User talk:Pgk/archive2

Archive1 - Feb 8 2006 19:46 UTC

Costa Rica presidential elections, 2006

Yeah if that happens again, feel free to reprotect it. I usually don't like protecting articles linked from the main page, but when it's an organized attack like that, I have no problems with it. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 22:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your comments on my request for adminship. It ultimately succeeded with votes of 52/1/2, but I wish to take any constructive comments into account and to ultimately improve my contributions to Wikipedia. Should you have any questions, comments, complaints, or requests at any point in the future, please do not hesitate to let me know on my talk page or via e-mail.

—bbatsell ¿? 05:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for probing deeper into the matter. Would you also kindly help me protect my Talk Page from bullyish reverts?

No To Frauds 21:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

User:166.66.16.116

Hey, I noticed you blocked this user. I just wanted you to see his actual edit history & consider an indefinite ban on his IP range at least down to 166.66.16.xxx

I'm not watching this page, so delete this comment at will, & reply on my page... ;~D Grye 10:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

For removing Willy on Wheels from my user page. Cheers, Her Pegship 20:19, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

helpmebot

Hi pgk, I keep missing you on IRC so I'll leave a note here.

1. Have you gotten around to publishing the {{helpme}} occurrences, I think you said something about putting the log on the toolserver?
2. A feature request for helpmebot - would it be possible for !helpme to do a live check, instead of simply repeating the result of the last check. It doesn't matter much, I just thought it would be handy.--Commander Keane 10:52, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot for windows errors

left pgkbkt running and reporting and it borke, heres the erros logs:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\me>cd\

C:\>cd pgkbot

C:\pgkbot>c:\python24\python.exe CVUBot.py en
2006/02/08 23:36 GMT Standard Time [-] Log opened.
2006/02/08 23:36 GMT Standard Time [-] Starting factory <IRCRCReader.ReaderFacto
ry instance at 0x00E602D8>
2006/02/08 23:36 GMT Standard Time [-] Starting factory <IRCConsole.ConsoleFacto
ry instance at 0x00E605A8>
2006/02/08 23:49 GMT Standard Time [IRCConsole,client] Traceback (most recent ca
ll last):
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347
, in doRead
            return self.protocol.dataReceived(data)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1472, in dataReceived
            basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', ''))
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line
232, in dataReceived
            why = self.lineReceived(line)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1480, in lineReceived
            self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params)
        --- <exception caught here> ---
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1492, in handleCommand
            method(prefix, params)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG
            self.privmsg(user, channel, message)
          File "C:\pgkbot\IRCConsole.py", line 152, in privmsg
            for processor in self.channeltoprocessor[channel]:
        exceptions.RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration

2006/02/09 05:01 GMT Standard Time [IRCConsole,client] Traceback (most recent ca
ll last):
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347
, in doRead
            return self.protocol.dataReceived(data)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1472, in dataReceived
            basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', ''))
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line
232, in dataReceived
            why = self.lineReceived(line)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1480, in lineReceived
            self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params)
        --- <exception caught here> ---
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1492, in handleCommand
            method(prefix, params)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG
            self.privmsg(user, channel, message)
          File "C:\pgkbot\IRCConsole.py", line 152, in privmsg
            for processor in self.channeltoprocessor[channel]:
        exceptions.RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration

2006/02/09 17:16 GMT Standard Time [RCReader,client] Traceback (most recent call
 last):
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347
, in doRead
            return self.protocol.dataReceived(data)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1472, in dataReceived
            basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', ''))
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line
232, in dataReceived
            why = self.lineReceived(line)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1480, in lineReceived
            self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params)
        --- <exception caught here> ---
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1492, in handleCommand
            method(prefix, params)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG
            self.privmsg(user, channel, message)
          File "C:\pgkbot\IRCRCReader.py", line 83, in privmsg
            self.factory.RCProcessors[lang].doRCEvent(rcEvent)
          File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 1087, in doRCEvent
            self.processBlockEditor(rcevent)
          File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 864, in processBlockEditor
            expiresecs = eval(gotetime.group(2)) * self.convSecs[gotetime.group(
3).lower()]
        exceptions.KeyError: 'january 2017'

2006/02/09 17:42 GMT Standard Time [RCReader,client] Traceback (most recent call
 last):
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347
, in doRead
            return self.protocol.dataReceived(data)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1472, in dataReceived
            basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', ''))
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line
232, in dataReceived
            why = self.lineReceived(line)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1480, in lineReceived
            self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params)
        --- <exception caught here> ---
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1492, in handleCommand
            method(prefix, params)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG
            self.privmsg(user, channel, message)
          File "C:\pgkbot\IRCRCReader.py", line 83, in privmsg
            self.factory.RCProcessors[lang].doRCEvent(rcEvent)
          File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 1087, in doRCEvent
            self.processBlockEditor(rcevent)
          File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 864, in processBlockEditor
            expiresecs = eval(gotetime.group(2)) * self.convSecs[gotetime.group(
3).lower()]
        exceptions.KeyError: 'fortnight'

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Benon (talk • contribs) .

ah good, just thought i might be something you needed to know about :)Benon 23:03, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Latest Definitions?

