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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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.

ProcseeBot is down

and it's letting all sorts of yahoos through 110.34.34.172 (talk) 17:15, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Apparently there was a server issue. It'll hopefully catch up soon. --slakr^\ talk / 01:40, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Procseebot is overzealous, need whitelist feature

I was referred here by Ks0stm who lifted a bot restriction on me that seems related to my having made an edit while traveling in Indonesia (where I live most of the year).

1. As soon as I logged in after returning home and using the same IP address as usual, I noticed the IP blockage. This suggests that the bot is incapable of reversing itself when the normal linkage of user/IP is re-established. Perhaps a second bot is needed to clean up procseebot false positives or transient blockages?

2. A subtler form of whitelisting would be to program the bot to ignore flagging when an edit is clearly (say 99.99% probability) being made by the authentic user despite the variance in IP address. AFAIK, the only edit I made while traveling last week was an UNDO of a revert. Isn't it highly likely that the authentic user is the one who would make an UNDO? Martindo (talk) 14:22, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

The bot has no whitelist, as any IP it blocks is verified as a usable open proxy; it has no false-positives—only stale blocks, if anything. The first block on an IP when discovered as open is 60 days; subsequent discoveries (e.g., it's still open after 60 days) are 1 year. This is typically a reasonable period of time, as some proxies fluctuate with availability and how readily they accept connections, but it's relatively rare for someone to be caught in a tiny DHCP pool with enough other users in it that they, too, get caught by someone else's block. Thus, if you were caught in a block, chances are you just got unlucky due to someone else in the DHCP pool being the culprit. The bot blocks proactively (it doesn't wait until there's an edit) because cross-proxy vandalism (the main reason it was invented) would easily get through otherwise. If you find yourself repeatedly affected by these blocks (rather than just this one-off), we can likely grant an WP:IPBE. That said, I'll consider adding one more delay period (e.g., instead of the first block being 60, make the first one 10 or something). It'll increase the number of blocks and the rescan burden, but it might help eliminate otherwise-extremely-rare instances like this. --slakr^\ talk / 01:19, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello Slakr and Martindo. I favor keeping the current behavior of Procseebot unchanged, retaining the initial block length at two months. From my occasional participation at WP:WikiProject on open proxies I notice that this bot does valuable work. IPs that are newly reported as open proxies often have a past block by Procseebot in their history, hinting that whatever algorithm the bot is using to find candidates is relevant to our needs. Instead of shortening the initial block period I would favor giving out IPBE more liberally to good-faith editors who are inadvertently hit by the bot's actions. EdJohnston (talk) 01:51, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Sinebot mis-signing

Hey there Slakr! I'm having an odd problem: Even though I've signed my edits in a talk page with ~~~~, Sinebot comes along and tacks on a signature. Somewhat annoying, and it adds bulk to the talk edit page. See here to see what I'm talking about. If its my signature, let me know and I'll simplify it. Thanks for your time.  — Myk Streja (Talk to me) 23:01, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

@Myk Streja: Try replacing the   in the link part of your links with an underscore or just leave it as a space. For example, instead of [[User:Myk Streja|my user page]] use [[User:Myk_Streja|my user page]]. Non-breaking spaces are only useful as part of rendered html markup, while ampersands typically delineate GET arguments as far as links go, though Mediawiki's linter usually guesses correctly and fixes it while resolving the link (you'll notice when you hover over the current link, it's no longer a space but an underscore). Still, it might not guess correctly sometimes (e.g., I had to wrap the second version in nowiki but not the first), so using the safer link form (i.e., underscores or normal spaces) is preferable. --slakr^\ talk / 01:15, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

@Slakr: Thanks. That's so annoying, especially when it happens right after I close an edit. Thanks again.  — Myk Streja Talk to me 03:00, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

@Slakr: Seems to have worked: the problem is gone. Thanks.  — Myk Streja _Talk to me 23:10, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:OperaMiniBlock

Template:OperaMiniBlock has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:11, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Reference desk autosigning

The reference desks are listed at User:SineBot/HighPriority which adds to the disruption every time the LTA vandals post there. Could you remove them from the list, or restrict the rapid auto-signing to registered users for those pages? —Guanaco 01:03, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Is there anything that prompted this in specific? Pages that are frequently updated are on that list because, while there's normally a delay to allow someone to sign, intervening edits usually cause signature addition to be skipped, so pages with a relatively high edit volume—particularly those prone to newbies, too—are usually a good bet to leave on there, as the missed signatures become more annoying than the occasional abuse. --slakr^\ talk / 10:58, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

The mathematics desk in particular gets hit with a vandal who drops 50 questions at a time. [1] The better solution might be to limit SineBot's activity in response to one user, to two or three times per page within a given timespan. —Guanaco 09:19, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Precious three years!

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:06, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Temple articles are getting deleted . by caroleHenson

Hi sir ,

{our temple is the second holiest place in India , after shiridi and its located in mandya district Karnataka,and it had become the tourist attraction to many peoples after this temple as come through , its a religious organization and its located near by Bangalore Mysore high way and Mandya sugar land. and coming to wiki my official articles was too deleted with out letting us know whats the reason behind it , eg: working on link nor working on over time in wiki nor what .}

{articles Mandyada Sri Shiradi Sai Baba Mandir, Mandyada Sri Shiradi Sai Baba Temple, Mandyada Sri Shiradi Sai Baba, and now getting deleted one Mandyada Shri Shiradi Sai Baba Mandir}.

{Kindly do the need full and get us backup and link to work on to it}.praneraopraneeth rao 08:26, 27 June 2017 (UTC) thanks, praneeth rao — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pranerao (talk • contribs) 08:26, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of my temple page

Hi Sir ,

{from past 1 week we are looking to come up with this temple article , but on the talk some one called caroline (talk page ), without our knowledge most of the articles gets deleted , dont know whats the issue , just contacted talk page too, they just delete it , with this my official name of my temple too i lost aricle name on wiki and}

{and with this she had given me a *notice as nothing on this name or article must be posted not this user or any user must not create this article whats the big deal. as u got my backup of my email, and every files like google, trip advisor history etc, just check whats this temple whats the things i had updated in WIkI etc. just look down. all}

{what i updated as temple article i could not get back as article. its not 1 or 2 its 4 article. requested just get me back , the same article name nope no response , On talk page people someone goes with deletion. i would ask them whats issue nope , name : Mandyada Sri Shiradi Sai Baba Mandir , Mandyada Sri Shiradi Sai Baba Temple , Mandyada Shri Shiradi Sai Baba Mandir , Mandyada Sri Shiradi Sai Baba} ,

{and we requested just get us at least this two articles which u had deleted nor names ill make articles again , when i reload nothing and no response on talk page.

Mandyada Sri Shiradi Sai Baba Mandir ,  Mandyada Sri Shiradi Sai Baba Temple 

on this user , and if u do require us to submit temple doc's , kindly let us} .

{nor let us know , dont use our services , any more. it would be great . because what ever articles till now i had updated on this name has been deleted , and i would tell you other thing this temple, landing in 2nd in India after shiridi in India , in temple dashina kannada karnataka mandya. sai baba temple}.

{On wiki just to let u know on which user. my user name : pranerao : full name praneeth rao} praneeth rao 19:13, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Regards praneeth rao.