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Your statistics page

I recently fixed a spelling error on your statistics template. Werdna_T^c_@^b_C^m_L^t 22:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, thanks. Someone pointed that out a while ago, but I forgot to fix it. I actually need to make some changes to VP's code to fix it for everyone for good. Oh, and before I forget, thanks aqgain for nominating me! I'm working on getting my thank you notes out tonight. AmiDaniel (talk)

No problems. It really was my pleasure. Werdna_T^c_@^b_C^m_L^t 10:35, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiLove

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Pacific Coast University School of Law article

Just an update that Bobak Ha'Eri, Esq. communicated with us and there has been a general agreement that the change proposed by the Vice Dean Charles Hicks, Esq. of our institution was correct and okay to revise.

Also, Bobak's suggestion on where to move that particular paragraph in the article was very, very helpful.

And, yes, even though I am a newbie to all this, I did somehow manage to move the paragraph all by myself.

Thank you again for all your help.

Sincerely,

Robert Campbell, JD for PCU (*)

(*) not the university featured in the movie entitled "PCU"

    : - )

Please stop

Do us all a favour and give up editing. Erase this page. Your superhuman, almost godlike stupidity is contaminating Wikipedia, making it worse (it's already pretty bad). Please, please quit! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.12.17 (talk • contribs)

Falun Gong

Ami:

You unfroze the Falun Gong page yesterday and an editor named Dilip Rajeev immediately started a series of edits, exceeding his 3RR limit. I blocked his reverts and exceeded my 3RR limit as well. You issued a warning to both Dilip and I. In response, I stopped doing all reverts or deletions, but if you check the history on the page you will see Dilip resumed several hours later. Check particularly his edit of 10:21 June in which he deleted an entire paragraph claiming it was unsourced. It is a pargraph we had discussed before and we had agreed not to discuss all source issues before making any deletions. If your words have any meaning at all, I ask that you block Dilip now. --Tomananda 18:43, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I agree that he is well in excess of three reverts in one day, but unfortunately I wasn't around when he did, and it's now been eleven hours. Blocking is a preventitive rather than punitive measure, and so if he's refrained from edit warring in the last eleven hours, I don't really see a need to block. I'll be watching though, and thanks for your note. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

If you get the time and feel like it, could you do a revert count on the Falun Gong page again? I don't want anybody blocked, but a stern warning might be in order. :-) Samuel has one that I don't think should count, right after one of mine. I'll take his in exchange for mine, since his is the one I should have done. Thanks! CovenantD 19:30, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind. That was several hours ago and the editing has stopped for now. I think they're all asleep. :-) CovenantD 22:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the E-Mail I sent for "Edie Britt"

The IP address is 152.163.100.73.

Thank you so much for your attention to this. It is much appreciated. Namaste, Edie

Help with using VandalProof

Hi. I was recently approved to use the vandalproof software and I was wondering how to use it. Do you revert changes the same way as you did without the software? And how do you leave the user a warning? I know there's these buttons at the top but they're codes I'm not familiar with. Can you help me out? Thanks! --Tuspm 20:53, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Flagging so you will notice this message. I'm out. Prodego ^talk 02:52, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Gahhh ... thanks Prodego! Sometimes I start at the top and sometimes I start at the bottom, but somehow I always miss one or two . Oh, first of all, I still owe you another program (the diacritics/redirects tool). I actaully have it more or less already written; I'll upload that tomorrow hopefully. Anyway, the most standard way to use VP is to load recent changes (using the update button), then go through and click on each one you want to view. If the edit is vandalism, then you can click one of the seven Rollback buttons to revert and/or post a warning. For example, if you click "Rollback {{tes1-n}}" it will revert the edit and then post the {{test1}} template on the user's talk page. I have a feeling that once you have some time to play around with it a bit, you'll get the hang of it, but please let me know if I need to further clarify anything, or if you have any other questions. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:56, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

The Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California Page

According to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions:

Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature.

Since NOBODY outside of Wikipedia uses the term Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California to refer to the community of Anaheim Hills, naming an article about it with this term is in direct violation of the primary Wikipedia naming convention. An alleged standard naming "convention" dreamed up by mildly autistic and/or O-C Wikipedia administrators for their own irrational need for perceived order is null and void because using that reason violates the naming convention too, which also is also stated as follows:

Another way to summarize the overall principle of Wikipedia's naming conventions:

Names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors; and for a general audience over specialists.

