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RE: Quixtar

Quixtar seems to be protected by your bot. It is editing out links that were agreed upon as per the discussion. Can you please take a moment to read the discussion to see what links were deemed valuable to the topic? Thanks. Gallwapa 19:01, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I asked another admin on IRC about those links and decided to reduce the blocklist to only the blogspot and the www.thisbiznow.com ones. Thanks.Voice-of-All 19:05, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar

In case you don't see reply on my talk page - You're welcome. I guess I should have thought to let you know on your talk page. :) (Am I first one here after an archive? Whee~) -Goldom (t) (Review) 01:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

POINT

Means (pedanticly read) doing something you don't want to actually happen. The phrase you're probably looking for is "disruption" or something like it. Because if this goes down, everyone and their dog will be going over every word in triplicate...
brenneman ^{L} 03:41, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, "disruption" is better.Voice-of-All 03:46, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that, given it was a duration of one hour, but that's User:Improv's prerogative. RadioKirk talk to me 04:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

All I can figure is, he wants to see it the way he wants to see it, everyone else be damned. Hardly a good way to foster a sense of community, but I have to assume he'll either get the point or drive his supporters away, one at a time. Sad... RadioKirk talk to me 04:09, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello, Aaron Schulz/Archive08, and thank you for the supportive vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 84/1/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months, but welcome any and all feedback and suggestions on how I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! Kukini 15:16, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Comprehensive contribution data

Excuse my ignorance, but how aside Interiot's tool can I get comprehensive data on my contribution history as you did for this RfA Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/TodorBozhinov? Thanks a lot! E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 11:43, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much! I will give it a try. I do not intend to use it on RfA indeed. Cheers, --E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 20:07, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Great! It works now. --E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 20:37, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching

You are signed up as a volunteer for the Esperanza admin coaching program, but as far as I can see you are not assigned to anyone as a coach. Are you ok to take on someone? Petros471 20:28, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes :)! I've emailed Titoxd about this twice. I am ready for a new user.Voice-of-All 20:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok (I think Titoxd has been busy recently). I've assigned you as coach to Jusjih, along with Kirill Lokshin. Let me know if you have any problems, or when you're ready for another one. Oh, and could you update the status on the coaching box once the coaching has begun. Thanks, Petros471 19:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your analysis of my contributions at English Wikipedia.--Jusjih 07:02, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Signatures

Hi, may seem a bit remedial, but how do you get at the templates that create links to your talk and contribs when you sign your name? mastodon 20:39, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Your user page

I just thought I'd inform you that your user page doesn't render properly on 1024x768 in Firefox. That big picture of the clouds covers some of your userboxes. MichaelBillington 00:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I know I applied a little early, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Thanks for the consideration. --Slyder Pilot^E 01:03, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Trolling?

I was just wondering why you considered the bush/hitler image trolling? I think you could have at least discussed this action with me before deleting the image. Thanks. The Ungovernable Force 05:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Recent Semi-protect page rejection

Thank you for your quick response. Actually, the only reason that I wished to have it protected was for the forseable amount of vandalism in the future, but I will come back when there is more of that. Thanks again, Thetruthbelow 07:37, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Well that the issue, we are not allowed to protect premptively, excepting extreme visability/functionality issues.Voice-of-All 07:38, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Hyper-perceptivity

Your heightened "wikisense" about user Primetime was correct. I give the nod for "first to tag as a vandal" to user:RickK,[1] but he's not around to collect. There are many lessons to be drawn - one is that follow-through is a necessity. Many folks complained about edits and even tagged this guy as a bad user, but that didn't stop him. Outright plagiarists like this guy are less than .1% of the copyvios, but they are the most persistent and unrepentant. There are several theories about his motives or reasons, and it's an ongoing case, so some analysis is worthwhile. Anyway, assume good faith but trust your instinct. When it comes to info that could harm this project, living people, or, (now) companies, we should err on the side of caution. Cheers, -Will Beback 11:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Revert War at Philosophy of Mathematics

JA: Dear VOA, If you check the edit history and the old WQA's, you will see that I had until yesterday been voluntarily observing a zero revert policy and repeatedly begging for community help with User:JJL's practice of automatically mass deleting my contributions. So, thanks a lot for all your help. Insert <ironicon> here. Traveling for a few days, so radio slience until then. Jon Awbrey 12:50, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

RfA/Gurch

Thanks for your support, and also for taking the time to settle the question of edit summary usage – Gurch 16:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi VoA. Thank you for the link. I've added it to my watchlist. Let me take this opportunity to thank you also for your kind words of support in my RfB. I really appreciate them :) Cheers, Redux 07:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Grow up

