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Your bot

User:VoABot II, which I believe is your bot, is malfunctioning. It blanked a page and said it was reverting vandalism. The bot actually reverted anothers person edit which was just an edit that was reverting vandalism. So basically, your bot just vandalized a page. Runewiki777 21:51, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Trojans

I deleted the trojans on the list that didn't have there own articles and are therefor useless, but the bot saw it as vandalism, please restore my edit. Warrush 21:07, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I have a question for you, as you seem to have the only operating bot of this type. I was thinking about starting an anti vandal bot, with features like this: The bot would recognize edits made by vandals on certain articles, and if they have vandalized that article before, it would revert their edit. Thats just an idea, but the problem is I know little about writing bot codes, and I was wondering if you could help. Thanks. Thekittybomb 16:39, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your edits to Say It Right:

Your recent edit to Say It Right (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either test edits (like "TEST" or example.jpg), vandalism, or link spam to the page or having an inappropriate edit summary. If you want to experiment, please use the preview button while editing or consider using the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. If you made an edit that removed a large amount of content, try doing smaller edits instead. Thanks! // VoABot II 06:04, 27 April 2007 (UTC) It's not vandalism. i made similiar edits, because there was similiar mistakes!!!!!!! there's no official singles chart in Russia![reply]

The Prisoner edit

Having created a Wikipedia article for the Shattered Visage comic book, containing a summary, I removed that same summary from the The Prisoner article. This change was reverted as vandalism. Can anything be done? user name ireact

Category deletion

You deleted Category:Unassessed Georgia Institute of Technology articles; mind restoring it, please? WP:TECH is kinda using that :) —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 04:23, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Voice-of-All 16:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Hi VoA. Thanks for your scripts, and for your post which reminded me that RfA does not require essaying. Rest assured that I heard every voice loud and clear during the discussion, and will strive to use the mop carefully and responsibly. Thanks for your support, and please don't hesitate to give me constructive criticism anytime. Xiner (talk, email) 02:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Unassessed importance hurricane articles

Please restore the maintenance category Category:Unassessed importance hurricane articles. Thanks! --Ajm⁸¹ 04:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Voice-of-All 06:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Daylight Saving Time and the UTC Clock

I've been using your script for the UTC clock/purge function but because I live in an area effected by Daylight Saving Time in the US, the clock now reads 1 hour fast. If I copy/paste the full code into my monobook.js, is there a way for me to modify the coding so that the clock reads correctly? auburnpilot talk 07:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Script problem

I added your admin script today and it disables popups within popups. Is this a standard bug? Would you mind taking a quick look at my monobook and see if I messed something up? John Reaves (talk) 11:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, how does the "revert all edits" function work? Mainly, what do I put in the box for the secondary confirmation? John Reaves (talk) 00:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category deletion

Hi, you appear to have deleted Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the East Riding of Yorkshire for some reason. Is there a reason for this?

It is a category for people to request photos to be created for articles. It is normally empty and only has entries when a photo has been requested for an article by placing the tag on the article's talk page. This is in line with all of the other category entries for counties of England. Ok I know technically the East Riding of Yorkshire is not a county, but there are similar categories for West Yorkshire Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in South Yorkshire.

Keith D 13:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Any chance of this being restored? Keith D 15:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Restored for now, but these categories are way to specific. Voice-of-All 17:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the restore. Keith D 09:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Bot un-did a typo correction.

I wasn't logged in when correcting a typo on the page Toshio_Mori. My IP address is neither dynamic, nor was the edit wrong. Which tells me your bot is probably fouling up a great deal of correct edits.

Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 166.70.244.108 (talk) 17:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Assessment category deletion

I notice that you deleted Category:Unassessed Intelligent design articles, Category:Non-article Intelligent design pages and Category:GA-Class Intelligent design articles. As working categories for article assessment, the fact that they are empty at some point in time doesn't mean that they aren't "in use", just that they are empty at this point in time. Guettarda 18:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am aware of that. I deleted a list of 3700 pages based of a list of pages that were supposed to be unused or overcategorized. A few of them should not have been listed. Sorry for the inconvenience. Voice-of-All 18:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks. It's no problem. I was really trying to figure out whether you were saying that cats like these should be deleted when empty. 3700 deletions, huh? Wow. I don't envy you that task. Guettarda 20:34, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please be more careful next time. The number of cats you deleted which have effected me personally and where I've had to restore is now well into double figures. My experience is likely to be the tip of the iceberg. --kingboyk 12:36, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As an affected party, I think you should cut him some slack. Restoring a dozen or two categories is annoying, but deleting 3700 (by hand! unless someone is running an unauthorised admin bot) deserves an award. Guettarda 14:15, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Monobook.js question

I've been trying to add/customize the user warning tabs that your script adds to user talk edit screens but haven't been able to succeed. Is there any chance you could give me a real brief tutorial or is there documentation available somewhere that I haven't been able to track down? Many thanks in advance! — PSUMark2006 talk | contribs 02:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Emptied stub categories

I notice you deleted a couple of stub categories on your recent empty-cat purge. Bear in mind these are template-populated, and in such cases it's worthwhile checking if they were depopulated via vandalism (or clueless edits) to the associated templates. This was indeed the case in both these instances. (Category:South American sports venue stubs and Category:United States science fiction writer stubs) Alai 05:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yisroel Dovid Weiss

hi. wonder if you would consider re-sprotecting the above page? it was initially protected because of anon libel about paedophilia. a registered user (DavidCharlesII (talk · contribs)) who is still intermittently active on the page has even made insinuations about such [1]. so there is some reason to think it may reccur. if you think it should be left to see whether still a problem, no need to reply, i will assume that is your reasoning. thnx, ben ⇒ bsnowball 10:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Contributions of IP-Range

You said that you re-committed the code. Any idea when it will be active? Agathoclea 11:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When MW 1.10a is more so ready at least. I've added IPv6 and revisiondelete stuff and other devs have done a lot already. A number of bugs have been cleanup already and I wan't to make sure thats the last of them. Voice-of-All 14:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot and rejected Usurpation archiving

Could you take a look at this diff and figure out whether something went wrong? There may have been a previous time when this happened as well. Thanks --Philosophus ^T 20:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect the problem was that the second request used the wrong template and had the wrong level heading. On a related point, I notice that when the Bot archives rejected requests (as here [2]) it does not then add them to Wikipedia:Changing_username/Usurpations/Rejected/1. Is that an error or are rejected requests no longer supposed to be archived? WjBscribe 05:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Occassionally, things would not archive as they should. I fixed that bug very recently. Voice-of-All 18:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot approvals process

Just in case any of you haven't seen the new bot request to track the bot approvals process, this is just a reminder to use the correct templates at {{BAG Admin Tools}} so the bot can correctly identify the stage of bot approval. Also, the approved requests section has been moved to a separate page at Wikipedia:Bots/Approved bot requests for the Bureaucrats to watchlist. When approving a request, make sure you remove it from the main page and place it on that page so that a bureaucrat can flag it. Thanks. MetsBot 16:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regular Expression Assistance

Hi, VoA! I wonder if you could take a moment to help me with a regular expression that will undoubtedly be easy for you, though stumps me.

I'm programming User:SatyrBot in PHP. I have a function that reads a page and interprets the templates on the page, including the parameters sent to each template. So to find them, I have the regexp:

"@([^\{]*)(\{\{[^\}]*\}\})@"

However, I've run in to a situation where templates are within templates, like {{WikiProjectBanners}}, where the wiki content looks like:

{{WikiProjectBanners
|1={{WikiProject Computer science|class=GA}}
|2={{WPBiography|class=GA|priority=High|s&a-work-group=yes}}
|3={{maths rating|class=GA|importance=high|field=mathematician}}
|4={{LGBTProject|class=GA}}
|5={{philosophy|class=GA}}
|6={{CryptographyProject|class=A|small=yes}}
|7={{WPLondon|class=GA}}
}}

What I'd like to do is expand the regexp to match both the outer template and the inner templates. I'm pretty sure that's possible, but my regexp knowledge doesn't extend that far :) Any help you could give would be appreciated! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 22:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that is possible to do using regexps because the only thing that lets you know which "{{" goes to which "}}" is the position relative pairing relationship. Instead, try using this function someone made to get all string position info for each string match in an array (with the count # as the keys) with the start/end position. Do this on "{{" and "}}". Iterate through each Xth (from rightmost matches -> leftmost ones) {{ match and find the Xth }} that is past the position of the {{. For each, use the start index for the {{ and the end index plus 2 (the length of two brackets) for the }} and extract a substr( start, end + 2 - start ). That should give things like "{{hello|{{moo|yes}}}}" as well as "{{moo|yes}}". Hope that helps. Voice-of-All 16:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh - now *that* looks promising! Thanks for the link - both the strpos and the following pre_pos look good - I'll play with those a bit and see if I can get it to work. Thanks much!!! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 17:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Admin Coaching

Hi! I'd like to be an admin coachee(?), and I saw your name on the list. I'm a freshman in high schoo, and I haven't created amny new articles, but I've done a lot of maintenance, especially on The Times of India, and Durham School of the Arts. I would really like to become more fluent in wikijargon, as well as be able to use the programming language to create more advanced articles. Jonwilliamsl 00:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. John Vandenberg 05:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Restored. Voice-of-All 18:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot's edits to Umayya Abu-Hanna

Your bot has falsely reverted edits to Umayya Abu-Hanna as vandalism. The edits were quite legitimate, and were apparently added by a close associate (family member, friend, or party colleague) of Abu-Hanna herself. Please try to keep your bot in control. Thanks. JIP | Talk 16:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect Contributor Information on Dorm Daze 2 Reversion

I recently received a message saying that my edits to the National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2 page had been reverted due to inclusion of a MySpace link. However, the history shows that the reverted MySpace edit was actually one by Ridpath. The page was reverted back to the revision I had made, which was removing an inappropriate comment. The edit summary reads: (BOT - Reverted edits by Teratron {information} to revision #113408978 by "Teratron".) Your bot seems to be slightly malfunctioning. Teratron 19:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VOA bot on CHU

Hi! I noticed a backlog at WP:CHU where quite a number of complete requests are waiting to be archived. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also in relation to the Bot's archiving of this page, when it removes comments it leaves the text: "== Instructions to bureaucrats ==undefined" at the bottom of the page (see [3]). Is that easy for you to fix? WjBscribe 19:21, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed. Voice-of-All 19:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, could you also look at a related issue at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations (see [4]) where there is an instructions to bureaucrats section, but the Bot deleted it and replaced it with "undefined". WjBscribe 01:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

attnetion all admins!

please keep an eye put on these pages:they have been named as users in a steroid scandal and edit wars and vandalism seem likely.

the list:MLB • Gary Matthews Jr. • Jose Canseco • John Rocker • Jerry Hairston Jr. • David Bell

Boxing • Evander Holyfield

NFL • Richard Rydze (Steelers doctor)

Bodybuilding • Victor Martinez

Pro wrestling • Kurt Angle • Randy Orton • Adam Copeland (Edge) • Shane Helms (Gregory Helms) • Oscar Gutierrez (Rey Mysterio) • Eddie Guerrero

Mediawiki - nice work.

Re: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-20/Technology_report, nice work, that's some really valuable stuff you've put in. Any idea on when the oversight extension will be useable? The writeup implied it was just the underlying functionality, not the interface/use of it. - Taxman ^Talk 00:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interface looks complete to me. I don't know though. If I am right it will be usable as soon as the database is updated. Prodego ^talk 01:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note that these changes are to core code, not an extension. At any rate they were removed from svn trunk due to a backlog in the review process. They will instead be in MediaWiki 1.11, so the next update won't include them. Voice-of-All 07:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ethnic groups articles needing merge action

Dear Voice of All,

I'm feeling more than a little perturbed. Why did you feel you have the right to delete Category:Ethnic groups articles needing merge action???? How many other Ethnic groups cats did you take it upon yourself to delete? Where did you announce this deletion?