Titoxd] asked me to ask you for the latest definitions of pgkbot for windows... I assume you know what I am talking about *crosses fingers* I have my own bot set-up now so that's why I asked. --Pilotguy ^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 19:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Also if you have a copy of pgkbot and a copy of the list files, so I can possibly sync it with the other CVU bots. I realise you're releasing another one soon but it'll be most helpful to me. --Pilotguy ^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 21:44, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello Pgk, thank you for you support in my RfA. I was promoted with a final count of 48/1/0! If you see me making any mistakes, let me know ASAP. -- WB 02:15, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFA/Quarl

Hi pkg, thanks for participating in my AFD, which succeeded. While you voted oppose, I hope I will not disappoint you. If I can ever improve or help in any way, please let me know! :) —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-02-16 12:27Z

Reverts to my talk and userpage

Thanks for reverting the nonsense on my talk and user page. The vandal appears to be slightly confused; calling me a fascist because I "follow the philosophy of "Resistance is Futile"". Apparently history is now taught in school using the Star Trek films. Anyway, cheers.Leithp 18:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks!

Thank you! Hello Pgk/archive2, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 98/2/0. If there is anything I can do to help you, please leave me a message on my talk page! -- xaosflux Talk

rfa

"On various occassions I have seen him take actions which show lack of familiarity with process and policy."

Indeed. Even though I've read upon many policy pages, and gone through pages petaining to important aspects of wikipedia, I still haven't gotten to all of them. I must admit, I do sometimes construct an action if I am ignorant; such is my nature. However, I can assure you it will never be disruptive. Perhaps I could suggest an addmenneum...? If I am ever in the gray area again, I'll make sure to make an inquiry before the desision, hopefully avoiding a negative situation. Do you think it's a good idea..? I'd like to hear your humble opinion. Please respond on my talkpage. -Zero^Talk 18:47, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I've replied on my talkpage. -Zero^Talk 19:19, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Help with writing a bot

Hi, I'm rather skilled programmer with 0 expirience in coding bots. I asked for some basic start-up help on #wikipedia-en, and Cool_Cat pointed at you. So, here's what my question is: where can I found some quick and dirty howtos for writing bots? Or, if there isn't any, can you help me by answering few fairly simple questions? I'm quite sure that I won't take you too much time. Just to tell me few very basic things, I'll manage from that point on by my self. --Dijxtra 17:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

A bot for updating Wikipedia. To be more precies, a bot which would help me maintain WP:AID. So, I need to get the page, do some parsing and then upload it back. I think I saw some wiki interfaces for PERL and python.... I did dome work in PERL, so PERL's fine. I never coded in python, but I worked a lot with C++, C# and PHP, so I think that learning python wouldn't be a problem (if I got it right, python isnt that much different, but even if it is - I love learning new languages). It would be beauuuuuuutiful if that could be done in PHP, so I could make a web interface for the bot or with Java applet (which too could be accessed via web)... --Dijxtra 11:32, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, it all finally started to make some sence (I spent some time reading other bots' code). If I got ith right, all I need to access the wiki, get the page and post the page back is in wikipedia.py? OK, OK, now I started to realize that everything can be picked up from the code provided in the framework... --Dijxtra 10:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, I have a problem which I hope you can help me with. I wrote a beauuuutiful bot which does wonders to my local offline copy to WP:AID. I retrieved this offline copy with the code I use in this script. So, yesterday the wikipedia.Page.get() method worked just nice, but today it throws exceptions:

C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia>python AIDbot.py
Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the curr
ent process.
Getting page [[Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive]]
[Errno socket error] (10061, 'Connection refused')
WARNING: Could not load 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AA
rticle%20Improvement%20Drive&action=edit'. Maybe the server or your connection i
s down. Retrying in 1 minutes...

