User talk:Slakr/Archive 23

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I am once again in control of "Prodego" on freenode. Prodego ^talk 20:10, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

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Do not block my IP for no reason. Send a message on the talk page and discuss.

I just noticed something about the recent sanctions and wanted to ask you a question. In reading here [1] I took the sanction to be a 1RR on the Southern Strategy page. The notice left on my talk page said all American Politics. I'm not clear what that scope entails. Also, is it reasonable to ask, at least in your view via the appeals process, to have a narrower scope/shorter duration given I had a clean record prior to this. I assure you I will be hyper aware on the Southern Strategy page. What I fear is simply missing something on some totally unrelated page and finding myself in violation of the sanctions. I'm not asking you to change the sanctions, just asking if you think it is a reasonable request. Thanks Springee (talk) 05:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes, the entire area, though any one article at any given time (e.g., 1 revert on "Some Political Page" and 1 revert on "Beer Party of America" within the same day) is fine. You've quick-fire revert warred on Chicago-style politics and FreedomWorks as well. The latter, I believe, was the WP:AN3 report that led to your (and others') initial {{Alert}} within the area. --slakr^\ talk / 04:02, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Also, to be clear, this is post-1932 American politics, not the entire subject area. Sorry if that was vague, and it not be apparent from the templated messages either, but the actual case itself. :P --slakr^\ talk / 04:12, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. In looking back at the warning you posted here [2] and the follow up comments it wasn't really clear that this was targeted at something I was doing vs just because I happen to be editing in a page that was subject to controversy. Might I use that, a previously clean record, and a promise of good behavior to ask that this sanction be lifted early, say 1-2 weeks. I don't think I'm the sort who normally tries to bend the rules but I don't like having the scarlet letter on my account.Springee (talk) 12:25, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Note: I reported Springee for Wikihounding a user, HughD, back in mid September. He suggested a self-imposed 30-day interaction block with Hugh D and the ANI post roughly came to an end on Sept. 16. Immediately after 30 days, on October 15, Springee went right back to reverting HughD's posts on multiple article pages.[3][4][5][6][7]Scoobydunk (talk) 01:17, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Slakr, I would like to ask that my 1RR restriction be lifted. As I mentioned earlier, prior to this incident I had a clean record. I would ask that, based on a promise of good behavior, the restriction be lifted with the understanding of "message received". Thank you. Springee (talk) 04:53, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Is there a particular reason, apart from this being your first AE sanction? Do you feel an urgent need to start making multiple reverts per page per day within the topic area? --slakr^\ talk / 04:47, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

I don't have any plans like that. Hopefully we can get some 3rd party input to resolve the Southern Strategy content dispute. The NPOV discussion was started by the other editor and we are awaiting comments.

Anyway, I would like the sanctions lifted for a few reasons. First, I am a bit worried about making a minor change on one part of an article, someone else edits, then making an unrelated change later to that same article. Even if both edits uncontroversial it would be a technical violation of the 1RR rule. I don't want to have to worry about that sort of inadvertent technicality, especially if it were to occur on a page that is totally unrelated to the Southern Strategy. I also just don't like the idea of having any sanctions on my account. It simply bothers me. The guidelines say that restrictions are not meant to be punitive but instead are to protect the project. Part of my promise of good behavior is an understanding that I need to justify the faith that you would be showing to reverse the decision and illustrate that additional "protections" are not needed. If it maters I would be willing to address the comments of the other editor. Springee (talk) 05:21, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Please let me know if there is additional information you need. Thanks Springee (talk) 05:54, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Slakr, as I said, I would like to appeal the duration of the sanctions. Is there more information you would like from me? Thanks, Springee (talk) 09:40, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Delection of Dr William Guild - by you in 2014?? Please explain why - I am the Author. I had not realised the page had been deleted. Please explain why!! - thank you Ray Oaks (talk)

You requested it (or so I interpreted it) when you added, "Delete Wikipwdia entry Wikiquote in use" to the article. If you're thinking about re-adding it, please double check the deletion discussion about it, too. The discussion wasn't directly the cause of the deletion (so it technically could be restored), but because several people were concerned that the text was not appropriate for Wikipedia, I'd suggest that you consider rewriting it. --slakr^\ talk / 06:31, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for your helpful comments and advice Mea Culpa ! Allow me to explain I have been working on publications for journals for about 18 months and have not really bothered with my Wiki entries. I am now returning to them to bring them up to date, make revisions and generally create a few more entries relating to hospitals, bedesmen, Trade relicts etc. I listed my entries (16) and noted that TWO had been deleted, David Mitchell ( Philanthropist) deleted by "yonshi" - and Dr William Guild... deleted by you, "Slakr". In fact I had moved the Dr Will Guild.. item to a Wikiquote as it is a document that I can refer to and allow readers to read. I had forgotten the move :-( The other "delete" is a mystery it appears that "yonshi" has retired!! - I don't understand this. Any idea why??

So, if everyone is happy, the Dr William Guild.. item will be referred to when I revise the other items to point to it. OK?? I am still mystified by the deletion of the David Mitchell deletion by "yonshi". I intend to recreate this item again as Mitchell was a significant 19thc philanthropist in Scotland - a hospital still bears his name!!

Apologies for bing a novice - my up to date knowledge of web/Wiki authoring has diminished since I retired. BTW I built the original UK hypertext system c 1982/1983 - - - tempus fugit!! :-) Ray Oaks (talk)

Confused - can't find any comments you have made on my last posting - there was an alert?? Ray Oaks (talk) 08:53, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

I have another email for Wiki - No sign of any coments from you. Help ! Ray Oaks (talk) 16:33, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're asking. You said above that you moved the article somewhere else? --slakr^\ talk / 00:02, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

From a previous message to you! see for yourself - please.