--Ling.Nut 18:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just read posts above. This is not heroic. No slack cut. It is not OK. It violates WP:Consensus for starters... I can think of at least one other essay it violates, but that one is considered bad form to invoke--Ling.Nut 18:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Betacommand made a large list of empty categories that could be deleted and needed help executing the deletions, so I did so. I asked the user if everything there was OK to delete on IRC. Since it's now apparent that too much of it actually was not deletable, I'll just avoid huge deletion lists in the future. Voice-of-All 19:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Huge deletion lists are generally to be avoided — yes — but the inexcusable part would be lack of notification.. ummm... was there any notification? --Ling.Nut 19:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, VoA, I'm another member of WikiProject Ethnic groups, and the category was one in use by the project. Regardless of whether or not there was consensus for the deletion, could you kindly restore the category? It assists in article maintainence and improvement. Thank you. -Fsotrain⁰⁹ 20:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just came over here based on discussion at Template talk:Ethnic groups#Peer review parameter. Has this been sorted out? - Jmabel | Talk 01:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I restored that a while ago, I don't know what has happened since. Voice-of-All 03:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Square (slang)

The IP address vandal came back today. I reverted him once. If you persists, you might have to semi-protect again. Wahkeenah 00:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The recent changes at MediaWiki:Sidebar seem to have disabled the links that are there as part of your admin JS script. Also, I have a question above. John Reaves (talk) 03:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot / usurpations

Does the bot archive rejected requests? How long does it wait? I don't think it needs to be more than two or three days. — Dan | talk 01:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you make that script?

Can you make the AddTab script in archiving? IsuzuAxiom1007 (talk • contribs) 01:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot trashed unsigned RFPP request

I made a request at WP:RFPP which was well-formed except that I forgot to sign it. VoABot "archived" it, probably because it failed to find a timestamp. While Hangermanbot should probably be assigned to fix missing signatures on that page, perhaps your bot should be modified to not touch requests missing a timestamp. —dgies^t_c 16:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding "You have new messages" bug

Hi, I was directed here by User:Prodego and was wondering if you know what is causing the You have new messages notification to malfunction. For me, I have seen several instances where the offending vandals' talk page had warnings posted but the orange notification bar does not pop up. If the You have new messages bar does not pop-up or is stuck at either "on" or "off", then warning the IP addresses would be a waste of time. Could you look in to the problem? -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 05:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By repeatable you mean several different IP addresses? Current IP address is 71.121.170.104. I respond if I get it. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 01:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Has the problem been fixed or looked at? My current IP address is 71.113.91.31 if you want to send a test message. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 01:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

requesting help with Checkuser

Hello. I want to add a request to Checkuser. But its not working and I am following the instructions. The puppeter is this user. Here are a few other accounts that I am very sure are his puppets: User:Pashtun786, User:Knoiknoi, and User:Aero stud24. Can you please tell me how to do this? --Behnam 01:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the catch

in 300. You were correcting a mistake on my part, and I appreciate it. :) Arcayne 04:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, just saw the movie :) Voice-of-All 04:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot archive error on WP:CHU/U

During your bot's latest archive sweep on WP:CHU/U, it removed important information from the bottom of the page (see diff). Hopefully you can look into this. Thanks, Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 09:40, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Monobook

Hi Voice of All,

I have just thought about using you revert monobook (User:Voice of All/nolupin/monobook.js) on other projects. Of course, everything would have to be translated (messages, revert comments) etc., but do you have any idea why the main functuality does not work properly, e.g. on German Wikipedia? I can't see anything project specific in there and in the imported scripts, but nevertheless there is no rollback link on the diff view on other Wikipedia. Greetings, Pill- 17:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re 'Wog' protecttion

It would be appreciated if you could restore Protection to 'Wog'. It is vandalised quite often otherwise, most recently three days after you removed Protection. Nothing sinister, just passing kiddies. :-)
--Hartley Patterson 11:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

Wishing you all the best on your birthday! From Mschel and the Wikipedia Birthday Committee. Have a great day, and have fun with your new balloons! -Mschel 03:58, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why thanks, you're actually the first person to say that! :) Voice-of-All 04:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's to you on your birthday, Aaron Schulz/Archive08! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

--Paloma Walker 05:22, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Bonjour, bonne anniversaire!

I brought the cake!

Wishing you all the best on your birthday! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee.

Ab e g92contribs 09:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II gone rogue!?

Very minor in the scheme of things, but you may wish to bugfix the bot code. See this diff. The bot left me a message on my talk page, but I gather from the diff itself that it meant to have User:Hayasaki in the "from" variable. --Action Jackson IV 14:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VOABot & changing username archiving

VOABot seems to be repeatedly archiving the unfilled requests without removing them from Wikipedia:Changing username Wikipedia:Changing username/Unfulfilled/2007/April is full of duplicates. Thanks Secretlondon 17:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should be OK now. Voice-of-All 02:40, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Protection JS

Could you add {{pp-semi-protected}} to the list of recognized tags for removing when unprotecting? I would do it myself but I would probably mess something up in the process. Thanks in advance! -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 20:35, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:List of protected pages

Please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Wikipedia:List of protected pages, as it's related to VoABot. --cesarb 21:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So why does voabot "hate" me?

I think I am following the protocol, and I added this to requests for protection

at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Current_requests_for_unprotection

	====Ann Althouse (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)====

- I apologize, for this is almost certainly a duplicated request, but I cannot find its resolution ANYWHERE. I don't understand why this page was protected. The edit that added the protection says it was from vandalism from anonymous users, but if you check the history you will see that a) there really has been very little vandalism in general, and b) very little of that was from anonymous users, and c) anonymous users (me!) have made good contributions. Can this page be unprotected?

And the voabot came by and deleted it, and the page wasn't unprotected, and I can't see the resolution anywhere. So, can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thank you.

The reason is here. Voice-of-All 05:04, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

need help

I am a new wikipedian who is new, to most computing terminology, and am impressed by your repertoire of computing knowledge. I wanted to ask you (as I was told to talk to you about this subject), about how, to become a member of and register as a Recent Changes Patroller (RCP).I tried to follow the links/instructions from , 'WP:RCP' (shortcut),and the page 'User:Voice of All/UsefulJS', but i tried to 'follow' but got confused as i don't know,where to edit and add tabs, i don't know, what on Earth the instructions goes on about when it talks about monobook skins and 'js', and i dont even know what a javascript is and what it does.For the monobook stuff,does it have any thing to do with the, my prefernces section at the top? I'm just getting so confused, and would like to help wikipedia,and would like maintain it as vandal free, and this is one of the best methods I could find.Please help me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wongdai (talk • contribs) 10:39, 7 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Levels of Processing Revert

Last night, for the first time, I edited an article. All I did was clarify some information in the article and add otherinformation. It was an article onLevels of Processing theory.

The edits were reverted twice as vandalism.

I am a cognitive psychology professor with some knowledge on the subject and the changes I made were accurate and factual and were not intended to be vandalism. In fact, I left some incorrect information that was in the original article as was and just placed a comment saying it was incorrect.

I am assuming that the manner in which I made the edit was tagged by your BOT as being vandalism. Could you please let me know what I need to do to make edits that will not be tagged as vandalism? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sifonis (talk • contribs) 14:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

The new CU

Nice work on Special:Checkuser, I was just checking it out on svn. Prodego ^talk 02:37, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		I am proud to award you this barnstar as I am very impressed by your bots and software work. Well done Retiono Virginian 20:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mohamed Hashish

Hi. I'm just calling your attention to a strange edit reversion to Mohamed Hashish by VoABot II, that can hardly be considered test edits. Hopefully it will help you to improve its algorithm. Nabla 00:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rather than edit in things like example.jpg, it would be better to use the preview button. Voice-of-All 02:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just because someone is trying to figure out how to place an image, using a quite obvious 'exemple.jpg' for that, is no reason for his work - not mine, I underline - to be reverted by a bot 2 minutes later. A vandal/tests spoting bot is a great thing indeed, but errors should be minimized as much as possible, as it should be very frustrating to have a bot reverting your efforts. Maybe this is an unavoidable error... still I hope you look into it. Maybe giving a little more time before reverting? - Nabla 03:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you give me an explanation of your reverting of my editing on anti-Japanism? Thanks.Redcloud822 01:00, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The bot reverted on error, miscounting certain user contribs values, I'll look into that. Voice-of-All 02:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Monobook code

Hi. I want to use the monobook code you have for altering the sidebar menu and if I'm right I need the helper functions in one of your monobook subpages to do so. Are these up to date and will the work with other scripts that require these functions? Just asking. I don't want to break my monobook and wonder what I did wrong. Please answer on my talk page, or if you want to answer here, please leave me a note to remind me. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

your bot

Your bot has falsely reverted my edit to User:YourEyesOnly as vandalism. In fact, I reverted the blanking of the page --Amphitrita 13:45, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Voice-of-All 17:45, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks to your bot for reverting the vandalism to my user page! Dismas|^(talk) 23:24, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minor execution problem

Hi, the page Lindsay Lohan was vandalised and the bot attempted to revert to a precedent version.
The history says BOT - Reverted edits by Flamingwhitedragon {vandalism} to revision #123987109 by "PAK Man"
But the version by the bot and by PAK Man are not identical.

See Diff. The difference is only minor there was the expression

[[Long Island]] [[New York]]

, but when the bot reverted it became

[[Long Island [[New York]]

Thanks --Jackaranga 11:57, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jewish Defense League

I have added JDL at least 4 times to the request for page protection and your retarded bot keeps removing it as an old request. Please stop this. eternalsleeper

Should be fixed now. Voice-of-All 02:06, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Safari & your JS tools

User:SMcCandlish/monobook.js - I installed a bunch of your stuff, and noted that the non-admin "main package" already includes the prerequisite tabs code and stuff. I'm not seeing anything. No new tabs. Any ideas? Is it jus not compatible with Safari? Do I need to include the prereq. tab script first even though your non-admin script appears to already be doing this? I don't see a UTC clock either. And no search replace feature. I have a few other scripts in monobook.js; are there known incompatibilities? I'd rather eliminate others' scripts than yours if I can get yours to work. :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ping. Any ideas? — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like you need the line for this[6]. Voice-of-All 13:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mistaken revert

[7] I think this revert from this bot was mistaken. Mackan 08:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VOABot more broken

Hi. VOABot is actually more broken than I realised. We'd identified before that it doesn't remove all closed requests and that there were multiples in the archives. I looked at Wikipedia:Changing username/Archive23 to do some manual archiving of the ones the bot missed - to see that it's been removing requests from the page but not adding them to the archive.

At 9:01 today it removed 4 completed requests from Wikipedia:Changing username diff but didn't put them anywhere. The archive hasn't been touched since my last manual archiving on the 6 April. history

At 10.01 today it added 4 rejected requests to Wikipedia:Changing username/Unfulfilled/2007/April but didn't remove them from Wikipedia:Changing username diff.

