User talk:Ais523/Archive 7

Kindness barnstar

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For providing excellent help with my signature and previous queries, you deserve this more than anyone at the moment. Your efforts are much appreciated. (P.S. I did forget to turn on that raw signature box ;-) ! Lradrama 18:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:ACC

Gee..Thanks..I'm not sure about what the bot(AccReqBot) can do actually but maybe its creator:ST47 might be able to help fix that problem..Cheers..--Cometstyles 12:52, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I just saw your question. What the bot does is it archives fulfilled requests. It used to be able to send an e-mail to people who request an account that already exists, but it can't do that any more. Tra (Talk) 16:14, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

There's two ways of doing it. Either you could e-mail the requester and tell them about the problem, and remove the request from the page; or, you could say that you have declined it as a comment under the request then remove the request after around 48 hours. I've had an idea of perhaps using {{not done}} for the latter case and perhaps getting a bot to archive requests containing this template. Tra (Talk) 16:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that sounds good. I think there should be a separate option for accounts that are similar to another account and accounts that are similar to an active account, maybe {{ACC|s}} could code to [image] '''Similar''' to {{useracc|username}} and {{ACC|sa}} could code to [image] '''Too similar to active account''' {{useracc|username}}. Please choose another username. I'll bring this up at Wikipedia talk:Request an account as well. Tra (Talk) 18:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

re: Markuspassion

Everything is okay now. Thanks for fixing my screw-up. :) PatrickWaters 14:21, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Help

YOU install that taggy thigny mabobby for me, I don't really know how. --Pupster21 Talk To Me 19:13, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm fine, I have Lupin's anti-vandal tool. --Pupster21 Talk To Me 11:57, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help. INXS-Girl 12:04, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Re:RfA Bots

Thank you so much for the heads up. I'll investigate this immediately. One of that last things that I would want to accidently do is sign anyone else's signature or double vote in an any election, including RfAs. Please accept my most sinsere apologies, and if there is anything else about this you want to tell me, please feel free to leave any messages on my talk page.--U.S.A. cubed 19:51, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

If I understand the situation correctly, which I don't I may, the problem was the signature. But I have absolutely no idea how it linked to Majorly's or didn't link to mine. I just blanked my programed signature on my preferences, so that I will have the standard signature.--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 19:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps you could tell me what signature to change my preferences. I don't exactly understand this statement of yours: "The problem is that you don't link to your user or talk page in your sig, but you linked to User:Majorly in your comment." Could you clarify on that.--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 20:00, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I also left a note on the help desk, so that you may choose to respond there if you have any comments. Thanks again for alerting me on this.--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 20:12, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I may know a little better now. Would this have prevented that? Changing Majorly to just say Majorly?--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 20:16, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

All I can do now is wait, and revert a little vandalism on recent changes patrol, but after discovering that you are an administrator, maybe the help desk wasn't nessesary.--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 20:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

New signature.--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 21:34, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I blanked my preferences and unchecked the raw signature box, but I'm still not sure about the RfA issue, and noone on the help desk knows, though great effort by them was made.--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 21:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC) Well, in that case, I changed my signature back to the old version, or almost like it, becuase I think the only problom was the one you clarified on my talk page, and as long as I write Majorly, and not Majorly, I think it'll be fine.--U.S.A. cubed 20:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for everything!--U.S.A. cubed 02:45, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for replying to the helpme on my talk page! - Super48 15:35, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much!

I'd like to thank you very much for creating my user account. Someone brought the Chris Chamberlin article to my attention, so I'm mostly going to monitor that, and make sure nothing inaccurate is added.

Also just wondering, am I allowed to make minor corrections to the article should anyone introduce something that is incorrect, or is this considered vanity and against a policy/rule?

Thanks very much.

