User talk:RobyWayne/Archive 2

Hello Spamlist!

Ah, my first ever spam mass produced and mailed to the spamlist. Well first of all let me re-state that we have an irc channel, #wp-esperanza, and its been rather empty, so I'd appreciate it if you come, even if you just idle about. Now, the evil polls have closed, and I left a justification note for running the evil polls. Nothing has really changed, but at least I have somewhat of a consensus. I hope to figure out a way to overturn my power to JCarriker somehow, I'll figure out a way :-) Meanwhile, I've been busy reforming the mediation system where I am the chairman now, er, acting chairman. Enjoy your spam, with extra vikings. Redwolf24 (talk) 00:40, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Jaxl's RfA

Hi Roby, thank you for your support and your kind comment on my RfA! Robert 16:11, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Template:Virginia Higher Education

Hi there. You mentioned in the TfD debate for this template, you said you do the orphaning for it. Since its 7 days have now passed, and there was consensus to delete, I have archived the debate and moved the template to the 'To Oprhan' section on TfD. Someone may get to it before you do, but, if you should complete the orphaning, just move it to the "ready to delete" section and an admin will delete it. Thanks. -Splash^talk 17:14, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your message

Hi Roby, thanks for the little welcome note you left behind. I (my company) use(s) MediaWiki for logging our work, taking notes, official documentation, project planning, ... and so on. So yes, I am reasonably comfortable with Wikipedia, and I will sign my contributions wherever necessary/ wherever I'd like someone to check with me in case s/he has different opinions on something I wrote. :)

--Ksh.gupta 21:08, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

List of California State Routes

Someone wants to convert this to a template so it wound up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of California State Routes. (Same person who too the TFD off the {{VA Highways}}, and probably wanted to make a WP:POINT.)

Resignation

Hello spam list, look at this. Essjay is the new leader of Esperanza, and I'm interested in seeing how he runs it. I'm busy doing other work... Please comment at that talk page there. I will still probably run the spamlist though. Redwolf24 (talk) 22:59, 2 October 2005 (UTC)--Rschen7754 05:34, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Advisory Committee election deadline set

Our new admin general, Essjay, has set the date for the advisory committee elections, that date being October 7th. By UTC it is October 5th right now. So see WP:ESP/E for voting in two days, and add yourself to the list if you're interested in running. On a personal note, I'm considering running, as I only resigned as admin general because of time. I'm sure I could help out on the advisory committee... Anywho, watchlist that page, and be sure to read the voting method too. Regards, Redwolf24 (talk) 01:11, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:CP

Hi, you've reported copyright infringements to WP:CP in the last week, a new measure was recently passed to allow the speedy deltion of new pages that are cut and paste copyvios. Please follow these instructions if you come across this type of copyvio. Thanks. --nixie 00:11, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Blatant copyright infringements may now be "speedied" If an article and all its revisions are unquestionably copied from the website of a commercial content provider and there is no assertion of permission, ownership or fair use and none seems likely, and the article is less than 48 hours old, it may be speedily deleted. See CSD A8 for full conditions. After notifying the uploading editor by using wording similar to: {{nothanks-sd|pg=page name|url=url of source}} -- ~~~~ Blank the page and replace the text with {{db-copyvio|url=url of source}} to the article in question, leaving the content visible. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to speedily delete it or not.

Charts

DROOOOOOOL!!! Wow. I mean REALLY wow! I love that page! One request; add an average edits line to the bottom graph. Such a line shows increase/decrease in activity averaged over time. What I'd like to see happen is to have this turn into a tool that I can pump someone's User ID into and have everything generated just like that page. Think you can make that happen? If so, my charts are history :) I wouldn't mind really; I enjoy doing them but I could spend the time I spend on them doing other things. I wonder about the load this might induce on Wikipedia? Thanks for the congrats on adminship! --Durin 16:41, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Adminship