Because of this I think your bot is making things worse. I'd block it except that I'm concerned about the page protection work it does. Could you either fix it or stop it working on usernames? Secretlondon 12:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not to lay any more work on you, VoA, but the bot doesn't seem to be functioning well on WP:RFPP. See here (the current revision as I type this) where there are requests from the 14th still on the page. It archives protection requests alright, but the significant edits section is often ignored. That section doesn't get much traffic and it's easy to simply remove them manually every few days (which is why I haven't mentioned it before), but since Secret has brought up some WP:CHU issues I thought it'd be good to tell you about this. – Steel 12:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bug 9634: Cascading protection notice

Hello! I'm posting this in case you didn't receive my e-mail.
I believe that you may have misunderstood the nature of the bug report and closed it alter resolving a separate issue that I referenced parenthetically (because it was affected by this bug). Please see my reply and this discussion for an example of the problems caused by the bug. Thank you! —David Levy 14:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II reverts more than necessary

VoABot II did a really strange revert yesterday. First part is correct but the second part does not correspond to a change in the previous edit. In other words, VoABot II changed (back) the article more than the vandal did (here is the extra change). — Xavier, 00:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It made the same error (deleting the closing brackets before an extra letter in a wikilink when claiming to revert) today: [8] PrimeHunter 11:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at its recent contributions, here is a variant: [9]. It deleted the closing bracket in an external link. The Bot appears broken. PrimeHunter 11:40, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strange bot problem

As you can see in this diff, the bot is removing random brackets, as the user above stated. Just bringing it to your attention. -Running On Brains 16:41, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot probs

There seems to be more bot probs from VoABot II. See here. A post on ANI has been started. --Kzrulzuall ^{Talk• Contribs} 08:23, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This revert has been established to be ok (link to photobucket). Still, there is a problem with [10], where the bot attributed an edit to the wrong user (and posted on the talk page of the wrong user). Tizio 15:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot malfunction

Twice today, your bot has duplicated the page at WP:CHU/U. It's edit summary is "archive 0 requests" and it copies the entire page contents and places it at the bottom of the current page (see diff}. --Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 17:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gah, someone changed the layout, I'll have to change the bot. Voice-of-All 17:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The layout change seems to have been done by a single editor without any discussion whatsover- and failing to realise the consequences for the Bot (grrr). I've raised the question at WT:CHU/U [11] as to whether the new layout is an improvement. Sorry for the hastle. WjBscribe 23:01, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prob at WP:CHU

The Bot archived a number of requests: [12] saying it was archiving "0 requests". Not all were marked {{done}} and some were clearly still being considered by Secretlondon. Could you take a look? Is Bot archival of username requests now becoming too much a headache for you? We could do it manually... 16:48, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot re-adding prod tag

I was under the impression that the prod tag could be removed by anyone, including the article's creator (see WP:PROD#Contesting_a_proposed_deletion), but it appears that your bot is repeatedly re-adding the tag to Star Wars Episode 7 (which I agree should probably be deleted, but I believe the appropriate procedure would be to send it to AfD at this point). Thoughts? JavaTenor 17:42, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot coverage request

As you'll recall, VoABot II is already covering a number of Gibraltar-related articles to auto-revert any additions by the banned User:Gibraltarian (who now edits anonymously as 212.120.*.*). Could you possibly add Juan Carlos I of Spain to the watchlist? -- ChrisO 07:50, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hrm...the bot still has Overhead issues that make it unreliable, I'll have to work on that sometime. Voice-of-All 15:49, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, didn't know that. Even so, it does seem to be working, albeit it doesn't pick up every edit - see [13] for an example. -- ChrisO 20:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CheckUser Question

Hello. I have a question.

I have the CheckUser files on my server however I don't know how to open the command prompt to install it. I tried going to Start-->Run-->Cmd.exe and to run the file, but that still doesn't work. I am running MediaWiki locally on my computer.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. :) --ionescuac^(Talk) 20:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You should be able to open cmd.exe and enter "cd [php directory]" then "php [install.php directory]/install.php". There is a php.exe file that should be in your PHP directory. Voice-of-All 05:47, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. That didn't work. This is what I have done:

C:\Documents and Settings\Alex>cd C:\wamp\php\

C:\wamp\php>php C:\wamp\www\wiki\Extensions\CheckUser\install.php

Warning: require(C:\wamp\www\wiki\extensions\CheckUser/../ExtensionFunctions.php ): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\wiki\extensio ns\CheckUser\CheckUser.php on line 130

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'C:\wamp\www\wiki\extensions\Che ckUser/../ExtensionFunctions.php' (include_path='C:\wamp\www\wiki;C:\wamp\www\wi ki/includes;C:\wamp\www\wiki/languages;.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\wamp\www\wiki\exte nsions\CheckUser\CheckUser.php on line 130

C:\wamp\php>

Thanks for your help in this matter. I think it is something I'm typing wrong, but I don't see what. :P --ionescuac^(Talk) 02:07, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are your extensions at "/extensions" or "/Extentions"? Voice-of-All 02:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They are "extensions." I have tried it with the lowercase version but the same thing happens. :(

As expected if I remove the php before the file name the php file opens up in notepad, so I know the path is correct. --ionescuac^(Talk) 02:48, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Just passing by spreading some cheer--**Dakota**

Unspecified source for Image:Vaderrots.jpeg

Thanks for uploading Image:Vaderrots.jpeg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self-no-disclaimers}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 13:26, 3 May 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Yeah, I feel weird using the generic template on you, but I woul dlike to see a source added, this way it isn't deleted.Wizardman 13:26, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot error

Not sure what your bot was trying to do here but it reverted back to a sockpuppet attacker's version about twenty minutes after the previous edit. Anyways, thought you might want to take a look. Cheers. Will (aka Wimt) 20:25, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request to restore categories of WP:SPORTS

Hi, could you restore Category:GA-Class sports articles and Category:Unassessed sports articles ? Thanks. Carlosguitar 21:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fark

This stupid thing keeps telling me the content I want to put back into the Fark article is vandalism, and it better watch out because you don't want to make that crew angry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keepscases (talk • contribs)

Fark.com(Wiki) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.198.141.235 (talk • contribs)

I reverted it back to the longer version, you were trying to revert to. Also it is appreciated if you sign your comments, to make discussion easier.--Jackaranga 08:14, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CU rights

As per request on this page, you have been granted CheckUser flag on this wiki. Please read carefully all the relevant Policies and subscribe to checkuser-l. Ciao, M/ 22:04, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it is not oversight VoA, but it is pretty close :). Eventually. Until then, good luck. Prodego ^talk 00:11, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I stopped bothering to get those and focused on dev stuff. I was surprised when I found an email asking if I was interested. I guess you get things only when you don't want to have them anymore ;). Voice-of-All 01:37, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...and welcome to sleepless nights! Mackensen (talk) 01:20, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work with the coding BTW. And yes, CheckUser is not an easy job, it is vastly overestimated by Joe User, and takes a while to run. Of course, your new version is nicer that way. Prodego ^talk 02:11, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Check User

Hi, VOA, I saw a case where you performed a checkuser on (Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Etimesoy). At first, I got confused, because JP, DMC, and Mack generally perform checkuser requests. But, then I saw this and I was like, hmm...mmkay. I also added a checkuser userbox thingy to your page...so that everyone knows that you are a CU. Thanks! Real96 09:58, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot on Changing username pages

I don't think your bot is archiving rejected requests any more. Secretlondon 10:56, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Verdict

Thank you for your two checkusers on Verdict (talk · contribs). I very much appreciate it! --Yamla 17:19, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TomSkillingJr.

Is the IP case for TomSkillingJr. Likely or Unrelated? Thanks. Real96 19:18, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you! Real96 20:19, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dereks1x

I left this message on the IP check for Dereks1x, but figured I'd leave it here as well:

I'm confused... We've already confirmed the above as sockpuppets of Dereks1x, some by RFCU, others via Dereks1x's habit of coming back to complain about admin abuse after his latest sock has been identified. Lately he's been making edits from different IP addresses, so we were hoping to get some blocks on the underlying IP addresses if possible.

Thanks!--Bobblehead ^(rants) 23:22, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see, I was thinking I was in the wrong section. I'll have a second look. Voice-of-All 23:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please unblock Twinik. Do not punish the wrong person. Please unblock Twinik. Do not punish the wrong person.

Your checkuser/IP check section results showed that other users are socks, but not me. The background of this case is when administrator Jersyko accused 2 people (Nuclearj and Hempbilly) of being socks but their checkuser showed that they were not socks.

Soon afterwards, I had the misfortune of making a talk edit and Jerseyko accused me of being a sock despite my very neutral talk edit (but not solidly pro-politician [[14]] ) . Learning from his "mistake", Jersyko blocked me because he wanted to muzzle me and didn't want to take the chance of a checkuser proving that he was wrong.

I usually let bygones be bygones. All I want to do is to edit good quality stuff. I don't agree with Jersyko's use of blocking to muzzle anything that's not an advertisement for the politician, but I only plan to write quality stuff after being unblocked.Twinnext 03:25, 10 May 2007 (UTC) This edit is permitted because you proved that I am not that other banned user. I am more calm and rationalTwinnext 03:34, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I just added a few names to the list from the results, including yours. Additionally, checkuser doesn't "prove innocence". Voice-of-All 04:49, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Voy7

Dear Admin. Thanks for taking a look to my request. However, I am still not clear as to why it was declined. I have removed my comments since it looks like you are not interested. Thanks for your time .Jrod2 16:28, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much! I totally understand. It's not an easy thing. If there is no fault then there is no blame and I couldn't be happier for him. have a great week!.17:15, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry to bother you again. I would really appreciate any advise you might have for me. Whatever you suggest, I will do. Knowing that Voy7 is those IP's and knowing that Iclaudius2 and MasterChemical are as well, should not I report those IP addresses to get them blocked? or this just isn't enough vandalism for the board to sanction? Or, maybe seek to block those sock puppets?

One more thing, If I just add tags to all the suspected sock puppets, did you think I can do that and just leave it at that? The fate of this insidious user hangs in your balance. Thanks again for any advise and counsel. Best. Jrod2 17:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoA admin-like rollback tools

Hello. I think I've found a bug in the rollback tools: when I rollback a page that's on my watchlist, it un-watches it for me. I only caught this when I noticed my watchlist was getting a bit thin. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 09:49, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, AzaToth's current version seems to be fixed already. Voice-of-All 12:57, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. Does that mean you've fixed your version, or that I should change to using AzaToth's? If I need to change to AzaToth's, do I just change "VoA" to "AzaToth" in my monobook.js? --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 10:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Both are fixed. Voice-of-All 13:54, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection for X Japan

Hello, I was wondering in how far it is common to protect an article immediately after it has been unprotected, without providing any rationale. - Cyrus XIII 13:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"You have new messages" spoofing

A lot of unnecessary heavy breathing is being expended on this dumb issue. I'd think an easy solution might be to personalize the "you have new messages" message -- make it say, for example:

Voice of All has new messages (last change).