--ChrisChamberlin 12:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Template help needed

I know you're quite knowledgeable in this field, so figured you might be able to help. I want to change {{IRAs}} so that if you're on a page in the article, the name in the template is in bold, in the same way that plenty of other templates do such as {{1981 Hunger Strike}}. Is it possible at all? Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 08:01, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Slight problem still. If you go to Real Irish Republican Army you'll see that {{IrishR}} on the side) works just fine with regard to bolding the article name, but {{IRAs}} (at the bottom) doesn't, despite them both having [[Real Irish Republican Army|Real IRA]]. Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 16:27, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

The {{IrishR}} template has the article name in bold when it's on the article, whereas the {{IRAs}} template just has it in standard text. From what I can see it's always been like that, I've never seen it appear in bold. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 10:43, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Not bold for me. I even cranked up IE from the ashes to make sure it wasn't just Firefox playing up. As long as it works for some people it must be ok then. Thanks for the help. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 10:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Javascript

Hi ais523! When programming in JavaScript, what code would you use to load a webpage with a certain value in the URL? ~ Magnus animum ∵ ∫ φ γ 00:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks greatly! The script is supposed to give a tab which, when clicked, will open a prompt and lead you to the edit count of the user whose name you typed into the prompt window. ~ Magnus animum ∵ ∫ φ γ 11:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

AccReqBot

ST47 has requested the bot be unblocked as he has just fixed it. Hope it works! Extranet ^talk 11:00, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I noticed ST47's request before I noticed this. It's unblocked now, anyway. --ais523 11:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

catwatch.js

Hi. Thanks for creating a script that will add {{helpme}} requests to my watchlist. But, sorry for being slow today, I'm not sure what to do with this script - do I add it to my monobook skin - and if so where in the skin? I'm a computer programmer by the way (believe it or not) but I don't dabble much with javascript. Your help is appreciated. Rfwoolf 14:28, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! I got it working. Cheers! Rfwoolf 13:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

User contributions

Hello. I saw that you responded to my comment at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Problem with my contributions. I figured that it would be better to catch you here than to try to keep a thread going at that location. So far, you are the only person who agrees with me that "something happened". I am almost positive that the user preferences used to affect the number of lines that were seen when looking both at your own contributions as well as when looking at any users contributions. I think that "something broke" and now it is defaulting to 50 for everyone. Of course, am I mentioned, no one else that I can find seems to recall seeing something other than 50, besides you. Is there any way that we can get any more details about what is going on? I'm not asking for you to fix it for me, just if you can recommend where I can go for help, since the VP didn't prove fruitful. I really think that something got messed up, that should be fixed if it’s not too difficult. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 15:33, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I've been looking through MediaWiki's source code to see what happened. Have a look at the diff for r21664, particularly line numbers 188 and 198 on the hyperlinked numbers at the left. The old code was list( $options['limit'], $options['offset']) = wfCheckLimits();, which appears to be checking preferences for the limit (although I'm not sure); the new code is $options['limit'] = $wgRequest->getInt( 'limit', 50 );, which looks very much to me like it's using a hardcoded default. I wonder if this change was deliberate, and if we should open a bugzilla report about it? --ais523 15:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it does look hard-coded. The change was made by Tim Starling. I think that I'll go to his talk page and ask him to stop by this conversation and take a look. By the way, I would love to know how you found that. I would never have known to look there. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 15:59, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, the method I used was to go to svn:, look through the directories until I found the file that generated the contribs screen (by the way, phase3 is often a good place to look), look for a bit of code that looks like it might be the problem, then binary search through the history of the file to find when the change in question was made, and who made it. I suspect a developer would have found it much faster! --ais523 16:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Interesting, thanks. BTW, if I have figured out how to read this stuff, it looks like the change was removed in 21666, but then restored in 21667. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 16:10, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, it looks like no response is coming from my attempt on the talk page. I also got no response on IRC at #wikimedia-tech. Would you mind either filing that bugzilla report or coaching me in how to do it? --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 03:41, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I've submitted the bug: bugzilla:9808. --ais523 10:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

