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NawlinWiki

Thanks for the semiprotect on Judith I. Bailey (why do they hate her so much, I wonder?)! NawlinWiki 17:16, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Alex Blagg

Thanks for the semiprotection. Stupid anons. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 02:34, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Dean McVeigh

Howdy. Could you revert your recent change to this redirect. We don't use american english in Australia and you've created a double redirect. I'd fix it but the redirect is currently protected. Garglebutt / (talk) 23:26, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Fixed.Voice-of-All 23:28, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Squidward

Hi. A number of pages Ihave either seen or worked on have been vandalized with a rediculous picture. The edit summaries all say "Squidward" on them. No one has really said anything. They have just reverted. However, I saw that Here you mentioned the squidward vandal. You are an admin. Why not just ban him. Since every single one of his edits has been exactly the same. It's probably not even a person. It might be some sort of program desgined to vandalize. Could you ban him. I have already reverted a page from him, and saw sevral other revert sevral more. thanks. Tobyk777 03:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

By what user?Voice-of-All 03:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

He was an IP: 58.85.194.235

Is it one squidward vandal or many? I just looked and it seems that more pages have been vandalized in the exact same way than the ones on this guy's contributions list. Could he have multiple IPs? Or could there be some sort of squidward vandal group? Tobyk777 04:28, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Huge Sigh of Relief

Thank you for semi-protecting the page Jehovah's Witnesses: Controversial Issues. It can be difficult enough to reach a consensus on such an article without having to constantly monitor these anon IP's reverting activity. Maybe now we can continue to make progress towards a high quality NPOV article. Many, many thanks! Lucy 05:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Request

Could you please point out which specific edits you found to be vandalism in semi-protecting the Jehovah's Witnesses: Controversial Issues page? Duffer1, a party in this content dispute who was blocked the other day for his bad conduct in it, was told on his discussion page by the blocking administrator, in agreement with another poster there, that "The edits were not vandalism, they were edits you did not agree with," and nothing has changed since then. From looking at the page Misplaced Pages:Semi-protection policy, it says that semi-protection isn't supposed to be used to deal with content disputes. It also says that it is "not intended to prohibit anonymous editing in general," which seems to have been a main motivation behind the semi-protection request. Thanks.Petronifico 06:35, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Repeatedly removing a dispute tag for no reason is vandalism. I can see several older editors, with accounts, reverting each other. There is not agreement yet and the page is disputed, whether I agree with the current version or not, it is disputed, so the tag stays. The IP's were disrupting the editing process by repeatedly removing tags without valid reasons or any agreement that would warrant their removal.Voice-of-All 06:42, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

He was also told, however, that "I suggest you take a step back from articles related to your faith for a while, as your own point of view may be too coloured to see a neutral one." Is using dispute tags to avoid neutrality and NPOV a valid use of dispute tags? Doesn't that give everyone that doesn't get their way a coercive tool to use? For example, if someone disputes that the world is round, or that the Holocaust happened, does that legitimize slapping dispute tags on pages until they get their way?Petronifico 07:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

If a good consensus of editors on the talk see nothing to dispute, then the tag should go. If this user is some sort of tagging troll or has and RfC or something, then I need to know, otherwise, it is just another disputed article.Voice-of-All 07:52, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, searching Google for "site:wikipedia.org duffer tag" shows that this user has a long history of slapping disputed tags all over Jehovah's Witness-related pages and then getting in fights with everyone when they don't see what his problem is, but I don't know how you define a tagging troll. When he was recently blocked, he provided a link to an arbitration case where the Arbitration Committee found him guilty of multiple counts of edit warring and point of view editing (here and here), among 25 total counts of bad behavior. But besides his history, if a bunch of members of the Flat Earth Society invaded some articles and decided that criticism of their beliefs was just biased bunk, would that form enough "consensus" to justify slapping dispute tags all over the place? Are these just weapons to edit war and insert POV if people don't get their way?Petronifico 08:41, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll look into the Arbcoms. To answer the last concern, note that you are descript ], which are not considered a concensus, such behavoir would be considered disruptive.Voice-of-All 19:55, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh dear

I'm not sure that the nomination was either necessary or even useful. I hope it will be possible to politely but firmly educate User:Primetime in the fact that they mergers are only saying to merge the verifiable stuff and that this explicitly excludes many of the unreferenced terms s/he refers to. AfD has often treated WP:V poorly, and I'm not really sure what to do about that. Sometimes when I write a closure statment, I make it critical of such things and intend to provide grounds for a future nomination. Somtimes, I editorially cut the article right back myself. People usually scream, but it demonstrates to people that it can be done, you know? I think WP:BOLD may be exactly what is needed. -Splash 21:31, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah...nominating a subpage that was actively being used as a template/workshop to make a WP:V compatable list was very foolish imo, at least it seems. That possible made more trouble then before, and "pro-cruft trolls" may use the AfD to continue the "anti-censorship freedom of speech war". Sigh...I don't know where these people come from, but lets hope this doesn't become an issue. Merge or No conensus AfD's are subject to regular editing, so I'll keep an eye on that list, perhaps doing huge reverts if needed.Voice-of-All 21:52, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Bug report

