User talk:Marudubshinki/Archive 54
Stolen from Kross, who stole it from -asx-, who stole it from Redwolf24, who stole it from Linuxbeak, who stole it from an old nun.
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You archived!
You archived, the Apocalypse is coming! :-O --Jedi6-(need help?) 03:26, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- The wiki hit a million articles, GWB was elected president twice, Redwolf24 burned out - these are all portents and signs! Don't blame me, the messenger, for it was written that they shall have eyes, and not see articles, ears and not hear ogg files... --maru (talk) contribs 03:28, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Next up on the Apocalypse countdown: Willy on Wheels becomes an admin! Jedi6-(need help?) 03:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, that happened last year. It kept the Wikipedia Index in a tizzy for weeks! --maru (talk) contribs 03:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Hey he was over the 75% support mark. Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense/April Fools' Day 2005/Willy on Wheels for admin :-) Jedi6-(need help?) 03:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, and that was exactly why the policy wonks went crazy attacking the process wonks and vice versa. Quite a flamewar! --maru (talk) contribs 03:46, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Awww. I missed all the fun :-( If I tried to do that I would probably be blocked on spot. Jedi6-(need help?) 03:52, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Probably! Heck, your username already looks like a sock (I can just imagine another admin looking at it and going, "Hmm. I wonder what happened to the other 5 Jedi?"). --maru (talk) contribs 03:54, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Well Jedi1 died of dehydration, Jedi2's page was moved to Jedi4's page by Willy on Wheels which caused them both to gang up on Jedi3. Then Jedi5 proceeded to destroy them both by tricking them into starting a wheel war over a userbox. Finally one day Jedi5's apprentice Jedi6 overthrew him when he wasn't looking. Jedi6-(need help?) 04:04, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- If I became your apprentice... would I be able to save Padme? --maru (talk) contribs 04:15, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yes but you must give into your anger. You must kill your former master and friend. Just make sure that if Padme comes to plead to you and you find your former master with her, Don't force choke her, you can't believe what happened last time. Jedi6-(need help?) 04:25, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- I... must kill Jon Hart? But what about Deckiller? --maru (talk) contribs 04:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Don't you worry about Deckiller, muhuhaha. Jedi6-(need help?) 05:28, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, my master. He is either with us or against us. --maru (talk) contribs 17:13, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
You archive and then Wikipedia suffers a major power failure and is down for 6 hours. Coincidence? Jedi6-(need help?) 02:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- You can't prove anything- the power failure happened the next day, and there is no possible consequence one day later that could explain it, so I am dismayed at your weckless weckless accusations. --maru (talk) contribs 02:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love editing … I love Wikipedia. The power you give me I will lay down when this (power) crisis has abated. And as my first act with this new authority, I will create a Grand Army of the Wiki to counter the increasing threats of Wookieepedia." --Jedi6-(need help?) 03:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- So this is how fancruft dies... to applause and laughter. --maru (talk) contribs 03:33, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- I need your help son... I am counting on you to be the eyes, ears and voice of the Wiki. Marudubshinki , I am appointing you to be my personal representative on the Administrators' noticeboard. --Jedi6-(need help?) 03:45, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- Surely the Cabal will make me an administrator now! --maru (talk) contribs 03:47, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- Only through me can you achieve a power greater than any Admin or bureaucrat. Jedi6-(need help?) 03:57, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- What did you say? --maru (talk) contribs 04:01, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- I'm offering you power, ultimate power. --Jedi6-(need help?) 04:21, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- Real Ultimate Power?
- /me gasps
- You're the Vandal Lord the Cabal has been searching for! --maru (talk) contribs 04:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- I know what has been troubling you . . . Listen to me. Don't continue to be a pawn of Jimbo Wales and the Cabal! Ever since I've known you, you've been searching for a life greater than that of an ordinary Admin . . . a life of significance, of conscience. Jedi6-(need help?) 04:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- You're POVed! --maru (talk) contribs 04:39, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- Are you going to ban me? Jedi6-(need help?) 04:42, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- I would certainly like to! --maru (talk) contribs 04:51, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- I know you would. I can feel your POV. It gives you focus, makes you revert. Jedi6-(need help?) 06:04, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- I am going to turn you over to the cabal! --maru (talk) contribs 14:17, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- Of course you should. But you're not sure of their intentions, are you? What if I am right and they are plotting to take over Wikipedia, or worse? Jedi6-(need help?) 23:27, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- I will quickly verify your unsourced edit. --maru (talk) contribs 23:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- You have great barnstars, Marudubshinki. Know the power of editcountitis. The power to save Padme.
- I am not going anywhere. You have time to unblock my fate. Perhaps you'll reconsider and help me rule the wiki for the good of the Internet. --Jedi6-(need help?) 23:41, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- You have great barnstars, Marudubshinki. Know the power of editcountitis. The power to save Padme.
