User talk:Andypandy.UK/Archive 6

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I'm not a vandal

I don't know why I'm getting bashed for vandalising some article (which I don't even edit), but I'm not screwing with it.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Teenwriter (talk • contribs)

There seems to be a misunderstanding here. I am not the user that accused User:Teenwriter of vandalism. He has not vandalised the Long Way Home page (or any other page for that matter.)Dirgni1986 13:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem! I understand how you could get the idea that I was accusing Teenwriter, but his editing of my page has not been vandalism. I'm just glad to have this cleared up. Dirgni1986 14:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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Cheating in Counterstrike

My paragraph on the counter strike topic is as founded as any other paragraph in that topic. There are so many things missing on there I added my 1 peice and you have been editing it since. The link I placed is as commercial as any other link on there, that site does not sell hacks, its more like a gathering of info, and has been for years. it is not my site, I have been a member of it with CN, MPC, VD and others for a very long time.

Why you feel the need to edit others work is beyond me, why not spend your time taking out the hearsay and incorrect comments elsewhere on that page, as theres plenty of those. (like Joolz, that paragraph is completly incorrect)

You may know nothing about Kurrupt and KAC, but many of us on the westcoast used it on our own servers for quite a while, with great success. It faded out within a year, but it was great while it was still updated. I think that site still uses a new version on their servers.

There is so many hacks not listed in this topic that actually paved the way for the hacks mentioned, which is sad, because this whole article is jam packed with every myth known to the community, with very little fact. AT least let those of us who know what was going on in 1999 on the scene, add out 2 cents.

And quit editing links, if you take the kurrupt link out, then take out VD CN and CH cause I also added those a while ago. They are aall links to great sites with lots of info, which is whaat I thought this thing was for.

Thanks—Preceding unsigned comment added by StanLee (talk • contribs)

My RfA

Thanks! Thank you very much for supporting my recent Request for Adminship. The request was ultimately unsuccessful, and so I'll be taking special care to address the concerns raised by the opposing !voters before running again. If you have any feedback for me, please don't hesitate to leave it at my talk page. Thanks again! -- RandyWang (chat/patch) 13:37, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Bot

heh. No worries about the subst'ing. I forget too sometimes. =) alphaChimp ^laudare 17:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Speedy copyvio on Kappa Phi Gamma

I'm pretty sure it cannot--the criteria state that the content must be from a commercial content provider; i.e., a site that makes money by providing the text. I think a lot of users (myself included) have used db-copyvio as a means to tag and eliminate spam, but I'm trying to adhere to the rules more closely. (That and yesterday someone else pointed out my misuse to me!) Also, tagging it as copyvio allows the creator to rewrite the article. Given that it's about a sorority for South Asian women, I think it's notable enough and WP would benefit from its inclusion. -- Merope 17:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

MfD

Thanks for your dillegence, but they all seem to continue to follow the same pattern - where edits aren't in the userspace, they're self-serving. I've restored my !vote. Thanks for the head's up, though. -- nae'blis 18:02, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Suggestion

“ As you are a serial vandal fighter and contact anons/new users a lot, may I suggest you create an additional sub-page in your user space for anons/new users to leave messages? Assuming your normal talk still needs protection of course. What do you think?--Andeh 18:45, 29 August 2006 (UTC) ”

I have tried to attempt that, but where I want to put it is a little difficult. I want it to be at the bottom of my page, or if I cannot do that, I want to try and force level 3 headings. Ryūlóng 18:47, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you very much for participating in my RFA, which closed successfully today with a result of (62/18/3). I will go very carefully at first, trying to make sure I don't mess up too badly using the tools, and will begin by re-reading all the high-quality feedback I received during the process, not least from those who opposed me. Any further advice/guidance will be gratefully accepted. I hope I will live up to your trust! Guinnog 14:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)}

Klingoncowboy4 listing

User:PseudoSudo appears to have relisted it for you.

