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74.103.61.148

how do i use the sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.103.61.148 (talk • contribs)

Just go to the sandbox and experiment with editing there. --Chris (talk) 07:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Problem running VS in Ubuntu Feisty

(copied from User talk:Crazycomputers/VandalSniper)

After installing all of the libraries necessary every time I try to run VS by entering "mono vs.exe" I get the following error:

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Gecko.WebControl ---> System.DllNotFoundException: /usr/lib/firefox/libgtkembedmoz.so
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gecko.WebControl:gtk_moz_embed_get_type ()
  at Gecko.WebControl.get_GType () [0x00000] 
  at GtkSharp.GeckoSharp.ObjectManager.Initialize () [0x00000] 
  at Gecko.WebControl..cctor () [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

  at <0x00000> <unknown method>
  at VandalSniper.MainWindow.newBrowser (System.String url) [0x00000] 
  at VandalSniper.MainWindow..ctor () [0x00000] 
  at VandalSniper.MainWindow.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

At first I thought I was missing /usr/lib/firefox/libgtkembedmoz.so, but it is there. Any help to resolve the problem would be gladly appreciated. Caim 06:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have this problem too. --Michael White^T·C 15:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I also have this problem. Andrew_pmk | Talk 02:16, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Crazycomputers/VandalSniper#Does_this_run_in_Windows_as_well_as_Linux.3F - btw, what is the current state of porting VS to de? --C-M ^?! 18:26, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Try running VS like this: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox/ ./vs.exe. In response to C-M, Windows is not currently a supported platform. As for interwiki support for VS, it's never going to happen since I'm not maintaining VS anymore. However most of its featureset is being rolled into WikiBench. Hopefully I will be releasing an alpha version soon. --Chris (talk) 04:36, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to 1993.

Sorry about that. I don't actually know why I did that, I just put in the fact that I was born then. I also edited Jan the 14th with the same thing. I'll remove it if you want. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.255.0.230 (talk • contribs)

I understand. In fact a lot of editors do that, but that becomes a problem quickly. We can't have a list of every editor's birthday, especially when the person birthday isn't easily verified. --Chris (talk) 02:36, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brian adams page

hello, I received your message regarding my edit of the Brian Adams page. I deleted that section of information because whomever put it there did a bad job with the specifics, and if you notice, the section I removed appears right over top of information I was interested in reading. I agree that an outright deletion of the material maybe was a bit excessive, but someone, (and not me, because I don't really know how to do it) needs to fix the page so that section doesn't obstruct any other information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.20.163.192 (talk • contribs)

That's not a problem, just make sure you use an edit summary to say why you're removing information, otherwise it can look like vandalism. --Chris (talk) 01:54, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Avenged Sevenfold

Hi Crazycomputers,

FYI.. I see you're one of the last contributors to the Avenged Sevenfold page. Looks like there has been some vandalism..

rgds, Graham.

That's what I was trying to clean up. --Chris (talk) 19:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CVU status

The Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to {{inactive}} and/or {{historical}} status. Another proposal is to delete or redirect the project. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU#Inactive.3F and at the deletion debate. Thank you! Delivered on behalf of xaosflux 16:19, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pssst... :)

Could you please be sure you're the one who did the reversion prior to warning a user? I've had to remove a few of your warnings from user pages that I was in the process of notifying, to be sure they didn't get double notices regarding blankings/etc. Don't take this the wrong way, I just hate to give any future Wikipedian editors double warnings, and I like to use my own for my own reverts, so if they have questions they can come to me to ask. Thanks! ^Ariel♥Gold 08:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With my tool I apply the warning while the revert is happening to save time... unfortunately sometimes someone started their revert just before I did and this happens. --Chris (talk) 08:28, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that, but remember, tools don't exempt us from actions. I use Twinkle and/or VP to do my reverts, but I always, always check to see if I indeed was the one to revert, prior to issuing any warnings. All tools have the option to not issue a warning, and to check prior to warning if any issues are in place that would require other actions. I'm just urging you to use the tools with caution, rather than just hitting the button, again, I hope you don't take this negatively, as that's not the spirit with which it was intended. Thanks, ^Ariel♥Gold 08:31, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not claiming that I'm exempt from anything, maybe it's just a different school of thought. If the same thing happens to me (I revert but someone else leaves a warning) I just leave it there since it's not really a big deal. Someone reverted, the vandal got a warning, everything is fine. The quicker we act the more edits we can check and the higher quality we can all keep the encyclopedia at, so I usually don't see such situations as a problem. I'm not taking offense to what you're saying and I do understand where you're coming from, but I guess my reaction is more along the lines of "does not compute." Cheers. --Chris (talk) 08:38, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm sorry, I guess our styles are just different. For new users who obviously made a simple mistake, or made an offense that was not malicious, I consider standard templates quite impersonal, so I prefer to leave personalized messages, or custom notices. It is not about the speed at which I revert that matters to me, but about the impression Wikipedia gives to new users as a whole, and the way new users are greeted or treated when they make mistakes. Again, simply a difference of style. ^Ariel♥Gold 08:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nod. You're welcome to clobber my warnings in any such situation, and I do try to keep this situation from happening but sometimes (when the lists are scrolling) it's all I can do to keep up. --Chris (talk) 08:53, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I completely understand, I just didn't want you coming to me upset because I removed your warnings, lol. That's why I came to you to explain. :) ^Ariel♥Gold 08:58, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. that application you're developing/using looks intruiging. How is it working out for you compared to things like TW or VF/VP? ^Ariel♥Gold 08:59, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's in fact a rewrite of VandalSniper but in a more generic and extensible way, and VS was a feature-wise clone of VP targetted at the Linux desktop. So far I like it a lot; it makes things very quick and effortless. I have a newer shot that I have yet to upload to Wikipedia. --Chris (talk) 09:01, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I looked into VandalSniper, and while I could use VP, I personally don't like it all that much (plus it gives me constant run time errors), and prefer to idle in IRC or use VF, I guess because I have more control, but maybe it is just because that's what I started on, IRC. I tell you the nice thing I like on your new screenshot, is that "this article has been edited since it finished loaded" notice. That's sweet! I'm most impressed you're able to make stuff like that, (while I'm a software expert, I know nada about coding, lol). So, not knowing your tool, perhaps I owe you even more of an apology, and again I offer my most sincere apologies, but I get concerned because it seems more and more, these days people are biting others' heads off for reverting their notices/warnings, even when it was a valid double-warning issue, and I just felt I should say something rather than have you be angry at me and block me for it ^Ariel♥Gold 09:08, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On the errors, that's another reason I decided to code my own tool. I've had very good luck with both VS and WB -- neither have had horrible crash bugs. At the most there will be some visual or logic glitch that's cake to fix.

