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You archived!

You archived, the Apocalypse is coming! :-O --Jedi6-(need help?) 03:26, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

The wiki hit a million articles, GWB was elected president twice, Redwolf24 burned out - these are all portents and signs! Don't blame me, the messenger, for it was written that they shall have eyes, and not see articles, ears and not hear ogg files... --maru (talk) contribs 03:28, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Next up on the Apocalypse countdown: Willy on Wheels becomes an admin! Jedi6-(need help?) 03:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, that happened last year. It kept the Wikipedia Index in a tizzy for weeks! --maru (talk) contribs 03:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey he was over the 75% support mark. Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense/April Fools' Day 2005/Willy on Wheels for admin :-) Jedi6-(need help?) 03:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, and that was exactly why the policy wonks went crazy attacking the process wonks and vice versa. Quite a flamewar! --maru (talk) contribs 03:46, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Awww. I missed all the fun :-( If I tried to do that I would probably be blocked on spot. Jedi6-(need help?) 03:52, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Probably! Heck, your username already looks like a sock (I can just imagine another admin looking at it and going, "Hmm. I wonder what happened to the other 5 Jedi?"). --maru (talk) contribs 03:54, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Well Jedi1 died of dehydration, Jedi2's page was moved to Jedi4's page by Willy on Wheels which caused them both to gang up on Jedi3. Then Jedi5 proceeded to destroy them both by tricking them into starting a wheel war over a userbox. Finally one day Jedi5's apprentice Jedi6 overthrew him when he wasn't looking. Jedi6-(need help?) 04:04, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

If I became your apprentice... would I be able to save Padme? --maru (talk) contribs 04:15, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes but you must give into your anger. You must kill your former master and friend. Just make sure that if Padme comes to plead to you and you find your former master with her, Don't force choke her, you can't believe what happened last time. Jedi6-(need help?) 04:25, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I... must kill Jon Hart? But what about Deckiller? --maru (talk) contribs 04:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Don't you worry about Deckiller, muhuhaha. Jedi6-(need help?) 05:28, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, my master. He is either with us or against us. --maru (talk) contribs 17:13, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

You archive and then Wikipedia suffers a major power failure and is down for 6 hours. Coincidence? Jedi6-(need help?) 02:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

You can't prove anything- the power failure happened the next day, and there is no possible consequence one day later that could explain it, so I am dismayed at your weckless weckless accusations. --maru (talk) contribs 02:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love editing … I love Wikipedia. The power you give me I will lay down when this (power) crisis has abated. And as my first act with this new authority, I will create a Grand Army of the Wiki to counter the increasing threats of Wookieepedia." --Jedi6-(need help?) 03:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

So this is how fancruft dies... to applause and laughter. --maru (talk) contribs 03:33, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I need your help son... I am counting on you to be the eyes, ears and voice of the Wiki. Marudubshinki , I am appointing you to be my personal representative on the Administrators' noticeboard. --Jedi6-(need help?) 03:45, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Surely the Cabal will make me an administrator now! --maru (talk) contribs 03:47, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Only through me can you achieve a power greater than any Admin or bureaucrat. Jedi6-(need help?) 03:57, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

What did you say? --maru (talk) contribs 04:01, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm offering you power, ultimate power. --Jedi6-(need help?) 04:21, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Real Ultimate Power?

/me gasps

You're the Vandal Lord the Cabal has been searching for! --maru (talk) contribs 04:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I know what has been troubling you . . . Listen to me. Don't continue to be a pawn of Jimbo Wales and the Cabal! Ever since I've known you, you've been searching for a life greater than that of an ordinary Admin . . . a life of significance, of conscience. Jedi6-(need help?) 04:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

You're POVed! --maru (talk) contribs 04:39, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Are you going to ban me? Jedi6-(need help?) 04:42, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I would certainly like to! --maru (talk) contribs 04:51, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I know you would. I can feel your POV. It gives you focus, makes you revert. Jedi6-(need help?) 06:04, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I am going to turn you over to the cabal! --maru (talk) contribs 14:17, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Of course you should. But you're not sure of their intentions, are you? What if I am right and they are plotting to take over Wikipedia, or worse? Jedi6-(need help?) 23:27, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I will quickly verify your unsourced edit. --maru (talk) contribs 23:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

You have great barnstars, Marudubshinki. Know the power of editcountitis. The power to save Padme.

I am not going anywhere. You have time to unblock my fate. Perhaps you'll reconsider and help me rule the wiki for the good of the Internet. --Jedi6-(need help?) 23:41, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Pfft, don't listen to him. I've seen them come and go, those snot-nosed punks who decimate entire planets and kill millions. Happens all the time. Like this last guy, he actually ended up trying to convert his son into a Sith! Would you imagine that pervert... _-M ^o P-_ 05:10, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Just look at what happened to that pervert and his master! Stay with us, Maru. Stay with the light!!!! the_ed17^{(talk)Use these!} 19:29, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

But... I have to save my article, Padme! I love it! --maru (talk) contribs 22:02, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

No, you don't HAVE to. You just WANT to. Think of all you've learned. Jedi6 is evil. We are good. the_ed17^{(talk)Use these!} 14:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't know what to believe now! --maru (talk) contribs 20:06, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Commons page scans

Would it be too much to ask you to do some basic cropping of your uploads of page scans to Commons? Or better yet, OCR it, and put it on Wikisource or Wikibooks. --AnonMoos 18:58, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Your Immediatist demands offend my Eventualist beliefs, you insensitive clod!

