User talk:Slakr

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

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Ideally, please post new messages at the bottom. If you can't find something you recently posted, I might have moved it down there or it could have been archived if you posted it over 7 days ago. Cheers :)

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Slakr Rules!

=), your bot is great! yeaahhhhhhh i think that all the day is great day for anybody but sometime it's very danger for us, isn't it ?

Spreading some Wikilove

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Block of Stone put to sky

I'm reviewing this unblock request, and I'm baffled. I don't understand which page the user is supposed to have been edit warring on; I checked out both Allegations of state terrorism committed by the United States and Meir Weinstein; I found a couple of reverts but certainly not more than 3 on any day in recent history. I saw some new accounts and some IPs on the Allegations page but none of them looked like sockpuppets. This is clearly a complicated situation. What happened here? Mangojuice^talk 17:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Stone put to sky

FYI: Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser#Attack_accounts showed an other sock. I don't know under which evidence you blocked him, but I thought I'd let you know :). -- lucasbfr ^talk 18:20, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Question about SineBot not signing something

I don't know if this is a bug, but a message got left on my page that didn't get signed. Is it because someone else edited the page right afterwards? I'm a little confused. Usually SineBot always gets them. Thanks, Enigma ^msg! 16:27, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

• Note: I checked just to be sure, and the user has not opted out of SineBot's messages. Enigma ^msg! 16:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Also happened here. Must be something with this user in particular. Enigma ^msg! 22:54, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

and here Enigma ^msg! 21:39, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Also here. :) Enigma ^msg! 02:24, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Modern Hovercraft Development

Thanks for the input on (no signature). Will be sure to sign all following in puts !Razorback 1 (talk) 19:07, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

SineBot

I think the bot is acting up a little. its signing post that have already been signed β^_command 19:45, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

you broke parsing of wikilinks by not closing the open brackets, so it didn't recognize the rest of your post as being a signature. --slakr^\ talk / 00:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Tony Sidaway

Could you check this talk page, please? I've got it set up with the following bots template:

{{bots|allow=HagermanBot,Shadowbot3,Werdnabot,TonyBot,MiszaBot III}}

But user:SineBot is still editing that page. Could you find a way to make it stop, please? --TS 16:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

HagermanBot == SineBot, or at least, so it thinks. Simply remove HagermanBot and SineBot will no longer edit the page. --slakr^\ talk / 22:12, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. --TS 22:21, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

New vandalism

ur a fukin n00b ill pwn u at any game u bitch! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.183.38.50 (talk) 23:16, 20 February 2008

I have no doubts that you would. However, Wikipedia is not that fun of a game, so you might consider Pacman or something similar. Who knows— if games really do effect kids, then you might find yourself running around in the dark, eating everything in your path while listening to repetitive music. --slakr^\ talk / 23:24, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

ahahahahahaha. Enigma ^msg! 03:26, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Slavic IAL

This page was deleted and the reason cited was that it was a copy of a page that was nominated for deletion. This is incorrect. I wrote the page for the first time, and there hasn't been a Page on the international languages based on the Slavic language family. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekstazo (talk • contribs) 02:41, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

The only component of the article was a recreation of the contents of Slovio. --slakr^\ talk / 02:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

But there was no recreation, as I wrote the article. And why shouldn't there be an article on Slovio? Ekstazo 03:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekstazo (talk • contribs)

It's not recreation of the article name that counts-- it's recreation of the article itself that was subject of an articles for deletion debate over at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slovio (2nd nomination). I felt that your page did exactly that, so I deleted it. (see also: criteria for speedy deletion of recreated material). --slakr^\ talk / 03:10, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Hezbollah dispute

Hello Slakr, we have resolved the Hezbollah dispute, please check here, is there a chance to remove the page protection now? (Imad marie (talk) 10:16, 21 February 2008 (UTC))

xerpi page deleted

Xerpi page was deleted again. please reactivate this page; it was objective, sourced, and notable (I described three ways in which it was a innovative social bookmarking tool social bookmarking is relevant to wiki!) There are 19 other 'notable' wiki articles about competing bookmarking sites (see list_of_social_software#Social_bookmarking which would be a perfect niche for the Xerpi article.

