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Ahoy

Hey, you recently deleted some changes i made to an article about St. Paul Central High School. Not to be rude, but as a student of said school, I believe that I know more about it than you, and all of the information I put there was true. Gordon Parks did graduate from Central, the yearbook is pronounced "seh-HEE-zee-ehn," and the Quest program was created by Central teachers. I also reworded some poorly written sentences, fixed some grammatical errors, and deleted the code for a picture that wasn't there do to copy-right reasons. I care about my school and its Wikipedia entry, and i believe that my revisions were accurate, clean, and interesting. I put some work into cleaning it up, and I'd really appriciate if you would revert it back (if you can,) actually read the changes you delete, and stop referring to things you don't understand as vandalism.

Thank you very much

This is the first time somebody vandalized my page. I wonder why? Thanks for fixing it! Death2 21:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now I know everything. Except will this world ever become a better place? You should take a break. You've earned it!!! Death2 22:00, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Welcome to VandalProof!

Hi Betacommand/20060508, thank you for your interest in VandalProof and Congratulations! You are now one of our authorized users, so if you haven't already simply download VandalProof from our main page, install and you're ready to go!

If you have any problems please feel free to contact me or post a message on VandalProof's talk page. Once again congrats and welcome to our team! - Glen T C 18:27, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Betacommand/20060508! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. AmiDaniel (Talk) 07:21, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


WWE Down Under

Hello, Betacommand. Were you able to find the website from which User:WWE Down Under was copied? If not, you need to follow the instructions on Wikipedia:Copyright problems for listing articles without a source. Thanks, Kjkolb 07:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks

Hi, thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. Can't believe it took me 8 months to get my first vandalism though... it's like a rite of passage ;-)

Fourohfour 12:17, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Churchlands Senior High School

from User talk:Encephalon

When you rollback make sure you get it all please :) Betacommand 17:01, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Before presuming the above, do consider that I might have been trying to. As a matter of fact I got edit-conflicted twice when trying to revert to the version of 16:44, 2006 April 17: the first because of your reversion to the horrendously vandalized version of 16:57, 2006 April 17, and the second when the vandal reproduced his handy work. But the important thing is that the article is, for the time being, restored. Thank you for your efforts. —Encephalon 17:12, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Master Jay's RfA

Thanks bud for your recent show of support at my RfA. Please leave me a note if you ever have a concern. Cheers! Jay(Reply) 02:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


User:FellowWikipedian

Hi Betacommand, I am a member of Wikipedia:Welcoming Committee and I spot check new users to see how they are doing. I noticed your messages to User:FellowWikipedian who is a very new user. I don't believe it is appropriate to accuse a new user of vandalizing his own userpage and then threatening him for removing the warning from his talk page. Please read WP:BITE if you have not already done so. Thank you. --ElectricEye 14:27, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


CVU

I've been considering joining the CVU for a while now but I don't feel easy about joining. Is there anything I should do before joining or should I just join? Evan Robidoux 01:34, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Wondering

I was just woundering why you replaced a bunch of my speedy tags Betacommand 04:05, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Javascripts

What kind of anti-vandal javascripts do you have? Evan Robidoux 19:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly do the scripts do? Evan Robidoux 21:00, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Where can I find the code for the scripts? Evan Robidoux 21:12, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Michael Hill

For what it's worth, I don't personally think it's inappropriate to leave the stabbing survivor link on the dab page for now; the article is still on AFD, might even survive if the votes divide the way they have been, and if the article does get deleted, the link can always be removed at that time. Besides, there are a couple of articles which link to the undisambiguated title Michael Hill to mean the stabbing survivor. It's perfectly legitimate to leave the link there for now, I believe. Bearcat 01:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks

Thanks for your suggestion on my vandal list. Evan Robidoux 20:18, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Hi, I am Marc