I am sure you dont have time for extended exchanges - have a look at my message and please reply - if you can

.................. In fact I had moved the Dr Will Guild.. item to a Wikiquote as it is a document that I can refer to and allow readers to read. I had forgotten the move :-( The other "delete" is a mystery it appears that "yonshi" has retired!! - I don't understand this. Any idea why??........ NOTE Wikiquote

Ray Oaks (talk) 12:56, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to say. I need links to the things you're talking about, at the very least. --slakr^\ talk / 23:15, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

What it says on the can label; SineBot is down. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{Ping|I dream of horses}} to your message. ^{(talk to me) (My edits)} @ 04:44, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

It was for a small period but I realized it by the time you dropped this, I think. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 02:16, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Can you explain your protection tag on Leon Uris? The article has been stable for 4 days. The talk page has gone over this, and last week another editor claimed that most of the edit warriors were or may have been socks. Yet although the article has been stable, your protection tag was added just a few minutes after one of those editors involved added the disputed material back. The result is that you have protected the disputed material without explanation on the talk page first. Basically, there is no edit war at this time and the tag seems misapplied. Can you please either discuss your rationale on the talk page or remove the tag? Thanks. --Light show (talk) 03:20, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

@Light show: I was doing a bit of recent changes patrol at the time and noticed the revert. Regardless of how "stable" it's been the clearly-still-ongoing edit war is in a a discretionary sanctions area. That said, now that you mention it, I didn't realize the editor had less than 500 edits, so I've gone ahead and taken the unusual step of reverting the edit instead of leaving the page as it was when protecting it. I'll hopefully get around to dropping some {{Alert}}s later today, too. :P --slakr^\ talk / 16:00, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello! First, thanks for "protecting" certain pages (two that I know of so far). I fully understand and support this move as I believe it "slows down" the undo's and quick edits of certain individuals. Quick question though: you point out that you undid my edit here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leon_Uris&action=history due to me not having 500 edits. However, I was unaware that this article on Uris was protected under the whole "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Trinacrialucente#Arbitration_committee_discretionary_sanctions_notification " (which I am COMPLETELY adhering to, BTW). Can you please double-check to confirm the article on Uris does indeed fall into this category? If so, I will absolutely abstain from editing until I have 500 edits under my belt. Thanks so much. And once again, I FULLY appreciate the tough calls you are making. Please don't take this as second guessing your edit...just clarification on MY part so I know which articles to stay away from for the duration.Trinacrialucente (talk) 20:39, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

FYI, if the Leon Uris article does fall into the above category, you might want to put the "warning" tag such as the one located on the "Exodus" page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Exodus_%28Uris_novel%29 Trinacrialucente (talk) 20:47, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

@Trinacrialucente: It probably needs an editnotice more, though (at least, that's what I prefer to avoid confusion and "oops I had no idea" responses on WP:AN3), and the current one I'd have used, {{Editnotice IP 1RR}}, is outdated and probably needs some custom changes given the recent closure of WP:ARBPIA3. --slakr^\ talk / 00:37, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Updated {{Editnotice IP 1RR}} and placed it accordingly. --slakr^\ talk / 02:18, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi Slakr, I don't think a sock tag is needed on the userpage since there is a note below that it was created as an alt for Kumioko. Would you consider reverting? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:58, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

@Callanecc: Sure; I dunno how the whole arb thing works as far as banned users goes. AFAIK, adding the {{Sock}} tag places the page into the correct category, which I was actually looking for given the user raised it on IRC. I also added it to User:Catnip the Elder. Should that one be reverted, too? --slakr^\ talk / 04:13, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I was thinking more that it was a disclosed alternative account so not actually a sock puppet in the usual sense (ie against policy). But I've added the category manually and redirected Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Reguyla. That tag is fine as it actually is an illegitimate sock puppet. Also to clarify this is a community ban, ArbCom is only involved as that's where the community directed the appeal.

Editing dispute has been resolved at Monarchy of Canada, therefore it's alright to unprotect. GoodDay (talk) 14:15, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Dear Slakr- this is not personal- stay well and chaotic. Hello, I would be happy if an administrator would help- I'm not so sad about being blocked for standing up for justice and what's right. I can go to the wika page of a transvestite and it has less criticism! What's happening on deepak chopras page is a disgrace to wikipedia!!! You have allowed his page to become the site of debate. It is no longer about the man no its become an entity unto itself. Go and have a look at it and tell me what u think. Literally- the world is writing articles about what a travesty of justice this page is. So block me? What a joke I am no threat and this should t be a tantrum. So maybe just maybe have a look at what's going on around there and with all due respect- sort it out!!! Stay young, Lauren. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauren55 (talk • contribs) 20:04, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Also Slakr please let me know how I can report the other editor I am engaged with an edit war with. If that how we do it here? So I just report someone and no matter how good their edits are they will b noted as a trouble maker- like me? I mean I have been reported for attemtinh to change a page. So I would like to report them too. Seems a tad unfair but if that how it's done. Thanks again, L — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauren55 (talk • contribs) 20:23, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I see your posting BLP notices for Schneerson, but he's been dead since the mid 1990's. I thought BLP is for living or recently dead? Sir Joseph ^(talk) 01:51, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Also, ichiwhatever's comments were over a week after my edits, this was nothing more than stalking. I was told on IRC that ANI was where I could go to report it and since he already did it at ANI I didn't have to do anything about it. It's not a content or edit war issue. At this point in time, it's a stalking issue. After a week of no contact he's following me around going through my history and just contacting me wherever I go. Isn't there anything to be done about it? Sir Joseph ^(talk) 02:10, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Facepalm Whoops. That's entirely my bad (re: the BLP thing). Not sure about the stalking aspect, though. I'll look. --slakr^\ talk / 02:17, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Can you please take a look at the noticeboard, he is still going at it. Thanks. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 18:49, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

No problem, BTW, there is a small (or not small, depending on who you ask) group of people who claim that he is still alive. :) Sir Joseph ^(talk) 02:20, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

