User talk:Brandon/Archive 2

This is an archive of past discussions with User:Brandon. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

(Message copied for continuity)I'm working on finishing the preliminary code for an IFD bot, the current plan is to check all the images in Categories: Images and media for deletion and see if they have been listed in the last 20 days else relist them at the current IFD page. The first run is going to dump to a user sub page as to not flood IFD so an admin will have to go through them (aprox 300). I was looking for input you had and how often you think it should run. BJ^Talk 17:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I guess as often as is possible/feasible. I don't see any downside to having constantly updated data ... so as often as it can be run without putting a strain on resources would seem logical to me. --BigDT 23:51, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

(Disputed Replaceable Fair Use Restoration) Go through Category:Replaceable fair use images disputed and restore the REFU tag that might have been removed by the disputer. Probably just re-adding the tag to today's date would be easiest. I did two (that I randomly found) and restoring the tags would have put them in a deletion, already processed category by admins. So just putting in a new REFU tag would be fine. --MECU≈talk 23:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

While the stub is likely vanity spam by some pornographer, it still concerns some model's persona. WP:PORNBIO establishes a clear and convenient way to evaluate the notability (or lack thereof) of pornographic actresses, the spam guideline is open to some interpretation. As you said, the article will be deleted either way, it's just that I think that WP:CSD#A7 is more applicable. ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 21:25, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Would it be possible for you to put your bot's {{subst:orfud}} tag up at the top of image description page instead of at the bottom? If the image description page has a lot of stuff on it, you have to scroll to see it if it is not up top. --BigDT 22:59, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not the one who's revert warring. I loathe revert warring, however I am flummoxed to have gotten the warning from you :) To show my good faith I will not make any more edits to the article text for a day. Please feel free to lend me whatever specific advice you might think helpful. If you look at the talk page you'll see that I was discussing every point and trying to compromise. Such is Wikipedia with high profile articles (sigh). Thanks for showing your concern! Gwen Gale 09:55, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Bjbot has deleted two images I uploaded (Image:Chaltikanaam.gif and Image:Gangulybros01.jpg), along with all the painstaking work that went into rationalizing fair use and citing sources and authors, because they were lying about quite orphaned. Very unfortunate, because I was busy at the time and could not check on WP much, if at all.

They were not orphans to begin with, but rather was a part of the Ganguly family (film) article. A certain user (User:Prince Godfather) removed them from the article and reinstated a completely copyvio image gallery removed much earlier from the page. This amazing deed was reverted by another user, but it was too late for the two images I mentioned.

Please note, that this particular user has been accused of sockpuppetry, has broken all civility guidelines, contributes a great deal without any regard for verifiability or citation policies, practices vandalism, was blocked from WP once or twice, is engaged in quite a few edit wars... and has responded very unfavorably when I questioned his behavior about the images in discussion.

I am checking this user as much as I can, though without the tools available to admins it's quite an arduous task. But, whatever happens to this amazing user, I'd very much like to have those images back on Wikipedia. I have learned the ropes for fair use policies the hard way, and am weary of the task of reinstating the info and rationales that require.

It would be very helpful if you could tell me what do I have to do in getting those two images back along with the rationale and info back to the article I mentioned. Can you answer to my talk page, please? Aditya Kabir 15:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC) - sorry for the length of the post.

There are a couple of problems that I see with the IfD (re)posting that BJBot did this week:

1. It didn't notify the uploaders of the images. Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/Instructions for administrators requires The uploader has been alerted on their talk page to the imminent deletion of their image. as a prerequisite for an admin completing the deletion.
2. They don't have any reason - could the bot at least notice if they were orphaned, tagged as superseded, etc? Another help might be to notify the tagger(s) requesting that they provide rationale.
3. There was no way for someone else to know that you'd done it. I came across some images that User:TwinsMetsFan had marked in October and one that I'd marked last month and missed posting yesterday. I went ahead and took the time to create rationales and post them on WP:IfD. If you had notified the owners and taggers, I might have noticed before I put in the effort.