I stated this point in my contest to the speedy deletion; which was not replied to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mollymeghanmiller (talk • contribs) 15:36, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

your a facking b!tch and i hate you, you facker —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zaid12 (talk • contribs) 21:29, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel that way. As a result, I have taken the liberty of helping you to rid yourself of me for the time being. It's the least I can do. --slakr^\ talk / 23:58, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Sinebot

Sinebot signed a comment that i had already signed with the four tildes. Why?I am sooooo cool! 22:10, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Your signature points to User:IslaamMaged126, not your current user name. --slakr^\ talk / 00:00, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Kosovo and Serbia

Same edit war. Same problem. See Talk:Serbia. 204.52.215.107 (talk) 06:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

SineBot

Hi. SineBot has signed several Talk page posts that I had already signed. Here are a couple of diffs: Talk:Black people, User talk:209.217.86.26.

I don't know if it matters, but my signature is "— {{SUBST:User|Malik Shabazz}}".

It's not a big deal, it's a little annoying and I thought you should know. Thanks. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 18:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

It's getting worse. Now SineBot signs every message I sign, so I've opted out of it. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 00:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Malik Shabazz (talk • contribs)

Lol, that's 'cause now you're using interwiki links. Anyway, cheers. :P --slakr^\ talk / 01:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello

I would appreciate it if you could review my case at WP:AN/3 against User:Twsx. I realize it was you who blocked me before, which is part of the reason I ask for your help now. Twsx has been edit warring at least since august of last year on two pages with me and many other users having to revert him. He has been warned, but continues to be disruptive. He will not stop. Perhaps if some punitive action is taken against him we can all move on and learn something from this. Twsx seems to think I've made this report in bad faith. That is a lie. Yes, he did report me and get me blocked. Yes, he does seem to try and get me in trouble whenever possible (since I first came to wikipedia we have not been on good terms) but that is not why I reported him. I really don't care what he does. I just want him to stop messing with those two pages so we can all get back to actual editing that matters. Many editors (although I admit mostly myself) have had to revert him constantly on those two pages and he has been warned by myself and others. He continues and I know he will not stop. He always just waits a few days and then changes the pages again. Anyways, I would appreciate your review. I'm not asking for punishment or justice or w/e (I've learned that those do not have a place here on wikipedia), but only for preventative measures to be taken. Blizzard Beast ^$ODIN$ 18:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Blocks aren't punitive, and another admin has handled the report. --slakr^\ talk / 20:29, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Broadway Dance Center

Why did you delete this page. This is a very famous dance school in NYC. Other schools such as Steps on Broadway, New Dance Group and Dance New Amsterdam are listed on Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bwydance (talk • contribs) 21:00, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Read the delete reason. --slakr^\ talk / 21:01, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

hello and advice sought

hey there, I received a kind reminder from one of your bots, SineBot, reminding me to sign off on the stuff I write. That led me to your user page and I came to know that you are a member of the counter-vandalism team, and I though perhaps you could help me with a recent edit I made to an article which got reverted on vandalism charges though I would like to think I did not indulge in any such activity with my contribution. I would love for you to help me out by offering advice on where I might have gone wrong since I am a new editor on Wikipedia. The link to the talk page of the article is below;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International

Thanks Syedshoaib (talk) 17:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you pretty please provide diffs? Thanks a million =) --slakr^\ talk / 05:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

tell him to

back off then. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.218.166.119 (talk) 19:31, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

There are excellent ways of remaining civil while letting someone know that they're either not being civil themselves or that they're doing something otherwise not in line with our policies and guidelines. --slakr^\ talk / 05:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Please cancel an edit violating The 3RR

1. Some days ago, an editor made this edit.
2. On 23 February, at 5:15, the same editor has made his first revert.
3. On the same day, at 22:23, the same editor made his second revert.
4. On that very day, at 22:57, the same editor made his third revert.
5. On the same day, at 23:26, the same editor made his fourth revert.