So you can continue doing good administrative work. I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{Ping|I dream of horses}} to your message. (talk to me) (My edits) @ 07:02, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Would you be able to provide a reason why this is fully-protected for another five days? I looked at the history and it mainly seems to be IP's that are causing the disruption, so I am curious as to why it warrants full protection, especially when so few users are editing it. Happy holidays though, and feel free to answer this when you have some free time! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:09, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately the WP:BLPN discussion 109 BLP articles labelled "Climate Change Deniers" all at once, which you closed, was archived twice, on 20 November in Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive231 and on 19 December in Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive232. Probably it was my fault, sorry. If you could remove the premature and incomplete archive in Archive231, you might prevent possible future confusion. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 17:17, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

FreeatlastChitchat has just violated the 1-revert rule that he had requested during unblock after being blocked by you.[8] At Template:Criticism_of_religion_sidebar, first he abused rollback by reverting me, since he got to this page by wikihounding my edits, and ignored the consensus on talk page, after that he reverted other editor [9], which was once again violation of WP:BLPCAT. He has made two reverts already. D4iNa4 (talk) 05:52, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I was inactive for the past few days; it looks like another admin has protected the template. --slakr^\ talk / 19:50, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

i was reverting some vandalism and warning the users who did it with WP:TW, SineBot tagged my warnings with "unsigned", this is getting pretty annoying... TheDasherLegendXD 10:09, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

@TheDasherLegendXD: Please see the FAQ above in the section "Why does SineBot keep signing stuff I've already signed?" --slakr^\ talk / 20:38, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi, just a head's up that SineBot has not signed anything since about 1830UTC on 22nd January [10]. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:46, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Thanks for the heads up; I restarted it the other day and it should now be working. --slakr^\ talk / 03:44, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Slakr, I just uncovered an IP involved in a (6 year) edit-warring / sock case with a handle called GarnetAndBlack, who has a history of making the exact same disrupting edits related to rival sports pages involving "Clemson University." The IP is apparently from the University of South Carolina. Could you take a look at it before it gets closed or moved: [11] You apparently blocked this user IP for a year for the same type of behavior or something similar: [12]. Investigated as an SPI case? Thanks. JustAGal2 (talk) 06:48, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

@JustAGal2: It looks like another admin has taken the action they feel is appropriate. Please note that cross-posting the same complaint to multiple pages might be considered borderline canvassing. If you feel someone is edit warring, the edit warring noticeboard is usually the main place to post (and it will result in the fastest action, on average, compared to trying to directly post to various admin talk pages anyway). From there, whoever is available, if they have time, will deal with the request. If you believe a change should be made to a protected page, please see {{editprotected}}. Cheers. --slakr^\ talk / 03:25, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the distinction, Kurt. Originally, I wasn't aware if I filed correctly. At first it seemed like a content dispute, however, after I researched it, I uncovered that it was similar to edit warring on the same article, involving the same 129.252.69.40 and username in exactly the same way. I saw that you had come across this before [13] which is the only reason I asked. JustAGal2 (talk) 04:23, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Slakr. I'm a big fan of your bot but was somewhat surprised by this. The bot added a signature to a signed post. (Actually it was double signed, but that weirdness came from using the visual editor.) Anyway, the post was written while on a mobile device, using my declared mobile account, Etamni-m. The signature that was applied is the one specified in my preferences (on the mobile account), but it does link to my main account userpage and talk page. So this is where I ask if the signature needs to link to the Etamni-m userpage (even though it is just a redirect to the Etamni userpage) to prevent the bot from treating posts as unsigned? (Please ping upon reply -- too many pages on my watchlist now) Etamni | ✉ | ✓  08:21, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

@Etamni: It looks like you were signed in as your mobile user; it compares to make sure the usernames match. --slakr^\ talk / 06:02, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi, this might be a strange request, but could you please give me the source for the purple userbox? I would like to put it on my userpage . I tried to copy and paste it but it was too complicated... Anarchyte (work | talk) 10:54, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

How did you get sign bot? Is it that code and crap again? There is an automatic installation bot that costs $800. I am not doing that tho. Odell Peterson Landry III (talk) 16:26, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

It has to be dark, moist, and warm for bots to hatch. While the initial investment in time sitting on bot eggs can be considered expensive, once their cute, little metallic eyes open for the first time and they imprint on you, it's pure magic. --slakr^\ talk / 02:47, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice! OwenJiang (talk) 02:05, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

That was not helpful DrSchlagger (talk) 08:07, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

@DrSchlagger: My apologies; there was a user on IRC (that I assumed was you) who said they wanted it undeleted to improve it. I can delete it again if you'd like. Either way, it seems you've now created a large number of unacceptable drafts. It's going to become increasingly unlikely that subsequent creations are going to be restored if there's no clear effort to improve the fundamental policy-and-guideline-violating problems with them. --slakr^\ talk / 08:33, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

You stated you did not like a particular phrase, I invited you in good faith to substitute an alternative that was more NPOV, and to your liking, then you deleted the article, I simply stated it was not helpful to delete an entire article the you objected to a phrase. I believe the phrase is "throwing the baby out with the bath water" I thank you for restoring it. As always I will simply keep editing until someone likes it. This is not how this place worked 8 years ago when I use to edit here daily. I'm trying to wrap my head around all the strange interpretations of what should be simple policies. DrSchlagger (talk) 08:45, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Slakr,

Thank you very much for pointing out that I need to sign my posts; I had not realize that was necessary. I created an account because I am looking for more information about how Wikipedia works. I am working on a research project with several professors at the University of Virginia, and we are hoping to use Wikipedia as a major source for our research. However, in order to attest to the scholarly nature of our research, we are looking for information on how/who does the bulk of editing on pages (I am particularly interested in the political endorsement pages), how/who flags mistakes and makes the bulk of corrections, and how/who decides the lay out of new pages. I realize that you may not be able to answer all of these questions, as Wikipedia has so many users and editors, but any advice you can give me would be wonderful. If you have time and are willing to help with our project, please let me know.