- Pfft, don't listen to him. I've seen them come and go, those snot-nosed punks who decimate entire planets and kill millions. Happens all the time. Like this last guy, he actually ended up trying to convert his son into a Sith! Would you imagine that pervert... _-M
oP-_ 05:10, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
- Pfft, don't listen to him. I've seen them come and go, those snot-nosed punks who decimate entire planets and kill millions. Happens all the time. Like this last guy, he actually ended up trying to convert his son into a Sith! Would you imagine that pervert... _-M
Just look at what happened to that pervert and his master! Stay with us, Maru. Stay with the light!!!! the_ed17(talk)Use these! 19:29, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
- But... I have to save my article, Padme! I love it! --maru (talk) contribs 22:02, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
- No, you don't HAVE to. You just WANT to. Think of all you've learned. Jedi6 is evil. We are good. the_ed17(talk)Use these! 14:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- I don't know what to believe now! --maru (talk) contribs 20:06, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
West Wing
Is there a West Wing template somewhere? Or where would I look for one? I just would like to put one on my user page. Second thing: would I be allowed to remove my warning now? Or does it have to stay there for all time? Thanks Maru!!! The ed17 17:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC) (talk)
- Well, I'ver never seen a West Wing userbox template around. I supose you could ask someone in the Userbox Wikiproject to make one, or make itself.
- As for your warning, go ahead and archive it if you want (see Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page). It's bad practice to simply delete stuff off your talk page. --maru (talk) contribs 21:09, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
- OK. Thank you very much. The ed17 19:57, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Would you mind putting in a word to help come to a concensus on this article's talkpage...? I and Zero1328 have done research, but the trolling of BIG (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is really not helping any matters. -ZeroTalk 04:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
- Done. You're lucky I like you, or I wouldn't take the time to go through all those bloody diffs. --maru (talk) contribs 05:17, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
- Of course. I'm such a loveable oof. And ladies can't get enough of me. I'd disclose my secret for female mongering, but... awww then everyone would be too jealous. -ZeroTalk 13:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
- Modesty is not a vice you indulge in all that often, eh? --maru (talk) contribs 19:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
- Modesty! Good grief! I don't know the meaning of the word. -ZeroTalk 06:51, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- Obviously then you could never engage in it. Perhaps a brief block will teach you the meaning of modesty... --maru (talk) contribs 15:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- Dear me! I suppose next you'll permaban me for being a good-looking womanizer! -ZeroTalk 16:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- Hmm... there's an idea. That'd leave more of the chick Wikipedians for me, wouldn't it? --maru (talk) contribs 16:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Be fair, now. The ladies wouldn't be able to keep their spirits up without my godly aura eminating about the wiki. -ZeroTalk 16:10, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- All's fair in love and war... --maru (talk) contribs 16:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry to interrupt, but I feel that perhaps you should look over the talk page for the Colonel article, maru. If I ignore the persistance of BIG's opinion, he seems to have no regard for the Wikipedia rules. What do you think should be done? I decided to turn to you, since Zero's asked for your opinion on this before. - Zero1328 08:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- Not really sure what I can do beyond what I've done. --maru (talk) contribs 13:22, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- He's done quite a bit more than break 3RR. He's essentially contributing to disruption with what has been identified as vandalism. He also has been involved in quite a great deal of personal attacks and nonsense we dont' have to put up with at wikipedia. I regard this as a respective, enclosed dispute, not appropriate for WP:AN/I. However, this has gone on quite enough, and there's certainly no reason to. I'm going to have to post on the board if something is not resolved about this. -ZeroTalk 14:11, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- You can post on AN/I if you want. What I would do is be patient, and engage in a series of escalating blocks (assuming he is also making legitimate edits; I don't remember if he is); after reaching week-long blocks, I'd then go with an indefinite ban. That's just me, of course. If you want, you could ask another admin. Nufy8's not doing that much these days- you could try him. --maru (talk) contribs 01:24, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- That sounds plausible. I believe it would behoove us all to go along with that idea; blocks seem like the only course of action to cease the disruption. -ZeroTalk 12:06, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- Looking at the block log, he was originally blocked for general disruption by MONGO. You replaced this with a 24 hour block and then unblocked completely. Can you explain the reasoning for this..? -ZeroTalk 19:20, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- MONGO had already blocked him for the 3RR I was going to block him for, is why. --maru (talk) contribs 19:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- I see. Anyway, see the stuff I placed upon WP:AN/I. -ZeroTalk 00:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
No Microsoft Products
How do you reconcile your refusal to use Microsoft products and your preference for the X-Box home gaming console? --209.6.26.54 01:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- I simply imagine mentally that the Game division is unconnected with Microsoft except for receiving infusions of cash, and I do penance by running Xebian on my Xbox. --maru (talk) contribs 01:53, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Conspiring to commit a felony! Who do you think you are?