Then I do ctrl+c, and here's what I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "AIDbot.py", line 122, in ?
    main()
  File "AIDbot.py", line 92, in main
    page=p.get()
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 3
74, in get
    self._contents, self._isWatched, self.editRestriction = self.getEditPage(get
_redirect = get_redirect, throttle = throttle, sysop = sysop)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 4
16, in getEditPage
    text = self.site().getUrl(path, sysop = sysop)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 2
177, in getUrl
    time.sleep(retry_idle_time * 60)
KeyboardInterrupt

C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia>

So, ti obviously chokes at wikipedia.Page.get() method. Have you had any similar problems?

My RfA

Thank you!

Thank you!

Hi Pgk/archive2. 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. SoothingR 20:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Block 212.135.1.184

I noticed you were involved in previous blocks on User 212.135.1.184, which is assigned to a publc school in the UK. The user is at it again, today invoking large vandalism on 2006 Winter Olympics highlights. It might be worth another warning or block. Crunch 12:57, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for voting! Although this is a bit late in coming, I want to thank you for voting (no matter what your vote was) in my recent request for adminship. You might be aware that it did not pass due to a lack of consensus. The final tally was 21/9/10. I think I will try again this spring or summer after I have gained a bit more experience and met a few more fellow editors. Thanks again!

--MatthewUND^(talk) 05:37, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - from HSchickel

Thank you

blah blah blah

you should be less concerned with cussing and more concerned with crazy people rewriting facts with doubletalk.

now maybe i could behave a little more politely. then again, nobody was ever polite to me when they erased my articles or reverted my changes to the dozens of articles i have worked on in the past... for purely POV reasons. erasing my plain statements of fact and saying facts are 'too pov'. erasing my reference links. things like that.

and i never saw a wikipedia 'administrator' come to my rescue either. and ive done it from many different IPs so dont go looking for history. but it happened and thats why i dont trust this thing.

Help

DR doesn't work with him, he's already had 2 RFC's. Ardenn 19:37, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot suggestion/request

I've been in #wikipedia-en-vandalism for the past few days, and I've noticed one thing that I find faintly irritating and/or improveable.

Specifically, I find it a little hard to, with the colors you're using, locate and click on the diff links - could you consider either uncoloring for them, or setting them to a somewhat more contrasting color? (In case you don't know, in mIRCScript, if you want to just end a color and allow it to revert to the default color for everyone looking at it, you just use control+k without a number after it.) Michael Ralston 06:09, 27 February 2006 (UTC) koj

Thanks!

Many thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. One of our long time vandals is having a bad day, it would seem, and has graduated from "subtle" to "outright". Kuru ^talk 00:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

My request for adminship ended with a tally of 39/5/4, and I am now an admin.

I must say that yours was the most well-reasoned of my oppose votes, and it made me stop and think about why I want to be an admin. I really do plan to, for the most part, just get on with editing. However, I still see adminship occasionally being useful in my editing, and it is those occasions that made me apply.

To contradict my last statement somewhat, though, I've just come across the huge backlog at WP:PROD. It looks like I do have some chores I'll be doing soon. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 06:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your constructive critisizm during my RfA! It has decided to postpone making me an administrator based upon recent consensus (or lack thereof). Thanks for the kind remarks and I hope to continue to see you around the project. Cheers, ZsinjTalk 08:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA succeeded with a final consensus of 52/17/7, and receiving comments including having 'excellent potential to become a great moderator', and I am now an administrator. It did however only just pass, and I shall do my very best to rectify any of my errors, including the general belief that I should do more article work. If you have any concerns, or if you ever feel that I may be able to help you, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you!

Ian13/talk 19:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks

for your unbelievably speedy help on my "help me" request! elizmr 18:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Bailing out

I am bailing out from the vandal fighting project. I will no longer develop or host my bot. Thought you'd want to know. It really isn't worth the effort. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 10:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

For all your work.

This morning's events have reminded me that this is long overdue. Thank you for all the hard work you do. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 11:46, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank You.

Thanks for the help on the Wilcox County page. Your advice worked! CharlesM 13:45, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

chrs m8

Only joking. Thanks for the info. --Dan|^(talk) 17:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

You are named in an ARBCOM Proceeding regarding Jeffrey Vernon Merkey Article

See WP:ARBCOM for the details. Waya sahoni 04:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Can helpmebot service the Norwegians?

I have translated the {{Helpme}} template for the Norwegian WP – no.wikipedia.org – as {{hjelp}}. Do you think it would be possible to have helpmebot notify the channel #Wikipedia-no (chanmode "+n") when this feature is evoked and the user appears in the category no:Kategori:Wikipedianere som trenger hjelp ? --meco 11:00, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Saving my user talk page

Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 17:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar You most certainly deserve this Computerjoe's talk 21:52, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Hash nonsense.