Ouch and no immediately apparent reason. -Splash 23:15, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Not that I recall, no. It would have filled up my whole screen if it had, I think, and I don't remember that happening. You know, it might have been the nature of the comment. It was backwards to the usual style people write in. -Splash 23:30, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Huh...George Bush has a similar summary and it does not botch that section...I'll look through the JS.Voice-of-All 23:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Look for a carriage return or newline maybe? -Splash 23:53, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

PS. It's turning up in CAT:SEMI (on which I am cracking the whip at the moment) so I think you need to split your strings again. -Splash 23:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes. When I started there were about 90 members of that category. There are now about 23... I suggested to FoN that striking up a thread on WT:SEMI seems like a good idea. I don't want to start it myself since I haven't clarified my thoughts enough to have it appear above my signature yet, but I'd certainly pitch into the discussion. -Splash 01:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

protection durations

Alternatively one could specify something outlandish:

• 01:09, July 7, 2006 Joe Admin protected George W. Bush with an expiry time of until the Nader Administration (vandalism )

Murg

Hi. I saw you reverted this Anon user too. Are you watching this guy? (I'm watching the article, so I noticed it). Thanks for your help. --Mmounties (Talk) 04:48, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Nudity in yoga / Naked yoga

Do your comments at WP:RFPP apply also to the request for protection at Yoga? Dandelion1 06:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

hi

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. If this is not legally possible: I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. PD Public domain false false

Admin Javascript's

I'm not sure how/where to add your admin scripts at. I get the new toolbox links but non of the tabs get listed.

Do you have a some sort of guide you could add for this? --Scott Grayban 08:56, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Look here, , since you are a non-admin, then get that one. Get the one with popups since those are nice (unless you run into problems). Go here and add it in. Seems that you re adding {{User:Voice of All/RC/nolupin/monobook.js}}, wich does not add popups. Try adding {{subst:User:Voice of All/RC/monobook.js}} The "subst:" means that it takes the current image (the way User:Voice of All/RC/monobook.js looks) and pasts it permanently in that form into your monobook. If I "subst" a page, its text will appear as its is now on the page I add the "susbt" to, and will stay that way. If I don't subst it, it will change everytime the page with the stuff I am copying changes. However, java will only read the js script if it is actually pasted there, so you need to use subst. I'll try to update my intructions, because I can tell that a few others made some mistakes as well with this.Voice-of-All 17:31, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Ahh thanks!! I knew I was doing something wrong but just didn't know where -- cheers mate --Scott Grayban 17:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

RfA thanks

¡Dustimagic! 05:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism help

Alright pal,

The article http://en.wikipedia.org/Red_Issue has been somewhat vandalised - can you fix it please?

I'd do it myself but I've no idea about editing and wikifying - ta. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.97.157.25 (talk • contribs) 15:45, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Was that for me

Nice to hear from you, but was that message on my talk page intended for another beautiful and talented Wikipedian, not li'l ol' me? :) -- User:RyanFreisling @ 06:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry...I suppose it still applies to whoever. Consider that if you want to become an admin though...:).Voice-of-All 06:29, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh yes, now I understand - it was indeed a response in that thread. I didn't see the connection at first so I thought you'd posted it on my page by accident. My life interferes enough with Misplaced Pages editing, I can only imagine how Misplaced Pages adminning would interfere with Misplaced Pages editing... :) Hope you're well. :) -- User:RyanFreisling @ 06:37, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Protection of Hentai

I'm wondering why you placed Hentai under protection using the controversial version of the article. In addition, the images being used, although now sourced, may not be considered fair use. Karaveks voice seems to imply that a "majority rule" has already been reached, but if you were to see the talk page you'll notice there is no majority, in-fact there is only 4 people disputing this so far. I ask you to place a version of the page with no images as protected until the dispute is settled for the reasons I have stated. -- Ned Scott 22:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Protection does not endorse the current version. I very much considered removing the image, but the reasons were not strong/obvious enough for me to lock it up a certain way, so I just locked it as it last was.Voice-of-All 22:51, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

seems fair, sorry to have gotten you wrapped up into all of this. -- Ned Scott 06:05, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your response on the AN/I

I appreciate your advice on the incident with Rhobite I brought to AN/I. -- User:RyanFreisling @ 08:53, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

My user page

• Thanks for reverting the vandalism. --DMG413 19:43, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for commenting on my recent request for bureaucratship. I deeply appreciate your kind words, and also the comments and feedback that you left me. I hope that I can improve and gain your support in the future. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 23:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Eastern Front (World War II)

I know that it had been protected for 2 1/2 months, but unfortunately nothing is settled. Please put it on your watchlist if you haven't already, as I suspect the edit war will resume. It's not on my WL because I bowed out of it. Extremely frustrating situation. --Woohookitty 18:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