You said, "Good grief. I'm starting to wonder whether we should have a group of editors who haven't been foolish enough to break their pseudonymity assigned to articles like this (the idea being that if they haven't been foolish enough to give out their names and pictures for people like Brandt to abuse, they'll be less liable to be threatened by "exposure"; for instance, if Brandt were to make any threats against me, they would be completely hollow: no one on the wiki or the web knows who I am, where I live, or what I look like; the data just isn't there.)" Are you even aware of the new law? It was signed on January 5, 2006 by President Bush. Wikipedia is in Florida and I am in Texas. Both are under this federal law's jurisdiction. The law states: "Whoever ... utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet ... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person ... who receives the communications ... shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." This offense is defined as a felony. If a U.S. Attorney used administrative subpoena power, he could get your IP address from Wikipedia in a matter of hours. If you are in the U.S., your service provider would cough up your identity instantly from their records. If you are out of the U.S., the authorities in that country would most likely cooperate on a criminal case like this, depending on the country where you are located. What you are saying on an open mailing list, by discussing techniques for greater secrecy, falls under the category of conspiring to commit a felony. You started harassing me by making stupid edits to that bio article on me that I want taken down. I think you should be more careful about what you do. --Daniel Brandt 66.142.90.168 01:51, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- I guess I shouldn't be surprised you lurk on the mailing list. But that little law quote applies to you: I have not harassed you in the slightest, but here you are, making legal threats and harassing me. So, tell me, why do you enjoy conspiring with your Hivemind followers to commit felonies? --maru (talk) contribs 01:55, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- See that phrase quoted above -- "...without disclosing his identify..."? I disclose my identity. You do not disclose your identity and brag about it. The law does not apply to me, but it applies to you. --Daniel Brandt 66.142.90.168 02:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Note the logical connector "and". See the Logical conjunction article? You should go read it. --maru (talk) contribs 02:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Daniel. Dude. You need to lighten up. Maru isn't harrassing you, under that law, any other law, or Wikipedia policy.
- Coming here and making that statement above qualifies as a violation of the WP:LEGAL "no legal threats" policy. You could be blocked for doing that, and banned if you keep making threats like that. Not to mention that it's rude and uncivil.
- There are lawyers around. WP policy is within US legal bounds, and WP normal editing is perfectly legal. If you can't deal with minor content disputes, you need to calm down or stop editing until you can act in a more civil manner. Georgewilliamherbert 02:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm familiar with Boolean logic. The AND means that even if I was harassing you, the fact that I identify myself means that the new criminal law does not apply. You would have civil recourse (you can sue me), but you would not have a criminal complaint. But if my identity was secret like yours is secret, then you would have the option of complaining to the U.S. Attorney regarding a criminal matter, and see if he is interested. On the other matter, I'm already banned forever from Wikipedia (for the second time, actually), so I fail to see what the point is that you're trying to make. Brad Patrick, Wikipedia's lawyer, is fully aware of my position. Now that Seigenthaler has no case (the new law went into effect post-Seigenthaler, and I inadvertently bailed out Wikipedia by identifying Seigenthaler's vandal too soon), my case could be the biggest threat to Wikipedia on the horizon. Welcome aboard. --Daniel Brandt 66.142.90.168 04:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Glad to see you are at least half-educated and not a complete lackwit like some people have professed to me; you can then easily see that half the clause does not apply to me, as I have not harrassed you. If you're banned from Wikipedia, precisely what are you doing here? Perhaps you can expound for me the legal ramifications of deliberately breaking a site's Terms of Service- that would at least be relevant. And Seigenthaler never had a case, save in the court of public opinion, where (the judgement of various uninformed and erroneous pundits to the contrary) he has decisively lost. I can't imagine you'll do much better. But go ahead and make your empty threats, or sue. It'd be nice to have a good solid precedent to use against cranks like you. --maru (talk) contribs 21:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Red: edit section 0
I've never tested any of those scripts except in monobook. Alphax τεχ 05:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, that could explain it. The adding-tabs thing sounds skin-specific. --maru (talk) contribs 21:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Per the Peer Review, where you said you found the clan business confusing: I've reworked that section. Is the new version clearer? --maru (talk) contribs 01:20, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. Yes. It explains why poetry was significant and what it had to do with clans. Looks much better. I think it can be a FA now. :) --Cat out 10:51, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- I'm glad to hear that. I think FA is a little optimistic (I suspect they'd demand it be at least twice as long, and have every sentence footnoted), but it is nevertheless a rather good article. --maru (talk) contribs 21:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
It was created after the first protection[1], but I don't think he used it when he removed the office templates that someone else added (the edits were deleted, so I don't know the time). So the answer is both yes and no. Kotepho 02:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- No, he didn't use Dannyisme when he removed the OFFICE templates, from what I remember of the deleted edits; the use of the dannyisme account has struck me and others as inconsistent. --maru (talk) contribs 03:38, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- It was in reply to your <!-- --> comment in the signpost article about this incident. The waters are even muddier now that other people are carrying out OFFICE actions. Kotepho 04:22, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Interior Wiktionary links
I didn't know that you could add them like that. Thank you for pointing it out. Phydend 00:32, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, you can do it for pretty much any wiki or project-sponsored-by-the-Wikimedia-Foundation, from Wookieepedia to Ward's Wiki. --maru (talk) contribs 00:34, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
User notice: test3
Please block this User: 24.242.152.166; he's been warned several times. --Mahogany
- Done. --maru (talk) contribs 20:41, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Paul Graham
How do you know bugbear is Paul Graham? Nothing in his edit history is smoking gun to me. Sure, his Slashdot id is bugbear, but that's on slashdot, not here. --maru (talk) contribs 22:13, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- He told me. AaronSw 03:06, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
- Technically, that's Original Research, but as long as the man himself doesn't show up angry, I guess I'll let it go. --maru (talk) contribs 03:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
You are invited to vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rationales to impeach George W. Bush (2nd nomination). The issue of the name has not been resolved and therefore people are now recruiting others to delete. Feel free to make your judgement known, thank you. 
