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tagging math articles

User:Parker007 seems to have asked you to tag math articles. How many? He didn't discuss this with the math project as far as I know. CMummert · talk 00:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I've blocked the bot. See User talk:Parker007#Against consensus. Once you've stopped the block just place {{unblock|I've stopped the bot}} or something similar on the bot's talk page. —METS501 (talk) 05:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for the mess, and thanks for stopping the bot. BTW, I've been given a list of 2,5K pages, and I found that the remaining list was of around 900 talk pages. Well, now I'll ask for the unblock. Again, sorry for the mess. Snowolf (talk) CON COI - 12:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry Snowolf. Its all my fault. :(. --Parker007 02:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

It was very difficult for me to figure out last night how many articles were being tagged. I want to ask if, in the future, when you are going to run a job tagging more than a few hundred articles, you would make a note of it at User:Snowbot, for example on the talk page. You could just copy the request of whoever askes you to tag the articles. I couldn't easily find the request from Parker007, which made it very hard to see what was going on. CMummert · talk 13:06, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Now, a question about the bot: I see that it can add tags to talk pages. Can it also change fields of tags on talk pages? That is, if I make a list of articles that say

{{maths rating|class=stub|field=|importance=}}

can you change them to say

{{maths rating|class=stub|field=algebra|importance=low}}

using SnowBot? If not, do you know of a bot that can do that? CMummert · talk 13:06, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

See User:Kingbotk/PluginMETS501 (talk) 19:20, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Dear Snowolf, Thank you so much for the NPW approval. --Cyril Thomas 00:17, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I also want to thank you for the approval. :) -theblueflamingoSquawk 01:18, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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You put your support vote into the oppose section on Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Danny. —KNcyu38 (talkcontribs) 14:23, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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ciao, ho fatto una richiesta per lo status di bot qui, mi dici se è tutto corretto? :) --dario vet (talk) 14:16, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, i recently deleted a whole title in the 'lahore' article due to good reason. The heading of the title was about the country side, and speficially the meo rajput clan. rajput is a family and meo's are a part of it. the whole content was out of place and mainly contained information about this family, even though the family is neither politicially or economically influenctial in the city. The article was not well written and seemed like a copy past from another wiki page. the link is as follows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meo

thanks

Majorly's RfB

Hi Snowolf, thanks for your strong support in my RfB. Sadly, it didn't pass, but I appreciate the support, and I do intend to run again eventually. Thanks also for your encouragement on my talk page, it means a lot to me. See you around! Majorly (o rly?) 03:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Request to remove tags via SnowBot

Per this discussion, I have made a list of articles from which we would like to remove the {{maths rating}} template. Would you mind doing this with SnowBot? CMummert · talk 13:32, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks CMummert · talk 13:55, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
The bot ran successfully, but it skipped 262 articles. If it isn't too much to ask, could you run it again? I updated the list. Thanks again for running the bot. I took care of the rest myself. CMummert · talk 21:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
There were only a couple hundred, so I went through them by hand. Many of these were not placed by Snowbow (hence the different tag syntax). I appreciate your help in cleaning up the categories. CMummert · talk 11:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

D&C Mediation

Hello Snowolf,

It would appear that other Editors have weighed in on the issue, so perhaps we can move to resolve the matter? Thanks. Ti dave 15:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Please Use Edit Summaries

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Snowolf (talk) CON COI - 16:45, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I hang my head in shame….Which one did I miss. Shoessss 16:52, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

NP Watcher

Thanks for the heads-up - I didn't know how to proceed with registration, sorry! Cheers! Baristarim 18:32, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I notice you added your name to the list of mediators in training. Drop a line by my user page and let's chat. DurovaCharge! 21:48, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Snowolf/UC depopulate

User:Snowolf/UC depopulate - I presume you're already taking this into consideration, but just in case... Several of the "Wikipedians by.." categories include list pages for historical reasons (or other non-user pages). Please be careful to not remove them. And btw: thanks for all the good work you've been doing in helping out WP:UCFD : ) - jc37 13:14, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Well, I'm not that active at UCFD in these days :-( Anyway, at the moment I'm removing only pages in the User: & User_talk: namespace. The pages you're talking about in what namespace are? Snowolf (talk) CON COI - 13:19, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia and Wikipedia talk, for the most part, so no worries : ) - jc37 13:22, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I notice that you are a frequent contributor to Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status, so I ask you a question... Is it ok that yanksox is still on the list? Wasn't he/she desysopped? Snowolf (talk) CON COI - 19:29, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Most of the coaches are admins, but we do have a few experienced non-admin coaches. I'm not sure if Yanksox is interested anymore though. I'll ask him. --Fang Aili talk 16:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

NPWatcher

It's all good. Just another regular Saturday -- the kids' chores, buying mulch for the yard, you know, the usual stuff... [g] --Mhking 18:23, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Email

No, I never got it. Try directly emailing me here. Prodego talk 00:05, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

By the way, tell me when you send it, in case some internal process I can't see is blocking the message. Prodego talk 00:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