No real need to follow up on Jeff's nonsense. It fails at the first post. The hashes are salted. Because of the salt, every password hash is unique, even if they are the same password, and the chance of any two of them being the same, here or anywhere is close to zero. Probably at least in the order 1 in 2^128. Or birthday paradox might reduce that to 1 in 2^64, but it is a big bloody number (or should that be a small bloody number?), depending on the implementation.

In any case, no-one could use the wikipedia hash to 'pass the hash' on wikigadugi or anywhere else.

Reverting cruft off my user page

Hey, thanks for getting that junk off. I have absolutely no idea why Peelo did that, but it's nice that someone's around to help the rest of us out. --Sporkot 07:58, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

from 0Waldo

Why did you just revert my link? Please put it back. 0waldo 15:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC) The link has been there FOREVER until my friend JeffQ had it axed because he was pizzzed at me! It needs to be there because it is a good link! 0waldo 15:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for cleaning up after that vandal on my user page! --MJ^(☎|@|C) 17:10, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot

Is it intentional the amount of regexes in the new user reporting? Sceptre ^(Talk) 19:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Pusselbiten för goda gärningar

I Grön ^sv present you with this "barnstar" of the swedish wikipedia for all your help with the swedish CVU tools. The name means "the puzzlepice for good deads" and is given to people who have done that lite extra to be generus and helpfull. /Grön ^sv 09:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Your taking a little time to respond nicely is appreciated. You are the first to not impugn or take punitive action. Thank you. PunchingBag 13:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Croatian historian

Your block of this user is dubious at best. It seems to rest on the fact that he removed messages from his Talk page; this is not a blockable offence. The claim that he has engaged in personal abuse isn't backed up by the examples at which I've looked, though he's been involved in slanging matches in which both sides have been hot headed. I've unblocked him; please don't block again unless there are genuine grounds. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree that his watchlist is confrontational, and I've commented it out and asked him if he'd delete it as a sign of good faith; it's also not a blockable offence, though, as has been established in many such cases (I'm doubtless on a fair fe wsuch lists myself, together with most active admins). The first bit of advice at WP:TALK struck me as good, but the reference to WP:VAND is peculiar; I don't know when it was included, but I've raised it at the Talk page. Vandalism of the encyclopædia is obviously a serious issue, and article Talk pages need to be protected too, but I think that extending the notion to user talk pages is going too far (making the process as important as the product).

Note that some, at least, of the warnings on his page were placed there without any good reason by people who opposed him in disputes at articles, and he was perfectly within his rights to delete them. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I agree that genuine warnings shouldn't be removed (this is, of course, more often a problem with anons, and there I have no hesitation in replacing the warnings, and even blocking and protecting if they're removed, because no-one "owns" and anon IP Talk page); I think, though, that when a named editor does it, it's important to check the validity of the removed warnings before taking action (in the past I've deleted mischievous and fake warnings from my own User page).

Anyway, I hope that things have sorted themselves out now; it's certainly going to be worth keeping an eye on all these editors (though I've protected the main focus of their warring, Serbophobia, which might take some of the heat off for the moment). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

206.208.133.233

Thank you for blocking 206.208.133.233. What a jerk. Boofox 21:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry about that. I'm trying to answer questions on Special Relativity and can't do them and am getting very stressed. Just then I lost my temper completely. Sorry--84.71.2.100 15:26, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Obvious violation of policy, abusive behavior.

Pages on Deletion Review should remain for a minimum of 5 days. Please read Wikipedia:Undeletion_policy#Restoring_the_page_.28for_admins.29. Also don't mark reverts as "minor", a total page change like that obviously is not a Wikipedia:Minor edit. Bob, just Bob 19:56, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Please also see Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_review/Userbox_debates#Blanking_of_DrV_debates_by_User:Doc_glasgow_and_User:Pgk. Bob, just Bob 20:01, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

For reverting my user talk page after vandalism. DavidFarmbrough 06:52, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Anon you just blocked

I suggest you semi-protect or protect his talk page so he doesn't keep removing warnings. JoshuaZ 18:24, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

The help I need

I'm trying to get the Community Portal changed back to the version I spent many weeks working on. The page has been reverted to a version months ago, and an admin came along and locked that version. I called for a vote to get the page changed back! What I need to know is how to get the talk page system changed so that it actually promotes general feedback rather than being a mere criticism network. 'Cuz it sure seems like complainers are more likely to post on talk pagers than praisers/encouragers. It wasn't until I called for a vote that any supporters showed up on the talk page at all! How can we change this??? Can we add buttons to every page for this? --Go for it! 20:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Is there anything else I missed in my efforts to get the Community Portal restored? What else can I do to promote its restoration? --Go for it! 20:45, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Jedi6 Userpage