But seriously- yes, it would be too much to ask. It already taxes my time to simply track down this rather obscure books, scan them in, do some flipping, set up the categories and all the other stuff, along with uploading. I simply don't have time for the niceties of image editing, and as for OCR...? You've presumably looked at the images I'm uploading; do you know of any free OCR tools on Linux which can handle Victorian English and archaic Arabic? --maru (talk) contribs 22:27, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

And of course, my main concern is just getting this stuff online so I can use it in my Wikipedia articles, not in adhering to whatever formatting guidelines Wikicommons has. Someone else can do that. It's easier to edit these sorts of scans once they are online than it is to get them in the first place (or even learn of them in the first place). --maru (talk) contribs 03:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

As long as you're fully aware that the material will be of little use to most people (even most of those with some interest in the subject) in its current form. AnonMoos 06:26, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I know. What's important to me is that it's useful to me, and that if others want to, they are perfectly able to put it into another, more usable form. The scans are PD, high-resolution in a usable format (I think; I think PNGs are good things but I'm not too sure), and I think all the metadata is still there, so I feel my duties in the latter respect are more or less discharged. --maru (talk) contribs 06:37, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

general semantics

I don't know if I follow your reasoning in favor of capitalizing the article name for general semantics. Adherents commonly use the lowercase version. I checked the Wikipedia guidelines and found this: Philosophies, doctrines, and systems of economic thought do not begin with a capital letter, unless the name derives from a proper noun: lowercase republican refers to a system of political thought; uppercase Republican refers to a specific Republican Party (each party name being a proper noun). Do you see general semantics as an organized movement rather than a doctrine? I can see how you might get that impression if you only know of gs through the 'pedia. (See this essay on certain effects of Wiki policies.) But in my experience this vastly exaggerates the degree of organization among Korzybski fans, and the extent to which we agree on practical issues. --Dan 18:45, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

There's a number of reasons. I disagree with that particular guideline, for instance; I also think decapitalizing it risks confusions with general semantics and general semantics studies (quick: was the former a particular movement or an adjective and a word meaning the study of meaning?). And even if the article exaggerates the cohesion, General Semantics is still considerably far from being a subsection of semantics. --maru (talk) contribs 22:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't follow your question at all. Do you really mean to propose separate articles with those names? What do they mean to you? And the article explains the name of Korzybski's field, which derives from the Greek. It also explains the slight blurring of meaning, which derives from the field's focus on human survival. You misunderstand what I said about cohesion, but it doesn't matter if you disagree with the guideline. Dan 01:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's not just my personal preferences here. I quickly googled General Semantics, and it seems to me that when people refer to General Semantics, they say "General Semantics" and not "general semantics"- like the Institute of General Semantics for example. --maru (talk) contribs 03:43, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

They also capitalize Learning Center and Book Store, as well as most of the words in article titles. Look at the actual articles in that Center. Dan 14:49, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I've looked at a few. They don't seem to consistently support your capitalization. --maru (talk) contribs 06:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Jabba the Hutt

Hey, thanks for the comments on the Jabba the Hutt article! I posted this response on the article's talk page as well:

Well, none of the fictional character articles that are Featured have these things. Take a look at Batman, Superman, Bulbasaur, Goomba, Lakitu, Link (Legend of Zelda), and Wario. The Wikipedia community (those who hang around the FAC page, anyway) constantly shoots down fictional FAC articles that have this material in it. I made the mistake of including all of this in an article on Padmé Amidala (the first major rewrite I did) and the results were not good (see the article's talk page). Since the goal of the Star Wars Wikiproject is to: "organize, clean, and improve Star Wars information within a format that fits Wikipedia's fictional procedures to, ultimately, the level of quality stressed in the Featured Article and Featured List guidelines." That's not going to happen if the article only tries to please SW fans and not the Wikipedia community in general.

My proposal is this: I have an article on the FAC page right now, but as soon as that's over with I'm going to submit this one to peer review and then FAC. I would like to see what happens to the article there without the extra SW detail. If it fails, then I'll gladly reinsert the DOB-DOD and write a DETAILED biography (just to spite the FAC folks). Please don't think I'm trying to be hostile or disrespect SW. Dmoon1 05:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm not going to revert you or paste in Wookieepedia's article, if that's what you're worried about. Go ahead, put it up for FA in its current state. If it passes, at least then I will have hard evidence that FAC is biased against comprehensive articles like my Palpatine. --maru (talk) contribs 06:48, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

auto signing

How has it well-tried? Thx for testing ;). What do you think about an (exception-) list of pages, other than talks (e.g. Requests_for_adminship, Feature requests...). If indorse, you can make me a list!? --Olliminatore 14:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I can't say I've ever noticed it working. --maru (talk) contribs 17:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Very good, I've added this (3) sites as exceptions (regarded pages): ':Village pump', ':Articles for deletion', ':Requests for adminship'. -- Olliminatore 19:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'll tell you if I ever see it working under Blue Cologne. --maru (talk) contribs 20:14, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh: I see your contretemps; please try to put my script befor Lupin's popups.js on top of yours. Because if any fault to any other function/ scripts occur, then it didn't reach my script. But after Cacycle's editor.js, because it delete the wpSave.event (then it didn't work for me too). In the next version I'll also use/ bind the preview button for control. -- Olliminatore 23:40, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, let this be my first shot at this suggested arrangement.

