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Pages[edit]

Just wanted to let you know that the bot reverted an edit on United_States_Senate_Page that (in my opinion) should not have been reverted. eric 23:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, by adding a check from the watchlist patrol mode to newbie patrol.Voice-of-All 02:50, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot problems[edit]

Hi, it seems to me that VoABot II (talk · contribs) isn't working properly. Any rollback or equivalent that reverts edits (plural) by X to last version by Y should result in a diff that shows that the vandalism reversion and Y's last version are identical. On the article Love (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), we had the following:

If you look at the diff that compares VoABotII's version with the version that it said it was reverting back to, you'll see that it missed some of the vandalism. It seems to have caught the first vandalism but not the second.

Cheers, AnnH ♫ 23:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunetely this is some sort server side edit merge error. The bot only reverts to earlier revisions, and there is no rev. in history that matches what it reverted to. Voice-of-All 03:17, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete link after moving?[edit]

While cleaning up after a number of pagemove vandals, tonight, it occurred to me that it'd be nifty to have a way to quickly delete the "on wheels!" redirects left over. Adding a delete button to the page we see after moving a page seems a likely candidate; since I'm not aware of a way to segregate between admin/non-admin in MediaWiki text pages, it seems a job for Javascript. Thoughts? Luna Santin 05:13, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The "move successful" link has a link to the old page, which can be deleted from there. As for accounts with many vandals moves, I may change "revert all moves" to delete the vandal locations.Voice-of-All 05:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Calvin and Hobbes page[edit]

Hello,

I posted the entry below on the 'Calvin and Hobbes' page and the BOTS keeps removing it. Why? My addition to the page was written as follows:

1.) A photo of the only exsiting plush doll of the character Hobbes (calvin and hobbes comic strip)

2.) A small description of how much the comic strip is loved by fans, that they even make their own related items such as this one and only hobbes doll ever to be created.

Due to the mass out-pour of Calvin and Hobbes fan requests, I simply added this photo of the toy on the Calvin and Hobbes page so everyone who hadn't seen the rare doll, finally had the chance to.

Below is what I added, it keeps getting removed by the BOTS for some reason. Can you please add it back or fix this problem?:


===Fan Made items===

Here is a hand-made plush doll of the character Hobbes the tiger from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. No Calvin and Hobbes merchandise has or ever will be released by the comic's creator Bill Watterson, so this one was hand-made by a fan in April of 2006. This is the only Hobbes doll known to exist.

File:Hobbes doll.PNG
Fan-made plush Hobbes doll inspired by the Calvin & Hobbes comic. This is the ONLY one known to exist. (Click image for full view)

hey, whoever posted this, you should know that there is not only one homemade hobbes in this world. i have searched a little online and i found that there are 9 (that are easy to find anyway). if you want to see them go to the Calvin and Hobbes page in Wikipedia then the bottom of merchandising to see the pictures.

Gibraltar[edit]

Hi -- VoABot II is reverting my edits to Gibraltar back to a vandalized version and won't stop. Anything I can do to help make the bot cut it out? -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 23:53, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Script Help[edit]

Ahah, it turns out I had two instances of your script in place! Which would you reccomend using? One used User:Voice_of_All/RC/monobook.js, while the other used the scripts located in User:Voice_of_All/UsefulJS. Thanks! Erich Blume 00:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The former. The one at /useful, one of them that is, just src includes VoA/monobook.js so it is the same as User:Voice_of_All/RC/monobook.js.Voice-of-All 00:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Today's featured article[edit]

Just wanted to let you know a featured article you worked on, 0.999..., was featured today on the Main Page. Tobacman 00:40, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another question about VoABot II[edit]

Hi. Do you know how do get some sort of range detection for the IPs in Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Aucaman? Thanks, Khoikhoi 01:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tag all the IPs talk pages with one of those "shared IP" tags, such as {{IPshared|X}}. The bot can automate that for /24 ranges at a time if you need help, but I'd have to know the range.Voice-of-All 01:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose alternatively you blacklist them here[1].Voice-of-All 01:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, but how do I know if the IPs are shared or not? Do I just tag them anyways? I guess we could do 75.18.xx.xx—75.41.xx.xx. I don't know, does that sound good? (you'll have to excuse my ignorance on this stuff) Khoikhoi 01:18, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If there are not shared, then don't tag them. Add them here[2] if you'd like, under "BAD IP ranges for specific pages".Voice-of-All 06:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II and "angry" mode[edit]

I noticed that VoaBot II always seems to be in "angry" mode. I don't think that it should revert more than once in a row, especially when it comes to reverting edits by new users. It should be set to "angry" mode only in extreme cases. --Ixfd64 02:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a number of new checks and measures to avoid mistakes, so hopefully this won't be needed, as its implementation would be another drag on the bot. I'd still like to avoid making the errors in the first place before having caps like that, though I may add that sometime.Voice-of-All 19:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Soy Protein Article[edit]

A Bot reverted all my edits after I added lots of links. If Wikipedia does not like that many links, let me know. Also, I have been working for hours on the soybean article too. An IP has been vandalizing the soybean article. I want the soybeans article semi-protected from any more vandalism. Let me know if your bot made a mistake. Should I add the lots of links back to the soy protein article or not? I do not know. I think the bot made a mistake. Adding links is not vandalism. Messenger2010 06:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just looked at the edit summary. Your Bot has falsely and wrongly accussed me of vandalism. You have damaged my good name forever. Messenger2010 06:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC) I just looked at the bot accussing a lot more registered experienced users. The bot may be malfuctioning. Also please check the soy protein article about the links that I added before. Should I add the links back in or leave them out. Let me know about the links and about protecting the soybean article from an IP who has been vandalizing it. Thanks. Messenger2010 06:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just read what someone else wrote about the bot. It has an "angrey mode." I think there needs to be some adjustments to this new type of program. Messenger2010 06:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The links were fine, it was "www.nutritiondata.com/foods-soybeans000000000000000000000.html" that was tripping the bot because it has an abnormal number of zeros. Such repeated characters are now checked in context for this.Voice-of-All 19:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II and Parkinson's disease[edit]

I think VoABot II (talk · contribs) may be making bad reversions on Parkinson's disease. Thanks. --Media anthro 18:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The bot is more likely to revert new user than non-shared IPs given the nature of the sockpuppets that hit that page, however I've added a new edit/age combination check that should allow users like yourself to not end up reverted. Thanks.Voice-of-All 19:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Much obliged. --Media anthro 20:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think those reverts were justified. Media anthro should have discussed this issue on the talkpage before removing material supported by consensus. JFW | T@lk 19:52, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Charles de Gaulle (R 91)[edit]

Regarding Charles de Gaulle (R 91) : Can you please have a look at this and advise what to do about what is happening on the discussion page ? Thanks a great deal. Natobxl 04:42, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Soybean Vandalism.[edit]

This article has been vandalized by an anon IP and now a new user who has made the same type of edits.

Requesting article be semi-protected and monitored. --Messenger2010 16:42, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The IP has vandalized the soy protein and biological value articlea as well. All 3 articles should be protected vandalism. Messenger2010 16:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unprotection of Charles de Gaulle (R 91)[edit]

Hello. I've unprotected the page. Sorry, the last time I checked (late afternoon UK time) you weren't active. I should have checked again. Anyway, I've tried to calm the situation. (Talk:Charles de Gaulle (R 91)) In fact everyone seemed to have calmed down anyway. There is still a discussion about the merits of the section, however there is a rough consensus for the section I have added. [3] If you disagree with the unprotection I won't be offended if you reprotect or if you would like me to. Best regards, Mark83 23:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AfD[edit]

Please renominate for deletion with {{subst:afd2}}.--Patchouli 07:02, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Iran's Islamic foreign policy. Please explain to my why clicking on the article leads me straight to it without redirect. Your protection has only made it impossible to edit the article.--Patchouli 07:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You may wish to voice objections at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2006 October 27--Patchouli 07:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Specialized help needed[edit]

Hello. User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me suggested that you may be able to help revert some vandalism from the 152.163.100.xxx range. Someone using a rotating IP, never using the same IP to hit two different articles, was linkspamming our articles to their Encyclopaedia Britannica equivalents. From the article names it is clear they were working their way alphabetically, and had only gotten into the "Ab___" range before they were blocked. I reverted the ones I saw, but I'm sure there were articles hit by this linkspammer that I can't locate because they are too far back in the Recent Changes list. Is there any way to locate earlier edits by that IP range so those edits can be reverted as well? Thank you. SWAdair 09:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On my /useful js page, linked from my userpage, there is a "specialadmin" script that can pull edits for /24 ranges (the last 20) and for /16 for the last 5000 IP edits in RC. Tim may change RC soon in a way that /16 edits can be more effictively retrieved. At any rate, the /24 tool is still quite useful, though it requires some browser security changes (not safe in IE). In the future I will give the option to not give WHOIS/DNS info so as to avoid the security stuff.Voice-of-All 19:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you look at Al Gore III[edit]

One user is pushing POV consistently and ignores consensus, plus has been pushing the envelope of what troll-like behavior looks like before it's actually trolling. BusterD 17:43, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've reported user for 3RR, reported myself for personal attacks (I believe the record will find my innocent of such). BusterD 20:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Quantum mind[edit]

Can you provide any information about the extent of the problem with the Quantum mind article? I do not have good tools, but I have found only a few sentences in the Quantum mind article that seem to have similarity to the text of this other page. What was the "request by owner"? --JWSchmidt 03:36, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Rollback[edit]

Sockpupptry, and even though they're not there, it's proven by means of their actions.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 05:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. I suspected the sort. The OTRS message was immediatly followed by another one trying to hack one of the admin's passwords.Voice-of-All 05:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Would you mind expanding on this through another medium?—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 05:19, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Taichung[edit]

I hope the unblocking of the page is warrented and that there won't be any further problems. I hope you will keep a sharp eye on it. I have been doing a lot of work on it and the subsidiary pages and I would hate to have to waste my time with vandals again.

Thanks. Ludahai 11:55, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maria Pia of Saxe Coburg Braganza[edit]

I have never see an encyclopedia where a pretender is declared false or impostor without insert the impartial and legal source. Also for this is correct and neutral delete in the pretender wikipage [[4]] the affirmation against Rosario Poidimani, the heir of Maria Pia, as false pretender. Infact the last news in this dispute is the Portuguese Government has officially decides [ see http://www.parlamento.pt/plc/requerimento.aspx?req_id=36925] to not "legitimize" any pretenders because the Portugal is a Repubblic and so it can't enter in this matter. This decision is obtained after the request of the president of the People's Monarchist Party (Partido Popular Monárquico) against the abuse of power of the portuguese ambassador in Italy that the last year declared Duarte Pio is the legitimate pretender in Portugal. At the end there are not impartial sources that judge Maria Pia and Rosario as false pretender, so if some users insert this affirmation this is only a NPOV or their personal points of view (at the contrary please insert here the impartial and official source of this). Many royalist in Portugal affirm the only fake and false Duke of Braganza and pretender in Portugal is Duarte Pio of Braganza [ http://duarteotretas.blogspot.com/ ]. At the end I think is appropriate insert in the wiki page of this pretender the name Maria Pia of Saxe Coburg Braganza and not Hilda Toledano. Hilda Toledano is only a pseudonym as writer but here we discuss of her claims and in all her official documents is reported only the name Maria Pia de Saxe Coburg Braganza. This is other NPOV attempt to denigrate this pretender in order to favour Duarte Pio. Please help for a neutral encyclopedia. Justiceiro 18:00, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II bug[edit]

When VoABot II reverted some vandalism on African elephant, it failed to go back far enough, so it failed to revert the damage to the interwiki links. See this diff: [5]. It stated that it was reverting to the version by me, yet it went to the partially blanked version by that IP. I am just letting you know about this bug. Jesse Viviano 20:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a bug in the bot, it is server side. The bot only reverts to previous revisions, it does not edit them. This has happened before. I reviewed the code before. I looked at the bot's page view history and found "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=African_elephant&oldid=84166835&action=edit" as the revert. That ID is identical to the ID by your edit. However, no history revision at all matches what the bot reverted to.Voice-of-All 00:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Bot[edit]

I've blocked your bot because of this [6]. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 00:42, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is Undoubtedly the Worst Bot Ever[edit]

It just reverted a change I spent several hours making. No reason was given. I think you really need to delete this thing and start over.

If you check on that edit history, you'll see anon is making a dubious claim. Just FYI. Looks to me like the bot was on target.Kaisershatner 20:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Muirfield High School[edit]

Hi. I was just updating information about Muirfield High School, and my changes were reverted by bot. It said "Possible problem was link spam or vandalism." I had been on the Muirfield High School edit page for a long time (15 minutes, possibly longer) and I'm wondering if that's why my update didn't work. I'm just curious why it was deleted. Thanks. Megan102

Angelina Jolie[edit]

Hi, I don't understand why you erased the information I added on Angelina's page. I was told that the initial info I had added needed a source, therefore I came back to add this source, which you erased. Can I ask why ? Now that this source is missing, the initial info itself will be questionned, I will be told again to put down a source, and so on... Thanks. Olaf750. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Olaf750 (talk • contribs) 13:07, 7 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I was going to leave you a note about this. It appears the bot removed a legitimate citation from this user. With the added stress being put on WP:CITE and WP:V and the fact that a policy on speedy deleting articles without citations is being discussed, removing citations on the basis that the user is new is particularly problematic. As it happened, this particular citation wasn't usable because it went to the wrong location and was non-English, but it might have been a correct one. 23skidoo 15:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

Hey I saw that you took down my article for me. Thanks for the help. nlovertoom

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nlovertoom (talk • contribs) 05:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

False warning[edit]

I just reverted the Monroe Doctrine to an earlier page because it got vandalized and I got warned by the bot TehNomad 00:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism??[edit]

Hi. I just updated information on a entry for Current Publishing, adding the two new newspapers and more in-depth information. This is the first time I used Wikipedia and had to make a number of edits. Apparently the bot thinks I am a vandal, when I was simply trying to make sure everything was correct and accurate. What do I do to get my changes posted? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CurrentPublishing (talk • contribs) 18:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Crassus[edit]

Hi this is user nlovertoom, I added to the Crassus page. I placed a section of a larger article of mine on the page. After talking with a professor of mine he seems to think that it would be better to take the article off for the present time. I tried to simply edit and delete what I had posted and got slapped with attempted vandalism (Of my own work mind you). If you could help me out by taking down my article post or at least allowing me to delete my section on the page that would be a great help. I will surely re-post in the future but for the time being I need to play it safe with my paper so as not to be accused of plagiarism. Thank you. nlovertoom —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nlovertoom (talk • contribs) 09:35, 5 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

bot[edit]

Could you have a look at what VoABot II is doing at Hilda Toledano. It's making edits that are not at all desirable, reinstating changes by a known troll and supposedly banned user and subverting efforts to clean up his nonsense. In particular, it would be good if VoABot II didn't remove the Imposter Pretender category: if it's to be removed, it should be removed only by a human user. - Nunh-huh 21:33, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed it from the watchlist.Voice-of-All 22:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That's probably the best solution, thanks. - Nunh-huh 23:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]


In the past I edited anonymously, but this time I signed up as jimtitus. I started out by editing Glenn Dale Maryland to add a link to the Glenn Dale Citizens Association web site, where the text mentioned when the association has its meetings. I am guessing that the problem is that the website is geocities. Thanks. Jim

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva[edit]

This bot is changing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to put back the ridiculous statements like "Lula's only aim is to make himself rich", etc. Whether one likes him or not, this is not substantiable by any objective evidence. So I don't think those changes should be made robotically. (unsigned)

In other words: it's fighting with other bot. Unfortunately, BotVoiceOfAll is trying to keep the vandalised version. José San Martin 00:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My edition was reverted by possible vandalism... Uh, this bot algorithm should be modified to make it even better, I don't edit much, but by profile isn't of the kind of vandalists :) --Henriquevicente 20:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That was mainly a bug that seems to have been fixed.Voice-of-All 01:25, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ARV[edit]

Do you think you could perhaps add the page title for AGF rollbacks like they are on vandal rollbacks?—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 09:31, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Admin-Holidays[edit]

Enjoy your admin-Holidays ;-) Fantasy 12:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II needs to look into history before reverting[edit]

Just noticed the reversion in History of Chemistry. Exactly how automatic is this bot? I ask because I see the same user (anonIP) had made two successive vandalisms, but the reversion was a literal "revert to previous version" not "previous version by someone else", so half the crap remained. A common vandal (or to be generous, newbie test) trick is to make a random change and then self-revert. From the outside, that "last edit" often looks like vandalism, so reverting it actually reinstates the real vandalism. That's bad. DMacks 06:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note the revision #84176351 was by user 128.97.138.78. The bot creates the summary based on the URL of the page it was saving (e.g "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_chemistry&oldid=84176351"). It then saves, so that should have been correct.Voice-of-All 06:53, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know quite what you're saying there. The page it saved with that edit summary does not match the version mentioned in the summary. It actually looks like it was the second edit that got ignored. Perhaps the second one occurred while the bot was processing the first, so it didn't get noticed. That is, the bot exactly reverted the first vandalism edit instead of reverting to the specific version it claimed? DMacks 07:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It did loaded the correct revision and saved. I talked to devs on #mediawiki and the problem is that the IP must have edited the page while the bot was reverting the first edit, the server tried to merge the IP's second vandal edit with mine, as mine was a second older and so it stored a version that the bot never actually saved.Voice-of-All 16:47, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

Hi VoA...I was wondering if you missed my question to you here. Thanks in advance! Khoikhoi 06:55, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! BTW, did you ever see that question of mine? ;-) Khoikhoi 02:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I replied in the archives :)Voice-of-All 02:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ah! I forgot to check. But wait, can't I add the IPs for only specific pages (and not all the pages in the bot's watchlist)? I just feel the IP ranges aren't specific enough and this would make the bot revert people that aren't Aucaman. Khoikhoi 02:25, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia: Articles for creation[edit]

I noticed that you used {{subst:afc top}} on a suggestion that you accepted at WP:AFC. This gave it a grey background, which is used for declined suggestions. For an accepted suggestion, {{subst:afc top|accept}} is usually used. Thanks. -- kenb215 talk 14:21, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blocking Texas Instruments ip ranges[edit]

You blocked our Texas Instruments proxy IP ranges as if we vandels. I think there must be a mistake. All traffic from TI will come from 192.91.75.0-128. Several tens of thousands of employees behind those proxies. Specific IPs are for specific buildings. For example, 192.91.75.30 is educational/productivity R&D. Blocking one address knocks out a several thousand people from editting.--ZacBowling 15:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)--ZacBowling 15:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you remove this? you never anwsered my question or replied back here or on my talk page. I never got a response... There is a lot of reasons why people inside TI would want to stay anonymous if they edit for a number of reasons. TI makes a lot of products. --ZacBowling 18:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You have failed to respond to any of communications since I started in August, so I'm going ahead and appealing your block. --ZacBowling 16:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II revert[edit]

