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Hi Inka. I notice you're a very prolific !voter in RfA's, but I can't recall that you've ever voted "oppose". Am I mistaken? Also, it's probably better to add some text explaining why you're !voting the way you are, rather than just to say "support", as you did
here. Thanks, – OhioStandard (
talk)23:13, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Okay, thanks. The "talkback" wasn't necessary, btw: when you entered edit mode on my talk page you would have been presented with an "attention" message saying so. – OhioStandard (
talk)03:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Sure he is, Elen. But to be perfectly candid, I'm just very uneasy that Inka seems so very focused on all things admin. I'm thinking of the out-of-the-gate userbox "This user isn't an admin, but acts like one", the hugely persistent and very disruptive push for rollback, his attempt to close an RfA, his having !voted in
roughly 20 RfA's for users he's probably not familiar with, without a single oppose and nothing like enough time on most or all (imo, based on the timing of his edits) to familiarize himself with an unknown candidate's background sufficiently before !voting. The single word "Sure" !votes, after only a three-minute look into someone's history, in some cases, don't inspire me with confidence, either.
And more generally, I have to question how qualified someone with so short a history is to evaluate whether an unfamiliar user will make a sound admin. I know Inka is allowed to do most or all of these things he has, but why so compelling an interest, and why start !voting so much in RfA's after being here for little over a month? It's all just a bit troubling to me, and I was wondering whether all the "support" !votes could possibly be motivated by a sort of vicarious wish-fulfillment thing. Sorry, Inka, I don't like criticizing you or anyone else, and I do think your wish to help with the infrastructure here is commendable. No one would be more pleased than I to see you eventually meet the standards for adminship. I just think both you and the project might be better served by taking your eyes off that prize for a while. Best, – OhioStandard (
talk)03:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I never entered edit mode on your talk page I use "easy talkback", I also have been here for over two months I got here on July, 17, 2010 My time July, 18, 2010 UTC time. Before I vote on a rfa I read the questions for the candidate, and check their edit count, and take a look at their recent activity; I'm allowed to !vote in rfa's and I'm entitled to my opinion. Regards, --
Inka88818:29, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm hesitant to say no. but It would be COI. If it is the blocked user I saw you talking to, I would have to say no, but he's on a tight leash so it would be extremely difficult to do. Sooo. all that to say Toss Up--
intelati(
Call)00:57, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I tried using it with chrome because I have it on my other computer, and it still did not work. I'm giving up. --
Inka88814:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Inka, look at the article. Does it look right? Do the tags and infobox look right? Is it possible that you have just reverted an edit that contained a correction as well as a vandalism?
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
18:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Yes you did and that was part of the infobox. To fix the infobox the best thing to do is go to history and see the first version by Intelati when the infobox was still there. Then go to your latest version and compare it to the first version and see what's missing. But also you moved something which was wrong instead of deleting it (I rephrased above). Can you find the wrong info and delete it?
Dr.K.λogosπraxis18:48, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Article contains a fully completed and wikilinked taxobox, and the single sentence †Heterosubulitidae is an extinct taxonomic family of sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia. While I sympathise that most of the wording in this very short article is taxonomic, why is it lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article, which is plainly some kind of extinct sea snail? This was something of a trick question, which was why I asked whether you would tag it. Project Gastropod have added around 15,000 similar articles (although in fairness to them, they do use a reference, which I stripped out of this one). Perhaps reading
WP:STUB would help - very short articles are allowed on Wikipedia, provided you can work out what they are about.--
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
15:25, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
This page:
User:Intelati/test/1 has been left in a bad state and has not been fixed yet. Intelati has left it as an assignment and I provided instructions on how to fix it. This test is important because it needs navigation through history and comparison of revisions to fix it, as well as careful reading of the text and critical thinking. If Inka is to be trusted with reverting all forms of vandalism and not only the simplest forms, he should IMO successfully complete this vandalism-elimination/correction test.