Ha, to clarify: my edit summary was inviting you to revert me, in case you were unsure about whether to do so; I made the relist simply because based on your summary I guessed that you didn't catch the self-nom part (the sig definitely confusing the matter). I tend to personally prefer short, friendly edit-summary-revert-discussions for extremely simple matters over posting a new talk thread, but doesn't always work with others who feel comfortable observing 0RR. And that's cool. Anyways, best wishes. ~ PseudoSudo 03:19, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

BOT

Your bot function has been approved, see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AP.BOT. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 01:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

To fix that complaint, can you flag all these as minor? As for flagging them as automated bot, how fast will your bot need to edit to keep up with it's tasks? (If it's more than 2-3/min we should flag it.) Thanks, — xaosflux ^Talk 16:31, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

A RfA thank you from en:User:Xyrael

WikiThanks

File:AviXyrael.gif

I'd like to thank you Andypandy.UK for either supporting, opposing, commenting, nominating, reading, editing, promoting and/or anything else that you may have done for my successful request for adminship (I've broken the one thousand sysop barrier!); I'm thanking you for getting involved, and for this I am very grateful. I hope to be able to serve Wikipedia more effectively with my new tools and that we can continue to build our free encyclopedia, for knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. Please do feel free to get in touch if you feel you can improve me in any way; I will be glad to listen to all comments. Again, thanks 8)             —Xyrael / 11:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

for clearing vandalism off my user page. --Sumple (Talk) 23:26, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Long-Overdue RfA Thanks from Alphachimp

Thanks for your support in my not-so-recent RfA, which was successful with a an overwhelmingly flattering and deeply humbling total of 138/2/2 (putting me #10 on the RfA WP:100). I guess infinite monkey theorem has been officially proven. Chimps really can get somewhere on Wikipedia. With new buttons come great responsibility, and I'll try my best to live up to your expectations. If you need assistance with something, don't hesitate to swing by my talk page or email me (trust me, I do respond :)). The same goes for any complaints or comments in regard to my administrative actions. Remember, I'm here for you. (Thanks go to Blnguyen for the incredible photo to the right.) alphaChimp laudare 05:38, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I responded to your comment in the BRFA "election". Regards, alphaChimp ^laudare 05:38, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

hazzard

hazzard is of importance he is a rapper, you haven't heard of him?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Lebo Thug (talk • contribs)

Lyra

Hello there! You see, I want to create this article about the Lyra (aka Hoop) people use in circus schools and in Cirque Du Soleil. The problem is I don't know how to name it because there are many other "Lyra's" In Wikipedia. Do you have an idea of what I should name it? loulou 13:37, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! loulou 13:42, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Winhunter's RfA thanks

Hi Andypandy.UK, thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which was closed as successful today with a finaly tally of (56/0/3). I will be very careful at first to avoid any mistakes. Please feel free to leave a message in my talk page if you have any comments/suggestions about me in the future. Once again, thank you! --WinHunter (talk) 09:09, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

about your AP.bot

i just have to say, please stay off my page with that bot -.-

i just have a pet peeve of keeping everything as neat as possible, and your bot messed up my page's history with the overly-long comments for each of the edits it made...

maybe if you can just program it so that the comments are as short as possible, and doesn't have to be so detailed...

just my 2cents, cause i'm sure there are other ppl who'd be unhappy with their page if your bot decided to change something.... LG-犬夜叉 17:19, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the reply...well, it took me a while just to find the right boxes and i found them on a specific page that lists them alongside their codes, so i had no idea where the boxes originally come from.

anyways, i guess you meant no harm at all =/ o well LG-犬夜叉 17:25, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I just read the German Solution page...i see what's going on, no wonder, kk then, it's not a problem =] LG-犬夜叉 17:31, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I was kinda new to this, Thanks for moving it to legitimate space.Freedom skies 19:26, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

RE: RfA Q

I would probably do the same thing you did, which was place the proposed deletion tag and the cleanup tags on the article, and then keep it on my watchlist. It is clearly an advertisement right now, but if the creator or another editor could edit it within the next five days so it met the appropriate standards, then it could be a nice article to have (see Bawls for another energy drink article). Thanks for the question, Andeh! I hope my answer is satisfactory! hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 20:23, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I would remove the CSD tag and replace it with a proposed deletion tag or just send it straight to AfD hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 20:45, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

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My RfA

I know you said at my RfA that you didn't like spamming talk pages with RfA stuff, but I figure this overrides. Anyways, it's hardly spamming. -Zapptastic (talk) 01:09, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

InStyle

Hello! I was curious on how to move pages because of a little problem. You see, I created an article about a womens fashion magazine called InStyle. However, I then realized that there was already an article called In Style, which is the same thing but with an improper title. The proper title, which is obvious if you read the magazine, has no space. How can I move the In Style article to the InStyle article? Thanks! loulou 02:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

For you

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For you for reverting the vandalism on my page. Thanks for watching outÆon Insanity Now!EA! 19:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Questions answered

I assumed that you would've checked back at my RFA by the time I answered your questions. Anyways, since you didn't seem to comment, I answered your questions on my RFA. Hopefully, they'll be fit for your standards. —this is messedrocker (talk) 21:31, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#Betacommand

Please see my new comment Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 15:07, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Nonsense?