This coming from the guy named after a Magic™: The Gathering card? :) :) -- User:RyanFreisling @ 13:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

me again

hey, anyone reporting any problems with anything? My stuff was all working a treat but stopped, and I didn't change anything. Wondering if there are any changes in your stuff? I see from your history that you were fiddling... thanks! ++Lar: t/c 01:24, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

History stats for pages are down for regex switching, and the special admin revert functions were merged two days ago (they work fine). The AfD tab bug was fixed (which caused tabs to not show).Voice-of-All 01:28, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

So i can re uncomment stuff then? Or maybe that was what you just were doing? I was trying to find out what was up by commenting more and more out and all of a sudden... it changed out from under me! that was yoo :) Is there a newsletter I shold be watching? :) ++Lar: t/c 01:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I forgot that your JS was a copy of mine, so i though that moving that thing wouldn't affect anyone using the SRCs or standard packages (which are getting out of date BTW, because updating them fully means liaddmenu(), which limits the number of tabs).Voice-of-All 01:47, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

And me again... I just did a function to do a subst of unsigned2 in if you paste in the right bit from a history page. (I find myself doing that a LOT on newbie pages as they often forget to sign) Interested? (the function adds a string of the form {{subst:unsigned2|18:39, 18 June 2006|Joturner}} if prompted with a string of the form "18:39, 18 June 2006 Joturner"). I also did get my WP:DYK talk page helper functions working... Interested in those? LMK or just snarf them out of user:Lar/moretabs/monobook.js and let me know... thanks as always for your help. I do have a question which is how to add to an existing tab that you set up, instead of creating a new one... is there an example somewhere of adding on to existing tabs with more dropdown functions? ++Lar: t/c 00:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

RFCU completed requests

Hi, just a quick note to inform you that recently completed requests have to be moved to the top of the list as opposed to the bottom. I know it's a weird system, but that how it works! Cheers --Srikeit ^{(Talk | Email)} 08:40, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Now I have to .split the script now, that will take all of 2 minutes! :)Voice-of-All 08:42, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Seems like you are taking care of the clerk duties for now. Should I back off to avoid edit-conflicts? --Srikeit ^{(Talk | Email)} 08:46, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Pharos/monobook.js

Excuse me, I have no idea what this is. Thanks in advance for clearing things up.--Pharos 09:37, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Is your edit analysis tool broken?

Hi, I was just wondering if the edit analysis you posted on my RfA is accurate? If I'm reading it right, it says "analysis of edits (out of all 4416 edits shown of this page): Notable article edits (creation/expansion/rewrites/sourcing): 0.61% (27)" How can I have written 24 articles, (plus 1 article translated, several stubs started, some stubs expanded, sourcing, etc.) and only have 27 notable article edits. That can't be right.

Less importantly: It says I marked less than half my minor edtis as minor. What is the criteria here? I was given to understand that minor refers only to "spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearrangement of text", which I take to mean that adding, deleting, or changing even a single word (as opposed to rearranging for format) is not minor. Is there a different criteria, and should WP:HEP be clarified? Then it goes on

Edits marked as major (non-minor/reverts): 80.91% (3573 edit(s))

Edits marked as minor (non-reverts): 13.07% (577 edit(s))

Marked reverts (reversions/text removal): 6.02% (266 edit(s))

Unmarked edits: 28.1% (1241 edit(s))

which is 128.09%... (Even the first three come to 101.98$, I don't think that could be a rounding error given the precision of the constituent values.) These last two are not a big deal, I guess, but thought you'd want to know. Also, the first is not a big deal for me personally in my RfA, just thought you'd want to know about (or perhaps explain if I'm reading ti wrong, if you have the time?) Herostratus 18:03, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I've never had things add up over 100% before, strange...I'll re-run it and see what the issue is.Voice-of-All 18:48, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Sure, glad it wasn't just me not adding right. No prob. I think the criteria for Motable Article Edits must be set pretty high, but it probably should be -- although, unlike the other entries, it's not explained and perhaps should be, if that's not a lot of extra work, I guess. Herostratus 02:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

RfA vote

Uh, not warning vandals... I'm not sure what you mean? It says here ("editors cautioned" and "editors warned" near the bottom) that I've used the warning templates about 46 times, which granted is not a lot. (Of course, the you-will-be-blocked templates aren't a lot of use to a non-admin.) I usually do use the templates, and try to never revert clear vandalism without posting a caution or warning to the user's talk page. I haven't done much flat-out vandal fighting lately, guilty as charged. Working on pedophilia-related material requires me to recharge my batteries with some plain old article editing, and I don't have all the time I would like to do all the things that should be done.