HELP - EDITS REMOVED, False claim of VANDALISM

Raven4x4x (someone you seem to know, or at least gave some silly AWARD FOR ANTI-VANDALISM ?? ) KEEPS removing EDITS I make even though the reference is ALREADY given AND I JUST EXPAND ON THE FACTS. IT IS THE JOHN McCAIN page. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? WHO IS THE VANDAL HERE? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.81.151.172 (talk) 01:53, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

IRC cloak request

I am Snowolf on freenode and I would like the cloak wikimedia/Snowolf. Thanks. --Snowolf (talk) CON COI - 14:12, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Admin

Thanks for proposing my admin nomination. After finding out that it's no big deal, I've decided to accept your proposal. Thanks.  Sʟυмgυм • т  c  15:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Just to let you know, a response to your comment on my talk page is available there. Greeves (talk contribs) 17:38, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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Angusmclellan RfA

You inadvertently voted twice on Angusmclellan RfA. I removed your double vote. —KNcyu38 (talkcontribs) 13:25, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

No prob. —KNcyu38 (talkcontribs) 13:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

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Polish

If I recall right, admin Piotrus is polish. Snowolf (talk) CON COI - 20:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I will ask him/her. I was just wanting someone to check as I know how awful machine translations can be. --Guinnog 20:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Snowbot

Hi Snowolf,
I was wondering if you could put Snowbot to use to help our project WikiProject Golf. The template {{Wikiproject Golf}} needs to be tagged on all the subcategories within Category:Golf. Probably about half of the articles have already been tagged manually. If you need to know specific categories, just give me a yell on my talk page and i'll compile a list. Thanks Snowolf. Grover 00:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply Snowolf. Well I haven't talked to my fellow project members about this, but i'm sure they'll be fine about it. I'll give them a few days to reply to my post on the project's talk page and get back to you (although if the reply isn't in the next 2 days i'll be on holidays, in that case i'll get back to you later). Thanks again. Grover 10:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

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Toolserveraccount

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

WikiHalo

I believe a few months ago that they refreshed the WikiHalo database, though I can't find it in my archives, I will delete it anyw ay.OBEY STARMAN 17:44, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Admin coaching

Hello, dear Snowolf. I would not mind coaching you. However, I must let you know this: I am not an admin in this Wiki. I am an admin on the Simple English Wikipedia. I have been editing here for 2 years and that if you accept, you are my first trainee! Please note that I will treat you like any user, but in this instance, with due respect as a "student". together, let us achieve your goal!--Tdxiang 09:15, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Snowolf, I was just wondering if you could give a hand with something, I've requested a bot here which would automatically welcome new users and its awaiting approval, I was wondering if you could give me a hand with the bots code, I Intend to use AWB for it and I'm going to reques approval for Auto wiki broswer so its ready if it gets approved and I was wondering if you could help me put its code together, I could give you more info if you need it, your help would be much appreciated. Thanks - TellyaddictTalk 15:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

User category to depopulate

Category:Wikipedian programmers has been renamed per UCFD and it also needs to be depopulated (pages should not be moved to the new category name). I'm pretty sure there are still some users being added by templates, but if you could get snowbot to remove those who aren't, that would make finding the templates easier and would be really helpful. Thanks, VegaDark 09:34, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I restored this recent message from your auto-archive so that I could agree with it and plead : )
I've been (rather slooowly) attempting to depopulate the category (and the others listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/User), but your help would be greatly appreciated. I "think" I have found all the userboxes adding to Wikipedian programmers, but every time I think I have, I've discovered another : )
So anyway, any help you give would be greatly appreciated : ) - jc37 23:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

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VEGF Trap

thanks so much for your message. I contacted the administrator who had deleted. I gave him what I believe are good reasons to understand this was not advertisement. However he did not agree with my reasons, and to avoid spending time on a long procedure, I preferred to accept his deletion. The problem is that this is going to prevent me from adding original articles on drugs not yet on the market, as I will always risk being accused of advertising. And Biotech drugs in development happen to be my specialized area.

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Article Tagging

Hi Snowolf im back again. In regard to confirming the article tagging, I posted a message at the project talk page a week ago and only one person has replied. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Golf#Tagging_Articles. I hope this is enough to let you start. Thanks for your time! Grover 05:00, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

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Another task for Snowbot

A UCFD on Category:Fwarn recipients just resulted in delete, however it looks as if the template that added this category to pages was subst'd to over 200 pages, so it needs manual clearing. If you could delegate this to Snowbot whenever you have a chance, that would save a lot of time. Thanks, VegaDark 19:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

The Working Man's Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for always coming through when I make a request for Snowbot. Thanks! VegaDark 22:55, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

CFD/W

[cut and paste]

  • I haven't found anywhere the entry where this category's deletion has been discussed. Snowolf (talk) CON COI - 12:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 22#James Bond people --Xdamrtalk 12:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Given the above, I've moved this from CFD/W and removed the NOBOT tag.

Best wishes, Xdamrtalk 13:03, 30 April 2007 (UTC)