May I add that I agree completely; there is no agreement on a version. If anything the personal attacks on the discussion page have gotten worse than ever in the last few days. This was unfortunate since a new editor or two showed up only to be chased away. Others have dropped out from the exhaustion of trying to work with a single editor who defies any attempt to reach consensus. This leaves us in the unfortunate position of having a poor-quality article despite having many talented editors. The claim that the unprotected version had the support of the majority was incorrect. DMorpheus 18:52, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello Voice of All: Thank you for your vote in my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 77/3/0. Although I do not have your approval; I hope I can perform at the standards you expect for administrators, and I will keep your reasons in mind. If I make any mistakes, or you need anything, please let me know. Prodego 01:51, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

U.S. Roads

Per Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive84 the warring is already blockable. Could you drop a note at Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/SPUI in defense of this block? --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

We here at the Misplaced Pages:Birthday Committee are wishing you a great day. (Tomorrow, that is). JaredW! 11:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Gee thanks! I dindn't even know that there was a birthday committee :-).Voice-of-All 16:54, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! --Misza13 08:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Have a great birthday!!!Hope you enjoy yourself. Thethinredline 10:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday from me as well. I hope it's a good one! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 17:09, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Question...

So why is it that I had to apply for "israel" to be unprotected, instead of just unprotecting it myself?

Only admins can unprotect, even if it is just semiprotection. You could have edited it before (and without consequence), and now, but you still can't protect/unprotect.Voice-of-All 21:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching

Hi! While User:Titoxd is on a Wikibreak, he gave me permission to do some leg-work concerning Esperanza admin coaching. I was curious how your coaching with User:Eddie Segoura is going. If it is finished (or even if it isn't), would you be able to take on another coachee? Don't feel guilty if you don't have the time- I perfectly understand, and wouldn't want anyone feel overworked. Thanks for all your time! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 04:23, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Help with Bernie Sanders article

There is an anon user jumping between IP addresses and reverting pages to instill his POV, most likely in violation of 3RR. I have tried to assume good faith, but the user seems to be intentionally making up IP addresses and signing with them on talk pages, including my own. I assume it is some manner of sockpuppetry. The last know IP is 64.223.121.83 (talk · contribs) --waffle iron 01:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

He registered as Straightinfo (talk · contribs). Now he keeps removing my comments asking him to properly sign pages from Talk:Bernie Sanders. I left notes on his user talk to not remove other users comments and he calls that personal attacks and removes them. I say it's not an attack and include a warning template to not remove other users comments on his own talk and he removes that. --waffle iron 17:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

List of teetotalers

Why did you revert my edits on List of teetotalers? I changed it so that the list was the main article for the category of Teetoalers? You would think that under the category of Teetotalers - something that includes all teetotallers - the article which list them should be the main article.

Hey Voice of All, thanks for never responding to my comment. I went ahead and made List of teetotalers the main article in the category of teetotalers again. Please give a reason for reverting my edits next time. 141.211.4.20 19:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Monobook.js

Hi, sorry to bother you but... In my monobook.js I have recently added your script where it changes the main page article tab to main page. Unfourtunatley something bad seems to have happened. Although one of my other java scripts functions correctly (I can't test the other) yours doesn't and the page itself looks screwed up (not how it should do). Please could you see if you can find the problem, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Lcarsdata 11:36, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

When I installed the search script you had, my JS stopped working, "missing } in XML statement". Also your GML rollback script is outdated, though it may still work if you don't have popups, but I doubt it.Voice-of-All 16:50, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

You mean at MediaWiki talk:Monobook.js? Flcelloguy (A note?) 19:18, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

He was talking about his. The problem lies with the other script he had in there (outdated godmode.js and google seach, which gives "missing } after XML" errors in JS console. My "main page" script is very simple, you can copy it to yours just to see. Sometimes you see the tab change from article to main page, however that would not happen if it was on the MediaWiki js (it loads first methinks).Voice-of-All 21:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I know that it runs first, since I use this script on another wiki (that I am an admin on).Voice-of-All 21:07, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Special chars

I see. I had forgotten I had that script installed. I happen to beating up on CAT:SEMI at this very moment (I guess you spotted me). I have one request: when it can't find an article on WP:PP, I have to dismiss two error messages. Can it be just one? -Splash 22:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Done; JS updated.Voice-of-All 22:10, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Email

Jason,

Thanks for your email. I figured I'd let you know that I responded to it a few days ago via email, just in case you only check it once in a blue moon like me. Hope all is well, and I look forward to hearing from you. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 00:01, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Main Page tab

Hi! As I don't know JavaScript, could you please tell me which text in the script you added should be translated to show 'glavna stran' instead of the 'article' tab on the main page? Thanks very much. --Eleassar 11:18, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Yupeee! It works like a charm, see here: http://sl.wikipedia.org/Glavna_stran. --Eleassar 11:48, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Talk Sport

The annoymous IP (User:195.92.67.75 and similar in that range) seems to have started again with the Talk Sport page, and I am asking for your kind support in solutions for the problem (although I will be away for a few days), kind regards, Dave 17:43, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Spring celebration / Easter (as your preferences and beliefs dictate)

Admin-like RC patrol tools

Hey,

I've installed your RC tool, but something's not quite right. When using the "quick warnings tabs", it gives "Regarding edits made during April 9 2006 (UTC)" as a headline instead of the current date. Any way to fix this?