/(Merlinus), I am new at this Wikipedia stuff and am working on my user page. I saw your status change sign... so you can change it to say your here or not. I wanted to just copy it but was afraid that if I was so bold I would vandalize it by accident. Could you send me a copy please? --merlinus 16:07, 26 April 2006 (UTC)Merlinus:~)[reply]

just copy User:Betacommand/StatusDiv to User:Merlinus/StatusDiv and User:Betacommand/Status to User:Merlinus/Status and edit Status. The commands are
  • away
  • busy
  • online
  • sleeping

also place {{User:Merlinus/Status}} at the top of your userpage.Betacommand 20:04, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Cardiff

Hi, can you tell me why you reverted my edit, please? Vashti 20:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was just reverting the information that was removed during the dispute on the talk page that wasnt fully reverted. Betacommand 20:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, fair enough. I thought I'd got it all. Thank you. :) Vashti 20:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

no problem thats what the sport Vandal Fighting is for. :) Betacommand 20:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi its Marc

I appreciate you giving me the instructions. I've got it about 80% done but I can't seem to fit the last pieces in the puzzle to set up the status thing like yours. Could you or someone you trust take a look at my user page and take a look. Thanks. Marc. --merlinus 22:30, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

no problem it should have been {{User:Merlinus/Status}} not [[User:Merlinus/Status]] (note brackets it should have been sqiggily not square) and you should have copied the source code of User:Betacommand/StatusDiv and User:Betacommand/Status to your username that way you have tour own changer and am not using mine Betacommand 01:34, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Your Status Changer

Betacommand, I used to have a status changer like yours. Then, I changed mine. Now, I can put a smaller version in my signature and mine looks like a tab. This is how mine works. I have 3 pages. User:GeorgeMoney/Status, User:GeorgeMoney/StatusDiv, User:GeorgeMoney/StatusChange, and User:GeorgeMoney/StatusSig.

  • On User:GeorgeMoney/Status, the code looks like: {{User:GeorgeMoney/StatusDiv|1|{{User:GeorgeMoney/StatusChange}}}} . The 1 means that it goes on my userpage. The {{User:GeorgeMoney/StatusChange}} is what I will tell you about next.
  • On User:GeorgeMoney/StatusChange, click here to see the code: [1]. What that does is all I have to do is is type on or off or sleep.
  • On User:GeorgeMoney/StatusDiv, the code is kind of the same as yours, but mostly very different.
It automatically changes just like the one on the userpage. The code looks like: {{User:GeorgeMoney/StatusDiv|2|{{User:GeorgeMoney/StatusChange}}}}.

I hope you like my version better and decide to use it. --GeorgeMoneyTalk  Contribs 23:44, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Marty Meehan

The stuff about Marty Meehan is unecyclopedic. It might mean something to some members of wikipedia, but it means absolutely nothing anywhere else. It looks like a joke. At first, I thought it was vandalism. 75.3.4.54 02:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. Does wikipedia want to be an encyclopedia or not? They aren't going to put that in any other encyclopedia. 75.3.4.54 03:06, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Put it somewhere else. If you put something like that in a person's encyclopedia entry, people will not take it seriously. If that is interesting to wikipedia members, mention it at like a wikipedia forum, but don't make an encyclopedia entry look like a joke. 03:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


Currently Online

If you are currently online, why haven't you responded to me yet? Do you realize how wrong you are? 75.3.4.54 03:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Oops

I rolled back that anon accidently. Sorry about that Betacommand. I suggest you pay as little heed to him as possible, from what I can see of his contributions he seems to be wanting to cause trouble. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oops by me too!

Happy Camper just sent me a note that I needed to be careful to place "edit summories" and not just "stuff", :~), or random signs. I am slowly learning. Thanks again for trying to help me with the Status Change. If you have any simple stuff tedious Wiki stuff that needs to be done... that might help me get more aquianted with Wikipedia I would be grateful. Thanks, Marc. --merlinus 20:03, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Marty Meehan is very respected by both parties and Unenrolled voters like myself in Massachusetts as a fair and decent guy. --merlinus 20:07, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Fuglyness

The formatting of the page was fugly. I fixed it. It is no longer fugly. Joy. --WhyBeNormal? c · t · m 01:23, 1 May 2006 (UTC) [reply]


Hey!!