Your bot just reverted a reversal of a page blanking (kinda) with the reason "link spam". Just thought I'd let you know. --Conti|✉ 16:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I thought that one was odd as well. I'd have personally chosen to revert the one that took out 95% of the article including all the ref tags, rather than the one that restored it. :-) GreenReaper 17:01, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot just reverted back to the vandalism, thought you ought to know... Tsuite 01:51, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It happened again Tsuite 01:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
OK, this should be limited now. I've added a failsafe, and will add more if needed.Voice-of-All 06:54, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

195.93.21.41 vandalism[edit]

Hi, there is a continuous vandalism by the anonymous 195.93.21.41 in Hilda Toledano page, pretender page, and Duke of Braganza page. This anonymous, a big supporter of the other portuguese pretender Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza continue with his libel against the pretender Maria Pia of Saxe Coburg Braganza, aka Hilda Toledano, and continue to insert in these page Maria Pia as impostor or false pretender in order to favour the pretender Duarte Pio. These are only his personal point of view and so is not possible in this encyclopedia he continue to libel Maria Pia and her heir. Please help in this situation and block this anonymous. Thanks Justiceiro 20:30, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AfDs[edit]

There seems to be a new {{la}} template used in AfDs - will you be adding this bud? Glen 17:43, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, Im a dick. I see you edited that very template weeks ago - my recent nom didnt have it for some reason? Glen 17:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It's an edit to the AfD2 template. Just correctly subst'ing the afd2 template gets the links to appear. See Template talk:Afd2 and Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion for details (was passing by on a random survey of people on the Admin/Standards page to drop off the note below, and noticed this little comment! :-) ). Carcharoth 01:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MfD on Admin Standards pages[edit]

Please see this deletion debate. Carcharoth 01:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help?[edit]

The VoABot II did not like my edits for this page and labeled it as vandalism. I think it's because I'm a new user. I only moved around the content to make it more organized. Can I request for my edits to be reviewed and restored? -Raica 10:12, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Admin coaching request[edit]

I have put myself up on editor review; if you'd like to provide feedback, I'd appreciate anything you might offer. Seems like a simple bar and a good foundation upon which to build. BusterD 01:51, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot on Requests for Page Protection[edit]

It seems likg VoABot is incorrectly archiving requests. [7] [8]

Cheers, Ansell 02:24, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

It still seems to be doing the same thing to the Aerosmith entry on RFPP. Ansell 04:22, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Roger Needham page[edit]

Hey, VoA. A while back you kindly cleaned the history of Roger Needham (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). The protection was removed recently, and unsurprisingly the vandal came back. Can your bot help you clean the history again? (If you have to do it manually, I can do it — but the process looks like such a pain I thought maybe your bot can help you get it done more easily.) Thanks. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 02:30, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot[edit]

Your bot is removing requests that weren't done at [9]. Angela. 03:05, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, however the old version will still be running on my computer back home for a while (I live on campus). The bug can be avoided by making sure each section has a date signature posted in it.Voice-of-All 04:49, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot live patch[edit]

I've installed a live patch to stop your bot from killing the master DB server. It should be effectively blocked. Please stop your bot and contact me on #wikimedia-tech on irc.freenode.net. -- Tim Starling 06:33, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, well if you're not online, I should probably give you a summary here. The problem was apparently a flood of null edits to Wikipedia:List of protected pages and its subpages. In addition to fixing this null edit problem, please ensure that your bot runs in a single thread, and waits for responses from the server before issuing the next request. I'll give a detailed justification for this if you want it. -- Tim Starling 07:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Its supposed to abort rather than submit if it detects no changes to be made, however this has falled behind as new things were added, I've added a more complete, unified null edit checker today. As for threading, I am not sure exactly how to go about that. Do you mean that it should have only one active window open at a time? It seems like that would not really be needed, or at least maybe a delay could help.Voice-of-All 16:05, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Taichung[edit]

Ok, you lifted the block, but you don't seem to be monitoring the page. The vandals with their unsourced, negative commentary on the city are back. Take a look at the history. I have put too much time to bring this article up to snuff to see it ruined now. Ludahai 08:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AFC[edit]

I see you responded to a number of AFC suggestions with the message "not done" and a few words for the reason. Since this page is mostly used by newbies they're not going to be familiar with most of those terms. Have you considered using AFC response templates to answer? - Mgm|(talk) 08:58, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Already down right before you said that :). I use script.Voice-of-All 09:02, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe this is helpful for you?[edit]

Hey mate

You may or may not recall I mentioned that AfD's were using the {{la}} template within them. Well yesterday I suggested that we switched to {{la-admin}} as it adds a deletion link, handy for clear deletes. It seems the community has accepted the idea with all subsequent using it.

Well, I've updated my userspace copy of your Deletion script so it now uses {{la-admin}} and also adds category template that has also been used for some time. If its help the replacement lines below the AfD is already at this location warning is 

            }
          else
            document.editform.wpTextbox1.value += '===[[' + target + ']]===\n' +
              '{{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD|{{{cat}}}}}\n\n' +
              ':{{la-admin|' + target + '}}\n' +
              'Reason for nom ~~' + '~~\n*\n*\n*\n';

I've tested with no probs, but of course you're the expert. Hope this may save you a minute or two sometime anyway :)  Glen  09:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If it works, then you can update the main pool, I don't mind.Voice-of-All 09:06, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Admin status[edit]

Do you want your admin status back now? (If not, post at m:RFP when you do.) Jon Harald Søby 17:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'll wait till the 15th. Thanks.Voice-of-All 17:10, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

YouTube / New User[edit]

I am a juniorprofessor at the University of Hannover. I have uploaded some mathematical videos that my students made for a topology seminar to YouTube (eg. "the Alexenader Sphere" or "The Klein Bottle") and tried to put a link on Alexander_sphere. I understand that there is a lot of YouTube spam by new users and that I have no previous history of contributing to the english WikiPedia (even though I contributed to the german one). Is putting YouTube links generally frowned upon or do I just have to wait until my account is older? I don't want to do anything that is considered spam by the WikiPedia community. --Hans-Christian v. Bothmer 09:33, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Overactive revert[edit]

This BOT reverted my adition of a citation to the article Andrew Wyeth. I can see its blanket blocking Geocities websites (thats kind of anoying). Am not sure what it is instructing on my user page so I simply reverted it back. Fountains of Bryn Mawr 22:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC) Did it again.... any way to stop this bot? Fountains of Bryn Mawr 22:09, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IRC channel[edit]

Do you know how I can get invited to #wikipedia-en-admins? I could get on it in the last week, now it's telling me I need to be invited. Sorry to ask, but you're the only one I remember seeing there who was actively chatting. --Aguerriero (talk) 04:24, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Tabs[edit]

Hi VOA:

I noticed some new tabs have appeared in my absence, and I'm wondering if perhaps they are included in some one of your scripts that I'm using. The specific one that I'm interested in is a "since" tab that, while useful, causes my purge tab to disappear. Would you mind to drop me a note on my talk to let me know if the tabs are part of your code, and if so, how I would go about removing that particular one? Thanks! Essjay (Talk) 05:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thats part of the history script, which is SRCed into the bcrat script.Voice-of-All 20:19, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

+sysop[edit]

You're now a sysop again. I hope your break was satisfactory. Regards — Dan | talk 05:05, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merci :). Voice-of-All 15:49, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article about Wikipedia Users[edit]

Hello,

I am a freelance writer working on an article about the wide array of people who make Wikipedia their life, their passion, their pastime. Wikipedia “addicts” if you will. I'm also looking at all the "behind the scenes" goings on at Wikipedia that the average reader of the site never knows about. I intend on focusing a little on several of the unofficial Wikipedia organizations that members are a part of such as Esperenza et al. As such, I would like to speak to you about your experience as an adminstrator, specifically your involvement in the Admin Coaching program. If you are interested in participating, please email me at brianwrites@gmail.com. FFFearlesss 20:25, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Non-admin RC script[edit]

Can you think of any reason why my version of the script has become broken recently? I wiped my monobook and re-subst'd the script from your page, having cleared my cache God knows how many times. Is this a problem you know about, or have I done something wrong? —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 16:04, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can confirm this as well. All the talk page/revert links are now gone, as is the UTC clock in the upper right-hand corner. — Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 23:21, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Seems that it's back all of a sudden.  :) — Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 16:30, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My problem was just that the yellow summary boxes that appear when hovering over wikilinks don't appear. Lupin's tools etc. still work fine. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 15:16, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification[edit]

That cleared things up. Cheers and good luck in the Arbcom elections. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 02:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cristiano Ronaldo[edit]

I noticed a couple days ago you unprotected the Cristiano Ronaldo page. The reason why it was semi-protected in the first place was because it was a high risk article for vandalism. Apparently it hasn't changed much since you unblock it. I think it's time to put the semi-protection back. Kingjeff 20:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From what I see, there is as many vandalisms in the last couple days as there were in almost a month of semi-protection. Kingjeff 20:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AdventureQuest[edit]

Hildanknight wants me to partial protect AdventureQuest because he feels that anon editors are abusing the article. WhisperToMe 06:17, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I need your bot[edit]

We have a problem with a persistent vandal who has a grudge against user:Chuq and admin:Longhair for reverting unsourced POV changes he wanted to make to a couple of article. Now he posts a few times a day from random IP addresses all over the world which he claims are open proxies or network servers configured with the factory default password. It is possible to set VoA bot II to watch for him? Also, can the bot report the IP addresses used somewhere?

Here are some typical edits [10] [11] [12] [13]

Thanks. Thatcher131 04:39, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The bot only watches shared IPs/new user edits to any page and edit by all non-sysops to certain pages. The IPs seem pretty random, and if the pages are random that is a problem. I'd like to get quick proxy scan scrapping added though, that might help if possible.Voice-of-All 20:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoA scripts[edit]

Hey, I'm a fellow admin who uses your monobook javascripts, and I just had a question. When I'm at WP:RFPP, I frequently use your "sysop response" for quick replies. However, for some strange reason, I could no longer see that button when I was responding to RFPP's. Also, it seems I can no longer automatically protect pages by clicking on my toolbox when I am editing an article. Any reason why that happened? Nishkid64 18:06, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed now.Voice-of-All 19:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot. =) Nishkid64 15:12, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another script[edit]

Hi, VoA. Speaking of scripts, we have been discussing a change in the archiving system for RfAs. Mainly, the page Wikipedia:Recently created admins is usually way too long, something that people have often complained about. So, in a thread started by J Di, we have started discussing breaking down the archive (pages that are no longer transcluded are moved to the archive, with a link to the RfA and the date when the RfA was closed), creating subpages by year and leaving in the main page only links to those pages. I have also proposed limiting the number of simultaneous transclusions to the page to 4 or 5. I was still waiting to see if anyone was going to disagree with the format proposed or propose something else before I mentioned this to you, but since it's been already brought up in the discussion, whereas no opposition to the proposed changes have been raised, I thought that I might as well ask you if you would like to go through the discussion (here) in order to assess what that might entail for your scripts for semi-automated closing of RfAs, which some Bureaucrats use :-) . No changes will be effected until we can design a plan to make any necessary changes in an orderly, swiftly manner, in order to minimize the inconvenience to those using the script. So, whenever you have a little time, let us know. Cheers, Redux 18:41, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Its usually easier to make the script once I visually see how the page will be setup exactly. You may want to go ahead with it and I'll cache up. As long as all the crats know.Voice-of-All 18:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dan100[edit]

Hi. I'm writing because user Dan100 has a habit of making very drastic, knee-jerk changes to articles, while completely ignoring ongoing debates on article talk pages.

He recently (yesterday) took it upon himself to effectively delete a mid-length article (Street Thunder) and merge it with the Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film) article, despite the fact that a convincing argument had been made to keep the to two articles separate and that the matter seemed to be closed.

I reverted his changes and left a note on his talk page and on the Assault on Precinct 13 talk page. However, I noticed that this user has a history of ignoring talk page debates and doing whatever he feels like doing. At least two other users before me have cited him for the same thing, yet he persists in making drastic changes to articles regardless of what the prevailing opinion on the talk pages may be. Sullenspice 15:59, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The fictional gang article does seem a bit weak on its own, and the movie is not really notable enough to have a set of subpages. Its a close call, and the seperate page is not doing to much harm where it is. I am not sure what you are implying I should do about Dan100 though.Voice-of-All 18:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Granted, the Street Thunder article could definitely stand to be improved, but the movie IS certainly notable enough to have a set of subpages. You may not be familiar with Assault on Precinct 13, but it's a highly influential genre film that was enormously commercially and critically successful in Europe and later had a cult following in the US. Personally, I'm against merging and think the Street Thunder article should stay separate from the main movie article.

Anyway, my problem with Dan100 is that he decided to arbitrarily "jump the gun" and merge the article without having taken any part in the discussion on that page. He just went ahead and merged it. There was absolutely no consensus on the talk page that the article should be merged. In fact, the last user convincingly argued that the article should be kept separate, and that seemed to be the end of the discussion. Dan100 either didn't bother to read the discussion, or he arrogantly decided to ignore it. He has done this sort of thing at least twice before on other pages, he continues to do it despite being told by other users that it is not proper procedure (and rude), and he should receive some sort of warning from an admin.

Sullenspice 22:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Revolver (album)[edit]

The edit here refers. This link seems a useful resource. I have invited comments on the talk page. Please leave it pending discussion. TerriersFan 00:39, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom questions[edit]

Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're doing a series on ArbCom candidates, and your response is requested.

  1. What positions do you hold (adminship, mediation, etc.)?
  2. Why are you running for the Arbitration Committee?
  3. Have you been involved in any arbitration cases? In what capacity?

Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press late Monday or early Tuesday (UTC), but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 (talk) 02:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just checking to see if you missed this :) Ral315 (talk) 05:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Four flushing[edit]

Why am I not allowed to edit this page? I didn't vandalize this page, I looked for more informations. Pooter-the-clown 07:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

what are you doing with Christoph Thoke ?[edit]

Hallo Bot, what are you doing with Christoph Thoke ? The films Buffalo Boy and Tropical Malady can not be linked interally; they are the changes are marked as vandalizm??? Thank you twister99

Reversion[edit]

Can you check this thread? Your bot seems to be reverting a legitimate edit multiple times. Anchoress 12:45, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.Voice-of-All 04:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony Glise[edit]

The bot seems to be going after legit wikifying that Wikiadd64501 is trying to make to Anthony Glise. Could you check it out, please? Thanks. Catbar (Brian Rock) 01:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The text "CUM " was tripping it; fixed.Voice-of-All 04:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mitch Clem[edit]

I significantly expanded the article on Mitch Clem, when all of my editing was reverted by VoABot II. Is there a way I can edit this article without having the bot delete all of my work?--Zinman13 20:47, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The link "www.myspace.com/mitchclem/" is the problem. I'd avoid adding those. Thanks. Please re-add the rest. Sorry.Voice-of-All 04:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

War[edit]

Here is another one:[14] HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 04:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The bot is programmed to try to avoid reverting back to vandalism if it reverted due to the user being new/warned/shared ip/server if to the watchlist and also if it just tried to remove "links to be avoided". I've added to the regexps some key things to look for improve that.Voice-of-All 04:51, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Frankendoodle[edit]

Whenever I try to legitimately clean up the Quotes section, the bot reverts it back to a more poorly formatted version.

Too much of the quotes look like vandalism to the bot. In fact, those episode pages are way to crufted up to the point that they just like childish and loaded with random trivia (trivia usually is avoided) and quotes. At any rate, you should edit other things and wait a bit, so that the very new user contrib log stops following you. Since the bot scans new users from this, you would be able to pass it. But I'd advise you to trim, preferable removing the quotes section unless the quotes are notable.Voice-of-All 05:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Antediluvian Rocking Horse[edit]

Hey there. Just letting you know the bot reverted multiple edits, when one should have sufficed. (history, diff) Gzkn 12:58, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks for reminding me about that; edits that revert poor quality "links to be avoided" will now only revert one revision back.Voice-of-All 16:24, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello :)[edit]

I think, from memory, this is yours. Note next to AWB edits it says: 0% (0 edit(s)), but if you look in my contributions I have plenty of AWB edits ([15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24]) are just some.. Thanks! Please reply on my page — Deon555talkdesk 03:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.Voice-of-All 05:40, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Perfect. Thanks! — Deon555talkdesk 23:39, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I just fixed another bug causing the edits/day to be low.Voice-of-All 07:52, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portfolio for ArbCom[edit]

On Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Summary table, I added a column "Examples" with links that exhibit a candidate's arbitration skills. My motivation is that as a voter, I don't want to just rely on a candidate's words, but also see their actions. Moreover, I believe a portfolio of "model cases" to remember in difficult situations can be useful for each candidate, as well.

So far I have entered examples for the candidates who registered first (from their questions page), and I'm not sure if and when I will get to yours, so you may want to enter an example or two yourself. — Sebastian (talk) 00:20, 4 December 2006 (UTC)    (I may not be watching this page anymore. If you would like to continue the conversation, please do so here and let me know.)[reply]

It will take a long time to dig up diffs (I have more helpfull things to do), but a few examples that might matter would be:
  • Not fulfilling a punitive request to block user Steel359 (at WP:3RR)
  • Dealing with disruptive behavoir at the Neuro-linguistic programming article as a mediator without becoming heavy handed
  • Helping draft the WP:SEMI policy
Thanks.Voice-of-All 16:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your reply. Obviously, it is harder for me to find them than it is for you. I did look for the last one, though, as that one seems easier to find. Are you referring to your contributions on Wikipedia talk:Semi-protection policy/Archive 1? — Sebastian (talk) 20:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Those edit-history reports you used to put on RfA pages...?[edit]

Do you still have/are you willing to share the tool that produced those things? (Maybe I'm blind, but I can't seem to find any link to it anywhere...it didn't rely on the toolserver, did it?) I'm looking to produce a similar-in-spirit type of report for the 24 hours over which an FA is on the main page, broken down by % major edits, vandalism reversions, etc., and by % anon edits vs registered users. But I'd really rather not reinvent the wheel, and your reports seemed quite good at identifying major edits in particular, which is rather important to the quality of the results. Thanks! Opabinia regalis 03:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, you are awesome! A couple of questions on the output: is the "probable reverts" category the set of edits that are likely to have been reverts not marked as such, or the set of "marked reverts" that actually did revert? If the former, I'm a bit confused, since % reverts should presumably max out around 50% (plausibly slightly over 50% due to not reverting far enough the first time). I linked to your post from the discussion ongoing about semiprotection of FAs while on the main page. Opabinia regalis 00:38, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
42.27% of the edits were reverts, as the stats say. 31.9%, more specifically, where most likely to be vandalism reverts. The two numbers are not independent if that's what you where thinking.Voice-of-All 01:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot revert[edit]

Why did this mad bot revert apparently constructive changes to Arctic Tern - is it to do with the editor, Panchap, or did i miss something? jimfbleak 06:41, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The raw text encoding (&amp) stuff threw it off; fixed.Voice-of-All 19:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why was "Tunneling protocol" reverted?[edit]

User:Starunj (who I am not affiliated with) added the following external reference to Tunneling protocol: Tunneling SSH from behind an HTTP proxy server

Why was this considered as vandalism and reverted by VoABot_II ? Mange01 12:28, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One regexp was too short (for deteting all consonant garbage words). Fixed.Voice-of-All 19:24, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wildwood Christian School[edit]

The bot incorrectly reverted my edits to Wildwood Christian School. I'm not sure why. I've since re-edited it, and it's fine. Thought you should know. Frexes 16:47, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate questions[edit]

Would you clarify what appears to be a typo here? Thanks. Guettarda 20:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, its a typo :).Voice-of-All 20:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Good ot hear. Now I just have to comb through all your other responses (and then vote). Guettarda 01:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Folding@Home[edit]

The bot reverted my reversion of a blanked article, returning it to being blank. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Folding%40home&oldid=92293377. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by StoptheDatabaseState (talk • contribs) 20:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

  • Ok, actually it didn't revert the edit - it just said it had on my talk page! StoptheDatabaseState 20:28, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I see it reverted you at Down Syndrome. This is really due to me disabling the function that checks if its about to add vandalism before saving. The problem is that function lags and freezes the bot.Voice-of-All 20:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question/Request[edit]

Okay, first, I just wanted to know if the {{message}} button that comes up whenever I'm responding on a talk page is from your VoA script.