Neither my machine nor my reflexes are that fast, and doing RC patrol I usally find that the problem's already been fixed by someone else by the time I get there. There are many RC patrollers, granting that there are not enough, but anyway I tend toward short page review, which gives an occasional page that has slipped through that needs speedying or whatever and doesn't require instant reaction. If I'm made an admin I will do more straightforward vandal patrol of course, but still not a lot of it.

And yet, it appears at least possible that I broke Squidward, if that counts for anything, assuming some complicated stuff which I won't go into here is accurate. And I made a nice set of graphics for the Counter-Vandalism Unit. So, like the doesn't-know-copyright thing, I'm not seeing where this soft-on-vandalism thing is coming from.

This whole thing frost me, basically, because this is from just regular editors without an agenda. I have numerous enemies who haven't even come out the woodwork yet (excepting Hipocrite), which if they do will most likely sink me. I don't think you can fight for the 'pedia and not collect enemies, if you have a found a way to do I'd love for you to tell me your secret, or better yet come down to WP:PAW and help out.

Sorry for the rant. Herostratus 04:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Wait a second... did I break Squidward? According to several admins Squidward==the George Reeves person, I did break the George Reeves person by long and dogged pursuit until I finally ascertained and posted his identity. WP:SQUID has gone silent... have the attacks stopped? Is there any way to find that out? WP:SQUID went dark at almost the same time as I unmasked the George Reeves person... is that important? Was Squidward that big of a deal? Would that help my case? Do I have enough evidence to claim that? Herostratus 04:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

unprotection request

leebs12 13:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)Could you unblock "Bob Beauprez" the inflamatory information is unfair to the congressman. I have a template written that is unbiased, and upto date. Thank you. I am Beaucredo or you can email me at conservative.gear@gmail.com

Please sign your comments with four tildles; anyway, I'll look into it.Voice-of-All 18:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

ps3 protection

thank you very much! --Gatoatigrado 19:37, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Brent Corrigan

It's probably safe to un-sprotect this. Go ahead and do it and see if the troll returns. SchmuckyTheCat 20:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

script

I read somewhere that you have a script that will delete a page, and restore every edit except for the vandal's edit. Well, I want to try it out. And, because I am an admin User:GeorgeMoney/wwl, can you please give it to me so I can try it? Also, if you want to test admin stuff there (instead of breaking some kind of policy here), tell me and I'll b-crat/sysop you. --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 22:07, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

You still have to press delete. It just has a toogle tab on the undelete page that lets you select all revisions (which makes it quick to de-select the bad ones). Someone else has a similar script, and even without script you can still select a revisions and hold shift while you select a lower one, and the range is selected. If you add it anyway, I think you will need Specialadmin, which also adds "masterrollback" and "revert all moves", but read the info first (on /UsefulJS). Thanks.Voice-of-All 23:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

DVD+R/W's RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA, which ended with the result of (74/0/0). If there is anything I can help with feel free to ask. Also, if there is anything I am doing wrong, please point that out as well. I look forward to working with you in the future. Highest regards, DVD+ R/W 01:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