I'd like to nominate you to be an admin. I've reviewed your edits, and I'm very impressed with your contributions. Edit summaries a whopping 99% of the time (I found a few that were missing)? WOW! :) Plus, you've been active in a lot of dirty closets around here, including redirection repair (which from what I've seen is rare behavior). Your average # of edits per day is 24.15 according to my stats, not the 1.13 according to your pie chart. With 4000+ edits, you should sail through the RfA process for those people who insist on dwelling on edit counts, and I can't find any edits of yours where you used harsh words with any one. You need to be in the admin cabal ;) What do you say? --Durin 17:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Also, would you mind if I make reference to User:RobyWayne/Sandbox in the RfA statement? --Durin 17:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Nominated: I've gone ahead and created the RfA for you, effectively nominating you. If you want to remove the mention of the sandbox charts, just edit it out of my nomination statement. I'm out of time today and may not be available to do this again until Monday. If you want to reject the nomination, let me know and I will delete the RfA page. If you want to accept, then please follow the instructions located near the bottom of this page: Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/nominate. Make sure you follow the instructions precisely. RfA voters, including myself, do not look kindly upon people adding their RfAs improperly :) I've voted support pre-emptively for you. I don't normally vote prior to nominess answering the questions, but in this case since I'm the nominator... --Durin 21:07, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

• My sympathies to you. I've had family members go through heart attacks. Once spent Christmas in an ICU ward. I know where you are emotionally. As I noted somewhere (can't remember where now), Wikipedia would be dropped as soon as you found out a family member was in the hospital. This is just such a time. Wikipedia is totally secondary. Be gone, go be with family. See you when you get back. I hope for the best for you and your family. --Durin 02:29, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Voting for yourself

It doesn't matter if you're self-nominating - voting for yourself is pointless because RFA is for gauging users' feelings aobut you. Andre (talk) 22:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

• Ahg! Please undo your self-vote. --Durin 22:25, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Graphs etc.

Ahh, I see... Would it be rude of me to ask you run those queries for my contribs? :o Redwolf24 (talk) 23:01, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Posted at User:RobyWayne/Sandbox_Redwolf24. >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist • E@} 04:50, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Is there a way I can get a copy too? Titoxd^(?!?) 04:13, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you! :) Titoxd^(?!?) 04:32, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Ok I see you do them in excel.. could you tell me how (or give me the relevant files) so I don't bother you asking about mine? I saw Titoxd's page and it's quite neat -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 06:40, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Posted here. >: Roby Wayne ^Talk 15:48, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

KY highways

Thanks for the note about my KY parkways articles. I'm a little backed up workwise right now, so I'll try to finish up in the next few weeks. Realkyhick 04:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:CCW

Welcome to the Catholic Church of Wikipedia! Feel free to drop us a line if you have any questions. Cheers. --Lord Voldemort ^{(Dark Mark)} 13:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Awesome user data

Just discovered (thanks to User:Durin directing me there) your user statistics thingo (in your sandbox). Just the tool I have been looking for, could I place an order? I was thinking of using a tool like that to log the number of "What links here" for a page (maybe on a monthly basis) to keep an eye on the pages at Maintenance. So where does the data come from (I don't know anything about server/MySQL/php)? Is it a server request, or does it acutally use "Special:Contributions/Foodude", like a normal user does? Anyhow, great work! Oh, and good luck with the VfA.--Commander Keane 14:12, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Obviosuly I think the statistics are great. The doughnut chart labelling (of namespaces) turned out really ordered and clear, which is an improvement (or just luck maybe) on other peoples stats pages. The colours of the doughnut (hope you don't mind the British spellings) are also great now. Maybe something I'd add would be percentage of edit summaries (which I think you were working on). When you say that "the data comes directly from Special Contributions" what does that mean? For example, for my "What links here" counts (here) literally visits the page and reads the html, then checks the strings (which is really slow). --Commander Keane 01:35, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm musn't be such a sucky programmer if I am using the same way as RobyWayne to get data from Wikipedia. So how does User:Kate get Kate's tool going so fast? He/she has special access to the server? --Commander Keane 01:56, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

My script for link repair takes more like half an hour, but I'm on dialup so the times you state don't mean much unless I know your connection speed. I was wondering about how your script would figure out which pages to count up, does it just run through the Maintenance page looking for entires after a "#" or something (maybe "Special:Whatlinkshere/foo")? I suppose the only useful statistics we can give for maintenance is the current totals, indicating which pages need attention, can you think of anything else? I was thinking about growth statistics, but that could be tricky because there is no way to check if a dab has been flushed out by an editor.--Commander Keane 05:38, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

