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 If you can't find something you recently posted, I might have moved it down there or it could have been archived if you posted it over 7 days ago.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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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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

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)
And your recent autoarchiving of Talk:Greece. Oh, and by the way,

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For displaying a sense of humor, even around the most contentious and bitter arguments, I am proud to present Slakr the Barnstar of Good Humor. Keep it up! John Carter (talk) 21:24, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

A second request

Hi Slakr, I asked you about this a while ago and I'd like to ask you again. Would it be possible to prevent Sinebot from posting on any pages with the prefix Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation. Each new WP:AFC article submission goes on a different page in this namespace and we waste quite a lot of time each day from removing Sinebot's stuff. It would not be convenient to add the {{bots}} template to every page. I think it should be relatively straightforward to add this exception to Sinebot's program. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:38, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I thought I added an exception for everything at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Submissions/* Am I missing something? Did something change? --slakr^\ talk / 01:24, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh did you? Thanks I didn't know that. Could you take off the Submissions then as we simplified things slightly and put them straight into Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/ now? Cheers, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:18, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Done. --slakr^\ talk / 17:44, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:09, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Bot keeps adding link to site deemed offensive

Your Bot keep adding a link to a site called 'paki.tv' on the British Pakistani page, the word paki has offensive connotations for Pakistanis in Britain. Khokhar (talk) 20:06, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Are you sure you got the right guy? Do you have diffs to demonstrate it happening ? --slakr^\ talk / 23:23, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

The offensive link was removed by me and then re-added http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_Pakistanis&diff=284682390&oldid=284580140 by what, at the time, linked to your bot, currently it is only showing the ip 86.162.69.228. Khokhar (talk) 13:41, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

That's definitely neither me nor my bot. First, my bots won't edit if they're logged out; second, 86.162.69.228 is a BT ip (british), and I live in the US; third, and most obviously, it is a spam link, and I'd be removing it, not re-adding it. --slakr^\ talk / 23:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Well that was my first thought too, however it did link to your bot otherwise I wouldn't be here, can't think why though. I have removed it again and so far it's still gone, hopefully it stays that way. Khokhar (talk) 10:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Can you Explain this?

Can you please tell me why I am supposedly spamming? I am posting external links for the given information. Links that provide information that can not be displayed on Wiki? TheBatmanUniverse (talk) 05:16, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Please see our conflicts of interest and spam guidelines. --slakr^\ talk / 07:11, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I understand the pages and read them. Here is what I can not understand. All of the pages that I did post links on all have external Links to other pages that are doing the same thing as me. Now all of my contributions have been removed and I want an explanation of why some sites can do this and others can't.TheBatmanUniverse (talk)

Sites can't do this. It's both a conflict of interest and spam. It'll also get your site blacklisted so that no links to it will be allowed on Wikipedia. On a related note, your username is a violation of our username policy, as it matches the name of an organization and is being used to promote it. I highly suggest requesting a username change before resuming editing or it will be blocked. I didn't mean for this encounter to seem unwelcoming, but the general consensus on Wikipedia is that we're paranoid about spam, because so many people/companies/organizations try to abuse our high visibility in an attempt to promote themselves. --slakr^\ talk / 23:07, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Download times

Hi slakr, you're one of the people I think could help with this. There's a complex relationship between the byte count shown in the article edit window, the "prose size" of the rendered page, and the size of the emitted HTML. For dialup users, the HTML size generally determines the time to render a page. There is a question on my talk page about this, and I think MRG is trying to get at some general guideline for when to split a page up so that it's not too onerous for dialup users to click on.

I've made rather a mess of my answers to her. I'm asking you if you have any thoughts on this, know of places where access time for dialup users has been discussed before, and have any feelings on the best forum for MRG to pursue the issue. Thanks! Franamax (talk) 01:10, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

hi, i just started on here and im trying to figure things out —Preceding unsigned comment added by Noraarice (talk • contribs) 15:07, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Unprotect

I went to the article 'Greece' for some opera edits and I became involved in a huge editorial drama! I adore the irony of the moment. Just to ask you to unprotect Greece. I think the only problem is a couple of words (former Yugoslav). Perhaps we can let people clarify what they want and let us get on with some useful additions? What do you think? Trompeta (talk) 18:48, 28 April 2009 (UTC)