A favor

You could do me the great favor of watching my talk page and reverting/protecting as needed. I expect the need, if any, will die down over a few days. Reasons stated thereon. Thanks. Thatcher131 05:37, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll watch if still needed.Voice-of-All 06:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

~~~~ on WP:PP

Cyde protected [[:~~~~]] ([[Special:EditPage/~~~~|edit]] | [[Talk:~~~~|talk]] | [[Special:PageHistory/~~~~|history]] | [[Special:ProtectPage/~~~~|protect]] | [[Special:DeletePage/~~~~|delete]] | [{{fullurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/~~~~|limit=999}} links] | [{{fullurl:~~~~|action=watch}} watch] | logs | views), which confused your bot. Your bot inserted ~~~~, giving the bot's signature instead of the redirect title. I have fixed the listing and hope the bot doesn't re-list the page every hour now. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 22:09, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

It will not see ~~<!-- -->~~ as the same as ~~~~, so it will do it again normally. Since ~~~ or more tildes triggers sigs, I added a pass to the regexes so that it will count such pages as deleted pages, as quick a hack. That should stop it from listing it.Voice-of-All 22:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Afd

Hate to bother you but could you close an afd for me please? I withdrew my nom on it[2] I am here or in irc if you have questions. Thanks --Dakota ~ 22:20, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid there is no way to really "withdraw" it, as you votes now only count as any other votes after you make the AfD and someone else votes. This prevents a single editor from being able to just arbitrarily close any AfD is they don't like where it is going. WHile I am sure that is not the case here, and its only been a short while, I'd rather let the process flow. If a few more keep votes are added, I'll speedy keep it.Voice-of-All 22:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok so thanks

Though some level of luck, I added your RC patroller script to my .js less than an hour(a flash in wiki-time) and I clicked rollback close to 100 times in a very short span. Good script, though I may ask, is there a version that doesn't have or require lupin's developmental popups? Kevin_b_er 10:10, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, see this script[3].Voice-of-All 17:12, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

A request for protection

Hi there. At this RfP you said the page Red Hot Chili Peppers was semi-protected, but it is not at the moment. You may have accidentally overlooked it, so I came here to inform you of that. :) Thanks. Cowman109^Talk 21:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

VoA bot

Your bot has been approved for a bot flag. Please contact a local bureaucrat to set it. Please also remember that future expansions of tasks and other work not covered in the initial request need to be posted on WP:BRFA - please wait there for some indication that we are aware of what the bot's doing. Thanks. robchurch | talk 23:56, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Bot Flag

Hi VoA! Tawker has given final approval [4], so I have granted VoABot a bot flag. Cheers, Redux 00:13, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Closure of JustPhil's RfA

Wasn't it sopposed to end seven days after it started? Myrtone

RFCU Clerks discussion page

I moved most of the discussion to the talk page, so the main Clerks' Noticeboard can have the requests from checkusers rather than boatloads of discussion. Its a boldness, and I hope it makes things easier for us. If the watchlists don't work out, it the talk may have to be moved to yet a different page, but for now I think it looks pretty good. Kevin_b_er 03:19, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Rfcub

Would you please look at the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Requests for checkuser/Clerks/Requests? Your last change to Rfcub broke it. I don't know why, but the templates only work when subst'd (which is fine with me). Your recent change seems to have removed the /noinclude from Rfcub so that archived requests were not being hidden. For example, I just tested Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Peter morrell, which was archived by Skrikeit tafter you made your change, by tanscluding it to my sandbox, and the whole thing appeared. I reverted your change and re-substituted it and now it is fine. Test Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Kurt Leyman yourself, which I haven't fixed. Using your version of Rfcub, it doesn't work whether subst'd or not. (as well for Thomist and Dabljuh).

I thinnk it has something to do with the split include only and noincludes which are needed to allow the template itself to be included when transcluded. These things are not needed if we just subst the template. If you want to figure out how to make it work when not subst'd please triple-check before leaving it. I've also built a sandbox for testing, the links are on my user page. You can test the templates in my user space if you want. Thatcher131 11:23, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Using VOICE OF ALL monobook...

Hello...

Switched from Godmode Lite to the RC Patrol in your monobook...

I have a question about the REPORT button....who does it report to and under what circumstances am I to use it? Thanks KsprayDad 15:52, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Clifton College

Brookie here - I have put the semi protection backon as the little rascal has reappeared with the hoax about Dexter's House. Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! ^(Whisper...) 19:08, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks!

File:FA-22 Raptor.jpg

Thanks for voting! Hello Aaron Schulz/Archive08, and thank you so much for voting in my recent RfA. I am pleased to inform you that it passed with a final tally of (119/1/3), into the WP:100, so I have now been cleared for adminship and will soon be soaring above the clouds. I was overjoyed, shocked, and humbled by the tally, and, most importantly, all the support. Thank you. If there is ever anything you need, you know where you can find me. Take care.

--Pilot|guy 22:24, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Traditional counties