Nomen Nescio 21:48, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I got this too late. I was going to vote to merge into the Movement article, since all the rationale should be sourceable to proponents in the movement. --maru (talk) contribs 23:04, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Deletion in Meme article
Hi Maru, I had a question about your recent edit to the Meme article. You deleted this paragraph:
- The 'selfish gene' on which the meme is based ignores transcription factors and that only genes that work together are evolutionarily successful. The meme then stands on a metaphor rather than on biological science. 'The Selfish Genes', genes working together promoting the fitness of individuals, fighting for a spot on the team, is a somewhat more apt description of evolution but with this more accurate description of evolution the foundation of memetics is undermined.
Your edit notes simply say "Rv. I disagree". Could you explain what you disagree with on the meme talk page? You may have good reason for not reverting the statement, but I think it would be fair to 24.10.221.159 to have more than a two word rebuttal.
Thanks, mennonot 22:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
- Quite simply, I disagree with the anon's characteterization of the selfish gene as a "metaphor" and not a reality. While it is trivially true that not all genes can be selfish (since otherwise the organisms would die), that doesn't prove "that only genes that work together are evolutionarily successful", and thus the body of the anon's argument is invalid. --maru (talk) contribs 23:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Teika formatting
Remember Fujiwara no Teika? Well, I'm trying to get those nice little boxes you set up to be in the center instead of left-aligning (I've asked around, and people find center aligning better, apparently), but I can't figure out how- the relevant code already says "center". --maru (talk) contribs 05:57, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- Aye aye, done. :) --Cat out 08:54, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. --maru (talk) contribs 13:48, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Star Wars Editing: Master Plan
Hello, Marudubshinki, or however you would like to be called... ah, yes. You see, "minor Star Wars ships" was moved to something like "list of minor Star Wars ships". I was going to put the first one under AfD, and uh, had something to do urgently before I could finish it. Anyway, I wasn't familiar with how to do it, so... Anyway, if you could put "minor Star Wars ships" under AfD, I would be grateful. --RelentlessRouge 11:45, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- Just maru is fine. See, I don't like capitals, and the first name is maru, and the last name dubshinki, so in relaxed situations like this, that leaves just "maru".
- But you don't want to delete that page because that orphans a lot of links. I redirected it instead. --maru (talk) contribs 13:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Commons page scans
Would it be too much to ask you to do some basic cropping of your uploads of page scans to Commons? Or better yet, OCR it, and put it on Wikisource or Wikibooks. --AnonMoos 18:58, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- Your Immediatist demands offend my Eventualist beliefs, you insensitive clod!
- But seriously- yes, it would be too much to ask. It already taxes my time to simply track down this rather obscure books, scan them in, do some flipping, set up the categories and all the other stuff, along with uploading. I simply don't have time for the niceties of image editing, and as for OCR...? You've presumably looked at the images I'm uploading; do you know of any free OCR tools on Linux which can handle Victorian English and archaic Arabic? --maru (talk) contribs 22:27, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- And of course, my main concern is just getting this stuff online so I can use it in my Wikipedia articles, not in adhering to whatever formatting guidelines Wikicommons has. Someone else can do that. It's easier to edit these sorts of scans once they are online than it is to get them in the first place (or even learn of them in the first place). --maru (talk) contribs 03:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- As long as you're fully aware that the material will be of little use to most people (even most of those with some interest in the subject) in its current form. AnonMoos 06:26, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, I know. What's important to me is that it's useful to me, and that if others want to, they are perfectly able to put it into another, more usable form. The scans are PD, high-resolution in a usable format (I think; I think PNGs are good things but I'm not too sure), and I think all the metadata is still there, so I feel my duties in the latter respect are more or less discharged. --maru (talk) contribs 06:37, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't know if I follow your reasoning in favor of capitalizing the article name for general semantics. Adherents commonly use the lowercase version. I checked the Wikipedia guidelines and found this: Philosophies, doctrines, and systems of economic thought do not begin with a capital letter, unless the name derives from a proper noun: lowercase republican refers to a system of political thought; uppercase Republican refers to a specific Republican Party (each party name being a proper noun). Do you see general semantics as an organized movement rather than a doctrine? I can see how you might get that impression if you only know of gs through the 'pedia. (See this essay on certain effects of Wiki policies.) But in my experience this vastly exaggerates the degree of organization among Korzybski fans, and the extent to which we agree on practical issues. --Dan 18:45, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- There's a number of reasons. I disagree with that particular guideline, for instance; I also think decapitalizing it risks confusions with general semantics and general semantics studies (quick: was the former a particular movement or an adjective and a word meaning the study of meaning?). And even if the article exaggerates the cohesion, General Semantics is still considerably far from being a subsection of semantics. --maru (talk) contribs 22:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- I don't follow your question at all. Do you really mean to propose separate articles with those names? What do they mean to you? And the article explains the name of Korzybski's field, which derives from the Greek. It also explains the slight blurring of meaning, which derives from the field's focus on human survival. You misunderstand what I said about cohesion, but it doesn't matter if you disagree with the guideline. Dan 01:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, it's not just my personal preferences here. I quickly googled General Semantics, and it seems to me that when people refer to General Semantics, they say "General Semantics" and not "general semantics"- like the Institute of General Semantics for example. --maru (talk) contribs 03:43, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- They also capitalize Learning Center and Book Store, as well as most of the words in article titles. Look at the actual articles in that Center. Dan 14:49, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- I've looked at a few. They don't seem to consistently support your capitalization. --maru (talk) contribs 06:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Off-wiki personal attacks poll
Since you have previously participated in discussions about the off-wiki NPA policy, I wanted to let you know about a quick opinion poll that is now posted on the Talk page there. Your input is appreciated!