Dr.K.λogosπraxis16:44, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't know to do it without rewriting everything that was removed I don't have a tool that will revert more than one edit. --
Inka88823:30, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Go to history and see this: "(cur | prev) 11:47, 25 September 2010 Intelati (talk | contribs) (2,804 bytes) (←Created page with '{{BLP IMDB-only refimprove|date=July 2010}} {{Infobox actor | name = Jordan Todosey | image = | caption = | birthdate = {{bda|1995|...')" Press the "cur" button to compare with the latest (current) version and see what's missing from the infobox. That'll fix the infobox. Also see if the person is dead or not. I don't think she is.
Dr.K.λogosπraxis23:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
However instead of doing all these edits you could have gone to history and reverted back to the last good version which was the very first edit that Intelati made.
Dr.K.λogosπraxis00:13, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
very good - although I think you need to look a little more closely at the items in the infobox that are not currently showing up in the article. Some vandals love to hide their work in this way. By way of a follow up, I have edited it again - pretend only the last edit (the one with the summary) is me, the others are a vandal. Would you be able to remove the vandalism but still leave my good edit? --
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
22:08, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Actually, originally, even I was puzzled by this as well. I actually fixed it in the last edit by me. (I made sure to fix it in the original article as well :)--
Talktome(
Intelati)22:12, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
I take it you copied a vandalised version of the infobox without realising it??? Inka reverted to the original version, not noticing that you had fixed some vandalism as well as adding some extras. --
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
22:17, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Almost. The vandal didn't add weight and measurements to the template (they must use it for wrestlers, or models or something) so those could have stayed, although you would never use them normally, but did add "Eurobabe index". Also, you've left one of my vandal edits in. Well done for retaining the good edit I made.
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
22:29, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Inka currently does not use Twinkle, so he has to hand insert the diff when using a warning template. Looking at the IP's track record, I can't see that it made a great deal of difference to the outcome :) :) --
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
23:39, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Create the page with anything. I.E. Hit edit then put "ajkdfgh;" in it. It shows your Monthly and most edited pages in an edit counter.--
Talktome(
Intelati)23:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
The basic code works like this:
{{Userbox
|id = this is what shows up on the left side
|info = this is what shows up on the right side
|id-c = the background color of the left side
|info-c the background color of the right side
}}
For example:
{{Userbox
|id = [[File:Cheese.png|70px]]
|info = Cheese is good.
|id-c = orange
|info-c = red
}}
will look like this:
The Ip's are Anonymous, so each edit they make must be carefully screened. On the other hand, the minor edits are suppose to be non controversial.--
Talktome(
Intelati)22:07, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Depends on the case in a very rare situation where a page got badly messed up by multiple edits I might. In almost every case I would use the undo or manually revert. --
Inka88816:53, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
I like a smaller Archive, so things are easy to find, but ultimately it is your choice. the 445k is a fine compromise, but I wouldn't go any bigger than that. Thanks.--
Talktome(
Intelati)21:48, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Just internet explorer. I also use firefox, but about 47% of wikipedia users use internet explorer. Back when I used it, loading any page larger than about 150K would cause major slowdown.
Access Denied[FATAL ERROR]03:51, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
100K is already pretty long; that's past 80 average-length sections. It's not the browser that's the issue, it's the Internet speed. Yes, IE sucks, but if your page is just 200KB, it would take many users 10 minutes or more to load. /
ƒETCHCOMMS/21:08, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Honestly I was confused as to what that page was for.
User:Fetchcomms told me to do something with it. It should be deleted there is no reason for it anymore. --
Inka88822:15, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
I didn't ask you to do anything with that. I asked you to replace "TEMPLATE NAME HERE" with the name of the template you wanted to look at. /
ƒETCHCOMMS/16:25, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Rollback
Hello, per your request, I've granted you Rollback rights! Just remember:
Rollback gives you access to certain scripts, including
Huggle and
Igloo, some of which can be very powerful, so exercise caution
Reviewing is a new part of Wikipedia and very controversial. I would wait to actually review the articles until we can talk about it. Thanks--
Talktome(
Intelati)01:36, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Intelati, do not use articles on real subjects to practice on. BLP violations, for testing or not, should exist nowhere, not in userspace or anywhere else. You'll have to make fake articles. Also, when copying content within Wikipedia, you need to attribute it per the terms of the CC-BY-SA. This can be done via a comment in the edit summary, where it will be visible in the history, or you can add a note to the article itself saying where the content came from. See
this page for more. /
ƒETCHCOMMS/00:19, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
A typical vandal tactic is to add false information that a living person died. Obviously there will not be a citation to this wrong information. A helpful IP sometimes will come along and remove the false death claim. So if you see death claims without citation you should be aware of possible vandalism. Preferably perform a Google search to verify that the person may still be alive.
