User talk:Mr.Z-man

Physics traffic stats

Could you set up a page like Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Popular pages for Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics, Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Acoustics, Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Fluid dynamics, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Relativity? These would be very usefull to have. Thanks. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 17:38, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Will be done in a few days. Mr.Z-man 19:04, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool. A new taskforce as been set up in the meantime (Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Glass). It would be nice to have it covered also. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 04:50, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

refToolbar

Hi! I've started creating some of my own userscripts, and I was wondering if you'd be okay with me copying yours so that I have a base to build off of. The final version of my script would do something completely different, but would use the same layout and formatting for use in the edit box. I just wanted to check before I went ahead and used it. Thanks! –Drilnoth (T • C) 14:55, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure go ahead. Mr.Z-man 19:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

On behalf of the Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign, we just want to spread Wikipedia:WikiLove by wishing you a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 16:19, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/15

I disabled this filter as it is broken (see abuse log). Prodego ^talk 01:15, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Popular Pages Request

Could you please set up a 'popular pages' page, similar to The Beatles' one, for Wikipedia:WikiProject Michael Jackson? Thanks in advance, Pyrrhus16 17:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Will be done in a few days. Mr.Z-man 19:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Request for popular pages for Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia and Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds

Hi Z-man,

Requesting for popular pages for two WikiProjects - Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia and Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds. IMHO the Spoken Article project really require your stats to boost overall morale while the Bird wikiprojects will help me prioritise which bird pages to read for better reach with our very limited resources. Thanks in advance.

This is really a fantastic service you have developed. May you always be in a state of Wikinirvana.

AshLin (talk) 15:47, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

I've been doing the bird project for a while - Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Popular pages. Unfortunately, the Spoken Wikipedia project doesn't use the same categorization system as normal wikiprojects, so that bot wouldn't work with it without significant changes. Mr.Z-man 19:02, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Request undeletion of Deathsmiles II

The article Deathsmiles II was under quick deletion for (G11: Blatant advertising), which is a false accusation on the nature of the article. The original article had previews of the game that were run by independent journalist, which could not classify it as 'Blatant advertising'. Besides, putting it in quick deletion was not even fair since there was no call for debate before it was deleted. It should be restored immediately. - Jacob Poon (talk) 21:00, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

I would suggest you bring this up with the admin who deleted it - User talk:Tone, though I would note that the speedy deletion policy doesn't require a debate. Mr.Z-man 22:02, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

BetacommandBot warnings

Hi.

There is something i would like you to help me with. You see, there is this bot that put warnings about fair use violations on images, surely you have crossed ways with one of his warnings sometime; The bot has been out of service for a while now and a lot of the thousands of warnings he put are about images that have already been erased and should be erased as well.

I asked one of the admins that participated in the block of the user that operated the bot about a way to find and/or delete these warnings, other that the manual way at least, and your name came up, so what do you think?. Could Mr. Z-bot take care of that, either erase the warnings that are no longer useful either because the image has been erased or because the proper fair use rationale has been added or just generate a list so i could do it manually.

I know is a little too much to ask but i`ll await your answer either here or in my talk page. Thanks in advance. Zidane tribal (talk) 23:27, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Slightly confused...

Are you a rəʊɡ admin or a ruːʒ admin? It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 23:45, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Bot apparently mishandling {{indefblocked}}

The bot appears to be doing the wrong thing with indef user blocked templates -

See: [1]

It's replacing {{indefblocked}} with {{ti|indefblocked}}. The temporary userpage category is inside the indefblocked template, but the end effect is to mangle the template's display.

I think this is an artifact of not having subst'ed the template in the first place - I'm doing that now on some pages the bot did this to.

Thanks! Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 01:26, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

This is the intended behavior, as there isn't a very simple way of expanding the template and removing the category in one edit and there's no other way to remove the category besides adding the "historical" parameter, which just categorizes it into a different cat, which is wrong. The only other real option is to remove the template altogether, or comment it out. Mr.Z-man 01:33, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Sleeper sock filter 1

Are you sure this is working properly? It appears to look for the user's name in the article title, rather than multiple edits to the same article. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:41, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

It verifies that the user's name isn't in the title, to avoid false positives with people creating their userpage. The important part is taken care of with the throttle settings. Mr.Z-man 17:17, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Abuse_filter/False_positives#204.52.215.135

Please take a look at the above report. Somehow their first edit didn't trigger filter 32 when it should have. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:47, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

CloseAFD Kudos

I wish to thank you for CloseAFD. It is incredibly useful and time-saving. I was wondering if you have created a script comparable to it for other XfDs, (such as MfDs, TfDs, CfDs, etc) or if you know of scripts people use. Is there a way to have an automated count appear of the !votes for Keeps, Deletes, Merge, etc, similar to that which exists for RfAs? Thanks, Valley2city^‽ 02:52, 1 April 2009 (UTC).