KY highways

Thanks for the support. I should have looked at my KY map before I started hacking on KY 80, however! KY 80 still starts in Columbus, but stops in Mayfield before resuming in Calloway County. Eventually, a new four-lane 80 will run from Mayfield to near Murray. My latest edits reflect this. — Dale Arnett 06:00, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza Election

Thank you very much for your vote of support in the first ever Esperanza elections. You got your vote in right before the bell, and I am happy to say that your confidence in me helped my election to Tranche B of the Advisory Committee. I am looking forward to helping Esperanza succeed, and also would like to note that you can contact me with any concern or question about Wikipedia or Esperanza. Thank you very much. Bratsche^{talk | Esperanza} 12:13, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Places you've lived

I live not too far from Charlotte in Burlington. Ever been here? Jaberwocky6669 | ☎ 17:04, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance

It's increasingly seeming that scraping the data is not a viable solution and direct database access is the only answer. Maybe Kate could make a new tool where you type in an article title and it does a count. I'm not sure if I should ask, esp. with this new "Don't look at your own edit count, fool" message at the edit counter these days. --Commander Keane 16:44, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my page. Jobe6 19:37, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:ESP

Thank you for your vote of confidence in the Esperanza elections. I look forward to helping Esperanza and Wikipedia progress. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 22:02, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 22:13, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Statistical analysis

Hello-- I noticed the statistics you have been generating in your sandbox and was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing a recent discussion we are having at Talk:George_W._Bush#Protection_debate_again? It would be interesting to visualise some of the editing trends related to the George W. Bush article. Hall Monitor 22:27, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza Spam

Hello Esperanzians! A few announcements.

The Advisory Committee election results are in. In tranch A are Acetic Acid and Flcelloguy. In tranch B are Ryan Norton and Bratsche.

My other annoouncement is that our founder, JCarriker, has founded Esperanza's sister project, Wikipediology. I have written two essays here (my name is Matt Binder). My essays are under Teenage Wikipedians and Anon Editors.

On behalf of myself and Jay Carriker and the other wikipediologists, I would appreciate it if you were to join.

Cheers Esperanza! Redwolf24 (talk—How's my driving?) 23:45, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Disambig maintenance

User:Commander Keane thought you would be interested in this. Hope you are.  :-) --Russ Blau (talk) 16:59, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

• 10-12 minutes, huh? Mine takes three hours to run on my WinXP box. It's written in the Python wikipediabot framework, so ease of use took priority over efficiency. And a fair portion of the time is waiting imposed by the bot framework. (Does your script read from the "live" wiki or from an .xml dump file?) Anyway, the part about providing totals at the end of the article should be easy enough to implement. Maintaining counts from one week to the next will be somewhat tougher (I guess I could hide them inside HTML comments), but I can see how it would be valuable. For example, a page that remains under 10 links for 4 consecutive weeks might be moved to "inactive" status. --Russ Blau (talk) 18:25, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Your RfA, while not officially closed, was to close as of ~10 minutes ago, with 82.6% in favor of handing you the mop and bucket. Congratulations, and welcome to the cabal! I hope your relatives are doing better... --Durin 20:24, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

• You've been promoted. I may raise a red flag about this pending some investigation. Pakaran seems to be counting neutral votes as oppose votes. I believe this is improper. I will need to do some investigation though to put the issue in order, and clarify why I feel this was improper. Regardless, User:UninvitedCompany promoted you. --Durin 15:22, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I agree with your comments regarding neutral votes. Judging them as all oppose is a subjective exercise. RfAs are not strictly a voting, democratic process. They are attempts at gaining concensus. That said, Support/Oppose at >82% seems pretty clear to me. I've done some quick checking and found that since late June there have been 14 noms (not including yours) that had similar results to yours. 13 of them were promoted, and one was not (and their Support/Oppose was <80%). The one that was not was later promoted unaminously. I've placed a comment about this on the RfA talk page. --Durin 15:50, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations, you're an admin! Please consider reading some free advice, and have fun. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 15:55, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Congrats on admionship. Dlyons493 Talk 19:54, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations, and you're quite welcome! --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 01:46, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Your RfA

