User talk:Tawker/archive3

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I will be sure not to use it when communicating with you in the futute.

If anyone else finds it offensive I will surely show them the same courtesy upon request...but as a general rule, I dont think that it is anymore offensive than any other word, and am not really sure why some people veiw it that way. But civility is after all what sepperates us from the animals, and I have to affinity toward upsetting others pickelbarrel 02:23, 15 February 2006 (UTC) Thanks tawker I just wanted to show something to my sister apreciate the correction

Yeah...I can see why you may have been a bit stressed

cheer up my freind...this too shall pass pickelbarrel 02:35, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar!

Thank you very much for the barnstar; it's much appreciated. —Wayward ^Talk 10:45, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry about earlier I was just annoyed at somebody putting my page up for deletion OfficeDebo. InsanityCrisis 15:00, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage! See ya tonight on CVU on IRC!--Adam ^(talk) 15:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

please block this ip. this is a school ip. a student is vandalizing this site. block us NOW!--68.125.168.193 02:15, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Wiki68

I hope you're planning on leaving a message with Wiki68 explaining why you summarily rolled back his/her edits at Australian Broadcasting Commission. He or she has put a lot of effort into rewriting the page, and is obviously a good faith editor. I don't like to see him/her treated like a vandal. Snottygobble 05:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that was a mistake on my part and have corrected it. Thanks for pointing it out Tawker 07:37, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

~~Your reversion reversion didn't stick then, because your original reversion is still the latest edit in the history. Snottygobble 05:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)~~ Thanks. Snottygobble 05:09, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

gRATITUDE

Sir, I appreciate that yoy reverted 'vandalism' upon my "user-page."--Anglius 22:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

RV Spree

Do not edit my user and talk pages. Address me on relevant article pages. Thank you in advance. 68.110.9.62 00:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

This user was removing vandalism warnings on their user page, that was all that was reverted. I have no idea what this user is talking about. Tawker 00:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you very much for your support during my recent Admin election, I appreciate the trust that you have put in me. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding my work as an admin.

Kind Regards, Elf-friend 06:44, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Alvaro Espinoza image

Hi Tawker. This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images or Wikipedia:Fair use#Audio_clips. However, the person who added this MLB promo photo in the article Alvaro Espinoza to illustrate the work in question on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. The use of this image on Wikipedia is contended to be a fair use, since it is used solely for educational purposes in a not-for-profit encyclopedia, is necessary for cultural and historical purposes, and the material value of the possible copyright is not believed to be lessened by its use here. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use and Wikipedia:Copyrights. Thanks – MusiCitizen 14:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Leave me alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

I think I got it

...Sorta. I just thought no one had noticed the vandal yet. But I'm getting the hang of it... Give me time, I'm young. Saw your stress level dealie... It's good to know you're still helping nOObs like me even when it's tough. Thanks, --69.145.122.209 02:19, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Wow, that was fast. Wiki is an amazing thing, and I hope to be able to help out in the future. (When I have half a clue of what I'm doing)

Yep, that's what I'm talking about. *Writes it down*

But I've already interrupted you enough tonight. Again, thanks for everything! I really appreciate it. --69.145.122.209 02:28, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Ansel Adams bookcover

Thanks! I guess that's right... even though the COVER is public domain, the PHOTO is not, I guess, if that's how it works. So I think that's right, thanks again. PS I fell for your message box... cute. =) Herostratus 02:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

I thought the ghost comment would be funny, i wont vandalize again but i hope you got a laugh.

cheers --130.108.185.198 02:49, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

For reverting vandalism to my userpage. VegaDark 09:35, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Bot

See my comment at the page you cite. A discussion between a few editors, in which a number of people were ignored who pointed out that warning should be given (or an informative edit summary at the very least), and more general discussion instigated, doesn't justify this kind of massive change by a bot. Any editor is perfectly justified in reverting your changes, which are in line with neither Wikipedia policy nor Wikipedia guidelines, but are simply the result of a decision made almost casually by a few editors. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:47, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, how many editors have Bot requests on their Watchlists? I agree that there's no one place that notice should have been given (and requests for discussion made), but my point is that as this affects a very large number of articles (and editors), the attempt should have been made, using a number of pages (the Village Pump, for example; perhaps the images in question could have been put up for deletion (that would probably have reached the largest number of interested editors). The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the discussion at the Wikiproject Talk page didn't even attempt to find consensus among those participating; those who registered objections, or called for wider consultation, were simply ignored.

