User talk:MacGyverMagic/Archive 8

Vaoverland

a couple of things: 1. Can you help me with how to block a vandal who is on a roll? Of course, it's an IP address, and I realize it will only be temporay. Several other users who are not admins (which i am) haver requested help. I have routinely chased and reverted vandals, but never blocked one.

2. I am still watching new articles written by others for non U.S. content. Unfortunately, my interests are almost 100% North American.

3. If you like the TALK box on my User Page, I can add one for you. That may help in getting your new messages placed with headings and at the bottom of your Talk page.

Thanks for any help, and all your good work with DYK, Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 20:43, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

Vandal on a roll

The vandal's IP is 66.57.105.182. Thanks, Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 21:01, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

Better Safe Than Sorry

Thank you again. At least I know how to do it now. I have advised to two users who were complaining. I am reminded of the frustration of young and confused Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye who was discouraged by all the "F---You" graffiti he found and the hopelessness felt that although he worked fervently at eradicating it, undoubtedly even more was being "created" faster than he could get rid of it. Fortunately, WP seems blessed with the opposite ratio, or at least a balance. I also scan all changes to my 1400 watched pages for IP addresses, and I find a large proportion are vandalization entries. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 21:10, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

Impostors

It's really very easy: troll RC and keep an eye open for newly created user pages, especially ones that are clones of an existing user's page. Also, for our convenience, I created template:impostor. – ClockworkSoul 22:02, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

DYK

DYK hadn't been updated in a while, so I went ahead and updated the template. However, when I looked back I noticed that you just rejected some of the items that I added. If you want to replace everything I did with something more appropriate, I'll understand entirely. – ClockworkSoul 19:13, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

• Looks like our planes crossed in the air again. :) I don't mind at all, and I apologize for missing your inuse notice: I missed it entirely. – ClockworkSoul 19:14, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
• Oh, one more thing: do you want me to add the green notices, or are you doing that? – ClockworkSoul 19:16, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Sphinx (disambiguation)

I looked at your to-do list on User:MacGyverMagic/Notebook and took care of creating a disambiguation page for Sphinx. If there are any changes you'd like to see made, let me know or feel free to do it yourself.  :) Have a nice day. --Randy 01:38, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Signage

Thanks. :) It's going to be a bumper crop this week! +sj + 09:32, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Sysop

See this mailing list message and the rest of the thread. Evercat 17:13, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Signpost article

Looks good. Thanks - Taxman 21:43, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

It's OK I guess, though it was a bit more complex than that. But as a very quick summary... Evercat 22:24, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Request for obsolete image deletion by admin

Could you go to Image:PowerPack1.jpg and delete the old May 6 version, please? (When I uploaded the original I didn't realize it would take an admin to remove the old version when I had the new one ready and uploaded). Thank you in advance. RJFJR 16:25, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

• There are two version, I mean the older one (it's the only one with a clickable (del) link). Apparently the report is displaying in my local time zone (EDT, I think). I forgot dates won't appear the same to everyone. Thanks for checking. RJFJR 18:06, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Image use on the MainPage

Could you please not put a copyrighted image on the main page the next time you change an image? From what I've been told it's not allowed. At the very least other images are preferred if available. Mgm|^(talk) 21:54, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder, MacGyverMagic. Actually, I know that. That's why I took out Image:Miami skyline from Biscayne Bay.jpg, which at the time was untagged and copyright undetermined. I noticed that Julia Tuttle died in 1898 and assumed that the tag was a PD-50, or sth like that, without reading it carefully. I guess I made it worse, eh ? Whoops.... I'll read the copyright tags more carefully next time. Thanks, again. -- PFHLai 22:54, 2005 May 9 (UTC)

Gdr's DYK update

Gdr updated 1 hour and 23 minutes after I did. If you see such a quick update next time, please revert it back. At least 6 hours exposure is the norm. Mgm|^(talk) 07:02, May 10, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, sure. Gdr's edit was indeed too early. If I see sth like that again, I will undo it. -- PFHLai 07:21, 2005 May 10 (UTC)

Yes, I'm very sorry, I thought it was 25 hours and 23 minutes (a time zone mistake). I will take care not to do it again. Gdr 17:04, 2005 May 12 (UTC)

DYKbot

See User:Gdr/DYKbot Gdr 14:02, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

Vandal Voters

Hi there. Thanks for your vote in [1]. Some people humilated your vote and others. i added them in vandalism in progress. please share your idea about it. Many thanks Hamidifar

