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Hello Wikipedia script kiddies.
I like to be known as r00t, it wouldn't let me use that so here is my account. Those who wish to help me are welcome to. I am an impressive programmer with much knowledge of most scripts. The code this is written in is strange but I will soon get the hang of it. Please help me get started admins. 1234r00t (talk) 21:03, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
If you're reading this than good. I really would like you to teach me how to make a bot Mr. R00T (talk)
- I would recommend you get a bit more familiar with Wikipedia first before creating a bot. However this page, should help you get started. If you know PHP I have my own set of classes which I use in my bots (you might find it useful to look through some of the code here which gives you an idea about how my classes work). A good place to find ideas for bots is WP:BOTREQ. I am not very active anymore so I can't help much but I can answer quick queries. Good luck --Chris 09:57, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Admin coaching
I noticed that you put your name down for admin coaching, but perhaps you could be better off with WP:Adoption. What I suggest that you do is find a topic area that you like and start editing the articles in it to improve them. Learn the Wikisyntax, and practices. For example you added a stub template to the top of an article. These are added near the bottom above the categories and WP:interwiki links. However stub tagging is for very short articles, with only one or two sentences in them. Also there are much more specific stub tags for different topics. If you are interested in studying further read WP:stub and correctly tag 10 new articles with stub tags from Special:newPages. Let me know how you go. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:05, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
New page patrol
Hi Mr R00t, do you enjoy the new page patrol? I will check your activities out, but your adopted coach will be looking at what you do too. Have you got any kind of topic area you are interested in? It looks as if you could be interested in programming in bash script or some other language. Looking at the Bash (Unix shell) article it is very light on . Perhaps you could start work on writing more about scripting and more on the brace expressions. You could go straight in editing the article, or you could make a userspace draft at User:1234r00tBash (Unix shell). What do you think about writing about the language rather than just using it? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
- The idea of writing about Bash just isn't all that appealing. I don't know much about it. I know how to write in it and how to navigate through a Bash window. As I was harshly told by a user while I was editing before I got an account "Wikipedia is not a tutorial, if you want that go to w3schools". So don't mind me if I'm not to eager to write about how to write code. Mr. R00t Contact me 23:29, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
tagging
Now you have joined Wikipedia:WikiProject iPhone OS, you can find out what needs to be done in this project.
For The Last Word (2010 film) you tagged it with a no-context A1 tag. This does not apply to this article because it is clear what it is about, and it is not small.
You offered to put appropriate cleanup tags on MacTheRipper but I see no action yet. It would be even better if you cleaned it up yourself!
When you add cleanup tags, there are more specific things that you can request cleanup on, such as grammar, I don't know much on this topic, and am not a good example myself. I did see a good use of references tag on Tera Hone Laga Hoon. On 2006 Nigerian Air Force Dornier 228 crash you added a catimprove, but it has plenty of categories, how do you think they are deficient? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:20, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
- Not sure why I added that there. I will undo it immediately. And, please give me some time to do stuff. I have a job and have to work sometimes. I will usually do anything I said I would within 24 hours. Mr. R00t Contact me 14:24, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, you can take your time, nearly everyone here is a volunteer! I am just suggesting things for you to do that you may be interested in. Since you said you wanted to become an admin, it is important to have some article development behind you and to try out a variety of things. With New Page Patrol, most articles are at a basic stage, and you see a lot of problems that can easily be noticed, or with more effort fixed. It gives an opportunity to help people out, or you can be a nuisance to them by causing an edit conflict, or nominating things for delettion that should be kept. Your stub tags are looking much better now. Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup talks about that cleanup tagging, so should be worth a read! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:23, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
RFA
Thanks for submitting your RFA. While I applaud enthusiasm, I'm afraid you do not yet possess sufficient knowledge/experience for the community to have confidence in your readiness to become an admin. You may find the following advice helpful. If you have not done so already, please read
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- Generally, It has been my experience that it takes at least 3,000 edits in a variety of areas to learn policy and guidelines well enough to attempt adminship. Also, nominees returning after an unsuccessful RfA should wait at least another 3,000 edits and 3 months before trying again. Nominees need to show the ability to contribute a number of significant edits to build the encyclopedia.