Regarding your protection of Traditional counties of England, I fear that you may also need to protect Merseyside: there is a similar edit war going on there, with mostly the same protagonists (User:Owain, User:Lancsalot, User:Mais oui! and the banned User:Irate (aka 84.9.xxx.xxx, 87.75.xxx.xxx etc.)). Please help! --RFBailey 22:53, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Sleeper.js

I've tried to install this script, but it doesn't work. --Sunholm(talk) 10:48, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Primetime

Is that really complete? Mackensen blocked 3 ranges, but he didn't yet complete or respond to the other two requests. Essjay moved it to completed because Mackensen was covering it, but it's not really finished, so shouldn't it stay on the main RFCU page? --Rory096 23:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I debated letting it stay the last few times I moved/archived, but it just seems to be stale, and no one added to it even though other cases continued to be completed and updated. I am assuming that it is just dropped for now.Voice-of-All 23:26, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

True, but there are still two pending requests, perhaps Mackensen just hadn't come back and seen them yet. Primetime is an extremely bad plagiarizer and has been threatening to do more, so we should be doing everything possible to stop him before he can. --Rory096 05:57, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

VoA Monobook

I have a suggestion for the non-admin RC patroll thing. I think, in the new user log, there should be a script similar to the ARV script that adds a [report] button next to each name if it needs a username block. It will report that user to AIV and the reason will be "username", so you don't have to fill in a reason. Or the buttons should be [report username] and [report custom]. And, for the admin JS, the JS should make it so instead of the block link linking to Special:Blockip/Example User, it should link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Blockip/Example_User?wpBlockExpiry=indefinite&wpBlockReason=username.. , so admins don't have to fill in everything. --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 00:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Unprotecting Opus Dei

Hi Voice of All,

just for the record, it took full 8 (eight) minutes until the first full-blown vandalism after you unprotected the article Opus Dei.[5] So far for "hopefully, protection is no longer necessary." As this article currently is in a mayor overhaul and is even subject of a formal mediation, I would recommend re-(semi)protecting the article. --Túrelio 06:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Bot adding semicolon to user's signature while making new post

Hi, I'm wondering about the semicolon your bot added to Jaranda's signature here. Is that some kind of bug in the Wikipedia software, or in the bot? Forgive my ignorance of technical matters. AnnH ♫ 09:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Your bot

Hi VoA, your bot just left me a note [6] saying I hadn't provided a protection summary for Monkey when I semi-protected it. However, I did provide a summary [7] and also added it to WP:PP, where I left another summary. [8] Not sure what else it wants me to do. :-) SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Tony Blair

Looks like your edit comment on unprotecting has proved to be incorrect again? SP-KP 17:24, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, and well done also for taking my sarcasm at RFPP in good heart :-) SP-KP 20:50, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Your BOT-buddy

Hi,

He's a little off today -- telling me I left no summary for How NOT to steal a SideKick 2, when there is one in the log. Best wishes, Xoloz 17:57, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

NPOV and encyclopedic

Your user page says that you try to make sure that articles you come arcoss are NPOV and encyclopedic. Are you open to suggestions for some articles to look at? Bubba73 (talk), 22:08, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

My (Mtz206) RfA

Thanks for supporting me in my RFA. My Request was successful with 41 supports, 12 opposes and 5 neutrals, and I'll do my best to live up to your expectations. If in any point in the future you get the feeling I'm doing something wrong, do not hesitate to drop me a line. -- mtz206 (talk) 02:48, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Protection

The next minute you removed protection from History of Russian military ranks (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), it was vandalized again... could you please semiprotect it again, along with Military ranks of the Soviet Union (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? --Dmitry 05:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Thats no were near enough to protect again yet. I'll watch it though.Voice-of-All 05:45, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Are we talking about the same two pages? I'm already tired of reverting it all over again... --Dmitry 20:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Getting document values from non edit pages

Sorry for the spam, but can you peek at this and see if you have an ideas? Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_User_scripts#name_of_the_description_text_box_on_an_upload_page I'd like to try to improve my productivity uploading images to Commons so want to stick stuff in a different textarea than the standard textbox on an edit page. Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 20:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

It's sorted. The form didn't have a name, I had to get it by ID. Working now. ++Lar: t/c 01:48, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

List of wars and disasters by death toll

Hi Voice of All, ran into this article on WP:RFPP and unprotected it as it looks like things have cooled down a bit on the talk page. Wanted to make sure it was OK by you. Merci beaucoup -- Samir धर्म 05:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

JS stuff

I tried adding:

// Admin rollback tools 
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
            + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Voice_of_All/Specialadmin/monobook.js' 
            + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');
//

to my monobook, but after hard-refreshing, I couldn't seem to find any sign of functions or for that matter blue bars (but that is seasonal). Any ideas? Ian¹³/t 20:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