--Strom 21:56, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- I've voted. --maru (talk) contribs 22:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
SW Tables
Dear maradubshinki, or however you would like to be addressed (it was meant as a joke). Hmm. I'll try to right-align them sometime or another... however, I'm not that good, and my time is limited. Could you do it? lol. However, I'll get 2 it sometime or another. --RelentlessRouge
- Just right-align them as you make'em from now on, and update the un-aligned neutral ones. Remember, no need to get everything done right now. --maru (talk) contribs 03:38, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Revert
Hi there. I just got your message saying that a change I'd made had been reverted. I'm just wondering which page contained the unsatisfactory edits. I'm a little surprised, as my edits have only consisted of things like spelling and grammar corrections. 86.131.85.105 07:35, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
OK, I've found the page in questin: it was Darth Vader. I'd intended just to delete an extraneous word that had somehow been inserted in the text, but for some reason it deleted the end of the article as well. I certainly didn't do that myself, so I guess there must be a problem somewhere. There was no intention to vandalise the page. Apologies. 86.131.85.105 07:47, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Your Opinion...
Maru in the past you've helped me so I would like to ask what you think of me running for and admin.? Thanks, Mahogany
- Please don't take this the wrong way, but I wouldn't feel comfortable voting for you. I'm not sure you've learned enough, and I'm made especially uneasy by that series of break-ins into your account. --maru (talk) contribs 16:01, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, that's not everything. Actually, I keep a list of my criteria, along with my reasoning, here. --maru (talk) contribs 20:11, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Jabba the Hutt
Hey, thanks for the comments on the Jabba the Hutt article! I posted this response on the article's talk page as well:
- Well, none of the fictional character articles that are Featured have these things. Take a look at Batman, Superman, Bulbasaur, Goomba, Lakitu, Link (Legend of Zelda), and Wario. The Wikipedia community (those who hang around the FAC page, anyway) constantly shoots down fictional FAC articles that have this material in it. I made the mistake of including all of this in an article on Padmé Amidala (the first major rewrite I did) and the results were not good (see the article's talk page). Since the goal of the Star Wars Wikiproject is to: "organize, clean, and improve Star Wars information within a format that fits Wikipedia's fictional procedures to, ultimately, the level of quality stressed in the Featured Article and Featured List guidelines." That's not going to happen if the article only tries to please SW fans and not the Wikipedia community in general.
My proposal is this: I have an article on the FAC page right now, but as soon as that's over with I'm going to submit this one to peer review and then FAC. I would like to see what happens to the article there without the extra SW detail. If it fails, then I'll gladly reinsert the DOB-DOD and write a DETAILED biography (just to spite the FAC folks). Please don't think I'm trying to be hostile or disrespect SW. Dmoon1 05:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I'm not going to revert you or paste in Wookieepedia's article, if that's what you're worried about. Go ahead, put it up for FA in its current state. If it passes, at least then I will have hard evidence that FAC is biased against comprehensive articles like my Palpatine. --maru (talk) contribs 06:48, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
auto signing
How has it well-tried? Thx for testing ;). What do you think about an (exception-) list of pages, other than talks (e.g. Requests_for_adminship, Feature requests...). If indorse, you can make me a list!? --Olliminatore 14:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, I can't say I've ever noticed it working. --maru (talk) contribs 17:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Very good, I've added this (3) sites as exceptions (regarded pages): ':Village pump', ':Articles for deletion', ':Requests for adminship'. -- Olliminatore 19:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I'll tell you if I ever see it working under Blue Cologne. --maru (talk) contribs 20:14, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Oh: I see your contretemps; please try to put my script befor Lupin's popups.js on top of yours. Because if any fault to any other function/ scripts occur, then it didn't reach my script. But after Cacycle's editor.js, because it delete the wpSave.event (then it didn't work for me too). In the next version I'll also use/ bind the preview button for control. -- Olliminatore 23:40, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- OK, let this be my first shot at this suggested arrangement.