Well, Lupin's popups are loading and working, suggesting that the entire .js loaded without error, but... no prompting for a sig. Drat. --maru (talk) contribs 00:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I post now with your script and it works!?! (not minoredit, new version 1.43 with preview) -- Olliminatore 14:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Then I shall try posting. Well, I've pasted it in to be sure... Well, I've pasted it in, before Lupin's tool but after Cacyle's tool, and nada. --maru (talk) contribs 17:54, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Incidentally, the syntax highlighting is working for me. Pretty neat! --maru (talk) contribs 17:57, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey!

I'm gonna become a Star Wars author one day and I just thought I'd add some of my stuff into Wikipedia before hand. That wasn't even all of my add-ons I had in mind. Why can't I add stuff like that? Is there a way to make people accept this stuff? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.27.218.175 (talk • contribs)

Your stuff will be accepted when it is canon. Until it is officially published and unrepudiated, your contributions are but fanfiction, and we do not accept fanfiction-based articles or articles on fanfiction (except in the rare case of really notable fanfiction; ex. Star Wars: Revelations). --maru (talk) contribs 21:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Usurpation

As your request to usurp the user User:Maru has not yet been granted, I have commented out the redirections from that user's personal and talk pages. You may certainly re-add them when your request has been granted. -- Gnetwerker 00:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. --maru (talk) contribs 00:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Tdxiang

This is me.

This user is Tdxiang, not Mr Tan. His nickname on Freenode is Tan_Ding_Xiang or Tdxiang. This user is sorry if he has caused any misinterpretation and if you need to contact him, do so on his Internet Relay Chat Channel.

Thank you Maru. Now, back to work for me! -- 陈鼎翔 贡献 Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 05:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Heh. I guess I should be a little sheepish for making such a mistake for such a long time. My bad! --maru (talk) contribs 05:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Curious about some things...

Why do you say it's a "good thing" to not hear too much about me lately? I think that, well, threw me off guard. Also what does "rp" mean, in the way you use it? --Shultz IV 08:59, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

(Ok, I just realized "rp" meant "reply". I thought it was some kind of a greeting abbreviation.) But other than that, you'd of course want to hear many good things about me. I'm not sure why I'm reacting differently at around these times. Maybe it's something to do with sleeping at exactly the wrong hours in the last two or so weeks. --Shultz IV 12:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, I say it's a good thing because it means you haven't gotten yourself banned or anything again. :) --maru (talk) contribs 13:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Maru means "blocked". Bans are different and far worse than blocks. Whoever is curious can read more about them at WP:Block and WP:Ban. --Shultz IV 14:09, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

No, I meant what I said and I said what I meant, 100 per cent. The way you were going, not just blocks were in your future. --maru (talk) contribs 17:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: PROD of Esoteric subjects mentioned in Foucault's Pendulum

Thank you for your continued support of the Esoteric Subjects. -User:ShadowyCaballero

Think nothing of it. It's a useful and interesting list for me. --maru (talk) contribs 03:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Repeated vandalism from 150.204.106.231

Check it out please. User:150.204.106.231 Oops :-/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.67.66 (talk • contribs)

He's already been blocked. --maru (talk) contribs 18:32, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Request for deletion....

Sorry to bug you, since you are an admin. will you delete my userpage? --Mahogany

I don't know why you wanted it deleted, but I've done so. --maru (talk) contribs 18:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks; just had some junk that I really didn't want people to know. (Like you know how once upon a time my account was hacked). --Mahogany

Ah, I see. Ha ha ha- good times, good times? --maru (talk) contribs 06:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Requested move of Serenity comic book page

As a favor, can you move Serenity: Those Left Behind. so that it removes the dot at the end? I've tried, but I get an error. Thanks. --The Wookieepedian 17:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. --maru (talk) contribs 18:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again! --The Wookieepedian 21:01, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:ER

Hi. Would you be interested in commenting here...? Critisim, be it positive or negative, would be lovely. -Zero^Talk 19:17, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I've commented, though you may not like what I say. --maru (talk) contribs 19:38, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm aware. I've replied myself. -Zero^Talk 19:40, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Well I blew it did I not..? I'm not sure if I should even make another attempt for adminship. What do you think..? --Zero^Talk 07:28, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Your past self certainly did... I wouldn't go up anytime soon. Keep your nose clean for three months, and who knows, though. Not enough admins work in your areas as it is. --maru (talk) contribs 18:49, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Why the Shohé Tanaka deletion?

It's utterly unjustifed, and was requested by a known trouble maker. Did you check with anyone before deleting? Was there a discussion of any kind? Gene Ward Smith 02:27, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

The requester was Arthur Rubin; looking through his user and talk page doesn't show anything to me that says troublemaker. As for why I deleted it- the guy was a physicist and musical theorist. Just being in those fields doesn't make someone notable. --maru (talk) contribs 02:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

The "troublemaker" I was referring to was the user who has gone by the name Dylan Lennon and then something else, and who now seems to be banned. I can't make out if Rubin ever requested it, or was responding to Dylan Lennon, who seems to be the one who marked it for speedy deletion. Anyway, he says something about withdrawing his request, but I don't know what request.

