AHRtbA==

rollback

Hello AHRtbA==.
I have noticed that you revert a lot of vandalism. Have you heard of rollback before? It allows a user to revert vandalism much faster than by undo-ing it. I think you should ask for it. I am not an admin, or I would give it to you myself. I wrote this just to let you know about the existence of rollback because before someone randomly gave it to me, I did not know it existed. If you ask for it, you should have no problem getting it, as you clearly have an excellent grasp of what constitutes vandalism. Good luck, and may the vandals fail... J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:38, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. PeterSymonds (talk) 16:01, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Following on from the above, the reason you had problems with the RFR template is because of your username. The equals signs in it do cause problems in some templates, and this may cause you problems in future. There are ways round it, but you may wish to consider changing your username. You can do this (without losing the history of the edits you've made) by putting a request at Wikipedia:Changing username. Thanks for all the good work you've done reverting vandalism, and good luck with rollback! —  Tivedshambo  _(t/c) 16:09, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Equals signs in parameters

I'll try not to be too technical, but when you have a template which takes a parameter, such as {{RFR|username|reason}}, the parameters (in this case username and reason) are passed to the template to deal with. For technical reasons, there are problems when any parameter has an equals sign in it. You can get around it by prefixing the parameter with 1= for the first parameter, 2= for the second one, etc. In the above example, you would put {{RFR|1=AHRtbA==|reason}}. If you want a more technical explanation of the problem, see meta:Help:Template#Parameters. Hope this helps! —  Tivedshambo  _(t/c) 16:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

thanks!

Hi - thank you for reverting vandalism on my talkpage. Vishnava _talk 18:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks from me too

Thank you for reverting vandalism on my talk page. Any idea what caused it?Killkola (talk) 19:53, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Well i appreciate it. This has been a first for me.Killkola (talk) 20:09, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning up my vandalized user page

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my page. Imperial Star Destroyer (talk) 15:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

A lot of talent wasted on that cleverness. I do admit to being "a gung ho son of a ******" at times, but it's all for God, country, and Wikipedia. Nice picture of me he picked! --CliffC (talk) 20:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

A big thanks from me as well. --Pwnage8 (talk) 22:14, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the message on my talk page -- I do appreciate it. I decided to roll it back, since I'm rather touched by the sentiment, but your work was welcome and I thank you. Accounting4Taste:talk 22:48, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Removed speedy deletion tag: Dreaming about a german boy

Hi AHRtbA==! I just wanted to inform you that I removed the speedy deletion tag you placed on Dreaming about a german boy- because: the page is not nonsense, as some sense can be made of it (it's possible to understand what it's saying), it is vandalism though If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me. Kingpin¹³ (talk) 14:30, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem, but don't forget that if something is vandalism it can't be nonsense, as nonsense doesn't include vandalism. Nonsense is more for pages which consist of something like "bghghgfhfdvbhghgdf" rather then "grass is blue". Keep up your patrolling :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 14:42, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

CSD A7 is probably okay for that one, as he doesn't make a real claim to notability, if it said that the film/poem/tennis playing was professional or famous, then WP:PROD or WP:AfD would be better, as there are very few sources to be found on the Internet. You can read up about all the different criteria at WP:CSD. I strongly suggest reading the whole page, I have a couple of times and I've always felt much more confident in my tagging afterward :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 14:53, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Heh, I ended up on G2 for that one. It carries less of an assumption of bad faith. The article also has very little context, so it could also be an A1, I suppose. decltype (talk) 19:05, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Anthony Smee

Removed speedy from this one. The numerous television credits is a credible claim of significance. May be an AfD candidate though. decltype (talk) 21:46, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Gerry Hyland CSD

Why notify me of the CSD rather than the initial contributor?

There was some doubt in my mind as to whether or not to CSD that article myself. I moved it to the caps version and was going to put a stub template. However, I do agree that county executives may not be notable. I'll CSD the moved article. --Tckma (talk) 16:09, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I use Twinkle too, especially for CSD's. I'll have to watch for this bug. --Tckma (talk) 16:12, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

re: email

Hi. In reply to your email about your bot idea. It's a good idea, but it's also fairly common, so there are ways to do it already; firstly, you could just watchlist the page (if you manage to keep your watchlist tidy). Secondly, users can user {{tb}} to let you know they've replied. Or thirdly (and this is the best way), you can download WikiBiff, which is similar to your bot idea. Cheers - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 16:56, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I used C# for my bot. Along with DotNetWikiBot, which is a library for creating MediaWiki bots. The best way to learn how to create a bot is by reading through WP:MAKEBOT. BTW, if you have an idea for a CSD related task, you could let me know since my bot is already very well equipped for such things. And I could likely either add it on, or give you a hand. Cheers - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 17:25, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, creating a bot to tag pages for CSD has occurred to me before. But the only CSDs it would be able to cover well would probably be CSD A1 and A3. There's a couple of other criteria which it might be able to do, which are already covered (such as G8 and G12). Besides, our new page patrollers seem to be able to keep things under control at the moment. BTW, it you're interested, here's the source code for my bot, in C#, if you're interested in any particular part just ask, some of the DotNetWikiBot stuff is covered at dotnetwikibot.sourceforge.net - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 17:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Nothing springs to mind. I remember there was a bot which used to warn users about ¬ their pages getting speedied if they weren't warned by the tagger. But this bot got shut down because it didn't wait long enough before warning. However, if you could create one which did wait, it may be re-approved. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 18:03, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