Poof! away goes the UI spoofing debate completely. Or does it just make the spoofing harder? --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 19:21, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm tempted to make the UI say, "you, voice of all, have new messages (last change)", but I'll hold off. Voice-of-All 21:10, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tweaking one of your blocks

I changed your block of 209.244.43.0/24 to a soft block because it was catching a (mostly constructive) contributer, Kid Sonic (talk · contribs). If you had a good reason for prohibiting logged-in edits from that range, feel free to adjust. —dgies^t_c 04:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ararat arev

Hi, first of all thanks for the tremendous job you are doing at WP:RFCU! I was wondering if you meant you closed the case here. I would hate archiving an ongoing investigation ;). -- lucasbfr ^talk 16:56, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My Restricted History View Idea

Regarding my proposal to be able to toggle reversions and their associated (i.e. revertED) edits from view: how do I get it considered properly? The proposals page seems like a place to discuss things until people are sick of it and leave it to get archived. I think that my idea will be helpful in the long term (imagine what page histories are going to look like in another five years time) so where do I take it to now? Thanks. --Seans Potato Business 20:00, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Buffadren

Well done Voice of All. You should also check if Britlawyer (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is not the same with Buffadren, or the same ISP.--85.248.20.76 16:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why? And please sign your comments. Voice-of-All 16:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Because they both supported eachother and they had socks, look at Mark Street..he had so far 6. If Britlawyer is not him than he's William Mauco (talk · contribs) who was blocked for 2 months.--85.248.20.76 16:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New RCU: Vital Component

Soonpush = Showninner is Vital Component (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) I'm 100% sure. You can see they edit the same articles. One appeared after Vital Component was banned for good. 85.248.20.76 16:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since you have not given any diffs/links or prove of disruption, I'll have to ignore this. At any rate, requests are to be left at WP:RFCU. Voice-of-All 16:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the diffs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Vital_Component they edit the same articles Igor Smirnov and they are related to Transnistria, Moldova etc. If you run the RCU you'll see I'm right. Convince yourself.--85.248.20.76 16:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Something to thank you for all your contributions

Trampton has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

--Trampton 04:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Hey

This is re. our discussion in query on IRC the other day... you might wanna have a look... Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:DJSEDISTICAL - A suspect sockpuppet for ORLRDVXL. Cheers. – Chacor 08:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:209.200.238.15

Hey, there. Just looking into this user's unblock request, you blocked the IP as {{openproxy}} back in May of this year. I can't verify if it is or isn't one, but with my level of technical (in)ability, that may not be saying anything. Care to comment on their request? – Luna Santin (talk) 19:05, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Atabek

Hello, that IP address that you said should be dealt with as a vandal (see here: [15]), is not a vandal. Not only has the IP discussed his.her changes on the talk page, but he/she has used reliable scholarly sources. Wikipedia's policies say that this is not vandalism. Atabek gave a faulty description in order to manipulate your decision (he has done so in the past also, filing false reports against users, particularly me). Now he will use your comment to revert the Anon without breaking his Arbcom parole. The anon has not removed information from the article at all, but simply added to it from a reliable and scholarly source, which is already used in the article: [16] He did not remove any information and certainly did not insert any POV, at all, look closely at the diff's Atabek provided. He tried to manipulate your decision, and it worked in his favor.

Atabek has used such tactics in the past in order to get users blocked or to conduct character assasination.

As soon as I reported Dacy69, a friend of Atabek's, Grandmaster came to his defense, and Atabek, peculiar huh? (see here: [17]) And notice how Atabek put my name with the anon on the user check, thats fishing, there was never a connection between the anon and I. He is trying to get back at me for reporting his friend. And as I suspected, he is using your comments to defend his friend: [18]

The only reason why I'm even wasting my time defending this anon is because Grandmaster, Atabek, and Dacy69 are trying to prevent Dacy69 from getting blocked for violating his parole, and I have seen these users trade reverts and work in tandem before, especially against me (filing false reports like the one Atabek made against the anon and I, alternating reverts, etc...). I hope this can be remedied quickly.Azerbaijani 16:04, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Atabek should elaborate which part of my edits he considers vandalism or POV. All I did was putting 5 words from a well known and respected scholarly reference to the article (I quoted Professor Ehsan Yarshater of Columbia University using one of his articles in Encyclopaedia Iranica). Please check the Safavids article. --82.83.158.90 16:46, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anon, I think its best if you register, because otherwise, its easier for people to make false accusations against you.Azerbaijani 16:48, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Let it be then

Dear Admin, I am at loss here. I don't know why you can't see the blatant disruptions in favor of spam and unreferenced links. Don't get me wrong, I think you are doing your job. But, maybe a little too much by the book? Can I ask another question, is it possible to submit the case or be put in the SSP, even though you declined checking? Otherwise, while the spam on that page continues to be rampant, at this point, I am losing interest and I'll just leave this page to its own fate. BTW, I didn't understand your comment (And many of these links are inadaquate themselves.) That's the template "personalideas" that I put as a last resort and in effect, is undergoing a test to see if it could warn users to stop spamming and adding content that has no references (See discussion at Template Forum. Have a blessed day. Jrod2 15:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DRV notice

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:North American NF-Board football teams. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. A ecis^Brievenbus 01:18, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TWINKLE

here is the edit, far too complex for me. Prodego ^talk 01:40, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Voice of All/CheckUser/monobook.js

Hi :) Could you double check what you did the last few days? I saw a bunch of bugs that were not present before:

when archiving a case that has been run more than once, the script adds {{rfua}} and {{rfub}} to the page, when it was used to only move the rfua template at the beginning of the page. (Or was I on drugs previously?)
The (add) tab no longer shows up when you are at the last stage of the archival (the Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case edition).

Thanks again for your script, it is very handy :) -- lucasbfr ^talk 08:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd also like to take this time to thank you for your scripts, Voice of All. They are excellent. Keep up the good work, Dfrg.msc 09:11, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HighSquires CheckUser

Hi Aaron. You recently CheckUsered and IP-blocked a load of Highsquires socks, see [19]. I had asked a question about the accounts after the IP's were blocked, but the CheckUser request was archived. I would like to know, for future reference, whether these accounts were sockpuppets or meatpuppets. Some of the accounts hinted at a group effort to vandalise, but the accounts came across as one user pretending to be several users. Did you find any indication as to what they were? Cows fly kites (Aecis) ^Rule^/^{Contributions} 10:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Socks I'd assume, but that difference is not always easy to tell and often depends on editing patterns. Voice-of-All 14:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback Vandal script

Hi, I think this is on your package of java script helpers. For the last couple of days, the Rollback Vandal (not the admin roll back button, but the one that opens another window to the vandal's talk page) has not been working. It says "The recieved top revision id is less than our current revision id, this could indicate that the current revision has been deleted, the server is lagging, or that bad data has been recieved. Will stop proceeding at this point.">>> which is not true. By the way, the bolded word is spelled wrong as well.--Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 13:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have noticed this problem as well. Thanks again for your great script. Katr67 18:14, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Let me add my humble thanks, too. Nontheless, lately the revert doesn't really work like it used to (see above). Pleaaaase allow us to be demi-gods again. -- Kku 09:08, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect bot operation?

I noticed in this bot edit that the request was moved without an explicit accept or deny by an admin. In fact an admin added a note requesting someone else deal with the request and then the bot moved it meaning the request may have been missed by later admins looking at the requests. Fnagaton 07:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suspect user

Hi man. Please have a look at User_talk:Succhiacazzo. Username is a bad word in italian, (means: dick sucker) it seems he is around with bad intentions. --Jollyroger 21:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Why is soooo difficult to find a list of active admins or a page for request to admins on en.wiki?

You can try WP:AN to get admin attention. Voice-of-All 21:20, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser

Can I get a clarification here please? Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 23:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your revert at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

I'm afraid I don't understand why your bot cleared my request for unprotection here. Your edit summary says "(BOT - Moving/clearing older requests. [PR: 1 | UR: 1 | RfSE: 0 | FR: 0])" and it wasn't an older request and because of the shorthand used I don't understand the rest. You want want to provide a translation guide to shorthand your bot uses on your bot userpage. Miss Mondegreen talk 11:50, May 25 2007 (UTC)

VoABot

If you have a second can you look into VoABot's archiving of WP:CHU and WP:CHU/U. Its doing fine on the completed requests, but when it archives rejected requests it isn't removing them from the page (so it keeps archiving the same requests numberous times) see [20]. Thanks, WjBscribe 14:45, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. It was supposed to do dupe checking anyway, but that was broke too :) Voice-of-All 16:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Check

Please, give a look here, we need the response to close a discussion on it.wiki. Sorry to bother you --Jollyroger 10:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again --Jollyroger 20:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:218.186.9.1

Can you please review your 3 month block of the above IP address? It seems it's a major singapore IP address from the top of the talk page and a user is now requesting unblock on the talk page (allbeit unofficially). Cheers - Ryan Postlethwaite 15:05, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Taken care of. Voice-of-All 17:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

I did not know about canvassing until today. Last time I checked canvassing was not in the list of policies. Have a nice week and God bless:)--James, La gloria è a dio 03:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question about checkuser result

Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Digwuren I would like to know on what ground have you confirmed this? This confirmation is most certainly bogus. I have no connection to the four other gentelmen and this name is a proud internet identity wiht several years of histor and with several hits on google. This is plain insulting.--Alexia Death 06:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC) P.S What is the process for appealing this?--Alexia Death 06:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe your check is flawed. I am aquainted with Erik Jesse, and I seen Löwi's edits in Wikipedia for quite some time. There is no way that they are sock puppets. Note that the volume of edits from these people make it physically impossible that they are one and the same. I believe an analysis of the edit timestamps will prove this. I know that Erik Jesse is a student at Tartu University, the largest in Estonia, so if they share IP addresses, it would be due to the University internet proxy. Martintg 07:29, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How is it possible that 3 Löwi is a sock puppet of Alexia Death, when 3 Löwi has been editing Wikipedia since July 2005, and Alexia Death only started editing since May 2007? You did check the edit histories didn't you? Seems to be that a long time editor who has contributed much to Wikipedia has been unjustly blocked indefinitely. It is my hope you reconsider this decision. Martintg 07:53, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On your decision on checkuser

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Lions3639 I would like to know how you've come to this decision. It is possible that my IP may overlap with unrelated individuals because networks within ROK Ministry of Education institutions are relayed through the central department to prevent P2P sharing and other abusive uses of the public network. Cydevil38 06:25, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The following RFCU shows evidence of meatpuppetry by Cydevil38: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Etimesoy. Perhaps another Checkuser can be done to see if Cydevil38 is also related to the following:

Etimesoy appears to be related to Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Room218 by use of similar roving IP address ranges. Room218 was confirmed to be related to Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Goguryeo.

Cydevil38 is part of this big meatpuppetry ring, if not sockpuppetry.--Endroit 17:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoA admin-like rollback tools

Hello again.

I've got a problem with the rollback tools again. Every time I'm looking at a diff and I click rollback it now says "The recieved top revision id is less than our current revision id, this could indicate that the current revision has been deleted, the server is lagging, or that bad data has been recieved. Will stop proceeding at this point." --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 08:22, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser

Hey :). I am transfering 2 cases to the completed section, where the alleged sockpuppets contest your findings/request some clarification: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Lions3639, Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Digwuren. Cheers! -- lucasbfr ^talk 08:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

edit: bah, I didn't see the above messages, sorry! -- lucasbfr ^talk 08:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Digwuren

VoA, are you positively sure about User:DLX been a sockpuppet? If he is, then he should be indefblocked. I have a history of editorial conflict with him, so if you positively sure please block him yourself. If there are doubts I would rather let him off the hook. Sorry for bothering you Alex Bakharev 15:41, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The IP and other checkuser data matches, but that ISP is pretty vague as you pointed out. If there is serious disruption and strong editing pattern similarities, you should block, but if not, then I'd avoid it. Voice-of-All 15:43, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Alex Bakharev 21:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:DLX is a real person with his own website [21] and blog [22], all linked from his Wiki page. Since the initiator of this checkuser action admitted that he knows DLX is a real person [23], while advocating he be checked [24], does this constitute harrassment? Martintg 21:42, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vote fraud at Talk:Liancourt Rocks

Regarding the RFCU Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Lions3639, I reported it at WP:ANI#Vote fraud at Talk:Dokdo. Vote results were clearly affected by sockpuppetry. Is there any way you can do a more comprehensive RFCU on this? Also, confirmed socks have not even been blocked yet.--Endroit 16:58, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet Accusations

I want to let you know that I will be filing a complaint against you, Koramdi,Parceboy and Endroit for harrassment on Wikipedia. I have been a avid user for over two years, have contributed to many articles and can't believe such Wikiharrassment is tolorated. This is nothing but a witchhunt on the part of you four. Davidpdx 23:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how can be part of a witchhunt. I don't know you nor share any editing interests or anything. Whatever. Voice-of-All 01:03, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoA, I believe Davidpdx is refuting your decision at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Lions3639. Will you please follow up there? Thank you.--Endroit 01:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll look it over again, maybe contact other checkusers like the last case. Rarely are there this many problems. Voice-of-All 01:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think anybody is refuting your decision except the confirmed socks. Also, please see my comment above "#On your decision on checkuser" when you review your case. Thank you.--Endroit 01:25, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about VoA or Parceboy, but Komdori and Endroit have a long history of engaging in very tendentious and controversial edits on Korean topics and harassing Korean users. More recently, their target has been myself, User:Good_friend100 and Davidpx(who isn't a Korean) on topics regarding Goguryeo and Dokdo. Endroit himself made it evident here that he's repeatedly accused me of sockpuppetry for reasons none other than merely disagreeing with him, and Komdori went as far as framing me of 3RR violation with what is likely intentionally fabricated or distorted evidence here. Cydevil38 02:51, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your hard work

...on checkusers. I don't pretend to know what's involved, but I'm glad somebody is there to get the job done, and especially to take the time to go over it a second time. Thanks! --Reuben 05:33, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please remove your block of A.G. Edwards and Sons, Inc. (i.e., our other IP (63 93 197 67) block should be lifted.)