New Rochelle discussion notice

New Rochelle problem discussion notification: I've opened a new discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Long-running problem with respect to New Rochelle area articles.

This relates to the 4 part proposal i opened on March 26, which was closed on March 27 and archived at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive187#Proposal for unban, apology, amnesty for Jvolkblum and related others, and topic ban for Orlady.

This is a courtesy notice to all parties who had more than a one word comment in the previous discussion. I think it is a problem that won't go away, and I hope that you will be part of the solution, whether or not you and I have agreed previously. I hope that we can at least clarify the problem, if not immediately agree upon a solution. If anyone thinks this is inappropriate canvassing, I am sure they will express that. I don't anticipate too many separated discussions on this topic, but if this one is closed and a new one opens, I'll probably notify you again, unless you ask me not to. doncram (talk) 03:35, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Barnstars

You will notice I took all your barnstars. You can get them back by paying me....One Million Dollars! Grsz¹¹ 04:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

1 million Zimbabwean dollars will be wired to your Swiss bank account in an hour. Mr.Z-man 04:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I have returned your stars in lieu of the ransom. I expect it within the hour or Mrs and Baby Z-men won't be too happy. Grsz¹¹ 04:18, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Request for arbitration - Unjustified ban of users

I have filed a request for arbitration regarding recent bans of user accounts from which no activities could be found that dispupt Wikipedia. The arbitration request can be found here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Block of editors related to sockpuppet Jvolkblum You are not mentioned as an involved party, I send you this message as a courtesy for your information, and I hope that your opinion there can contribute to solve the issue. Thank you! doxTxob \ ^talk 23:09, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

unsourced blp

We do not yet have a policy for removing unsourced blp articles, just unsourceable. Per WP:BEFORE, one should try to source them. (I know I am saying this to someone who has been ad admin for almost exactly as I have & knows policy just as well, but I'm explaining why I've removed some of your prods giving such reasons where I think there might be some chance of notability. One is no longer alive. One had a ref in the text. One or two I even sourced. Those I agreed would be deleted even if sourced I put on a prod2 to make that clear. I recognize there's a dispute about deletion policy for this right now at WT:CSD, and I am probably on the opposite side of it from you. so take a few of them to afd, if you like, and people will probably source some there and delete the rest. This has got to get resolved somehow. ) DGG (talk) 05:03, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Mr.Z-man. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject user warnings.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

-- IRP ☎ 23:30, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Diego Romero

The article about Diego Romero (which is quite brief) has three references. What are you talking about? Cheers, Uyvsdi (talk) 07:09, 6 April 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

All the bot does is replace {{unreferenced}} when its used on a BLP with {{BLP unsourced}}. There's no reliable way to check for references first, so it just replaces the template. If its wrong, just remove it. Mr.Z-man 16:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Cheers, Uyvsdi (talk) 19:51, 6 April 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Bot getting it wrong

Hi, "Hatnotes are placed at the very top of the article, before any other items such as images, navigational templates and maintenance templates (like the "cleanup", "unreferenced", and "POV" templates)." (WP:HNP), but your bot is moving correctly placed {{unref}} templates, while changing them to {{BLP unsourced}}, to put them above hatnotes. Please correct your bot, and correct the changes it has already made. See example here. PamD (talk) 10:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