This is on the Dylan Lennon talk page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DYLAN_LENNON

It seems to me that even if Jimbo Wales marks something for speedy deletion, correct proceedure should be followed, and it wasn't. Gene Ward Smith 04:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, Jimbo can, and has, done as he has pleased. But I just re-checked the deleted article's history (apparently Fang Aili deleted it again; I don't know whether to be amused, vindicated, or chagrined), and it was definitely Arthur Rubin who put the speedy tag on it; my reading of Lennon's talk page (who began the article) supports the edit history. --maru (talk) contribs 04:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

With all due respect to Arthur Rubin, who knows a lot about mathematics, the article was about someone primarily known as a music theorist. And anyway, Rubin withdrew the request, which clearly should never have been made. Isn't there some kind of proceedure for contacting people who know something about a given topic before deleting? It seems at least the people who worked on the page should be informed. Gene Ward Smith 04:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Sure there is... it's called AFD. And the article I deleted made no claim to notability, so speedy was appropriate. Incidentally, where did Rubin withdraw his request. I see a withdrawal for another article, but not for Tanaka. --maru (talk) contribs 04:36, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• What the heck is a "claim to notability"? The article was linked to from other articles, which should have provided a clue as to "notability". If the subject didn't have some kind of notability, why was it being linked to from two other articles? It seems to me what you are saying is that it is OK to remove an article when you don't have a clue about its contents, and haven't even bothered to check what links to it. I think this is a dubious proposition. However, it seems there wasn't much to the article, or so I've been told, but without the history, and the various versions, who can know? I've started a new article. I hope no one will delete that, but I'd like to know what was there previously. I plan on improving the article and don't want someone playing Wiki Police in the meantime. Save the speedy deletions for "obvious nonsense", which is what it is supposed to be for. Gene Ward Smith 07:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

The article did not meet the criteria for speedy deletion: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. I have restored it. Hyacinth 03:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Customizing my four tildes

How do I do it so that I can have other stuff (eg a link to my talk or contribs) show when I quad-tilde? Thanks! --DNL 16:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sign_your_posts_on_talk_pages#Customizing_your_signature but you has one already!? auto signing --> -- Olliminatore 17:16, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Search box page protection

It currently contains code that is directly copied into users' javascript pages, so it needs to be fully protected. However, I do see your point, and I'll try to work something out. --Zocky | picture popups 01:20, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but those are just import statements, and such. Lupin appears to get along fine with semi- or no protection, and it's not like you aren't watching the page. --maru (talk) contribs 01:22, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm not watching the page that closely - I'm sometimes off for weeks - and if Lupin does that, he probably shouldn't. There's a good reason that javascript pages are fully protected by default. A malicious user could cause unsuspecting users to make malicious edits, or even run an exploit of newly found weaknesses in browsers. I'll move the javascript code to a separate page and unprotect this one. Zocky | picture popups 01:35, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

That's good. There's no reason the documentation needs to be protected, but I can see why you'd want the actual code protected. --maru (talk) contribs 01:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Reminder + Suggestion

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.

Important: This talk page is becoming very long. Please consider archiving.

— Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 02:35, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I generally archive at around 100 sections, so it is not time to archive, and I don't find the benefits to the server of subst:'ing test templates compelling enough to outweigh the cost to the users. Server time is not valuable; user time is. --maru (talk) contribs 03:48, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Cleaning up List of Pokémon characters

Can you hit this with your bot, to clean up dabs and redirects? It's just too much to do by hand at this point. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 06:48, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Cleaning up redirects related to lists isn't a particularly good idea, but I'll see what I can do vis-avis disambiguation. The problem is, so far as I know, Pywikipedi's solve-disambiguation script is kinda one-way; that is, one starts with a disambig page and fixes whatever links to it, rather than start with a random page, and fix whatever links in it point to a disambig page. I might be able to compile a list by hand and just do all those disambigs (which would help out other pages as well). --maru (talk) contribs 06:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Alright, I used the extract_wikilinks.py script to get a list of linked articles, and y'know what? There don't seem to be much if at all in the way of links to disambiguations- just a metric ton of duplicated links and redirects, and those are things the bots are not set up to do, and I don't know enough about Python to make them so set up. Sorry. --maru (talk) contribs 06:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

myg0t

Speedy deletion of myg0t

Under what criterion does this article apply? It certainly isn't G4 as it was restored after a DRV in early April "#Myg0t overturned and undeleted. 21:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)" and I do not know of any AFDs (besides the latest one) after that. --Kotepho 18:08, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I deleted it because it should be deleted, and has been deleted something like 17 times. ~15 admins can't all be wrong. --maru (talk) contribs 19:42, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Than make your argument on the AFD, don't speedy it. Something being deleted multiple times for not being a proper article does not make the proper article deletable. --Kotepho 19:53, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

There've been enough AFDs. At some point, they have to stop. And I disagree with your characterization of them. --maru (talk) contribs 20:04, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Fine. Listed on WP:DRV. Kotepho 20:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

myg0t mediation

We respectively ask for mediation in regards to your violation of the speedy deletion policy. --OverlordQ 12:01, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

No thanks. I don't know who you want to mediate, what you want to mediate, and I don't think I violated the speedy delete policy (there's a clause for non-notable groups). --maru (talk) contribs 18:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, why speedy delete an article that has been undeleted and often edited? pff..--Andeee 15:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. Might as well ask why I speedy deleted an article that was speedy deleted often? --maru (talk) contribs 17:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

myg0t are absolutely notable. --85.255.33.130 09:42, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

No, it isn't. And stop changing your posts to look like they are coming from Ifrit. --maru (talk) contribs 18:17, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Nice job, re: myg0t

Nice job deleting the myg0t wiki because you just don't like myg0t. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.154.132.227 (talk • contribs)

Thank you. I'm always glad to rid Wikipedia of crap and crap about asshats. --maru (talk) contribs 21:05, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Wow your really a great unbiased admin, deleting legitimate articles because you just don't like their subject.