Thank you for your prompt consideration of others. It appears that there is no longer a reason for said block. 12.35.96.66 16:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot dead?

Hey there. I think your bot may be down at the mo'. WP:RPP is filling up and the bot's not visited in some time. I'll manually cleanup, so don't worry about things :) Thanks! - Alison ☺ 22:14, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot a user

About Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Kwame Nkrumah, it seems like you forgot to block User:Bert Patenaude, that is one of the sockpuppets apparently confirmed to be controlled by User:Panairjdde. Could you please check him and block him in case he would be proven to be a Panairjdde sockpuppet? Thanks in advance. --Angelo 00:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please have a look at User:MandatoryAccount too? Sorry if I'm getting annoying, but it's not my fault :( Thanks again --Angelo 00:10, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I disturb you again, but Panairjdde returned with his personal bunch of sockpuppets. They are all listed here, could you please have a look at them? And another thing: User:Kingjeff was blocked due to 3RR as he was involved in reverting Panairjdde's edits on a few articles. It would be great if you might have a look at his situation too. Sorry for the annoyance, and thank you in advance. --Angelo 01:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You probably want to stick with this version

Sorry... somehow my edit completely screwed up your talkpage. This happened once on an ANI edit as well. On a completely unrelated note I semi-protected Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/IP check due to vandalism by the individual behind the IP check I've requested... I have no problem if you want to unprotect it... I was just getting tired of reverting.--Isotope23 01:47, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was no accident that Isotope deleted the material on you talk page, he reverted to a version months ago and he knew what he was doing so I happily restored it for you Voice for all, and also the IP check page isn't being vandaled, Isotope23 is trying to get a ban on IPs because he thinks it's user starwars1955, when it clearly isn't, when starwars1855 was banned, IP address were also for a limited time until the block expired, the blovk has been served on those IPs and he's trying to get that reinstated, when the suspention has already expired, starwars1955 was banned, not the IPs, the IPs Isotope23 is trying to get blocked don't beling to starwars1955 and many people will be unfairly blocked because there IPs are similar to eachothers, this is not fair, the IPs he's complaining about have done no worng, have added cited factual material and Isotope23 keeps breaking the 3RR by reverting and vandalising the pages by deleting cited material, he's also mow deleting your talk page, he keeps vandalising wikipedia and needs to be stopped, he has a personal vandetta against these IPs and this isn't fair, check the edits from these IPs, they are backed with cited info and material, Isotope23 is out of control and he knew what he was doing when he deleted your talk page by reverting to a old old version, it wasn't a accident that he once made with ANI, he's lying and he had no right to vandalise your page, I was happy you restore it for you voice for all.

By the way, I figured out what I did; I had two windows open one with an old diff of your userpage and I edited the wrong one hence the complete FUBAR of your talkpage. Again, sorry about that.--Isotope23 03:29, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot malfunctioning?

Why did it delete my entry from Wikipedia:Requests for page protection#Current requests for significant edits to a protected page? Does this section work at all there? I believe, I was in line with the policy to request those two obvious edits to the page. Cmapm 23:59, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SEGA

Hi. Another sockpuppet of SEGA has popped up, Onlyslighted (talk · contribs). This user was on the very first case against SEGA, but was not confirmed. Now, the person is using the username again on my talk page and to revert edits at Phish discography after a temporary protection was placed on the page because of other SEGA sockpuppets. What I want to know is, am I allowed to amend the RFU after you have confirmed and blocked the users for this case or do I have to start another one again? Thanks! -- moe.RON ^{Let's talk | done} 22:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meh, the user was blocked. Voice-of-All 03:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

regarding sock puppet of banned user

Hi Voice of All,

Venki123 (talk · contribs) was banned [25] by the arbitration committee for a perod of 1 year. Now he is back using many sock puppets one of which has been confirmed as Sriramwins (talk · contribs) by you. Please see the checkuser result: [26]. Could you ban this user and the related ips? Thanks. Xylophonic 03:25, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Voice-of-All 03:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with mediawiki

when I login on my media wiki it give me

Fatal error: Class 'WatchedItem' not found in /var/www/netsons.org/wikipieve/includes/User.php on line 1769

Can you help me? You can answer here --Jacklab72 14:15, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You should have a file, WatchedItem.php in /includes, and it should be mentioned in autoloader.php by default. Voice-of-All

Request for Checkuser

Hi - I recently filed this request for Checkuser, which was returned as "Confirmed". However, I have recently been getting increasingly irate emails from the indefinitely blocked user who was the subject of the case, arguing that he did not edit from those account at the time in question (rather, at an earlier date), and thus the Checkuser result was bogus. He asserts that, as a result, I should remove the {{sockpuppeteer}} template from his user page. I'm not sure how to proceed in this case, so I'm asking you what I should do. --Haemo 23:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meh, leave it. Voice-of-All 01:27, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'll take your advice and leave the template on. --Haemo 01:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

M.V.E.i.

Hi, could you please take a look? WP:AN/I#User:M.V.E.i. I added my view.

Best, Beatle Fab Four 13:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat nomination

The Sunshine Man would like to nominate you to become an bureaucrat. Please visit the requests for bureaucratship section of WP:RFA to see what this process entails, and then contact The Sunshine Man to accept or decline the nomination. Thank you.... The Sunshine Man 18:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well if you change your mind, just leave me a note. Regards --The Sunshine Man 18:18, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello, I have a question. Is a user who has been confirmed as using a sock in the past allowed to remove himself from the Wikipedia Sock puppeteers category?Hajji Piruz 21:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC) Bold text[reply]

VoABot II screws up again

Your bot has reverted my edits yet again in favor of a vandal's edits. See the Vladimir Lenin page. Posts by Jacob Peters and his sockpuppets are not allowed. Fix your bot as well. I have no "restricted changes."--C.J. Griffin 12:49, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

requests for page protection problem

The bot edited the page with a summary along the lines of "removing old requests" my request was the newest request on the page. Check out the history [27].Xpanzion 18:19, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That only happens if people don't sign posts. Voice-of-All 21:22, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mistaken revert of a vandal's revert

On the Vladimir Lenin page, VoABot II just reverted my legitimate reverts of banned vandal/sockpuppeteer Jacob Peters most recent sockpuppet 204.102.211.115, whose edits are clearly POV. And VoABotII says I supposedly have "restricted changes"? What's going on? --C.J. Griffin 01:46, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit count is way too high to be reverted, it must be broken there. Bah... I've reverted it. It's now off until I can sort that out. The counter has had issue before. Voice-of-All 02:07, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot mistakenly reverted my edit

I nominate that Userpage for deletion. [28]

The number of consecutive "}" marks made it revert. I've made the criteria stricter now. Voice-of-All 23:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you. — Ash063 23:59, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments weirdness from VoABot II

VoABot II recently left a comment on my talk page to the effect that my edit on the article Nolan Chart had been reverted. Upon checking the page, I found that the bot had actually reverted another user's edit to mine. You might want to check how your bot leaves messages. Also, the edit reverted might have been valid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided(RookZERO 18:36, 8 June 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I just got some similar behavior from it too. See here. --Tropylium 12:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There was a bug causing that which was fixed a few days ago. Voice-of-All 16:53, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Psychonauts

My edit to Psychonauts was reverted. I cut out a lot of unnessecary information in the plot summary, and this computer's IP address is banned. I think that might have triggered the bot, but I don't think the edit should have been reverted. Please take a look at it. TDS18 20:59, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Restored. Voice-of-All 21:04, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RCP script

Sorry to bother you. I've been having some strangeness with the RCP script for a while. When trying to revert a change using anything other than "restore this version" I get the message The recieved top revision id is less than our current revision id, this could indicate that the current revision has been deleted, the server is lagging, or that bad data has been recieved. Will stop proceeding at this point ... ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹^Speak 13:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed [29]. Voice-of-All 04:02, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CheckUser (or clerk) script

Hey VoA. I've been using the clerking script for a while, mainly to help me with archiving, but I noticed it also has the ability to move cases down to the "Fulfilled" section, and the "Denied" section. This doesn't really seem to be working, because when I click it while editing a case page, it just says "{{case}} not found". Could you fix this, if possible? Thanks. :) GrooveDog 12:50, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser Coldmachine / arthana

Hi, I saw you added 'likely' to the checkuser on Emnx, Arthana, and myself. I would like to know precisely how the checkuser works, because I am certainly neither of these two users and apparently have no way of proving it. How can one prove innocence if the checkuser system BLATANTLY doesnt work in this case? Arthana is from the UK - he/she wrote this on my discussion page. It's also patently clear I come from the UK from my own user page. I've no idea where Emnx comes from but I'm guessing the same. The IP range for UK users is GOING to be similar. My ISP is Orange, Arthana has written on my talk page that s/he uses BT. Are you going to block all UK users from wikipedia based on the possibility they could all be sockpuppets of one account? Ridiculous. If there's one thing I can't tolerate it's people throwing about false accusations against someone's good character. Can you look in to this? I'd like to know precisely on what basis the checkuser system works, and how decisions are made from the results. At least if I can understand how such slanderous accusations can be bandied about so easily and then 'proven' I'll have some reassurance. I would have thought a whole series of things were involved: edit history, IP address, account creation date, user page information, and so on. I can't see how on earth I can be linked to these other users based on this. The ONLY thing we have in common is that we nominated one article (the same article) for deletion. Sharing the same opinion is a huge difference from being the same user. I would have thought, anyway. Coldmachine^Talk 10:26, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here, I've actually trawled through the edits of Arthana and my own contribs, to see if there were any cases where overlap exists and there are. How, I ask, would you imagine that if we're the same person we're able to edit different pages simultaneously using two different accounts. I may be IT literate, but I don't have four arms, two computers, two phone lines, and two different ISPs. Here are the examples I found:

Example #1

Coldmachine 16:49, 13 June 2007 (hist) (diff) Wikipedia:Requests for comment/IPSOS (→Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute)

Arthana 16:50, 13 June 2007 (hist) (diff) User talk:Coldmachine (Tired of this C***)

Example #2

Coldmachine

22:44, 13 June 2007 (hist) (diff) m Wikipedia:Requests for comment/IPSOS (→Evidence of disputed behavior - Timestamping)

22:44, 13 June 2007 (hist) (diff) Wikipedia:Requests for comment/IPSOS (→Evidence of disputed behavior - Adding random sample of diffs from trawling through history of user contribs. Note edit summaries as well as content.)

22:47, 13 June 2007 (hist) (diff) m User talk:Arthana (→Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/IPSOS - Clarifying.)

22:47, 13 June 2007 (hist) (diff) User talk:Arthana

Arthana

22:47, 13 June 2007 (hist) (diff) User talk:74.97.215.97 (General note: Vandalism on Nagasarete Airantou. using TW) (top)

22:46, 13 June 2007 (hist) (diff) m Nagasarete Airantou (Reverted 1 edit by 74.97.215.97 identified as vandalism to last revision by Aebliss. using TW) (top)

Does this help any? Coldmachine^Talk 10:43, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from Arthana

I've discussed this with Coldmachine prior to today and if you look on User talk:Coldmachine you will see I stated

I am based in the UK and my ISP is BT (along with around 3,000,000 other BT users!)Arthana

User:Coldmachine replied

I'm based in the UK too but my ISP is Orange Coldmachine

I hardly see how you can conceive it possible that Coldmachine and I are one and the same using two different ISPs to make edits at the same time.