First of all:

Do not remove messages from my talk page!

Second of all: STOP SPYING ON ME!!!!!! --WhyBeNormal? c · t · m 01:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC) [reply]


Le Kevin Smith and Football player stubs in general

Why do you think that all stubs need to have an international focus? Hundreds of American football players stubs are not internationally focused. Most athletes are not internationally focused. Give me a break--Thomas.macmillan 00:50, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Your test4 at User talk:202.147.143.166

I have just removed from this IP talk page a test4 that you placed, referring to the IP's alleged vandalism of Australian rules football in Canada. The edit history of that article shows the IP making perfectly reasonable edits like this, which you have reverted without giving a reason. Can you explain why you treated these edits as vandalism? Snottygobble 02:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sorry that was a mistake Betacommand 02:45, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Snottygobble 02:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

The criteria seems strange, but I did not mean to get you all worked up with vandalism. I apologize for being a Wikipedia n00b. 06:08, 05 May 2006 (UTC)


?

Excuse me, I was editing the Poor Richard's Almnac Page, from what your Benjamin Franklin article had said. Please tell me how that was vandalism thanks. 06:09, 05 May 2006 (UTC)

"Working on Current event Backlog using AWB"

Euphemism for "I assert this is no longer current, but I'm too busy to explain my reasoning". Please see Wikipedia:Five pillars #4. &#0151; JEREMY 07:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I used that comment as a defalt statement because i was working on mass clearing of the backlog in [[Category:Current events]] using autowikibrowser (Just wondering why you made the comment you made) Betacommand 07:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
np; I realise you were housekeeping. I'd suggest adding "Event no longer current." or similar to your default edit comment &#0151; JEREMY 07:27, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
thanks Betacommand 07:32, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WADR, I think you've removed "current" from articles that are, indeed, current. I noticed, e.g., Patrick Fitzgerald and Plame Affair. If those aren't current, what is? (I see a story on the case on the front page of today's Wash Post [2] -- Sholom 12:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The mumps outbreak in the U.S. is happening presently, thus making it a "current" event. Heathhunnicutt 15:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I used to write borgs to play netrek. If you try out new features on a small sample space, you can debug them. HH

Regarding the "no longer current" business. I suspect you looked for current event tags that had been added a certain amount of time ago. The tag for current events remarks that the section may be under rapid edit. (How do you escape a template, again?) HH

In mumps, you could tell by the edit history that the section which was under "Recent Outbreaks" was being editted once or twice daily. So it seems that the description of the template (rapid edit) suggest a way to automatically validate it -- have there been (recent) rapid edits? Maybe your borg could look at that as a filter. Heathhunnicutt 15:18, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

edit on "bob murray"

you removed the current event tag - which is correct because it is an ongoing even in the club (the buy has not yet been confirmed), so what was your reason for deleting it. I am from the area so I have the latest information about what is going on in respects to the takeover...Fyver528 08:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Checking (Werdnabot)

Is my talk page set up for your Bot? Betacommand 19:58, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your user talk page was set up, but incorrectly so, for archival. The first error is mine, and is a syntax error in the template. The second error was yours. You do not need to add the "Age" parameter in brackets; and the bot had trouble recognising this. You'll find that your User talk is now set up correctly to be archived by Werdnabot. Cheers, Werdna648T/C\@ 21:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It's too bad you make massive edits like you do, then only respond to other borg drivers. People have valid complaints about your edits and contact you, but you ignore them. You have your talk page aggressively archived for what reason? Heathhunnicutt 18:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Im sorry but i could not understand what you were talking about, and thus could not respond Betacommand 17:51, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. what is a borg?
A person who edits in combination with bot software is a borg. Maybe I misunderstood your edit comments, but it looks like you combine edit sweeps with using bots and bot-like clients.
Regarding my complaint that you don't respond to other users: I haven't seen you respond to anybody who wasn't also operating a bot or bot-like client. What I have seen you do is arrange for your User_talk page to be quickly archived away. People have complained to you about your edits, to no response. Heathhunnicutt 23:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Remember ...