- The Admin tools allow the user to block and unblock other editors, delete and undelete pages and protect and unprotect pages. Nominees will therefore do well to gain experience and familiarity with such areas as WP:AIV, WP:AFD, WP:CSD, Wikipedia:Protection policy, and WP:BLOCK to learn when to do these things.
- Adminship inevitably leads one to 1) need to explain clearly the reasons for one's decisions, 2) need to review one's decisions and change one's mind when it is reasonable to do so, 3) need to review one's decisions and stand firm when it is reasonable to do so, 4) need to negotiate a compromise. Admins need a familiarity with dispute resolution. The ability to communicate clearly is essential.
- Article building is the raison d'être of Wikipedia. I recommend significant participation in WP:GA or WP:FA as the surest way to gain article building experience. Alternatively, one should have added a total of 30,000 bytes of content, not necessarily all in one article. I find a large number of "Wikignome" type edits to be helpful.
- My suggestion would be to withdraw and try again in another 3 months and 3000 edits. I recommend taking part in RfA discussions to help learn from the experiences of others. Many nominees have found it helpful to obtain an Editor Review or to receive Admin coaching before submitting their RfA. Hope this helps. Good luck and happy editing. 7 23:24, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- Look. I have studied these policies and am very familiar. I am not a complete fool. I have read all of the different policies necessary and seen the passing articles. Please do not delete my RFA. Thank you Mr. R00t Leave me a Message 23:30, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- I did not delete anything. It appears you have removed it from the RFA listing see here. 7 23:55, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- Alright. Thanks for alerting me. I wanted to be sure because you never know. Apologies Mr. R00t Leave me a Message 23:59, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- I'm confused - so you have added the RFA back in and decided to try anyway, plus you are looking for an admin coach (below)? Admin Coaching is meant to be a process that is done before a user runs for adminship. 7 00:09, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
- Alright. I will attempt to explain. I am having these people attempt to tell me anything that I don't know that I have missed. I have been using Wikipedia for a long time and editing as an IP. I was familiar with the policies. I never knew what my IP is and it has changed (family use) to 77.134.432.432. I have never edited with that so it's not a sockpuppet. I had become very comfortable and decided to make an account so that I could become an administrator. I made many important edits to wikipedia articles. I read the policies. I made this account simply so that I could have further powers to be able to further help Wikipedia. Mr. R00t Leave me a Message 00:18, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
- I'm confused - so you have added the RFA back in and decided to try anyway, plus you are looking for an admin coach (below)? Admin Coaching is meant to be a process that is done before a user runs for adminship. 7 00:09, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
- Alright. Thanks for alerting me. I wanted to be sure because you never know. Apologies Mr. R00t Leave me a Message 23:59, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- I did not delete anything. It appears you have removed it from the RFA listing see here. 7 23:55, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Respectfully, when people evaluate candidates for adminship they look through their edit histories to get a sense of their knowledge and demeanor. Since so much of your experience was as an anonymous editor the community won't be able to evaluate you fairly. I suggest you continue to edit under this account for a time so that you can be evaluated for your contributions.--~TPW 00:29, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
- Per your MFD posting I have closed the RFA. Please continue to build the project, and perhaps seek out an admin coach at a future date after you have a lot more experience that we can see. It may help think of adminship not as a goal, or as privilege or respect, but as an additional responsibility that is expected from trusted editors. Regards 7 01:13, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. Didn't know how to do it myself. I will try to do as you suggested. Would you be willing to help me out with getting ready for these extra responsibilities as you call it? Let me know in a new section on my talk page Mr. R00t Leave me a Message 01:16, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
- I am not an admin, but I am always willing to provide suggestions or answer questions (time permitting). But, again, I don't think this is anything you should try to do in the near term. Get involved with some projects, participate in discussions, find some articles that you think need improving or need to be created from scratch and see how the whole process works. I don't think any admin coach will be interested in taking on a candidate who has essentially zero experience for the sole purpose of trying to groom them to be an admin - the point is you need to have the experiences yourself *naturally* to really learn the process. 7 01:23, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Can you identify those "many important edits to wikipedia articles" (or at least one of them)? If so, we should be able to find the contribution history for the IP Address you were using at the time. For future reference, please see IP address#Tools. — Jeff G. ツ 00:17, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