Dr.K.λogosπraxis21:43, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Absolutely. First you automatically revert the uncited death claim and then, if you want to make sure, Google anyway just to see if you can find any reliable citation just in case.
Dr.K.λogosπraxis22:48, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
When you leave a warning template (even though it's not required or anything) please consider using the style that references a specific article as in this Unsourced edit welcome... subst:uw-unsourced1|article. You left some Warnings without the article-names recently (for instance, at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:199.8.222.105 &
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:99.227.180.51). Leaving a Notice/Warning+article-name makes it easier for other editors to follow-up on particular edits and also reminds the errant editor exactly where they have made their mistakes. Just a thought,
Shearonink (
talk)
14:55, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
It's not so bad having to type the name in manually. I don't use Huggle either, so that's what I do. Because I like to be make sure the Warning fits the edit, I usually even go to
Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace and manually pick out the appropriate Warning for the test/vandal/joke/whatever edit.
Shearonink (
talk)
10:22, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
I usually would do type in the name manually. When there is a lot of vandalism and very few vandal fighters, I would not do it because it takes more time. --
Inka888Come yell at me!18:06, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Questions
First, service awards are awards that you give yourself for your contributions. don't focus on them as they are just for fun. :)
Second, Huggle is often faster than plain roll back becuse you can see the diff without switching windows. other than that, the only differences between that and the recent changes, is that Huggle warns the person, and the edits are automatically updated.--
Talktome(
Intelati)01:34, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
(
talk page stalker) You can find your total number of contributions here:
[4] and you can find the appropriate service award by going here:
[5] - your current level is 3 (Journeyman Editor), which you can find the templates for here: (Journeyman)
[6]. Other awards are generally added by other editors, usually to your talk page, at which point you can decide whether you want to copy them to your user page or not.
If you take a look at my
user page (and hit edit) you can see my various userboxes for how I've used the stuff - but I am pretty sure you are familiar with how to do that (you may find a few other userboxes you are interested in though, such as the edit count userbox - which is used like this: {{User contrib|2111|Inka 888}} - with the "2111" being changed as your edit count increases (that's your current edit count, btw)). You have to manually update/change the service level award as your edit count increases (just as you would have to update the edit counter userbox).
Your next level will be reached when you have 4,000+ edits and one or more years of having a registered account.
I suffer from silly things like adding decimal places to my edit count userbox. I think it was at 2345.0587 at some point a couple weeks ago... then .05 and now .1 ;-) But Bwilkins makes the most valid point regarding edit counts that I have ever seen. Heck I take days off at a time when I've been doing late nights and am afraid I will screw up reverting.
ROBERTMFROMLITALK/CNTRB15:40, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Other than being a fairly obvious
BLP violation, unsourced death rumor, and vandalism, was there any reason why you restored this? /
ƒETCHCOMMS/16:29, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
And you templated the IP for vandalism (even though it was only a level one warning). You need to apologise. Note that the bot tagging for section blanking is not sentient. It cannot tell why someone blanked the section. Even if an edit is tagged, you still need to read it. --
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
16:39, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
(
edit conflict) In addition the granting of rollback was conditional on being rescinded after five bad reverts. With this being a bad revert there are four more chances remaining. Unfortunately it does sound like a bad video game but the rollback-granting terms have to be upheld.
