate.

On the subject of things that drive people crazy, I highly suggest that you first familiarize yourself with how the bot actually works before telling me that it works a completely different way than it does. Doing so will save both of us lots of time in the future. Thanks.

--slakr^\ talk / 21:34, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

I see how your bot works and it is way to fast and uses confusing edit summaries. What else should I say? Either I'm to stupid to explain the problem or you are unable to understand. "About a minute" is insanely fast. It should be about 5 minutes. "Added {{tilde}} note" is no precise description of the change. "{{tilde}}" is not a note. It's a template. Either the bot "added a substituted copy of the tilde note template" or it "added a note about signing your posts". If you want to let the users know where the template can be found use a link in "Added a copy of the tilde note template". --TMg 14:50, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Heh, well, as fun as this has been, I'm gonna have to wrap it up with the following: you're welcome to make your own bot if you believe you can do better. Best of wishes on your endeavours. =) --slakr^\ talk / 23:17, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

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Turkish people

Hi Slakr, thank you for noticing the current edit war on Turkish people (per your message on my user page). I must say that I am extremely saddend by the recent events. I actually believe that I am being stalked by a particular user who has been blocked on numerous occassion (i.e. User:Ledenierhomme). Whenever I begin the task of trying to improve an article relating to the Turks, this user always does the same tricks (you can see this in this histories of Iraqi Turkmens, Turks in Algeria, and well, many more). Although I am not certain whether this anon is User:Ledenierhomme, they are rewriting sentences which do not confirm what the sources actually say. I do not want to shout out "sockpuppet!" or "vandaliser" because obviously they may indeed be a genuine user and thus I want to assume good faith. Nonetheless, the current events have made it difficult for me to continue improving this article as I am continuously being reverted. I would really appreciate any help that you can offer. If you really think that I deserve a block for changing the Turkish people article from this (i.e. prior to me editing the article) to this (i.e. my last edit to the article) then wikipedia would be losing a user who sincerly cares about these articles and actually tries their best to edit truthlly using a range of citations.Turco85 (Talk) 22:46, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Furthermore, I urge you to please look at the edit which this anon is continuously placing the article to [13]; one does not have to be an expert on this subject to see that they are trying to remove any mention of the Seljuk Turks. There is no justification for such an edit, especially when we have academic citations mentioning the Seljuk Turks and their link to today's Turkish people. Anyway, I don't want to lecture you, but I hope that you will be able to see how fustrating this has become. Turco85 (Talk) 23:06, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Indeed, look at the Wikipedia article on the Seljuq dynasty - which makes it perfectly clear that the dynasty was "Turco-Persian". And yet you want to remove any reference at all to the Seljuqs being Persianized, and try and trick the reader by switching between "Seljuk Turks" and "the Turks", trying to fool people into believing that the ancient Seljuqs and today's Anatolians are one and the same thing. That's like saying the Goths or Vandals are exactly the same as today's Germans. They're not. 31.146.35.112 (talk) 08:57, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Omigod, I just looked at the two articles you mentioned up there "Iraqi Turkmens, Turks in Algeria". LOL. You really are out of control! Slakr, can you see what this user has done to these two articles - and probably every other article he's ever edited on? Totally ridiculous POV. Those people in Iraq and Algeria with partial Turkish ancestry are not "Turks" (they don't speak Turkish or call themselves Turkish), any more than those in Turkey with partial Greek ancestry are "Greeks" (they don't speak Greek or call themselves Greek)! What a mess you've made! 31.146.35.112 (talk) 09:01, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

ProcseeBot and IPv6

Are you going to update ProcseeBot to start blocking IPv6 proxies? You'll have to be careful, though, because I believe legitimate, closed, proxies are used more with IPv6.--Jasper Deng (talk) 16:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes. Furthermore, the only proxies the bot blocks (or will ever block) are those it can personally verify as being publicly usable (i.e., truly open proxies). --slakr^\ talk / 20:39, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Opt out a single section of a talk page?

Slakr, would it be possible to add a feature to SineBot to turn off auto-signing in a single section of a talk page? That would be very helpful here. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 13:31, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Participation in a discussion

You are invited to participate in this discussion. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 04:54, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Lower Metzenseifen

Hello Slakr,

Thank you for temporarily protecting Lower Metzenseifen. I have made a proposal for the other person who has been tampering with the site. I suggested moving information from the Lower Metzenseifen site to a new site called Metzenseifen and redirecting the Medzev site to Metzenseifen. Would you please have a look at my proposal and give me your best opinion? Although this site is very important to me, because I see the value of it for the many Americans in Cleveland, Ohio who stem from Metzenseifen, I would like to have a non-bias prone person review the facts. Agentxp22 (talk) 23:17, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

talk page of Nayef bin Abdulaziz

Why did not you delete the last input put on this page? Instead, you added something. I cannot understand. Is it OK for a Wikipedia bot to allow such expressions on talk pages? Egeymi (talk) 11:23, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Request