It's been fixed now (see the link in my line above). --ais523 07:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

So it has, I see. Thanks for your help with this (and for being the only other person who believed and cared enough to help. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 01:00, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

cheers for creating my account man! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ren Wu (talk • contribs) 08:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC).

editprotected table

I know that you do a lot of editprotected requests. I recently started making a table User:VeblenBot/PERtable that lists protected edit requests along with the protection summary for the page. And it gives the dates that the requests were made. I would appreciate any thoughts you have about improving the table, and I hope its useful to people besides me. CMummert · talk 15:15, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding User:Ais523 non-admin

Hi, I'm curious, I understand having your Ais523 non-admin account for security concerns but I'm not sure what you mean about WP:ACC. Is there something being a sysop prevents you from doing in relation to creating accounts? Thanks for your help. Adambro 15:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

answered

--Yurik 21:02, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

User:Ais523/ILT

Can you please cleanup this page in such a way that it's not listed for speedy deletion (like remove categories, link using {{tl}} etc. That's assuming of course you don't want it deleted :) Cheers, Petros471 08:48, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks. I really appreciate the help! Neranei 14:12, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

RE: Template:Link

Thanks, Ais523 for the instant action per Template talk:Link. I have added some comment there, would you mind clarifying please? (I will check there for reply) Regards - G.A.S 16:00, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

It seems that this template is directly used by Template:Harvrefcol, Template:Citation/core, Template:Citation/core/testing, Template:Citation/patent, et al. Thus it isn't for general use. - G.A.S 17:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks.

I've been spending a lot of time monitoring RC pages, mostly looking for vandalism. It slows me down when I come across something a little too substantial to nom for speedy. This will be helpful.—Gaff ^ταλκ 09:03, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Statuschanger

I thought it had already been deleted, cheers for the heads up. You can leave it for now, hopefully with no disasters between now and the end of the week, I'll be able to delete it next week. Cheers ^Khukri 10:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

My User Page

This is a pedantic quibble on my behalf, as I really don't have a vested interested in making a big deal about a number, so please feel free to ignore me. Is it the place of an admin to make judgement calls on the legal position of Wikia, regarding Wikipedia, in the abesence of an official response from WP:OFFICE. I would have thought that an admin's role begins and ends within Wikipedia space. As I said, however, my interest is only academic. - Tiswas^(t) 12:07, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

One other point - Up until your edit, my user page was merely a listing of numbers and letters, expressed in international radio alphabet. Your edit explicitly linked those numbers to the AACS encryption key. The (DMCA related) liability derives from the use of these numbers to circumvent a copy protection device, not from the numbers themself. I fear that your proaction may have had the opposite of the mitigation that you vicariously sought - Tiswas^(t) 12:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Understood - Thanks for taking the time to reply - Tiswas^(t) 16:39, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Catwatch.js script: thank you, working fine now

Sorry for the delayed reply: the script is working for me now. Yes, I'm a Firefox user. Thank you very much! --Yksin 23:03, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Log actions

I was correcting WP:LA (your username had been misspelt on it), and while I was verifying that you were an admin (of course, you are, the RfA was suggestive and the listusers entry made certain), I noticed something strange about your log. According to your log, you appear to have never done any logged actions; no admin actions, no image uploads, no page moves at all ever. Is this actually correct, or has something gone wrong with the log? --ais523 17:47, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I believe that's correct. I just gained adminship less than a week ago, so I haven't yet had the chance to do much. I may have had image uploads way back long time ago, but it may have just been to commons, I can't remember. Joe I 02:35, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

By the way, I saw on your user page you're into templates. Could you take a look at Template:WikiProject Indiana for me? There's a note on the talk page. I had trouble changing it, I think due to the comments section, which I would like to keep. Thanks. :) Joe I 02:42, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Tangobot's RfA summary

Hey Ais523, thanks for your message from April. I'm sorry I couldn't get bacak to you earlier--I was off Wikipedia for a while and didn't check my talk page messages. As for the change (I'm not sure if it was already made or not), Tangobot should be able to handle that fine, as it can deal with most section formatting. Cheers, Tangotango (talk) 02:56, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your help with images James

(a made-up timestamp for the bot: 00:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC))

verifiability

Your comment helped, although I still ahve some questions about it... Hope you don't mind.