Dr.K.λogosπraxis22:19, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Then you can "police" yourself, I take it. People will be keeping count though. Oh and when I hover your name, it says "rollbacker", but that is semantics. -
Neutralhomer •
Talk •
00:09, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and the page that you created has been or soon will be deleted. Please use the
sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the
welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the
Article Wizard.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of
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Cindamuse (
talk)
03:10, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Talkback
Hello, Inka 888. You have new messages at
Talk:User Inka 888/5,000 edits. Message added 03:20, 10 October 2010 (UTC). You can
remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
I am wondering what you were trying to do here. If you were trying to make a userbox for an edit count, that has already been done for you. You can add the following userbox code to you page and keep an active edit count. {{user contrib|2259|Inka 888}} The "2259" is your current edit count. I normally go in hundreds, some go in thousands, so you don't have to update it daily or hourly, but that is up to you. -
Neutralhomer •
Talk •
05:06, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Yes, it would be fine, but make sure you have a strong password. AKA, at least 12 characters with at least 1 number or special character.--
Talktome(
Intelati)22:35, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Probably not, especially if you create yourself a
WP:HASHKEY. That way, if someone hacks the account, you can verify that you are Inka and they are not. Admins tend to have second accounts for cybercafes, hotel internets and iPhones, so there's no risk of someone hacking the account with the tools. --
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
22:53, 10 October 2010 (UTC) That's
Template:User committed identity. Tells you all you need to know.
This is wrong. the "|colwidth=30em" allows the browser to pick how many columns. This is a "new" way to do this. Keep this in mind. :)
200something references on that page. I understand doing it the other way with less but in this case all it does is make the page longer than it needs to be. --
Inka888Come yell at me!03:11, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Looks like you're designing a new signature, but you'll need to get it below 256 bytes to be usable. Looks like there's lots of unused code though that i could clean out.
Access Denied[FATAL ERROR]04:08, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
One more thing, I will give you a 5 bad reverts per week restriction. Please be careful and try not to even come close to that please. Thanks, and good work. :)--
Talktome(
Intelati)01:20, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Sven Manguard's "Completely Safe" Irradiated Barnstar
Not content with distributing ordinary barnstars, I have illegally enriched several ordinary barnstars, for the purposes of rewarding others for outstanding individual achievement. Congratulations, you have just been awarded one of these rare treasures. They glow in the dark, yes, but I'm sure they are perfectly safe. For removing vadalism from my userspace. The IP was right though, that entire thread was retarded. Thanks, Sven ManguardTalk00:07, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I knew about admins and account creators so I really didn't need a link. I did not know that one would have to those rights to create an edit notice.
Inka888ContribsTalk00:06, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Hit the new section on the top of your talk page and on the top right (using vector) corner there is a "Page Notice" link. Click that link and start that page.
Talktome(
Intelati)02:10, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I actually just figured it out after I asked the question. Thanks for the help though. Also after I finish making my edit notice, do I just save the page and it show my edit notice from then on?
Inka888ContribsTalk02:27, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Inka 888. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of
Fermentelos, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. Thank you. —
Malik ShabazzTalk/Stalk02:21, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
this is all it said in the article when I saw it. I noticed the user added a bit to it after I tagged it. I said A1 because there was nothing to back up what s/he said. If you look at "He is a funny man with a red car. He makes people laugh" that is the example of A1 at
WP:SD; how is what that user wrote different?
Inka888ContribsTalk02:28, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
It's a super-stub, but it does identify the subject ("Fermentelos is a town in Portugal.") If you don't think the town is notable, I guess you can try
PROD or an
AfD. I'm not even sure whether we have notability guidelines for cities and towns. —
Malik ShabazzTalk/Stalk02:36, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
(Came across this from
TigreTiger's talkpage) I've been on NPP tonight; even if there's no actual policy violation here, it's making our job tremendously difficult. It's flooding
Special:NewPages, and making it very hard to properly patrol everything. As far as I know, towns and cities are inherently notable, but if you ask me, mass creating sub-stubs like this (I've seen it a few times before, from far more experienced users) borders on disruptive.
The Blade of the Northern Lights (
話して下さい)
02:44, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Would you please learn to keep discussions in one place for crying out loud. When you left a message on my talkpage, it even warns you to keep them together. Now, go to my userpage, down to the stubs created - tell me if any of them are that much different from what Tigre created? (
talk→BWilkins←track)
19:49, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I apologize for moving the discussion. If you were looking for information about a place, and you looked it up on Wikipedia would you like to read and article with five words in it (three of them being articles}? I looked at
WP:SD, and there was an example of A1 which was "He is a funny man with a red car. He makes people laugh." How is that any different than "Fermentelos is a town in Portugal."?