The much simpler and more recognizable term of Anaheim Hills alone is what should be the article name here, regardless of what a handful of editors happen to vote for in a strawpoll. --Ericsaindon2 02:44, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

...then gain consensus for your idea. Moving the article so frequently that it has to be protected, and then forking the article though a copy-and-paste move (which destroys the page history and causes a lot of stress for others) so frequently that the redirect has to be protected is not the way to go about invoking this change. If you're asking me to move the article for you, then forget it. Regardless of who is right and who is wrong, your actions are highly counterproductive. Take a day off; come back when your head is clear. If you continue to act in such fashion, the vacation will be enforced. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, but you are clearly breaking the rules, and why should it be protected on the Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California page anyway? I wrote that article from top to bottom, shouldnt the way I want it, and the way it should be Anaheim Hills, California be the way it is? Why should it be locked on Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California. If you have locked it on Anaheim Hills, California, you would have been in this same mess, with other editors that wanted it changed so they copied and pasted it to Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California, (which you failed to notice that they have been doing it all day). I am just asking you to use your brain. There are about 1% of all pages in California that are community pages that follow this convention, and why should they (your "chosen" editors) get the ultimate power to decide it is locked on Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California. If you look at any other entry on the world wide web about Anaheim Hills, it doesnt state Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California. You have no justification for blocking the movement of this page (expecially since I wrote 99.999999999% of this article). You have no Wikipedia rule that states that the code is community, city, state. In fact, my method is more commonly used, and is more appealing (and not to mention doesnt sound totally retarded). You really need to start looking at the whole picture before you just go locking pages from editing, because you are not following the Wikipedia rules when you do that, and you have no justification. Please respond. --Ericsaindon2 03:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

re: Anaheim Hills

Thanks. I could have done it myself, but I have become a bit too involved in the dispute that I tried to limit my use of the "buttons" so it would not be viewed as "admin abuse" or something like that. Which reminds me, my one year anniversary of being a sysop in almost here. [1] As I understand it, you became an admin yourself recently. Congratulations, and of course, to your VandalProof software. See ya around. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:00, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

No, I totally understand, and I think it's quite professional of you to ask patiently for someone else to do this for you, rather than doing it yourself. And yes, it's been an interesting few days since being sysopped [2]. Still have to get my support thank you's out! And congratulations on your anniversary of sysophood! AmiDaniel (talk) 03:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Guillen is back

I hope I did this right. Guillen is back as User:Elbautista and User:201.209.104.7. I tagged User:Elbautista with {{Socksuspect}} and posted Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Guillen as per the instructions on Wikipedia:Sock puppetry/Notes for the accuser. Please feel free to yell at me if I made a mistake - this is my first time tagging a sock. BigDT 03:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

First one indef blocked, second one got 24 (but not from me). I tagged the first one as proven, as I think, given my history with this case, it's quite obvious that it's a sock. Given his recent abuse of sockpuppetry, I'm thinking that it may be necessary to lengthen User:Guillen's block as well (currently one week I think). Thanks for the note, and let me know about any others! AmiDaniel (talk) 04:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Visual Basic

This is really random and off topic, but how do you add a menu in Visual Basics? I seem to be able to find a lot of items in the Toolbox, but I don't recall seeing a menu button. Thanks in advance! G.He 04:13, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, on my version, there are buttons for "combobox" and "listbox" on the toolbar on the left. That is what I always use when I want a menu. --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 04:21, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking more of the menu like the menu on an application (I.e. Mozilla Firefox: File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks, Tools, Help, etc.) G.He 04:28, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I know I have seen that somewhere, because I have used it in about 10 different things. I just forgot where it is. Let me look into that..... --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 04:33, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I know AmiDaniel knows how to do it and I know he is online. So can he please respond? --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 04:52, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Menu editor. It's ridiculously simple in VB, just right-click on the form and go to Menu Editor. There you can add and move around menu items. Dynamic menus are a bit more complicated, but I'm assuming you just want to do the basics. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:54, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Now how did I miss that?? I must've right-clicked on the form for at least 10 times..... :) G.He 04:58, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

A haiku of thanks

Thanks for your support

In my RfA, which passed!

Wise I'll try to be.