I do appreciate the work your bot is doing. I'd spent a couple of weeks {{orfud}}ing just {{TV-screenshots}} starting with P and Q (and reviewing their uploader's contributions) about the time you started, and it is wonderful to not be able to find orphaned fair use images anymore. I hope that these suggestions are helpful. ~ BigrTex 18:18, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's the latest batch: User:Alai/fairuseorphans. Must be shrinking significantly, as I could actually upload the whole list this time. Alai 21:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

You can ahead and delete image49.gif and WkmmHeader.jpg (the latter didn't load properly) as they are not being used in any article at this time. Sorry for the confusion. - SVRTVDude ^{(Yell - Toil)} 14:01, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

You can go ahead and delete Image:Topbar.gif. It is the logo for the radio station I work for, but we are currently using another logo. If you delete this, that would be great. Thanks. Thunderstix33 15:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I thought you'd get a kick out of this (I did): BJBot notified me of some orphaned fair use images. They weren't really uploaded by me, but they were. I reduced the size of the fair use images and then tagged them so an admin would delete/remove the older, larger resolution images. If you look at the image upload history, it just shows me. So, there's probably not an easy way to really notify the real uploader, unless you start scanning logs. Just found it humorous. --MECU≈talk 15:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

i fail to see how my contributions of text to desert combat were copyright infringment — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sgt Simpson (talk • contribs) 12:23, February 17, 2007

Brandon/Archive 2

---

Thank you for supporting my RfA. It was successful at a unanimous 52/0/0. I hope I can live up to the kind words expressed of me there, and hope to now be more of an asset to the community with access to the tools. Please feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any suggestions for me in the future. Thanks again! VegaDark 07:16, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

---

I fail to see how adding a link to the Portland Underground page which pointed to the specific page on the Cascade Geological Society website which mentions the Portland Underground tunnels and tours thereof is "unhelpful and non-constructive" and "could be considered vandalism". The original link was to the top-level page of the society, and some navigation was required to find the material related to the Portland Underground, while my link, which I added next to the original, was much more direct and was intended to avoid wasting the user's time searching the site and clicking through extra pages to find the relevant information. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.245.144.11 (talk) 09:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC).

Hi! I have tagged this image twice and BJBot constantly removes these tags and tells me that the image is untagged. Maybe I tagged it wrong, but, I doubt it. I tagged the image as a publicity photo, which the image is.--Sportman2 16:25, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

But, BJBot removed the copyright tag I put on. Then BJBot left me a message saying the copyright tag was missing. It had nothing to do with it being used or not. Also, the image is being used.--Sportman2 18:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I know that BJBot isn't OrphanBot. My point was that I put in a copyright tag after OrphanBot told me it was missing. Then about a month later BJBot left me a message saying Image:Bearcat.jpg had no copyrigh tag. Knowing I had put one on the page for Image:Bearcat.jpg I looked through the article history and noticed BJBot had removed it and replaced the tag with a message saying that the image lacked a copyright tag. Why did BJBot do this? I know for a fact that the copyright tag was correct.--Sportman2 18:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

The image is being used now.--Sportman2 18:49, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

As I stated on February 3, 2007, the Image:NY 347 Hauppauge Spur Map(1967).JPG is NOT an orphan file! It is being used in a link to the article on New York State Route 347. ---- DanTD 22:01, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome, but I'd also like to point out that it was also erroneously added to Image:Wantagh-SOB Interchange(MSBA).JPG, despite the fact that it's being used as a link in the Wantagh State Parkway article. ---- 00:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

That was what I thought. Same bug. ---- DanTD 00:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello Bjweeks,
please send your real-name, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB.

Hehehe thanks. Yeah I've always thought there must be a better way of doing it so everyone doesn't go for the same articles! Oh well. Hold on a second, is this just a plan to take up my time so you can beat me to some reversions? ;-) Will 21:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my user page.  :) Locriani 09:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I second that. Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user subpages. — ERcheck (talk) 14:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey buddy, I don't know what you're playing at here, but I received a message stating I removed content from an article when I did no such thing. I simply made it easier to understand for American readers. Why don't you pay attention to the changes being made rather than sending canned Wikipedia messages eh? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.141.144.170 (talk) 20:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC).