Thanks for reverting the vandalism done to my userpage! Jedi6-(need help?) 21:18, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot

Hi, I noticed that pgkbot wasn't saying anything anymore in #vandalism-en-wp-2. Any specific reason or did it broke? Was thinking about letting Vandalfighter listen to that channel as well, rather then the #vandalism-en-wp, since that one is more complicated with userchecks and the like as well as containing general users who might feel uncomfortable with a bunch of vf... nicks :) Henna 06:39, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

It just needs someone to make is speak Sceptre ^(Talk) 13:30, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

test

--pgk^(talk) 07:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

helpmebot

For the moment the helpmebot seems to go unattended in the norwegian channel. The original poster seems to have posted a request for this service yet he isn't around. How do we control it? What does it log, if anything, how can we shut it of in case of vandalism, who's in charge of the bot, and who is the controlling part on the norwegian channel? Thanks. I would prefer if you responded at no:Wikipedia:Tinget, or at no:User talk:Agtfjott or at #wikipedia-no. — John Erling Blad (no) 09:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

There has been a vote about the continued practice involving the template and the bot. The decision was to abolish. There were mentions that maybe at a later time it will be more welcome, but this time has not yet arrived. __meco 09:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

The Masterpiece

The user in question has reposted the content a couple of times after the deletion (and repeatedly removed speedy tags noting it as reposted) - do you think that the page needs to be protected? --DMG413 18:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

What did I do, exactly...

Wow.... what did I do?

Is it safe for me to test the bot on my user subpages?, Or will I trigger the block agian? Thank you very much!!

Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:10, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

fact template usage

I urge you to look at the situation closely. Please, please have a look at the history of the relevant articles. I am not getting a fair hearing here. Mel Etitis was blocked himself for 24 hours on the day in question for 3RR, and he clearly feels very frustrated that others were able to work on these articles while he was blocked. Please look into this case properly and in detail: it is not as has been presented. --Mais oui! 10:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe this: I have just read Mel Etitis accccusations in detail and found this:

• "While the AfD discussion was continuing (and it was obvious from the outset that the overwhelming consensus was to keep the article) the nominator deleted all references to the county flowers from the relevant county and city articles, citing the AfD."

That is just not true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was User:Bwithh who did that: [1]. This allegation is unbelievable. Where on earth is a single shred of evidence to back up Mel Etitis allegations????? --Mais oui! 10:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for at least trying to be nice. I appreciate it. Please, please request from Mel Etitis at least some links to back up his allegation. Look very carefully at what he wrote: it is 100% opinion and 0% evidence. Please look into this, because we cannot have admins coming to immediate summary justice without even a shred of evidence. I urge you, this is most unjust. --Mais oui! 10:55, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

You say "not to stubbornly push forward but to stop and discuss". Please see the Talk page message I left on MelEtitis Talk page 2 days ago! He chose to ignore the opportunity to discuss, and a few moments ago "archived" that message. I wonder why? Is it because he wants other Admins, like you, to believe that I will not communicate? The truth is quite the opposite, it is him that brushes off all opportunities to discuss. I demand that that bullying message he left on my Talk page is removed forthwith. He has behaved, and is continuing to behave, appallingly, and I will not let this matter rest until he has been reprimanded. --Mais oui! 12:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Mel Etitis has just made a claim that you "support his view". Is that still true? I would appreciate it if you clarified you current stance on the matter at AN. --Mais oui! 15:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

IP block: Slashme

Hi, thanks for your post on my talk page. It seems the block has either expired, or has been removed. --Slashme 11:07, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Matt Leinart

I see the infamous Matt Leinart vandal is back. I also see that he has fallen back on one of his many sockpuppets, "mattleinartfan" or some such, which for some reason apparently wasn't blocked, and is probably old enough to be able to get around the semi-protect option. Wahkeenah 07:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

• Never mind, an Admin blocked him. He's a persistent little devil. He was blocked for a week, from the 2nd, and within a day of being unblocked, he was back at it. The one user has now been permanently blocked, so he'll have to find another sockpuppet to add to his list of 2 or 3 dozen. What a looney. Wahkeenah 09:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Ta for the revert :) --Alf ^melmac 17:33, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

PSConclave

How come my article for PSConclave was deleted? (just curious)

--Elliotgoodrich 22:56, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

A same person

But, he it is the same person with many accounts and he rev. all my works. Sorry but this is key point. And Im wrkin in Albanian Wiki I dont have so much time. He is doing servel time in this year with differen accounts.