-- Natalya 04:22, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Unblock

Desperatebree uses an AOL account, and, for my sins, so do I. Because of the dynamic addresses used by AOL, the block was catching me too, so the consequence of freeing myself was that this user was also unblocked. This is a problem that will persist unless Wikipedia takes vandals seriously (ie, no anon edits, and new usernames to wait an hour before first edit. jimfbleak 04:59, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Ohh... I wasn't aware s/he was on AOL. Well, this will just complicate matters further--she's got puppets popping up everywhere and is quite an abusive user. I'll drop a note on AN/I and try to get some input on this, as I'm not sure exactly what to do. Nothing against you, but AOL is really starting to piss me off =). Thanks for your response. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:03, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Check out pgk's tool that checks for autoblocks. Does that help? Basically you just block for the normal length and then have to keep an eye out for autoblocks. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 05:46, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been using that with all of the other AOL blocks I've had to do (awesome tool by the way!), but it's still a nightmare to have to do that every time a new sock pops up. I'm gonna keep my eye on the user, and if she returns to doing what she was then I'll block again. Thanks for the note, PS2. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Ministry

I am trying to add a genre in the Metal band Ministry. Ministry is a war metal and industrial metal band, but every time I edit the page, it is reverted to industrial metal. This is getting annoying.

I would appreciate some help here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RedWasp (talk • contribs) .

It seems that there is some disagreement about that, thus why your edits have been reverted. I'd suggest that you post a message on the talk page and explain why you feel they fall under both genres. I'm not too familiar with the history of the article, but I'm guessing that their genre is of heavy dispute, as it is for many articles on bands. If you can cite sources that support your view that will also help to pursuade others to agree with your classification of the band. If you need help making this post or contacting others involved in the editing the article, I'll be glad to help you with that. Just remeber that Wikipedia is a colloborative project, and it's often times difficult to agree on certain things. The best way to go about it is to discuss changes before implementing when concerns have been raised. Again, feel free to contact me if you need my help. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:10, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Content Dispute?

Hi could you teach me what you it means when an administrator writes "content dispute?" You just used that in your edit summary. Much thanks, Kukini 05:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to randomly drop in since Daniel is probably doing awesome things right now. The report was made to AIV, about really just an edit war, AIV is obviously for vandalisim fighting purposes. The two users were just disagreeing over two things about Sprint. It's not vandalism, just a challenge of thoughts. Well, I've been a jerk enough. Adios. Yanksox 05:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I was just stating that I had removed the user from the list as WP:AIV is only to be used for reporting obvious vandalism. WP:3RR violations and other sorts of content disputes should be taken to other forums, such as WP:AN/3RR, WP:AN/I, or WP:RfC--or people should just try to discuss the problems themselves. I did, however, check through all of his contributions and will be watching both him and the other user carefully. I'm still trying to review the claim of defamation, as that could well warrant a block. In any case, it wasn't a user you added who I removed, but thanks for asking. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:38, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks much!! I actually appreciated both responses. Best, Kukini 05:47, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Belated...

congratulations on your mop! Teke 05:43, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! You'll hopefully be getting a belated "thank you for supporting me" note tonight! lol AmiDaniel (talk) 05:44, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Meh, it ain't about me :P By the way, a pat on the head for mboverload's moderating of VandalProof by authorizing my new Username within minutes. Teke 05:52, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Maładečna

Thanks for your help. Hopefully we'll get somewhere now. //Halibutt 09:37, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Good luck resolving your dispute. AmiDaniel (talk) 09:38, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

No longer being recognized as a moderator

For some reason VandalProof is freaking out and saying I'm not a moderator? I assume you would have actually told me about pulling me from the list so I assume it's some kind of malfunction? --mboverload@ 10:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I tried reseting it again. Let me know if it works for you. And yes, you should still be a moderator--I haven't found a reason to turn on you yet :-P. AmiDaniel (talk) 10:28, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Heh, still not working. Don't worry about it for now, all I needed to know is that you didn't show me the door =) I'm on IRC if you want to chat up your recent uber-mop! =D --mboverload@ 10:37, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

If you can, get on IRC. I have a question about how to publically display my logs and stuff. Too bad I wiped my old files so I'm back to square one on revert counts...Not that it's a race or anything...maybe =D --mboverload@ 10:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Farewell for now...

I am getting set to leave for New York City by 11 o'clock. I won't be with you Wikipedians until tomorrow morning. After clearing my user page, my next edits will be based in America.

So long...and thanks for all the fish. (NB: I'll be using your VandalProof when I'm up there.)