Also, those tabs interfere with the normal edit buttons (the extra ones still seem to work, tough).

color probe _RCP 11:15, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok. Thannks. color probe _RCP 15:13, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Guy Wetmore Carryl

I'm the guy whose edits to this page you undid on April 7. Could you tell me what was wrong with them, so I will know next time -- and so that I can cure the problem, if cure be possible? Thanks.

wordcrafting@gmail.com

We generally try to avoid forums as links, especially ones of the smaller sort.Voice-of-All 20:28, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

monobook.js

Apologies if this isn't the right place -- the right place is sometimes hard to find on Misplaced Pages!

As a Recent Changes Patroller, I use the anti-vandalism monobook.js script that points to your user-space. It's wonderful, and thank you very much for making it available! :)

However, the script seems to have stopped working about 30 minutes ago (e.g., about 0615 UTC on 19 April 2006). I'll mouse over a link, and I'll get the standard alt text, instead of that wonderful little preview window that I've come to rely on.

The anti-vandalism script doesn't seem to work on any page I visit. The script doesn't work for me on Firefox (my browser of choice) or MSIE (which I rarely use, but I opened it tonight just to test this). I did reboot (as a tech support person, that's the first thing I do ;) ), and the script still didn't work.

I don't know if any other folks are having difficulties.

I just wanted to let you know about this. If this is the wrong place to bring this up, please let me know and I'll post something in the proper location.

Thank you! :)

Yansa 06:45, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

There was a missing "//" before a nowiki tag, so the js was confused, should be fixed now. Press cntrl-F5.Voice-of-All 06:59, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

It works! Thank you! :) Yansa 01:14, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Please respond to my previous comments

I left you two messages before asking why you reverted my edits to the list of teetotalers and you still haven't responded. Please tell me why you reverted my edits. 141.211.4.33 23:43, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

What is this * supposed to do? I reverted while on RC patrol as it seemed to be either a test edit or an out of format edit. If there is good reason for the *, then I'll put it back of course. Sorry for the wait, I've had much work and java from 30+ users to fix, so I left some messages without reply for a while.Voice-of-All 00:37, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. If you view the category of teetotalers it puts the article at the top of the category, showing that it is the main article It is mentioned in Misplaced Pages:Categorization#Category_sorting: "Using a space after the pipe is the customary way to categorize an article in a category with the same name, indicating that the article is the main topic article for that specific category." It seems a space is the customary way instead of a star so I have updated it. 141.211.4.23 01:11, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

You replaced everything after the "|" with *, did you mean to just add the * after the | and before the rest?Voice-of-All 01:14, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Joseph Sobran protection

Hey, thanks for stepping in when you did regarding protection given the reignition of the edit wars. If it's too soon, no problem, but it turns out that one of the warring groups were actually 3 meatpuppets of the same user. Given that the entire edit war revolved around 4 different people trying to keep a consensus version in place, and a user with 3 meatpuppets reverting wholesale, and that the meatpuppeteer (if that's a word) has been indefinitely blocked, is there a chance we could get the article unprotected now? Thanks in advance. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 21:08, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

==

I need your help ==

Sambody has deletet a template I have createt. Pleace see my page. User talk:Hipi Zhdripi#Kosovo-geo-stub and help my, wat I have to do. The serbian memebers of the[REDACTED] are maken a propaganda --Hipi Zhdripi 16:24, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

rm pages on WP:PP

I can completely understand your frustration at people not removing or adding pages to the list (yeah, I'm guilty...sorry), but do you think the system itself is worthwhile that there's that much manual labor? I think this is another instance where MediaWiki software just kinda sucks for a given purpose. Oh yeah, and what are you doing up so late? Insomnia or something? -Mysekurity 06:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I made javascript that un/protects and lists/de-lists articles at the same time, I wish I could give it all admins with MediaWiki or something to keep things updated.Voice-of-All 17:59, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! I have to integrate that all sometime soon (too many things to do, JS has to be integrated well...etc...), but I really appreciate it. I know that there are certain things that only show up in MediaWiki:Monobook.js and Common.js for admins. Y'might want to push this at Village Pump (technical) or at the Monobook.js talk page, because I'm sure this stuff would be really useful. I gotta tell you; my js is seriously rusty, so if you could help me out at all, I'd really appreciate it. My toolbox takes up about half the page, and the more advanced features of Lupin's popups have stopped working for me in IE (a while ago, in fact). In any event, thanks again, and I'll talk t' ya soon. -Mysekurity 21:18, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

