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This user knows that we can't stop here – this is bat country.

Mithrandir SUL

According to the SUL util, there is no SUL for the account. m:Help:SUL does say that the wiki where the username has the most edits will become the home wiki, so I'm tempted to believe that that means you can't make an SUL if you don't own the account with the most edits though. Care to clarify? demize (t · c) 23:10, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Correct. The user with the most edits holds the "claim" to the SUL and can enable it at any time. As such, we typically decline to process requests that either create new conflicts for that claimholder or that would have the effect of allowing an en.wiki editor to "slide into" the position of best claim. –xeno 23:13, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

CU/U

Not meaning to rush anything, I'm just wondering, how long does it take for an usurpation? What is the "hold period"? Cheers... Mìthrandir (talk) 00:40, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

As explained above, there is currently a global conflict for that name. Perhaps you could ask the lt.wiki if they mind you taking the name globally. –xeno 02:05, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Xenobot Mk V

About the bot, if I type <categorytree>Fictional characters</categorytree> on this page, would the bot work properly? Because that would really save a lot of my time. Harry Blue5 (talk) 21:21, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

No, not really. If you do that, you come across categories like Category:Batman television series episodes, Category:The Blues Brothers songs, Category:Professor Challenger novels, members of which I assume are not in the scope of your project. I've recursed a few levels to give you an idea, see . –xeno 21:40, 1 February 2011 (

Ah, but I could do multiple category trees, couldn't I? I was thinking about typing:

<categorytree>Fictional characters by gender</categorytree><categorytree>Fictional characters by medium</categorytree><categorytree>Fictional characters by nationality</categorytree><categorytree>Fictional characters by occupation</categorytree><categorytree>Fictional characters by physical feature</categorytree><categorytree>Fictional characters by status</categorytree><categorytree>Fictional characters by superhuman feature or ability</categorytree><categorytree>Lists of fictional characters</categorytree><categorytree>Fictional duos</categorytree><categorytree>Characters by role in the narrative structure</categorytree><categorytree>Fictional character stubs</categorytree>

Pretty longwinded, but still a lot quicker than the alternative. (I think I still need to clean up those categories before I use the bot though. The Parent Trap films shouldn't be under "Fictional twins", should it?). Harry Blue5 (talk) 09:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, some category trees are a horrible mess. You might consider using WP:AWB's list builder to try and make an exhaustive list. A category tree will never be safe for a bot to traverse. –xeno 17:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protection request

I’m not sure where to start, Xeno, on this request; but I would like to get Nation semi-protected. I.P. editors (most often from England) strip out the example in the first paragraph lede where it gives the example of “Palestinian nation” (one of the definitions that more broadly refers to a community of people who share a common territory and government—but who are not necessarily a sovereign state; and who often share a common language, race, descent, and/or history). There couldn’t be a better example of a ‘a nation of people’—that is not already a bona fide sovereign state—than the Palestinian people since the State of Palestine is today widely recognized by many sovereign states (although often in equivocal terms).

FWIW, I have zero axe to grind on this issue. In fact, on terrorist-related issues, I usually find myself arguing on the same side as those who would consider themselves pro-Israeli. None of that matters; I’m an equal-opportunity fact pusher. As you can see from the history of the Nation article, our registered editors and I have to step in too often to undo I.P.s out to make Misplaced Pages conform to an ideological message they’d like to push. Greg L (talk) 05:26, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

An apology

I apologize for making you an unwitting party to my short foray into ban evasion. Pretending to be someone I am not and abusing the good faith of good people is not something I particularly want to be known for but there it is. Sorry. --Lyncs (talk) 15:38, 2 February 2011 (UTC)