Inka888ContribsTalk19:57, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
It's a little different. The information provided is factual (or presumed to be so - which is easily verifiable with a simple web search) and explains one of the most important parameters of a city (where it is). That makes it a valid stub. Your example, OTOH, is POV (first part) and hard to verify (second part). Totally different scenarios. See my note on BWilken's talk page for more (sorry about that B... feel free to move the comment here if you like - didnt find this discussion till after I left the comment). Best, Rob
ROBERTMFROMLITALK/CNTRB20:01, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
No issues Robert, TPS's are good :-). Inka ... check
this stub. What's really different from what Tigre created? Your job as an editor is to edit - and knowing that towns are inherently notable, would it have killed you to add a half of a sentence? (
talk→BWilkins←track)
20:16, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
WP:DEFACTO: 99.9% of all articles about populated cities/towns/etc., fully professional athletes, and species are kept, stub or not. I strongly advise you to withdraw your AfD nomination and be much more judicious in your CSD work. "Too short" is not a valid rationale when the article establishes the subject and context. Considering that you are still being mentored, I hope that you will read, re-read, and re-read a second time, the
relevant policy. /
ƒETCHCOMMS/05:03, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh, and just tagging an article is unhelpful. Either you expand it yourself, or you move on. Don't create more backlogs and work for others. Sources are not hard to find. /
ƒETCHCOMMS/05:04, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
If you want, I'll help you out too; I've been at this for several months, and I pretty much know what I'm doing. NPP is my specialty, and there aren't many people doing it, so we'd love for someone else to step in and lighten the workload a bit.
The Blade of the Northern Lights (
話して下さい)
05:18, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I should be around for a couple of those hours at least. In fairness to Inka888 on this, the situation tonight was a bit strange; I wouldn't expect anyone even relatively new to NPP to have been able to figure out what to do. I guess you'll hear from me then.
The Blade of the Northern Lights (
話して下さい)
05:25, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
First, anything about city's, counties, or any government designated entity are immune from any deletion. See
here for a more through explanation. A little short on time today, more will follow shortly.--
TalkToMecintelati21:39, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Even if the article says some thing like this for example:
"Pleasantville is a town in bullshit county tons of people go to have sex and kill each other every 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999...........................00000000000000000088888888888 milliseconds..................blablablablablablabalblabla.......................I really hate the town.
Ok, I'm going to start with the simplest: G1, G3, and G10.
G1
Patent nonsense. There are 2 types:
1. Random banging on the keyboard like this:
r67tbg9wn4 tg2wn9596g5t8959ntwv5m098b3w5t lololol n5 tr 8tojjhai der
2. Random words that make no sense together. like this:
Salas eat monkey poo that banana have lol Mario hi there bobjoe how is my puppy
G3
Pure vandalism like these:
I suck cocks. I suck cocks. I suck cocks. I suck cocks. I suck cocks. I suck cocks. I suck cocks. I suck cocks. I suck cocks. I suck cocks. I suck cocks.
or blatant hoaxes:
I live inside mount everest and kill people on who like pie.
G10
Attack pages Admins watch the "attack pages" category and will often delete them in seconds. Examples:
johnny is a gay faggot
Or this:
sammy the stupid was born in 37857887275 B.C. and then went through three sex changes and then raped himself and died. The end.
I'm not sure why you've done what you have with the WSPA page. It'd be great if you would join the project so you could do a lot of productive stuff. I blanked a page that because it was redundant. If I knew how to delete it, I would have just done that. This page replaces it
Wikipedia:WSPA/Get started.
--
RichardMcCoy (
talk)
02:03, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
I struck through the warning because it appears that it was not vandalism. If you could use an edit summary when you make large edits, I would much appreciate it. Best,
Inka888ContribsTalk02:09, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes when a IP range is blocked, some people may be unable to create accounts. So, a person sends out an email to the account creation people and they decide if creating the account is proper. I have created
5 accounts. To create accounts, you have to ... See what
Fetchcomms wrote.--
TalkToMecintelati02:52, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Actually, it's more like people who can't read the
captcha, not just rangeblocked IPs. More of those requests go to the unblock-l mailing list, but some go to through ACC (and that's why we have CUs there). /
ƒETCHCOMMS/22:13, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Inka, don't take this the wrong way, but the project needs people who create content more than it needs people who fiddle about in the plumbing (we have rather a lot of those). If you're bored
click here, and see if you can improve what you see.