- Well, Lupin's popups are loading and working, suggesting that the entire .js loaded without error, but... no prompting for a sig. Drat. --maru (talk) contribs 00:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I post now with your script and it works!?! (not minoredit, new version 1.43 with preview) -- Olliminatore 14:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
- Then I shall try posting. Well, I've pasted it in to be sure... Well, I've pasted it in, before Lupin's tool but after Cacyle's tool, and nada. --maru (talk) contribs 17:54, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
- Incidentally, the syntax highlighting is working for me. Pretty neat! --maru (talk) contribs 17:57, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey!
I'm gonna become a Star Wars author one day and I just thought I'd add some of my stuff into Wikipedia before hand. That wasn't even all of my add-ons I had in mind. Why can't I add stuff like that? Is there a way to make people accept this stuff? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.27.218.175 (talk)
- Your stuff will be accepted when it is canon. Until it is officially published and unrepudiated, your contributions are but fanfiction, and we do not accept fanfiction-based articles or articles on fanfiction (except in the rare case of really notable fanfiction; ex. Star Wars: Revelations). --maru (talk) contribs 21:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Usurpation
As your request to usurp the user User:Maru has not yet been granted, I have commented out the redirections from that user's personal and talk pages. You may certainly re-add them when your request has been granted. -- Gnetwerker 00:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Fair enough. --maru (talk) contribs 00:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Tdxiang
This is me.
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This user is Tdxiang, not Mr Tan. His nickname on Freenode is Tan_Ding_Xiang or Tdxiang. This user is sorry if he has caused any misinterpretation and if you need to contact him, do so on his Internet Relay Chat Channel. |
Thank you Maru. Now, back to work for me! -- 陈鼎翔 贡献 Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 05:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Heh. I guess I should be a little sheepish for making such a mistake for such a long time. My bad! --maru (talk) contribs 05:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Curious about some things...
Why do you say it's a "good thing" to not hear too much about me lately? I think that, well, threw me off guard. Also what does "rp" mean, in the way you use it? --Shultz IV 08:59, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- (Ok, I just realized "rp" meant "reply". I thought it was some kind of a greeting abbreviation.) But other than that, you'd of course want to hear many good things about me. I'm not sure why I'm reacting differently at around these times. Maybe it's something to do with sleeping at exactly the wrong hours in the last two or so weeks. --Shultz IV 12:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I say it's a good thing because it means you haven't gotten yourself banned or anything again. :) --maru (talk) contribs 13:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Maru means "blocked". Bans are different and far worse than blocks. Whoever is curious can read more about them at WP:Block and WP:Ban. --Shultz IV 14:09, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- No, I meant what I said and I said what I meant. The way you were going, not just blocks were in your future. --maru (talk) contribs 17:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Re: PROD of Esoteric subjects mentioned in Foucault's Pendulum
Thank you for your continued support of the Esoteric Subjects. -User:ShadowyCaballero
- Think nothing of it. It's a useful and interesting list for me. --maru (talk) contribs 03:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Repeated vandalism from 150.204.106.231
Check it out please. User:150.204.106.231 Oops :-/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.67.66 (talk)
- He's already been blocked. --maru (talk) contribs 18:32, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Request for deletion....
Sorry to bug you, since you are an admin. will you delete my userpage? Mahogany
Requested move
As a favor, can you move Serenity: Those Left Behind. so that it removes the dot at the end? I've tried, but I get an error. Thanks. The Wookieepedian 17:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Done. --maru (talk) contribs 18:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks again! The Wookieepedian 21:01, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Would you be interested in commenting here...? Critisim, be it positive or negative, would be lovely. -ZeroTalk 19:17, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- I've commented, though you may not like what I say. --maru (talk) contribs 19:38, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- I'm aware. I've replied myself. -ZeroTalk 19:40, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well I blew it did I not..? I'm not sure if I should even make another attempt for adminship. What do you think..? --ZeroTalk 07:28, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
- Your past self certainly did... I wouldn't go up anytime soon. Keep your nose clean for three months, and who knows, though. Not enough admins work in your areas as it is. --maru (talk) contribs 18:49, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Why the Shohé Tanaka deletion?
It's utterly unjustifed, and was requested by a known trouble maker. Did you check with anyone before deleting? Was there a discussion of any kind? Gene Ward Smith 02:27, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- The requester was Arthur Rubin; looking through his user and talk page doesn't show anything to me that says troublemaker. As for why I deleted it- the guy was a physicist and musical theorist. Just being in those fields doesn't make someone notable. --maru (talk) contribs 02:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- The "troublemaker" I was referring to was the user who has gone by the name Dylan Lennon and then something else, and who now seems to be banned. I can't make out if Rubin ever requested it, or was responding to Dylan Lennon, who seems to be the one who marked it for speedy deletion. Anyway, he says something about withdrawing his request, but I don't know what request.