Best --WatsonWahoo (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

I would like to inquire about the possibility of using the logic behind TipWiki as a feature on Wikipedia. TipWiki is a Chrome extension written in JavaScript which replaces the tooltip for linked articles with information about said article.

It is very lightweight and would require the addition 20 lines of JavaScript code to function. It uses the default tooltip display as a popup, so there is no need for any additional JavaScript popups. It is also very minimal and subtle; users would barely notice it's addition. As well, it works asynchronously so the performance of the page would not be affected.

There is a conversation taking place here: goo.gl/NfcPMR. The code to the script is here as well.

Nikodraca (talk) 23:15, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi slakr. I noticed you placed a DS/A (topic=abortion) on user Lynn4's user page about six months ago. I am trying to get Planned Parenthood to GA status and Lynn4 made a curious edit with an odd edit summary there. Looking at her user contributions she has a pattern of drive by reversions and edits of content on articles related to birth control. In 10 years she has less than 500 edits, all about family planning or contraception. See my post here: User talk:Lynn4#Inaccurate addition question. Her user page also fits a pattern I have seen before with pseudo-SPA editors. Her talk page only has 5 entries in 10 years. Weird. Ping me back. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 01:26, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Slakr,

Why betray your people the Alterans including your own Brother, you will be hunted down and we'll not rest until you are dead for High Treason.

Stewart Le Fay formally Stewart Little

Morgan Le Fay formally Ganas Lal

Both are now on the High Council

Geez. No wonder you never ascended with the rest of us. --slakr^\ talk / 02:50, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Kree the Ori! Uamaol (talk) 01:03, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

I know this is FAQ but recently saw this. All the March 7 edits by 108.26.202.234 are unsigned. From your answer to the FAQ above it looks like maybe sinebot was offline at the time? Is there a way to tell sinebot "come look here" after the fact? Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 14:49, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

@Koala Tea Of Mercy: It's the "{{U|Battlecry}}" part that didn't have it match to begin with, as it skips processing when it encounters almost all templates. The rest are just edits to what they originally posted. --slakr^\ talk / 02:21, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Considering how often {{U}} is being invoked on talk pages these days you might want to consider telling Sinebot to ignore that particular template and keep on bot-ing. What about the other part of my question, is there a way to ask/tell Sinebot to add a signature to a particular edit?Never mind, I found the manual template for doing this.Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 13:17, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Per d:Wikidata:Project chat#SineBot, may I ask if you would kindly be willing to run SineBot on Wikdiata? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:02, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikihounding and removing reliably sourced content that he WP:DONTLIKE. Continuously violating his 1-rr restriction on many articles.

Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1947

[14] reverted to [15], then reverted again.[16]

Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971

[17] reverted to [18], then reverted again,[19] to a copyrights violating version. After reverting to his version by going against consensus, he asked for protection.[20]

List_of_converts_to_Hinduism_from_Islam

[21] reverted, then reverted again.[22]

All the time, he is either removing the sourced content,[23][24] abusing WP:ROLLBACK,[25][26] or gaming the system. What's more disturbing, that he went to these articles by wikihounding my edit history. D4iNa4 (talk) 04:54, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

I think I recall seeing reports for those (e.g. [27] and [28]). It appears other admins have taken the actions they felt were appropriate with regard to those disputes. --slakr^\ talk / 03:55, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Those admins simply let him go, although he was clearly guilty of edit warring and violating WP:3RR (verified by an admin). As far as I see, he'd promised you to be more careful about his edits. Mhhossein (talk) 11:39, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

He is involved in another Edit warring discussion. --Mhhossein (talk) 09:29, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

GreenC bot - is ready for another trial run! Needs approval? I went through the last trial run careful and found and fixed one bug but didn't see much else. I'm kind of under time pressure since this is co-coordinating with Cyberbot's database and it needs the data. Another trial would be a good idea to see it with the updates. -- GreenC 20:36, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

You noted "Either way, another trial is probably a good idea due to the overhaul." I'm confused are you are requesting a trial run or do I need to wait for the icon saying "trial approved"? -- GreenC 00:52, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Regarding this BRFA, which you approved but had a misgiving about:

I could also handle this merge by substituting all transclusions of the wrapper, which would convert them all to {{IMSLP}} without issue. I could do a simple rewrite of the wrapper with parser functions so a bunch of empty parameters don't make their way into the articles while doing this. I initially made the request the way I did because it probably means less edits, but not by a huge amount. If you think substitution is the way to go, let me know and write a note to that effect in the BRFA and I'm happy to do that instead.

You can see the regex I'd use for such a substitution at this other BRFA. ~ Rob^Talk 21:05, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

@BU Rob13: As it's a low page count, I'd rather the safest route that won't result in people complaining. The current method meets that. Substitution could create problems, especially if parser functions are involved; I was basically saying that if it was a drop-in replacement to use {{IMSLP}} in place of {{IMSLP2}} while making those argument changes, it might have been great to reduce use of IMSLP2. No worries; it's fine as is. :P --slakr^\ talk / 02:04, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I was wondering if you could explain this? I actually have nothing to do with "the Balkans", I just came across an editor making questionable edits and tried to initiate the BRD process. Instead, this editor has edit-warred, posted personal attacks, and treated the project like a battleground. I have repeatedly tried to engage this editor in discussion, have him at least explain his edits, if not support them with sources, but instead he just continually reverts any comments or notices I post and goes right back to reverting. He has clearly breached 4RR, and keeps on going with seeming impunity. This editor has only been here a few weeks, has a couple dozen edits, basically all reverts, and is clearly NOTHERE. I posted a report to ANEW 4 days ago, but no admin will do anything about it. I even mentioned the issue at ANI. If you're going to address this, then please do something more effective than just posting a couple of DS templates.

