User talk:Chris G/Archives/2009/March

Hey

Welcome back to WP, Chris! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 20:32, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm not going to be staying here for too long. My plan is to keep the bot going until the Abuse Filter goes live and then I'm taking a wikibreak. --Chris 23:26, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Don't hesitate to come back when you feel like it :) -- lucasbfr ^talk 09:36, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Abuse Filter

Are you working on the abuse filter on testwiki? [1] The Grawp filters need work, and AntiAbuseBot does a great job at it. Yellowweasel (talk) 03:56, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Chris G Bot on Simple English Wikipedia

Hi, as you might know, seWP was featured on xkcd (see here) and we are hence experiencing a lot of traffic. Can you restart your anti-vandalism bot over there to deal with the oncoming vandalism? There is simply too much activity for the small group of patrollers out there. Thanks. Chenzw  Talk  14:30, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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AntiAbuse bot request

Could your bot monitor User:Nunquam Dormio? A troll is regularly changing this page with puerile stuff and it would be nice if a bot could deal with him immediately each time he does it. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 10:32, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

The bot wouldn't be much good at dealing with that. It's better with more serial vandalism. However I could protect it for you. Would you like me to do that? --Chris 10:36, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, please. I think semi-protection would be appropriate. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 11:35, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done --Chris 11:43, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Chris! Nunquam Dormio (talk) 08:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

The Rename you requested

I just wanted to let you know that the name you brought up at WP:BN has been resolved and due to BLP issues removed.---I'm Spartacus! ^{The artist formerly known as Balloonman} 21:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 17:56, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Pagemoves

• 1.) No, I haven't. User:Dr. Blofeld asked me to help out with them, so I'd assume he's done the requisite checking.
• 2.) No bot - I'm doing them manually. Apparently, I have fast fingers. :-) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 03:24, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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WP:CHU archiving

As you're back, I don't suppose you could help with a Bot to archive the CHU? --Dweller (talk) 11:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

You hero! --Dweller (talk) 11:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

It was nothing :) What happened to X!'s bot though? I thought it had taken over archiving --Chris 11:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I think he's had a few problems with the Soxbots recently. And they never really got the hang of the archiving, from what I saw anyway. Oh, and don't you dare go away again! --Dweller (talk) 12:06, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I flatter myself I may know how to keep you here... by challenging you! What's the chances of you developing some kind of clever trickery that either updates User:NoSeptember/crat stats or takes the existing stats from it and puts them into a new format that's updated? --Dweller (talk) 12:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Getting all the data would easy, the hard part would be formating it in those tables. I might look into it when I have some spare time (something that seems to be in short supply atm :/) --Chris 12:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Lol. It'd be fine if it was presented in a different format, so long as it's as easy to view as the current one, no-one would object if it was easier to update! --Dweller (talk) 12:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

University of California, Los Angeles

What happened to University of California, Los Angeles? Bongomatic 13:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I think someone replaced it with a nonsenical redirect and then tagged it CSD#R1. Thompson Is Right (talk) 14:15, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, that was my bad. Looks like another admin fixed it --Chris 07:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

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Auto-Protection

Oh yes, that would be great! Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 19:53, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism alert

You have been paged because a user has reported a high level of vandalism and you are listed as a contact.

This is an automatically generated message. If problems occur, please contact User:nathanww. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The King's a-poopin' (talk • contribs) 12:29, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Auto-Prot

Hey, could you add me to that list so that I don't have to camp out my userpage? -Jeremy ^{(v^_^v Cardmaker)} 05:47, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done :) --Chris 06:53, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

::Add my talk too please!! :( Versus22 _talk 22:40, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

 Note: I know it was a page move but worse things may happen. Versus22 _talk 22:48, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done, keep up the good work :) --Chris 09:41, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

AntiAbuseBot not getting along with ClueBot?

Not sure if you've seen this before, but I guess they edit-conflicted and ClueBot kept giving the vandal warnings after AAB blocked it. It also, because of the 'edit conflict', removed the unblock template. Enigma^msg 22:04, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't think its a big issue. Most of the times I've seen it happen ClueBot doesn't even remove the unblock template, it just adds the warning below. --Chris 09:49, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I think this time it was because they occurred at almost exactly the precise moment. If ClueBot does it 10 seconds later or whatever, it won't erase what AAB did. Enigma^msg 20:29, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

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File:Raja binoculata dorsal.jpg

I notice that you uploaded the image back from Commons just after I deleted it (it shouldn't have been on the main page anymore). Is there a reason that it should remain? Please delete it if it isn't needed anymore. I don't understand what happened (but I'm not worried about it). Just want to make sure everything gets cleaned up. Royalbroil 01:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

I think what happened was I was seeing a cached version of the main page where the image was still on it, while you were seeing the updated version. I've deleted the image now. --Chris 08:03, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Recent IP block

Hi there; while I was picking off those GAWP vandalisms, I clearly accidentally disallowed talk-page editing on one of the IPs in question, as you tactfully point out. It was a slip of the finger, not a deliberate prohibition, and you are quite right to point it out. As to thr duration of the block, this is perhaps a matter of judgement; but certainly the unasked-for advice from another user to nuke them on sight (or words to that effect) was seriously misguided. You have made a comment on my talk page to the effect that IPs should never be indefblocked, which is both well known and quite true. Perhaps you should have addressed that portion of your comment to the user who gave the advice? --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 18:14, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I think that one of the main strengths of the administration system in wikipedia is that a less experienced admin and editor can point out the failings of a more experienced admin and editor and we can both recognise that you are right to do so! --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 13:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Crat stats

Is this sort of what you're looking for? --Chris 04:18, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

It's looking v good. Excellent work, thanks. NoSeptember's version had the Crats in order of seniority, rather than alpha, and indicated months they weren't Crats in (before appointment or following resignation) with an – but I'm not too fussed about either of those... post to BN? --Dweller (talk) 10:55, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Could you post to the BN? I'm a bit busy atm --Chris 09:45, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

•  Done --Dweller (talk) 16:02, 19 March 2009 (UTC)