- This is on the Dylan Lennon talk page:
- It seems to me that even if Jimbo Wales marks something for speedy deletion, correct proceedure should be followed, and it wasn't. Gene Ward Smith 04:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, Jimbo can, and has, done as he has pleased. But I just re-checked the deleted article's history (apparently Fang Aili deleted it again; I don't know whether to be amused, vindicated, or chagrined), and it was definitely Arthur Rubin who put the speedy tag on it; my reading of Lennon's talk page (who began the article) supports the edit history. --maru (talk) contribs 04:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- With all due respect to Arthur Rubin, who knows a lot about mathematics, the article was about someone primarily known as a music theorist. And anyway, Rubin withdrew the request, which clearly should never have been made. Isn't there some kind of proceedure for contacting people who know something about a given topic before deleting? It seems at least the people who worked on the page should be informed. Gene Ward Smith 04:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- Sure there is... it's called AFD. And the article I deleted made no claim to notability, so speedy was appropriate. Incidentally, where did Rubin withdraw his request. I see a withdrawal for another article, but not for Tanaka. --maru (talk) contribs 04:36, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- What the heck is a "claim to notability"? The article was linked to from other articles, which should have provided a clue as to "notability". If the subject didn't have some kind of notability, why was it being linked to from two other articles? It seems to me what you are saying is that it is OK to remove an article when you don't have a clue about its contents, and haven't even bothered to check what links to it. I think this is a dubious proposition. However, it seems there wasn't much to the article, or so I've been told, but without the history, and the various versions, who can know? I've started a new article. I hope no one will delete that, but I'd like to know what was there previously. I plan on improving the article and don't want someone playing Wiki Police in the meantime. Save the speedy deletions for "obvious nonsense", which is what it is supposed to be for. Gene Ward Smith 07:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
The article did not meet the criteria for speedy deletion: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. I have restored it. Hyacinth 03:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Customizing my four tildes
How do I do it so that I can have other stuff (eg a link to my talk or contribs) show when I quad-tilde? Thanks! --DNL 16:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Sign_your_posts_on_talk_pages#Customizing_your_signature but you has one already!? auto signing --> -- Olliminatore 17:16, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Search box page protection
It currently contains code that is directly copied into users' javascript pages, so it needs to be fully protected. However, I do see your point, and I'll try to work something out. --Zocky | picture popups 01:20, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, but those are just import statements, and such. Lupin appears to get along fine with semi- or no protection, and it's not like you aren't watching the page. --maru (talk) contribs 01:22, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not watching the page that closely - I'm sometimes off for weeks - and if Lupin does that, he probably shouldn't. There's a good reason that javascript pages are fully protected by default. A malicious user could cause unsuspecting users to make malicious edits, or even run an exploit of newly found weaknesses in browsers. I'll move the javascript code to a separate page and unprotect this one. Zocky | picture popups 01:35, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- That's good. There's no reason the documentation needs to be protected, but I can see why you'd want the actual code protected. --maru (talk) contribs 01:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Reminder + Suggestion
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Important: This talk page is becoming very long. Please consider archiving. |
— Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 02:35, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- I generally archive at around 100 sections, so it is not time to archive, and I don't find the benefits to the server of subst:'ing test templates compelling enough to outweigh the cost to the users. Server time is not valuable; user time is. --maru (talk) contribs 03:48, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Can you hit this with your bot, to clean up dabs and redirects? It's just too much to do by hand at this point. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 06:48, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- Cleaning up redirects related to lists isn't a particularly good idea, but I'll see what I can do vis-avis disambiguation. The problem is, so far as I know, Pywikipedi's solve-disambiguation script is kinda one-way; that is, one starts with a disambig page and fixes whatever links to it, rather than start with a random page, and fix whatever links in it point to a disambig page. I might be able to compile a list by hand and just do all those disambigs (which would help out other pages as well). --maru (talk) contribs 06:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of myg0t
Under what criterion does this article apply? It certainly isn't G4 as it was restored after a DRV in early April "#Myg0t overturned and undeleted. 21:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)" and I do not know of any AFDs (besides the latest one) after that. --Kotepho 18:08, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- I deleted it because it should be deleted, and has been deleted something like 17 times. ~15 admins can't all be wrong. --maru (talk) contribs 19:42, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- Than make your argument on the AFD, don't speedy it. Something being deleted multiple times for not being a proper article does not make the proper article deletable. --Kotepho 19:53, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- There've been enough AFDs. At some point, they have to stop. And I disagree with your characterization of them. --maru (talk) contribs 20:04, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- Fine. Listed on WP:DRV. Kotepho 20:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Fair use rationale for Image:Myo-starwars.jpg
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- This is absured. It was appropriately tagged. OrphanBot's gone too far this time. --maru (talk) contribs 01:58, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
myg0t mediation
We respectively ask for mediation in regards to your violation of the speedy deletion policy. --OverlordQ 12:01, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
- No thanks. I don't know who you want to mediate, what you want to mediate, and I don't think I violated the speedy delete policy (there's a clause for non-notable groups). --maru (talk) contribs 18:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
- I disagree, why speedy delete an article that has been undeleted and often edited? pff..--Andeee 15:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- I disagree. Might as well ask why I speedy deleted an article that was speedy deleted often? --maru (talk) contribs 17:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- myg0t are absolutely notable. --85.255.33.130 09:42, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Nice job, re: myg0t
Nice job deleting the myg0t wiki because you just don't like myg0t. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.154.132.227 (talk)
- Thank you. I'm always glad to rid Wikipedia of crap and crap about asshats. --maru (talk) contribs 21:05, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Wow your really a great unbiased admin, deleting legitimate articles because you just don't like their subject.