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
22:43, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm not going to "fiddle with the plumbing". I don't make mistakes like I used to. Please provide a time when I was "fiddling around with the plumbing" in the last week.
Inka888ContribsTalk22:50, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
(
edit conflict):::(
talk page stalker) Elen is not referring to any past mistakes you may have made or even mistakes in general. All she is saying is that right now content contributors are more needed than maintainence and technical editors such as vandal fighters, which there are a lot of.
Derild4921☼22:53, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, sorry Inka. When I said 'fiddling with the plumbing' I was thinking of Scottie in Star Trek, not making mistakes. Sorry for not being clear about that.
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
00:18, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I understood that. It came across that you thought I was not serious about the project. If that's not what you meant at all, I appoligize for going on about it.
Inka888ContribsTalk04:01, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
If you have "Navigation popups, article previews and editing functions popup when hovering over links" enabled, and are on your watchlist, you can hover over the "diff" button. the Popup will, pop up and there is an "action" button. You can then hit "Revert" and it will use the undo function with out stopping for you to type in your rational. Basically faster than undo, but slower than plain rollback.--
TalkToMecintelati00:06, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Then why would they start the project with a talk page instead of putting it on the project page? Also part of G8 is a talk page of a nonexistent main page....right?
Inka888ContribsTalk03:56, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Inka 888. You have new messages at
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Ling.Nut (
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02:23, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
The thread below shows otherwise. There are still too many policies you completely misunderstand, and ACC is important enough that you can't f'up like that. (
talk→BWilkins←track)
18:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
[7] It does make a difference. Per
Templates that should not be substituted, "templates shall not be substituted that (a) contain calls to ParserFunctions (#if, #switch, etc.), unless, where possible, these are substituted too".
Template:Blocked user uses ParserFunctions. It's also unnecessary to put so many characters there when you can simply use {{blocked user|historical}}.
Goodvac (
talk)
04:49, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
(
talk page stalker) On top of that, I can add that "does not make a difference" is not a valid reason to revert. If it doesn't make any difference, the current look can be kept. Also, I believe that the blocked template you substituted was an old version of the real template.
HeyMid (
contributions)
11:34, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
No problem. Also, have you yet noticed the launch button for igloo at the toolbox (at the left side of this page), or are you still using that direct link?
HeyMid (
contributions)
18:58, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
And I'm not sure whether the historical category should be put at A3RO's user page or not. I don't really know in which cases that category should be used.
HeyMid (
contributions)
19:17, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
G1 - Patent nonsense. This excludes articles in a foreign language. Just because you don't speak whatever language it is in does not make it nonsense. --
Elen of the Roads (
talk)
02:09, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
You "misread...the G1 criteria"?? I watched you have more than 1 lesson on G1 and a similar discussion. This is not about misreading whatsoever. (
talk→BWilkins←track)
08:59, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Remember, there are only two situations in which an article can be tagged as a G1:
Random banging on the keyboard like this: &:$.!!.!:8,!/ jJxnd shzhzbsvsuzhzzvzhebfbx
A random string of words that make absolutely no sense together like this: Word face zit party fun fun zombie hitler cocaine
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Reviewing acticles in the
Special:OldReviewedPages is a very controversial idea by the Wikimedia foundation. The idea, is that the IP's can still edit articles, but the vandalism is weeded out by trusted users like you and me.