Bye! --Slgrandson 10:59, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Sprint Nextel

Why am I getting into trouble for changing the Established date from 2005 back to 1899???? Locust43 change it in the first place, so I put it back to the correct date. How am I now in trouble for changing it back? So I guess if Locust43 claims Sprint is a carrier with 2 users, and I change it back, then I will get into trouble???? Why am I getting a warning about this??? Why not Locust43??

Hello

Hi, I'm Kaley. I'm new to this and I just wondered if you know of any projects I can help with. I like entertainment (TV, film, music) so I could help with those pages. I'm also good with grammar and spelling so if you know of any articles that needed cleaning up I'd be happy to help.

Also, how do you get these cool icons on the bottom of your user page.. I want them for mine. There's nothing on there at the moment!

Thanks! Kaley c 14:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Our friend has another sock

See User:Eliecer ... his edits weren't nearly as harmful this time ... two have been outright reverted and two have been cleansed. BigDT 17:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Hm. I don't think the evidence here is conclusive enough to block. I'll keep my eye on him, but be sure to let me know if he continues. It would be great if we could get a CheckUser on Guilien to confirm a couple of these and to find out where else he has sockg hiding, but unfortunately WP:RCU is down currently. Anyway, keep letting me know what you find. Thanks. AmiDaniel (talk) 19:25, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Please check again ... it's pretty conclusive now ... also, the IP user User:201.208.220.134 BigDT 20:55, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, Eliecer is indef blocked, and I blocked the IP for one month as it was static and only being used for malignant purposes. AmiDaniel (talk)

I seem to have endless amounts of questions...

Hi AmiDaniel! Hopefully, this will be my last question regarding Visual Basics... How do you make an install package using Visual Basics? Are there specific file requirements, or am I just not looking at the right place? The help file seems to be quite useless, as it has not answered my question yet, and I don't want to be doing this for the whole day. Thanks! G.He 20:00, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Dilip rajeev just violated the 3RR rule

Dilip rajeev who has been editing on the Falun Gong article just violated the 3RR rule again. His 4th revert is at this time 19:47, 3 June 2006. If you are serious about enforcing the 3RR rule, you need to block him for 24 hours. Dilip has been warned many times and his recent edit was again done without a consensus. --Samuel Luo 20:42, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

He has been blocked for 12 hours. I would, however, like to point out that both you and User:Tomananda are already (if I counted correctly) at 3 reverts. Just because he technically violated the policy, it does not mean that your actions are any less destructive or obnoxious. Refrain from edit warring immediately, and try discussing changes before implementing or reverting. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for continuing to keep an eye on this page. I decided to go out and have a life today and was afraid this might happen. Feel free to stop by when you have time and count again - it wouldn't surprise me if somebody else violates 3RR today. CovenantD 02:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

/me shakes head. Pointless edit wars ... they're more frustrating than the vandals. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Anaheim Hills, California Comprimise

In order to promote peace and reconciliation, I propose that we move the article back to "Anaheim Hills, California". Though the practice of naming articles according to the scheme of "neighborhood, city, state" is very common and practical, it is not a policy. On occasion, some editors have objected strenuously to having their neighborhood article named in that way. While consistency is important in an encyclopedia, the exigencies of collaborative editing are such that sometimes it's virtualy necessary for common practice to give way to individual preference.

This case is slightly different than some because many recent edits sought to portray the district incorrectly as an independent place. Those edits sensitized other editors to claims of independence. However I think we've moved past that stage and there is no longer any question that Anaheim Hills is a part of Anaheim. The article now properly reflects that fact in the text.

If moving the article back to just "Anaheim Hills, California" will bring peace to the article, and if editors can agree to remove contentious boxes, and unverifiable data, then I think it is worth making an exception to normal practice. This is all too minor to fight about. -Will Beback 09:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

This was a message regarding our consensus to change the name to Anaheim Hills, California. But, if it were to be changed again, ti would also need to be protected from being changed back by angry editors, at least for 48 hours. Please consider our comprimise that we have come up with --Ericsaindon2 00:12, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I will unprotect the article when protection is no longer necessary; I will not condone moving it while it's protected unless there is overwhelming consensus to do so. Otherwise, I think it best to leave the article where it is currently and move-protected. I noticed the poll you started on the talk page today; it demonstrates to me that there is not consensus yet, nor has adequate time been given to determine consensus. Please just relax for a bit, discuss your reasons, and give it some time. There's no need currently for rash action, and I'm not going to go against the protection policy just because you believe the title to be better. Sorry. AmiDaniel (talk) 00:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Anaheim Hills revert warring