Template talk:Vfd2

Nothing important Mac. Just notifying you of an issue that is VFD-related that you might want to read. -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:52, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Interview/research

Hi there! You probably remember taking part in an interview for some reasearch I was doing. I think I sent you a copy of the finished work, but can't remember if I did or not. Please e-mail me if I managed to mess it up somehow. Thanks again. — pmcm 15:13, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

RE: Msg posted here

Thank you for your feedback. I'm not sure if this helps, but i have contact with other Wikipedia Editors which can be found on my Talk page, also i have email corsp. with them; would that help? (Im posting from my office PC, so my IP will be different) then the above post made yesterday which is the one I've always used - Thank you -- NEWUSER - --66.241.130.114 18:09, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Stubsensor award

For your help with April 21, 2005 Stubsensor cleanup project you are hereby given the Stubsensor award.

Caulfield Grammar

Hi. You recently posted in the Caulfield Grammar FAC page that you would review the article and then have a vote. I would just like to encourage you to do this, as I'd like as many to vote as possible before the school deletionists get their way. Thanks. Harro5 09:31, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

Longhair

I do not understand what your rationale was for supporting Longhair in 3 entirely different places, and ignoring blatantly obvious references that proved his guilt in the matter. What was your rationale for it? What makes him so special, or alternatively what makes me someone who deserves such attacks? 203.26.206.129 12:32, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Arbcom submission for Internodeuser

Thank you for your admirable attempts at diplomacy with Internodeuser. I've listed the matter with the ArbCom in the hope they can provide some resolve. Keep up your good work. -- Longhair | Talk 15:08, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Caulfield Grammar FAC

Hi! You previously voted to object this FAC nomination, but the article has been significantly upgraded and improved since then. I would urge you to have a second look before leaving your final vote. Thanks. Harro5 08:18, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

adam smith picture

I don't know now. It's an ancient picture ..so it's not copyrighted. What do I need to do? Thanks. RJII 15:00, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

CDVF

Hi, MGM. I saw your note on CryptoDerk's talk page, and thought I would reply for you. Having downloaded the Java virtual machine, you simply run vf.jar. The instructions are a bit buried on the page CD made! It's a fantastic program. Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 16:06, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Ha, I beat you to it! Nyah na ne nah na! Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 17:30, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Deletion

Can you explain why you deleted this? Mgm|^(talk) 22:08, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Merged into Egyptian soul

--Ron 22:11, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

On agreement...

"For the second time today, I'll have to agree with Lupo" — now is this a good or a bad thing? :-) Lupo 10:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Advice on Mark Magnus

Earlier today you appropriately moved some content from the article to the talk page of Mark Magnus. An anon user, using three different IPs, keeps moving that content back into the article along with additional content that's not so great... some of it is silly. That particular content has been jumping in and out of the article for several days now. Logged in users keep removing (or reverting) it and the anon user(s) keep restoring it. I've encouraged the anon user to join in a discussion on the talk page but so far that's been ignored. Could use some advice/perspective on this. What's a good next step for dealing with an anon user who won't communicate/collaborate? Tobycat 06:15, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Question on amino acids

On some talk page in Wikipedia, you mentioned you were interested in standardizing information format for amino acids including the three-letter and one-letter codes. Can you please see the question on amino acids cystine and homocysteine in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals? Thank you.
H Padleckas 09:07, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

uwe kils

hallo Mac - my students exercised as oceanographers, taking code from my space preparing for a German demonstration project on virtual university, the idea of Erik Moeller (user:eloquence) of the Wikiversity for online e-teaching and e-research and I offered my cooperation as teacher and my interactive virtual microscope for a course in Meeresbiologie and Biologie der Antarktis - for that project it is important to have reproducible credentials for the teachers. We also plan to move educational content from expensive university servers to the free project (in Germany we don't even have tuition in the University) - help us - or not - I really don't care if I am sysop or not, I have that all behind me - we try to help the NeXT generation - best greetings - keep up with you fine work Uwe Kils PS we are searching for cooperators with real names 68.46.71.104 17:52, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Re: Crisscross method

I added the image just after I put in the article. Matjlav 21:53, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Impostor

Good catch. Since he copied my user page with a bunch of removed vowels, I suspect it's the same guy that did this, which I reverted and warned. Thanks :) CryptoDerk 22:50, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