Hipi Zhdripi

Hipi Zhdripi has been breaking his 3RR 24h ban. See here, here and here. Please, let me know if you can do anything about it. Regards, Asterion 01:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Kosovo

See: Talk:Serbia --Hipi Zhdripi 19:50, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

sprotect remove

You can remove the

As a result of recent vandalism, or to stop blocked editors from editing, editing of this page by new or unregistered users is temporarily disabled. Changes can be discussed on the talk page, or you can request unprotection.

from The Holocaust now. Should be quiet now. --Scott Grayban 19:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Is there any doubt that Sint Holo is Jeff?

Seems pretty obvious to me. --Vryl 05:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Pgkbot oldconfig files

Are there any updated versions?

Rich nffc

Hey Pgk. As you were the first to reply to Rich nffc's request to be unblocked, thought you should know he also emailed me (as I was the one who blocked him), and I've decided to give him a last chance (reduced his block to a week). He was very apologetic, and perhaps his vandalism was more a case of not really understanding what Wikipedia is, rather than an outright attempt to ruin things for others. I say perhaps, because he may just be an outright vandal. But, WP:AGF and all that, so he's on his last warning, and I'll be keeping a very close eye on him when he returns. Cheers, Proto||type 14:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

hmm

Unblock Request

Hi, sorry for not including all the details. Here is all the information:

You were blocked by Curps for the following reason (see our blocking policy): "Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Paul2001". The reason given for Paul2001's block is: "vandalism"." Your IP address is 195.93.21.103

The block is still in place and I cannot upload images. The reason I can still edit certain pages is due to the AOL dynamic IP I am using (I think...). Thanks for your help. NepGrower 17:56, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Much appreciated. NepGrower 18:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Unprotect and Unblock Please

You said: "The tone and nature of your edits were to persuse and harass another editor. No if's not buts. You're the rules lawyer, point me to where the blocking policy allows for creation of multiple socks to dispute a block you disagree with. It doesn't. The block page gives you a few options, email one of the many many admins, use the mail list etc. Since you've used another sock to evade the block I'm very tempted to extend it again. --pgk(talk) 13:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)"

The purpose of all posts have been to get an answer to a simple question "What is the basis for the block?" No user has been pursued, if you review the history you will see that Nlu is the pursuer. In your terms Nlu is being 'harrassed'. There has been no 'harrassment' since 03:54, 8 April 2006 FriendlyFriend (Indication of support). I think reading that post will show that there is nothing aggressive. However the 'harrassed' Nlu pursued today despite the offensive treatment you allege they have received. Typically those with power are the ones with the ability to harrass. Let's just say that it depends on your perspective in who is harassing who.

In regards to posting using sockpuppets, it appears that you are using the wrong time frame for reference. Your position appears to be that if a user is blocked and they create a sockpuppet, then they have violated policy. I agree that WP:BP does not contain reference to using socks to communicate, it is actually silent on the use. (Emails have been sent to admins, which have not ever been returned to date.)

If you change your frame of reference you will see that the block should never have occurred in the first place. Look at the issue outlined on PoolGuy's talk page. GoldToeMarionette was not created while PoolGuy was blocked (check for yourself). GoldToeMarionette was blocked for being a sockpuppet (which is not a violation of policy per WP:SOCK). PoolGuy was blocked for having sockpuppetswhich is not a violation of policy per WP:SOCK). Therefore there was no legitimate block in place. As stated twice on PoolGuy's talk page "Per Sockpuppet#Prohibited_uses_of_sock_puppets "Users who are banned from editing or temporarily subject to a legitimate block may not use sock puppets to circumvent this." Since there was never a legitimate block all use of the sockpuppets are permitted by Wikipedia policy."

If you assume that the block is legitimate, then using a sockpuppet to post is a violation of Wikipedia policy. The problem with that is the assumption. The original block is just not legitimate. Lbmixpro finally saw that and unprotected the page. You had not realized it yet and denied the unblock request and protected the user talk page falling prey to a false assumption.