For some reason, after you went into my monbook.js, it stopped working for me, and all my custom toolbox links disappeared. I hadn't seen that you went in there, but I moved the category to my User page, so as not to disrupt anything. I reverted to an older version of my monobook, and now things work pretty well, but I have no idea what went wrong (if you check the link, it seems there's something wrong with the subst:ing). Anyway, I appreciate the thought, but I guess I'll just be old-fashioned when I update protected pages, and let y'all handle the fancy javascript. I just thought you'd like to know, in case anything's wrong (sorry that my js skills...uh...don't exist). See ya! -Mysekurity 14:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Eesh! I don't even want to go into what happened last time I listened to a "wise bearded man"... Anyway, I can completely understand you on the "trying to trim each and every 'unnecessary' thing" off the code and winding up with something that works less than intended. I guess I should try protection on the Sandbox or other space now, as I agree with you that userspace pages shouldn't be added to the log. While my monbook is pretty much back to what it was before (the toolbar links and popups work again), I think it was the nested nowiki tags that broke the script, rather than anything you did (my fault, not yours). However, I don't see any spiffy p=0 buttons or anything, and I'm kinda sad :'(. If y'could help me out, I'd be more than happy to send over my suite of TI-83+ tools, all written in TI-BASIC, which I hope you will find useful. -Mysekurity 22:24, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Double eesh! Thanks for trying, I think I'll live in Solitude just updating Protected pages. I think it's more of a thing I have to remember than something I need a tool for (not that much of a pain in the ass to do, just remember). Thanks for commenting on the newmessagehistory() thing, I'd removed it a while ago as it wasn't working, but I didn't do such a great surgery. One of these days I'll fix this spaghetti code. I'll write down what I want in the monbook, and then I'll work on the rest, and I'll ask ya if anything comes up. Thanks again. -Mysekurity 04:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll try to get a more in-depth look sometime this week. Right now, homework. -Mysekurity 04:27, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah...I had midterms last week and was busy as heck. Now, those are over and I have time to play around. I like java, so helping people debug is not really usually like "work" for me....its kind of fun. You said your toolbox links wen kaput ya? I'll try to run and debug it...are they any other problems? I like fixing script. I'll report back in a few days to show whats wrong.Voice-of-All 04:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Template:Signpost

Hello, mate. Could you change the template link on your page from {{signpost}} to {{User Signpost}}? The reason is that {{signpost}} is the perfect name for a template for signpost articles, and as it's a redirect to the latter template only being used by two people (yourself and Chicheley), it'd be greatly appreciated if you'd let me have access to that name by changing over. Blackcap (talk) 18:44, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks a million. Blackcap (talk) 06:17, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi Jason. I'm contacting you because you helped me with popups and making a signature before. I need your help again in a different matter. An IP only member has been removing my comment from Talk:Calday_Grange_Grammar_School and leaving insulting edit summaries. I don't want to war with this person. Thanks. Prometheus 17:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Blocked.Voice-of-All 18:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you once again. In case this sort of thing happens again (which I suspect it will, because previous IP's on that page come from the same place according to WHOIS), what is the best course of action? Prometheus 18:16, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
PS. Sigh He's back.

List of sexual slurs

Please join me in user conduct RFC. `'mikka (t) 02:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Whitney Houston

I recently asked for semi-protection of the Houston article on the grounds that information is repeatedly removed concerning her well-publicized drug allegations. You claimed that the article didn't warrant enough recent reverts to give it protection. The article gets vandalized— in the form of blankings— at least three-five times a day, and it continuously has to be reverted back. The vandals come in the form of anonymous IP addresses, whose only contributions revolve around protecting the reputation of Houston. Despite warnings on the talk-page and even the article itself, the "negative" information about Houston is repeatedly removed several times a day. It is becoming extremely annoying, and these fans of hers need to cease their unnecessary vandalizing. If you could offer any administrative help to resolve this problem, it would be greatly appreciated by those who check the article on an hourly basis to revert vandalism. —(Notorious4life 05:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC))

I've watchlisted it. Thanks for your concerns.Voice-of-All 05:58, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Your comment on the Franjo Tudjman page

Hello!

Thank you for your comment.

1. I have a question: was your comment a response to the RfC I sent?

2. Your comment appears to be based on an earlier version of the page. "Even more atrocious than they actually had been" and "these numbers are widely considered to be inaccurate" aren't present in the present version. Nevertheless, it's very helpful of you to indicate that they shouldn't be restored.

3. Could you please comment on the actual subject of the edit war (1. whether the existence of certain quotes of disputed authenticity deserves to be mentioned and 2. whether a certain fact deserves to be included in the introductory part) and how this conflict might be solved?