I thought about changing my vote, but I forgot about it, but atleast you are an admin now. And you better do a good job or I'll hunt you down (ha ha?). My reason for being neutral was pretty stupid, so I'm sorry I forgot to change my vote. So do a good job, and congrats! Private Butcher 02:06, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Congrats on admin

Good luck to you and I'm glad I didn't vote oppose...happy editing.--MONGO 02:36, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Thanks for your message at the bottom of my talk page - your personalized WikiThanks is quite sincere, and I'm sure the other Wikipedians who supported you appreciated them equally well. I have no doubt about that you'll be a good administrator. I hope we get to know each other better on the Wiki now that we've briefly met during your RfA. If you ever need a hand, let me know and I'll do my best to help you out. All the best, --HappyCamper 03:05, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Ah, one little tip: you should visit this page every now and then WP:-) --> The "cow tipping" is hilarious! --HappyCamper 03:09, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi RobyWayne! Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. I hope I will be able to live up to the confidence placed in me. Oh, and congratulations on your own success! --Cyberjunkie | Talk 04:03, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Congrats

No Invisible Rules In This Barn!

Hey Roby, Sorry it took so long, but as per my tradition, I give an award bigger than a mere barnstar to anybody who takes on the vast responsibilities of being an administrator -- an entire barn! Enjoy it and make sure those cemented in their ways clean out the stables ;-) Karmafist 06:03, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Arctic. CambridgeBayWeather 09:43, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry

Hi there Roby Wayne, Im SWD316. I have contacted you to say that I am sorry for forgetting to add the admin link next to your name on the list of members in Esperanza. I was going so fast I probably just missed out on it. Sorry again. SWD316 ^{talk to m}e 20:38, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Roby - Thanks for your support on my recent RfA and your congratulations! Very quick indeed. I hope that I can live up to everyone's expectations. If you ever need anything, please send me a message. --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 05:43, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page.

Much appreciated. KeithD (talk) 07:37, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Anon Vandalism

The vandalism page says 24 hours not 12. Why does it matter how long ago vandals were warned? Why are we being nice to this vandal? They have been warned, they persist, they should be blocked.

BTW, I'm not sure I know what you think my name means. It is, in fact, the name on my birth certificate. You might want to be careful with what you read into people's user names. I am not offended, but I could imagine that someone might be. I once lived on Gay Road. It is a coincidence that my sexual preference is hinted by my name, but as I have been happily "coupled" for the last 14 years, perhaps I should change my name to Haveman". -- Samuel Wantman 09:14, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Daniel Kirkwood

Sorry to disappoint you, but Daniel Kirkwood was a professor of mathematics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, not Indiana University at Indiana, Pennsylvania. He interrupted his teaching at Bloomington to teach at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, but returned to Bloomington. Just about everything in Bloomington, IN, is named for Kirkwood: an observatory, a major street, a venerable classroom building...and he's buried there, too! Therefore, I hope you don't mind if I correct your edit. User:Cuppysfriend 20 October 2005

West Virginia State Route 5

You think somebody would take the time to get off their butt and fix things, but it is to easy to delete things. --71Demon 00:33, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Removal

How come you removed the warning I placed on the "Oral Sex" page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.81.45.181 (talk • contribs)

Thanks

Thanks for your encouragement. I've written a response to your comment -- please see User talk:Nlu#Great job. --Nlu 07:59, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Titoxd's RfA

Thank you!

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA. I never thought I would get so much support! Thanks to your help, my nomination was the 10th most supported RfA in Wikipedia history. Now, please keep an eye out on me while I learn the new tools, ok? Thanks again! Titoxd^(?!?) 17:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Billy Staples

Any idea what's going on with the Billy Staples page? I was inclined to revert to my last edit, but I'm reluctant since doing so would probably make me look like a jerk. Was there anything wrong with mine, or is an anon editor messing stuff up? (I think anon editors, if nothing else, should be banned from editing radio-related articles-see for example anything related to Howard Stern, etc.) Anyway, if I made any mistakes, let me know, and if I didn't, then perhaps reverting to my last edit would be in order. Thanks... PaulHanson

Thank you! Paul 03:53, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Billy staples