Really? Nonsense? Please do me the basic courtesy of linking what you describe as "nonsense" instead of making a broad statement that, quite ironically, is nonsensical.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.39.138.226 (talk • contribs)

Ah: I see (without your help I might add) the direction of your request. The user "Angelic Wraith" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angelic_Wraith#I_have_ADHD.2C_NVLD...)apparently found my comments to be curt and invasive. The interesting component here, Andypandy.UK, is that he proffered an explicit request comment on his ideas so long as the comments were "clever". He has since edited his page so as to delete this request. I presume you requested it. If this user is going to articulate brash, narrow-minded nonsense and *invite* criticism, he is going to receive a response. If he didn't want a response that was, perhaps, as exclusive as his advertised principles, logically, he should not have targeted himself.

I am glad you actively moderate instances of vandalism and work to make wikipedia.com a reliable resource. As a note, I would recommend citing the URL for future suspicions of vandalism; it adds clarity to the direction of your logic and allows for a more balanced response from the accused.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.39.138.226 (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)

I have noticed when you closed the above AfD, you did not remove the category template, "REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD". By deleting this when closing it pulls the discussion out of the category. I have deleted it from this discussion, but if you could review any other closures you have done recently and remove the tag from them it would be greatly appreicated. Thanks. --Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 14:24, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

AfD nomination listing

As per your suggestion, I had added a Log of AfD nominations I have made. Have hit over 120+ nominations with 14 being kept, 5 as no consensus, 5 redirects and 1 userfication; an 84% hit rate. Thought I would let you know since it was your suggestion. Thanks. --Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 21:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Your offer of running your macro on my AfDs would be greatly appreiacted. What I did took quite some time and really is not that great. Thanks.--Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 21:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure how I can get a list from my watchlist of the AfDs that I created. The way I came up with the list I had was to go through my contribution list, cut and paste the name into a text file, go and add the [[ ]] around the name, add the bullet and paste into the subpage. There are articles starting with A, E and B that I saw, but most the the articles nominated were from the later part of the alphabet because I was using the {{wikify}} tag category to find entries that had not been touched for months after the tag had been applied. I started with Z and worked backwards. The list looks good to me. Thanks. --Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 22:17, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much... the list looks great, 130 entries.--Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 23:55, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

• Just a follow up on this... I added a couple more Afds to my list using the {{afdl| }} template used by all the other entries. Neither the article or the Afd shows up as a clickable link, they are both redlined. Any idea? Thanks.--Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 13:10, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• Go ahead and add a link on the page, no problem. BTW - I got the template to work and I copied it with the newest nominations I did. I found that there was a hidden "|" pipe character at the end of the name but before the first close bracket "}". I put the curser at that point and hit delete, nothing seemed to happen, but once saved it worked.--Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 18:03, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Andeh Andeh Andeh

Thanks to your "sig" suggestion, I've got a great new sig. See it--•Sean•gorter• 08:49, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Just don't!!!•Sean•gorter• 09:08, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

What is CSD?•Sean•gorter• 09:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I will tell him myself...•Sean•gorter• 09:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Ha! Thanks Andy!! •NikoSilver• 17:26, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks so much for your award of a barnstar - it really is great to feel appreciated! Martin Hinks 19:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT

Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/AP.BOT#Discussion for some new questions. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Please note, this has been approved for trials, see the link above for details. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

MySpace Links

Thanks Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 23:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Adminship

Well, you'd have to make it Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ryulong 2, but I don't know if I'm ready for it yet. I don't know what shit I've gotten into lately. Ryūlóng 23:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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AP.Bot Request

Andy, the College Football project recently GUS'd all the NCAA userboxes into my userspace. When you get the chance, can you get your bot on bypassing the redirects? All the boxes used to start with "NCAA" and now start with "User:Z4ns4tsu/Userboxes/NCAA" as far as I know. If it makes a difference, some of them do have options and things as well. Let me know if you need more info or have any questions. Thanks! z4ns4tsu\^talk 18:59, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll do it, that's fine by me. I hadn't noticed the redirect edit before. z4ns4tsu\^talk 19:17, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok, nevermind, I'm apparently clueless as to what's been going on with these boxes. If Cide could look into it, I know he has a lot more experience with this than I do. z4ns4tsu\^talk 19:22, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Recats

Why are you recating to categorys that dont excist such as Spike Milligan and Wayne Walker ? (Gnevin 20:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC))

My point is you should create the new category before changing the old categorys dont except other user to do it for you (Gnevin 20:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC))

Go raibh maith agat!