Please cancel his fourth revert - which violates 3RR. No need to warn him, because I'm sure it was not done on purpose! He's an honest person who is absolutely aware to the 3RR and has always obeyed the 3RR. Eliko (talk) 01:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Usually we do not revert violations of the 3RR unless unless they fall under the same provisions as making an edit to a protected page (e.g., vandalism/biographies of living persons violations). --slakr^\ talk / 05:28, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

... and it just so happens that the page is now protected anyway, so what I stated definitely applies. Please see the protection policy for more information. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 05:30, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

There is no valid reason to delete my article

I made an article about the mixed martial arts academy Universidad da Luta. My sources are credible and it is important because it is about a camp formed by several well known people in the MMA world and is recent. I believe it is good that Wikipedia keeps up with ALL appropriate knowledge of ALL kinds including MMA. I'm not sure why you had a problem with the article but please let me know. I already appealed for the article in the section designated. Also Universidade da Luta is not a club but a mixed martial arts academy as stated in the article. We all have our off days as I'm sure that day was yours.

Thank You,

P.S. I accidentally wrote the article as Universidad da Luta due to a typo. If you could please delete that for me and the general public it would be much appreciated.

TapOut_013 —Preceding unsigned comment added by TapOut 013 (talk • contribs) 20:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Sinebot should not sign changes to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old

User signatures are not appropriate on this page, and sinebot should not add them. Can you add this page to its exception list? Thanks, Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 22:18, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

All you gotta do is add a bots tag :P Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 22:21, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I never heard of that tag before. Cool. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 03:53, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

simultaneous edit

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/3RR#User:Apostle12_reported_by_User:Ice_Cold_Beer_.28Result:_warned.29

Hi Slakr,

you and I were editing at the same time. I am glad you only gave a warning. A question: can two editors break or avoid the 3RR rule by making 4 identical edits, taking turns, or no? Thanks,  — Xiutwel ♫☺♥♪ (speech has the power to bind the absolute) 23:37, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, two editors can break the 3RR at the same time on the same page, especially if they're clearly just going back and forth. --slakr^\ talk / 23:38, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Sinebot signing my (signed) comments

Hey Slakr, can you figure out why sinebot is signing my (signed) comments? Here is one example: [1]

Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

hehehe

So I think my latest idea is the best yet, check out my user page--Pewwer42  Talk  06:22, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Up late?

Hai thar nocturnal buddy :-) delldot on a public computer talk 09:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Hehe... dell dot or dell bat? :P --slakr^\ talk / 09:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Don't be ridiculous. dellbat squeak 09:39, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I can be as ridiculous as I want— I'm a freakin' vampire bat with sonar and stuff. I can go... batty. I mean, people have sometimes said that I have bats in the belfry. Plus, I could, as a bat, attempt to bat my eyelashes at someone to gain attention.... Bleh, I need sleep. :P --slakr^\ talk / 09:43, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Wow, you were batting like 400 with all those bat cliches :-P delldot on a public computer talk 09:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Heh, and with enough of them I can right off the bat quickly go on a bat then proceed to bat around aimlessly, batting the breeze. --slakr^\ talk / 09:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, you win XD delldot on a public computer talk 09:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

... batted that one out of the park ;) --slakr^\ talk / 09:59, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Sinebot Malfunction

Posted a comment, signed, of course, which Sinebot then corrects with another signature along with a warning. I have a feeling it might have something to do with me using a redirect in my sig (to shorten the length of it), but this hasn't happened to me before, even with the redirect, so I'm assuming it's a glitch. Thanks in advance. --TBC!?! 11:24, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Your actual username is Tree Biting Conspiracy, so when it sees TBC, it thinks you're signing as someone else. --slakr^\ talk / 20:09, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Re-block

Can you block this twit again? Seems to be up to his old tricks. ~ Alcmaeonid (talk) 17:52, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Clarify for me?