Roby

thank you for clearing up that info for me about the rules. The only reason I was so adamant about the changes, is...it is me!!! I think I would know better about my life and career than someone who wasn't there and i never met. to make 'superfluous'changes on someone else's page is very ballsy. Who is to decide that? Honestly. I am new to this, so I apologize, but it is frustrating to see things i know are true removed by someone or ones who do not know the truth and just change it cause they don't think so or find unnecessary I appreciate the heads up

Billy Staples —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.189.38.91 (talk • contribs) 04:04, 27 October 2005

Indiana University Fixed

Moved from top of page. I fixed the disambiguation of Linda B. Smith's link to Indiana University. The solution was to remove Indiana University of Pennsylvania from the list. They are completely separate ideas like University of Pennsylvania is different from Pennsylvania State University. i.e. Not every possible related topic should be listed in a disambiguation page. Dan

;-)

You're nice!

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.169.149.213 (talk • contribs) 06:56, 27 October 2005

who is this directed at?

Please advise me as to who the above comment is referring to? If it is directed at Billy Staples, than please show me my vandalism. People are screwing with my site in direct violation of your own rules. Read:Pseudonyms.

You have got one cowboy running around taking it upon himself to change everyone else's site. who made him the keymaster and gatekeeper? Look at all the people he ticked off on his page.

If it is at me, please specify, if not, please disregard, except the complaint re"PAul Hanson" self appointed God of Wikipedia. Thats a joke and not an insult...OK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.189.38.91 (talk • contribs) 23:35, 27 October 2005

Thanks!

Thanks for the work on Find-A-Grave! Only 98.5% to go :) — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-28 05:16

Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Challenge

The challenge has been put aside (for some time), but not forgotten! Do we still want to do this?  BD2412 ^talk 17:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Amazing effort with the dab KM, how did you get through it so quickly, which techniques are you using?--Commander Keane 10:16, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh yeah, and about the stats you generate for users, could there be an extension to top 10 edits days to find the most edits in 24 hours? --Commander Keane 17:54, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll give Lupin's popups a go. Using the pywikipedia bot? Did you get above 200/hr? I seemed astonished when KM was cleared so quickly. Anyhow, I must sleep now, live to dab another day and all that. Great to hear from you.--Commander Keane 19:00, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

User:RobyWayne/Sandbox Commander Keane

How did you do this one? Any chance I could have one done for me? Thanks --Wonderfool t(c) 15:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Posted here. >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist • E@} 17:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Me too! Please please  :-)  :-)) That would be wonderful. --hydnjo talk 20:24, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Posted here. >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist • E@} 17:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

WOW, Thank you very much. --hydnjo talk 19:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Do you have the source for the script? How do you run it? I'd like to have a copy of it to trace my contributions every 1000 edits... Titoxd^(?!?) 23:18, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

All right, although it might be a good idea to make the code available for now and give others a chance to look at it and maybe fix it (fresh eyes never hurt!) What language is it written? If it's written in C++, Basic or Java, I might help a little bit. And of course, run it for me for now. :) Just don't replace the old graphs with the new ones, I want to see how Adminship has affected my editing habits. Titoxd^(?!?) 23:41, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

User Catagorization

I've added myself to [[Category:Wikipedians in Georgia, USA]] since I moved from West Virginia to Georgia. Patricknoddy 7:13 AM October 30, 2005 EDT

Wikistress

It's one or two pages and one or two individuals who are stressing me out. Just tell me to give it a rest for the night and give me something constructive to do next time I come online. Too much mop-and-bucket and not enough being creative stresses me out! -- Francs2000 23:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Well I am going to bed now... but since you asked there is something you can do for me - take a look at this project that I'm writing with my good friend Giano and give me your thoughts - it's my home town and all the photos have been taken by me on my lunch breaks. -- Francs2000 00:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

why did you contact me

what does all this mean?