That isn't your responsibility, of course, and I hope that I don't appear to be attacking you. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:25, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I've little (no) experience with bots, so went to the place with which I was most familiar. I'll know in future. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:39, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I used individual rollback on the ones that I reverted (by no means all), because I didn't want to risk reverting anything else that the bot had been used for. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:59, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Regards to the "Leave me alone" comment

I haven't done anything to any content of yours, I don't understand your "leave me alone" message. Tawker 03:10, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

In theory, you did, albeit very justifiably. You reverted this anon's vandalism of user:batzarro's userpage. Batzarro, who is permanently blocked, along with all of his anons, this being the newest anon. -- user:zanimum

about image to text replacement

It seems like many of the conversions have been missed. For the full list of that, take a look at Image:5 out of 5.png#File links. Thanks. -- WB 20:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you!

Hi Tawker/archive3. On behalf of my right eye, I'd like to thank you for giving me your support on my recent RfA. It ended with a final tally of (73/2/2) and therefore I have been installed as an administrator now, and I'm ready to serve Wikipedians all over the world with my newly acquired mop and bucket. If you have any questions, do not hestitate to forward them to my talkpage. Once again, thanks for your support.

Soothing R 21:10, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: "Don't forget to use subst: on warning templates"

Forgive me if I sound like a bonehead (which I am, normally), but what does subst: do? --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK!. 08:01, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Thanks for informing me. Say sorry to your bot for me for making him work so hard. ;) --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK!. 08:10, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, thanks for reverting my userpage. I actually thought that was funny though, I may keep it on their just to show I got vandalized. Ha, ha. Also, I love the "you have new messages" thing up top, that totally got me. The Ungovernable Force 07:28, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion

thanks for clearing it up

Forgot to sign the above

. 24.9.10.235 23:39, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

69.14.46.163 is NOT an experiment!

It's MY IP address! I'm just too plain lazy to log in, and my computer has a history of freezing up when I try to log in in any case. Please don't assume anything written by an anonymous user is automatically experimental. C'mon. Please. Lockesdonkey 04:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:NG

Hello, Tawker. As the original author of the essay, I feel that the original title reflects what I wanted to say more appropriately, that is why I have reverted User:Georgia Guy's move of the page. Why are you moving it back? -- Avi 04:56, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, sorrry about that, I was thinking localizing it to Google might bring some issues from other search engines regarding their service in comparision to Google. I'm leaving it alone now. Sorry about that. Tawker 04:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. That was Georgia Guy's point as well; and if this becomes official policy (as if it ever would ;) ) I could understand that. However, as an opinion piece similar to WP:VSCA, I believe that is OK. Do you really think Alta Vista or Yahoo! would complain about this? :) -- Avi 05:02, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Regex

to prevent substing when somebody is explaining how to use a template:

replace: <nowiki>(.*?){{(.*?)}}(.*?)</nowiki>

with: \1{{\2}}\3

to cleanup a case where some bot has attempted to subst an unspecified template parameter:

replace: {{subst\:{(.*?)}}}

with: nothing

to prevent substing within an html comment and undo previous errant attempts to subst it:

replace: <!\-\-(.*?){{([Ss]ubst:|[Tt]emplate:|[Mm]sg:)*?(.*?)}}(.*?)\-\->

with: 

to remove some cruft from templates that use a default parameter:

replace: {{{(.*?)\|(.*?)}}}

with: \2

Do all of these replacements before attempting to subst actual templates. — Feb. 21, '06 [22:27] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Message

Hi,

What is this message all about on Feb 16 2006?

Supercool Dude 22:57, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Use for Tawkerbot

Have you considered using Tawkerbot to systematically go through userbox templates and subst: them wherever they occur? That would be grand. --Cyde Weys 06:17, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Alright I've made the bot request. It could take awhile :-) Cyde Weys 06:31, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Afd

I saw that I did. It wasn't on there a few minutes ago when I reverted it, I don't think. That's why I was confused. I'll put it back, if you haven't. --FloNight 08:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay, sorry again. --FloNight 08:06, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help in reverting the vandalism to Raymond Samuels

I've been blocked previously for the 3RR and I wasn't sure of that applied to reverting vandalism...but I didn't want to take the chance. Maybe you know the whether it does or noe. Thanks.

Talk pages

I am confused. A discussion I was involved in was deleted from talk:David Irving by saying wikipedia is not a discussion board and other similar discussions were removed because they were 'irrelevant' etc. So I figured talk pages were strictly for on-topic discussion (only discussion that helps improve the article). Is there info somewhere on exactly where the line goes? Thank you in advance. --PredatorOC

Subst of unsigned

Hello, why is your bot subst'ing {{unsigned}} when Wikipedia:Template substitution says that whether or not {{unsigned}} should be subst'd is "under discussion"? Talrias (t | e | c) 12:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot blocked

I've blocked Tawkerbot. See User talk:Tawkerbot — Omegatron 15:57, 22 February 2006 (UTC)