Furthermore I would also again stress that BT (my ISP) has 3 million broadband customers. Searching Google I found numerous references to the fact the Orange Internet customers use subcontracted BT Servers — Orange has in total 2 million internet customers (I don't know if Coldmachine has broadband or not but if so, then it is 1 million customers).

Perhaps it's confusing because we are English and we are just 2 of 4 million customers using BT or BT based services and we all look alike?--217.41.217.22 12:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC) How's that happened? I was signed in? I came here to add a note about my IP address! However, this answers the question and does show that my IP address was indeed changed by my ISP at approx. 14.33 gmt -- see my note on the checkuser page. My current IP is 217.47.46.144. --Arthana 14:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Emnx not Arthana not Coldmachine

PLEASE READ THIS and take some time to REALLY consider the events that have transpired.

A very grave injustice has been carried out today by you and other admins. There was a rush to judgement based on the say so of two long term users.

Coldmachine is not me (Arthana). LOOK at Coldmachine's record. We have different ISPs, we were editing different articles at the same times.

You have been blinded by two clever and aggressive editors. God, if only you would take the time to investigate IPSOS, look through his talk page history and likewise his User page. Look how he briefly reverted my edits and those of Coldmachine when we particpated in the AFD for Mandrake of Oxford and disagreed with him/her. Then we were accused of being sock puppets!

On RFC for IPSOS I made a typing error! - In my haste to add a note to a speedy delete which was reverted almost immediately. I added a blank line to the page to make a comment in the edit summary. I typed "I am Coldmachine" it was a complete error - you must surely ask yourself after everything else that has been going on why would I do that. Why am I here now? because I AM NOT COLDMACHINE.

I've only ever been an occasional user in the past and had just got to the position where I could spend more time editing so I opened an acount and this is what I got. I thought joining AFDs was the best place to start learning about articles and I wanted to do something to help fight vandals.

Coldmachine is a longer term account user and exactly the sort of person Wikipedia needs.

Based on me circumventing the ban I guess you'll delete this, ban me and my dynamic IP for ever and you won't spend any time REALLY looking into what Coldmachine and I were trying to achieve.

BUT, if you do nothing else PLEASE reinstate Coldmachine with an unblemished record HE IS INNOCENT. I am beyond caring right now about the accusations that I am Emnx and I am not sure if I'd even want my account re-instated the way I feel about all this.

(Arthana)

I just HAD to make one more post (my sincere apologies, this really is the last.) . . . GlassFET has just awarded IPSOS a barnstar because he has been harrassed. That really is a sick joke between two meatpuppets. I also note GlassFET has removed the revival company from Mandrake Press which was the aim of IPSOS from day one and that led to the creation of Mandrake of Oxford and all that followed. If you want to contact me at all I'll check Arthana talk page from time to time but if you do and you want a reply it will have to be as an anon. I genuinely am quitting Wikipedia from this point but I am prepared to stick around to help if you if you do want to investigate these matters further. (Arthana)

I was asked by a User to ask this of you since his talk page was fully protected

It is a copy and paste a

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:YoSoyGuapo

"June 11, 2006 I made a checkip on a user and it was Declined checkip reason being obvious... [30]. A checkip was done by a vandal and it was allowed allowed checkuser [31] . Can you help to explain to me why this was done. thanks YoSoyGuapo 20:14, 11 June 2007 (UTC)"[reply]

thanks Bombaplena 00:04, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aaron, I have a question regarding CheckUser.. is there a way to reach you by email? you can write back to me at [email protected]. Thanks.

Dev related question

I'm just inquiring about something that's been brought up on the protection policy page. Way back in January Mets501 made a post to the en-wp about autoconfirmed levels and that we could add an edit count requirement for people to become autoconfirmed (and I've created a proposal page about it). I'm just making sure; this is possible, right? Are you the right one to ask or should I ask another dev (I would ask User:Simetrical since that's who Mets referred to in the post, but he seems to be here only sparatically). Thanks in advance Voice. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 04:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it can be easily queries via software. There is an edit_count column in the user table. Voice-of-All 22:08, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok good, thanks! -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 01:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you believe in truth!

Coldmachine is not Emnx and Coldmachine is not Arthana.

However, IPSOS is continuing with his COI and promoting Mandrake of Oxford. IPSOS moved Mandrake of Oxford material into the Mandrake Press article during the AFD to circumvent the process.

Following the delete decison an Admin also removed the Mandrake of Oxford material from Mandrake Press.

This was followed by GlassFET (accused of being a meatpuppet of IPSOS) removing the revival Mandrake Press details from the article. This was was the intent of IPSOS/GlasFET all along.

During the 2nd Mandrake of Oxford AFD IPSOS and GlassFET were accused of acting as meatpuppets and also that both having a COI. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn for where they start working together and being disruptive. They both have a declared interest in Golden Dawn and IPSOS has an interest Sexual / Magic Tantra. Mandrake of Oxford runs the Oxford Golden Society and publishes books on Sexual Magic. The very name IPSOS is connected to this subject (he created an article about his own name).

Now IPSOS is trying to overturn the 2nd AFD on the grounds that Coldmachine was a sock puppet.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_June_17

Coldmachine is not Arthana or Emnx. That is the truth! If you investigate Coldmachine properly you will see his/her innocence! and if Coldmachine is innocent then logically the AFD should not be overturned as proposed by IPSOS.

Have you once stopped to consider what Emnx, Skrine2, Arthana and Coldmachine were trying to achieve? They were not attempting to impose extremeist views or disrupt Wikipedia. In every case they were trying to protect the integrity of Wikipedia against a disruptive, edit-warring, aggressive editor (IPSOS) who was working with a meatpuppet (GlassFET) to impose views motivated by a blatant COI. Emnx/Skrine2 may have broken the wiki-rules in trying to achieve that aim but Coldmachine and Arthana were found guilty of being sock puppets (by association) based on circumstantial evidence, for merely continuing what Emnx had started - trying to protect Wikipedia.

You claim on your user page

   In the face of contempt, there must remain Grace,
   With Freedom and the Greater Good, there is Duty,
   Through logic and compassion there is Reason,
   May justice be done only through reason and Truth,
   For society to have justice and order, there must be Law.

   Let within your heart and mind lie the Voice of All.

If you really do uphold the principle of Wikipedia, as you claim, then you will do something about this.

If there is to be justice and order, there must be law . . .
but if those who administer it do it badly then all your fine words mean nothing.

Coldmachine is INNOCENT and should be reinstated without a blemish on his reputation.

Arthana

Spreading some Wikilove :D

Nat Tang ^{talk to me! | Check on my contributions!|Email Me!} has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Cheri DiNovo

The situation has been going on for eight months without resolution; every single time protection has ever been lifted from the page, the situation started up again within days. I'm afraid that, also speaking as an administrator, I am not willing to accept any unprotection of the page on the basis of "hopefully". Until it's absolutely guaranteed that the anon vandal in question is gone, the page needs to stay protected. And not hopefully gone — unequivocally, permanently, absolutely gone with no chance of the situation ever resuming. The situation really is that serious. Bearcat 00:33, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is not prudent to unprotect the DiNovo page. It has been the target of anon attacks continuously. As the protection tag stated, protection will be maintained until after October 10, 2007, the date of the provincial election. Please revert your unprotect action and reinstate protection.--Abebenjoe 08:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The da Vinci Barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		I'm awarding you this "Da vinci" barnstar for your enhancement of wikipedia through your technical knowledge. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 05:42, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An Odd Coincidence?

GlassFET has put a notice on his user page he's gone on holiday. So no posts are occurring?

So why has IPSOS stopped posting too.

Are these meatpuppets the real sockpuppets?????

Coldmachine and I are truly not the same person!

If I was a sockpuppet (of anyone) why would I ask for the AFD on Mandrake of Oxford be suspended and dealt with independently from ALL interested parties - my post, at the bottom of AFD page, is still on record. Why would I do that except to protect the integrity of Wikipedia!!!!

Please consider reinstating Coldmachine and I (perhaps on probation). We really did nothing wrong!

Arthana

Presumably you've seen Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mandrake of Oxford (third nomination). IPSOS is involved in the voting. In previous listings etc. IPSOS and GlassFET were accused of being a meatpuppet and having a COI. If this is to be a clean decision both IPSOS and GlassFET should be disqualified from participation. Also please note that GlassFET posted a holiday notice and stopped editing . . . IPSOS also stopped a couple of days after and has just started editing again no doubt just before GlassFET comes back to add another merge/keep vote. PLEASE look at the history and tactics of these two. They work together all the time! If nothing else, given all the controversy, over Mandrake of Oxford don't allow them to vote as they were just as much of the problem as alleged sockpuppets.--86.131.32.150 00:01, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser question

Hi - I saw you declined Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/NCdave because User:Peroxisome was too old to check. However, Peroxisome (talk · contribs) has just been editing in the last 2 days (June 18th and 19th, 2007). Would these not be checkable, or am I misunderstanding? Sorry to bug you. MastCell ^Talk 21:02, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PROOF that Arthana is NOT Coldmachine

Please go to User_talk:86.131.33.92 to see Arthana -v- Coldmachine Comparison of Edit Histories - the analysis is irrefutable proof that Arthana is not Coldmachine.

Arthana

User:Vintagekits

Hi. A user you recently considered "likely" to be a sockpuppet (at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Vintagekits) is up for discussion at AN/I. As it is part of the user's stated case that "the sock and muppetpuppets ... are nothing to do with me", and as I mentioned your name, I thought you would appreciate being informed. --John 22:27, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Could we get an IP block for the ip used by the socks from this checkuser? Apparently another turned up. Thanks. Kwsn^(Ni!) 16:34, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Voice-of-All 17:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, seem like the AfD's were motivated from a site he run getting deleted. Kwsn^(Ni!) 05:16, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

flagged revisions extension update

Hi---I'm a physician geek who is interested in using MW to develop a wiki for continuing medical education purposes, but would like to have all edits made by users placed into a queue for moderation by a physician expert. I'm very interested in your flagged revs extension, but my IT team is concerned by its "experimental" status---how stable is it, would it be relatively usable for a non-techie, and is it going to be updated for MW 1.11? [email protected]12.41.1.66 14:14, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is stable in that nothing new is being added. It is still being tested for bugs. One of our main developers will have a look at it too. After that, it should be at a beta release. Voice-of-All 17:52, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Diyako checkuser logs

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Zanyar (Possible sockpuppets)
Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Diyako (Diyako is stale)
Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/71.222.81.30 (Diyako is still stale so no check was made to compare him)

You are receiving this because your username either appears on the checkuser list or you were one of the arbitrators that participated in the relevant Arbcom case (User:Dmcdevit, User:Jdforrester, User:The Epopt, User:Charles Matthews, User:Sam Korn, User:Fred Bauder, User:Jayjg, User:Morven, User:Neutrality).

Currently User:Diyako/User:Xebat is at a stale state for not editing over a month. User hasn't edited for slightly over a year due to an arbcom sanctioned ban. I have a reason to believe ([32], [33], [34]) there may be a connection as the edit pattern seems similar in many ways. Diyako's wikipedia ban has recently expired but if he is continuing a similar behavior as User:D.Kurdistani, there needs to be a further consideration either by ARBCOM or Community Sanction board (latter seems more appropriate IMHO). A successful checkuser would be very helpful in the decision making process on this issue.