This message is regarding the article User:Lucky 6.9. Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. Thanks. >: Roby Wayne Talk • Hist • E@ 23:53, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

did you delete my post? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Perrymason (talk • contribs) 00:03, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

drug dab bot

hi robywayne-

i noticed that the bot you've been running to fix all those links to the drug page automatically dab's "drug" to "medication". is there some way to change that? all the ones that turned up on my watchlist- 5-MeO-AMT, Alphamethyltryptamine, and Alexander Shulgin, maybe more- were much better suited by a link to psychoactive drug than medication. i'd imagine its the same for many other articles as well.

at any rate, i went and changed them, so i guess the bot was successful in a round about way. i spent some time a few days ago going through that list and fixing links, and there's a whole lot of links to that page. glad to see work being done on that.

thanks

--Heah (talk) 02:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

just saw two others on my list that came out correctly, not to medication. so i guess the problem isn't universal. anyways, just wanted to give you a heads up. thanks again.

Replied here. >: Roby Wayne ^Talk 04:49, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing network disambiguation

I don't think your dismabiguation is correct. The term here is probably "computing network" rather than "computing" and "network" separately.

The real problem is this is really a fan page with fairly sloppy terminology, and a tendency to stick double square brackets around every vaguely technical word without looking carefully at what that link leads to. Network isn't really about communication or mesh structures, but simply means many machines working towards the same goal. The sentence was essentially hyperbole.

David Woolley 00:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Replied here. >: Roby Wayne ^Talk 02:06, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Word association

Isn't that game fun? Just thought I'd pop by and say "hey" :-) When do you think it would be a good time to archive the talk page? --HappyCamper 01:14, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Network

Yes, this has happened before. I seem to remember someone de-linking the word in question (Wiktionary was sued a ocuple of time too), I can't find the discussion unforntunately. I support that. The problem, though, is that someone might re-link the word later.

Network itself isn't a good dab. It doesn't disambiguate but rather give a whole heap of things with "network" in the title - support network etc. It needs seeing to.

It's rarely a good idea to link to the dab. But if you do, use Network (disambiguation) and we can sort through them later.

You could always start a discussion at WP:DPL, you can get some great advice from there sometimes, probably much more proficient than my attempt.

--Commander Keane 06:07, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Why do you run your bot under your username? --Commander Keane 06:59, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

You may find the need to run the bot automated (or with a flag), but maybe not. How did you bypass the security feature of pywikipedia where it checks to see if your bot name is listed on WP:BOTS?--Commander Keane 07:09, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Please help me deal with this user

As an admin and a fellow member of the Counter Vandalism Unit, I was hoping you could give me some advice/help on dealing with an anonymous user. User:66.215.3.69 has been placing incorrect information on several related pages over the past week, and every time myself and other users revert this information, the anon comes back ~24 hours later to change it again. I have tried, and failed, to deal with the situation on the user's talk page. Is there anything we can do other than tolerate this user and continuously revert their edits? Thanks for your time and help. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 06:15, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your help and your compliment! I try my best, but I admittedly still feel like a newbie, and perhaps always will. There's so many policies and such to try and learn. You probably saw some of my comments on Disambiguation Link Repair, but perhaps also the Counter Vandalism Unit, Welcoming Committee, or some RfC that I've done recently. It's a pleasure to meet you as well! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 06:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

re: George W. Bush

Thanks for helping clean the vandalism up with that article!

No problem. As much as I don't like the guy, I like Wikivandalism even less :) --keepsleeping | say what 17:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Keep up the Good Work

Apparently you're doing such a good job fighting vandals that even I'm getting your hate mail. I got the following message on my talk page from User:209.221.89.74 after you stopped him from vandalizing George W. Bush:

you little prick rob wayne you'l never stop me from outdating bushes portfolio but you can't you little dumbass and now i'm off to go do some more editing in the world war 2 page try to find them byeeeee

As long as we're making vandals mad, we must be doing a good job. :o) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 18:03, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

P.S.- Sure, no problem. In fact, he was such a big fan, he included you in his next edit. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 18:15, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

thanks for the chart

and well, sorry about not mentioning that much, I'm on an airport with limited net access but I wanted to let you know I appreciate the work and I?m interested to know if you get that webserver thing up. Thanks again! -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 11:18, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Lupin's popups

I know you use Lupin's popups to do lots of link repair - but to tell you the truth I don't know how it works exactly. At the moment I have disabled the feature on the popups (I don't like the badnwidth loss, and at the time I diabled it Wikipedia was slow, or slo(x10)w at some people were putting it). Anyhow, could you describe how it works exaclty. I seem to remember you find the link (which I assume you do using the Find tool in your browser), then hover over it and select to correct option form the bottom of the popup. This means you can only do one per article at a time - which is why I thought it was no good. To kill two birds with one stone, could you add your wisdom to the Guide, the page can definitely use your expertise. --Commander Keane 19:58, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:Alleged relics of Jesus