I did not make those edits. I only placed the cleanup template on the page. 24.225.148.24 00:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I am relatively new to Wiki, and have been confused by and caught by image template types. Check out the Janis Joplin page, and the talk - I suggested the infobox image for deletion, the source given does not have said image. No discussion followed for days, nothing else, and finally another editor reverted to the previous state of the image. Should this image be there, validly, or if not where should I have gone to discuss or ask about it?? --Dumarest 17:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

IF they were removed from the harry potter page it was vandisles, cause they were part of the pic gallary! CF Captain Dell970 00:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Your bot warned me of an orphaned/unlicenced photo Image:Press photo.jpg but I neither uploaded the image, nor edited it in anyway (let alone know of its existance). I do not know if it is an uncommon error, but the real editor User:Ggggunot has not been informed of the image's possible deletion. Thanks, Dark jedi requiem 18:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

This user seems to have uploaded an earlier image of that name. Left a comment on their talk page. Alai 13:42, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Alai left me the message. Odd coincidence. Thanks for checking it out and smoothing things out. Dark jedi requiem 06:52, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Is BJBot set up to handle fair use images that are "orphaned" from the article space, but transcluded from other namespaces? My earlier lists haven't included these, but modifying the query turns up an additional 1500 such. Alai 13:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, here's the list: User:Alai/fairuseartorphans. Let me know if tagging these goes OK, and if it does, I'll include these in the main list next time. On an only-vaguely related note... as you're obviously doing a lot of work in the fair use area, I'm wondering if you happen to know if there's anyone (or anybot) working on systematically removing image uses on non-article pages (or turning them into links, or whatever else). I do know this has attracted some flak in the past when done on user pages, but strangely, the largest number of these seems to be on (article) talk pages, where equally they shouldn't be as I understand it. (Over 36,000 such inclusions.) Alai 02:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Bjweeks, I must say, I really appreciate your help, thank you :) .. Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 08:02, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

• I am at 3RR too :( .. Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 08:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I think you ought to explain to him what's the problem with his nomination. By just closing the RFA unilaterally without significant explanation (to newbies, the edit summary should seem more provocative than helpful), you might probably have accidentally bit him.

Though he was POV-pushing and, in your words, snowballing, I think it's better for you to explain clearly what's wrong with his application. Especially remember to put aside the Russian POV thing. He might not understand the real meaning of NPOV here simply because the "facts" described here could well be "conspiracy theories" in his mind.

Still believe that direct talk is the best solution to arguments ^^ --Deryck C. 12:04, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

But I'd rather believe he's making fun of the words "sysop" and "syrup". Or he simply misread the question. --Deryck C. 12:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, if candidates are forbidden to make fun, then the whole "election" (well consensus building in the underlying philosophy) may be too bureaucratic v.v --Deryck C. 12:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Reply to your "reply to self": I simply believe it is the former. --Deryck C. 12:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Anyways. It is over. You've decided to close it. And thanks for your BJbot which allowed me to look upon some "priority work" when I go to IFD. I'm not sure why others don't comment on bot-added noms; maybe they overtrust your bot or overtrust the original nominator? I personally trust your bot really much since machines don't make mistakes; but I don't quite trust the incoming info that your bot relies on, so I usually pinpoint against the noms your bot added. --Deryck C. 12:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Removing RFAs prematurely =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:01, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA. It was (47/0/0) upon closure and now phase I is complete. I think the tools will aid both me and the encyclopedia. Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, or if you think I'm misbehaving I'm always open to recall. Thanks, James086^Talk 12:42, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Earlier you asked if anything should be added to the description when BJbot places an automatic IFD. In my opinion, BJBot is already doing the best thing a machine can possibly do in getting IFD nominations together - making the machine give more details could quite probably make the thing more confusing, not useful. --Deryck C. 06:58, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your support in my recent RfA which passed unanimously - thus proving that you can indeed fool some of the people some of the time. I'm still coming to terms with the new functionality I have, but so far nothing bad has happened. As always, if there's anything you need to let me know, just drop me a line on my Talk page. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 10:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA. Thanks for your vote, I've received an overwhelming 96% support and successfully took a copy of bucket-and-mop from the main office!