How in go'ds name did you become an admin when you can allow yourself openly admit you deleted the article because you don't like the group? How did other admins nominate a person? This is really sad, Wikipedia is supposed to be changed by discussion, not by feeling-based rash action.

"State your point; don't prove it experimentally"

As an admin you should really abide by this statement, if you don't like the "asshats" of the myg0t community you can express this in its proper forum, deleting the article without discussion just shows that you should never have been trusted with admin rights.

There are some cases in which bold action must be taken; such actions are the reason admins are given such latitude. This is just such a case. --maru (talk) contribs 06:32, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

About myg0t

Please, revert your removal. If you're biased, and if you have a little angst to write, then do it into the kitchen trash bin, because admin rights are NOT FOR SUCH. Thank you. And also, please, admit it: you did against admin policies. So please, asking on behalf of nearly every wikipedia, revert your removal of a legitimate article. You also contradicted yourself: "anti-censorship". You always have the right for your own opinion, but if you don't like something then abuse your rights in order to remove it, you CENSOR. So much for internet withou censorship... I would not let you wear any of those userboxes/tags if I would have the if I would have the power to after this...

It's not a legitimate article, and it is not against policy. And as far as the tags/userboxes go, just because I believe in free speech doesn't automatically mean there must be no editorial control of Wikipedia! Wikipedia is not a place for articles on anything and everything.

EDIT: I just read through your arguments on the talk page from sections I didn't notice before. 1. Myg0t is notable, this is nothing that you can argue, and is plain stupid to say they are not... 2. Even if an article has been deleted, raped, AFD'd how many times, the version that you deleted was a factual, POV, and a good article (which wasn't seen there before with mostly vandalizing). I finally thought that "people have come to their mind". Which has nothing to do with its history, you do know? It's about the material. For example, if a user keeps vandalizing, and then becomes "clean", does it mean that he has less chances of becoming an admin? No. Besides, I will have to remind you: the only reason the article was previously deleted was because it hadn't established a decent article. As opposed to the one you removed. Really pisses me and many other users off. Come on. "Ass hats?" Why don't you go and also delete articles about jihadists, fascism, nazism, GNAA, and such, because they are "mean" and "assholes", in [your] opinion? I can't comprehend how your mind works. Report this issue to some board or committee or review or whatever... --194.251.240.114 20:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Why is it stupid to say they are not notable? They been passingly and unimportantly mentioned in two or three places (as compared to GNAA, which is mentioned in among other things, the Scotsman and G4TV or whatever that tech channel is), as minor parts of minor events. And by its very Internety and ephemeral nature, that article wasn't particularly factual. And you are wrong about reformed vandals- that's the kiss of death, so to speak. Off-hand, I can't think of a single admin out of the eight or 900 admins who is a reformed vandal. --maru (talk) contribs 06:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Myo-starwars.jpg

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This is absurd. It was appropriately tagged. OrphanBot's gone too far this time. --maru (talk) contribs 01:58, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Stanford Sierra Camp cleanup and notability issues

Hello Marudubshinki,2

I was wondering about why you put your comment on the Stanford Sierra Camp page and what I need to do to fix it. Please respond on my talk page. Thanks. --ForestH2

In short, the article as it stands reads too much like an advertisement/how-to, and doesn't say just why SSC is such a standout from all the other thousands of summer camps and merits an article. --maru (talk) contribs 02:22, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

O.K. I get what you mean. Is there any thing you really think we should delete? Do you think adding like (more than this) SSC is one of the best summer camps around because it is easy to get into and one of the most beautiful across the country" Let me know. --ForestH2

Rewrite the "Two's" section to read more like an encyclopedia article, merge Weather into a general description of the area, When To Come should be in intro or general description and Two's could be much more "Factually" rather than "descriptive"ly written, and you definitely should have references for subjective stuff like beauty and best summer camp around. --maru (talk) contribs 02:27, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I did some cleanup. Let me put what you think into the page. --ForestH2

Looks slightly better, but I'm not optimistic about its long-term chances. I think most editors would consider a day camp with no especially unique attributes non-notable. --maru (talk) contribs 02:31, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

See how it looks now. --ForestH2

The tone's better, but it needs linking, notability assertions, references, etc. --maru (talk) contribs 02:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

It's a very unusual place and I don't think there'd be much about it. However there is a main page and I'll goggle it later to see about any other articles. Forest

I found some info googling it. It doesn't really cite sources but I'm going to add them to the page. --Forest

Take a look at the external links. For some reason when ever I clicked save page I couldn't get them up as references. By the way, I sometimes sign as Into the Wilderness or just Forest and sometimes ForestH2. --Into the Wilderness

Tell me what you think now. --Forest

Too many sections, not linked enough to other articles, and you still haven't established notability, unfortunately. --maru (talk) contribs 17:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll work on it later...Don't nominate it for deletion until I've done as much as possible. Notability? explain further. And can't an article have as much sections as needed? --Forest

I don't intend to AFD it. Too much trouble, and it doesn't really bother me. As for notability, see our guidelines on that. As for sections- they break up the text and it just doesn't flow well. --maru (talk) contribs 22:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Your bot: editing archives