Unprotecting the talk page will allow dialogue there. If you can now see the issue at hand please process the unblocks and unprotects. VerifyYesVerify 01:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Moving Pages

Thanks, that helps. kgw 21:24, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter

It's bunny time - Happy Easter pgk! (I recommend a glass of Old Hooky to help the chocolate go down). --Alf ^melmac 16 April 2006

Everyone else seems to have stolen all the good Easter pictures and stuff, but I wish you a Happy Easter all the same. — FireFox • T [16:10, 16 April 2006]

WP:AN complaint

You responded to my complaint on WP:AN. I think you may be interested in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Geo Swan. KI 21:02, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for unblocking me

Thank you for your assistance. Lady Jane Grey 23:43, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. Good work, excellent patience, too. Had I been online, I'd have been happy to take care of it - thanks, too, from me, for helping her out. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 07:56, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

And the Winner Is ...

Greetings, Pgk/archive2. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to Sango123 for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.

If you'd like to participate in the contest again, check by the contest page in a few days and sign up. See you around. (^'-')^ Covington 03:23, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for undoing the autoblock of a shared ip which blocked me along with the vandal. --soUmyaSch 07:16, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Known Wikipedian

This is User:Known Wikipedian. Do you think you can get away with blocking me from accessing Arbcom to address my legitimate greivances?

User:Dannyisme

Greetings! I've unblocked User:Dannyisme... who has confirmed in IRC that it is really him. :-) Cheers, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Blocked IP

Well, 83.19.130.66 has a proxy, but it's configured exclusively for our local use. Maybe some time ago it was misconfigured, but now it's not open. Please, check it once again (with nmap or something like this). kocio 23:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

User:SimplePilgrim

Thank you for your prompt review of this situaiton. Johntex\^talk 07:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Trollwatcher

No, I don't really know much about that. I did not encounter Trollwatcher (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) myself during the fiasco.
Looking at Trollwatcher's block-log, it seems Musical Linguist (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) blocked Trollwatcher with an expiry time of indefinite with the summary "Has been posting links to sites that attack other users and that claims to identify them by name. Seems to be here for the purpose of making "case studies" about other users' behaviour (and adding external links). Block to be reviewed at WP:AN/I after Eas".
I assume that that means "After Easter", since the website was taking issue with editors who identify as Christian or edit Christian topics and since the attack was occurring on Good Friday when many of them might have been away from wiki.
I suggest you post a request to Musical Linguist to follow up with posting the block for review at WP:AN/I. Then we can post to Trollwatcher with the link to the original WP:ANI discussion and the new WP:ANI discussion that presumably Musical Linguist will start.
Trollwatcher's talk page is not protected, so he can make any clarification/defence he wants to make there - or we could temporarily unblock him to allow him to post to WP:ANI. Johntex\^talk 19:36, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Pgk. Please see the message I posted on Johntex's talk page. Yes, "after Eas" meant after Easter, but the box only allows a certain number of characters. Trollwatcher, as his name suggests, was on Wikipedia to study the trolls, which he identified as several of the Christian editors. The Christian editors had been opposing a new user who used sockpuppets (established by usercheck and by an accidental signing of a post while forgetting he was logged on as someone else) in voting and reverting. Trollwatcher and John1838 (and a few IPs) began to post stuff on the talk page about how they were making case studies about the trolls. The website, which gave (what claimed to be) real names, photos, and the link to a personal website of users, while attacking them, was very obviously based on Trollwatcher's contributions, and John's. Location and name of spouse, children, etc. could be found from the website which Trollwatcher spread, and which he certainly contributed to. We have lost an excellent editor as a result. I e-mailed a bureaucrat with checkuser access about this block, and copied my message to Jimbo and to the Foundation lawyer. I cannot stress strongly enough what a serious attack and violation of privacy this was, and in fact the bureaucrat I contacted, who saw the website at the time that it had the photo, real name, etc. of the main victim of harassment (there are others), has already denied the unblock. Trollwatcher, contrary to what he says on his talk page, is well aware of that website, and of the connection with John1838. See here for an edit he made, signed TrollSpotter, from before he registered his account. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 22:03, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for restoring Str1977's talk page, by the way. I deleted it and restored one version just before Easter, with the intention of carrying out the full restoration job after Easter. I knew he wouldn't mind waiting. When I went back to do it, I saw you had already done it for me. Many thanks. AnnH ♫ 23:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Approvals group

Just wanted to let you know that I have removed references to the approvals group from both the main bots page and the approvals page. See Wikipedia Talk:Bots for my reasoning. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 00:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

South Dakota abortion law controversy(2)

Sorry about the confusion relating to this page -- even though there's history listed on that page, I am effectively the "sole author". That page is a junk page that was created due to a disagreement between myself and another user. That disagreement has since been settled. Nothing links to that page, all content on that page is already mirrored elsewhere, and it serves no useful purpose. Can't we just SD it? If not, then I'll AfD it. Struct 17:55, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Rampant Deletionism at Work, Yet Again