School graduation exam and HKCEE are both pressing in, so I might become inactive for a while. But soon after that, I look forward to working with you! --Deryck C. 03:28, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for the accidental reversion on Madrasah Islamiah. I reverted my revision. mennonot 04:59, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your support on my RfA. It passed with 55/0/0. I'll try my best to be worthy of the trust the community has put in me. If there are any of my actions you have a problem with or a question about, please feel free to discuss this with me and if needed to revert me. If there is anything else I can help you with (backlogs, comments, ...), you can always contact me on my talk page. Fram 15:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, BJ. Just shooting round thanking everyone for the great support at my RfA. It was a superb turnout and a humbling result. Thanks again. :) Bubba hotep 21:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I know that on User:BJBot a future task is to "Remove fair use images from the userspace." I am worried, however, if bots begin doing so, then user's will begin falsly tagging their images. I have been removing fair use images lately, though not after an initial contact. I, however, have no database of images being used on non-article space. How difficult would it be to create such a database? Would you be willing to do it? —Iamunknown 06:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I think it is better if the BJBot gives a link to the diff which the IFD tag was added to the image page. Looks a bit difficult if I have to go to the history and dig up the revision which added the IFD tag each time I looked into a request. --Deryck C. 07:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah - that would be really great. It's been waiting for someone to implement it. I think it should also incorporate the Main namespace only rule (WP:FUC#9). ed g2s • talk 16:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I've done some slight modifying to the allowedin template so that it could be easilly added to the Template:Fair use in series (currently up to 5 that I know of) templates. I did a demo of it at User talk:Mecu/AllowedIn and User:Mecu/AllowedIn (the code). There may be some optimization needed to make the bot more easily use the template, but it should just basically look for {{allowedin|blah|bleh}} and if it doesn't find it, look for {{fair use in|blah}}. It could also check to see if the fair use in template was being tried to pass through that wasn't displaying because they weren't using the right template, that is, they should be using fair use in2|Blah|Bleh but it was fair use in|Blah|Bleh. See the different? I feel confident enough to start pushing this rather than keep waiting for ed_g2s, so I'd be willing to work with you on this. Lemme know. I'd also like to know the status of the orphan image tracker as I'm getting bad about keeping the data/chart up to day. Even just recording the data now and working on the chart later would be fine. --MECU≈talk 18:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I've placed a requirement at your bot request please review and reply there. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

could you please take a look at my user page and delete any orphaned fair use images? I dont know how to do it myself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrlopez2681 (talk • contribs) 22:07, 17 March 2007 (UTC). Mrlopez2681 22:08, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey ... I was thinking about something tonight. What would you think about doing a bot that would find and tag all images that contain "non-commercial", "no derivatives", or other such key words? I see a lot of cases where people upload images and pick GFDL or something, but then put in the description that they are licensing the image for non-commercial use only. It's important to engage these uploaders (1) for legal reasons and (2) in hopes that they will release the image under a free license.

A second kind of image description that's usually a bad sign is when someone will upload an image from yahoo.com, cnn.com, msnbc.com, etc. News media photos are not permitted under WP:FAIR#counterexamples #5 and finding them and removing them as soon as possible is important.

What would you think about a bot or some kind of automated process to find, for lack of a better term, "red flag image descriptions"? --BigDT 03:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

You've been approved to use VandalSniper. Please let me know if you have any problems getting it working. --Chris (talk) 01:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I remember you writing the code for a bot to do this, but were uneasy about there being consensus for such an action, especially dealing with the main page. Please see [1] where it seems clear that consensus is being achieved to no longer exempt fair use on the main page. This bot could then go hog-wild removing all use of fair use images from non article space. There is a current proposal to exempt/allow fair use on portals, but I think it is clearly failing, and with the "main portal" (main page) getting its exemption removed, allowing it for other portals seems even less likely. --MECU≈talk 12:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Along similar lines, are you planning on writing this bot - if you could make it, it could be put to good use. ed g2s • talk 13:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

The Alizée has been listed for a peer review. You might want to take a look. --soum (0_o) 11:01, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I have nominated Alizée for FA evaluation. You may want to take a look. --soum (0_o) 04:21, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