--85.187.44.131 14:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

The "these numbers are widely considered to be inaccurate" may still get reverted in, perhaps the other one. I just wanted to be clear that statements like that are not exeptable. There is a long, light, edit conflict. The it is not enough to really call it an edit war just yet imo.Voice-of-All 16:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, OK. I wonder how you tell the difference between an edit war and a light edit conflict, though. This conflict involves the constant alternation between two versions of the page, so I've been forced to incorporate each of my edits in both versions to make sure they don't get lost in the next revert in a couple of hours. For me, this is as bad as it gets. --85.187.44.131 17:35, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit Request.

There is so much vandalism on the article.. Admins need to watch over the article. So much content has been deleted... Including critical Information on Organ Harvesting, persecution and Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation Incident... Please Compare with thisversion. Many relevant pictures deleted). KIndly allow me to fix a bit of the vandalism before the article is locked. Dilip rajeev 14:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

I am trying to use your RC "admin-like" revert tool on my MonoBook page, but I'm not sure I am installing it correctly. Can you help? Thanks, Fuscob 02:47, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I just figured it out, and it does work. Thanks for the great tool! Fuscob 02:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit Request

Could you kindly take a look at the Joel Leyden article which is presently being vandalized. This article is nominated for deletion on a daily basis. Nancetlv 01:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Bob Dylan

I thought I'd let you know that the Bob Dylan article that you unprotected earlier has been reprotected by the user Nlu. I'm telling you this because A) I support your decision to unprotect it, and B) I think it was rather hasty of Nlu to reprotect it seeing as it only suffered one act of vandalism all day. Please look into it. Thanks. P.S. Why is your user page protected? Elvrum 06:09, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Stats?

Interesting! But I can't seem to locate it. Where should I be looking for this? · Katefan0/poll 16:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. Still don't see it. Is it not compatible with Firefox? · Katefan0/poll 17:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

How to fix

The reason this may not be working for some people is because you use the function "tnaddlilink()" instead of just plain "addlilink()" to add the statistics tab at the top. You need to make sure that people include that function in their monobook.js along with the link to your script. You can get it from Misplaced Pages:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/test-enhanced, I don't know if anywhere else has it.

Other than that, good tool! --bainer (talk) 05:34, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Skowhegan citizens for good government--deleted

Skowhegan citizens for good government: "deleted for a non notable geo-site". Can you be more specific why my site was deleted? I have left the above question on Skowhegan citizens for good government discussion board too.

For your hard work...

(barnstar moved)

Thanks! I'll move this to my barnstar subpage. Remember to tell be what JS console (under "tools" or such in your browser) says when you go to a history or user contribs page, since it does not seem to be working. I am running Netscape 8 in firefox mode.Voice-of-All 19:28, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Checking again here... viewing history on a normal article, my toolbox has: what links here, related changes, upload file, special pages, new pages, speedy deletions, vandalism, protection requests, protected pages, noticeboard, 3rr vios, filter recent changes, all recent changes, recent ip edits and monitor my watchlist. I'm using Firefox 1.5, but sometimes also use IE (they're the same options in IE too). Can't figure it! What should the tab be called, anyway? At any rate, no big deal. · Katefan0 /poll 20:49, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

You should be tooking at the tabs, after the "watch" tab, not the toolbox.Voice-of-All 20:55, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

No dice there either. There is one new tab ("last"), but otherwise nothing new after "watch." · Katefan0 /poll 21:09, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I just copied in your monobook for mine, and NS8, Firefox 1.5.x, and IE6 all show the new tabs. Either your browser's cache is not cleared or something is wrong with it. The tab works in the same way as the others.Voice-of-All 21:16, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Monobook.js

Can you give me direct link to that page please. Thank you --SasaStefanovic • 03:03, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Main editing buttons on toolbar above edit box don't work with your script. All other new buttons work fine and they are great.

Here we go. Copy the short js on the page (do it in edit mode).Voice-of-All 03:04, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank You For Your Reply

Even though we did not receive the full protection we requested, we appreciate your reply and further clarification regarding the topic.

Regards,

GODDESSY

We sent an e-mail to you regarding another issue. Please let us know if you received it. -GODDESSY

Wii

Why did you Move Protect the Wii page without giving a reaon on the Wiki Protect page, and I request it to be unprotected withen 9 days so just in case it has to be moved around E3... so if you can please unprotect it no Later then Sunday/Monday. Thanks. DivineShadow218 21:36, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

It was move protected earlier, in addition to being semiprotected, so I assumed that the admin has a reason. Also, his protection summary was:

• 01:02, April 28, 2006 Jedi6 protected Wii (Blocking move abilities to stop the back and forth of page moves )

If you disagree with that reason, then talk to the admin himself. I'll unprotect myself if needed, but it would be better if you talked to User:Jedi6. Thanks.Voice-of-All 21:39, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg's size on your userpage

This image's size as 420px in width is overlapping somewhat the left side of your userboxes on your userpage that I saw. Please reduce its size to 320px, so the sight is clear. -- ADNghiem501 09:29, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

It's a wiki. You can make the change yourself and if Voice of All likes it, it will be left! But I didn't see a problem at my resolution. Hope that helps! ++Lar: t/c 13:37, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Vandal fighter

I was just wondering about your "admin-like tools" javascript code; it works wonders, but somehow it cuts off my popups; now, if I use the popups, the window will pop up. However, the millisecond my mouse enters the small gap between the first and second windows, the second dropdown window vanishes. It isn't a huge problem, but I was just wondering if you had a solution. Thanks! _-M o P-_ 22:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Heh...I turned of double popups just because it was annoying, but I never experienced that problem. Then again, I use popupsdev and not regular popups.