Please go read the ANEW report, especially the diffs. Thanks - ^theWOLFchild 10:23, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

@Thewolfchild: It's an informational notice. The edits in question (e.g., [29]) squarely put the dispute within an area fraught with prior problems related to, among other things, edit warring (see also the case link in that notice on the talk page). Whenever editors are involved in edit wars within discretionary-sanction areas, I typically alert all parties involved, regardless of who's "right." That said, the user has been blocked by another admin in the meantime, so rest assured: action has been taken. --slakr^\ talk / 02:22, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

...to say that I thought your removal of rollback from Ceoil and myself was a very reasonable and measured response to the situation. I use rollback quite extensively to undo vandalism, but I'm not going to ask for it back until I find that not having it has become a burden, at which time I'll probably just go through the normal procedure to see if an admin will reinstate it. Thanks for your well-considered adminning. Best, BMK (talk) 17:22, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Worst case, you can use twinkle in the meantime. It'll be a little slower, and the stakes are higher if it's misused in the same fashion (i.e., blocks as opposed to permissions issue), but it'll help demonstrate proper use. The main thing to avoid is edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 02:11, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

I've never used twinkle, having an aversion to semi-automated edits (I've seen too much damage that's been done by well-meaning editors who believe they're improving the encyclopedia, but whose edits have to be undone), but I may try it. And yes, indeed, I will do my darndest not to edit war. BMK (talk) 02:30, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

I have responded to your comment. By the way, disrupting watchlists for anyone who doesn't ignore bots should almost never be a concern. The reason for having the bot flag is specifically to avoid disrupting watchlists, and so someone who chooses not to ignore bots really cannot complain that their watchlist is disrupted :) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:46, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi slakr. Just a heads up, it looks like SineBot has been down for about four or five days now. --Bongwarrior (talk) 22:02, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

@Bongwarrior: Sorry; I've been sick since the weekend and am just now getting better. Thanks for the heads up. =) --slakr^\ talk / 04:39, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Why did SineBot "sign" my corrections to the archive box template on Talk:Warner Bros. Movie World and Talk:War of 1812? Thanks--76.14.40.2 (talk) 00:17, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Slakr. You have new messages at Wikipedia:IRC/Access_requests#Pending_requests_for_access_to_channels.
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Tito Dutta (talk) 17:39, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I was trying to enter an article about the company called Cincopa. It's an online video hosting company that is well notable and known among website owners who are looking for online media hosting solutions (my uncle uses their services on his website, so basically my familiarity with them was created from there). Anyway, when I was trying to create the article about the company, I saw that there was already an attempt to submit an article about them that was deleted by you on August 2015. Can you please show me the previous version that was deleted so I could know what to avoid from before I'm trying to submit my article? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by James.h259 (talk • contribs) 07:34, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi. First of all, excuse me for my bad English. I am very interested in your bot. Tell me, he can extend its work in the Ukrainian Wikipedia? I would appreciate you answering, use template {{ping}}. With this I get a notification in ukwiki. --Максим Підліснюк (talk) 20:53, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

And ProcseeBot, please --Максим Підліснюк (talk) 18:04, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

This user was blocked on 1 week for vioated 1RR But user:Ракал create new accaunt user:W596872w22. So I realy think that this user:Ракал because when 14 May, you blocked user:Ракал was created user:W596872w22 and he make such edits. You can see this user:W596872w22 contribution and user:Ракал contribution They use the same sources and do same contributios. SvEcHpInXID (talk) 17:42, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Regarding arbitration enforcement sanction, does the case name "Macedonia" imply all Balkan, as our case had nothing to do with Macedonia, yet Montenegro? Why I received 3 months, while Zoupan 1 week?--Crovata (talk) 15:48, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

@Crovata: Yes; the case means all the Balkans and related topics. Check out that part of the case for the exact wording. Regarding the disparity between the two periods, the main thing is your block log, which shows a history of edit warring to the point of getting blocked, while the other user's does not. Furthermore, when I dug a little deeper into their contribs, I ran across a few instances where the user they were reverting repeatedly was actually a now-blocked sockpuppet. Still, that doesn't excuse actually engaging in edit warring for the case at hand (or some instances in the recent past), so some form of sanction felt warranted at this point. Especially on topics that have discretionary sanctions applicable to them, it's extremely important to seek dispute resolution instead of edit warring, regardless of how 'right' or 'wrong' you feel whatever the current version of any given page is. --slakr^\ talk / 02:38, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

I opened dispute resolution, and reverted article revision due to unsubstantiated removal of, according to me, highly related information, as well article layout; my 16 May - his 6 May. Your advice and neutral third opinion would be welcome at the talk page or noticeboard.--Crovata (talk) 00:34, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I requested the return of rollback rights, which you removed from myself and Ceoil after we both used it in an edit war back in March. I would have gone to you first, but it took me a while to track down the event. I thought I'd mention it in case you wanted to intervene in the request, one way or the other. Best, BMK (talk) 13:31, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I do not know programming but I want to control a bot. What can I do? Can U create a bot for me. A bot that does any work will do for me. Thanks and regards --VarunFEB2003 (talk) 09:13, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Sinebot signed a message on a talkpage using the HTML tag "small" but then didn't put in a closing HTML tag "/small", so when I added my comment below, it came out small too so I had to manually fix the tag. Please sort Sinebot out so it puts in the appropriate closing hashtag at the end of a signing. Thank you. 95.148.20.75 (talk) 22:12, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Apologies, have checked and the problem was actually down to sloppy editing by another user! 95.148.20.75 (talk) 22:18, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi! I've been a lurker here for a while, reading a lot of active users' talk pages and spending quite a bit of time trying to understand the rules and conventions, but honestly everything seems so overwhelming. I've seen a lot of people invoking all sorts of policies and guidelines and it seems impossible to keep track of everything. Do you have any advice for someone new who really wants to be involved and who loves the spirit of Wikipedia, but is perhaps too afraid (of doing something wrong) to start?