This inquiry is to request if you have "personal logs" of Diyako/Xebat's IP's to compare with User:D.Kurdistani and possible other socks. This is NOT a request for the logs themselves but on weather or not you have them. Please reply on my talk page to confirm if you have the logs or not. User:Mackensen appears to be the only person to have preformed a successful checkuser but others may also have this info.

-- Cat ^chi? 10:45, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Simonne

Are you going to block Simonne as well? --DrBat 16:54, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:OhFive back again

Bernardofscotland (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) vandalized Hepburn (surname). You declined to block the school IP last time, but this has gone on long enough. Please either issue a schoolblock or pass it onto me in private so I can file an abuse report with the school in question. Thanks. -- Netsnipe ► 19:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki note

I left a question for you on my MediaWiki talk. We seem to discuss ideas there more than anywhere, as I was using it as a scratchpad, but ... eh, it's there if you wanna look. ~Kylu (u|t) 03:33, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Approval BoxCrawler

I have a request pending at the requests for approval page and would like your input (as you are part of the BAG) if it's not too much trouble. I'm glad to answer any questions or concerns you may have. Adam McCormick 23:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to xaosflux I've been able to run a trial of my bot which can be seen here. I have fixed the major problems with the test run (mostly one regular expression) and was hoping to run another test. I'd still appreciate your input. Thanks! Adam McCormick 03:45, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Having a "Clerk" for CU work at WP:SSP

Here's a question: do you need a clerk helping with the maintainence of WP:SSP? You already have that position at WP:RFCU, but it looks like you could have someone at this page as well, especially in the archive department. If so, I could help with that. Please reply on my talk page. Thank you! Diez2 03:28, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

85.12.17.31 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Actually, this IP is an open proxy. I managed to connect to it via http://www.optiproxy.com. I don't know what kind of abuse is behind this proxy, so I'm reporting it here rather than at WP:OP. No wonder it was being used abusively... MER-C 11:59, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Several blocked users used it. Voice-of-All 00:57, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What does "Possible" mean as a Checkuser result?

Hello,

You gave the result "Possible" in the checkuser request [Bonaparte versus Tones benefit]. Can you, please, explain to me what "Possible" means. I have looked for a description, but there's none. I need to understand this because I have been accused of helping a known troll (Bonaparte) in his latest incarnation (Tones benefit). However, I have yet to see compelling evidence supporting the identification of Tones Benefit as a Bonaparte sock. Thanks. Dpotop 11:41, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

in re deletion of Category:Bingöl:

What about this: Category:Bingol? --Homer Landskirty 20:17, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Casey Stengel

I don't think the semi-protection is working. You've still got these suspected sockpuppets and even IP addresses modifying his colors to the Mets instead of the Yankees, which is idiotic, frankly. His greatest fame and success came with the Yankees, and his Hall of Fame plaque has him in a Yankees cap. Baseball Bugs 14:44, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The user JoeIdaho is back, posting the Mets colors again. He waited until his user had been established long enough to get around the semi-protection. I have asked an admin for advice. Baseball Bugs 17:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Completely random question

I happened on your essay (User:Voice of All/Consensus), and I thought it was very well written. I think I follow a similar set of heuristics in closing discussions. I wondered, however, what your thoughts on weighting homogeneity were. Do you give stronger weight to heterogeneous or homogeneous discussions? This is an issue that has come up recently for me and I can see points on both sides. Homogeneity or a monolithic argument "seems" more like consensus by a formal definition, but multiple points (if they are valid) also seem as they should create a cumulative argument in some way (and users may not want to repeat arguments that others have made). Thoughts? IronGargoyle 07:53, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple unrelated reasons for X can show majority for X (or consensus if you will), but there is no consensus why. So it is just not as strong. BTW, did you get my email? Voice-of-All 20:27, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, I didn't get your e-mail. I just checked it and it seems to be working for me. Thanks for your comments though. Food for thought. What was the e-mail about? IronGargoyle 23:49, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thanks in part to your support, I am Wikipedia's newest bureaucrat. I will do my best to live up to your confidence and kind words. Andre (talk) 09:26, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Liebman CU

Thanks. He also emailed to unblock-en-l, finally, but with the positive CU results... Georgewilliamherbert 18:01, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:VoABot archiving at WP:CHU

Please see Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#User:VoABot archiving at WP:CHU. Andre (talk) 22:23, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

can't install checkuser stuck at install.php pls HELP me...

Hi there.. I am stuck while trying to install checkuser extension on my wikipedia... on step 2.Open command prompt and run install.php when I open cmd.exe and write there ...mywikipedia\extensions\checkuser\install.php it just opens the install.php code on notepad and nothing happens... pls can you help me to solve this problem and mail me at [email protected] thank you very much for your helps have a good day... :)

Make sure you are typing "php ...mywikipedia\extensions\checkuser\install.php" and your target is the PHP folder (where php.exe is) Voice-of-All 16:22, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am sure of wat I tyepd true because install.php "code page" opens (I mean its not installing but just a code page opens in windows)... And wat do you mean by your "target"?? Wat will I do with this target php folder will I install there?? and thank you very much for you patience...

FAC

I've responded to your comments on my FAC. A couple of the things you suggested are not possible, and I'm not sure what exactly you meant by a couple of others. Would you be able to go back and respond? Rebecca 03:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

JavaScript help

Hi VoA. You probably get alot of these code-related questions to your talk page, but I was wondering if you know how to add a new tab along the bar of tabs on every page using JavaScript or CSS? I've been fiddling with the CSS, and I know very little of JavaScript, which I believe is used to make the tab appear on all pages. If you could help me, it will be much appreciated. Kind regards, Sebi _[talk] 07:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts#Libraries. Voice-of-All 00:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ben Bledsoe vandals

Hi I found your name on the abuse report page. Im not so good with Wikipedia procedure and I've contacted several people but no help. I made a report but nothing done. The Ben Bledsoe page and pages affiliated with it (particularly Natural) are being abused by 1 particular user who has had various ips but lately is under 65.219.130.15. If you look at his edits and the contributions its clear its vandalisim. Wikipedia:Abuse reports/4.228.6.99 I made that report on his other ips as well. Anyway to protect this page/block this vandal? Thanks! --Thegingerone 01:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-vandal tool for non-admins

Hello. Could you please take a look at this discussion and see if you can work out what the trouble is with the anti-vandal script? Thanks, Lra drama 08:31, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello? Lra drama 21:32, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That script simply loads User:VoA/monobook.js, which looks fine when I test it. Voice-of-All 23:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ConfirmAccount Consternation

I have a question concerning the ConfirmAccount extension you coded for MediaWiki 1.8+. First of all, I love the concept and think it's awesome that you take time out of your day to make an extention for us non-programmers, so thanks for your time. Secondly, I'm getting a blank page when i include the php file in the LocalSettings.php, I ran the SQL query from ConfirmAccount.sql as the other sql file would not run correctly, and as there was no prefix needed, i didn't add one to the created table. So my questions are thus: 1) What do I need to enable/disable/etc in order for the extension to function correctly. 2) Does it matter where the include statement is in LocalSettings? If there is anything else you need to know to make an informed decision feel free to contact me at [email protected]

1) If your wiki does use a prefix, make sure you add it to the SQL query where the prefix comment is.

2) Not really, though if you wanted to override some settings changes it made, those variables would have to be set after the include() statement.

If you are getting a white screen, go to php.ini and set error_reporting to "E_ALL" or add error_reporting(E_ALL); to localsettings to see what the problem is. Voice-of-All 21:07, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Protection of John Howard page

Hi. You recently unlocked the John Howard page so anyone can edit it. There have already been a couple of cases of vandalism. It may need protecting again. Lester2 01:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser question

Hi there, I filed this checkuser that you confirmed [35]. I haven't done one of these before so not sure how it works, but do I now take this Checkuser evidence and ask someone at Admin Noticeboard to block the IP? Thanks! The Parsnip! 04:34, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Hatewatcher

Is this case closed? Are they not sockpuppets? Please respond on my talkpage. SLSB talk ER 01:51, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 03:13, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Checkuser-IP on Newspaper guy 999

Hi VoA. I just saw that you confirmed that Newspaper guy and the anon IP are the same. However, Rlest's comments suggest that he was the IP. Does this mean Rlest = Newspaper guy 999 = 84.70.147.233? This would have implications with respect to Rlest's recent blocking and a thread at WP:ANI. -- Flyguy649 ^talk _contribs 18:42, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I should add that if you'd prefer this as a formal RFCU, I'll file there. Flyguy649 ^talk _contribs 19:30, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mrcineman

In the checkuser request, could you explain which ones were his accounts? And will he be blocked? Cheers, JetLover ^(talk) 21:39, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IP range search

Hi, I've heard a rumor you have a script for finding out which IP addresses out of a range have edited Wikipedia. I have a fairly tight range but it's too large for manual checking. Here's hoping I've found the right person? Durova^Charge! 00:05, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gerry Lynch case

Please take a look at this. Jayjg ^(talk) 02:35, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see this. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:08, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:OnlySpeak

Regarding [36], can you please, check the history of User:OnlySpeak - [37]. Registered on July 31st, this contributor edited only two pages, making only reverts to remove sourced material and references and simply posting original research in explanation comment, or no comment at all. Atabek 19:43, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Award

		The Original Barnstar
		For all your scripts, bots, and regular contributions. You are a great editor, and one of our best. --Mschel 01:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please Reprotect John Howard

A while ago you unprotected the article John Howard with this edit, stating that you believed it is not needed anymore. I am here to ask you to reprotect the article again, as the floodgates have been opened to all sorts of IP vandalism and new user wisecracks. The page has been blanked numerous times, replaced with "wazzzzzzuppp", been moved to monkey, etc. etc. Please check the recent history and please reprotect the article. Regards. Prester John ^{-(Talk to the Hand)} 03:58, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Warning on Upon depths of despair

VoABot II recently gave me a warning about an edit to Upon depths of despair. Since the page is now deleted, the history is not viewable anymore. But before it was deleted, I saw that the edit the bot linked to was made by another user, Abc123bb. The revert VoABot II made was correct, but it incorrectly thought that I made the edit and warned me instead of the correct user. Nothing can be done about it now, but I wanted to let you know about the mistake. Thanks. --Mysdaao ^talk 13:54, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Follow My Lead

VoABot said I am responsible for this edit. --- Realest4Life 14:05, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I had a typo, causing the variable 'user' to be overridden by 'ouser'. Voice-of-All 14:22, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think, this bot is malfunctioning.--NAHID 14:17, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

Hey VOA, just letting you know that you've been the subject of an ANI complaint for allegedly committing a "gross dereliction of duty". :) The complaint was a drama about nothing but just thought you should know you've been mentioned here. Cheers, Sarah 03:28, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hey bot I ain't no vandal

Archive script

I'm interested in writing a script that helps with archiving on my talk page. Would you mind having a look at the the thread I posted at the Computing reference desk? Sorry to bother you about another bot script ;) Kind regards, –sebi 08:26, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki concept

Interwiki concept (on MediaWiki) An idea I had, was hoping you'd take a peek. Thanks! ~Kylu (u|t) 08:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why revert/

Why did you revert my edits to Rashtrakuta dynasty which were done painstakingly. The article is full of distortions and is highly biased. The citations are from a book written by a well-known Hindu fanatic and Kannada chauvanist and from a Kannada website. These two sources are referred again and again. I made an attempt to provide a balanced view of the history. Reconsider your act.Deccanking 12:24, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Serres

I was just editing Serres, trying to give it a small update, and the bot went and reverted both of me edits. I checked the talk page, and it seems that page was recently unprotected. Could that be the reason why the bot reverted my edits? ^{El Greco (talk · contribs)} 21:00, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted, the edit counter must be borked sometimes. I'll rewrite that part.Voice-of-All 22:32, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. ^{El Greco (talk · contribs)} 00:03, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot revert