On the 'emo (slang)' page, all of the information is debateable. I am aware of a lot of people who completely disagree with its use in relation to people rather than simply bands of the emocore genre.

I am not aware of any published material on this viewpoint, although it is definately present.

Am I able to include this in the article without it being deleted?

Timestamp for the archivebot: 13:45, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Untitled message from User:Wikihobby

Thanks so much -Wikihobby (timestamp for the bot: 15:29, 18 May 2007 (UTC))

Spoiler

What about the below? To avoid the extra line-break.

Matthew 11:29, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Cheers :) Matthew 11:32, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Old edits of vandalism in progress

Would you be able to check any history related to Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress (other than Quagga's), as per my last message on wikipedia talk:requests for investigation? Thanks, Graham87 05:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

BRION

I am indeed having trouble finding someone to write it; the problem with having a technical column is that technical writers eventually get bored with the writing aspect, or find something else they have to do. If you're interested, the job is yours.

As far as I'm concerned, the best bet would be to use your own judgment; much of it's simple (like excluding bugs asking for a namespace on the Polish Wikiquote). If you're willing to put forth the effort to add the things that you think would be useful that haven't been there in past issues, my hat's off to you. Wikitech-l is a great place to start (for example, you might mention the beta search engine, which won't necessarily be on bugzilla or SVN right now). If you have any specific questions, let me know, but I'll almost never complain about too much information, as long as it has some relevance for Signpost readers, bot programmers, javascript writers, etc. Ral315 » 18:47, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Username registration

That's a good idea and I've just done that. Graham87 02:36, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in 2 this log. --ST47Talk 00:53, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Scripts in monobook.js

Hello, thanks fro your recent message on my talk page about my monobook.js scripts. Actually I do not know much about scripts at all. I had tried a few things to get one of your scripts to work for me, but when It didn;t work, I just copied all of what I saw in yours, and then it worked. I have not had any experience with crashing etc, except when using VandalProof's browser. I don't know what exactly to remove or to keep, so if you could send me a detailed cut-n-paste I would appreciate it. If you don't have time, then since it's not causing me too many problems (none, really), then I'll just leave it as it is for the time being. By the way I think your edit count tool is simply brilliant! I also like how my name is highlighted in red on contribs pages, and little icons show up on AFD pages for the !vote status. Jerry 19:51, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Jerry 21:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

But

I never edited the "smile" wiki, this was blatant vandalism, and, if you look at his talkpage he has a reputation of it. Meateater 15:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Can you just do it for me??

Thanks for helping me here -

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Cyberaward&redirect=no

The page you directed me to looks too complicated. You wouldn't just be able to private message someone yourself who has the ability to do it?

thanks - any help would be REALLY appreciated

cyberaward Cyberaward 11:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

thanks ais.... I wanted to add this to the admin post but didn't want to then give my profile etc

"As the poster/user, can I just add something .... the only thing that the post itself did was correct and incorrect link ... I didn't give any new information or give any opinion or facts etc etc.

Please help me as I called my provider and he can't change the IP address .... thanks"

This might help my case???

thanks very much .....

Cyberaward 12:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

(snip) ..... message has all gone

thanks - any help would be REALLY appreciated

Thanks VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY  ;-) for removing it ... thanks VERY much.

I hope you feel really happy and good because you should after helping me like you did. Thanks

Cyberaward 13:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Fit in

You know, technically an AIS is a musical note :) >Radiant< 15:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Importing scripts

I've tried to import your script User:ais523/adminrights.js but I don't know how to do it. Can you help me, please? -- Casmith_789 (talk) 17:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Image

Can you tell me if i have done everything right and whether i need to add anything to this? I was doing to print screen in order to show a problem, which i have had on multiple comps.

