User talk:Slakr

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

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Ideally, please use this link to 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 If you can't find something you recently posted, I might have moved it down there or it could have been archived if you posted it over 7 days ago.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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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.

unban me

i just clicked a link at an imageboard asking to enter the text with kurt anus something for fun - its the 1st and only time i did it - and you banned me permanently, regardless of all my previous positive contributons - i think its a bit too much can you unban me now plox? username Topk thanks... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.57.254.102 (talk) 11:08, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Slakr/SineBot,

Thank you for your advice regarding signing my post. I will try it out now on your page. By the way, would you be interested in support the Republic of Giambi? It has been deleted but I am in the process of working out the sources problem? If you'd like to re-instate it and take a look, it'd be more then appreciated. GreatGooglyMoogly93 (talk) 19:40, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

User:Hyet363

I have reblocked the above user, taking away talk page and email abilites given edits such as this. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:40, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Archives in Talk:Greece

First thanks for trying to tidy up that huge mess over there. I notice you move sections to archives with the same name as the section title. I think it would be better to combine all these into one archive section (until it fills up) and then proceed to the rest. Otherwise I'm afraid that the archives will end up being extremely difficult to explore, much like as if they were designed by Daedalus. NikoSilver 22:34, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Hiya... I usually split off individual sections that grow to be absurdly long, and are still active, into separate pages, much like is done on the administrators' noticeboard, then leave behind a status indicator to indicate that the thread/discussion is still ongoing. In contrast, if it looks like a discussion has ended, it can simply be archived (as archives are generally not discussion areas) and the link to the seperate page is still maintained. --slakr^\ talk / 22:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Good thinking. Will you merge them to the archive after they are safely regarded as concluded? NikoSilver 22:40, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I would like to suggest that for edit protected articles, it might be a idea to also ban some administrators from using their priviledge of 'editing. Also, I would like to introduce/suggest a new wikipedia guide line. Any ideas how to go about it other than just starting one? Thanks. Politis (talk) 16:40, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Actually, as part of the protection policy, admins can only make uncontroversial edits not related to the dispute or in cases of serious policy problems (e.g., biographies of living persons violations, vandalism, and copyright violations). If you believe the policy should change even further, a good place to discuss it would be the village pump for policy. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 16:52, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Wow that was quick. Actually I would like to introduce a new quide line that is unrelated to the protection tool. I am still formulating the wording.Politis (talk) 16:57, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

signing already signed posts

Here an IP restored some deleted comments that weren't signed by him [1], and Sinebot went and added a signature [2] despiste the fact that the restored comments already a signature. Is this the intended behaviour? Signing posts if the poster and the name on the signature don't fit, to stop some sort of abuse? Or is it some bug in the code that detects if the comment is already signed? --Enric Naval (talk) 10:29, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes. If someone signs as someone else, it assumes the person didn't sign. --slakr^\ talk / 17:36, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Your humor

I was browsing through one of my talk page archive pages and came across this. Your comment still makes me laugh. Thanks.  :) Rockfang (talk) 18:10, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Trying to redo a site and the Bot Removed my deletions

Can you help me or driect me to someone who can.

I was trying to fix Tabaco_City

Can you help me?

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