--WhyBeNormal? c · t · m 20:03, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[reply]


Chupacabra copyvio

You recently tagged Chupacabra as a copyvio of http://www.crystalinks.com/chupacabras.html. I find this claim highly unlikely — based on the edit history of the article and the past versions of the crystalinks.com page found at archive.org, it appears to me that it is in fact the crystalinks page that is infringing our copyrights, rather than us infringing theirs.

Specifically, here's the latest archived version of the crystalinks page, from 8 February 2005, and here's our version from the same date. Notice that the old version of our article contains several distinctive phrases that are found in the current version of the crystalinks page, but not in the contemporary archived version. I therefore find it fairly evident that the crystalinks site is using content from Wikipedia without properly attributing it. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever you were trying to do with interwiki links, it didn't work. -- Curps 04:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

edit on "Kevin Towers"

Hi Betacommand, the information I added to this article was correct. Maybe a tad harsh on the language, but accurate. You should have reverted, not deleted. It wasn't a vandalsim attempt. (he has personally been quoted as admitting the information for further proof) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.136.255.30 (talk • contribs) 01:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]


subst'ing

What was this edit doing? If you subst, please do it properly. Kusma (討論) 01:57, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also reverted on of your edits- the end result didn't work out with some of your subst'ing. Please check out what the AWB is doing.--Kungfu Adam (talk) 02:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I reverted all the ones that did not work as intended (you should doublecheck!). Whether you should bot-substitute userboxes like this at all is also still subject to debate, see e.g. WT:MACK for some proposals. Maybe you should not subst the templates, but replace them by more readable {{userbox}} code. Kusma (討論) 02:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That's what I thought -- typos can happen to anyone. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 02:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stop substituting

Hi,

It looks like you have started substituting the templates without going through the policy. WP:SUB clearly states that: "Template substitution is a permanent change that removes functionality". This is especially true while the templates are dynamic lists which are updated only on the master page. What you have done on my userpage is substituting all templates (without consent) irrespective of whether they are debated (like substitution of userboxes) or completely unwarrented (like the dynamic lists). Morover, your substitution has left my page in a mess making it quite illegible. Please note that the policy clearly states that when template changes/improvements are expected to be incorporated, they should never be substituted. Only static archives are to be substituted. Also, "Policy' shouldn't really concern itself with server load except in the most extreme of cases; keeping things tuned to provide what the user base needs is our job." So, its my request to stop using what you don't seem to know about, that too without consulting the users. Reading the other comments on the page makes me feel that you have done it en masse. I am reverting your edits, and hope you don't do it again without consultation. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please Stop

Please stop editing my user page without any permission or notice given to me. I have reverted your edit, but if you need to really edit my page, please use my user talk page and write a request. Alastor Moody 18:11, 18 May 2006 (PTC)

Well I never said that I was offended, but all I ask was that next time you edit my page, just leave a notice or a message on my yser tslk page. I too never meant to be angered or anything. But if you think you may need to change something on my user page I'll let you this time, but please do not do something like this again. Alastor Moody 19:51, 18 May 2006 (PTC)
I have been giving some time about when you have edited my user page, well I never meant to make you feel bad, but all I ask was that when you ever wish to edit my user page, just leave me a notice. Thank you. Alastor Moody 21:10, 19 May 2006 (PTC)

Please Stop

Please stop editing my user page without any permission or notice given to me. I have reverted your edit, but if you need to really edit my page, please use my user talk page and write a request. Alastor Moody 18:11, 18 May 2006 (PTC)

Well I never said that I was offended, but all I ask was that next time you edit my page, just leave a notice or a message on my yser tslk page. I too never meant to be angered or anything. But if you think you may need to change something on my user page I'll let you this time, but please do not do something like this again. Alastor Moody 19:51, 18 May 2006 (PTC)
I have been giving some time about when you have edited my user page, well I never meant to make you feel bad, but all I ask was that when you ever wish to edit my user page, just leave me a notice. Thank you. Alastor Moody 21:10, 19 May 2006 (PTC)

VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:07, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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