198.39.100.21 (talk) 15:20, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

@198.39.100.21: Typically we say be bold and just edit. People will tend to let you know if you're running afoul of something. If you want, we've got a list of policies and a list of guidelines for the full reference (or there's also a short list if you only have a minute). Personally, I've got advice of my own: what you're already doing with this post is the vast majority of the advice I'd give you. Be humble, ignore ego, and proactively reach out to work with people to resolve disputes if you encounter any... and don't care too much. Also remember that you share the same articles with millions of people who will also have their millions of opinions about most of them. Above all, though, I'd recommend creating an account; that way it'll make it less confusing to stay in touch with other editors, plus you can customize your interface and use gadgets to make life easier. --slakr^\ talk / 06:43, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice! I was initially going to create an account just because most of the edits from this (static) IP, that now belongs to me, were not made by me but for some reason I never actually got to doing it. I'm here now though, so see you around! ComplexParadigm (talk) 07:45, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Slakr, would you please review my request here: Wikipedia:IRC#Pending_requests_for_access_to_channels. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 02:11, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello,

For a while I have been having a content dispute with another editor on Aristo. To avoid repetition, I made this complaint at ANI sometime ago here. The article was protected, but afterwards, the editor started once again. Here is an extensive and cyclical discussion at the talkpage that is not heading anywhere. My major problem with this editor is he/she is unwilling to compromise. They want the entire definition out of the page and that is final. They have even proceeded to remove other valid entries on the dab page, still using the reason "undocumented". I will appreciate if you can look into the dispute and help in resolving it. I think I'd most probably be comfortable with a rational/guideline based decision of any fair administrator. Thanks.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:17, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Two years ago ...

page protection
... you were recipient no. 890 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:21, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

The Arbitration Committee respectfully requests your attention, as an active member of the Bot Approvals Group, at this arbitration amendment request, which seeks to remove bot-related restrictions from Rich Farmbrough. Any comments would be appreciated. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 18:53, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Please also see WT:BAG. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 21:57, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Dear Slakr, I have written an article on describing Webcall too technical with a link to companies using webcall.

Your colleague got it in a matter of publicity so I changed the article and inserted links of your own pages to explain webcall.

Bonadea staff member was not arrogante to send me emails of not using publicity... So I simply re-wrote a short description, but still not satisfactory and worst of all she redirected the webcall page to click to call page with issues and wrong description.

Can you help, now the webcall page is redirected to another not the same technology. username Aldema13

Regards Alain — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.186.116.97 (talk) 16:01, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Please restore this page, the artist is well known, I will rewrite the page! Thank you! [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] 41.249.120.103 (talk) 08:55, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

I think it would be best to wait for advice from checkuser Ponyo. There was extensive sockpuppetry about this subject on several Wikipedias, see WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Maromania/Archive and the sockmaster User:Maromania, now User:Prismoa, has been globally locked. When closing the SPI, Ponyo salted even Draft:Achraf Baznani to prevent further disruption. I have asked Ponyo to check whether this is blocked Maromania/Prismoa back again, but she is on holiday until 26 July. JohnCD (talk) 20:43, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

I'm not the person who protected it. JohnCD did. If asking him first hasn't worked, and asking on requests for page protection (the other right place to ask) hasn't worked, then asking me likely won't. I haven't had time to be active most of this month anyway. :P --slakr^\ talk / 03:33, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

I recently restored a deleted comment with this edit, however SineBot thought I was actually commenting on the talk page and ended up signing my (what appears to be unsigned) comment. Just wanted to let you know. Zupotachyon (talk) 06:59, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

BAG News August 2016

Greetings Bot Approvals Group member! Please take a moment to review and update your status at the membership page. If you have been semi-inactive, we would love to have you back in action! We currently have 15 active bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help reviewing and approving! If you have not already, you may want to consider adding Wikipedia:BAG/Status to your watchlist, it is a bot generated list of all in progress requests. For general BAG discussion, please stop by Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group. Thank you! — xaosflux Talk 23:32, 8 August 2016 (UTC) (You can unsubscribe from future BAG Spam by removing your name from this list.)

I've never seen this before. The bot made edits three times in an article. Probably something goofy in the article or GIGO issue, but just in case. Bgwhite (talk) 06:59, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: it was a talk page at the time --slakr^\ talk / 23:43, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

That would explain it. In all the years I've been here, I still sometimes forget to sign. Thank you for your bot and correcting my brain farts. Bgwhite (talk) 04:18, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Slakr, do you think Procseebot could check hits on the spam-blacklist log (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/spamblacklist&type=spamblacklist&user=) and check IPs that hit more than XX times in the last YY edits (5 in 100 or so)? The log becomes quite useless because of IPs continuously hitting the blacklist filter (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=&limit=500&type=spamblacklist&user=175.44.5.169&page=&tagfilter=&hide_thanks_log=1&hide_patrol_log=1&hide_tag_log=1&hide_review_log=1 - 0 edits, between 2500 and 3000 hits on the blacklist). I blocked the editor today .. guess that tomorrow it is another IP. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 13:57, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=spamblacklist&user=175.44.7.101 for a nice example. I am now also seeing whether I can remove them through Special:AbuseFilter/791. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:11, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

It appears that the AbuseFilter is tested after the blacklist .. no log entries there. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:34, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

I suggest adding {{uw-sign}} when automaticly signing so people know that they should sign in the first place. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk) 20:51, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

@Zppix: It uses {{Tilde}} (so basically, same thing). See also User:SineBot#What_SineBot_does. --slakr^\ talk / 01:51, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Crovata still continues to vandalize articles on Balkans topics and edit warring on them. --198.105.117.74 (talk) 16:23, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