Hi! Just like to let you know your bot is editing archives. While I'm sure many wouldn't have a problem with it... I'd rather it didn't edit the archive in my user space. I reverted the change... and it's really not a big deal since no meaning was changed. Just though I'd let you know how I felt about it. --J.S (t|c) 23:46, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh. Sorry about that. I didn't see any notice that you didn't want any links disambiguated in your archives when I was driving the bot, but I'll try to keep my eye peeled. Feel free to revert any other noisome changes. --maru (talk) contribs 03:37, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Is there a tag I can put up to avoid this in the future? --J.S (t|c) 21:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, there's always full protection... But seriously, the only anti-bot things I've seen were little comments saying "Don't disambiguate this!" inserted just before or after the relevant link. --maru (talk) contribs 00:08, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Fullmetal Alchemist episodes

Care to comment? --Cat out 15:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. --maru (talk) contribs 17:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to place List of Mega Man weapons up for its third nomination soon. Will you support the promotion of this article to FL status...? --Zero^Talk 17:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't vote against it, if you know what I mean. Elements of the text could be sourced better, and the prose is awkward in places, but nothing horrid enough to motivate me to oppose. --maru (talk) contribs 00:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

• That's quite vague. Could you post your concerns on the talkpage in a more elaborate format so everyone can see them and I can more easily address them..? And if its in the realm of assessibility, it would be great if you could edit the article and ammend what you think needs work. --Zero^Talk 14:31, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

To be more specific, it isn't so bad that I feel I need to make my opinions known, nor do I feel energetic enough to get involved in yet another thing. I have enough on my plate right now that I don't mind leaving this to the FL regulars. --maru (talk) contribs 04:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:180px-Royal guard.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:180px-Royal guard.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

cholmes75 16:56, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Apache Harmony comment

Hi, I've placed your embedded comment question from the Apache Harmony article onto its talk page instead. I hope you don't mind. -- Remy Suen 20:28, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Not really. I didn't think it was major enough to start a section on the talk page, but if you do, it's no skin off my nose. --maru (talk) contribs 00:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Your Bot-maru is editing other people's comments

Your bot is editing other people's comments ([1], [2]), and even changing a talk page archive ([3]). Please avoid doing this. --cesarb 02:35, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

The archive example is just me fixing Acetic Acid's screwup with his welcoming template. --maru (talk) contribs 04:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Super Dimension Fortress criticism section

I know that you are on the other side for keeping the controversy section in, but I removed the criticism. It's been two months of edit warring over a minor issue, and you did not make any comments on the talk page in your reversions and semiprotection. I respect your status as an admin, but I completely disagree with your involvement and use of protection privileges without engaging in the discussion. Teke 20:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your responses on the subject. I edited the controversy to just Some former users have criticized the administration of SDF as high-handed, accusing them of removing accounts, erasing files, defaced their webpages, and deleted bulletin board postings of those critical of SDF's policies and its administration. I can live with that, I hope everyone else can so we can have peace on our watchlists. Teke 01:55, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

As I've said on the talk page, with the addition of the link, I'm happy. If only all disputes could be resolved so easily. I just hope the anon I semi-protected against will be content with this compromise as well. --maru (talk) contribs 04:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the protection placed by Tony Sidaway can be removed. If the 192.__.__.__ address keeps returning it'll just be reversions now; at least the edit war is over. I appreciate the civility all around in discussion. Teke 18:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Huh, you beat me to it by 3 hours, I see. My page musta been cached. Thanks for watching it. Teke 02:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I really do pay attention to my talk page, even if I'm busy with other matters. --maru (talk) contribs 06:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna

Feel free to remove the tag from Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna if you so desire. The tag was applied because the core of the article — namely the subsections entitled Blade Children and Characters — had only one word which was wikified. Of course, it's not do or die, but it immediately struck me that more than half the content of the entry was unwikified.

TTFN. --Folajimi 01:26, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

That seems reasonable. I'll leave it alone then. --maru (talk) contribs 06:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

FYI

I've issued a strongly worded warning to Moby Dick about stalking [4]. This is grounded in remedy 2 of your arbitration case (about harassment by Davenbelle, Stereotek and Fadix). --Tony Sidaway 16:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

I am curious though if it would be possible to take a few precautions.

• I'd like to make sure Moby Dick has no "other" sockpuppets lurking around me. If he had like 10 accounts it would be very hard for me to gather any reliable evidence.
• Possibly keeping logs that make a checkuser possible longer than a month if Moby Dick decides to stalk from a different alias. These logs can be kept on wikimedia servers away from public reach.

--Cat out 17:42, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

That last would require both a policy and a technical change; it might be nice, but it's unlikely. A number of editors (like myself) are happy to know that if they choose to leave for more than a week (or whatever it takes for Recentchanges to expire here on en) that their IPs will be forgotten. --maru (talk) contribs 18:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Recentchanges/IP data expire in a month. I just want the log of Moby Dick to stay longer making it easier to identify his sockpuppets if they appear. It would have been a great help if we had the logs for davenbelle to compare with Moby Dick.

As for the sockpuppet check, do you think you can get someone to look into it?

--Cat out 07:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Really? A month? I have to say, I'm kinda surprised. A months' worth of RC must take up an enormous amount of space. But I guess even that wasn't long enough to correlate davenbelle and Moby Dick.