Since you seem to be taking an interest in resolving this, I figured I'd let you know that I have blocked User:Ericsaindon2 and User:Gellersen for 48 and 24 hours respectively for revert warring over the inclusion of the infobox. They both had been blocked before for violating the 3RR and things are already heated enough on the page, so I stepped in. Just thought I'd let you know. Anway, keep up the good work as an admin. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 00:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for handling that, and thanks for letting me know. I noticed the violation from User:Ericsaindon2 and was going to look at it a bit more closely after dinner (which I just finished), as I assumed he likely wasn't the only one who had broken 3RR. He had been involved in some very disruptive move warring over the article earlier, but as it's now move-protected (and another article where he was attempting to create a fork full-protected) I didn't see a need to block for the disruption earlier. Hopefully with them both out of commision for a while some peace can be found and the issues resolved. Thanks again. AmiDaniel (talk) 01:51, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Kraja

On the Kraja page that you have protected, I request that you edit the page and take off the List of cities in Serbia and Montenegro category at the bottom, since this category does not exist due to that country's breakup. Helmandsare 02:11 June 4 2006 (UTC).

Per the protection policy, making significant changes to articles protected to end disputes should be avoided until the disputes have settled; however, as this does not seem to be a factor in the dispute, I would be willing to make the change if you can start a discussion about it on the talk page. If the other contributors to the article agree that the removal of the list is noncontroversial then I will do so gladly. AmiDaniel (talk) 01:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

E-mail

I sent you an e-mail. Prodego ^talk 01:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your note; let me read it and get back to you. AmiDaniel (talk) 01:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

My userpage

Thank you for the protection and history wipe, I really appreciate it BigDT 01:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you. AmiDaniel (talk) 01:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Blocking Stepp-Wolf

Thank you for blocking him/her. It was really a nuance having to keep reverting those images... - Diehard2k5 02:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry it took so long; he had some puppet who kept removing the name from AIV, and finding log vandalism is a bit harder than standard edit vandalism. He's actually now been indef blocked as he's the same user as another obnoxious vandal by a similar name--I'm going to go post on AN/I to see if anyone has had similar problems with Stepp-Wolf vandals. Anyway, sorry it took so long, but I'm gladly we got him stopped for now. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:18, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

ZeebotheClown

I indef'd, the message "you don't think I have more screen names" and a fair number of the edits look like a sock, just thought you'd like to know -- Tawker 02:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, okay. I figured it must have been something along those lines, but the contribs I looked at seemed, well, not vandalism at least. Thanks for your note; probably should have spent more time looking at it. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof version 1.2.1

There seems to be a problem with VandalProof. Maybe it's only for me: When I wish to add a vandalism warning to someone's talk page, I click on the {{nn-warn}} button. but instead it gives me the {{drmspeedy}} coding.

Why?

Jean-Paul 09:05, 4 June 2006 (UTC) Talk to me

Brent Russell

Thanks for the block on 71.39.227.218, he's been defacing this article for a couple of weeks now. Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 09:42, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

He's back again with 67.142.130.40 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) If you would be so kind as to do the honours again. Thanks Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 16:54, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

You mean you don't think I'm a sexy beast?? ;)

Obviously haven't visited my website!. Hehe, thanks for reverting my page, user's banned now too :) - Glen ^T_C (Stollery) 09:51, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Thinking perhaps it's time I thought about my own RfA...

Hey Daniel. If you don't mind I would appreciate your advice (assuming you have a spare mo). Just recently hit 6 months on wiki and as such started thinking about what I'd need to work on for a successful run for sysop. If you don't mind being brutally honest with me, do you

1. Think it's a suitable time for me, and if not suggestions would be appreciated
2. See anything regardless of the answer to the above that I should specifically be concentration on or improving?

As always, grateful for any help you may offer. - Glen ^T_C (Stollery) 10:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Romania

There's an error in the article about Romania. In the field "Name" the word "Ţeara" is incorect. The corect form of the word is "Ţara". Thanks.