See Talk:Kanasubigi#Etymology, and that's the 4th revert by the IP, after 5 reverts by IP 109.234.157.99. The edit summary, editing style, and information they push is the same as those of the socks by User:PavelStaykov who edited related articles. These days several articles had the same activity because of no protection, or if had a user account was made, for example see User talk:500ГОДИНИСТИГАТ.--Crovata (talk) 18:10, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Now showed up third IP 125.212.216.201, by which edit summary is it obvious to be related or following the recent activity by other IPs on related articles.--Crovata (talk) 10:11, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

vandalism of Crovata on Balkan topics again: [43] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.87.222.214 (talk) 21:02, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Reported, again, at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PavelStaykov. IPs need to be blocked, and article protected for prolonged period of time.--Crovata (talk) 21:27, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Slakr. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

• Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
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I think your Bot is helping us keep your bot to block people disrupting Wikipedia! I like your bot. Gary "Roach" Sanderson (talk) 17:18, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Is there a way to opt out of having SineBot sign comments on my user page. It disrupts my ability to revert vandalism with rollbacks, as it signs far too quickly for me. I've edit-conflicted twice today on my talk page while reverting vandalism there because of the bot. I read the SineBot User page, but couldn't find the relevant tag. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 19:54, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

@BilCat: check out User:SineBot#Entire_talk_page. --slakr^\ talk / 17:25, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Slakr. You have new messages at 104.200.143.243's talk page.
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Vanjagenije (talk) 16:20, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Uh hi Addie12 (talk) 04:29, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

The licensing discussion here is overflowing with unsigned comments. It would be wonderful if you could step in with SineBot and yield some comprehensibility from the chaos. Thanks! zazpot (talk) 20:08, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi Slakr.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Hello. I've recently been having issues lately with Crovata (talk). For years now, the infobox photo for GZA was as such. Crovata changed it to a photo of the artist that's 16 years old (and rather outdated). I changed it back to the newer one, noting that it's more recent and that the editor should discuss this on the talk page. They've reverted my edits several times now, while stating "there's no need for discussion for such an obvious improvement" - which I find rather rude. Can you please contact them, as I don't want any part in edit warring. I'd greatly appreciate it. --Blastmaster11 (talk) 18:01, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Slakr. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

You might want to see this, in regards to your action regarding Malerooster. Arkon (talk) 23:11, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi slakr, can I appeal the sanctions you imposed. I have been trying to do 1rr on political articles because they are already under sanctions, or at least the ones with big warning tags on the talk page. I was removing a BLP violation but things escalated, which I am sorry happened, ie admin and 3rr boards being involved. Thank you either way, --Malerooster (talk) 00:21, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

@Malerooster: Your assertion of trying to keep to 1RR voluntarily seems questionable, as you also had this set as well ([44] [45] [46]), which spans mere hours. That type of forceful editing and repeated removal of an editor's concern is also disruptive and tendentious. Couple this with your violation of a clearly visible 1RR edit notice on Donald Trump which resulted in this warning, and I strongly feel that I feel that removing the 1-month 1RR sanction early would be premature at this point. Furthermore, if you've been trying to keep to 1RR already, this request seems somewhat counter-intuitive to me. --slakr^\ talk / 03:28, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

You need to change your parsing program to account for vandalism/.

Apparently your bot is doing talk pages and promoting excessive downgrades in language use, including words in example that you or someone else might take to be discrediting.

I recommend you read up on constitutional law, senatorial & house debates, including HEATED debate over time, and stop on the recommend DOD/white house protocol of making all and everyone an autist in relation to words and HIGH IQ relationships that neither you, the Dod, nor the white house have a sufficiency in intellect to understand (let alone a robot).

You want to downgrade your own nations IQ and capacity further, kindly go ahead, but do so OUTSIDE of the framework of any international pretext, including any language pretext beyound north american english, and remove the DNS address of wikipedia in the United States from all and every international coverage.

In clearer language, WE, are NOT interested in United States morality issues nor relationships. If you want to be a member of the international community, make the required changes, and make sure they are the correct ones, the level of FIRST word autism and reactionaries in your nation being extremely high.

Have a fast fireworks New Year, either with your alter, or if not, mayhaps you´ll find one. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.91.61.130 (talk) 22:12, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

If you're talking about SineBot, all it's there to do is help people figure out who left a comment and when—regardless of a person's IQ. Other bots handle automated vandalism reverts and it usually gives them ample time to make those reverts. The content of the post, including its global geopolitical accuracy (or lack thereof), is outside the scope of the bot's domain of care; signing it is not an endorsement of its content. Thanks for the New Years wishes; same to you. =) --slakr^\ talk / 07:13, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

I have at my disposition all and every IP address outside of the United States, either through anomizers or any other method, blocking an IP address will not make any distinction whatsoever. All that would do is isolate yourselves more then you allready have.

Ohhh, and before I forget, there is no form nor manner that wikies or the white house thoughts in relation to nice, is ever going to taken to be anything but an attempt to make a ´woman´ out of a person. The arabs, will not stop, nor will anyone else, and an attempt to make a woman out of an individual will only make that worse. Fastly worse.

∂ψν — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.91.61.130 (talk) 22:19, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

I'm almost certain none of my bots have made a woman out of anyone. However, there's always the possibility that they've somehow become sentient and learned sex reassignment surgery. If that's the case, I'd be proud, sure, but I'd be absolutely certain to wear a cup on a daily basis and avoid making them mad. --slakr^\ talk / 07:31, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

I am Rc . over time, enjoyment plus singing Practices... I have decided to Do good singing and Rap solos On my debut filming on Mp4. ..Record On mp3 .... And mpeg ...videos Like these songs - Rc - ABC Rc - Aeroplane song Rc - Tarsus Rc - Flight Mode Rc - Nigerian Anthem Rc - Pride (ragga) Rc - Picture Rc - The Microwave

These songs Were all sang and recorded by me So I think my performance With The Unique genre of Rap and solos Called hip hop....is by far a clear Golden opportunity to not Regret....at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MASTER RC (talk • contribs) 17:10, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	For fighting trolls and vandals. Bearian (talk) 21:47, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi,