If it is, can I make two requests:

  • Can you add {{vandalblock}} ~~~~ to the list? That would really help me out when I'm blocking vandals at AIV.
  • When I go to a userpage, is it possible to have a little button to {{indefblock}} a user? That also would help out.

Thanks, and sorry if I made a mistake in regards to your script. Nishkid64 22:36, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah okay it is. I'm talking about User:Voice of All/Adminwarnings/monobook.js. Nishkid64 22:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shut Off Button[edit]

Perhaps I'm asking a stupid question, but is your shut off button real? I'd press it to see, but I haven't for fear of actually messing something up... -WarthogDemon 00:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It works, it is a standard template. However, the bot will still do a lot of page and edit request, so its better to block by clicking changing the settings (see the orange bar) to VoABot_ON=0.Voice-of-All 04:40, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks for reverting in Karma in Hinduism[edit]

I appreciate it as I and others spent a lot of time writing the article.

Raj2004 00:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bot reverting legitimate edit to Caribbean Community[edit]

Hello, I got a message saying that your bot had automatically reverted my recent edit to the Caribbean Community article. Now I appreciate that vandals and trolls tend to run wild at times on Wikipedia, however my edit was a very carefully referenced edit (all of it coming from newspaper articles). Could you please just have your bot revert the changes or at least allow me to reinstate the edit (which was an update to a section of the article)? 72.27.99.73 03:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accountabillity[edit]

Thanks for your reply to my concerns. I specifically mentioned holding admins accountable to the community as you said that you prefered not to submit desysopped admins to RfA which I think should be a near absolute requirement (other than emergency or temporary desysoppings during ungoing cases). You also stated that the beaurocrats promotional decisions are generally not reviewable by ArbCom which I think is the wrong tack to take given the breach of consensus in the Carnildo RfA. I also think that claims of community consensus rather than that evidenced on a particular RfA or AfD are far too easily abused to do whatever the beaurocrat/admin wants rather than the will of the community and as such are simply unacceptable. I don't mean to deny your contributions to the encyclopedia or tour general fitness to be an arbitrator, but we seem to have a disagreement in what I regard as a fundamental issue within wikipedia (people not feeling bound by demonstrated consensus) Eluchil404 05:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bottom line I was dissatisfied with your answers to the 1st question by Mailer Diablo and the sencond from AnonEMouse and (since I regard them as reflecting a very important issue) that pushed me ever so slightly into the oppose collumn. Eluchil404 06:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I do agree that WP:Consensus is poorly written, but am not sure of the best way forward myself. I am not sure that there is any expression of consensus that all users (or even all admins) would consider binding. In any event, I wish you well in whatever capacity you can serve wikipedia. Eluchil404 06:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This Bot is Terrible[edit]

This bot reverted a merger on humour to humor, and calls it "either vandalism or link spam." Someone take care of it please. Goodlief

It saw it as "blanking", as the redirect detection was missing from one of the subroutines; fixed.Voice-of-All 19:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Andrea leigh fitcher[edit]

This bot reverted a user adding linkspam to the above article, however the version it reverted to was an older edit by same user - is this what the bot is meant to do? Davidprior 14:44, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Javascript question[edit]

Since you seem to be something of a javascript guru I was wondering if you could help me. I'm trying to make a script User:The wub/cfdclose.js for closing CfD debates, based on a similar one for AfDs. However the major difference is that on CfD the top closing template ({{cfd top}}) should be inserted below the h4 heading. Is there an easy way of doing this? I can't find anything at Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts. the wub "?!" 16:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You bot "stealing" warnings[edit]

Howdy!

Regarding edits like this... The revert was actually mine, so it looks a bit silly (and might also confuse the editor in question) if it reads "was reverted by automated bot" (I was still human last time I checked). ;-) Would it be difficult to make the bot make sure that it did the actual revert and warn only if it did? Cheers, Миша13 22:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Surfing Areas[edit]

I got blocked from editing the Australia section of the "List of Surfing Areas". All I am trying to do is creat a more comprehensive list, by adding all the information I know from my experiences (I am an Australian Surfer!)

May I please edit your page? Why was I Blocked?

Regards,

ZacharyGM Australia —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ZacharyGM (talk • contribs) 01:07, 7 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Received the following message:

Regarding your edit to Royal Australian Air Force: Your recent edit to Royal Australian Air Force (diff) was reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism or link spam to the page. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. Thanks! // VoABot II 00:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Safjohn"

I am a new user and made the entry in good faith.

could you please tell me what the problem is and I shall try my best to follow your instructions.

Regards

safjohn


Timber[edit]

WHy is your bot reverting my edit which redirects it to Lumber? and please remove your warning from my talk page. thnx --Poorman1 05:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure that should be redirected, but at any rate, the redirect dectection was fixed.Voice-of-All 16:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Parker School[edit]

Your bot, VoABot II, is reverting my revert to a previous version of this article, which has been clearly been vandalized. Also, please remove your bot's warning from my talk page. Thanks ThePointblank 07:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, it should no longer revert removal of huge unwikified rants.Voice-of-All 16:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

Thanks for saving the Ely Buendia article! Moonwalkerwiz 07:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VOABOT thanks![edit]

It is good to see a bot up and helping with vandalism reverts. I havent seen anti vandal bot in the past few days so I had been tackling the more blatant vandalism and had less time devoted to tricky vandalism! Glad somebody scrambled the bot for backup! Thanks again. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 15:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Freakazoid![edit]

Looks like it took less than 2 days for the vandals to hit Freakazoid! again. I believe this article needs long-term semi-protection, as the particular vandalism is a 4chan in-joke, and as long as 4chan kiddies come over here, they'll keep vandalizing the article. I can't re-protect it, since I'm not an admin. Would you please re-semi-protect? -- Jay Maynard 17:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawing from ArbCom elections[edit]

It's too bad you withdrew. 74% isn't that bad; you never know, it could've happened. Ah well. The past is the past. --Cyde Weys 17:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, it wouldn't have. On top of that, it would have finished at 60% or less probably, as I had oppose votes with long comments, which lead to people glancing at them and "opposing per ...". Also, there are other issues too.Voice-of-All 01:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not likely...[edit]

Thanks for unprotecting Freakazoid!; while I agree that, after a while, articles should be unprotected, I've attempted to do that in the past with the article, only to have it immediately vandalized again. As it is, I've already had to perform one rollback on the article.

Currently, I'm watching to see if it happens again (with any frequency). I'll probably end up protecting it again. Still, I thought I'd drop you a line to say "thanks anyway". :-) EVula // talk // ☯ // 18:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Colton Joint Unified School District[edit]

I think your VoABot II reverted the page for the Colton Joint Unified School District in error. I merely added a list of the schools that are located in the district along with external links to those schools. Regards, ColTony 05:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted and fixed.Voice-of-All 19:09, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please let me edit[edit]

Please unblock me from editing the pages I have been editing. I don't understand the problem. Let me know what I am doing wrong.

Regards

ZacharyGM —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.94.174.130 (talk) 05:42, 8 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

The bot only reverted your edit added a youtube link. The rest is still there. Voice-of-All 19:11, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2BOB FM[edit]

Hi ya, newbie alert =ON Just doing an update on 2BOB and my changes got reverted by bot. Possible problem was link spam or vandalism. I wasn't - but I may have made a formatting error that triggered the bot. I claim stupidity!! (That's like pleading insanity right?) Please, when you aren't busy, review the changes and... tell me what I did wrong? newbie alert = OFF Jacketed 08:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted and fixed.Voice-of-All 19:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This bot is malfunctioning[edit]

I was removing vandalism and your so-called antivandalism bot returns the vandalism back in the article. --Pancasila 12:40, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This was not a bot error, a template was vandalized. Templates are content that you can get to show on many different pages just be referencing them with {{template page name}}. The vandalism was to the actual template it appears.Voice-of-All 19:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another error. Matt kleekamp. Unsure what the BOT did, but the summary you gave is completely incorrect. Turlo Lomon 13:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A bit of clarification on the above. The author of the article was having problems trying to link on a garbage article, and BOT kept undoing his changes. Turlo Lomon 14:01, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Analysis of Featured article edits while on Main Page[edit]

Hi there. I saw this and I was wondering if you could do the same for The Lord of the Rings (recently had, maybe still does, the record for most number of edits while on the Main Page). See here for details. Thanks. Carcharoth 12:40, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hai,

I've recently created an article about Tapak Suci. It's an indonesian martial arts style. I've added a picture and some reference sites. The problem is it identified one of the site as spam. It's the www.welcome.to/tapaksuci_sg link. Because of this al my editting are gone including the picture I put in. Een though the site is vital for the article. I find this an error of the bot that reverted my edittings. Could you please retrieve the written data. The www.welcome.to website can be deleated which then I will apply for the white list.

Sincerely Anthony

Reverting my revert[edit]

Please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_resource?action=history

I was reverting an addition of "Cocksucker" (which had been just added in) unfortionetly I need to go in, and do a manual revert because someone had changed the statement there before, but real content has been added in afterwards

If possible, you may want to have VoAbot II check back 3 levels of history (I know, that's much more proccess intensive) to catch just this sort of thing

Thank You

Fbarton 19:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It normally scans the text it's about to revert to and aborts over stuff like that, but that function also seems to crash the bot :( .Voice-of-All 19:17, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mischa Barton[edit]

What is your problem? I made the image smaller. I did not do any vandalism. (209.177.21.6 - Talk)

Would you consider reentering?[edit]

The Decider has some interesting things to say at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Vote#Expansion, including "Anyone who has recently withdrawn ... might reconsider."

I am new to this place, and decided to use ArbCom elections as a quick and furious tutorial in what happens behind the scenes. I read and read and read, and came December 4, was immediately ready to cast a few votes. Later in the day I cast a second batch, including in support of your candidacy. Your statement was good, and your answers were modest and practical.

I read the "oppose" comments. Some of them make sense. Perhaps you are extremely moderate and deliberate. But so what? You were running to be part of ArbCom, not to be the whole committee by yourself.

In the end, running is a service to the community; and for most of the candidates, it is repaid poorly: no seat, and odd bits of complaint and abuse. All the same, it is a true service, to broaden the choices for editors, to raise ideas in distinctive ways.

If you return, I cannot promise you a successful campaign. But I can promise you my thanks. Jd2718 22:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also hope you'll reconsider. Sandy (Talk) 04:40, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


BDORT reversion[edit]

Hi VoA, can you explain why your Bot flagged this edit as vandalism? The edit was made by a logged in user, who is participating in the Talk page discussion, and who explained his edit in the Talk page. The edit was a reversion to a version last tweaked by another user, that many of us (including myself) feel is the best. I would greatly appreciate an explanation. Thanks, Crum375 04:44, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That was due to a repetiton scan caching parts of links; fixed. Voice-of-All 21:12, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This edit was improperly reverted by your bot. The previous edit was not vandalism. The user was making a good faith effort to control a blatantly irresponsible and improper use of dubious sources. See Talk:Yoshiaki Omura/Mediation for the related conversation, if you feel like sinkholing several hours of your life ;) If not, take my word for it -- I'm mediating the article. - Che Nuevara 06:10, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I should point out that, while I do not endorse the version reverted to by GenghizRat, the situation is much more complicated than simple vandalism. - Che 20:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Proposed help page for writing bots - your opinions?[edit]

I think there is confusion on how to go about starting a bot (eg here and here) and there is no wikipage covering this, the main bot page talks only about policy, not avenues for getting started, how to make a bot etc. I have made a suggestion that a howto page be established and, as a frequent editor helping out with bots, I would appreciate your comments. Many Thanks - PocklingtonDan 07:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot just plain sucks[edit]

Your bot just reverted some kickin edits to Dobermann article.Whats up with that maybe manually checking the articles would be better. Dos lingo 21:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Or moving a subroutine to the right place; fixed.Voice-of-All 21:30, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot just plain pwns![edit]

Thanks for reverting that bigot with psychiatric issues off my user page! Pure Pwnage!  E. Sn0 =31337= Talk 22:34, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dangit I wanted that revert![edit]

GG on the Muhammad Ali revert. Pwn!  E. Sn0 =31337= Talk 19:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stevenson edit[edit]

You can do whatever you want with my edit of the 19th-century Adlai Stevenson article, but it was clearly an improvement and nowhere remotely close to being vandalism. I propose you review the efficacy and wisdom of applying your bot to the article. 71.145.150.153 23:19, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot find this edit, please give a link.Voice-of-All 03:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Reverted for no reasons[edit]

The revert your bot made was irrilavent. Proof: here WikiMan53 T/C My editcounter 03:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think the bot should be shutdown post on my talk if you wish WikiMan53 T/C My editcounter 03:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Monobook.css[edit]

Hi, I would like to report the problems with Monobook.css and IE. It is not displaying correctly including IE7. Please do look into this issue. Thanks --Jutiphan 10:09, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Idioma-bot[edit]

Actualy, my bot is blocked at the moment ( User:Glen S blocked it when I only created the bot's page). So, please unblock me if you can. Hugo.arg 19:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot is malfunctioning[edit]

Hello. Your bot reverted this change. It shouldn't. Please make it stop before it reverts the other changes like that I made. --80.63.213.182 20:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Decline of Buddhism in India" Article[edit]

Hello. I recently reverted the article 'Decline of Buddhism in India" due to the baised taste of the article. It gave negative impressions of Hindus and Hinduism. It tried to make it appear to everyone that Hindus and their traditions were responsible for the decline of Buddhism. I added referenced material but vandals keep trying to hide my contributions. This has happened a numerous amount of times. Please allow me to further revert the material.

Thanks!!:) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 136.159.209.121 (talk) 02:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Good job. There was no referenced material added, just OR and edits made to misrepresent cited material. --Tigeroo 07:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Automated bot prevented an edit[edit]

Hi. The automated bot prevented my edit to the casualty numbers of the Continuation war. Could you please change that, so that I can finalize the editing. Thank you. Andropov Andrej 05:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Advice?[edit]

I wanted to ask the advice of someone who would probably know and User:MarkS had recommended that I ask you.

I just recently installed my own MediaWiki and I've been in the process of setting it up. I would very much like the extra functionality of the extra edit buttons (the MediaWiki software only installs the first 11, leaving out many of the others) and after hours of looking around and banging my head, I was extremely relieved to find User:MarkS's page, which is why I initially contacted him.

I wanted to ask two questions if I may, though. How would I change this so that it would be Wiki wide (in the case of my own private Wiki) rather than through my User-page? Do you know what I would need to do in order to have the extra edit buttons available for all edit pages on a personal wiki and how one would go about doing this?

I also thought I would ask, as you might know: standard MediaWiki doesn't have the 'special character box' available for the edit page. Unfortunately a lot of the work I do is in linguistics and so having the special characters is essential to me. All of the information I have found at either Meta or through MediaWiki-L has been conflicting or old and not useful. Would you have any suggestions as to how to go about adding this?

Thanks again, your response is much appreciate!

Best wishes,

Chris

christopher.merwin@gmail.com

VoA anti-vandal script with Lupin[edit]

I've encountered many people, including me, for whom your anti-vandal monobook.js script has stopped working, in both FF and IE. Are you aware of this? —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 16:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can[edit]

The article Anshe Chung, to which you have helped contribute, has been flagged as requiring cleanup.

If possible, we would appreciate your assistance in cleaning up this article to bring it up to Wikipedia's quality standards. If you are unsure what the nature of the problem is, please discuss this on the article's talk page.
You have been left this message by PocKleanBot, an automated process that notifies editors that articles to which they may have contributed on more than one occasion in the past now need cleanup. If you have any comments or object to this message being left, please leave a message on PocKleanBot's talk page.