I recently added an example of a significant weather advisory on its page. Immediatly after this edit your bot,VoABot II, reverted my edit indentifing it as vandalism. I am not sure why this edit was reverted. Thank You Southern Illinois SKYWARN 02:05, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure the example is useful, the link added could stay, if placed under an "external link" subtitle. Voice-of-All 02:18, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Other articles in wikiproject severe weather have examples, see tornado warning Southern Illinois SKYWARN 02:45, 12 August 2007 (UTC) Thank You! Southern Illinois SKYWARN 14:34, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Revision as of 19:47, 10 August 2007 to Charles Logan (24 character)

A citation was removed, together with the updated information it supported, in an edit revert because the reference was a Youtube video of an interview in which it was stated that Charles Logan was alive. I think that this is silly. Use common sense. 85.92.173.186 12:06, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II multiple reverts to MOSH Mobile

Hi,

In the course of patrolling CAT:CSD I rescued the article MOSH Mobile, which does not qualify as a CSD:A7, although the article needs some work, but when I looked at the history I saw that VoABot II had repeately reverted Alantelman's attempt to add a source and reference (from the subject's web site, and from InformationWeek) to the article three times ([38] is the first revert). I looked over the user's edit and can't find anything wrong (or even unusual) with it. I didn't want to block the bot, but have protected the page until this is sorted out. Please feel free to unprotect it when you have figured out what's up. Thanks, --MCB 23:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll look into it. The bot gets hundreds of edits a day, and some may be off. At any rate, just revert in the future yourself, because the bot doesn't revert sysop edits (or edits by any older user really). Voice-of-All 02:49, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It didn't like the blog link, I've loosed the regexps for that now. Voice-of-All 02:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah - thanks. I was scratching my head wondering "what blog link", but Alantelman figured it out before I did and posted on the article's Talk page. I completely missed the "blog" in the InformationWeek URL. (It's not a personal blog, the publication just uses blog software for some updates.) I guess that might come up from time to time. Best, MCB 05:17, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RC patrol script

I just have two questions:

Does this script also enable auto-edits that the user can program? See Lightmouse's gen fixes and other automated corrections
Do I just copy-paste the content on User:Voice of All/RC/monobook.js onto my monobook?

Thanks. Lord Sesshomaru 17:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1) No, 2) Yep. Voice-of-All 05:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How is one capable of performing gen fixes and automatic edits without resorting to TWINKLE? I use Internet Exploror 6 (tried IE 7, was a mess) and TWINKLE would not work for me. Would POPUPS or AWB work in my monobook page? Lord Sesshomaru 16:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Things like WP:AWB can do automatic edits. Though it seems to just crash around on me :( Voice-of-All 18:24, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Gephart

Please stop your bot from fixing my edits on my user page, its not vandalism. Thanks. --Gephart 17:25, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't revert users' edits to their own pages, though apparently you were logged out when you made it. Voice-of-All 05:46, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Deletion of Category:GA-Class Dravidian civilizations articles=

Hi,

I have noticed that Category:GA-Class Dravidian civilizations articles has been deleted on March 6, 2007. Could you please let me know how it could be un-deleted so it could be used? Regards. Wiki Raja 04:49, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Restored. It was deleted from a huge list, one that had more than a few false positives. Voice-of-All 05:07, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Revision deletion

You've been working on the new system to make deletion of revisions easier and replace oversight. Do you know what the status of this is? When might this be implementable here? Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 18:04, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was reverted mistakenly

[39]

Sorry, it didn't like your edit summary. Voice-of-All 13:20, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You reverted my legitimate edit

I removed content per the BLP policy, and as you can see by going to the history of Terry Gerin there is a problem with BLP, but I was reverted anyway. Please be more careful next time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kungfoofighting1 (talk • contribs)

Seems to be disputed atm. Voice-of-All 02:24, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to me like this is a sockpuppet of User:Burntsauce. — Moe ε 22:54, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stop

Stop changing my edits on the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX media and release information. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Yubel x Judai (talk • contribs) 18:38:57, August 19, 2007 (UTC).

Please change my name in MediaWiki

Please change my name in MediaWiki from Edmundkh to EdmundEzekielMahmudIsa, then leave me a message in my talk page here. Thanks a lot! --Edmund the King of the Woods! 05:03, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism?

Whilst reverting vandalism edits made by user:217.75.139.25 (eg [40] which was reverted by Chris G after 217.75.139.25 repeated vandalism of that article), your bot picked up my revisions as vandalsim and reverted them back to the vandalized articles [41]. Could you please make note of this? I know no bot can be 100%, but being labeled a vandal whilst fighting vandals is off putting. I'm removing the "warning" from my page. Thanks. ~ NossB 10:36, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Curious history at 2007

After a vandal blanked the page, it seems both User:Hasek is the best and User:VoABot II tried to revert it at the same time, with Hasek succeeding first. Usually, this wouldn't be a problem, but for some reason, VoABot II removed a piece of Wiki-syntax, breaking a link to Athens [42]. Any idea what happened? --Stemonitis 16:35, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A similar problem at Mountain Meadows massacre: VoABot II reverted but missed out the "]]" at the end of a link: [43]. I can't see any more edits like these yet, but I'll keep looking. --Stemonitis 16:39, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, two more: [44] Statue of Liberty and [45] Michael Owen. I've turned VoABot II off, as a precaution. --Stemonitis 16:49, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Odd, all it does is load previous revisions and save them. Voice-of-All 19:35, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser on GuardianZ/Ebonyskye

Hello. I saw that you declined the checkuser for GuardianZ and I'm thinking I may not have explained myself properly. GuardianZ is barred from editing any articles related to Midnight Syndicate or Nox Arcana through a decision by the arbitration committee. While she is no longer active as GuardianZ, I believe she has created a new user name, Ebonyskye, to circumvent this arbitration decision. I thought that a checkuser was the appropriate place to determine if they are the same person. If a checkuser is not appropriate, is there somewhere else I should be reporting this? Thank you, Skinny McGee 20:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for checkuser/Case/Statsone

Hi Voice of All, I'm responding to this because ICarriere accuses me of being a sockpuppet of Statsone on the checkuser page. The subject of the page in question recently said a quote on national television that garnered some coverage on major blogs (with video) and eventually the subject was made fun of on The Daily Show because of the quote. ICarriere has been keeping the quote off the subject's wikipedia page (the page is now locked) and accuses everyone who has come to the page to add the quote / or defend the adding of it in the talk page as a sockpuppet (among many other things) even though it recently received all this publicity. Just some background in case you haven't checked out the subject's talk page. Aquavit 21:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My CHECK User Script isn't working

it opens a very small Javascript window. Can you please fix this? Thanks. Miranda 22:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, it's working now. Miranda 03:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Flagged revisions and templates

Can you comment on this thread (here or there, I don't really care). The basic question is how the flagged revision implementation applies to templates. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 02:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked Specialjane

I have queried the block you placed on User:Specialjane at WP:AN. In the time it's taken me to get here, I've had a response "You prolly need to ask User:Voice of All. There is a reason given, the log says the account was a sock of User:Dereks1x.". This Specialjane is an SPA per policy as far as I can tell. It's not been used in any abusive fashion - a few explanation edits on 15th and 16th August, and nothing thereafter until blocking 9 days later. Some parts of it's stated purpose of "helping others" probably cannot be carried out while it is blocked. PalestineRemembered 09:50, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If User:Specialjane is a sockpuppet of User:Dereks1x, why can't I find User:Specialjane on Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Dereks1x? --Raphael1 10:24, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are probably hundreds of blocked socks of Dereks1x that don't show up on RFCU. At least part of that is WP:DENY; we've no interest in providing these annoyances with trophies for their bad behavior. Another part of that is that it's simply a waste of time to make a new formal request every time another mole pops up; we just verify it, whack it, and move on, sometimes following a talk page request, sometimes following an email request, etc. --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 18:08, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Eep² on MediaWiki

Hi, for your information discussion relating to your comment to User:Eep² has continued here so far I have tried to keep it civil. --Zven 08:08, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First apologies if I posted this in the wrong place, I may have misread your statement on your MW:User:Voice_of_All home page literally as suggesting to post here. I think some resolution may have been made by User:HappyDog over this, although Eep² is still continuing to make comments. I have to agree with HappyDog about Eep²'s contributions , having said that he does'nt need to antagonise any further. He just needs to moderate his attitute towards others slightly --Zven 20:14, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Aaron, thanks for the quick reply to my question about using MediaWiki for online encyclopedias without user-created content. I have a couple of more questions for you, and I'd like to talk to you about something I think you may be interested in. If you have time, please get hold of me at [email protected].

Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.51.70.95 (talk) 05:26, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

You can just use the 'E-mail this user' on my user/talk page. Thanks. Voice-of-All 06:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hello,

I have seen the history of your userpage. It seems to be protected, and I can't find any vandal edits. So did you delete the histories and indefinitely protected it? Thanks.Gunrbotter2 00:33, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser denied - question

Hi. This was my first RfC, and in order to avoid taking up anyone's time again unnecessarily, can you please let me know: continually editing pages under a username and a separate IP is acceptable wiki policy, as long as the edits aren't vandalism? I'd appreciate it if you could let me know. Thanks. Info999 20:20, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

People can use alternate accounts, but not disruptively (gaming 3RR/vote stacking/vandalizing userpages ect...). Voice-of-All 20:28, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Deletion of Several Categories for Dravidian civilizations

Hi,

I have noticed that the following categories have been deleted on March 5th & 6th, 2007:

Category:Dravidian civilizations articles by importance
Category:Needed-Class Dravidian civilizations articles
Category:Disambig-Class Dravidian civilizations articles
Category:Category-Class Dravidian civilizations articles
Category:Dravidian civilizations articles with comments

Could you please let me know how it could be un-deleted so it could be used? Regards. Wiki Raja 03:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good work

Thanks for restoring my user page. --Thw1309 06:25, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism?

I added a section to the Julie Andrews page at 16:53, 5 September 2007, and made appropriate references. I forgot to add an edit summary and it was instantly deleted. However after adding an edit summary it was instantly deleted again and marked as vandalism. Limehouseblues

I reverted your bot. He has a bad attitude. Teach him some manners. Maybe introduce him to Robbie as a good influence. Jeffpw 18:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please Block

as you have noticed the user with the ip adress of 165.139.73.59 has been makeing large amounts of disruptive edits in the last few minets, i would sugest bloking him or her thank you 18:19, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure how this works, sorry!

Hi, 68.62.0.97 deleted the "external links" and "references" sections from the Gardasil page. Also, there were mass deletions on the Dean Heller and John Porter pages. (Not necessarily by the same people) --Justine4all 22:17, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moving cases down to completed/rejected with script

The CU script appears to be malfunctioning. When you are editing a case page, and click to move a case down to completed/rejected, it opens the window, but does not actually move the case down or fill in the summary. GrooveDog (talk) (Review) 23:49, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I look at it. Voice-of-All 02:20, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Edits to KCBS-TV:

You have twice reverted revisions I have made to this article to previous versions because you have detected that I, user 76.103.43.63, have removed large amounts of material. This is not vandalism, nor spam, not experimentation. What I have done is deleted my own additions to the article. I came to the conclusion that what I added was without proper citations and might face sourcing challenges. I also believe my edits were overly long. I believe that the material I added is scrupulously factual, but I have decided to remove it for the time being and either add it again later with complete references or let others expand the article. I hope that this message makes my intentions clear. Thank you, 76.103.43.63 21:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)73.103.43.6376.103.43.63 21:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:I love your name

Thanks.:D .I do mostly anti-vandalism work at wikipedia and vandalism makes angels sad. Also "Angel Of Sadness" is the name of an A Camp song which is sung by my idol. :D AngelOfSadness talk 22:12, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]