User talk:slakr
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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 If you can't find something you recently posted, I might have moved it down there or it could have been archived if you posted it over 7 days ago.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. |
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Hey sorry but i don't know what a tilde is, in spanish a tilde is an accent, since my keyboard is in spanish i don't know where to find that symbol, and you guys delete my posts for something as ridiculous as that? so my opinion isn't valid because i don't have a freaking tilde? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.40.61.7 (talk) 04:31, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_sign_your_posts Wikipedia now includes a little icon thing that lets you put in the information normally contained in the four tildes without needing the proper keyboard. It Will appear as a series of four tildes "Chardansearavitriol (talk) 03:29, 2 March 2011 (UTC)" immediatly below save/show preview / show changes buttons. Chardansearavitriol (talk) 03:29, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Sinebot
Hello Slakr!
I'm a ptwiki user, and I'm lately surfing on enwiki to bring some ideas for the Lusophone project. I'm very interested in SineBot, because in ptwiki, when a user does not sign a message, we have to check the signature manually.
Would you help me in the process of translating the language of the robot program?
As on enwiki, we have to make a request, however I do not know anything about the technical function of creating a robot.
Can you help me?
Hugs
Willy WeasleyAvada Kedavra! 14:01, 14 April 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Willy Weazley (talk • contribs)
Procsee Bot error?
Hi. I saw the block log today for 194.126.21.9 and I'm a little confused. It looks like ProcseeBot meant to block 213.175.165.130, but blocked this IP instead. I've attached the relevant entry below. If you could take a look, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
- * (del/undel) 06:37, 27 March 2011 ProcseeBot (talk | contribs | block) blocked 194.126.21.9 (talk) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 2 months ({{blocked proxy}} <!-- 213.175.165.130:3128 -->) (unblock | change block) TNXMan 11:31, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
- When the exit point of the block differs from the entry point, the bot will put the entry point in the comment, along with the port. So, say for example you can use a proxy at 123.45.67.89, port 1234, but instead of it routing the proxy traffic on 123.45.67.89, it instead uses another ip—99.88.77.66—for outgoing traffic. Checking to see if 99.88.77.66 is an open proxy would likely result in a false negative, as incoming requests are only being listened to on 123.45.67.89:1234, so the bot would block 99.88.77.66 and put 123.45.67.89:1234 in the block reason to help other admins verify whether it's still open. --slakr\ talk / 09:54, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, it makes sense now. Thanks! TNXMan 20:51, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Help! Vandal with power!
Hi! Could you please assist. It appears we have a Vandal here who is using his "power" with WP to assert himself. On the Beagle 2 page, I originally wrote on the first para, that Beagle 2 "...may have missed Mars altogether, skipped off the atmosphere or entered an orbit around the sun, or burned up during its descent. If if reached the surface, then it may have hit too hard, or simply failed to contact Earth due to a fault". This was very concise, accurate, detailed and informative.
However, some time later, the "Vandal" complained of, Ruslik0, replaced this text with less informative, and misleading text which also doesn't inform the reader of all the possibilities which could have befallen the Beagle probe. I have undone his insertion on a number of occasions and I have written on the Discussion page about this Vandalism. Please see "Vandalism" and "Comment" on the Discussion page, which explains all of my reasons in detail.
However Ruslik0 simply kept blindly replacing my original wording with his -- and always without a word of explanation.
Lately, he has also deleted part of the History where all this was happening -- and locked the entire Article-- and again without a single word of explanation!
Sadly, there are on WP many who still display the "territorial ape" which is regrettably all too present in some people, and they simly get rattled if you "violate their space, where they have left their territorial marker". This is why he cannot provide any rational justification for his actions -- but at the same time he can't stop doing it. Could you please investigate the matter. WP deserves the very best in writing and informative standards and here we are definitely going backwards.
Thankyou. (204.112.57.207 (talk) 18:07, 18 April 2011 (UTC)) I am also Valhalan; I was asked some years ago to be an administrator but alas I have a very demanding job which limits my time.
- I'm not well-versed in the topic, but you should cite expert speculation about what happened to it with a verifiable secondary source. If parts of the speculation aren't substantiated in the sources cited (e.g., the part about it skipping off the atmosphere and magically going into stable orbit around the sun), then it would have no place in the article. If, however, there are a decent portion of experts saying that it is a valid possibility, then it should be no problem to cite those views. I'd suggest discussing it on the article's talk page. --slakr\ talk / 09:49, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Ops gear
Per my comment at the AfD, can you please salt that name as well as OPSGEAR to prevent recreation? Someone else will probably attempt to put the advert back in if we don't. I will go ahead and close the AfD. CycloneGU (talk) 20:43, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- Never mind, I see you've closed it. I was waiting for the WP:SALT myself. CycloneGU (talk) 20:48, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- Someone else salted the old article; I went ahead and got the new one. --slakr\ talk / 20:55, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- Good deal. Hopefully, they don't try to use some other abbreviation (like OPS gear or something), but we'll catch it when they do. CycloneGU (talk) 20:56, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- Someone else salted the old article; I went ahead and got the new one. --slakr\ talk / 20:55, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Talkback
Message added 10:51, 30 April 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Hi, I'm writing in response to your deletion of [Harvest (software)]. I created the page in October 2010 and it passed deletion review. The page was reviewed again last month and deleted. It was granted userification by the deleting administrator User:Sandstein. The following changes were made to the page: 1) Added a notable reference. Specifically, an article in the The Wall Street Journal. The link to the latter article was not on the page before deletion. 2) Added Harvest (software) to the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computing, an effort to increase the quality and quantity of information about computing on Wikipedia. Before deletion, Harvest (software) was apart of Comparison of time tracking software, an informative article that is apart of the project. I request that Harvest_(software) be restored, so that I may submit the updated article for proper Peer_review. Thank you! Srinath10 (talk) 21:26, 1 May 2011 (UTC)