DragonBot[edit]

Hello, you expressed interest in exchanging heuristics on the DragonBot RfBA. If you are still interested in doing so, please contact me on my talk page. Do note that DragonBot will be GPL code, in the event this affects you decision. Cheers, ✎ Peter M Dodge aka "Wiz" (Talk to Me) (Support Neutrality) 01:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

World View article[edit]

Again, it's too bad the bot fails to recognize or care about quality improvement. The edits I made to this and the Stevenson article (see above) were clearly of an ameliorative nature without a shred of vandalism. But sorry about the signature above -- 71.145.150.153 and Small fixer are one and the same. Please, however, do as you wish; there are plenty of other worlds to improve. Smallfixer 06:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Voice-of-All 03:54, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Student Universe[edit]

a question about your edits was asked at the help desk. I gave the best answer I could, but your bot appeared to break WP:3RR on Student Universe so you might want to take a look. Chris M. 14:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism or Spam?[edit]

I made some a number of standard legitimate changes to what had been a very poor page on the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge and I keep getting this message back. Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

"Your recent edit to World U-17 hockey challenge (diff) was reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism or link spam to the page. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. Thanks! // VoABot II 23:27, 13 December 2006 (UTC)"

Restored. I changed some params too.Voice-of-All 03:20, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Student Unity page[edit]

Hi, the bot reverted an edit that removed unverifiable information from a page, the reasons for which were outlined on the Talk page of the article. Please address this. - 192.43.227.18 02:17, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It did it to me too. This is unverifiable information and should not be on the page. - King Rod 02:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Comment[edit]

As an editor of the article "Jhonen Vasquez", you are invited to a Request for Comment (as suggested by Admin Luna Santin). Please see: Talk:Jhonen Vasquez#Request for Comment: Book format. -- Tenebrae 04:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My Statistics[edit]

Hey, could you please update my statistics here. Would be much appreciated if that's not too much trouble. Nobleeagle [TALK] [C] 06:29, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for your bot[edit]

You might consider having the bot notice something about slow-blanking, for example, when a user blanks each article individually. This could probably be observed by watching for several large removals in a row. WHeimbigner 01:09, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot reverting on Bad[edit]

Hi. Just wanted to let you know that your anti-vandalism bot just rv my rvv on the page Bad. Possibly there was a mixup with an edit confict, I don't know. Just thought you should be aware.--C.lettingaAV 04:22, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Still reverting this edit--C.lettingaAV 04:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Try reverting it piecemeal.  E. Sn0 =31337= Talk 04:28, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
There was still vandalism left; I reverted back further. Voice-of-All 04:45, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The bot has now rv this]. I'll take a closer look at those external links.--C.lettingaAV 04:53, 15 December 2006

External links seem legit; another user fixed the problem.--C.lettingaAV 04:55, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some more revert issues, on Jeff Gerstmann - [25] was one of two reverts back to bad versions in a short period. (The article obviously needs an sprotect, but that's a different matter.) Tony Fox (arf!) 05:19, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Mistake[edit]

Hello, I just wanted to inform you that your bot reverted my revert, as is shown here. I am pretty sure that we need the external links there and not the profanity. ;) Jake Wasdin 05:19, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Assistance[edit]

I posted a bot request and Essjay (talk · contribs) referred me to you since (one of) your bots does something similar. Does this seem feasible? -- tariqabjotu 05:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Hungarian Jews/List of Polist Jews[edit]

An admin, User:Runcorn, has gone way over his allotted power and is now reverting completely fair edits and locking lists because he "doesn't like the edits." Notice on List of Polish Jews the only edits that have transpired are the removal of American politicians who have absolutely no sources indicating they are in any way significantly Polish and the removal of an entry who's been needing a citation. Further, the admin Runcorn arbitrarily deletes information and sources from list of Hungarian Jews claiming its "original research" to note Bela Balasz's mother was not Jewish or Hungarian even though there is a source that explicitly says that. He refuses to discuss the edits, as exemplified by attempts to communicate with him through his talk page. Can you please unlock this articles, as it is the only way to even get him to comment on his reverts? 141.213.211.81 07:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if you've got this message yet, please respond when you do. 141.213.211.81 18:13, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello[edit]

Can you help me with my bot?--"P-Machine" 07:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bot misbehaving[edit]

i am attempting to page move The Days Series to 5 Days A Stranger series but your bot reverts it as vandalism. please switch it off. Nespresso 21:09, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism to Michael Richards Page[edit]

You may want to think about restoring protection to the Michael Richards page. There have been quite a few incidents of vandalism since you removed protection. Cleo123 23:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hello[edit]

Im new to wiki but Im getting a bot change to the Vince Russo page. Theres info about a radio program that the wrestling website I work for wants to get more info on but the information keeps dissapearing and coming back. Please fix it and replace the missing radio show info. Thanks!

Bot[edit]

Hi,

Your bot reverted my tidying of the "WP: Size Comparisons" page and I have no idea how it could have come to the conclusion that my edit was vandalism. Noodles Junior 03:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK. It's getting old now. Can you block or revert your bot. It won't stop reverting me.--Noodles Junior 04:05, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. Voice-of-All 05:17, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edits on my contribution to "Truth"[edit]

I dont know if I came to right person, but I am getting a message saying that my changes may be Vandalism. I am trying to do Minor corrections and am a serious contributor. I have signed on with a User name Berjm. This is the first time I am contributing, and I would like to continue in the future. My main interest is in Philosphy of Truth, Math, Science, Epistemology etc. I hope you can give me some guidelines.

Thank you berj —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Berjm (talk • contribs) 00:22, 17 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Another user reverted your edits as vandalism. Voice-of-All 19:42, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now isn't that just annoying...[edit]

...rather then say "Reverted as vandalism" like I've been used to getting (And giving), it's "Reverted AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE REVERTED as POSSIBLE vandalism" ? Now, for the first time ever, I can get in a one man edit war! 68.39.174.238 04:12, 18 December 2006 (UTC) [Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3A68.39.174.238&diff=95025113&oldid=94989406][reply]

Thanx dude. Also, can I ask you to talk with User:Michaelas10 who reverted my removal of copyrighted text from bone healing as vandalism? I've got to do something at a distance and would appreciate an extra set of eyes in the situation incase I HAVE missed something important. Thanx. 68.39.174.238 12:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bot revert on slashdot[edit]

no linkspam edit.--Tlayn 08:29, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

missed vandalism[edit]

It didn't pick up this, by an anonymous user: Inserted text: Poooooopppppppp i think this game suucks!!! it is the worst game everrrrrrrrrrrrr Maybe the repeated letters at least could set off the bot....

Ideas for a new JS[edit]

I just had an idea for a new JS that could be useful for admins. How about something to fill in the deletion summary for CSD's. I know that people get mad when it's just something like "A7" or "G4", and adding a longer summary can take just that little extra time. Could be used for something like prods too (I don't know, something better than "closing uncontested prod"). Sorry if this has already been asked about. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 03:52, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rebecca Loos[edit]

This bot has made some bad edits on the Rebecca Loos article. It replaced the official site of Miss Loos with a site for a portable toilet company. Please look into this. Thanks, Dismas|(talk) 22:35, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've blocked VOABotII to give you a chance to take a look at it, as that's a bad edit (diff is here - [26]). Bad bot! Proto::► 22:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
OK, "official" links are skipped. Voice-of-All 05:20, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback script broken[edit]

The JavaScripted rollbacks for RC patrollers is borked, probably due to the undo functionality being added to the most recent edit. It claims that it cannot be rolled back to to the last editor being different, but that isn't the case. MER-C 04:43, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Administrative cookie
For fixing it.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 05:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Why thanks, I'll save it for later, as I just had a considerable slice of cheese cake :). Voice-of-All 05:20, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question about VoABot II[edit]

I want to know why this move is being regarded as vandalism by the bot? I don't think it is any obvious vandalism and unsure if at all it's vandalism. --WinHunter (talk) 11:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your Bot[edit]

Hi, whilst reverting vandalism, your bot reverted my edits, subsequently re-vandalising the page. Please fix this. [27] Tkenna 00:08, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted. Hidden comments with all caps are now ignored. Voice-of-All 00:42, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NLP[edit]

Would you be interested in returning to the NLP article to edit it. I've put in alot of work to improve the citations but one of the admin said that I was writing in a promotional rather than descriptive way. There are a number of editors who are working on the page. I have some time off work so I've been working on it. Would greatly appreciate your input (if you have time for us :). --Comaze 09:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you just stick your nose in to NLP discussion and ask everyone to cool down? --Comaze 13:38, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'll read over the article again someday...a bit busy elsewhere though. Voice-of-All 19:43, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies[edit]

  • How are you checking for open proxies?
  • See [28] about having verified users and making it a more systematic project. I don't know how it was done before, if it was ever beyond the one admin checks and blocks. —Centrx→talk • 10:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your revert on Han Chinese[edit]

I've used Wikipedia for a month. I'm an established editor. Besides, what really matters is the merit of the edit, not whether the editor is established or not. NBIAS 16:16, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean reviewed by established editors? NBIAS 16:23, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The page experiences edits by banned users using throughaway accounts with different IPs, so very new users or those with very few edits have the edits reviewed. This only applies to pages that have this problem, which is a very tiny fraction of the 1,500,000 pages. Voice-of-All 19:33, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I Need some Support[edit]

As a member of the BAG I think we need to give cyde our full support in a statement or something. Cyde is getting flak for his WP:CFD/W work we have given him the nod for this task but haven't full officially approved it though and he is taking heat over it. I thought we could draft a statement as the BAG showing our support. See: User talk:Cyde#Deletion_summaries for the full issue Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 18:04, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unprotecting Holodomor[edit]

Hi there. As soon as you unprotected Holodomor, people began reintroducing POV edits under IPs. Please consider re-semi-protecting it? TheQuandry 20:31, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Parfum Lubin[edit]

Hi. Sorry--wasn't vandalizing the article, just trying to clearf up a misstake I made. Do i get points takin off? Sincerely yours, Lt. Kiji.

Question[edit]

I'm new to wikipedia and decided to edit my school's stub (Westerville Central High School (Ohio)). It was reverted by a bot. I was just curious as to why my writing was considered vandalism.

Thanks, Minkus2816 05:33, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My changes to the article on Pharoah Sanders' "Karma" have been reverted. Why is this? Dmgrundy 23:00, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Protection requests, protected pages[edit]

Couple of things.

  1. I'd really like to de-clutter WP:RFPP [29], namely remove the long lines of hashes and large commented out sections, so it looks something like this. This will require co-operation from your bot.
  2. Your bot is not listing all the protected pages on WP:PP. Taking the top three on CAT:SEMI as examples (currently "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1989 and 2007 in television), only one is present on the protected pages list. This is making WP:PP pretty useless.

Thanks. -- Steel 19:31, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Protecting articles[edit]

Hey, I've had some problems with the VoA script. When I'm editing an article and I click semi-protect, the window that opens is really, really small, and it takes me a while to manually scroll down and protect the page. Is it just me, or is that some problem? And do you know of a solution? Btw, you told me a while ago on AIM to remind you about some things I suggested. So, I'll tell you them again. For user pages, can you add a button that automatically inserts {{indefblock}} and adds a edit summary of "User blocked indefinitely." Another thing I would like is you could add a button for {{vandalblock}} on the user talk page. That would really be helpful. Thanks for everything, VoA! Nishkid64 23:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed I hope. Voice-of-All 05:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

unwaranted reverts by your bots[edit]

I recently modified the page on the Baire category theorem. It claimed that the irrational numbers were a complete metric space (which is false.) I changed this statement. Your bot reverted it. I have no idea why.

~ Fabrizio polof@math.osu.edu —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.166.81.132 (talk) 03:23, 24 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Another user seems to have reverted your edits. Voice-of-All 19:41, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Revert[edit]

I just reverted vandalism on the page Spinocerebellar ataxia and I got a message from your bot saying that I added vandalism. This is false. SecWec 11:06, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bot revert on Marathon[edit]

Is not vandalism, please check. --Antovp 11:21, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ha! Was just about to write exactly that myself... bit worried about the bot that it should have viewed that as vandalism. Anyway, I've fixed the page. Now so long as your bot doesn't revert the page again.... Mathmo Talk 13:31, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
And after reading through your talk page... you seem to be having a lot of trouble with your bot over the past few days, doubt that much is normal? Mathmo Talk 13:36, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Not so much now. Two of those users were reverted by other users and seem to be vandals. Voice-of-All 23:03, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Davey Havok article[edit]

You unprotected the Davey Havok article an article that has been a frequent source of vandalism by new and IP users. Unfortunately, this vandalism has not stopped, all you have to do is look at the history. Can you please re-instate the protection? -- Kerowren (talk • contribs • count) 17:04, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Admin like Rollback[edit]

I have the following problems:

  • I'm getting this notice when I use your javascript and no one has reverted a user:

Page rollback error: Last editor is <>, not <>. The user may have already been reverted. I waited about 5 minutes, thinking the server may need to catch up or something, but no one showed up in the history as reverting a user

  • The live lists of all recent changes, filter recent changes, and recent IP edits aren't working for me. It just keeps adding another yellow bar every 30 seconds saying it's updating, but no pages show
  • I go to the regular recent changes (the one in the navigation sidebar) to do RC patrolling, I don't even see any recent changes either.

Thanks for checking this out! TeckWizTalkContribs@ 18:13, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Try clearing your browser's cache, the first bug should have been fixed a while back. User:Lupin wrote the RC filter script though. Voice-of-All 19:41, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II broken?[edit]

VoABot II notified 81.213.208.64 (talk · contribs) of the reversion of blanking of Fenerbahçe S.K., but did not actually revert. Kimchi.sg 01:13, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Someone else finished submiting a revert before the but did, so the server did not store the bot's edit as it was identical to the current one. Voice-of-All 02:48, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Marc Lepine and Ecole Polytechnique Massacre[edit]

Just to let you know that the IP is back on both of these pages after the semiprotect was lifted on Marc Lepine. POV pushing though mostly on the talk pages, thankfully. I would be grateful if you could keep an eye on the situation as I have never dealt with this kind of thing before and am not sure what to do, if anything. Added to which there is another user who is also challenging, meaning that I am feeling a bit lonely sometimes!!! --Slp1 02:31, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

JS errors[edit]

i'm getting errors in my JS console from your bot list script: 

Error: unterminated string literal
Source File: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:VoABot/botlist.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s
Line: 3, Column: 7
Source Code:
AzaBot|'

GeorgeMoney (talk) 04:37, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Voice-of-All 05:14, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

JS Difficulty[edit]

Hey, it's a fairly small problem, but I figured I'd bring it to your attentin. The {{sprotected2}} isn't being removed by your unprotection script (the one activated by the link on the left side of the edit page, and the one on the list of protected pages). Thanks and happy holidays! alphachimp. 05:01, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This was fixed (I assume) days ago, try clearing your cache. Voice-of-All 05:24, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot[edit]

Thanks for letting me know! Does it only deal with specific pages? Jayjg (talk) 18:47, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Or categories, though those should be pretty general. General patrol for new users/shared/server IPs checks for vandalism and spam only. Voice-of-All 23:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Denise Quinones and Shanna Moakler[edit]

I need help with an editor that many editors including myself have requested to stop vandalizing pages and cite sources. This editor refuses to cooperate and has created several sock puppet accounts. I have reported the editor to the sock puppet complaints board, however he/she continues to not follow requests nor guidelines when it comes to grammar or citations. You reverted an edit due to his/her POV edit on Denise Quinones. Here is a copy of the sock puppet complaint I filed [30] . Is there anything that can be done to end this editor's vandalism? Many thanks and Happy Holidays!--XLR8TION 02:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Admin backlog tag[edit]

You added {{adminbacklog}} to Wikipedia:List of protected pages/User pages and Wikipedia:List of protected pages on 10 November 2006 (diff) and 28 October 2006(diff), respectively.

Being an administrator, I'm curious on what I can do to help on this page. What can I do as an administrator that other users can't? If nothing, then why not just add {{backlog}}? Thanks for your time, and I hope to hear from you soon. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 08:26, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of pages have been protected for too long. Voice-of-All 19:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to help! How long is defined to be "too long" ? If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 01:05, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Every page semiprotected for 10+ days, less really. Voice-of-All 04:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

JavaScript issue[edit]

I was looking at my userspace via the special page Special:Prefixindex, specifically this. It has a JavaScript tab for CSD, even though it is a special page. I tried clicking it and it took me to the article in the main namespace All pages (User namespace) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and after entering G7 as the CSD criteria I found it had created the article for me, with {{db-g7}} as the only content. I took a couple screenshots to assist in understanding the issue, they are Image:All pages with js csd tab.png and Image:All pages history.png. BigNate37(T) 19:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, just curious where you're at with this. I understand it's low priority, just wondering whether you've read it and what you think about it. BigNate37(T) 04:41, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. Voice-of-All 05:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My recent change[edit]

Hy, Voice of All.
I'm referring to you here, because I don't want you to loose your precious time searching on various talk pages/articles "what somebody did".
I've made a bigger revert (with few ...bigger... paragraphs removed, but planning to restore them in proper way) on the article Pagania.
I've tried to stay away from arguing on that article. I don't want to make edit wars with tens of reverts in few hours.
So I leaved the things to go their own way for a few months... and when I've returned, I see a litter of flees, instead seeing seriously formed NPOV article.
I know that removing big sections (or doing any major changes) without consulting on talk page is considered as a kind of vandalism.
Still, I couldn't allow blatant expansionist propaganda with "filtered" and "channelized" data.
I can't find you the proper words to describe the Greaterserbian assertions inserted in that article. The content of the article was greaterserbian textual orgy (see this change [31] "most western Serbian borderland" ), an example of exuberance of greediness and wantonness (though the latter word isn't good to reflect the Croatian word obijest, which is the best to describe this case; this word is often used to describe the behaviour of spoiled brat).
I'd react earlier, but, as I've said on the talk page, I have a life. I can't "cover" hundred articles, spending my time in arguing with a bunch of persons hiding behind one or two nicks (or with persons that don't have normal social life).
I'm not asking you to side with me, neither I want to involve you into this. I'm just trying to explain you the reasons of my recent action, and to draw your attention on some other users' perfid behaviour. Kubura 20:40, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

YouTube[edit]

Hi. I'm a little concerned over your Bot's automatic revert of Youtube links. Can you please disable this, as this is explicitly not the intent of WP:EL guidelines on the issue. I suggest instead posting a warning to the talk page of the article that the link should be reviewed to ensure it abides by WP:EL. --Barberio 00:11, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II[edit]

I noticed on the Priština article, the bot reverted when a user added {{Infobox Serbia municipality}}. We have a banned user named Kaltsef who wants to add a section called "Bulgarians". Is there any way you could make this restricted as well? Thanks! Khoikhoi 07:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It happened again... Khoikhoi 21:31, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello? Khoikhoi 02:35, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki:Protect-text[edit]

Regarding [32], is there any special reason why this or any of the various templates would need to be mentioned? —Centrx→talk • 23:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Clearity, better for WP:PP, and my bot watches that category. Voice-of-All 21:41, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bad bot edit[edit]

Reverted a legitimate change of "casual" to "causal" (diff). I've cleaned it up and put an exonerating note on the user's talk page. Just letting you know! | Mr. Darcy talk 04:40, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Appropriate for VoABot II?[edit]

Hi. I added Stoner rock to VoABot II's watchlist a while ago [33] but it's no longer on WP:PP. Do you sometimes prune the bot's watchlist? Or was that an inappropriate use of VoABot II? —Wknight94 (talk) 13:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I removed an old set of watched pages a while back. Voice-of-All 21:41, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CheckUser 2.0 - The revenge[edit]

I noticed you started to slowly rewrite the CheckUser extension. Have you ever looked at http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/checkuser-work/extensions/CheckUser ? The logging of XFF may be useful, and there is also a SQL logging system (I know this will break the current log, maybe this can be a configurable option "$wgCheckUserLogSQL": if false -default- use the huge text file); also, Tim started to localize the messages ... this would be very appreciated. Thanks for all your work!