You also need to add the "add tabs" prerequisite script for it to work. It can be found at User:Voice of All/UsefulJS.Voice-of-All 21:49, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I tried doing that as well - but it still seemed to have no effect. Ian¹³/t 14:28, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Its no longer a blue bar, but a small "Administrator backlogs:" notice. I ran your monobook js and it seemed to work. There was masterollback on contribs, revert all moves, extra revert liks on diffs, and the backlog notice thing.Voice-of-All 18:25, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Strange. Ian¹³/t 08:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

psuedo-admin style revert is busted

Nearest as I can tell, the admin-style revert is broken. It stalls at getting the edit form. Doesn't work in the mozilla suite or the latest firefox. Firefox' JS console says that "l = form.getElementsByTagName('textarea');" holds the error "form has no properties" from the function RevertStepThreenorm(), in User:VoA/monobook.js. It'd probably take me a good while to figure out what's going wrong, since I didn't write any of it. Hope you can figure out what's going wrong. Kevin_b_er 23:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. It is broken for me too. --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 23:09, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I ran it and reverted some things, and I don't seem to be getting that error. It works fine for me.Voice-of-All 23:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

And now it works again... Go figure. Kevin_b_er 00:19, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Now the revert links are completely gone... Kevin_b_er 00:24, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I just took the time to unify two separate functions, and made a small mistake. Nevertheless, it was working before, and if it was not for, I am not sure if it will work now, since those changes were just something I hadn't gotten around to and didn't fix any bugs (just made it more effecient). The bug I just made doing this was fixed, adn I made all 3 types of reverts fine with it.Voice-of-All 00:33, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandal JavaScript

you said drop a note on your talk page, well here it goes

thanks i am using the tab to warn vandals \\function testn(number)\\ and i want it to warn from the talk page without going to the edit page first im just looking for a patch to auto warn and save

   function testn(number)
 {
   var page = prompt("Vandalism to which article?")
   var f = document.editform, t = f.wpTextbox1;
   if (t.value.length > 0)
     t.value += '\n';
   t.value += "{{subst:" + "test" + number + "-n|" + page + "}} ~" + "~" + "~" + "~";
   f.wpSummary.value = "Vandalism to [[" + page + "]] - warning " + number;
 }

Betacommand 05:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

thanks, a sugestion auto summery and auto save. Betacommand 03:38, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

thanks but the Test and other tabs dont seem to work Betacommand 05:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

hay thanks i've made a few changes you might want to take a look [9] Betacommand 18:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Asking a favor

Could you post a breakdown of my edits on my talk page? I love statistics, and after some time I'm interested in how my edits break down. Thanks for your hard work on .js files and your edit tool as well! Teke 06:26, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Aside from rewrites and creations (which I've no mind for), anything in particular you see that I should focus on, or is it going okay? Teke 05:29, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

FC Barcelona

Hi Voice of All, It was myself who requested that the FC Barcelona article, be protected against the edits of an unregistered user. However I notice that the unregistered user version is the one that has been left. This version goes over the recommended article size and contains inaccuracies. At least two other editers are in dispute with this unregistered user. If you check the history of this article you will find that I have been a major contributer to this article as well as other articles on Spanish football. PS I thought protection enabled registered users to edit ! Djln --Djln 21:43, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I though it was more of a legitimate edit war, but looking more closely (and not at 4AM :D...), semi-protection seems more reasonable.Voice-of-All 22:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of article on STJEPAN PATKAI

How "nice" it is to see that a child, 19 years old, such as yourself, finds it appropriate to delete an article about a great man who has spent vast amounts of time, effort, money and other to do good for his city and and the soldiers who were being treated there during the war. A man who will also be remembered as a wonderful musician and enteratainer who filled the city hall to the last seat on every concert he held there. WHAT JUSTIFIES YOUR ACTION?! So YOU consider him an unremarkable person!?! So what?!?

Sorry, but the page did on assert, or claim, enough encyclopedic notability per category A(article) 7 of WP:CSD.Voice-of-All

my monobook

Hey, a little while back you editted my monobook and put the following script in:

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:VoA/monobook.js' + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>'); //[[Category:RC scripted users]]

Well the code did work up until today where I've realised everything that was on Wikipedia such as the pop-ups, Live Spellcheck and Watchlist monitoring etc, is no longer there. I click on the link http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:VoA/monobook.js and find the monobook no longer exists. Is there anyway I can get the code back using a different monobook because the Live Spellcheck and popups were very useful. Please reply on my talk page if that is OK with you. - Erebus555 14:32, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

It should still work, as the script is still there, and it has popupsdev and filter recent changes.Voice-of-All 14:40, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see, there was a function name bug though; fixed.Voice-of-All 14:46, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Portland Seven

Hey, the parade of anonymous socks on Portland Seven has begun again. I'd really rather have the page open, but I'm not sure that's practical until the harassment stops. Cheers. IronDuke 02:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