// User:Lupin/popupsdev.js - please include this line 
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
            + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User:Lupin/popupsdev.js' 
            + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');
//

Maybe using that instead that might help.Voice-of-All 01:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Alright, I'll try it out. I just replace the current stuff with that, right? And thanks! Its truly an awesome tool (I love the automatic warning system). Also, another small question; could I configure it to give me more talk-warn tabs? I'd like to lay out test 1, 2, 3, 4 and some other templates for myself. Thanks!:) _-M o P-_ 01:32, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

I believe "t" is test1. At any rate, I will rename it to t1 and add t2 and t3 now. Then add some more spam ones. I'd add t2 but it just gets cluttered.Voice-of-All 01:35, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Wait...I'll add t2 instead of t4, since user's with this script cannot actually block since they are not admins.Voice-of-All 01:37, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

T4 isn't block, I don't think... that's final warning. Dunno though. But it works awesome, I like to use it in conjunction with User:Lupin/Filter recent changes. Anyway, thanks! _-M o P-_ 01:52, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

T4 is "I will block if you do it again"...but you can't block, so when they just harrass you and vandalize your pages you have to get an admin in.Voice-of-All 01:55, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... for some reason, my popups are still really twitchy. Oh well, I'll get by without 'em. Thanks! _-M o P-_ 01:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Protection logs

I'm not sure if you're using javascript to do them, but if you are, you're not pre-pending the namespace to the page name, as shown here. Titoxd 06:19, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

That only happened with user pages, and I just fixed it a few minutes ago. But thanks for letting me know about this stuff.Voice-of-All 06:23, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

A landslide victory for The JPS (aka RFA thanks)

Hey, Aaron Schulz/Archive6, thank you so much for your vote and comments in my RfA, which passed with an overwhelming consensus of 95/2/2. I was very surprised and flattered that the community has entrusted me with these lovely new toys. I ripped open the box and started playing with them as soon as I got them, and I've already had the pleasure of deleting random nonsense/attacks/copyvios tonight. If I ever do anything wrong, or can help in some way, please feel free to drop me a line on my talk page, and I will do my best to correct my mistake, or whatever... Now, to that bottle of wine waiting for me... The JPS 21:42, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Left Party (Sweden)

I've unprotected this, cos I've blocked Soman for 3RR, and it looked to me like it was a rather one-sided matter. If you disagree, feel free to re-protect it. Probably best continued at Talk:Left Party (Sweden) William M. Connolley 20:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh great. I've reviewed it; I was wrong; I've re-protected William M. Connolley 21:47, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

1. The protection was asked by me with the aim of defending the article of the continous erasures (starting with November 2005) by User:Soman. However, owing to some unfortunate cicumstances, the very version promoted by Soman and put into effect with five reverts within lesss than 24 h has now been protected. Comments and help on the issue are more than welcome, anyway.

2. I deny User:Advocatus diaboli being my sock puppet, although we are acquainted. More detailed check would prove that different computers are used by Constanz and the newly registered user. Thus, I do not agree with re-establishing version by the blocked user and then protecting it. Even if I, User:Constanz, had made my fourth and fifth revert (just like Soman did) instead of Advocatus Diaboli, the version protected should have been the last one. I do not see any reason for an admin to revert to the previous previous version before protecting.--Constanz - Talk 05:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

As we all know, admins should avoid favoring one version of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism. The case concerned, however, does not involve vandalism and the sock puppet claim is unproved; also, this does not justify version changes by admins.--Constanz - Talk 05:45, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Sabbath unprotection

I think you might have misunderstood what the request was for. It was under the "requests for unprotection" header. I talked to Essjay about it and he said he would prefer that another admin unprotect it given he was the one to protect it. Hence the reason it was in the list for unprotection. Ansell 00:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Warning!