Administrator intervention against vandalism

The idea is nice, but the title is a bit wordy. Can you think of a shorter title? If, not a shorthand redirect might be handy. Mgm|^(talk) 10:34, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, but it's surprisingly hard to think of a name that both has vandalism in the title (because you know it's going to be filled with POV disputes otherwise) and is short and pithy. There are shorthands, the obvious WP:AIAV and the shorter WP:AIV. But if you can think of a decent title, more power to you; feel free to be bold and move the page. --W(t) 12:14, 2005 May 28 (UTC)

copyvio stuff on jimbo's talk page

I dunno, it seems to me that I wouldn't get much different responses on the help desk than I get at, for example, the copyright problems page, where at least one knowlegable user didn't have a clue about the Iranian site copyvio question (not that I blame him, but someone, somewhere must have a clue). I would assume Jimbo would have a better handle on the legal issues or would know where to find info. I realize he's busy, and may not choose to take the time to respond, but what the hell? Anyway, if you know of a page where legal stuff gets dealt with by people who know their stuff, let me know. Thanks, Mwanner 14:39, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

I'll Be Sure To

Yes, I will take care of that immediately. DrippingInk 21:00, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks! I was getting very frustrated trying to make a table... Flcelloguy 21:17, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Question

Thanks for the message Mgm. Question for you. How do I make a disambiguation of an article? I am writing an article on person who has the exact name? Thanks. --LibraryLion 00:08, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Moon of Endor block

Hey, sorry about the confusion there: I blocked them, then discovered you'd already done so, so I cleared my block so as to keep the block list length down (that is an issue, not sure if you knew that), discovered that had cleared your block, went to put the block back on, did it for 24 only by mistake, finally got it sorted! Noel (talk) 14:50, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

PS: I don't usually check other User_talk: pages (so that I don't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person with whom I am having a "conversation"), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (above); if you leave a message for me here I probably will not see it. I know not everyone uses this style (they would rather keep all the text of a thread in one place), but I simply can't monitor all the User_talk: pages I leave messages on. Thanks!

PPS: You really ought to archive your talk page; with long pages, ever time it's edited, we used a big chunk of disk space.

Yeah, MoE was blocked when the dust settled. The problem with checking the block log before is that there's a timing window failure mode. I.e. if the following sequence happens: i) A checks the log, ii) B checks the log, sees nothing, iii) A puts on a block, iv) B puts on a block, then you get a double block. That's why I always check after I put the block on, and that's when I noticed you'd beaten me to it by a few seconds. Ideally the MediaWiki software would notice the double block, and say something - if I get time I'll file a bug report. Noel (talk) 01:24, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Find or fix a stub

The article's contents are not different from those of Wikipedia:Stub, they are merely not as clear or simply not as helpful. We have been getting some very good results out of this new page. The amount of uncategorized stubs is reducing greatly and new users are overall learning the process in a much better way. Information is not being lost. It is merely being given in a better, more instructive way. If you find there is something amiss, I encourage you to add it to Wikipedia:Stub. I am now reverting the article to the revert state. Cheers. --Sn0wflake 16:19, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

It's ok

We all make mistakes, anyway. :) Wellmann 17:36, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

stubsensor

Are you the anon who deleted this section? If so, please make sure you're logged on, so you don't keep me guessing :) Mgm|^(talk) 18:25, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

For some reason I got spontaneously logged out and I didn't realize it for a while. That was me. Thanks for keeping an eye out. Triddle 18:56, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Article

The article will be on the inventor William Bullock. --LibraryLion 21:43, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Leeroy Jenkins

You redirected Leeroy Jenkins → World of Warcraft, however it's been VfDed and the result was delete. The redirect doesn't make much sense, so I'd suggest replacing it with the page-deleted-and-protected-against-vandalism template (of which I can never remember the name). --W(t) 09:23, 2005 May 30 (UTC)

Purple vs. Violet

Thanks, I just changed my vote. — Phil Welch 10:11, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Purple vs. violet

Hi MGM - No problem with improving the article, though I'm still not convinced it wouldn't be better merged or at least renamed. The confusion between the two names is one I've run across frequently (I work as an artist, so colours are my "stock-in-trade"), so it should be mentioned somewhere. Grutness...wha? 10:35, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Signpost

Thanks; Yeah, I think I can take care of it for the next few weeks. It takes more time than one might expect to write these things, but it shouldn't be as bad in the future now that I sort of know what I'm doing. Let me know if/when you want to take over/help out again; I'd be happy to have the help. Have a good one! --Spangineer ∞ 13:23, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. Spangineer did a fine job and I'm sure he can keep it up. Writing articles can be time-consuming, and it's for you to determine how you want to spend your time. Also, I very much appreciate your helping to keep The Signpost going during my time off recently. You're welcome to come back and write articles again anytime, and in the meantime feel free to drop in suggestions even if you're not able to write them up fully. --Michael Snow 04:18, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Re: User:Who is it?