My Edit Count

Hey, I've seen that you generate a detailed summary of past edits for users in their RFAs. I was wondering if you could post mine at User talk:Nobleeagle/MyStatistics. If its simply and I can generate it myself then can you please tell me how...I read that Interiots Backup Tool said that it would not work with IE but I'm afraid thats all I've got. Thanks. Nobleeagle (Talk) 06:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Elizabeth Morgan talk page

You unprotected the E.M. page but not its Talk page. Please do so. -- 75.24.211.225 07:39, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandalbot?

I didn't know where to report this, so here goes: I've been chasing what I now think is a vandalbot. It has been adding "es" to random articles at a phenomenal rate. I have been reverting the changes, but there are way too many and the IP keeps changing. See my recent contributions for the address. It is always 207.200.116.XXX Prometheus^-X303- 13:27, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Javascript

Just asking for a bit of advice. I copied much of your JS to my monobook, but the statistics tab doesn't work as it comes up with an error saying that 'undefined' is undefined. I was wondering whether there could be any simply way for me to fix this? Nobleeagle (Talk) 01:40, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, FF sees undefined as a lack of an attribute (paradoxically an attribute), but not all versions of IE might. Try adding "var undefined;" without the quotes to the begining of your script to "define" the variable.Voice-of-All 03:27, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protection of 2006 FIFA World Cup

As per the "Important Note" under WP:PPOL#Uses, the semi-protection of 2006 FIFA World Cup has been removed. This article is currently high-profile and is linked on the main page. Therefore, it will often become a target for vandalism. It is not appropriate to protect pages in this case. Instead, consider adding them to your watchlist, and reverting vandalism yourself. See also Talk:2006 FIFA World Cup/Archive 4#Anonymous IP edits. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Your bot reverted me

Here. Why? Petros471 17:22, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, see you just reverted back. What's the bot's job suppost to be? Petros471 17:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

And then you revert your bot, which (AFAIK) correctly listed that page which I'd protected. Petros471 17:29, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey!

I take back what I said about good work with the bot. ;-) --GraemeL ^(talk) 17:24, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Heh, I just added a regex to blacklist a spammer to Dana Rayne, but something is wrong whit it, since it now is picking up almost everything as having it :(.Voice-of-All 17:29, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I see what you're up to. Very good idea. I await results with... anticipation. --GraemeL ^(talk) 18:07, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

??? :(.Voice-of-All 18:14, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Getting the bot to automatically remove spam. I reverted the bot again. It reverted your edit. Unfortunatly, your edits were removing and adding the link again, so the article ended up with the link still there. If you go for another test now, it should work correctly. --GraemeL ^(talk) 18:17, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

OK...that worked. And it was not the regex that was bad, it was me leaving out a "!= -1" for the search when I...copy-pasted...a bit of code.Voice-of-All 18:33, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Partial lock (PS3)

Thanks for the partial lock on the PS3 article - it honestly makes a big difference to the amount of vandalism/unnecessary work editors have to deal with. It's been removed now so I hope things should stay as quite as they have been. Over almost two weeks there have been as many edits as in two days without it. Thanks.HappyVR 20:50, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Bad day

I reverted the edits of a sockpuppet of a blocked user and the bot reverted me [10]. Can you revert the bot please. --GraemeL ^(talk) 23:11, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Today's Star shines upon...

File:Blue-star.gif

...dear Voice of All,
a dedicated and hard working Wikipedian, and yet one who believes from his heart in the value of the small acts of kindness that make this a special place.
You always give nothing but your best to us all everyday, yet ask for nothing in return.
With my deepest admiration,
and hoping to count you among my friends from this day on,
a great hug,
Phaedriel

javascript monobook

Thanks for noting that. I don't get any error messages, the whole thing just doesn't seem to work any more. Do you have any suggestions or advice? Jayjg ^(talk) 15:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for finding the problem with the code! The double message was getting annoying after a while:P. Cheers. PerfectStorm 18:43, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

VoA Monobook

The clock in the VoA monobook was causing problems with AWB, so I had to copy the code, move it here and remove the clock. So, if there are any updates to the main one, can you please update this one too? Thanks, --GeorgeMoney ^{(talk) (Help Me Improve!)} 20:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, all I had to do was disable JS in IE. --GeorgeMoney ^{(talk) (Help Me Improve!)} 06:12, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thanks so much for the support on my recent RfA, which I'm quite happy to announce has passed with a consensus of 67 supporting, 0 opposed and 0 neutral. I'm glad you took me into consideration and judged me to be deserving of adminship, and I'll be working hard to justify the vote of confidence you've placed in me. Let me know at my talk page if you have any comments on how I'm doing as an admin. Thanks! TheProject 22:17, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:Crystal_128_password.png

Why did you exactly want this icon be added to Template:Protected? Please see here that Kotepho has informed about licensing issues. -- ADNghiem501 08:13, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

