User talk:MPN

A welcome from Sango123

Hello, MPN, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Happy editing!

-- Sango 123 (talk) 23:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you need help with anything or simply wish to say hello. :)

Dictionary definitions

Hi! If you want to add definitions of words, take a look at Wiktionary. Thanks! - Lucky 6.9 23:44, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I was trying to add a template to a page to suggest move it to wiktionary, but I didn't realize the word didn't exist. Thanks, i'll check it out. BTW, how can I revert a vandalized page back to normal if i see one? MPN 23:46, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How to revert

To answer your question, take a look at this link for details. Another user also replied to your question here. Thanks, Sango 123 (talk) 23:56, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

To add your name to the Counter Vandalism Unit, simply click on the edit this page tab at the top the page, scroll down to the M section, and add your name (alphabetically on the list) using the provided format. Please read Wikipedia:How to edit a page and Wikipedia:Vandalism for more information. Regards, Sango 123 (talk) 00:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I clicked "edit this page", and all i gt was something like "list of users", but saw nothing after that. I went to this page:[[1]] MPN 00:32, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The list is actually stored in Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit/members. {{Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit/members}} was used instead to prevent problems with page size. Sango 123 (talk) 00:37, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, it worked. MPN 00:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

VandalProof

Yes certainly! After you do meet the requirements for the program, do come back and request approval again. Happy editing! Prodego ^talk 04:28, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just to give you an idea of the requirements. You need to have, really as a minimum, 250 Mainspage edits, currently you have 32. The reason that we have such rules on the tool is that it is very powerful in the wrong hands, although I'm not saying that you would use it maliciously, but you could easily revert a lot more than you wanted, or start removing edits which don't constitue vandalism. What I would suggest is use Lupin's tool initially to get some experience of how to deal with Vandalism, and perhaps get involved with something like the Welcoming Committee, or articles that need to be wikified, to try and get your edit count up. If you want any advice or help with anything related to Wikipedia, just drop me a message on my talk page. --Wisd e n17 20:36, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accidental Revert

You (most likely accidentally) just reverted a bot's revert at History of Brazil (you can see your diff here), thereby putting back the vandalism. If you are using an anti-vandalism tool, just try to be a bit more careful with it. No harm done, however, so don't worry about it. Just a friendly reminder :-) --M e ts501^{talk • contribs} 02:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've just noticed that. Looks like the bot was faster than I. Sorry about that. Does that happen often? MPN 02:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please slow down on WP:DEP

You have removed a number of articles on WP:DEP today that I and other editors wouldn't have removed. How many editors use list is not merely to create interwiki links and put cleanup tags on articles (that are hardly ever dealt with if not dealt with off WP:DEP), but to cleanup those articles as much as possible including (beyond just wikifying):

weeding out copyvios
replacing duplicate articles with redirects or merges
copy-editing
categorizing articles and marking stubs

... and other tasks.

Of course, many of the articles you removed from the list should have been removed and there are editors that would agree with the removals that I do not. However, there is no consensus (despite what the page itself may say) on the criteria for removal from the list, and doing mass removals very quickly just creates more work for other editors who would like to see those articles get more attention before they leave the list.

Thanks for your attention and work on the articles on the list, but please keep in mind you are not the only editor that uses it. Whitejay²⁵¹ 19:30, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there are other project pages to address other cleanup problems, but a lot of those get very little attention. For instance, one thing that has been bothering me a bit lately is that the vast majority of pages on WP:DEP aren't linked to by other articles, but WP:O (orphaned pages) where they would ideally end up hasn't been updated since 2004! Really it boils down to thinking of the pages on the DEP list not as pages where the problem is that they don't link anywhere, but thinking of the fact that they don't link anywhere being an indicator that the article has more serious problems.

Since I believe the list is compiled from m:Data dumps I don't have enough resources or quite the know-how to regenerate the list. Nor do I think the list is quite ready to be regenerated. Again just because an article is wikified doesn't mean it shouldn't be on the list. Deleted articles should be certainly be removed though.Whitejay²⁵¹ 19:54, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

yo

cool job, nice linking work man

Welcome to VandalProof!

Hi MPN, thank you for your interest in VandalProof and Congratulations! You are now one of our authorized users, so if you haven't already simply download VandalProof from our main page, install and you're ready to go!

If you have any problems please feel free to contact me or post a message on VandalProof's talk page. Once again congrats and welcome to our team! - Gl e n ^T_C (Stollery) 06:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry just got your message - problem fixed okay now? - Gl e n ^T_C (Stollery) 15:17, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure I follow, which user list do you mean? Does it load up ok, you should start at the welcome page. - Gl e n ^T_C (Stollery) 17:36, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalproof issues

I honestly have no idea what could be going wrong? Were you aware that VP in Internet Explorer based? If you don't usually use IE load it up and log into wikipedia before loading VP. Does this help? - Gl e n ^T_C (Stollery) 19:37, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VandalProof revert at Sarracenia

Hi MPN. When you made this revert you only undid half the vandalism (the vandal had removed text in two separate edits, but you only reverted one). I don't know how VandalProof works so I'm not sure if this is an issue with the bot or just a simple mistake, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention! I have completed the revert. Cheers, ~ Veledan • Talk 13:12, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey MPN!

Hey MPN, what is new? I see that you are making edits left and right, good job! --Milliteq 08:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

--71.241.82.189 19:26, 10 July 2006 (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 16:38, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

inactive

Hi I just wanted to let you know that I removed the user box saying that you wanted to be an admin some day. You've only made one edit in the past 10 months, thus it appears you are no longer active here, and some people use that user box to find potential candidates.---Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon 22:08, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:CableEASTest.png

Thank you for uploading File:CableEASTest.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:43, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:CableEASTest.png listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:CableEASTest.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. :Jay8g ^{Hi!- I am... -What I do...} _{WASH- BRIDGE- WPWA - MFIC- WPIM} 00:40, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]