There is quite a bit of interest in BJBot making another run of orphaned fair use images, but you don't seem to be around anymore. User:Johntex asked my about you on my talk page and now [Wikipedia talk:Images and media for deletion#Special:Unusedimages] folks seem to be starting to care about the huge backlog of images and want the bot to run again. If you've decided to leave WP, could you at least post up the code so that another user could run the code please? Perhaps with any other instructions of things you do? I'm sad to see that you're not around anymore, especially now that other folks seem to care like you and I did about the massive problem and want to do something about it. If I don't hear from you in a few days, I'll email you. MECU≈talk 16:18, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes...I was hoping you could run BJBot over Category:Fair use in... images, Category:Fair use tag needs updating, Category:Boy Scouts of America logos, Category:Boy Scouts of America merit badges, and Category:Scout logos. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 03:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi BJ, I wanted to give you a heads up. You did a good job on this article. It seems as though many of the WP lists are getting cleaned up (removing external links), particularly software lists. I went ahead and removed the EL's from this article. Calltech 16:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I've semi-protected your talk page for a little while, to let certain trolls crawl back to their caves. It's only for 6 hours, but if you don't want it protected, please do feel free to ask at RFPP. Cheers, – Riana_ऋ 23:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Now, that's me when not signed in. Sometimes I correct typos and misspellings without bothering to sign in. So, Seriphyn = 84.70.224.145. You brought up on the user talk page about vandalism? What were you referring to? Thanks. Seriphyn 21:50, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello, I have noticed you are the owner of a bot, and lately I have been very interested in making bots. I have three questions: 1. Where do you type in the code for the bot? 2. What language are Wikipedia bots written in? 3. Why haven't I been able to find any information about how to make bots?

Sorry to add this to this page but as the above comment is unsigned I am unable to reply to the person who wrote it. May I suggest having a look at WP:BP if you are thinking of creating a bot? This comment was left by §©ʁİƃƀȴıŋ’ Ƨł₥ȫȠ ^{talk|contribs} 15:25, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

BJ has an awesome profile!! Fejj the ritual 03:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

)

Thanks for uploading Image:GlaceauLogo.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot (talk) 20:34, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 08:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello !

I do like your idea of a bot monitoring Afds and poking the significant contributors.

I am a bot owner on fr:, and I'd like to try this new idea.

We don't work the same way with Afds on fr:, so I'm pretty sure that, even after translating the namespaces and pagenames, your code won't work overthere "like this"; but of course having your code would save me a lot of time implementing a French version of that function... Would you mind releasing it ?

Thanks a lot!

NicDumZ ~ 10:52, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Glacious] from Dhivehi Wikipedia. I would like to ask whether your bot on our wikipedia. I would like to place a template on an orphaned image, listing it for deletion. So either an Admin can find the image and delete it. Also by a community vote session we could set admin rights on the bot so that it could delete the images itself. Also i would like the bot to place a notification on the talk page of the image uploader, just like as in the english wiki. So that he is notified that the image is orphaned. So wat things do i have to do? Waiting for your reply on my talk page. Thanks.

--~GlaCiouS~ (talk) 11:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

It looks like the IfD page for 2008 January 4 didn't get created. Any news? – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 00:15, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Oops! I had BJBot confused with Zorglbot. Nevermind. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 00:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

BJBot left me a message here (or at the bottom of my talk page. Thanx! --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 16:58, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I got a message about uploading Image:Vera.jpg. I didn't upload it, I reverted a bad upload to the original version. The bot should contact the original uploader. Corvus cornix_talk 20:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.  :) Corvus cornix_talk 00:01, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Image fair use issue has been settled by revising their descriptions, this has been indicated in the edit comment when the Afd was removed, as this was the only reason why the article was marked as such. Still the bot is undoing to the last revision without imagas. Why?

The article is tagged AfD for other reason as noted on the AfD page. BJ^Talk 22:39, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Could you jump onto #wikipedia-bag ? Mønobi 03:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Is the bot supposed to do this? --Carnildo (talk) 05:04, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

No, no it should not. I'll take a look in the morning, thanks. BJ^Talk 06:32, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi! I noticed your bot do this, and was wondering how it knew Elonka was a contributor there to notify her, and if I could get something like that myself for articles I frequent. Thanks! Lawrence Cohen 00:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I was hoping to keep the article Song destinations because it is simply wikifying the Song (airline) article. This is just like Delta Air Lines destinations or United Express destinations. I do not understand why this is being suggested to be deleted, but will gladly appreciate a reason. It would be great if you got back to me ASAP. Thanks!

Plane nerd (talk) 02:00, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Every time I do contribute to Wikipedia I get the following message:

“Šaľa”

“Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thanks. -- GraemeL (talk) 12:16, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. ST47 21:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC) Please stop. If you continue spamming, as you did in Triad, you will be blocked from editing. Accurizer 14:44, 2 January 2007 (UTC) “

This address -195.91.54.87 – is an address of the internet provider in Slovakia. I am one of many Wireless Users. I have nothing to do with Sala ….