Please restore the sourced information I added to these pages, a user with several IP adresses keeps removing it for no apperant reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saadat_Ali_Khan_II&oldid=497778992

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&oldid=497778766

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Awadh&oldid=497779074

MATF55 (talk) 15:48, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

And you edit warred with users over keeping your text (e.g. Persian ethnicity, Persian ethnicity again) across several articles. Someone disagreeing with the content you've introduced is not an valid reason to edit war, and simply adding a citation to a statement in no way gives it any protection from removal or disagreement. Consider dispute resolution to gain consensus for controversial changes. --slakr^\ talk / 21:39, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

First of all my source clearly states that their ethnicity is Persian, secondly my source is an academic source, they removed it unjustly.

MATF55 (talk) 20:29, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Well deserved

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For your incredible work detecting and eradicating the socks of Ryanjay1996 and for following-up and cleaning the K-pop articles of all the unsourced mess. Thank you for caring and also for taking the time. With great respect. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 04:33, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Bot code

Hi dear Slakr ,

I want Bot code for adding {{Unsigned}}, {{UnsignedIP}}, and {{Undated}} in talk pages , to run it in fa.wiki.if it possible .Regards Javad Yousefi^Talk 07:52, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Slakr. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval.
Message added 23:48, 22 June 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

 Ryan Vesey Review me! 23:48, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Confirmation bias

Anyone who uses that term in one of my RFCs gets extra credit, especially if you explain it to the class :) (I normally geek out and discuss terms like that myself, but since it appears I'll be closing, I have to maintain a little decorum.) - Dank (push to talk) 03:30, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

[Sinebot] Please ignore...

Hi, I was modifying some talk pages in the last weeks and recognized that Sinebot signed some messages by me. Mostly I should have remember that, but User talk pages of JS files acting as documentation pages I missed to place {{bots}}, but the real problem was the subpages containing /header which should be ignored by default, see diff. Regards, mabdul 15:11, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

SineBot modified text of post

Hi Slakr! here not only the signature was added, but the text of the post was modified as well (‘types’ → ‘type’). The IP wasn't aware that a bot was working and thought that a human changed his text but did not edit the article as he demanded it his OP. Therefore he reverted the typo introduced by SineBot in his OP and made this post. Alfie↑↓© 10:25, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Your Toolserver Account

It expired! Can you please renew it.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 13:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

If you're not going to be renewing it soon, we should remove the link to the 3RR helper tool from the EWN header. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:41, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Or have someone else run the tool.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 00:52, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I've been out of town for the last week+. I'll deal with this somehow. --slakr^\ talk / 07:09, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Ah, much better. Thanks! :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:50, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of article to which you have contributed

A few days ago I was informed that the article Metrication of British transport was being considered for deletion. As you have made at least one contribution to this article or to its Talk page, you might like to contribute to the debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metrication of British transport. I have sent this note to everybody whose name was thrown up by the "Contributions" facility of the article and of its Talk Page (apart from those who have already contributed).

SineBot signed something after I had signed

Hi, only so that you know. Here is the diff.[14].Best, --Caleb Crabb 08:38, 13 July 2012 (UTC) (And I did sign here too ! just in case the zealous bot reads this.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caleb Crabb (talk • contribs)

Appears to have happened again: here Maybe it has to do with Caleb's signature code? ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Talk to me} 17:10, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

The sig link is messed up; it's "User talk :Caleb Crabb" (note the whitespace). There's lots more wrong with it unrelated to my bot, (including things like style="face:courrier" and style="red-space:nowrap"), but I guess I could add a \s* to the sig regex...but really, it'd just probably be easier for Caleb to fix his signature to use the actual namespace and omit the space. :P --slakr^\ talk / 03:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

You are right, I did. Sorry to have kept Sinebot and you -and Mattewrbowker- busy with that. Thanks. Best.--Caleb Crabb 11:16, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for the info. I'm new at posting. Robinrobin (talk) 19:53, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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Bot broke title somehow, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Internet_Explorer_9&action=history 94.192.118.154 (talk)

It's also edit conflicting if I forget to sign and then try to sign.94.192.118.154 (talk)

Roger Federer "widely considered to be the greatest player of all time" dispute

Hi Slakr. Could you please read this talk page discussion on Roger Federer and reply to it with your opinion? It's all about one matter. Is the statement that Federer is "widely considered to be the greatest player of all time" appropriate on Wikipedia? Or does it violate WP:WEASEL and other guidelines? It is in the opening sentence of the article. Thank you. --76.189.114.243 (talk) 12:16, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Roger Federer - someone reverted your revert