Mine wouldn't display the diff either. This is a somewhat insidious type of vandalism, and it was the first time I've used the rollback button without really being sure that the edit was vandalism. I've been meaning to write something about this on WP:AN/I. Anyway, what he did was copy-and-paste a very large number of the contents of the page (your browser might display the diff of my reversion, since the duplicated text is only in the changes part and not also in the article part). I don't know how familiar you are with this type of vandalism—User:Beagle2 and User:Praetor worked the same way, although User:Who is it? stopped when I asked him to. If you want me to explain more I'd be happy to. [By the way, that was me poking fun at myself on my user page—but I appreciate the vigilance and if it's ever questionable again in the future, feel free to revert: I can always fix it later!] — Knowledge Seeker দ 18:05, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism by 131.111.8.101

Hi I've been doing some detective work based on a few isolated incidents of vandalism I've seen, and I discovered a vandal who uses User:131.111.8.101 who may have been vandalizing User:Chanting_Fox. I'm not sure how to go about this, but I noticed you commented on this user's behaviour a few times. I also x-posted this to User_Talk:Chanting_Fox.

• They vandalized the Benedict_XIV page to this. Note the images. They were uploaded by User:Dmj27.

• Also note Contributions of User:Darth_Vader. According to his contributions, he modified the Palpatine page to appear like Pope Benedict. (exact opposite of the above)

• Observe the Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/James_Cole and Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/David_Jordan. They've been edited by a Cambridge IP. Note the references to User:Dmj27, User:Darth_Vader and User:spankthecrumpet. Also note the obession with "Remis" (whatever that means)

• Note this.. the impersonator User:Chantin'_Fox added a link to the David Jordan page. He also edited the Darth_Vader page to redirect to him.

My suspicion is that all of these people are sockpuppets of User:Chantin'_Fox who is operating from User:131.111.8.101.

Your thoughts? --Robojames 20:20, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Thanks for your help on the disambiguation. I should have no trouble. --LibraryLion 22:30, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Parmesan Cheese

The pictures are pictures I took myself a few years ago. What do I need to do? I believe i hold the copyright to them, but what info do I need to put up? Sputnikcccp

• O.k., I've added a {GFDL-self} to the parmesan pics. if you want anything else, just drop me a note. Thanks for watching out!

Sputnikcccp

Wikijunior name vote

m:Wikijunior project name Voting will end June 6, 2005 at 11:30 am EST. -- user:Zanimum P.S. I'm sure no one would mind if you moved your Ancient Egyptian outline to Wikibooks, so long as their was a clear disclaimer that nothing except the outline should be worked on, until the first issue is published.

Protecting User pages

You said you could protect my user page. I don't know if that'll block my self for editing it or not. If not, please go ahead, otherwise not. On the other hand, that nasty pic now sticks to my history. I was told that admins can delete images and afterwards they won't show in th page revision. Could you delete that image? I won't wikilink it but it's Image:123987.JPG drini ☎ 18:05, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

DYK Bot Ran Today

Hi Mac, Kurando-san ran the update of DYK today. Just thought you should know. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:22, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Hi,

Thanks for the welcome. I am presently working on the parameter syntax for the Cleanup user template. Once I've figured that out, my next task is to try the signature with timestamp option. Until I get that done successfully, my sign-off will have to be plain vanilla. I certainly hope this message shows up at the bottom of your page. The preview doesn't give out that sort of information. But, anyway, I think I'm going to like it here. Jekoko

And again thanks for the advice and info. I need to remember that the sig feature only works if you are logged in. :) I've been running between two windows, one logged in, the other not. Parameters all done for the desk. I really appreciate all your help. Jekoko 20:46, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RfA on Argyrosargyrou

I've started a Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration on User:Argyrosargyrou. Please take a look and add any evidence you feel is relevant to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Argyrosargyrou/Evidence. -- ChrisO 22:20, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cricket Tables

Thanks for your comment. The thing is, when I go to the pages that are still listed as links, I can't see any links to the old locations to the cricket tables. I suspect there is just a delayed caching issue. I'd be grateful if the redirect pages in the Wikipediaspace were deleting - if a problem is caused by doing this, it will soon show and I'll correct it. Kind regards, jguk 19:11, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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