Just curious about removing the Speedy request from Toni Graphia per this edit. You didn't explain why you deleted the request, and the article clearly falls within db-bio, since it in no way asserts notability. Clarify for me? Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 22:14, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I was going on prolificness and significant roles per WP:BIO. It didn't explicitly state "he has lots of contributions to television," but executive producer on an award-winning series (Battlestar Galactica) seems like enough of an implicit assertion of notability to survive CSD. Whether it survives AfD is another thing. :P Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 22:25, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Zsero

Hi. I wanted to let you know that I have removed the block on Zsero (talk · contribs) based on your saying on AN that you don't care either way. I really think that ending the block during waking hours has a huge upside and I will keep an eye on his edits until I go to bed to make sure that the issue doesn't flare back up. Thanks. --B (talk) 04:22, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Block of 208.54.95.64

Slackr, I appreciate you blocking 208.54.95.64 for 55 h as an abusive Matt Sanchez sock puppet for this and this. You may not be aware that Matt's previous IPs used for abusing editors have been blocked for a month, the first by John Vandenberg amd the second by Edgar181, As such, you might want to consider extending the block. Also, I think you are supposed to record the block here. Best, Jay*Jay (talk) 07:02, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Technically that IP looks like either a t-mobile hotspot or an IP assigned to WAP users. Either way, I'll just block it for that long for now, and if it comes back we can always block longer. Cheers :) --slakr^\ talk / 07:13, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Colleenthegreat

Hey Slakr! I see that you thanked the above user for placing a vandalism warning. I suspect that this user (Colleenthegreat) is in fact a disruptive user, verging on vandalism. When you have time, please take a look at her contributions - she hasn't been around long, so look at her last 500 contributions. You will see that virtually all edits she has made to articles were just silly comments which were in most cases immediately reverted. Her vandalism warnings to anonymous users is itself silly - we all know thousands of non-registered users screw around with pages every day. Many even self-revert! Most are caught quickly ... but I know of no seasoned admin who then leaves a vandalism warning. Why? An anonymous user only has an IP address and for all we know, two hours later or the next day a different person may make good edits from the same address. Or this non-registered vandal is doing this once and will never come back. In the examples I see of Colleenthegreat's "warnings," the only effect she had was to create a talk page for an IP address, in many cases an IP addressed used only once. I will provide just two more examples of nonsense (even disruptive) edits: [2] and [3]. Now, if this were someone's first edit to Wikipedia, Andrew c's response (ro read our NPOV and NOR and V policies) would have made sense. But this is someone who has made hundreds of edits and has even rebuked others for vandalism! In any event, the second disruptive edit came after Andrew c's suggestion that she comply with policy.

You were generous to her in thanking her for spotting vandalism. In fact, I think her account exists only to make disruptive edits. Could you go over her contributions and provide another opinion? Slrubenstein | Talk 11:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

It was a templated message that I dropped without really investigating anything. It's basically saying, "zOMGWTFBBQ REJECTED!!!!!!!!" in a nice way. See also: {{uw-notaiv}} and {{uw-aiv}}. I basically just wanted to get the user to stop posting to AIV stuff that wasn't vandalism/whatever, and I didn't want to expunge brain cells to investigate the issue further (due to, if I recall correctly, a flurry of crap to do at aiv at the time, hehe). Cheers. :) --slakr^\ talk / 11:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey Slakr, I think you misunderstand me. I am in no way questioning or criticizing anything you did. I want to know if it is reasonable to ban this user, or designate him/her as a vandal at AN. The only case would be a consistent pattern across the range of her contributions, and I was hoping that, after looking at a wider sample of her contributions, you would tell me whether I am being fair or not. I know you don't want to expunge too many brain cells on this, but I think she is getting away with a lot of crap ...Slrubenstein | Talk 12:14, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

SineBot source code

Hello. Is source code of your bot available for download? I was asked to run a signing bot on another project, so it would be quite useful (there is no point in re-inventing the wheel:). Invisible Idiot (talk) 12:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)