The delay would need to be much bigger than that. Possibly 30 minutes to one hour. The problem is when user writes out a bit of a more welcoming, more personalised comment (this can take a long time), and then have an edit conflict with the bot - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 18:15, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes I'm sure :). 30 minutes sounds about right (on second thoughts 1 hour is too long), it doesn't matter if the user is warned after the page is deleted, so long as they get a proper explanation. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 18:24, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I had a look around for that too. But I decided that it must just do it itself. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 18:39, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

As often as you think is need. 1 to 2 minutes might do it *shrug* not really sure - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 18:54, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Now I suddenly understand what this thread was about! I guess I have to check my e-mail more often. Kingpin13's advise seems sound, and he has more experience than me with bots and MediaWiki. It's a neat idea, I think. decltype (talk) 16:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

re: XeBot

Your statement on my talkpgae is out of context, so it's hard to understand what you're saying ;). But I've already spoken to the bot-op, and even if the bot gets approval on another wiki, that doesn't mean it's approved here. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:04, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh yes, it's called interwiki. Users can add tags, and these link to the page which is about the same subject on a different language wiki (this is the English Wikipedia, but there are a lot of other ones). It's quite a common bot job. I see you left a comment on the BRfA asking what it was, so hopefully that explains. If you wanna know more about interwiki tags see WP:INTERWIKI. Oh, and the message on the talk page was discussed here :). Cheers - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:15, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Anytime :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:24, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

RE: Can your bot do this task?

No, my bot is not approved for WikiProject tagging. FunPika 18:44, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

user:CSDify/csd

Was just taking a look at this, and had a couple of thoughts; Firstly, you shouldn't say "your" article in the message, as this implies ownership where there is none. Secondly, you may want to consider not using the standard warning image, and instead going for something more neutral, such as a yellow/blue warning image, as the bot may be more prone to mistakes then other editors, and there might have been a reason for not warning. And thirdly, don't forget to subst the warning template when you transclude it.
Also, you've been doing test edits with this account, but it would have been better to have waited until a bot approvals group member approved it for trial, although editing in userspace is allowed. And may I ask why you've decided to not provide a link if it is a redlink? (At least I believe that's what you've done). Also, since the BRfA has received no input from BAG, you may want to place {{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} on the BRfA page. Cheers - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 22:09, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, well subst basically grabs a copy of the template page, and then shows the code, whereas if you don't use subst, it will update the "copy" every time the page is reloaded, and it will be subject to changes made to the template page. So the "code" shown in the edit box will look like this when not substed:

{{uw-create2|Somepage}}

And will look like this when it is substed:

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages, such as [[Somepage]] to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with... etc. 

In the first example, any changes made to Template:uw-create2 will effect the text on this page. Whereas the second one is a pure text copy and paste, so the text won't be effected. If that still doesn't make sense, just ask :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 07:26, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

It's occurred to me, but I, personally, rather having it on my own computer, for various reasons, and having it not continuous doesn't bother me too much. If you wanna add your bot to the tool server, please do so. Also, unrelated, please specify what the name will be changed to at the BRfA. Cheers, and thanks for your support :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 15:38, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks for letting me know :). - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 15:49, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

re: Category:Tennessee Volunteers football seasons

Well, what's the exact problem with them? They seem mostly okay to me. You could propose a merge to one article, or you could start an WP:AfD with multiple articles. But the best thing to do if you're not too sure of if they should be deleted or not, is to start a thread at WT:AfD before nominating them, or discuss with a user who has significantly contributed to the pages (I can't say I know much about the subject, so I'm not the best person to ask in this case :)). - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 16:14, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

re: Bot idea

These pages should only be deleted if they are non-free images, which have been unused for at least 7 days. See WP:CSD#I5. There is already approval for bots to do this task, see this BRfA, although this bot is inactive, and Betacommandbot has been blocked. I'm not sure if there are any active bots doing this task. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 18:51, 20 July 2009 (UTc)

WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in this log. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 22:57, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

YATBot

Is there a way to sign up WP:CHICAGO to have a bot check WP:CHIBOTCATS for new articles on a regular basis? I read about your new bot in WP:POST.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 03:37, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Our project needs a regular bot that will periodically (maybe weekly or semimonthly) check the articles listed in each of the categories at WP:CHIBOTCATS and see if they have a {{ChicagoWikiProject}} tag on them. Previously ShepBot and SatyrBot have done this, but both operators have retired. Now, Xeno (talk · contribs) does it periodically.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:29, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Disambig pages

Was this request ever completed? Because I see lots of disambiguation pages without the Disambiguation project's banner. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 21:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Rodney Howard Browne.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Rodney Howard Browne.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude2 (talk) 03:49, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:AHRtbA==/Commplaint

User:AHRtbA==/Commplaint, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AHRtbA==/Commplaint and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:AHRtbA==/Commplaint during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:24, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Your inactive bot(s)

Hello AHRtbA==, Please see Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Bots_that_never_ran_to_deactivate regarding a discussion open pertaining to a bot account of yours. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 18:02, 3 December 2016 (UTC)