--84.221.69.69 03:48, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot revert[edit]

This edit was interesting. May need to make some adjustments to the bot code. VegaDark 20:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've added to the "edit description" and reversion summary regexp. Voice-of-All 22:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BAG[edit]

Hello. I would like to be on the bot approvals group, and since you yourself are in the group, it would be great if you can stop by and either support or oppose my request. Thank you! —Mets501 (talk) 23:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gothic metal[edit]

Could you have your bot watch this page for edits made by User:Leyasu through IPs? It has been semi-protected again after Leyasu evaded his ban again and revert warred with several users. It is probably a page that will need long-term semi-protection; but in case it is ever unprotected, it would be great to have the bot revert restricted users from editing it. The current content dispute is over one paragraph in the introduction, which everyone but Leyasu (and a suspected sockpuppet account) is reverting. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 23:24, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See [34]. Voice-of-All 06:41, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

W.E.B. Du Bois reverting[edit]

It looks like Roxannelawson is copying word-for-word from outside sources, which is why I made the big revert on W.E.B. Du Bois. --Gpohara 04:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll split reference and wikified checks someday. For now, it seems to be leaving you alone as you pasted the new user threshold. Voice-of-All 06:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My Bot[edit]

Hi, I am Harishankar, I am working on creating a bot for AntiVandalism which you have denied for approval. And the reasons which you have should be really clear and correct. But as a software developer and a RC patrol myself, I am very much interested in developing a bot. Can you please give me some hints or new idea to develop a new unique bot? codetiger 05:52, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with moving articles[edit]

Hi, I tried to move Gay+prague (a poorly titled article created by a new user) to Gay life in Prague (a better title) twice, but the bot reverted it. Probably because "gay" is such a common insult among your garden-variety vandal. Can you fix this for me? Thanks GhostPirate 22:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed now. Voice-of-All 23:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Erroneous vandalism revert by your bot[edit]

While I'm not the user who made the edits, your bot reverted User talk:Raw Cook Guy's edits to The Book of Pooh and labelled them as vandalism - they were just spelling and grammar fixes, not vandalism. Kat, Queen of Typos 23:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed the bot's regexps a bit. Voice-of-All 23:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Arrant nonsense[edit]

[35] My "test edit" was the removal of a massive SPAM linkfarm, flooded with blatantly commercial, buissiness sites. I don't think anything was added... 68.39.174.238 03:59, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot business[edit]

Hi VOA! thank you for this wonderful bot. Could you please look at this one though: [36] -- I'm guessing it reverted because it saw a myspace site in the unvandalized version. Happy new year! Antandrus (talk) 04:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Latehar[edit]

Hello VOA - and thanks for all the hard work. I think the bot mistakenly reverted some additions by a new user at Latehar. I've reverted its changes and have left a note on the user's talk page. Squeezeweasel 12:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Hilary Duff[edit]

This is regarding the semiprotection of Hilary's page. It doesnt seem 2 work becoz i had to revert multiple vandalism by multi IP Addressess..Please fix it..thanx..--Cometstyles 14:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not vandalism[edit]

Just a note that the recent additions at St. Laurence High School which were reverted by the bot were not vandalism (they needed a lot of cleanup, but that's a different matter). I didn't add the material, but I wanted to let you know. MisfitToys 22:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

confused[edit]

why is TObY page getting all this vadlism stuff...nithigns wrong with it keep it up as soon as it gets bigger youll let it on anyway ?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lolerbladez (talk • contribs) 23:16, 2 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

:-)[edit]

¿Why1991 ESP. | Sign Here has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.



Happy editing!!!--¿Why1991 ESP. | Sign Here 02:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bad revert to The Thomas-Bridges Association[edit]

Your VoABot II bot reverted a page with this edit Please note that all the user was trying to do was add a reference. They did it wrong (I fixed that when I restored the edit). But it was a legit edit.

Ironnically, I also had to mark the article as a possible copyright violation. Some of the text looks like it was copied directly from the source listed. Will (Talk - contribs) 04:48, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


A request for assistance[edit]

Would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 05:02 3 January 2007 (UTC).

Why did u revert yadavas of devagiri ? I am not a troll. Can i edit the page again??? plz respond.Vishu123 06:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed, large wikified edits will no longer be reverted over such links. Voice-of-All 18:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding a revert[edit]

Your bot, User:VoABot II, reverted an edit that was perfectly fine. I was just bypassing userbox redirects with my bot User:VixDaemon, and it apparently did not like it for some reason. I have reverted the edit back so that the two redirects are bypassed. I'm not quite sure why it decided to go off on me, but any explanation would be useful. Thanks, and have a good day. Kyra~(talk) 07:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing like a good ol' fashioned bot fight... Joe 22:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoA Bot II - Edits to Newcastle College[edit]

I requested the bot was blocked as it was conflicting and reverting back vandal edits here, here and here on the Newcastle College article. --Sagaciousuk (talk) 15:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've vastly improved the left-right diff side checking dynamically, types of "vandalism" should not trigger reverts its also on the left diff as well, which is was still a problem due to context info being scrapped in. Diff debugging of those edits and the above looks good. Voice-of-All 18:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

i think your bot is messed up. i didn't do anything wrong.  :-)

Thiago and the Cousins /Jake is going to the field[edit]

Hello. You speedy deleted this article earlier today. Perhaps you'd like to join the discussion about its creator's continuing misbehavior here. Regards,--Húsönd 15:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Request[edit]

Thank you for giving your view on my request for bot approval. The bot, reverts vandalism on all user and user talk page (Including blocked users who abuse it themselves) It also detects page move vandalism (Which anti-vandal bot can't do) and innapropriate username vandalism. I wanted it to block inapropriate usernames, but I don't think that's going to happen. But, it only reverts swearwords that newly appear with edits on userpages, if a swearword exsists on the page and it is over one hour old, it is ignored. (that's how it avoids continually editing the pages on the words)--Rasillon 17:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, can you please check?[edit]

User:Aldux seems to be abusing his moderator powers to push his POV and that of his Italian pals. Check his contributions [37] at Francesco Patrizi, Giovanni Luppis, Andrea Meldolla, Benedetto Cotrugli, Nenad Bjelica, Osijek. He is removing valid upgrades and content to a lesser correct and highly POV versions. The first four are identical disputes as in Giulio Clovio and Giorgio Orsini articles so the policy introduced there should be applied on these articles too. --89.172.207.60 21:51, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for the bot[edit]

Here's an interesting situation involving VA Bot II. I just reverted a page blanking to Batman [38]. I then left a warning on the user's talk page [39]. However at the same time as I was writing my warning, VA Bot II also added a warning for the same edit [40] even though it had not reverted the edit. As a result the user ended up with two warnings on their talk page for the same incident. I assume that VA Bot tried to remove the same vandalism to the Batman article that I did but I "beat it to the punch". While two warnings are not the end of the world, it would be good to avoid if possible. Perhaps VA Bot should check to see if its revert succeeded before leaving the message? Just a thought, Gwernol 17:51, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Take Me as I Am[edit]

It was not vandalism. I was creating a disambiguation page because there's another article called Take Me as I Am, which refers to a song by Mary J. Blige. Funk Junkie 22:30, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've improved a regexp so it should not revert over that again. Voice-of-All 23:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tooruktug Dolgay Tangdym[edit]

Hi, thanks for catching the revert mistake. --Stacey Doljack Borsody 23:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was not properly counting user's edit histories, should be fixed now. Voice-of-All 23:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Neptunes[edit]

I reverted vandalism on this page but your robot seems to consistantly want to revert it back. Hope you can clear that up... Madman Marz 00:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

penis picture[edit]

Image:100_0441.jpg Image:100_0442.jpg

Your bot deleted my two images (shown to the right) on the article for erection (my edit can be seen here. The two pictures are shown to the right. Can you clear this up for me? What's wrong with these pictures? Djy9302 (talk • contribs) 00:51, 7 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

The Bot appears to have functioned correctly. I have explained to the user why his replacing of photos in that article was not a good idea. WJBscribe (WJB talk) 05:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

63.226.231.54[edit]

It might be a good idea to suspend this anonymous contributor of their powers for a lengthy period of time; their contributions are not amusing. Because I do not possess an administrator's powers, I would appreciate it if you looked into the matter. Velten 03:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mistagging[edit]

I like that the bot reverts instances of image:example being inserted into articles, however it states that the action is vandalism, and even bots should assume good faith, and particularly not bite the newbies. Just bringing it to your attention, i kan reed 05:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, a new category is probably needed. Voice-of-All 18:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism Of G-Unit Realated Pages[edit]

It might be a good idea to suspend this user, GUnitJt5 is fabricating record sales of G-Unit realated pages and Justin Timberlake - ABarnett

Adminwarnings monobook problem[edit]

Hi Voice of All, I'm having problems with the script. Everything in it works perfectly fine, except for two buttons, {{message}} and {{note}} whilst editing. Another user has shown me what they are meant to look like (that is, a little menu of warnings) but it just isn't happening for me, so I'm just wondering what's up with it. I use Firefox 1.5 as well. Thanks. --Majorly (talk) 20:24, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Make sure that you have the CSS[41]. Voice-of-All 20:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

bot reversion[edit]

This is to report a false positive. Sześćsetsześćdziesiątsześć 08:03, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Summaries like that are unexceptable. Voice-of-All 05:19, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IP Block needed[edit]

I've noticed that somebody put a Nazi flag on the Germany article, shortly after you unprotected it. I've tried to revert his/her vandalism, but he just continued. When I had a look at his User page (User_talk:213.249.154.100), I wondered why this user is not blocked indefinitely. He has a track record of annoying edits. 89.56.162.192 10:09, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

marvin robinson footballer[edit]

the information given for this person is completely incorrect,outrageous due to its content and further more unproductive and uninformative.. i submitted an alternative but it was rejected as vandalism,, i then sent an email regarding my concerns and still nothing has been done,, could you rectify this immediately!!!!!!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.135.194.130 (talk) 12:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

== Wikipedia:List of protected pages/User pages ==[edit]

Hi. Luna Santin and I just removed 98 kilobytes' worth of duplicate entries from Wikipedia:List of protected pages/User pages. Was this vandalism that went unnoticed, or is this a bug in the bot? Thanks – Gurch 13:21, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My Request for Adminship[edit]

Thanks for contributing to my RfA! Thank you for your support in my my RfA, which passed with a tally of 117/0/1. I hope that my conduct as an admin lives up to the somewhat flattering confidence the community has shown in me. Please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page should you need anything or want to discuss something with me; though if those matters relate to Commons (as is likely given you are an admin here), it would be better to go to my Commons talk...--Nilfanion (talk) 22:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Its a damn shame I did not sign-up before you request was approved. You would have received a giant NO! from me. Your idiot bot just reverted by additions to the Two Sicilies article and labled me a vandal. I may have the shortest membership in wikipedia, but be sure that, thanks to you, I will tell everyone to avoid this dump like the plague. BernardAbbotLane 08:05, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to The Australian Bulldog page[edit]

I was recently attempting to expand the article on the The Australian Bulldog page and I have been sent the message that I was vandallising the page. This is incorrect as all I was doing was correcting an error in what was already there and trying to add some more. Can we remedy this please. Thanks Plattym74

Bot revert[edit]

I made some pretty big edits to the skateboard trick article, and a bot reverted them as vandalism. I rewrote much of the article and moved large sections to sub articles, but all the content was left intact. Please review my edits and revert the changes. Shreditor 04:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Voice-of-All 05:41, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Edits to WP:RFPP[edit]

Hiya. I'm not sure I get, exactly, how VoABot is supposed to work, but my reading of the userpage suggests that it will leave fulfilled or denied requests in the appropriate section, even if there are more than fifteen entries, if they are less than 12 hours old. Am I correct in this? I ask, because in the most recent revision ([[42]]), the bot removed entries Jack Johnson through Protist, all of which had been completed in the previous 12 hours([[43]]). Am I being dumb, or is this edit in contrast to how the bot's user page describes its actions? GertrudeTheTramp 06:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting my edits back to vandalism[edit]

Hi. Your bot just reverted me reverting vandalism to Fauna of Puerto Rico. Bad call. 212.35.252.2 10:45, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting my edits back to vandalism[edit]

Hi. Your bot just reverted me reverting vandalism to Fleshlight. I was continuing the sentence in describing the different versions. If that's marketing, then writing Microsoft is also producing Excel would be marketing too! Please stop reverting me. --JULEBRYG 12:35, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the bot was removing vandalism [44]. Voice-of-All 06:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your script collection[edit]

I made some modifications to them, located at User:AzaToth/VoA.js, please feel free to look at it. →AzaToth 18:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Unprotecting Thalía[edit]

Hope it works but doubt it. I am the user who nominated it for semi-protection. The edit wars are almost non-existant but new registered users have popped up now who are trying to do the same BS edits previously done to this page and Paulina Rubio. Today alone I had to revert one new user twice today on Thalía. It was nice while it lasted. . . Ronbo76 01:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The edit wars have begun anew on Thalía. Usually the edits start as wars on album sales and then denigrate to vandalism. One editor boosted her album sales by a huge amount followed by another edit. There have been a number of edits by anonymous IPs which usually touch up or torch the war. Could you please take a look and advise by an edit or two? Thanks, Ronbo76 17:49, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Despite notices on the talkpages on both this article and Paulina Rubio's articles, the vandals are back. As just a regular user, I cannot adequately protect this articles from all the edits. Fortunately some other editors have stepped up, but the anon IPs are getting the bold. Please see Paulina's edit tonight where an anon IP reversed the editor who questioned fair use. I respect what you do, but believe semi-protection is still needed. Thanks, Ronbo76 08:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism[edit]

Hi, this post was flagged (User_talk:Esimones) by your bot as vandalism. Please take a look. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xiner (talk • contribs) 04:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

The caps and ! marks threw it off, Wikipedia:Help desk whitelisted. Voice-of-All 06:15, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot[edit]

Hi, I've gone through VoABot's most recent changes to WP:PP/U and it seems to be duplicating everything it's adding several times, and possibly adding stuff that was there before, I'm not sure. You seem to have spotted it already and reverted back to Luna Santin's version, but it's still editing, and still doing the same thing. Would it perhaps be a good idea to turn off the bot disable the bot on this page only until this is resolved? Thanks – Gurch 14:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed now. It can be selectively disabled here[45]. Voice-of-All 01:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dragonriders of Pern reversion[edit]

Hi, your bot reverted my additions to the Dragonriders of Pern page with the comment "information". I looked up what that might mean and got: "Information - The edit was identified as adding addresses, phone numbers, MySpace, Facebook, Geocities, or YouTube pages." However, I haven't added any addresses, numbers, or links to pages hosted at the sites listed above. What triggered the bot? tameeria 23:13, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, the notice I got on my talk page also mentioned blogs and forums, so I think it might have the forum link that triggered the bot. Now, I've got another question: The part that I edited already contained a forum link (to the PernMU* Discussion Forum) before my edit. So if forum links are not wanted, shouldn't that one go as well? Or was it previously approved? This is only my second edit on Wikipedia, so I'm not really comfortable with removing other people's links yet... tameeria 01:14, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal Bot[edit]

Hey, your bot incorrectly reverted an edit I made, saying it was vandalism. This can be found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northern_England&diff=100104444&oldid=100104412

I bet it was the exclamation marks that did it. I guess I'll have to stop being so emotive in my edit summaries in future ;-) Logoistic 23:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VOABOT_II problem[edit]

Hello, your bot detected a change into my page from a vandal quite effectivly (link to get the exact change and ip that have been detected [46]) Unfortunatly, the task of your bot was limmited to "detect" and warn the vandal, and it didn't reverted my page.

I first went to the talk page to issue the warning, saw that your bot issued a warning, then after a few moment your bot didn't reverted my page, so I had to revert it myself.

I don't know why this fighterjock didn't helped me this time :( (perhaps because I work hard to counter Antivandalbot plans for world domination) but I think you should know about that -- Esurnir

Protection of Dhammakaya Movement and Wat Phra Dhammakaya[edit]

Hi. Regarding your removal of protection from these two articles on 10 January 2007, I just want to let you know that the articles are being attacked again. These deleters had been extremely persistent in the past as you can see in the history. I and many other editors spent so much time reverting the articles, just to have them vandalized again in just hours (or even minutes). Courtless warnings were given out, and the anonymous deleters completely ignored the attempts to communicate. Can you please put the protection back to both articles? I'm sure it will be appreciated by many people. Regards. --Melanochromis 06:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

vamdalism[edit]

how was mark swenneys think vandalized? oh the guy did was change the year.

Protection?[edit]

Can you tell me how I can get a page protected? Or request it, anyway? -Freekee 06:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC) The reason I ask is that The Great Dalmuti is being vandalized again. It used to be Sprotected, but you removed that. In the edit summary, you said "Time." does that mean the protection had a time limit? The page has been edited many times over the past 12 months by some high-fiving kids from San Jose State. One of them had an account that was banned, but we can't ban the IPs from the school. We've reverted three edits in one day, since they started up again. It would be really nice if we could have it protected again. -Freekee 06:18, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings[edit]

Hi. Talk pages can't be semi-protected, can they? Xiner (talk, email) 03:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they can. Voice-of-All 06:18, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About Nellore[edit]

Hi, thanks for your bot. It is helping in automatically reverting pov by some users. I had been working hard not to hurt them(as they are new to wikiepdia and take time to settle) and also at the same time in removing pov and adhering to WP:INCITIES style for some time. AFAIK, there are three users and one common ip so far and I also am not sure whether it is same user. I am thinking of waiting for some more time before submitting for some dispute resolution. Your help in educating those users will help a lot. Mlpkr 12:55, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BOT reverts[edit]

I am simply removing no-longer-functioning external links. 71.231.107.188 00:30, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II in error[edit]

VoABot II reverted this edit I made to Pink Floyd: diff. Amusingly enough, another bot reverted yours. Bot revert war! :P Rightfully in First Place 04:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mistaken Revert[edit]

This botYour bot has reverted an edit of mine that was legit, see User_talk:RyanB88, just thought i'd let you know in case their is something that can be done to prevent this in the future.--RyanB88 07:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I redid my change and it reverted it again, does it keep doing this?--RyanB88 07:28, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it does keep reverting my changes.--RyanB88 07:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Candyman cover[edit]

Please, stop uploading fake Candyman single cover!!! The pic is taken from Rolling Stone pic. shoot. It is so obvious that the cover is not real. It is vandalism!!!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.224.40.50 (talk) 11:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

( ) club un-semiprotection[edit]

You removed semiprotection from the Newcastle and Sunderland club articles yesterday; I can see how it makes Wikipedia more open, but Newcastle United F.C. has been vandalised by unregistered users again a few times since it was unprotected, and I'd request you change the page back to being semiprotected - the same goes for Manchester United F.C., which is also a frequent target. Sunderland A.F.C. has been OK so far.
I think slightly different rules apply for -team pages to, say, pages about current controversial news events, because rivalry is always there (perhaps less so outside the football season); it's petty, I guess it's usually just kids on their school computers, but it'd still be prevented better with semiprotection. Thanks - Responsible? 21:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kenshiro[edit]

Hi, I tried to split Kenshiro into multiple articles, but I made several mistakes during the process. User:VoABot II keeps reverting me, and it's even reported me for vandalism.