As for Checkusering, there's not much I can do besides point you to the Checkuser request pages. But I'll ask Essjay personally the next time I see him on IRC whether he can run a Checkuser for you, if at all possible. --maru (talk) contribs 04:28, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Unauthorized Bot

Hello, it seems that you are running a bot called User:Bot-maru, without any authorization to do so. Please seek approval from WP:BRFA before continuing. Thank you. --lightdarkness ^(talk) 17:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

FYI, I blocked the bot until its problems can be fixed. It now appears there is substantial consensus that it should not edit talk pages, so please don't unblock until you rewrite it to avoid them. (You should also, obviously, deal with the authorization issues as above, but I don't know much about those.) -- SCZenz 17:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I sort of noticed the block when all my programs began failing mysteriously. --maru (talk) contribs 18:17, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Confused about odd redirect

What is this redir for: MediaWiki:VfD-List of computer games featuring exploding sheep? —xaosflux ^Talk 04:22, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I was following a link on the Weird-but-good-articles page to List of computer games featuring exploding sheep; it had been up for deletion at some point, and on its talk page, someone had linked to that weird link (I don't know whether it's a relic of the old namespaces for deletion and VFD in particular or just a weird spaz out by the author). Anyway, I had just been at the AFD, so I killed a redlink. --maru (talk) contribs 04:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the redlink at Talk:Exploding sheep and killed the dobule redirect, and the MediaWiki page entry. Looks like a bad template was subst'd in there. —xaosflux ^Talk 03:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I make redirects- I don't scrap them. But I wouldn't know about AFD templates; I usually avoid the place. The templates make it too damn difficult a place to work in, and none of the AFD helper scripts seem to work with the blue-cologne skin. --maru (talk) contribs 04:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Your corrections to one of my subpages

Hey, I'm just leaving a note to say thank you for your wikification of links on my "Things I Like" subpage, and for your notification of the dead link therein. As for the thing about Kisokaido/Tokkaido: yes, I am sure that it's Kisokaido (or Kiso Kaido if you prefer—Kiso Kaido Rokujuku Tsugi), and it's definitely not from the Tokkaido road series. Anyhow, thanks again; I appreciate it. —Saposcat 06:35, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem. (Well, if you're sure: I knew of The Sixty-nine stages of the Kiso Kaido (not, strictly speaking, entirely Hiroshige's work), but it's just that one sees it mentioned orders of magnitude less than the Tokkaido road series, and it seemed more likely to me to be a mistake.) --maru (talk) contribs 06:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

More information for Elfsar Comics & Toys

Here is some more information as to why this store is notable:

Elfsar Comics and Toys notably have one of the largest Graphic Novel selections in Canada.

Elfsar Comics and Toys provide the City of Vancouver with over $300.00 worth of reading material each and every month for low income families. Contact: City of Vancouver for verification.

In 2004 Elfsar provided the Ronald McDonald House British Columbia with over $1,600.00 in Donations from it's fundraiser for the first ever International [24 Hour Comic Day http://www.24hourcomics.com/].(where artists and writers gathered together and created 24 page comics in a 24 hour period.

They are an active supporter of local and independent comic book companies/creators and host a number of Comic Creator signings throughout the year. Rosencrantz Comics Signing CSI Miami Signing Arbitrators Signing Neil Gaiman Signing Arcana Studio Signing Huge Creator Signing

Elfsar has been a proud supporter of Free Comic Book Day since it's inception by Joe Field, owner of Flying Colors Comics. On May 6th, 2006 Elfsar Comics and Toys gave away over 7,000 comics from over 40 different titles to the general public during it's participation of Free Comic Book Day. Both Creator Signings and Gamming Tournaments were notable at this event. FCBD at Elfsar

Jay Bardyla Owner of Happy Harbor which is Elfsar Comic & Toy's Sister Store in Edmonton, Alberta received an Honorable Mention for the Joe Shuster Award for Most Outstanding Canadian Comic Retailer for 2006.

If you need more information please contact: Ethan Peacock Owner of Elfsar Collection LTD. (64.46.12.126 07:05, 25 May 2006 (UTC))

Donald Brown - Eamon Creator

Hi Marudubshinki, The Wikipedia.org article "Eamon (computer game)" was already created and contained a link to the author's name, the article for the author however, had not been created. That's what I was trying to do.

When you say "Eamon strikes me as not important enough to merit an article for its creator". How are you deciding that? This is an old game system but age doesn't seem to be a factor of importance for Wikipedia. It was based on the Apple II but that also was pretty important in its time. The Eamon system was not produced commercially, but that was the whole point. The author created a good game system that was open ended and put it in the public domain. If you read the Wikipedia.org article "Eamon (computer game)" you will see that it had a fairly large following and that Donald's original creation had a ripple effect that involved quite a few other people.

By the way, its hard to tell when you write something how others will respond to it. I just want you to know that I am writing this to you intending full respect to you. I'm hoping that you will reconsider and create the article. Thank you for your time. Ted.

When I, or most any other person write anything on AFC, declining to create an article, we're just saying that this particular editor whom we happen to be doesn't think it is worth creating an article on. Now, if someone created a half-way decent Eamon article, and it went up on AFD, I would lay better than even odds it wouldn't be deleted, that enough of my fellow editors would find it notable enough under their criterion. You should feel free to start it yourself, or try another editor- I simply don't feel like creating it. --maru (talk) contribs 00:53, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Imagawa Sadayo

Nice edit on my article. I've been searching for as much information on him that I could find, and have added your references to my ever-growing "to-buy" list! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AngusH (talk • contribs)

You're quite welcome! Consider it repayment for creating the bulk of the article for me. :) --maru (talk) contribs 04:46, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Clean-up on Kyo Kusanagi

Please see here. And if you have a response, please post it on the talkpage. -Zero^Talk 16:40, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I see it. Looks fine to me. --maru (talk) contribs 04:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Star Wars Bounty - time to pay up!

Hey, FYI, you put up a bounty for any Star-Wars related article. I just wanted to bring to your attention that Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is now a featured article. You might want to pay your $10, and update the Bounty Board page to reflect this.