I would like my page back...it was actually relatively well-written. To delete it as "nonsense" is ignorant and stupid...it said that is was under onstruction and it is inconsiderate and rude to delete a page that someone is actively in the process of editing, as you DO NOT know what it will become. I would like it returned and userfied, if possible, since there was hard work put into a genuinely true article...there was to be an external links section also, to prove the existence of such a page.back...it was actually relatively well-written. To delete it as "nonsense" is ignorant and stupid...it said that is was under onstruction and it is inconsiderate and rude to delete a page that someone is actively in the process of editing, as you DO NOT know what it will become. I would like it returned and userfied, if possible, since there was hard work put into a genuinely true article...there was to be an external links section also, to prove the existence of such a page.

pgk^(talk) 07:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

pgk, I'm still here... If you can't recognise it's not nonsense, then could you please at least return it and userfy it so I could improve upon it? I have made a grave error, starting an article under construction in the main body of the encyclopædia...dangling there helpless. I will not do this the next time I create an article. Please, from the bottom of my heart, could you restore it?

Sincerely, yours truly, cross my heart and hope to die, signed, X, sealis officialis, etcetera etcetera, Flameviper12 14:31, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Sildenafil?

Hi Pgk; we've already put a request on the semi-protection page, but it'd be nice if we could get it s-protected sooner than later. It appears that a persistent user or a bot is jumping from proxy to proxy adding the same spam link. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 17:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much! On the bright side, the affair has boosted my edit count considerably.... OhNoitsJamie^Talk 17:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Will try to give you details of any block in the future; the AOL "patch-arounds" don't seem to work for me, & of course I know it isn't cool to unblock yourself. Blocks usually only seem to affect one or a few pages in my case. Rlquall 09:56, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Greier

Hi, the 3RR violation Greier was blocked for is at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#User:Greier - the article Vlachs of Serbia has nothing to do with it. Telex 09:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Unblock

Yes! The unblock works! Thank You! --GeorgeMoney^{Talk  Contribs} 16:04, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Kaspersky Trust

Hi, I suspected this user of being a sockpuppet of banned User:Zephram Stark, and asked User talk:Jayjg (who has checkuser access) to check it out. I don't know if he was definitively proved to be a sockuppet or not...it looks like he was blocked and then unblocked. Kaspersky's style of pleading innocence/pointless argumentation does seem to match Zephram's modus operandi. --JW1805 (Talk) 21:43, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Pgk. It looks like Jayjg himself was unsure whether this user were a sockpuppet or not. Apparently, he unblocked him two minutes after blocking him, but did not clear all autoblocks. I only found a few remaining autoblocks, which I removed, but the user still seems to be blocked (I can't figure out why, though). The whole thing looks like one huge misunderstanding. I communicated with this user, and am 99.9% sure there is no way in hell he is Zephram Stark. He is genuinly interested in continuing editing Wikipedia, and so far all we did is bit him. I'll leave a message to Jayjg, but could you please re-check for more autoblocks and let me know what I missed? I am taking full responsibility for this user. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 01:56, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Inanna

Thanks for helping me out with her, but now she's back as 81.213.98.179 (talk · contribs)! :( —Khoikhoi 00:18, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Gateware

Hi, Pgk. I'm requesting a new AfD rather than a deletion review because no evidence was presented in the original AfD. With no evidence on the table, the deletion certainly made sense. With the evidence currently on the talk page, the deletion needs to be reconsidered (rather than simply examining whether or not the deletion followed process, which all that an Undeletion Review is).

If the page goes through the 5-Day AfD process now and is deleted, I will not recreate it. But I regard the current page as a separate article from the one which was (originally) deleted, and I do not believe that the original deletion applies to the new expanded, justified version. Megacz 16:06, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. --Shizane 18:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

your help regarding dispute

thanks for your help on my talk page. I replied back on my talk page.Sarreau 22:11, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Blocked User Circumventing Blocks

Per User:McNeight, I'm writing to let you know that an edit made today by User:68.115.72.93 suggests continued sockpuppetry by User:Braaad. (You were the one who unblocked User:68.115.72.93 as "collateral damage".) User:McNeight also suggests User:Lady Jane Grey is involved (if nothing else, WP:CIVIL certainly applies), but the evidence there is circumstantial, so I'm going to suggest to User:McNeight that we WP:AGF until the WP:RCU comes back. Let me know how you believe I've handled this. :) RadioKirk talk to me 21:13, 2 May 2006 (UTC)