I'm sure I'm at least partly to blame, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention. Thank you. :) --Kjoonlee 12:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uruguay[edit]

Your bot won't let me fix Uruguay. Yuzofan 15:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

World Social Forum[edit]

I just re-semi-protected World Social Forum. I notice that you recently unprotected it to see if the spamming would continue, but as before when I unprotected it, the spamming started right back up. It appears to be a spambot exploiting open proxies. The addresses being spammed change, so blacklisting is not an useful option either. So I don't see any better choice but to semiprotect again. If you have any objections to my actions or other suggestions on how to handle it, please let me know. --Ed (Edgar181) 15:45, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jean Webster[edit]

Your bot seems to have reverted some fairly reasonable looking anon edits at Jean Webster. I'm honoured that it reverted them to my version, but all the same it doesn't seem quite right!! --Slp1 17:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VOA Bot Request[edit]

I have started a wikipedia vandalism notice IRC channel #wp-vandalism on the freenode network, I would appricate it if you could setup VOA Bot to connect to freenode with a specific name, ident itself, then join my channel and post info to it about pages it has reverted for those who watch the channel for vandalism. The info it posts should include article name, URL, diff URL, and the username who made the edit the bot reverted. Thank you.--RyanB88 21:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

unprotecting J. K. Rowling[edit]

I am afraid of that unprotection was too soon. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 22:33, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Wars![edit]

Your second bot and User:A4bot seem to be duking it out over a couple pages. (See User talk:A4bot for some examples). You may wish to contact User:A4 and discuss this issue. Jfingers88 00:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added User:A4bot to the allies list. Prodego talk 01:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've exempted the bot's edit summaries from certain word checks. Also, that list is only for bots that revert (to prevent loops) and I you left out the "|". Voice-of-All 22:29, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I know, it was just a temp thing until you could do it properly. I didn't know I left out the | though ;-). Prodego talk 16:33, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II[edit]

I got an automated message from your bot after I reverted some blanking vandalism on oil diff. I probably just beat the bot to the revert, but the message did say to let you know if the revert was in error, so I'm doing so. --SuperAnonymous 09:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II error[edit]

This bot has made a mistake revert on Marie Curie. After vandalism by 212.20.223.34, another IP reverted the vandalism, and the bot reverted the revert, causing the vandalism to remain on the page for nearly an hour. Please resolve this. - SpLoT (*C*+u+g) 13:28, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've added some regexps to exempt more edit summaries like that (which is what it reverted over). Voice-of-All 22:30, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AIV report in error?[edit]

report of an unwarned user seems to have been made in error. Thanks, ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 18:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Warning for my undo[edit]

I made an undo/edit to Airbus here a couple minutes ago. Copy and pasted my warning and I hit submit and it said it had changed. So I look and this bot had made my warning. I looked in case the same user IP had edited again merriting a warning for this article and at that time they had not. Why would the bot post warnings for editors?--Xiahou 23:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It did it to me again today For Hillsborough disaster I did the rv and it did the warning. Then I rv'd it again and someone else warned him...Is there a wiki policy on this warning on someone elses rv? Anyway why does your bot keep 'taking' my warnings?--Xiahou 23:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just did it again. See article Ambush Bug it shows my rv/undo and the bot makes the warning faster than me hitting ctl V saying it made the change to the article. Its getting annoying. Could someone at least make note that they have read this please. Doing RC patrol and having a bot say its doing the changes that you are is getting annoying.--Xiahou 00:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot reverted my edit[edit]

VoABot II reverted my edit on Bichon Frisé. Another user reverted the changes, so I am just reporting this error. Thanks, CrashingWave 06:05, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Voice-of-All 06:32, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot II and "new users"[edit]

Hi, this seems weird. Kékrōps (talk · contribs) has been around for half a year and has >900 edits. What's the bot's definition of a "new user"? Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Done it again ([47]). Just a guess, could it be that the bot has a problem retrieving Kekrops' user history and recognising him as an established user because of the non-ascii characters in his name? Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VOA Bot in error[edit]

[48] - Not sure what happened there, but perhaps you can work out how to stop it from doing that. -- nae'blis 00:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It did it again tonight, twice. Please take steps to ensure that this does not happen to admins/established users, I see nothing under the 'vandal comment' criterion that could possibly be satisfied by my page moves to that userpage. -- nae'blis 07:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed now. Voice-of-All 06:37, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cypress Springs High School[edit]

I am trying to edit something but it won't let me because of this bot. I am not vandalizing at all I just want to add a picture of the school and information about the band. Can someone please explain what is going on? Smashmywii512 00:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This was due to test edits being added to the page. I've now made the revert summaries clearer. Voice-of-All 06:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VOA Bot error at The Evening News[edit]

Hey, bot keeps reverting my move. I created a page for The Evening News, a small-town newspaper in Indiana, then thought the better of it and decided that The Evening News should redirect to Evening News dab page, and my new page should go to The Evening News (Jeffersonville) (i.e. with the host city's name in parentheses). Bot won't let me do this. Please help. Wiki Wistah 04:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. I tried it again yesterday, and was able to move it fine. Still not sure why the Bot reverted me twice, but it doesn't matter now. Wiki Wistah 01:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wire in the Blood, "vandal comment"[edit]

The bot incorrectly reverted User:Richardgardiner84's edit based on the following comment: (tony is a clinical psychologist, he has not history of forenics and mentions he's not a profiler in the first episode, if anyone has watched it properly!!!!!!)

Thought I should let you know... cyclosarin 05:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please avoid "shouting" in edit summaries. Voice-of-All 06:49, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Non-admin RC Patrol JS questions[edit]

Since I installed your non-admin RC Patrol JS in my monobook, I am unable to to operate popups in Special:Mycontibutions or use popups within popups (e.g. view the (last) popup in history or view a users contributions). Any idea what the problem is? The warn tabs insert warnings as subsections (i.e. ====Warn====). Can this be changed? Is there a way to add additional warning tabs? Such as {{drmspeedy}}. John Reaves (talk) 09:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another question, can the feature that copies highlighted text automatically be turned off? John Reaves (talk) 14:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot bug[edit]

Hi Voice of All. I think your bot VoABot has a little bug in it. No matter how many pages it removes from WP:PP/U, it says it removed none. See [49] for an example. —Mets501 (talk) 19:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Reverting on Muse (band)[edit]

Hi. Your bot just reverted me, reverting vandalism to muse (band). It's factually incorrect to say the concert sold out in an hour - as per my comment for the change, I bought the ticket for this very concert after four hours of being on sale, hence one hour is incorrect. I believe this change should be reinstated. --User:Gongladosh 22:25GMT, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

(moving at the bottom of the page or you'll miss it) The edit was indeed [50]. That's weird. Maybe the exclamation points in the Edit Summary? -- lucasbfr talk 08:22, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

voabot ii improper defacement detection on Absorption spectrum[edit]

voabotii improperly determinined my un-defacement of Absorption_spectrum was defacement. I attempted to rollback a change made 151.199.192.252. To do that, I first had to revert a change from 66.57.37.185, who attempted to un-deface, but didn't do it right. Advice? Porkrind 23:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The bot was removing[51] vandalism. Voice-of-All 06:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Poles[edit]

I'm not sure what triggered your bot to revert changes in this article. Can you have a look? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.209.44.220 (talk) 01:27, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shouting in edit summaries is to be avoided. The bot caches such things. Voice-of-All 05:38, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

I noticed on the Priština article, the bot reverted when a user added {{Infobox Serbia municipality}}. We have a banned user named Kaltsef who wants to add a section called "Bulgarians". Is there any way you could make this restricted as well? Thanks! Khoikhoi 08:22, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

James Cameron[edit]

You would please look at the article about James Cameron? I started the article, because the previous one was plarigized from Dr. Cameron's website about his museum. I think some one from the museum is now trying to plarigize the article. I am not sure I want to restart the article, if it would be deleted again. Thank you-RFD 17:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

James Cameron (civil-rights activist)-RFD 17:14, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AFD closing script[edit]

Hi Voice of All. Just a suggestion: it would be great if your AFD-closing script removed the {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}} as well. —Mets501 (talk) 17:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

vandal comment[edit]

Please review the change history for Ville Valo. The edit summary was certainly insufficient, but the comment itself was hardly vandalism. Apparently it would have been better even had I just used a blank comment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.44.215.220 (talk)

Vandal Bot Error[edit]

Your bot just reverted a edit I made announcing a WWE release. Please revert it back thank you. This is the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Stradlin&action=history 69.182.244.228 23:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)JakeDHS07[reply]

hi, why did your thing delete half of my wiki that lists products for people affected by celiacs disease and then tell me its related to facebook or myspace. sort it out, im editing it back in, and i will continue to do so nonstop untill it stays. this is information regarding peoples health, do not erase it.

dubajj

Thanks for the support on RfA![edit]

With the RfA complete and over, and a day to recover on top, I finally feel able to click a few buttons and write a few comments. Of those, there's about a dozen editors I hadn't come across before, whom I particularly want to write a comment to.

The areas we co-worked on seem ages ago now. I hope the years have treated you well since then. :) As you'll notice, I adopted one of your scripts a while back :) It helps a lot.

As a new user of admin access, I might well benefit from guidance for a while to come. I trust my existing approach overall, but its an area one doesn't really want to make even a single mistake, and where the judge is the eyes of ones peers. So advice at times would be a Good Thing.

To start that off, I've set up a subpage to post questions when I need to check "what would other users do here?". I'll probably have a lot of those early on. If you feel able to watchlist User:FT2/Advice sought, I'd really appreciate it :) a consultative page is my first step in ensuring this new access will be taken responsibly when circumstances arise.

Another area I'll use it for is queries on features such as scripting or templates, where I'm probably under-efficient in editing, due to unhelpfully limited knowledge. I get the impression that's an area you're quite active with :) Which is good!

Separate from all that, I look forward to seeing you round. What subject areas are you working on these days?

Keep in touch, happy editing in 2007, and once again - many thanks! :) FT2 (Talk | email) 02:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot error[edit]

I removed some vandalism from the article on ment, but was reverted by your bot, which re-instated the vandalism - twice _enlargement&diff=102133530&oldid=102133453 _enlargement&diff=102133777&oldid=102133659. --Afluent Rider 02:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot needs a troutslap[edit]

It did this. Nothing can really be done about it, since it looks like vandalism to a bot, so a small trout should do. -Amark moo! 03:24, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Bot revert[edit]

I made edits to the Happy Campers article, and a bot reverted them as vandalism. It only reverted the last change where i expanded the discography. Please review my edits and revert the changes. Thank You.

Re: Deletion of New Orleans Saints Page[edit]

I apologize for the accidental deletion of the New Orleans Saints page. It was a reaction to the vandalism proceeding mine. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.170.119.51 (talk) 00:17, 22 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Vandalism and block[edit]

Hi Voice,

Regarding the current flag on the article for Tin Pot Operation

The article has been accepted during discussion, as being valid for inclusion because the band is listed on The Centre for Political Song at Glasgow Caledonian University. The wiki entry allows the user to find more information. It has been deliberately kept brief and factual, and without hyperbole.

The most recent edit was to revert vandalism, which has already been flagged, a quick look at the site history will show this.

I hope this is sufficient to allow the article to remain.

Many thanks Anthony Belfast —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.76.203.84 (talk) 11:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Fixed. Voice-of-All 04:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

voa bot at the helpdesk[edit]

Take a look at this diff, I'm not even sure what it thought the problem was. =\ Anyway, have a good day! — coelacan talk — 12:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The shouting in the header. Voice-of-All 04:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
We get that a lot at the help desk, when people come in frustrated. And we're well prepared to handle it. =) Maybe you could write in an exception for that particular page? — coelacan talk — 20:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath[edit]

Hello, your bot VoABot II has reverted my edits twice and vandal-tagged me. The article is a mess and A Ramachandran, the editor who inserted roughly 80% of the present unsourced and unencyclopedic content has just been confirmed a sock puppet and indefinitely banned from editing Wikipedia. The present edit is largely a result of Wikilawyering between A Ramachandran and Hamsacharya_dan adding, modifying and removing content without getting the concensus of, or consulting with, other editors until only later when everything has been done. Thank you. - Senior Hamsacharya 14:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page length parse error fixed. Voice-of-All 05:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

surrey heath[edit]

What vandalism???????? Please correct. Thank you!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.68.39.212 (talk) 15:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

"Bot"[edit]

This is hardly 'vandalism'. You ought to work on that "bot" of yours a bit before you let it work by itself, I think – Qxz 22:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At the very least, it could learn from its mistake and not make the exact same one again. Forget the vandal, right now your bot is making that article unreadable – Qxz 22:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Olaudah Equiano - your bot treated my help as vandalism[edit]

Someone at Wikipedia recently flagged this article for revision since it had parts that made it read as if it were a student essay rather than a biography. I am sure this refers particularly to the long student-style discourse at the end of the 'normal' biography, so I have suggested this be moved to 'dicusussion'. I tried this myself, but your BOT reverted it back as if it were vandalism ! If this is one of the improvements Wikipedia seeks, as I suspect, then can your BOT undo itself and allow this studenty piece to go elsewhere as I have suggested ? Jolayemi 23:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, some size evaluations for unwikified text changing were backwards. Voice-of-All 05:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:VoABot[edit]

is down. Hasn't been up since the 20th appariently. Just thought I'd give you a heads up. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 23:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Running now, thanks. Voice-of-All 05:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heads up[edit]

I have made a request for membership on the bots approval group. I have received only one response by User:Mets501, who suggested I drop the group a line[52] and let you know about my request. Thanks. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 04:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unrevert Technical Post[edit]

Posted a question regarding the usage of tables within a template field. Please allow my post to be addressed in the technical forum. Thanks. --J4nus 05:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Put protection back on Bermuda Triangle page[edit]

You need to put the protection back on the Bermuda Triangle page. Since I started editing it back in early December, the page has attracted a minimum of one unregistered vandal a day, simply because of the subject of the article; one individual put back what he vandalized three times after we corrected it. Don't assume that these people have gone away. They will be back, starting today. Carajou 12:39, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Revert to Page[edit]

I was substantially updating the here! (TV network) page and when I posted it, the bot reverted it to its original form. I'll admit I didn't use the Sandbox to edit, and will in the future, but I'd appreciate it if you could please allow me to add the updates.

Thanks Herenetworks 23:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Block removed from Johnny Weir[edit]

I have no problem with the semi-protected block being removed from Johnny Weir, but I'd just like to say that, in response to your edit summary: hopefully protection is no longer necessary. - The US National Figure Championships are this week and the men's competition is coming up in the next couple days. So, uh, right now is the time when protection is probably the most necessary, not because of edit wars (why the block was there in the first place), but because of vandals. Kolindigo 02:30, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello sir, I have retained the cited info removed by Mr.Kannambadi and his friends on the pages u unlocked. Plz help me,this people are harrassing me and removing cited info to get the articles their way. Sarvabhaum 08:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User Rights[edit]

I recently removed you non-admin rollback because I had found one that has all the new "uw-" warning in it. However, it also removed the dollar sign button that shows the user's rights where the "edit this page" and "move", and all the other tabs are. Is there a way to get this back? Also, I lost my UTC clock also, so I tried your standalone version, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. --TeckWizTalk Contribs@ 01:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Semi-Protection for James Brown article - please reconsider[edit]

At least for the last two days, I've chasing vandals, first one, then at the rate of at least two. In the last two day, I, along with other editors, had revert vandalism by both named users and anon IP addresses. A few of the vandals come right back within a short time and re-vandalize the article. In one case, I've even suspected that sockpuppets and its master tried to circumvent reverts that that I've handled. I couldn't understand why all of the sudden we're dealing with vandalism for this article, so I went back through the history and found that you've removed protection for the James Brown article on January 21, 2007 (entry from JB article history: 23:10, January 21, 2007 Voice of All (Talk | contribs) m (Unprotected James Brown: Page protected for a while; hopefully protection is no longer necessary)). Could you reconsider reversing this action to keep a lid on this vandalism? lwalt 10:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Message when reverting multiple edits[edit]

When reverting multiple edits by same editor where only the last edit was considered bad, the bot says "edit" and not "edits". On User talk:Celticc1969 it said:

Regarding your edit to York Regional Police:[edit]

Your recent edit to York Regional Police (diff) was reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism, link spam, or test edits to the page. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. Thanks! // VoABot II 06:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The user misunderstood and complained at Wikipedia:Help_desk#unwanted_warning. I think the text should say "edits" with a short explanation, e.g. something like:

Your recent edit to York Regional Police (diff) caused this and preceding edit(s) to be reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism, link spam, or test edits to the page. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. If the preceding edits (diff) were appropriate, you can just make them again. Thanks! // VoABot II 06:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's written quickly and I realize it may give tips to vandals and spammers about how to avoid bot reversals. Maybe change the formulation or omit the part about redoing preceding edits. I know the bot's edit summary links to vandalism, but many editors may not see the part about multiple edits higher up. PrimeH :25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Your bot[edit]

Your bot is reverting my move of Dalibor Stevanovic to Dalibor Stevanovič. His name is with letter Č, not C. It's reason is "vandal comment", maybe because of the letter Č? You should fix it. Defy 18:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Voice-of-All 22:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Slown Down Baby[edit]

If you are the one adding false information about this song, then you are wrong. Please stop it! You are just wasting your time adding stuff. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Los besos (talk • contribs) 00:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

How do it know?[edit]

How does a bot know that a page update is vandalism instead of a constructive contribution? —Largo Plazo 20:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RFPP backed up[edit]

Could you run VoABot on WP:RFPP? It's backed up with completed requests. Thanks. --Coredesat 21:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot clearing a "completed" request[edit]

VoABot made this edit in which it cleared the "completed" request that someone take a look at the admin backlog at Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests. Obviously the semantics of this particular request were a bit too much for the bot to handle. Perhaps it should be modified to refrain from touching requests that have to do with pages/categories that are liable to be tagged with {{adminbacklog}}. —Dgiest c 22:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Section title limits loosened. Voice-of-All 23:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nice try but not quite. —Dgiest c 02:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What do we have to do to get Rafida on long-term semi-protection status?[edit]

What do we have to do to get Rafida on long-term semi-protection status, considering that the article has been persistently attacked by a user who freely resorts to vandalism when we refuse to accept his gibberish edits, for almost a year now? Asking on WP:RFP seems to be worse than useless unless the article is directly in the middle of a high-volume attack (which is not the problem on Rafida). You recently un-semi-protected Rafida, the long-term vandal added his gibberish to the article again, I reverted his gibberish again, and now the user will likely stalk along behind me and revert as many of my two-week-old edits that he can find which have not yet been modified by other users -- as he has already done about four or five times in the past. And of course, I'll have to clean up the resulting mess largely on my own, without much help from administrators, as has also been the pattern in the past. How many of these cycles do we have to go through before Rafida is placed on long-term semi-protection status??? For my unheeded pleas the last time around on this endless hamster-wheel cycle, see User_talk:Centrx#Thanks_for_nothing ... 08:56, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WHY ARE YOU IGNORING ME???[edit]

Of course the vandal struck at Rafida again, and of course he also stalked around after me, vandalistically reverting my edits again (just as I predicted above over a day ago), and of course I had to clean things up myself without any help from admins again. At least User:Centrx (the admin who removed the semi-protection from the Rafida article last time around on the endless wheel of repetition) had the basic courtesy and common decency to take responsibility for his actions, and acknowledge my comments. AnonMoos 19:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Philcobill and Spokane Radio[edit]

I recently added information to the KXLY article and was accidentally identified as adding either vandalism, link spam, or test edits to the page. The information I added to the article was part of the early history of KXLY. It is absolutely correct. I have spent a lot of time and expended a sizable amount of resources to obtain the information from original sources. Please change my status. If there is a better way of entering the information, please let me know. You can see my web page at www.philcobill.com. Bill Harms Elkridge, Maryland wharms@philcobill.com

"Black labs are the cutest dogs ever" in "Retriever"[edit]

I dropped by the Retriever page, and saw at the bottom the statement: "Black labs are the cutest dogs ever!!!"