All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 16:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Argg, you blood suckers! The donation is in. --maru (talk) contribs 04:08, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Fullmetal Alchemist episodes

I was wondering if you could re-review the page. We have tried to address your concerns. Did we meet your criteria? :) --Cat out 15:22, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Almost. I've modified my vote. --maru (talk) contribs 06:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletions of articles with only external links

Will do, I'm already going back through all of them and inserting text. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbwinter (talk • contribs)

Alright then. Hope you didn't lose anything. --maru (talk) contribs 17:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Copyrighted Material

Hi there,

I need a bit of help. I work here at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and am trying to post our information on Wikipedia and link it back to our site. I am getting the copyright infringement notices and need to know how to fix that. I assure you I have full rights, but let me know how to verify that with you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbwinter (talk • contribs)

It won't be too easy, because anyone who reads the USC Center will immediately begin wondering how you could be in a position to legally license that information under the GFDL. Usually such permission must come either directly or indirectly from the head of the institution (at least someone legally representing them), or the person who originally wrote the articles in question (and that's assuming that they have not forfeited the copyright to their work as part of their employent terms, as I understand is the usual practice), and so far as we know you meet none of those conditions. --maru (talk) contribs 18:31, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Your bot edits - category move

Just wanted to let you know that on the article Aimini P2P your bot moved the AfD category from within the AfD tag to the bottom of the article [5] --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 19:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

That's rather odd. I suspect a bug, but only one example doesn't give me much to go on. --maru (talk) contribs 19:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Harry's Place

I see the Harry's Place entry was reposted after you deleted it. Harry's Place is a hate site similar to David Duke's site and never should have been reposted after it was agreed it be deleted.

I am not wikipedia process literate and do no know how to stop these guys ignoring the delete decision - can you? They are an outrage. --88.101.187.61 08:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

It is a little annoying that it was reposted when such things are supposed to be handled by DRV, but it's a lot better than it was before, and it does have references and notability claims, so I can't simply speedy it. Looks like another AFD is in order. --maru (talk) contribs 18:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Please do. It is true that I have strong opinions on the subject of this entry's suitability in wikipedia but for me that is not the main issue.

It is the underhand and arrogant manner in which the page was resurrected and the dismissive attitude to those who highlighted the issue.

Also the reason given for resurrecting the entry was Harry's Place's notability due to its high traffic.

When it was pointed out that the authors had totally misunderstood the traffic measure - and in fact the exact opposite was true - that Harry's Place had very low traffic - they simply discarded that reason and came up with another, harder to prove reason.

This is disrespectful of the process and I suspect they are motivated by reasons that are not constructive to wikipedia in general.

i dont agree

i think he is overated and weak.... he never proved to be a strong jedi, after all he was converted to the dark side, how original. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimmy barnes (talk • contribs)

No idea what you are talking about. --maru (talk) contribs 18:17, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Arthur Fry

Hey! I've started working on an expansion of the Arthur Fry article. Looking back through the short history, I saw that you are the one who started it, so I thought I'd drop you a line and let you know. My additions need some serious polishing, but I'd love it if you could find the time to take a peek. Further editing or some input would be very much appreciated—I'm pretty sure I made some dumb newbie flubs. :D Thanks for your time! —PaperTruths (Talk) 10:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Looks pretty good. Honestly, I only know what I was provided on AFC, so my ability to correct is limited. --maru (talk) contribs 18:20, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Why did you revert in General Grievous?

Why did you revert these changes to General Grievous? I'm just checking if it was a mistake or if there was a problem I didn't see. --Tim ^{(talk), (contribs)} 16:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

""The great warrior... is a kid."" --maru (talk) contribs 16:22, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

selflinks

You have a robot removing selflinks.

Is it absolutely necessary for your robot to remove those selflinks from inside <ref></ref> pairs? --Geo Swan 18:35, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely necessary? No, not really, but I don't see it doing any harm, either. --maru (talk) contribs 18:39, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Every Shade of Blue

You created an article on this Banarama song from Articles for Creation. It has been nominated for Articles for deletion. I would vote to merge with the relevant album except we don't appear to have an article on it. --Capitalistroadster 03:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Commented on the AFD. --maru (talk) contribs 03:51, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

SW template formatting advice

Nope, I didn't. Thanks for the advice. Redd Dragon 23:27, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. (I was getting tired of fixing them, and I didn't really feel by siccing my bot on your edits). --maru (talk) contribs 23:31, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

State redirect errors

Some of your new redirects aren't working, I think because instead of ASCII character's you're pulling the urls'? Which have combinations of characters instead of the actual character. Sorry, I can never figure out how to say this, but basically instead of it being (Arizona) it's %28Arizone%28, or something like that, which makes the redirect not work. --Mak (talk) 04:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Damn. I was afraid of this: I'm using the us-states.py pywikipediabot script for these, and I've already run into Unicode bugs (but at least those only crash the bot!); I guess I'll have to go back through my contribs and manually fix these. :( Oh well. How many could there be? --maru (talk) contribs 04:36, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I was wondering if you were using something bot-ish. I've run into this problem before while NewPages patrolling. Too bad :( Good luck though :) Mak (talk) 04:40, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Running without a bot flag

Please stop making mass automated edits. You're violating WP:BOT in a big way. You should not run any large-scale automated process without asking at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approvals, and if you don't have a bot flag, you need to get one if you want to edit more than once or twice a minute. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 04:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)