File:Ireland 37 bg 061402.jpg

Hi there, Andeh!

Thank you so much for supporting my RfA! It ended up passing and I'm rather humbled by the support (and a bit surprised that it was snowballed a day early!). Please let me know if I can help you out and I welcome any comments, questions, or advice you wish to share.

Sláinte!

hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 08:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

AWB flags

I have been asked before not to use the "minor edit" flag on my AWB edits: the logic escapes my memory, but it might have had something to do with the Wikipedia:Semi-bots thing which for a while was some sort of anti-AWB crusade. In any case I try not to perform actual minor edits with it. If it is making your RC patrolling difficult, there are several tools available which are able to filter out edits based on more than just the "minor" flag. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 11:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA question

I've replied to your question, Andy. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 11:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Are you in position to remove

Are you in position to remove, messages I placed on user talk pages of few editors/wikipedians?

Swadhyayee 12:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Spamming on user talk pages

Sorry couldn't get you about spamming on user pages. I provided authentic articles from Indian magazine who have been editing page "Swadhyay Parivar". Swadhyay Parivar, a so called religious organisation has turned to criminal activities under the guise of a religious/spiritual activity. The followers are removing critical links. I am making a point to other editors that my critical views are authentic which is being frequently removed.

With due apology, I am copy-pasting the message on your page. If you wish, you may read or delete.

Swadhyayee 12:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks but you have not said whether you are in position to remove messages from user talk pages?

Will you kindly see the talk page of Swadhyay Parivar?

Swadhyayee 13:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

It's called rollback, which any admin and registered user (with tinkering) can do. I have reverted all the copyvios posted on various user talk pages. As for Talk:Swadhyay Parivar, I've deleted the copyvios for obvious reasons. MER-C 13:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

As you wish.--Andeh 13:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Spam links

you want to see some serious anti-spam 188kb to under 30Kb [1]

oh and if you know of common spam sites let me know im building a spam tool kit.

Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 17:19, 13 September 2006 (UTC) See this User:Betacommand/Spam.js right now it only covers myspace and google links Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 17:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

even "official" myspace links should not be there see WP:EL Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 18:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Cute Bot!

Dear friend,your invention is very wonderful,you must be a scientisit, I know you lives in UK,I have just enjoyed Nicholas Nicholby's art movie. I truely believe a good heart will been paid someday,although the challenge is so difficult! If your life have ever had a cool winter time?Dickson had a grey young time,it might be the reason he test life so deep! I love biology more than engineer,I have three rabbits,if you have any pets?

                    may God bless your scientisitic invention be successful

My RFA

Thank you, Andypandy.UK, for voting on my RFA, which passed 95 to 1. Thank you, also, for supporting, even though the answers to the questions you asked may not have been the best. Now that I have the mop, I hope I can live up to the standard, and be a good administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. —this is messedrocker (talk) 18:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

My link addition to the YouTube article.

Hello. Recently I placed a link to a website I host on the YouTube article. It's related, but as you mentioned, I probably placed it in the wrong spot. I can honestly say there is much, much more I can learn regarding editing Wikipedia.

I want to thank you for taking the time to help new users get acquainted with Wikipedia and for reversing the mistakes they make. I'm sure it gets rough when the masses add content in totally the wrong places but again it's great to see a nice welcoming even after I violated the policy.

Thanks for the help :) Jeff Hood 16:58, 15 September 2006 (UTC)Jeff Hood

Thanks re vandalism!

Hi and thanks for deleting vandalism off my user page! I took a look at your page and noticed something about Esperanza. If you would be so kind perhaps you could comment about it for me on my user page as I think I'd like to join Esperanza. I do a lot of editing about 9/11 and hold the opinion that it was an inside job. As you can guess, I'm in the minority, and have much resistance to my edits. I speculate that's where the vandalism came from. Kaimiddleton 17:24, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Please do not

I have noticed that you have been changeing GUP userboxes into userboxes on my user page alot. Please do not do this on my page anymore. I WANT them there. I don't particully now why, but i do. Please do not change GUP userboxes into userboxes anymore. Thank you. If you subst it will it affect the whole page or just the userboxes? Thats ok with me.Thanks for substing them! And why did you remve the Steve Irwin thing? Qmwnebrvtcyxuz 15:23, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Appreciate your comments

As someone I respect here, I would be very appreciative if you could provide any feedback on my first attempt at an article, Foundation for Equal Families. Any comments would be well recieved. Thanks. --Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 00:20, 17 September 2006 (UTC)