- I do not have any that would currently show up if you looked on the history of the page. They were a while ago. I have edited on the President Obama inaugural speech as well as the two debates (president/ vice president). These were both a while ago and couldn't be found in the logs. (I checked). Sorry if this is a bit hard to believe. As you can see above I am going to give up on my RFA and come back to it in 6 months to a year. Sorry for bothering you Mr. R00t Leave me a Message 00:44, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply. In the future, please ensure that you do not place a talkback template until after you have placed the referenced information on your user talk page. Thanks! — Jeff G. ツ 00:49, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
RFA !vote
Just to let you know, when you add a !vote to an RFA or other discussion the newest entries are inserted at the bottom. I moved your recent !vote to the bottom where it belongs. ~~ GB fan ~~ talk 23:55, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- Alright. I was unsure. Mr. R00t Leave me a Message 23:56, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Admin Coach
Hello prospective coaches. I am going to be communicating with many of you to try to get answers to my questions. Please learn to live with my insanity! Later Mr. R00t Leave me a Message 00:07, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
- Your reference to insanity and these blatant falsehoods will serve you poorly at RfA. — Jeff G. ツ 23:36, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Mediation
Hi, Thanks for taking up the mediation. Noticed that you have done a revert to an older version of the article by me which was later vandalized. I had already reverted those vandalistic edits and made further edits as well. So i will revert back the last edit so that all my later edits are also brought back. I am hoping the vandalism on these edits of mine will stop permanently. --Deshabhakta (talk) 17:28, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Again the article is under vandalistic attacks. The same edits are being reverted 'calling' them 'biased'. Each and every sentence used in these edits is from a reliable source. Request you to mediate and get this article back in shape.
Here is the mediation request link for your quick reference.
The article concerned is Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Page protection has been put in place till dispute is resolved. Requesting you to assist in dispute resolution. --Deshabhakta (talk) 19:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
In reply to Soman,
An all-praise article may not be a balanced article. Critical observations sourced from reliable entities should be used to balance the article; thats what I have done with these edits. If one tries to make an article balanced which is a requirement of Wiki, it should be considered a good faith edit. There are judicial court verdicts in what I have quoted as sources. There are convictions on murder charges. That too my edits are also not from one source; so many sources point towards one thing that CPIM uses violence as part of its political movement. This is even accepted by the fellow editors involved in this dispute (please see talk page of the article). With almost all editors having accepted there should be no dispute itself in having references to use of violence by CPIM! Untenable arguments with no backing of Wiki policies and pure personal feelings(?) are being used to revert my edits. Certainly not good for Wiki!
Further, instead of making these generic observations on politics and a particular user's self discovered 'pattern of editing' I request the fellow editors to list out the material in question and what wiki policies are violated by it. In the presence of moderator, we will discuss these objections and arrive at a resolution. Hoping general commentaries will be limited or disappear all together. --Deshabhakta (talk) 19:36, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Rollback
Hello, per your request, I've granted you Rollback rights! Just remember:
- Rollback gives you access to certain tools, including Huggle, some of which can be very powerful, so exercise caution
- Rollback is only for blatant vandalism
- Having Rollback rights does not give you any special status or authority
- Misuse of Rollback can lead to its removal by any administrator
- Please read Help:Reverting and Wikipedia:Rollback feature to get to know the workings of the feature
- You can test Rollback at Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback
- You may wish to display the {{User wikipedia/rollback}} userbox and/or the {{Rollback}} top icon on your user page
- If you have any questions, please do let me know. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:23, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Editnotice
I saw your comment on HJ's talk page. You make an editnotice by going to User talk:1234r00t/Editnotice. For example, here's mine. It will then just show up when you edit the page. You can also make an emailnotice (again, here's mine) in the same way. Hope this helps :) Regards, {{Sonia|talk|simple}} 06:12, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
- FYI - per Wikipedia:Editnotice, users can only create these for their own user pages or talk pages - not for articles. Only an admin or account creator can do it for articles. 7 03:34, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
User talk:Tbhotch
Didn't you mean the other user talkpage? TbhotchTalk C. 01:36, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- and you sent me a talkback because... TbhotchTalk C. 01:44, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
sorry no idea why i did that... Mr. R00t Leave me a Message 15:38, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry, I'll be slower next time (: Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:59, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
- Seems to be a habit. I just scratched my head when I saw no message associated with it, but since you've done it more than once I thought I'd point it out. No harm was caused to my scalp.--~TPW 17:08, 6 June 2010 (UTC)