To review a edit is simple, you hit the link to the Special page, and hit the "(review)" link. you then either hit the Accept button which allows other users to see the edits. Or you can revert it. Be careful though, make sure the usage of words
fit's the article, make sure all of the pending edits are
free from vandilism Etc. These are all things I have done. Just be careful. :)
You undid the blanking of this article, and I reverted: it was blanked by the only author of the article, and the appropriate course of action is to place a db-author tag on it (CSD G7). Thanks,
Drmies (
talk)
22:10, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, it's one of those things where an act by a relatively new editor is interpreted in a certain way. Sometimes users get frustrated by the process (like if they keep adding unverified BLP stuff, for instance) and they see no other way to get out of it, which is probably what happened here. Now, we can keep reversing and then warning them for blanking/vandalism, and the frustration escalates, and before you know it they're blocked. There's little purpose in that; I'm sure you've seen how quickly someone can get to level 4. I guess in order to prevent such escalations, the G7 guideline asks us to interpret that kind of blanking as "author's request to delete" (unless other editors of course have contributed significantly). Thanks,
Drmies (
talk)
03:12, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Will you please help mentor me? Airplaneman is gone until 2/2011, and Mono's gone until I don't know when. Reply on my talk. Thanks
I.P. (
talk)
03:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
PROD
PROposed Deletions are for when a article doesn't meet any of the CSD criteria, but the nominator thinks that no other editor would contest the deletion.
Today there are two types of PROD's. The "Sticky PROD" for Unsourced BLP's and the Regular PROD, where the editor writes in their "reason".
I'm waiting for a new version of huggle to come out and I'll try it again then. It was messing up on me before. I like Igloo because I do more than just vandal fighting in a day and it is a simpler tool to work with for short periods of time. When there is a lot of vandalism I usually will use huggle.
Inka88822:51, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
It depends on how much vandalism there is out there on the time you get on to see which one you will use. Huggle is faster than Igloo, in my opinion, but many ex-Huggle users have permanently went to Igloo.
WAYNEOLAJUWON23:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Igloo has never had any problems for me. I reverted download the first time I used it (but that was my fault). Like I said above I'll try huggle again when there is a new version.
Inka88823:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Someone, probably you, requested access to the
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TheHelpfulOne23:34, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
OK, great - it that case I have approved your request for the tool. Please excuse the template below, but it provides some useful links if you'd like to join the mailing list:
Thank you for applying to access the ACC tool. As a tool administrator, I have decided to give you access. You may now utilize the tool
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Please remember that the ACC tool is powerful, and that misuse may result in your access being suspended by a Tool Administrator. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions, and once again welcome to the ACC tool.
TheHelpfulOne23:43, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
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So I was wondering why did you restore that awful section? Thanks for reading.--
Knight1993 (
talk)
16:33, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Editing ANI posts and labelling editors as vandals
This edit -
[8] - was GROSSLY inappropiate. You changed another editors post with no good reason and labelled another editor as a vandal without justification, then compounded the error by marking it as a minor edit. Please don't do this again.
Exxolon (
talk)
09:04, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
There are a whole bunch of alternative templates at
Template:Vandal that have more information all with the "user" prefix - please use one of those instead. That avoids labelling an editor as a vandal - only obvious vandals/vandalism should have vandal templates attached.
Editing another editors posts is generally never a good idea without a damn good reason - if you are going to do it, make sure you post underneath indicating the edit you've performed so it's clear who is responsible for which text without having to go digging through the edit summary. I ended up falsely accusing the original poster of the comment you edited as labelling the other editor as a vandal without justification and I had to apologise for that because of your action.
Exxolon (
talk)
23:47, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
(
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edit conflict) Inka888, the only thing that needs to be done for others to quickly examine an editor's edits is put
Rjbronn (
talk·contribs). That's {{user|Rjbronn}}, not {{vandal|Rjbronn}}. I would not try to minimize what you did: but rather recognize that it was certainly not correct to do so. Cheers...
Doctalk23:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for helping close the premature RFA. I left
Core2012 a little longer message on his talk page. I didn't strike yours, just felt a little more might help. Dusti*poke*08:53, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Inka 888, I'm sorry I just closed your RfA per
WP:SNOW, because I don't think you'd have passed, at this time, given the rationales indicated by the opposers and wanted to spare you the bitter, stinging experience an Rfa can be; if you want your RfA to run for the entire week, however, you're of course entitled to revert my closure!
Please, remember you're a valuable Wikipedian and your contributions are much appreciated; do try again, when you have garnered a bit more experience and when you've tackled all the issue highlighted by the opposers. See you around! SalvioLet's talk about it!11:56, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
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