And no apology necessary. Bringing it to me was a good thing for both of us, and I'd never block you for removing one of my warnings. That would be a violation of just about every policy in the book and wouldn't help anybody. --Chris (talk) 09:12, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, perhaps, but I've watched that, and worse happen over the past two years, lol. The VP errors I get are known issues, and there's this little stand-alone app you can run, but it doesn't do it for me, not sure why, but it sure is an annoying issue, so I just use VF, which is okay, except for a few glitches (it resets the columns every time I start it, lol, annoying, I know, stupid to care about how stuff "looks", lol) Anyway, thank you for being so nice about this, sometimes I feel like I'll get my head bit off if I mention things like this, and you've been really sweet, so thanks. ^Ariel♥Gold 09:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You'd be surprised how many of those minor annoyances have shaped some of the design choices I've made developing VS and WB. :) And no problem, feel free to contact me about anything else. I promise I'll be nice. :) --Chris (talk) 09:17, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well now this makes TWO nice Chris people I know! Chrislk02 is just awesome, and granted, I lurked for a whole long time to read/learn/watch, it turns out you can only get some experience by doing, lol. Don't worry tho, I won't bug you (much) lol. ^Ariel♥Gold 09:38, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to bug me, but of course I might not be able to respond quickly if I'm busy. --Chris (talk) 09:40, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...

... for directing me to the right page to report the abuse. — Timotab ^{Timothy (not Tim}^dagnabbit!) 09:19, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Hope the situation resolves. --Chris (talk) 09:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About Wiikipedian

Hi, may I ask why you removed this user Wiikipedian from the AIV list without any action? He had repeated the same behavior after his final warning and is a persistent vandal so what is wrong with reporting him? --Kudret abi 10:09, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

His actions are not simple vandalism as defined in the policy page, therefore it's not appropriate to report him at AIV. Please use ANI instead. --Chris (talk) 10:10, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Given your implied permission on your contact page, I've posted our yahoo conversation on my talk page. Let me know if that's a problem— Timotab ^{Timothy (not Tim}^dagnabbit!) 20:21, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that's fine, and in fact encouraged. I was going to post it here but got distracted. :S --Chris (talk) 01:00, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

220.239.56.240

I see you've had to block this IP recently

220.239.56.240 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log).

I've noted their behaviour mirrors that of another IP

211.30.232.229 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log),

also operating recently — the same nonsense about Herostratus, similar petty vandalism and tinkering with warning notices.

Thing is, I've been watching the Herostratus article for a while now, and on a couple of prior occasions, someone with a similar MO has turned up to mess with it. That, plus Google, has identified another three IPs prior to this

220.239.184.3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
211.30.39.51 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
220.237.22.54 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

The point is that this Proj Herostratus stuff has been going on for a while now, which suggests someone with a shifting IP has been a serial vandal. I'm not sure it exactly counts as sockpuppetry, and there's no point in doing a vandalism report with the current block, so I'm wondering what I should do about this. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. --Mark H Wilkinson ^{(t, c)} 18:14, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VandalSniper not working under Ubuntu 7.04

When I tried to run mono vs.exe, I got this error:

tom@tom-desktop:~/vandalsniper-63$ mono vs.exe

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Gecko.WebControl ---> System.DllNotFoundException: /usr/lib/firefox/libgtkembedmoz.so

 at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gecko.WebControl:gtk_moz_embed_get_type ()
 at Gecko.WebControl.get_GType () [0x00000]
 at GtkSharp.GeckoSharp.ObjectManager.Initialize () [0x00000]
 at Gecko.WebControl..cctor () [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

 at <0x00000> <unknown method>
 at VandalSniper.MainWindow.newBrowser (System.String url) [0x00000]
 at VandalSniper.MainWindow..ctor () [0x00000]
 at VandalSniper.MainWindow.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

Can you help me? --Gunny01 05:25, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See the section on this page #Problem running VS in Ubuntu Feisty. --Chris (talk) 15:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]