Hi again Slakr. Thanks for replying to the discussion on the Federer talk page. I replied to your reply. I really hope you'll give your opinion on the issue. Anyway, I'm writing because User:TennisAnalyst004 reverted the revert you did. He did this and then this. Can you please take care of this? Thanks! --76.189.114.243 (talk) 21:16, 24 July 2012 (UTC) 21:37

Update: He wrote on the Federer talk page: "Earlier, Slakr deleted the "greatest of all time" reference with its many footnotes before coming to the talk page and soliciting others' views. The first paragraph should remain as is until other senior Wikipedia editors & contributors can weigh in on the matter." Apparently, he chose to ignore your edit comment: "revert lead to pre-POV version; move; make more NPOV / less-weasely." This guy has been battling editors for a long time on this article. --76.189.114.243 (talk) 21:42, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

I noticed and have updated the talk page thread accordingly. --slakr^\ talk / 21:46, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Are you going to revert his revert? --76.189.114.243 (talk) 21:53, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

No; other people will eventually do that as consensus is established. I don't engage in edit wars, and had I noticed that others had previously edit warred on the page, I wouldn't have even gotten involved. --slakr^\ talk / 22:11, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

But an editor who is disrgarding WP guidelines reverted your (an administrator's) revert and ignored your reasoning and instructions. He should not be able to get away with that while there is a consenus-building discussion taking place. If that was the case, I would have just reverted the weasly sentence from the beginning. But I chose to do it the right way by starting a talk page discussion. Can you please revert the revert until we reach a consensus? Clearly, the wording now violates WP policy. And it's in the opening sentence, which makes it much worse. Thanks, Slakr. :) --76.189.114.243 (talk) 22:21, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Slakr, this "user," 76.189.114.243, shows up out of the blue one day and just expects that an important line in the Federer article can be deleted just like that? There have been many months of discussion about the "greatest of all time" line, and most people on the talk page believe the line should stand. I am suspicious of this user, and believe his motives are less than pure. And just so you know, I have participated on the talk page on many occasions in the past, unlike this user 76. Thanks for considering my input. TennisAnalyst004 (talk) 22:36, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Can you vote on the issue on the Federer talk page? The proposed version uses "many" and mine uses "some" because I think we need to steer clear of being weasely. :) --76.189.114.243 (talk) 08:58, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Fahrenheit 212

Hello Slakr,

I created an article for Fahrenheit 212. I see that in the past you deleted an article with that name for not being neutral. I would love your feedback on the neutrality of the article, as it is today.

Sincerely,

Matan (talk) 12:34, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

SineBot wibble

Hi Slakr, SineBot should have added the timestamp of the comment in this edit. It probably didn't do so because the comment contained the text "02:14, 25 July 2012 ...". Graham87 02:26, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Will I be the contributor ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tim_Cook#Career_section

I want to edit the Tim Cook's page. I have started discussion in tim cooks talk page."Where to put this information(In Tim Cook's biography or in Apple Inc's page) : On July 24th 2012 with a conference call with investors , Tim Cook said that he loves India but Apple is going to expect larger opportunities outside india , citing the reason of 30% sourcing requirement from india."

I want to know , will I get the credit if this edit goes to tim cook's page or other editors will get it.The thread has been started by me. Many editors removed my edit , so I shared it on tim cooks talk page.

Please suggest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winchetan (talk • contribs) 04:33, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	You've probably had hundreds if not thousands of people tell you, but SineBot is one of the most useful bots on WP, particularly for those dealing with newcomers or new articles. Ritchie333 (talk) 12:33, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Sinebot

Hello, i'm here to report that your bot is signing my messages even after i wrote my signature. So there must be an error... You'll see an example in your talk page in a few minutes. :D If you have to, please answer in my talk page on it.wiki, which you can reach by passing on my talk page on en.wiki. Thankk you. Bye. AndreaFox ^{Knock here...} 14:46, 3 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndreaFox (talk • contribs)

(talk page stalker) It looks like you copied your signature from itwiki without correcting the links. On the English Wikipedia, you must use User:AndreaFox and User talk:AndreaFox to link to your userpage and talk page. Since SineBot didn't see either of those links in your signature, it treated it as unsigned. The links you do have, Utente:AndreaFox and Discussioni utente:AndreaFox, are going to oddly-named pages in the article namespace. Anomie⚔ 18:23, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Riposte

Yet another dictator telling English people how to spell and use our language! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Felipito1.966 (talk • contribs) 15:17, 3 August 2012 (UTC)