WHY DO YOU HAVE A TAG on Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde page. Please remove it.

There is an adequate sources listed. In addition, this page is WORK IN PROGRESS. What is your point?

DrewKE

Well done. How did you manage to fix it? Tyrenius (talk) 13:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Wimt did it, he purged the page and it fixed it. BJ^Talk 13:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

thanks for the fix Gnangarra 11:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Apparently you or a bot of yours detected and fixed the disambiguation of a page (Olba) that I was doing in a wrong way. Thank you --Jotamar (talk) 11:46, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

It's not speediable. AfD however, is thattaway. --Dweller (talk) 14:27, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I've admonished them for removing the tag, but there's no point replacing it if it's an inappropriate tag in the first place. --Dweller (talk) 14:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I am new and learning how things work, but the edit was explained on the talk page. The title is incorrect and I don't see any other way to correct the title, but perhaps you know of one? Bishop plays in the CFL which is Canadian football played in Canada, and it is game that has significantly different rules from American football, so calling him an American football player is incorrect in a couple of significant ways. I'll wait a day or so to see if you know of another way to make the change and if you don't I'll go ahead with replacing the page. BigRockFan (talk) 07:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the link to how to move the page. BigRockFan (talk) 14:57, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your constant work to prevent vandalism to Wikipedia in an exceedingly quick and expeditious manner

DJBullfish (talk) 13:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out that the image was orphaned. It had been deleted by accident from the article Music of Israel. I have restored it to the article, and added the fair use template to the image. I also deleted the di-orphaned image template. I hope this was the right thing to do. --Ravpapa (talk) 06:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

What was wrong with my edits?? I made a correction to one episode summary which was clearly wrong, and added another to one which didn't have a summary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.87.159 (talk) 13:05, 24 January 2008 (UTC) ok thankyou Rickyk10 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.87.159 (talk) 13:09, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

#Wikipedia-bag ? Mønobi 23:58, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

My effort to regain adminship was unsuccessful, and I'll do what I can to ensure your opinion of my suitability for adminship improves. Thank you for taking some time out of your day to voice your opinion.--MONGO 04:55, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

IMO...I guess Rules 1 & 2 can dere-lick my balls cap-E-tan! --Piepie (talk) 01:22, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Seconded. Thanks for ruining Ebaums just that much more. Vael Victus (talk) 23:50, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I added a "nutshell". Feel free to change it. Cirt (talk) 07:47, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. BJ^Talk 07:56, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Nice concise article on what anonymous is. Pity more people aren't reading it. It should be required reading for anyone who's working on the Chanology article... One thing I don't get is the capitalization of the word "Anonymous". It seems as if it's trying to quantify the concept more than would be possible to quantify this intangible. Am I missing something? Do I need to lurk moar? I've seen it used both ways, Anonymous and anonymous, on /b/, etc. In the context of articles such as Chanology, I would argue that it not be capitalized because capitalizing it makes it sound less nebulous and more tangible than it really is, an attitude propagated by the media and others who don't get it. (And even I don't purport to get it, really.) BTW, this isn't meant as a personal attack on you. I'm just trying to throw some ideas out there and gain some knowledge. Thanks for the userspace article. Basilides/"ούκ ών θεός" (talk) 16:50, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Here. SlimVirgin ^{(talk)(contribs)} 01:37, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

The only backing you have behind that is what's on my wikipedia page. Edits, messages, etc. While looking at yours, however, I can see much time invested in Wikipedia. Based soley on that, it would appear you would need to go outside more than me. Just saying.

Why do you "help" Wiki so much anyway? Vael Victus (talk) 14:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Was This an error?...--Cometstyles 11:50, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Uh, I have no idea how I did that. *blank stare*. BJ^Talk 11:53, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Is that a bug? The repeated text doesn't show up in the source. BJ^Talk 11:56, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