MDG Computers

The spamming has resumed at MDG Computers via User:Bodnarchuck. Do you have any suggestions? ccwaters 19:24, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof source code

A couple of weeks ago you said you would give me the VandalProof source code. Any chance of this happening soon? Please be aware that my WIkipedia email is currently down (domain issues). Werdna_T^c_@^b_C^m_L^t 23:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Let me know when your e-mail's back up, and I'll send it to you. Sorry that I spaced it. Oh, and please remember that I warned you about how ridiculously messy the code is--but it works! AmiDaniel (talk) 03:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I have a secondary email address from google's mail service with this username. You can send it there at the moment if you like. Werdna (talk) 04:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

--REMOVED-- Paranoia. Werdna (talk) 04:26, 6 June 2006 (UTC)? (Don't want the spambots to pick it up lol). AmiDaniel (talk) 04:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

That's correct. Werdna (talk) 04:26, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Paranoia understood. Let me package that up and send it out to you as soon as I can (may have to wait until tommorow night though). AmiDaniel (talk) 04:36, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I'm specifically looking for how you process the RSS feed, as this is nightmarish for me. Werdna (talk) 05:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

When you mentioned RSS feed, it brought another question to mind. Do you want my current "in-progress" source code, where I'm working on a lot of cool dealios with precaching rollbacks and filters, or do you want the source code for v1.2.1? The new stuff is even messier and is potentially quite buggy (though the old features still work just fine), but I find it a lot more impressive than my old code. Your call--or I could send you both. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:08, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Rollback question

Hi, I've pretty much gotten used to using VandalProof (impressive software if I say so myself!) But sometimes when I rollback articles, a message will pop up saying "The previous edit to this page was by the same user. Do you want to view all edits made by this user before rolling back?" Then you either have to click "Yes" or "No". I'm not sure what to do when this happens. Can you help me out? Thanks! --Tuspm 23:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

If you click "yes" it will load the diff between the last edit made by the current user and the last edit made by the previous user. If you click "no" it will simply revert one edit. It's probably best to review all edits by the on-top user as there may well be more vandalism by that user that you didn't notice in the current diff. AmiDaniel (talk) 03:31, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment from Roger C. Ambrose

FYI: I have posted a comment: [3]
Roger ambrose 01:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, mister splicer.

Completely botched history clean. Can you fix it? --Avillia ^{(Avillia me!)} 04:32, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not really on, but I'll just give you a quick response here: "Old revisions contain personal information about Katefan0 - deleteing and restoring only current version." Contact User:Raul654 if you think the deletion was unjustified, but I'm assuming he has his reasons. If you'd like me to take a screen shot of the history or e-mail you a certain revision, I'd be glad to do though. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:36, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Oceantoursvietnam

I indef'd you 1 week'd I restored the indef, just wanted to make sure that was cool -- Tawker 07:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it's perfectly fine. Immediately after I blocked, I checked his contribs and decided indef was better--checked his blocklog and saw that you had already done it. No worries at all. AmiDaniel (talk) 07:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

please help

• User:Zello faking discussion see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AKom%C3%A1rno&diff=56962233&oldid=56961167 and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AZello&diff=56964361&oldid=56871523 --Mt7 08:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I never insulted anyone. And what's wrong with superfluous? Just being 'superfluously' accurate.

Bypassing Cross-Namespace Redirects

Yeah, I forgot to remove it during that run. My bad. (Totally scared me when I saw it on the greylist in #vandalism-en-wp, though, because I had completely forgotten it was running at all... nearly gave me a heart attack :o) --Rory096 03:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Lol. Yeah, it's no problem at all--very easy to correct. Keep up the good work! AmiDaniel (talk) 03:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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Check your mail soon.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:59, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. Checking it now. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:01, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Request for page protection

Thanks for correcting the Request for Page Protection (Manitoba disambiguation) for me. My wireless network is acting up and I incorrectly stripped content when I tried to paste. Hu Gadarn 04:50, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

protecting Manoitoba disambiguation page

... and thanks for the very fast response to my request for protection. You're page says that you're sleeping so you must be able to respond even more quickly when awake :) Thanks for using your powers for good instead of evil. Hu Gadarn 04:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Gawd, I always forget to change that--who knows how long I've been "sleeping" this time. No problem at all, and please feel free to let me know if you need help with anything else. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:56, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Your archive has popped up

Ami,

Please see my talk page. Thanks. Marlon Fire Thunder 05:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Harry Magdoff and espionage

Hi, this is a content dispute with good old wikistalking by User:PatCheng mixed in, not vandalism. Thanks. 72.65.77.79 05:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)