You did not remove the editprotected from Template talk:Protected. I've done so. -- ADNghiem501 08:43, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Commons JS

Yay, it works now. On Firefox, at least. And the "compare to commons"-tab is doubled for whatever reason, but it works. Thanks for writing that script, this should speed up things quite alot. :) --Conti|✉ 14:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

If the tab is doubled, either code was copied twice by acident or there is a bug anywhere in yor js file that causes it to stop (and double tabs I've noticed).Voice-of-All 17:31, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I noticed I have two addTabs functions, one copied earlier to use some other tool and the one from your page. If I remove your function, it doesn't work anymore. If I remove the other addTab function, the tab is still doubled. --Conti|✉ 17:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I hope I am doing this right. I don't know exactly where to report this. There is a user who goes by 'baseballbaby' who seems unclear as to what vandalism is as opposed to (admitedly) poor edits. Judging by his/her talk page I am not the only one who feels this way. S/he seems new at monitoring vandalism. Is there some way you or another experienced wiki administrator could counsel this individual? Thanks so much!

Gibraltar

You have reverted the page on San Roque, there is no complaint about that, however the comment is

2006-07-02 15:11:29 VoABot (Talk | contribs) m (BOT - Reverted edits by 212.120.237.128 to last version by Voice of All [blacklisted IP range].)

It is very dangerous to blacklist a range of Gibraltar IP's and to assume that they are ALL one malicious user. The ADSL IP's are in a common pool and are allocated dynamically. --Gibnews 13:23, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

It checks for two ranges, but it only does it for users that are not logged in, and only for the pages that this troll seems to be hitting all the time, so its no where near as reckless as range block or something.Voice-of-All 15:46, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Bob Beauprez

Seeing as this is an election and things change every day, i feel it is important that the page be unblocked. - beaucredo

Unprotection

Hi, there. Could you please un-semiprotect Talk:Steam (band) so we can get the response of the IP in a compromise offer to settle the issues on the article itself? It makes it difficult to communicate, otherwise. Thanks. Cowman109^Talk 16:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Highgate Vampire

I requested semi-protection for this article yesterday, but you felt the acticvity hadn't been sufficient to justify semi-protection. There has been more activity today, and in fact I've just lost the revert war with the IP (without logging in myself). He is still pushing the POV that vampires exist, without citing reputable sources, he is inserting parenthetic comments about the article and other wiki contributors in the body of the article, and he is deleting even the mention that his version of the "vampire" events is a version and not simply THE truth. I'd be grateful if you could intervene, or maybe ask more patrollers to deal with the issue, because I can't cope with this alone. --Anonymous44 17:23, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requested moves

Should this page be archived in some way? —Centrx→talk • 19:50, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I ask because I came to it via Category:Wikipedia backlog, and seeing old matters resolved, found no designated place for archival. —Centrx→talk • 21:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure if this is one of those pages worth archiving. My bot auto-moves RfPP fulfilled/denied requests to the completed section on the page...but it also deletes those after a while. In this case, it may be better to just clear them out.Voice-of-All 21:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Script

Yup, I'm still using it. Please go ahead and update it. Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»= 04:14, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Sysop link

I noticed that there is a link to Makesysop on RfA pages now; I assume this to be a new feature of the bureaucrat script. I wanted you to know that you can preload the name in the box, if you're inclined to make it do that. The link I use is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AMakesysop&wpMakesysopUser=Username. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 08:20, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey! I haven't seen you in a while! Anyways, yes I though about asking for the DOM or the autonamefill (if you could) but never got around to it, I'll string that link in there. Thanks.Voice-of-All 20:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been having fun offline. I've also noticed that the RfA hiding script is awry; rather than just putting RfAs into dropdowns, it's now overwriting with the text on the page and doing other strange things. Can you check into it please? :) Essjay (Talk • Connect) 06:21, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I talked to User:Nichalp about this and fixed it yesterday. My pool of scripts is already updated, the fix is very simple.Voice-of-All 06:47, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Duplicate javascript installations

Hi! I've had a few people come to me with problems installing some of my tools, which I think can be traced to them having them installed already with VoA/monobook.js but not realising it. Double installations often cause problems. Please could you prominently warn people against this wherever the instructions for that js file are? If it's not already there, it may be wise to list all the tools that are installed. Thanks, Lupin|talk|popups 23:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks. I saw 1 place so far where it was not clear.Voice-of-All 06:50, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thank you

Thank you! Thank you, Voice of All (as opposed to VoA, a heartless, thoughtless, caringless bot :P ), for your support in my RfA. I appreciate your trust and support, and I will do my best to further help this great encyclopædia and community of ours. If there is anything that you feel I can do to help, please let me know. -- Avi 00:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Enjoy

The Working Man's Barnstar For your awesome work keeping WP:PP clear of backlog! Keep it up! --james // bornhj (talk) 09:47, 4 July 2006 (UTC)