. Do i need to add anything else to the upload page and do i need to add links to these icons? Simply south 20:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you.

Can you tell me why i facing the problem with the moving icons so it obscures the text and they don't stay where they are meant to? Simply south 12:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

WP:ACC

There is a user SuperBall53 whi is trying to create accounts and I would like you to deny him from creating accounts because he is new and he has already created 2 accounts, 1 of which he cerated not logged in and this could become a problem in the future and to some extent I suspect he might me a sock of a Wikiman53(not clearly sure how his name was spelt ) but I'am not sure so Please be careful in making a decision :)..--Cometstyles 00:52, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply but what I actually meant was that this user seemed a bit fishy to me because he created an account as JohnnyB123 and over 30 minutes alter that account requested an account as MR_BUBBLES which was declined by the same user but as SuperBall53 and when i removed his decline, he changed it back but this time declining it as technical and when you told the user about what happened, he I believe (because my userpage link was there) vandalized my userpage. I hope this user isn't a vandal but because the WP:ACC page contains private information about other users, I wouldn't want someone to use that information or create accounts just for their own persona agenda..--Cometstyles 13:24, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks..I'd keep that in mind and I saw you and Tra try to make changes to the creation log and make it secure and I hope it works and BTW..I hope you don't mind but I just registered a channel on IRC Channel for WP:ACC discussions and if you are interested, you can drop-by ..and thanks again.. Cheers..--Cometstyles 14:22, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Script question

Hello, I have a gray text line below the header of every page with a notice that something has changed in my watchlist. Although really cool, it seems to be from somebody else's watchlist, not mine. Is this possibly from a script I imported from your user space? If so, can it be modified to show changes to my watchlist, or can you remove it altogether if this can not be done?

On another note, do you know of a way to hide the "Edit this page" tab whenever the current user is not logged-in? I imagine this could be done by a script in monobook.js. Thanks, Jerry 13:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your replies. Jerry 15:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

There is still a problem with GNU

If copy-and-paste winds up being a copyvio, then it follows that even citing Wikipedia as a source of information or quoting Wikipedia can be a copyvio, because there are plenty of edits which are single words, or changes in words, or changes in punctuation, and thus an editor or someone who wants to convey information that stems from Wikipedia may unwittingly write down someone else's edits in their entirity and not cite their original editor. After all, several editors may have produced the piece in question. We need a safety valve in order to permit a collective citation, or a way to attribute a piece to an unknown author if it is too difficult to find out who the author is. In short, GFDL is lacking in those areas, and thus needs to be tweaked. — Rickyrab | Talk 17:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

How would an edit within Wikipedia that copies from, or quotes, Wikipedia material be any less allowable than a citation of Wikipedia material outside of Wikipedia? Where is the relevant text in GNU? I'm having trouble finding it, and thus I'm having trouble following your reasoning. We need a more understandable and user-friendly licensing scheme than GNU. — Rickyrab | Talk 17:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

So how are you reckoning BJAODN to be blatant copyright violations, rather than merely edits with questionable copyright status? And are you sure that the people who deleted the BJAODN in question are assuming good faith beforehand? (Note: I am not sure myself, and I'm not sure if I'm assuming good faith by asking this question. However, it must be asked.) — Rickyrab | Talk 17:42, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

People have apparently sporked BJAODN. The pages in question, therefore, are likely still in existence even outside of admin control. This is why I am continuing to refer to those pages in the present tense. Further, I doubt that whomever had his or her copyright violated is going to sue over it, given that he or she doesn't recall having written the material in the first place! — Rickyrab | Talk 18:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I am going on a Wikibreak at this point, B/C I have work to do. Thanks for understanding. Have a nice day. — Rickyrab | Talk 18:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)