This user is edit-warring again and made 7 reverts in less than 24 hours in the same article. Do I need to open a new report or is there a way to re-open the old one? – Sabbatino (talk) 08:30, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

get my email about IRC? Doug Weller talk 15:29, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Yes... I was on vacation. Sorry for the delay. --slakr^\ talk / 09:56, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Lost my Internet and somehow lost access to Admins. Clerks is an invite only channel also but I've still got access there. Odd. Doug Weller talk 06:34, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Slakr, will you be so kind and share to me source code for ProcseeBot? If you can't publish it for some reasons, my e-mail address is [email protected]. Thanks in advance! Please ping me at the reply time, I do not watch enwiki on regular basis. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 20:44, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

In [47]. the edit summary indicates the section before the section being sined? I don't normally check this, so don't know how often it happens. Gah4 (talk) 22:45, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Slakr, I've had to block ProcseeBot, as through no fault of its own, it was blocking IPs for ~47 years. See[48] -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:38, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

I've now unblocked the bot. The block lengths are correct, but the description of the length in the block log is not. I figure this isn't enough to hold up ProcseeBot's good work. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 22:55, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

@Zzuuzz: Yeah, the expirations still come through correctly, and attempting to change the block obviously also renders the right block time. The api gets the original string expiration right, too; it's literally just the UI that's borked. Thanks for letting me know in any case. =) --slakr^\ talk / 07:44, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey Slakr!

This page contains material that is kept because it is considered humorous. Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.

(Just replace 'page' with 'section' really.)

Don't know if you've seen the film or will get the joke but, Yknow how you've got the 'banana?' And 'kiwi?' Things above? Have you considered redirecting 'banana?' To Minions (film)? Personally I would have laughed if it had gone there already. If you don't get it, https:// youtu.be/awp_sNYf9mU (Without the space, because that site's on the blacklist) might be of some help. MM (HURRRR?) ^(Hmmmmm.) 12:29, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

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Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

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• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Slakr, thanks for the thorough write up. To nutshell it, would this be accurate:

• Yobot's prior task approvals are amended as such: Portions of tasks utilizing AWB genfixes, or that otherwise result in cosmetic edits (broadly construed) are no longer approved.

? — xaosflux ^Talk 06:11, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

I guess if it needs a sort of super-short version, then that's probably fine. :P --slakr^\ talk / 08:10, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

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Your analysis for deletion was correct. However, let me explain. It was not and is not my intent to write a paean to Meadowbrook. I am researching its history and was using wikipedia to keep my very rough draft efforts. If I were writing about (for example) a country, state, city or, even, a building; it would be appropriate to include its history, would it not? I was within a week of finishing and going back to edit it into an encyclopedic entity. We have former club members around the country who are now in their 80s and 90s. My hope was to be able ask them to review the article so that they could make corrections and additions based upon their memories.

So, my request is to ask you to put the article back up for a couple days so I can finish it. If you don't like it, take it down then. Failing that, does it still exist somewhere that you could either e-mail it to me or give me a link where I can download it into my computer's memory?

Your response would be much appreciated.

Jim Kohl Northville, MI [email protected] Mccjk (talk) 18:06, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Admin. User Pinkbeast, Try for deliberately destroying articles History and Asia. Please block user. Thanks Jacurani (talk) 04:01, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Jacurani - You're not only continuing to edit war and make disruptive edits to the articles, but you picked up right where you left off and continued to do so immediately after your block for doing so expired. Now you're canvassing administrators for a block on Pinkbeast for "destroying articles [sic] history". This is your final warning. Continuing to edit war and engage in disruptive behavior rather than discussing your dispute on the articles' talk pages and with the users involved will result in your account being blocked as it was before. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 08:10, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

@Jacurani: Heed Oshwah's advice. Numerous people appear to have reverted your edits on Tirgan and Amard (among others), yet you resumed right after the expiration of your block. If you so much as make one more edit trying to restore those same changes without at least some discussion on the article talk pages, you will likely be blocked for edit warring once again. This site works by building consensus (among our other policies and guidelines), and you've yet to attempt engaging other editors in discussion. --slakr^\ talk / 08:26, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

I am a volunteer for Marathi(Mr) Wikipedia I would be very happy if we have your sign bot in our version of Wikipedia too. What's the procedure for the same--✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 07:00, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

please reply to my request --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 12:36, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for operating ProcseeBot (talk · contribs · logs) for 8 years! Thanks to ProcseeBot, the sockpuppeteers cannot find their perfect hiding spots (i.e. open proxies) useful, because they are automatically blocked. This automatic blocking of proxies is a key piece of the vandalism and spam prevention in Wikipedia. Luis150902 (talk | contribs) 21:53, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

I there, I seen that you contested the speedy deletion. The reason as to why I placed the speedy deletion in the first place was because, we already have a template for every single Taito franchise in a template called

The Taito franchise template was created by a user called NamcoKid47. He has a bad habit of creating new pages that do not meet Wikipedia's standards of retro video games just to justify his inclusions to templates. He was the same person that created this Taito franchise template, despite being fully aware that all Taito franchises are under the Square Enix franchise template (as Square Enix is the parent company of Taito, thus having ownership of all Taito intellectual properties). Iftekharahmed96 (talk) 08:06, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

FORUMSHOPPING. I've mentioned it to the user elsewhere. Primefac (talk) 20:24, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Your bot keeps signing my user talk namespaced signpost proposal. How do I get it to skip this one page only? 68.233.214.74 (talk) 22:12, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

@68.233.214.74: Use {{nobots}} or {{bots}} --slakr^\ talk / 00:22, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

{{unblock}}

@MrArmstrong2: If you're able to post on my talk page, you're not blocked. --slakr^\ talk / 10:57, 4 April 2017 (UTC)