I fixed it, but the bot reverted it as "vandalism". :-\

- Bob —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.32.14.30 (talk) 04:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Tiny (Kong)[edit]

Please change this article back to Tiny Kong. --PJ Pete

Reverted[edit]

Hi, I tried to put the lyrics for "September" (by Earth Wind and Fire) into the page, but the bot thought it was spam. Could you check that? --Raystlyn 13:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot on WP:RFPP[edit]

Hey VoA, does your bot remove pages that have had a protection length set when that time ends? Also it seems to be malfunctioning in some cases, see this edit. Prodego talk 16:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it should removed expired protections. VoA 17:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

picture deleted[edit]

why did my edit get reversed?? mijilg@yahoo.com

it's my first ever edit, and being removed by a bot, is not an encouragement for further edits .... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mijil (talk • contribs) 18:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

You added a test image "Image:Example.jpg" to the page. Use the sandbox instead for that. Voice-of-All 01:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vijayanagara Empire and Krishnadevaraya[edit]

Sir, This FAC article is being blanked out by an anon vandal repeatedly in the past few days. Please put a anon lock on this page. Several users have requested the user to stop vandalism but in vain. The anon vandal is blanking out even the discussion page. The second article is an important link in the main FAC article.thanksDineshkannambadi 20:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pythagoras & confused robot[edit]

your bot seems to be confused. I was trying to stop an IP vandal and it's begun attacking me. - Denny 00:43, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like some weak links were added in the edit. Voice-of-All 00:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

French and Francophony in the world[edit]

There are not 75 million native French-speaking people, nor 130 million ( My mistake, Sorry). The true number is: 110 million native French-speaking people in the world (International Summit of the Francophony, Bucharest 2006).

(75 million is not serious, even ridiculous)

"175 millions de francophones sont répartis dans le monde, avec 110 millions de francophones réels et 65 millions de francophones partiels". ( + 110 million second language) Respect our contributions !

sincerely Busway 13:40, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

having issues with VoABot II[edit]

Hello,

I recently had the following message: Your recent edit to August Ritter (diff) was reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism, link spam, or test edits to the page. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. Thanks! // VoABot II 20:33, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

The article about "August Ritter" has repeatedly been redirected to "Bill Ritter (politician)", and attempts made to clear this by various users who, like me, presumably thought that a blank page was better than an incorrect link. Presumably there is some way to kill the page altogether so it ends up unlinked again, but being a noob I don't know how. Clearly just blanking the page arouses the attention of VoABot II. Perhaps the bot could be programmed to allow blanking of pages that are simply redirects?

Other than that, the concept of an auto-vandal-catching bot sounds fantastic - keep up the good work.

81.107.44.202 21:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You should use WP:Redirects rather than blanking the page. Voice-of-All 06:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Admin JS Request[edit]

We've been having some difficulty recently with vandals mass-creating articles outside of mainspace (see Tryerlop (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and NoobStr (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for examples). Your admin JS includes the ability to mass delete test or vandalism pages in mainspace, but does not allow us to delete other namespaces (see the link atop this page). Would it be possible to do something to allow those types of deletion, or is that beyond the scope of what you want to do? Thanks, alphachimp 22:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

twinkle[edit]

I saw you have adopted my revert script now. One think I notice that you removed the reference to Twinle in the edit summaries. I think it would be useful if there is at least some sort of reference, so people know what they where using, perhaps just a WP:TWINKLE link maybe. →AzaToth 00:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

JS rollback feature[edit]

Hi VoA, I was wondering why you removed the page rollback feature. I had found it to be very useful in removing vandalism. Regards, Accurizer 00:47, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've switched some script but the rollback links should still be there. Voice-of-All 01:19, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! I've been using your script, but suddenly the rollback feature disappeared a day or two ago. In my quest to reobtain it, I have found that I cannot add your script to my monobook.js, because my internet freezes (or something to that effect) when I attempt to bypass the cache. I was wondering if you could provide me with some assistence? Thanks! – Lordmontu (talk) • (contribs) 04:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The links no longer appear on my screen. I'm certainly no expert but this is the diff where it seemed to me that the code for the rollback was removed: [53] Thanks. Regards, Accurizer 04:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have the same problem. The "[rollback]" feature has vanished from Special:Contributions. It was very handy when fighting fast-clicking vandals/spammers, so I'm hoping you could look into it. Prolog 12:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So you still have rollback links but just not on contribs? Voice-of-All 02:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, only the one on contribs is missing. The full set of rollback links is still available on diffs: [rollback (AGF)] || [rollback] || [rollback (VANDAL)]. Prolog 05:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm having the same problem. Also, I ask you some questions a while ago (further up on your talk page), maybe you missed them. John Reaves (talk) 18:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The link appears for me, but it doesn't function as it used to. 20:19, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Also the regular rollback link opens the talk page, which it didn't use to. It's somewhat annoying as the main use of the button is to revert vandalous edits without opening the talk page (e.g. botlike rollback via special:contributions which still isn't working). MER-C 10:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unlike Prolog, the links do not appear on diff pages for me. I'm using Internet Explorer if that matters. Accurizer 11:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. The automatically opening talk page window is confusing, and definitely slowed down my vandal-fighting. The script also opens the talk page every single time, even if I had just warned the user and am now just reverting his previous edits and waiting to see if he stopped. It's very annoying. Prolog 14:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
VoA, I've noticed that in IE, the JS tool is also causing errors and frequently crashing. Can it be rolled back to the Jan. 5 version? For now I don't have much choice but to stop using it. If it becomes fixed please let me know, I'd like to use it again. Thanks. Regards, Accurizer 03:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hate to bother you again about Thalía but I am thinking about a RfC[edit]

Could you please see Thalía's talkpage's last comment. Tonight an anonymous IP made a major delete to the article which it claims was reestablished in other parts of the article. In reverting my revert, it called my edit stupid. I politely disagreed and placed a comment on her talkpage. Now, another anonymous IP has placed another attack in the comments. It is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor this article as numerous IPs are taking liberties with the page. Thanks, Ronbo76 06:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot error on Compai[edit]

I notice your bot reverted the edit of an author of a new article. The Compai article is likely to be deleted anyway, but perhaps the bot should check the identity of a new article's creator before identifying that creator's edit as vandalism. =Axlq 06:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The bot reverted a test edit. It now uses a better summary for that. Voice-of-All 06:52, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot error on Jonathan Pollard[edit]

Your bot reverted my edits to this article which were to remove NPOV statements that someone had added in all caps.

Your edit (maybe by mistake) left POV in all caps[54]. I've enabled some checking to prevent the bot from saving if problems are still there.Voice-of-All 14:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, i reverted a page recently as it had been deleted, the page being "Brit awards", i then recieved a message from VoAbot 2 accusing me of vandalism, the page is fine now but i think your bot needs a tune up

I don't see why you blanked the page here[55]. Did you want to redirect it? Voice-of-All 14:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Error on Al Capone[edit]

Good Day, I reverted some vandalism and this bot restored the vandalism Leafyplant

Describing vandalism in the summary tends to cause problems. I've just liberally expanded what can exempt summaries from reverts. Voice-of-All 06:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Please re-protect Horse article[edit]

Please re-protect horse. This article requires long term protection (is FOREVER possible?), we would ask that semi-protection status not be removed for a LONG time. The little kids are already starting up again, it is slow now, it turns into a flood at times. We editors there really are tired of wasting our editing time constantly reverting references to manure, gender orientation and genitalia. These last couple of weeks have featured productive edits instead of time-consuming reverts. Thanks Montanabw 19:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another admin got it, so thanks anyway! Montanabw 00:25, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please re-correct Gold Leaf Electroscope article[edit]

Dear Voice of All,

I corrected the spelling of 'lightning' from the incorrect 'lightening' in the article Gold leaf electroscope only to be sent a message from your Bot saying that I was a vandal!! I'm not a vandal. :-) The spelling is wrong, and so is your Bot. Please put it right again.

Micken

The page is now blanked as a copyvio so it doesn't matter much.Voice-of-All 06:59, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The match that the edit summary caught was extended so that summary will be allowed to pass. Voice-of-All 18:07, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Boanthropy[edit]

edit to boanthropy was made in a drunken stupor... i'm terribly sorry for deleting it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 205.250.159.54 (talk) 17:40, 1 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

OK :) Voice-of-All 17:55, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jade Goody protection[edit]

Hi

The Jade Goody page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Goody

was recently made unprotected but it is getting loads of vandalism - including one vandal who deleted the page and replaced it with "How is the page not protected"

Please can it have some protection placed on it again

Thanks

Ben —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Breed3011 (talk • contribs) 19:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Troy Smith article[edit]

Please re-protect the article. No sooner than the protection was lifted then the same group went back to vandalizing it. Thank you. Ryecatcher773 21:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfB[edit]

In your support !vote (thank you, by the way), you indicated you "do have some concerns elsewhere." In the interest of self improvement, what are those concerns? Thanks for your time. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User Rights[edit]

I recently removed you non-admin rollback because I had found one that has all the new "uw-" warning in it. However, it also removed the dollar sign button that shows the user's rights where the "edit this page" and "move", and all the other tabs are. Is there a way to get this back? Also, I lost my UTC clock also, so I tried your standalone version, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. --TeckWizTalk Contribs@ 01:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Typoes in VoABot II message[edit]

In the message that VoABot II gives when it warns users about vandalism, "sumamry" should be "summary" and there should be an "an" between the words "by" and "automated". Graham87 01:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Voice-of-All 15:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User Rights[edit]

I recently removed you non-admin rollback because I had found one that has all the new "uw-" warning in it. However, it also removed the dollar sign button that shows the user's rights where the "edit this page" and "move", and all the other tabs are. Is there a way to get this back? Also, I lost my UTC clock also, so I tried your standalone version, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.j --TeckWizTalk Contribs@ 01:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually that comes from the history js script. Voice-of-All 18:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Edit to Kimveer Gill[edit]

It looks like the text of another article was substituted for this one, instead of an apparently intended reversion.[56] Something very wrong here. I reverted back to the previous version; there is a content dispute and revert war, but does not appear to be vandalism. Kablammo 14:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some other incidents of bot gone wild (in these cases, actual article vandalism "reverted" by substitution of warnings or irrelevant text): [57], [58], and [59]. All fixed now. Kablammo 14:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like the "oldid" value from the query API lead to talk pages (or other random pages). Also, you can go to a page in edit mode, with "oldid" equal to some revision ID for another page and save it, which is kind of weird. It now uses "revid" which should work. Voice-of-All 18:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brett Favre Page Issue[edit]

Hi Voice for all, user Jaranda and again protected the Brett Favre page, could you please unprotect it, he keeps saying his reason is banned user returned and he has now banned user BrettFavre4Ever who added citations and extra stats and references than before, there are multiple errors to the page that user BrettFavre4Ever has corrected, but Jaranda has reverted back, he's vandalised the page, he doesn't own the page and he's reverting and removing citations that belong there, check BrettFavre4Ever 's edits, they are all helpful with no deleting of good material, he's added citations and corrected spelling, check the edits he made, he has appealed his ban, but the Brett Favre page should be unprotected, but everytime you do it, Jaranda protects it, the only one vandalising the page is Jaranda, and I was hoping you could do something about it by unprotecting the Brett Favre page and un banning BrettFavre4Ever, Thanks, BarryBonds2500Walks

Your robot[edit]

Made a mistake at Postmodern Literature--I took out nonsense letters, and the robot put them back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MsHyde (talk • contribs) 05:42, 5 February 2007

Twice, actually. Here are some diffs that you'll probably want, VoA: [60], [61]. Hope that helps. Best, Heimstern Läufer 05:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed now. This was due to a right/left extraction error from a regexp I switched to to gain some speed. Unfortunetely it as flipping the right/left sides due the the way split() was working. I switched back to the old way. Sorry. Voice-of-All 17:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to Playboy Riots[edit]

I recently received the following message:

"Your recent edit to Playboy Riots (diff) was reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism, link spam, or test edits to the page. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. Thanks! // VoABot II 15:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)"

What I had wanted was to include the "Playboy Riots" in the article "The Playboy of the Western World", as had been proposed on the "Playboy of the...." page. I also described on the "Playboy of the Western World" discussion page what I had done. I was unaware that I as a user was not authorized to make such a merging of two articles. (My English WP username is lumendelumine, by the way.) 213.47.61.143 15:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kadambas[edit]

Sir, you recently removed anon protect on this page which has promptly fallen pray to anon vandalism. cited information put in by me is being removed by two anon users.Please consider putting back the anon block on this page.thanks.Dineshkannambadi 15:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RC patrol tools on Opera[edit]

Hi, i've been using your RC patrol tools for some time and they've been quite useful. But after you made changes to it recently, the "Revert" options no longer show up in Opera. I checked, and they work fine on Firefox and IE. Any way you could fix them so they sork on Opera again? Thanks. --snowolfD4( talk / @ ) 16:24, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RC Script template changes[edit]

A quick query. I use your non-admin RC script which is excellent but I was wondering how I could update the warning templates in the top tabs to the new ones. I feel I should use the new ones but obviously it's much easier to just click a button instead of keeping the table open: I never can remember all the different template names! Thankyou for your help, and a great tool and sorry if I've missed this elsewhere. --Farosdaughter 16:54, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I love your script, but I'm wondering about the new warnings too. If you've already addressed this, direct me to your FAQ. Thanks! Katr67 02:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disabling popups by default in your monobook[edit]

Hi, VOA. First off, thanks a million for the blood, sweat and tears that you put into those custom js and css and sharing them with everyone. I was wondering if you'd tell me (a total code ignoramus) how I could disable popups by default? I keep selecting the "disable popups" function on the popups when they appear, and although they go away on that page, every time a new page is loaded they come right back. Thanks for your time, A Train take the 06:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you disable them completely, how do you get them back? Also, you could disable them completely by removing the code in your Monobook.js. Do you need help with that? Will (Talk - contribs) 06:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I do indeed need help with that, and frankly don't want the popups back. I should be ashamed, right? Good, because I am. :) Your help would be greatly appreciated. A Train take the 06:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Did you look at this[62] ?Voice-of-All 10:07, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot[edit]

I just reverted the bots edit on WP:RFPP this dif because it removed the header information. Gnangarra 13:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What tool are you using to produce...[edit]

What tool are you using to produce data like this: Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Mike 7? --Durin 22:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a automated to all bot operators[edit]

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Warn the vandal, not the reverter[edit]

Your bot warned ME for this – Qxz 07:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Voice-of-All 18:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VOA[edit]

Hey VOA do you know what causes this error because when I use popups and I use the "rv" button ,I get this error message "Script Error" and also afetr the reversion the reversion looks like this in the Edit Summary "(Revert to revision 107857377 dated (unknown) by (unknown) using popups)"..Do you know what might be wrong??.--Cometstyles 21:01, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD Islamic socialism[edit]

You have edited the article Islamic socialism. This article is currently being considered for deletion under the wp:afd process. You may contribute to this discussion by commenting here. Thank you. Edivorce 01:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VOA bot at WP:RFPP[edit]

Your bot removed an active discussion along with the completed discussions. (It was subsequently restored.) —Doug Bell talk 01:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It did it again (to Carlos Mencia both times). I'll have to block the bot if does it again. —Doug Bell talk 01:23, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot edit to WDOH[edit]

I am not sure why it reverted that page, but the edit was quite good. Infoboxes were added and much more content was added. Just wanted to make you aware of this bad edit.--K8TEK 17:49, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely a good edit. This was due to an all caos second person word regexp, which I've now made more specific. Voice-of-All 02:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Possible bugfix[edit]

Greetings! Thanks for your work on this most excellent bot. Could you have a look at this diff [63] and see if you can figure out why the bot made the version back to a vandal edit? Nothing is immediately obvious to me. Cheers, and thanks again for your work on this. Antandrus (talk) 18:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question about warning scripts.[edit]

I wanted to know if you knew how to add additional "warning scripts" to the tabs. Warnings such as "non notable biography" for when someone makes a non-notable biography and I add a speedy deletion to it etc. Here's my monobook JS file to give you an idea of what I mean. [[64]].Wikidudeman (talk) 18:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

U2 edit[edit]

Hi, I'm sure your bot's intentions were good (do bots have intentions?), but it reverted my edit to U2, in which I added a reference -- see [65]. Wikipedia brown 22:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some more code changes, and debugging the diffs shows that it would not revert those changes currently. Voice-of-All 02:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Useless bot[edit]

I had yet another "warning" from your bot today. Again, no, I don't think so. Either fix it or turn it off completely, please, because it isn't helping. Thanks – Qxz 11:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Error with your bot[edit]

Hi, take a look at this edit your bot made. If you see the edit summary, you will notice that it mentions the wrong username, Cydebot (talk · contribs) instead of Empire Earth DUDE!! (talk · contribs), as well as including some HTML that probably shouldn't be there. It might be worth mentioning that Cydebot is the author of the revision the bot reverts to. The bot then proceeds to warn Cydebot instead of the user who actually made the edit. Tra (Talk) 16:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More trouble[edit]

The bot does seem to be malfunctioning somewhat. I figured a note here was better than hitting the "off" button, but you might want to take a look at its recent reverts. Some crazy stuff. Kafziel Talk 18:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABOT II issue[edit]