Thanks for the heads up. I thought something looked funny... ;) RadioKirk talk to me 00:55, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

VOA, I assume your stats were not a neutral vote, so i moved it to comments. NoSeptember 02:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah...thats were it should go. Thanks.Voice-of-All 02:11, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

3rr and page prot

-(Moved to User talk:Voice of All/Disputes)-Voice-of-All 05:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Protection thingy

Thank you, VofAll. Katefan recommended it but I've no idea what to do with it. Can you advise (in words of one syllable)? :-) SlimVirgin 06:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Forgive my stupidity, but how do I copy it into my monobook? SlimVirgin 06:57, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Okay, found it. I copied it in, and it cancelled out my block and block log tabs, so I removed it again. Also, it only gave me a protection (off) tab when I looked at my own talk page. Katefan said something about it automatically adding an entry to WP:PP? I may have misunderstood her though. SlimVirgin 07:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, it's working and it's wonderful. No more hours spent filling in forms ... thank you! SlimVirgin 07:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Not mad about Cyde

I find his actions to be unilateral...this has been a persistent problem of his. When others complain about his actions, he acts as if they have the problem. If we started blocking everyone that internally spams, we would be pretty busy. He voted on that Afd and I think there should be a policy against anyone voting and closing an Afd, no matter how one sided the votes are.--MONGO 07:12, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Diffs

No, it was on Wikien-L several months ago - I can't remember when. But he continued to call her a POV pusher and a vandal on her talk page last night. I may have been guilty of hyperbole, but I was pretty annoyed with his threats and hubris - after all, you can't threaten to block someone when you are edit-warring with them. Guettarda 15:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Deletions

Nope. I only deleted the page and User:Freakofnurture took care of the rest. The task was too complex for me, so I let him take care of it. Any and all credit goes to him. Pepsidrinka 16:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Templates

Hi Voice, the templates aren't policy. They are just ordinary templates that go on policy and guideline pages. And the change I want to make isn't a major change. (All I want to do is remove the "feel free" and "be bold" advice, because newbies take it literally and try to change policy.) CBD did express his view about this several days ago. When I saw he had protected, I didn't undo it or report it, I just asked him to undo it and allow a completely uninvolved admin to decide whether protection was needed. I agree that we should use common sense as well as the policies to guide us. But when an experienced admin says "I think you may have inadvertently violated policy; please undo your admin action," we should also use common sense there, and take that request very seriously. This whole problem stems from Locke Cole's having taken ownership of these templates. He simply refuses to allow anyone to make an edit he disagrees with and he revert wars to retain his preference. The arbcom is currently dealing with his tendency to revert war, and there's an article RfC about the templates, so it'll get sorted out soon one way or the other. SlimVirgin 01:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Those tags are pretty important, and it is very important to discuss policy page edits first (bad things always happen when people don't), so I agree that a)Adding "be bold" is a very bad idea for policy pages and b)CBD should have just let another admin protect to avoid any issues. Nevertheless, I don't see a definitive case against him. Since the tags are not policy pages, considering that, makes me less bother by it not getting reverted to the status quo. CBD created more dispute by refusing to be gracious enough to just unprotect and let another admin decide. I don't think that was the end of the world, on the other hand, it would have been very easy for him to just unprotect. At any rate, this topic has gone on too long...I thinks its best left in the archives. I'll take note if he does anything similar, but likely this disscussion's existance is not constructive. Voice-of-All 01:23, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree. SlimVirgin 01:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

The original language in use for almost a year has included "feel free" (with a link to WP:BB). The change SlimVirgin is proposing would remove that and basically require consensus before any changes are made. —Locke Cole • t • c 01:34, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I've taken ownership of nothing. Stop spreading your flat out blatant lies and assume good faith once in awhile. You are the one who chose to revert war over this instead of discussing it. You are the one who attempted to push through your changes with little or no discussion. You are the one assuming bad faith in everyone else, even admins who have been noted for their neutrality in disputes.

I strongly urge you to consider reading WP:CIV and WP:AGF. You are in desperate need of both. —Locke Cole • t • c 01:34, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Sigh. I came by to thank you for trying to defuse this nonsense, but seeing the above.... oi! For the record, on my 'refusing to be gracious enough to let another admin decide'... please see me asking another admin to decide. I did not unprotect myself because I don't think that is an appropriate response to bullying and harrassment by one of the original policy violators. Instead I handed it over to someone else... so please, less with the false statements / insults? It's really starting to get a tad annoying. As to letting another admin do the initial protection... it simply never occurred to me that someone would claim that my previous comment indicated a bias or that completely unrelated edits two weeks ago constituted involvement. Frankly, both claims seem absurd to me (since I know I didn't have a 'side' in the debate), but had I anticipated the assumption of bad faith I would have let someone else handle it... as I did once the issue was raised. So... go ahead and 'take note' of my future actions. I've 'noted' incivility, numerous false accusations, 3RR violation, edit warring, unprotection of pages the person is clearly involved in, et cetera. All leading to this first encounter creating a rather poor impression. --CBDunkerson 02:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

When I said "gracious", I was not saying that you are not gracious, but that as a nitpick, you could have just let another admin do it, not because you were seriously involved in the edit war, but just because it might look that way, and it would be slighter better if an admin who did not comment on it didn't protect. That is what I was trying to get at. Do not think that I have not noted the behavoir of others and failures to assume good faith...I've noted it all. As I said, "it is not the end of the world", I don't really think that such a big deal should have made over the protection.Voice-of-All 02:33, 5 May 2006 (UTC)