There were different aspects in the edits you deleted. Could you please elaborate i.e. indicate which part of the edit was more specifically considered as "unconstructive" ? Thank you. 83.112.71.72 (talk) 12:06, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I know the toolserv is till down, I was wondering if we could discuss it on irc. I think I may have a few ideas. -- Cat ^chi? 18:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Boink! Where are you? You are not online? My world collapsed :) -- Cat ^chi? 13:25, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I found one of my images to be orphaned (Because your BJBOT notified me) so I quickly de-orphaned it and put it in this article, Air Bud: Golden Receiver the image is Image:Air Bud Catching Ball.jpg, could you please stop your BJBot from deleting it on March 1? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurowoofwoof111 (talk • contribs) 17:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I can't use this image till the KLA aka UCK is protected... Can you wait before deleting this image? Thanks TøW€®MªN ™ _{answer me} 09:03, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. I have seen that you use huggle by the fact that you have automatically updated the huggle white list(it does this when closing huggle). I was wondering if you would add the category [[Category:Wikipedians who use Huggle]] to your user page so that it fills out and we know who actually uses huggle. If you do not want to you do not have to. I am also sorry if i have already talked to you about this or you no longer use huggle but i sent it to everyone that has edited the page since mid January. I hope we can start to fill out this category. If you would like to reply to this message then please reply on my talk page as i will probably not check here again. Thanks. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 18:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Dear sir. I'm not trying to be funny or ignorant in this post, I would just like to know what was the reason for my article that was deleted. I would appreciate any and all contributions on how to make this article a proper article that it won't be deleted in the future.Any help or guidence to as what I can do to fix it or any general direction to take it in would be helpful as well. Thank you. DogDeke1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by DogDeke1 (talk • contribs) 16:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Would mind slowing down your BJBot a bit? I made this prod and then one minute later your bot did this. If you gave the prod nominator more than 1 minute, they might do the notifying themselves.--Rockfang (talk) 22:06, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

It runs on the hour, as you can see by the time stamp. BJ^Talk 22:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Could you put this on it's user page? That way future people won't ask the same question.--Rockfang (talk) 22:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Done. BJ^Talk 11:06, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you.--Rockfang (talk) 17:09, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I hereby request that you stop running your BJBot until it understands {{Nobots}}, which I do have on my talk page. Your bot ignored it, which is not acceptable. See Template:Bots and Category:Exclusion compliant bots --Ligulem (talk) 17:39, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Request denied. BJ^Talk 17:55, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually, that bot should follow {{nobots}}, I'll have a look. BJ^Talk 17:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

From what I can tell that was just a small glitch when changing some code. BJ^Talk 18:03, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello,

I recently invited you to take a survey about administration on Wikipedia. If you haven’t yet had a chance, there is still time to participate– we’d truly appreciate your feedback. The survey is anonymous and should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement.

Take the survey here.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:17, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:04, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning up all that promotional content. They should put you on payroll for that. Drmies (talk) 03:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! I genuinely appreciate the recognition. It normally comes from the marketing team I ran afoul of and is less polite. :) Brandon (talk) 04:42, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Seems your edit (diff) accidentally deleted another's reply. – 2804:F1...17:EDFC (::/32) (talk) 18:54, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Indeed it did, thank you for letting me know. It appears they already restored their comment, sorry about that NewBorders. Brandon (talk) 19:04, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

That's fine ^^ I suspected it was just an innocent mistake. Good day to you. NewBorders (talk) 19:05, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

I tried to add a relevant audio to Brighton, but a filter prohibited me from publishing my edit. Perhaps my edit summary was off-topic, but I do not intend to vandalize Wikipedia. How can we resolve this conflict?

Thank you Flame, not lame 💔 (Don't talk to me.) 13:27, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Hey I saw you undid my edit on the Pegasus spyware article and I'm not sure why. HYTEN CREW (talk) 13:23, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

You changed the spelling of defense from American English to British English without explanation. Brandon (talk) 13:46, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Maybe you should have put that reason into the edit summary. That may also make reverts feel less rude/condescending. 103.219.194.134 (talk) 09:24, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

why would you say this HYTEN CREW (talk) 01:09, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

I've added another source. What do you think? Bearian (talk) 06:04, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm still not sure I understand the purpose of the article. "Certification on demand" seems to be a concept unique to qualified electronic signature and specifically mobile qualified electronic signature at that. Given mobile QES does not seem to be explained in any existing article, how about a redirect to qualified electronic signature? Brandon (talk) 23:17, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi Brandon

scalefusion.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Link requested to be whitelisted: scalefusion.com

Greetings team

People from my organization few years back added their direct link instead of wiki link to the wiki page over and over without understanding the guidelines and community rules by wiki.

The page they added scalefusion URL to was the 'List of MDM software' wikipedia page.