Have another case at Flash flood where the bot misidentified the editor who added a link: as you can see in this diff, it was User:Rf1smith, not User:Weather333, who added the link, but the bot's revert mentions Weather333, and the bot warns him at User talk:Weather333. Shimeru 19:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bug[edit]

Something must be wrong with the bot. For example, this revert. It's got the names in the edit summary mixed up. Yuser31415 19:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Twinklefluff[edit]

Hi, VOA. I know that you have your own bot called VOABOT II that is similar to AntiVandalBot's functions. I have been pretty busy to study for final exam in my school. Today, when I came back to Wikipedia after wikibreak on final exam, I saw some wikipedian user Twinklefluff to revert vandalisms. In my opinion, Twinklefluff is similar to Popups, but I don't know about Twinklefluff too much. Could you please explain what is Twinklefluff? Please reply in my talk page. Cheers! Daniel5127 <Talk> 03:42, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You forgot to reply my questions.!! Daniel5127 <Talk> 20:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...[edit]

Thank you for removing my citation. (Refine your bot, please) --Afacini 23:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

voabot[edit]

I dont know what needs to be tweaked but your bot just reverted my vandalism revert back to the reverted version of my own user page. It also warned me for vandalizing my own user page. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 19:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously something is wrong. I shut it off.[66] Prodego talk 19:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your edit to Jamie Spaniolo:[edit]

Your recent edit to Jamie Spaniolo (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. You have been identified as a new user or a logged out editor using a hosting or shared IP address to add email addresses, phone numbers, YouTube, Geocities, Myspace, Facebook, blog, forum, or other such free-hosting website links to a page. Please note that such links are generally to be avoided. You can restore any other content by editing the page and re-adding that content. The links can be reviewed and restored by established users. Thank you for contributing! // VoABot II 16:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Automated message seems to be mistaken. It was not my edit that was reverted. Rather, it was my edit that was reverted to.--Rosicrucian 20:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that has been a problem. I shut off the bot until VoA can fix it. Prodego talk 20:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for noticing this. The above problems were due to the old and current user names being switched around, causing people to be miswared and bad edits to be restored if someone already reverted a vandal. I've switched to the right way now. Voice-of-All 23:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to everyone for finding it, and I am glad you got that worked out VoA. This is a good opportunity to ask you if you think I have been a good admin. I know you didn't support me at first, and I have never asked. :) I always like constructive criticism. Prodego talk 00:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So this is definitely fixed now? No more warnings for reverting stuff? 'Cos they were getting annoying. Thanks – Qxz 04:53, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At The Throne of Judgment[edit]

You bot is accusing me of being a new user and adding bad info. The change it reverted was the addition of a speedy deletion tag to a band article. Your bot apparently needs some work. Improbcat 18:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The db tag was kept. It reverted to revision #109347412, which was by you, though it listed the names as switched (see above post). Voice-of-All 15:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WTYM: Why was my edit reverted?[edit]

I worked at that station for a year, and have known the current owner for the past 15 years. I've also been in the radio business for the past twenty years. Check my history of other radio articles that I've created. You'll find that every bit of information on that article is true and correct. Thank you.

Your RC script[edit]

Hi,

I have installed your RC script. It's a great tool. There is, however, a small problem that I have with it. In the top right of a window I can see (to the right of the log out link) a date and time. The time displayed there is not the same as the time shown on WP:TIME. In fact the clock says now that it is 16:25 UTC while in reality it is 17:25 UTC. Do you know what could be the cause of this? Mausy5043 17:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I found the cause at my end. Mausy5043 18:02, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Automated message to bot owners[edit]

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 05:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot and RFPP[edit]

Something seems to have gone AWOL here - RFPP is literally clogged. Is this an intentional withdrawal of edits, or has something been unintentionally changed? Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 08:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:List of protected pages[edit]

Um, there is something seriously wrong with the "Other pages" section. Titoxd(?!?) 20:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute at Copa del Rey and Athletic Bilbao[edit]

There is on-going dispute regarding how many Copa del Reys Athletic Bilbao should be credited with. It centres on the 1902 Copa. I would appreciate your input/mediation. I have posted the message below to try explain why Athletic should be credited with the 1902 Copa.

I am not disputing that Club Vizcaya won the Copa in 1902. However this team is part of Athletic Bilbao history. Club Vizcaya is not a separate club from Athletic, but is part of the clubs history. Several clubs including FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Real Sociedad and RCD Espanyol and Real Union have won the Copa del Rey under different names. All trophies won under their various names are included in one list. So why should the Athletic record be different ?

Below is a timeline which explains the early history of Athletic.

  • Early 1890s: Bilbao FC formed by British workers.
  • 1898: Basque students returning from UK form Athletic Club.
  • 1902: Above two teams enter combined team known as Club Vizcaya in Copa del Rey.
  • 1903: These two teams merge and form Athletic Club Bilbao
  • 1907: The Club Vizcaya name is revived as Athletic Club de Bilbao and Union Vizcaino entered another combined team in the Copa del Rey.

The 1902 Copa is included in Athletic’s own honours list [67] and the trophy is in their museum [68]. The eleven Club Vizcaya players who played in the final - L. Arana, E Careaga, P. Larranga, L. Silva, A. Arana, Goiri, Cazeaux, Astorquia, W. Dyer, R. Silva, W. Evans - are all included in an archive of former Athletic players [69]. Djln--Djln 14:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RC Patrol Script[edit]

Hi,Voice of All. Actually i want to report some problem for your RC Patrol Script, it remove my watchlist once i press "rollback", and add articles to watchlist once i'm press "restore this version", why this can happen. I hope this problem can be solve. Thank you. --Aleenf1 02:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I also just noticed that if I use the rollback feature of your script, it removes the article from my watchlist. I've missed some vandalism because of this, so if it can be fixed that would be great. Thanks, love your script! Katr67 06:28, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot problem[edit]

Per a note I got, I tried to post a reply (a question) on the Media Copyright Questions page... and it got pulled by the bot for being vandalism. (?!?!?!)

Yes, I am new 'round here, but I have good photos I want to freely share.

Here's the post in question (in a funky archive copied format)... 

	+  	Image:Matt_hales-aqualung.jpg
 	+ 	Okay, I give up. I honestly don't know how to comply with this if I'm not already!
 	+ 	
 	+ 	The note I got: "I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear." The summary part already said: "Musician Matt Hales, aka Aqualung. Photo (c) Nancy J Price. June 2005 in Tempe, Arizona." I also licensed it appropriately (I thought).
 	+ 	
 	+ 	I took this photo. I have read over all the pages about images -- and can't figure out what I am supposed to do differently here. Could you please tell me how/where I need to add any other tags/disclaimers/kitchen sinks?
 	+ 	
 	+ 	Andwhatsnext 20:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please help, and also realize that this isn't vandalism. :-(

Sorry, you have a long line of "=" marks, which does not format and is often vandalism. Just re-add it it without those. Sorry. Voice-of-All 17:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Volbot II messed up[edit]

... again. The bot identified this as vandalism. Please have the bot sit in the corner as his punishment. No cookies. :-) Real96 06:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoAbot II[edit]

Can you have the bot not watch Wikipedia:Request an account? Due to the nature of the process, we need unregistered users to be able to add e-mail addresses. Ral315 » 19:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Voice-of-All 04:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FeTNA lead page[edit]

Dear Editor, I want to let you know about the inaccuracies in the lead page about FeTNA.I tried to edit it.As I am new to wiki I may not have followed the proper procedures. The lead page and the past discussions are there but there seems to be no change in the lead page. I would like to look at my edit and please get back to me. Are you one of the editors or how is this process being carried out. I appreciate your getting back to me. Thamizhanban somailangovan@yahoo.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thamizhanban (talk • contribs) 02:28, 1 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Your bot reverted my changes[edit]

I am a new user and I tried editing my first article. After my submission of a new section your bot reverted my changes. I am a noob to editing wikipedia and I don't really understand what was wrong with my edit. Your bot's message said that I am using a shared IP or that I am adding free-hosting links to a website. Could you please help me understand what I did wrong and look at my edit if you can. Thank you.

Please note that I am re-posting this question since you have not yet responded but seem to be responding to other questions. I don't mean to be rude, but I myself find it rude that Wikipedia says that questions can be asked on discussion and talk pages and yet no one is taking the time to respond or at least say why they are not responding if my question is not very good. I do not want to fill a pages history with a mess of changes being reverted by your bot due to trial and error, but if no one tells me what I am doing wrong, that is exactly what I am going to have to do until I can figure out what it is I am doing wrong. Again, I am not trying to be rude or disrespectful. I am just new here and trying to get some help. Robear 16:06, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request edit of protected RFC/Essjay[edit]

You protected the WP:RFC/USER page on "Essjay" just as I was trying to save a typo correction to my endorsement (the last, #14) of Tariqabjotu's outside view, #3.32 in the TOC. Could that correction still be made? If the page is saved instead of deleted, I'd hate to have my typo set in stone. It's one dratted apostrophe missing near the start, setting the italics wrong through the rest of the paragraph:
          (UTC)]</span>: '"<u>From the moment
should be:
          (UTC)]</span>: ''"<u>From the moment
Just a doubled apostrophe to start the italics off right, that's all I need. Please? -- Ben 04:30, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that another user unprotected anyway. Voice-of-All 04:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
And then someone else reprotected it. But I see that you made the edit. Thanks! -- Ben 05:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This bot made a mistake...[edit]

I reverted a vandal's edit and the bot undid my revert (to Nugs And Nachos)... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Orijok (talk • contribs) 06:07, 4 March 2007 (UTC). As I can tell, not the first time...can you fix that? Orijok 06:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There was a link that made it revert, I've restored all but that. Voice-of-All 06:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot goofed making monthly archives on WP:CHU[edit]

See this diff where it added a second February entry, which linked back to last year. —dgiestc 18:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Likely due to me setting my box's year to 2006 in order to get MATLAB to run :) Voice-of-All 20:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot says it reverted vandalism, but it didn't[edit]

See User_talk:Zvox for the warning message left for the vandal, but the change to the user page in question was never made. -Seinfreak37 19:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD category deletion[edit]

I noticed you deleted Category:AfD debates (Nominator unsure of category), though I'm not sure if it was the result of a CfD or some other change to the process. In any event, the template {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}} still categorizes articles into this category if the user uses the "?" parameter to it. Also, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion still has a link to the category. You might want to edit the template to remove the parameter that categorizes AfD discussions into a nonexistent category. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 23:52, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The category was a maintenance category that ought to be usually empty (articles in it are resorted), so it's inappropriate to be speedied (presumably this is what happened, as there wasn't any discussion about this deletion). Could you restore it please? --ais523 18:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:AfD debates (Nominator unsure of category). Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review.

I've taken this to DRv in the hope that it gets undeleted faster, as you don't seem to be online at the moment and the deletion of the category is disrupting AfD. --ais523 18:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Restored. Voice-of-All 19:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject category deletions[edit]

Hi! I was trying to get WikiProject Carnivorous plants's assessment set up and noticed two of the categories I created were deleted by you, such as Category:Disambiguation carnivorous plant pages and Category:FA-class carnivorous plant articles. (I haven't checked the assessment categories for WP:PLANTS yet, but I assume they were deleted, too, since it's taking longer than expected for bot approval to tag appropriate pages). I understand the policy of deleting categories with no content. But in the initial phases of setting up the assessment, is there a way to tag the wikiproject categories so they won't be deleted? What's the policy on this? Should I create the categories when we have a need for them? I just assumed I should create them first and then set up the assessment per the guidelines at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot. I'll wait for your thoughts on this before I recreate it (Our wikiproject should have an FA article soon enough, so the one category will definitely be needed). Thanks! --Rkitko 07:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'd like to know where these deletions were discussed as well. The categories used by the assessment system are automatically generated from tags and are necessary for the tracking bots to run correctly; deleting them was a profoundly bad idea, as articles tend to appear in them quite unpredictably. Kirill Lokshin 21:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The deletions where ran based on a list given to me by another admin of empty categories that could be deleted. I would liberally restore anything if any mistakes where made. Voice-of-All 22:00, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, ok; will do. (It may be nice to have whatever script is being used to compile the list omit the more obvious assessment and WikiProject categories; they tend to empty out sometimes, but shouldn't really be deleted.) Kirill Lokshin 22:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]



Echo Kirill, the cats unknown importance and unassesed (quality) are used by the article assessment bots and the projects. I go through them several times a week on our project to find articles that need work. They need to be there. Please adjust your bot. Thank you. Rlevse 10:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted in mid edit[edit]

I seem to have missed the CFD on this one, moreover, I was in the middle of related categorising and had this one open and editing... and the system gave me a message it had been deleted after I started the edit... which makes sense, that was at least twelve hours back. So what's the scoop? This one hasn't had the autotagging logic installed yet in {{interwikitmp-grp}} and {{commonstmp}}, so I'd suppose it had no contents... YET. will this do for a start? <G> Do let me know! Cheers // FrankB P.S. It sortof goes with this one Category:Templates shared with English sisterprojects by project, so do it's red links. If you restore it, the iterim edit buffer content was parked here. WP:TSP and I thank you. // FrankB 07:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Restored. Voice-of-All 19:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks // FrankB 19:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Unverified cricket images[edit]

Hello VOA. Can you explain why you deleted the above category? The deletion summary says "per User:Betacommand/Datadump/To be Deleted". What does that mean? —Moondyne 11:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category deletion[edit]

Hi. Could you please tell me why did you delete Category:Articles needing Arabic script? I see no reason to delete this helpful cleanup category. It is one of the many subcategories of Category:Articles needing original script. - Anas Talk? 12:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Auto Revert from Bot in error[edit]

My username is jrhjr; I noticed several errors on the entry for Kerrville, Texas. I am a native of Kerrville and have written a newspaper column about local history for over a dozen years.

The first, most glaring error was that our community was named for Major James Kerr a veteran of the Confederate Army. Kerr died before the Civil War. He was a veteran of the Texas Revolution.

Other changes also needed to be made, but these were reverted by the bot.

Rather frustrating! This is supposed to be a wiki, where users can provide content.

jrhjr

It reverted some common test edits you included (like the galley tags with example.jpg). Pleause use 'preview' or the sandbox rather than saving such edits. You seem to have got the edits in now though. Voice-of-All 16:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Procedures un peu préamptives[edit]

Bonsoir, ceci concern les sous-catégories. An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:Cities in the UTC timezone. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. CyclePat 05:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RfC[edit]

This is to advize you that I have started an RfC on you. [70] --CyclePat 07:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Monobook[edit]

Hi, I'm a RfCU clerk, and tried adding your script, but to no avail :s, in fact it killed everything. Take a look at the page history when you've got time, and see if you can't tell me either (a) what's wrong, and/or (b) fix it, or help me to fix it :). Ta — Deon555talkdesksign here! 00:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. You added css to a .js file. Voice-of-All 00:38, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot[edit]

Have you got your bot archiving WP:CHU/U as well? Would it be much trouble to instruct it to do so? Regards — Dan | talk 04:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If it is of any help, I have already written such a bot in PHP to archive CHU/U, since essjay asked me to write one like VoAbot but would be specifically meant for /U (though could be set to archive CHU too by adding a new config var). Though, if VoA wants to put his bot on CHU/U that's fine with me. (and a note: this bot ran under the EssjayBotII nick, which you can find in the /U history) GeorgeMoney (talk) 04:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Voice-of-All 22:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

C&C3[edit]

Well, we have an Intel Core Duo (1.7 GHz) with 1Gb of RAM and an nVidia 7900. It runs perfectly. My guess is, anything close to it should work, but MX cards aren't supported to my knowledge. Cheers, Mikael GRizzly

Noel Ignatiev[edit]

Hi! Your bot reverted some changes that I made to the article Noel Ignatiev. About all I did was add a picture. Any idea why? Im new so if I screwed up sorry. Thanks CaptinJohn 10:30, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting problem[edit]

Hi - These ([71] & [72]) reversions didn't quite revert (losing closing brackets in both cases) Stephenb (Talk) 12:52, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category deletion[edit]

Hi, you appear to have deleted Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the East Riding of Yorkshire for some reason. Is there a reason for this?

It is a category for people to request photos to be created for articles. It is normally empty and only has entries when a photo has been requested for an article by placing the tag on the article's talk page. This is in line with all of the other category entries for counties of England. Ok I know technically the East Riding of Yorkshire is not a county, but there are similar categories for West Yorkshire Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in South Yorkshire.

Keith D 13:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Any chance of this being restored? Keith D 15:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nutrition[edit]

You deleted it, can you tell me if there was a category that should replace it, I'd be glad to AWB it out of existing articles still with that category...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:58, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Restored. This was deleted from a huge list, and it seems that a few of the pages should not have been on it. Voice-of-All 17:58, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VoABot: Wikipedia:List of protected pages[edit]

The stray parentheses at Wikipedia:List of protected pages, are you sure it's working correctly? Femto 21:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]


didn't vandalize Cruz Hernández[edit]

I improved Cruz Hernández by adding a citation, etc. VoABot automatically reverted to someone else's version which had been entered almost simultaneously to mine. I'm concerned that the "vandalism comment" will erroneously be associated with my I.P. 69.149.165.203 06:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the bot, I wouldn't worry about the edit, especially if you make an account. Voice-of-All 09:08, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your robot has made a bad mistake[edit]

Hi. Please look at [73] and [74]. I think your robot has made a bad mistake. God bless you.Vakilian (u, t, c)--07:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Voice-of-All 17:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot edit[edit]

I don't think that your bot is supposed to restore prods after they have been removed as it did here. I added the prod and the articles creator removed it which is legit in this instance as far as I can tell. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you again but an answer would be useful as to it being OK for bots to replace PROD's that have be removed legitimately. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:54, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Script problem[edit]

I added your admin script today and it disables popups within popups. Is this a standard bug? Would you mind taking a quick look at my monobook and see if I messed something up? John Reaves (talk) 11:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, how does the "revert all edits" function work? Mainly, what do I put in the box for the secondary confirmation? John Reaves (talk) 00:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A small bot problem[edit]

Your bot seems to like to archive the bottom sections from WP:CHU/U (Instructions, Archives, See also) -- if it's a complicated thing to fix I guess we could just move them above the requests, but I'd like to have the requests as near to the top as possible. — Dan | talk 18:06, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed now. Voice-of-All 18:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TWINKLE[edit]

Since you were the one from whom AzaToth got the base code for the TWINKLE collection, I should let you know that these tools are awesome and they really aid me when the rollback button in the Anti-Vandal Tool does not work. Again, great program!  ~Steptrip 23:21, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but he really rewrote it from the ground up, in a cleaner OOP fashion. Voice-of-All 01:56, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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