As far as I can see the Bot approval makes no mention of moving the templates around like this! PamD (talk) 10:19, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Just thought I'd tell you, this user has brought this to WP:AN/I. — neuro^{(talk)(review)} 10:57, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I should have mentioned that - a little while after making the above comments I saw that the bot is continuing, and still is as I type, and was anxious to get it stopped from making more mistaken edits if possible. There seemed no other place to go. PamD (talk) 11:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I stopped the bot a few hours ago after seeing this, and it will be fixed soon. In the future, a little assumption of good faith would be nice (this is based on the comments at ANI). I can assure you I didn't program it to move things above the hatnotes out of malice. Mr.Z-man 16:18, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry if I didn't word it well - I wasn't assuming malice, just a mistake, but was hoping to get the bot stopped before it could make many more mistakes. When you hadn't replied after half an hour (ie were clearly not online) I went to ANI in the hope the bot could be stopped that way. Thanks. PamD (talk) 16:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Carrying on, the bot is still making mistakes - it tagged Abdel El-Saqua as unreferenced, even though it has 4 notes on it! GiantSnowman 22:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

The bot isn't tagging anything on its own. It only replaces {{unreferenced}} with {{BLP unsourced}}. If the article was mistagged in the first place, that's not my fault. Mr.Z-man 22:06, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Edits your bot makes should still be checked though...GiantSnowman 22:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

If the tag is wrong, just remove it, but it was wrong before the bot edited it, so I fail to see how its all my fault. There's about 18,000 pages it needs to recategorize, manually reviewing all of them is infeasible and defeats the purpose of using a bot. Mr.Z-man 01:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Banner swap

Article Ralph Murphy; Your bot has updated the noreferences banner, to BLP unsourced. Because the article does indeed have four 'minor' references, I've decided to update the banner once again, to "Refimprove" for accuracy. Please make further adjustments to this if necessary. WikHead (talk) 22:08, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Undeletion Request of BLP of Nikol Hasler

I have been notified that you have removed a wikipedia entry about me based on your thoughts that it was a train wreck. While some of the information was unsourced, it would seem that you should delete the unsourced information instead of the entire article.

In checking the sources that are allowable for BLPs, I have discovered that self published information (such as a twitter stream) are allowable so long as the source is written by the subject of the bio. Since people contributed sources from my public twitter page, these would be deemed appropriate.

Furthermore, the entry itself is based upon several sources of notable information. I can be reached at my publicly known email address if you wish to discuss further.

Nikol Hasler 69.113.165.192 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC).

I found out through various sources that you have removed the wikipedia entry I established for Nikol Hasler. This entry was created with Ms. Hasler's permission, and while much of it was based on her public Twitter stream (with her expressed permission), other sections were sourced from more traditionally verifiable sources.

As for your characterization of the article as a "train wreck"; the scattershot style of portions of the article were illustrative of various aspects of Ms. Hasler's personality and lifestyle. When a person does not lead a traditional lifestyle, a biography page cannot be squeezed into a traditional mold.

I respectfully request that the article be restored. If there are unverifable/unsourced contributions those individual contributions should be marked for review; but the entire article should not be deleted.

Flahute (talk) 00:29, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

You're free to take it to deletion review, but Wikipedia articles are not a work of art. They should be consistent, factual, and encyclopedic. They should not strive to reflect the subject's personality. We have over 300,000 biographies of living people, I'm sure more than one of them has led a non-traditional lifestyle, yet we manage to create traditional articles on all of them. Mr.Z-man 01:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Dear Mr Zed,

My recollection of Nikol's page was that it was fairly detailed, with information about her past, present, credits in print and television. All in all it was a good biography with myriad references and specific sources, and links to Nikol's magazine column and show - so where is the problem? If you honestly found it a train wreck, why not edit it and put the information into a cohesive state? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oroborange (talk • contribs) 01:53, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

The majority of the references were to the subject's own Twitter feed. The majority of the "biography" was a summary of Twitter postings - completly inappropriate for an encyclopedia. I already declined to undelete it above. If you wish to have it undeleted, please start a deletion review.

Why not just put the article back up and let the creator, myself, Nikol or one of her 1,000,000+ fans alter it? Do you have a personal vendetta against Ms. Hasler? Did she turn you down for prom, or make a joke about sad lonely people spending (wasting) their lives voluntarily checking wikipedia for accuracy? You're being a child about this whole matter, and if I had quite as much free time as you, I'd see fit to go though your entire history of edits and note down just how dooshy you've been to the plethora of other articles you've taken your red pen to. Luckily for you (wait, make that me) I have a *real* job and a life to boot. Doosh it up Mr Zed. Doosh it good and proper.