Now, when I joined new in the org. and tried to add our name to wiki list again as an added MDM provider in the market and added LinkedIn page link there, It got removed again. Then I did my research and got to know from employees of Wikipedia on LinkedIn (Mohanananda and Shivam Patel) that wiki doesn't allow website links so they banned my organization's URL few years back. So, I request you to please lift the ban from the given URL and I will make sure that we don't put it up there unnecessarily.

Please help me lift the URL ban and I assure to follow guidelines. My organization's URL is scalefusion.com. Not pasting the link here to avoid hyperlinking.

I assure this will not happen again from our end. Please consider this as a request and I will be grateful to you. Sakshi Singh Das (talk) 06:44, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

What kind of conversation do you want to have regarding primary vs secondary sources? In this instance where the rationale is being cited, having the primary source rationale is more valuable than a secondary source characterization of it. Would love to hear your thoughts. Akyrimos (talk) 06:51, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia policy says otherwise: WP:SECONDARY. For a primary source to be suitable in this context, you'd have to argue that your reading of the EO is not an interpretation. Given that the minutia of EO wording is regularly litigated in federal court, I think you'd be hard pressed to make the argument that it does not require "specialized knowledge" to consume an EO. Brandon (talk) 07:34, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Brandon, I see you've made some edits to the Cloudinary article recently. I was hoping to get your feedback on a suggestion I've made to the intro paragraph. I think the opening sentence is weak since it only describes the company as a "SaaS technology company" and is front loaded with a list of cities with corporate offices. In my suggestion I've move the description of the technology up and bumped the cites to a second sentence since that information seems less important.

I'm a connected contributor and i've tagged the COI request for review, but I was hoping to get your thoughts since you're a recent contributor to the article. Thanks for the help and any feedback is appreciated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cloudinary

Thanks! SBCornelius (talk) 21:00, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Brandon, I've proposed edits to the History section of the Cloudinary article. Do you have a few minutes to review and provide feedback? I have tagged the request for review, but some feedback during the wait would be helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cloudinary

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SBCornelius (talk • contribs) 20:14, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Hey there, this edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cybersecurity_rating&diff=1284801896&oldid=1266200801

deleted some link spam, but also deleted links to WP articles. Was that your intent? (Full disclosure, I work for one of the linked companies, so I don't feel comfortable changing it back, either way.) 19:47, 10 April 2025 (UTC) —johndburger 19:47, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I noticed that you reverted my edits that removed several sources cited in the Appin article which do not in any anyway relate to the sentences, paragraphs and the article's subject. Every single source removed has sufficient edit summary explaining why it is removed. Please review those sources removed and challenge them with evidence of how they are relevant to the article. There is no guideline that says removal of irrelevant sources in article should be discussed first. The only guideline I am aware of is that every edit should have edit summary explaining why such edits are done. I kindly request that you carefully review the removed sources and explain why they are relevant to the article.

Finally, I want to let you know that I am restoring the edits because to the best of my understanding of sourcing guidelines, irrelevant sources must be removed from articles immediately they are noticed. There are still more of such sources in the article and I will remove them as I review them. Warm regards. Piscili (talk) 08:04, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

All of your edits with summaries beginning with "unreliable source per source detector" are inadequate. This is a contentious article with a long history of abusive editing. I'm directly telling you I disagree with some of your edits, please use the talk page. Brandon (talk) 08:11, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Brandon, I see that you've nominated the above article for GA. Several statements/paragraphs in the body lack references, which is generally a reason to quickfail a GA nom. I'm giving you a heads up as a courtesy so you can address this quickly and hopefully prevent a QF. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 19:56, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Done! Thank you for the suggestion. Brandon (talk) 22:40, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Cheers! ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:06, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Brandon, nice to meet you. I am new to Wikipedia and have declared my affiliation with Cohere on my userpage. I saw your participation in several computer-related Wiki projects, including Project Computing, and would be grateful for your review of my suggested changes and updates to the Cohere article, like removing outdated HQs and restructuring some of the content. Per my understanding of Wikipedia's regulations, I am not meant to make these kinds of substantial changes to the article on my own; with your approval, I'd be happy to implement. Thank you for taking a look, LivingInaCloud (talk) 10:27, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

The article Appin (company) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Appin (company) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of History6042 -- History6042 (talk) 00:27, 5 May 2025 (UTC)