Hi. You took part in the discussion over the renaming of this category when I nominated it for renaming on 14th September. I think that everyone agreed that it needed to be renamed, although there wasn't any agreement over what to rename it to. I've nominated it again and I'd be grateful if you could consider my new proposal to rename it, as you suggested at the time, to Relics attributed to Jesus. Thanks! --G Rutter 09:39, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Sidhu, AOCE

You edited the AOCE page from:

This was certainly the case for Sidhu, who was well respected within Apple.

to:

This was proven in this case by Sidhu, who was disrespected within Apple.

Can you provide sources and details for this statement? It's certainly the first time I have heard it, and since it's the direct opposite of what I wrote, I will require further detail.

Maury 18:02, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Maury! Thanks for your message. However, if you look at the diff of what I changed you'll notice that it was only to disambiguate network. I didn't make any context changes such as that which you noted. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. Best regards, >: Roby Wayne ^Talk 19:09, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

My bad. I have contacted the author in question. Looks like graphiti.

Stats script suggestions

Excellent start! For my own interests I'd recommend a few minor additions:

1. total edits, major edits (see below) and minor edits, as separate counters
2. number of articles I started/created
3. number of articles where the total change set was more than 30% of the page (ie, "major edits")
4. number of characters written

The last two are an ongoing problem I have... I come across a stub or redirect and rewite the article, but this does not count as a "page create". Thus the statistics overcount for people who add commas, and undercount people who actually write articles.

A question to ponder: should re trust the "minor edit" flag at all?

Maury 18:07, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

How is your family?

Hey... I hadn't heard from you in a while and was wondering/hoping if your family's health problems had improved? --Durin 18:42, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Kentucky State Highways WikiProject

Hey, Roby! I just wanted to ask if you wouldn't mind me making some Kentucky state highway shields for you. I'm talking like 1 through 100, for you to use for the articles. I can also do State Routes 1 through 10 since they're around my area. I actually live on route 5, so there's one I can do easily! Let me know, ok? Thanks! --FPAtl 13:01, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Find-A-Grave links

User:UninvitedCompany has placed comments at WP:AN/I and at Wikipedia talk:Find-A-Grave famous people raising the question whether the links to findagrave.com be deleted from articles. You may want to participate in the discussion. -- DS1953 18:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Kentucky Highways project

I've got the KY 5 article done. I'm going to go to work on the rest of 1 through 10 and maybe more. Go ahead and upload those sign images, ok? Thanks! -- FPAtl 01:07, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections

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Statistics

I'm sorry to bother you, but could you do a statistics report for my :sl account (Klemen Kocjancic)? TIA! Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 22:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

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Article on TACLANE(tm) Encryptor

You might want to append the article on the TACLANE ™ it is a trademark of General Dynamics® Corporation. According to G. D., TACLANE ™ does not stand for anything. Rumor has it that when the word TACLANE™ was used in military performance reports it was assumed to be an acronym. The individual writing the report used the available letters to come up with something, (TAC)tical (L)ocal (A)rea (N)etwork (E)ncryptor to satisfy the inquizitive supervisors. The NSA did the same thing by assuming a contraction of Tactical FASTLANE®. FASTLANE® is a registered trademark of the NSA. Someone at General Dynamics® came up with the name but the reasoning for its name remains a mystery.

Please visit 

http://www.gdc4s.com/content/detail.cfm?item=f3f0ef4c-cced-46b2-937e-69c42fd1fe3b

Or

http://www.gdc4s.com/documents/TACLANE_PIB.pdf#search='taclane'

for more info or call them. I assume that it will depend on who you talk to at GDC4S Help Desk but the consensus is: That the name TACLANE ™ falls into that quagmire of knowledge we lovingly call the Internet.

Thanks for your time and have a great day

Richard Marshall

Merry Christmas

I'm not expecting to be online as much over the next few days so...

-- Francs2000 09:27, 22 December 2005 (UTC)