How in gods name did you become an admin when you can allow yourself openly admit you deleted the article because
you don't like the group? How did other admins nominate a person? This is really sad, Wikipedia is supposed to be changed
by discussion, not by feeling-based rash action.
"State your point; don't prove it experimentally"
As an admin you should really abide by this statement, if you don't like the "asshats" of the myg0t community you can
express this in its proper forum, deleting the article without discussion just shows that you should never have been trusted with
admin rights.
Stanford Sierra Camp
Hello Marudubshinki,2
I was wondering about why you put your comment on the Stanford Sierra Camp page and what I need to do to fix it. Please respond on my talk page. Thanks. --ForestH2
- In short, the article as it stands reads too much like an advertisement/how-to, and doesn't say just why SSC is such a standout from all the other thousands of summer camps and merits an article. --maru (talk) contribs 02:22, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- O.K. I get what you mean. Is there any thing you really think we should delete? Do you think adding like (more than this) SSC is one of the best summer camps around because it is easy to get into and one of the most beautiful across the country" Let me know. --ForestH2
- Rewrite the "Two's" section to read more like an encyclopedia article, merge Weather into a general description of the area, When To Come should be in intro or general description and Two's could be much more "Factually" rather than "descriptive"ly written, and you definitely should have references for subjective stuff like beauty and best summer camp around. --maru (talk) contribs 02:27, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- I did some cleanup. Let me put what you think into the page. --ForestH2
- Looks slightly better, but I'm not optimistic about its long-term chances. I think most editors would consider a day camp with no especially unique attributes non-notable. --maru (talk) contribs 02:31, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- See how it looks now. --ForestH2
- The tone's better, but it needs linking, notability assertions, references, etc. --maru (talk) contribs 02:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- It's a very unusal place and I don't think there'd be much about it. However there is a main page and I'll goggle it later to see about any other articles. Forest
- I found some info googling it. It doesn't really cite sources but I'm going to add them to the page. --Forest
- Take a look at the external links. For some reason when ever I clicked save page I couldn't get them up as references. By the way, I sometimes sign as Into the Wilderness or just Forest and sometimes ForestH2. --Into the Wilderness
- Tell me what you think now. --Forest
- Too many sections, not linked enough to other articles, and you still haven't established notability, unfortunately. --maru (talk) contribs 17:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- I'll work on it later...Don't nominate it for deletion until I've done as much as possible. Notability? explain further. And can't an article have as much sections as needed? --Forest
- I don't intend to AFD it. Too much trouble, and it doesn't really bother me. As for notability, see our guidelines on that. As for sections- they break up the text and it just doesn't flow well. --maru (talk) contribs 22:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Your bot: editing archives
Hi! Just like to let you know your bot is editing archives. While I'm sure many wouldn't have a problem with it... I'd rather it didn't edit the archive in my user space. I reverted the change... and it's really not a big deal since no meaning was changed. Just though I'd let you know how I felt about it. --J.S (t|c) 23:46, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- Oh. Sorry about that. I didn't see any notice that you didn't want any links disambiguated in your archives when I was driving the bot, but I'll try to keep my eye peeled. Feel free to revert any other noisome changes. --maru (talk) contribs 03:37, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- Is there a tag I can put up to avoid this in the future? --J.S (t|c) 21:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, there's always full protection... But seriously, the only anti-bot things I've seen were little comments saying "Don't disambiguate this!" inserted just before or after the relevant link. --maru (talk) contribs 00:08, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Care to comment? --Cat out 15:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- Done. --maru (talk) contribs 17:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- I'm going to place List of Mega Man weapons up for its third nomination soon. Will you support the promotion of this article to FL status...? --ZeroTalk 17:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- I wouldn't vote against it, if you know what I mean. Elements of the text could be sourced better, and the prose is awkward in places, but nothing horrid enough to motivate me to oppose. --maru (talk) contribs 00:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- That's quite vague. Could you post your concerns on the talkpage in a more elaborate format so everyone can see them and I can more easily address them..? And if its in the realm of assessibility, it would be great if you could edit the article and ammend what you think needs work. --ZeroTalk 14:31, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- To be more specific, it isn't so bad that I feel I need to make my opinions known, nor do I feel energetic enough to get involved in yet another thing. I have enough on my plate right now that I don't mind leaving this to the FL regulars. --maru (talk) contribs 04:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Image:180px-Royal guard.jpg listed for deletion
Apache Harmony comment
Hi, I've placed your embedded comment question from the Apache Harmony article onto its talk page instead. I hope you don't mind. -- Remy Suen 20:28, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- Not really. I didn't think it was major enough to start a section on the talk page, but if you do, it's no skin off my nose. --maru (talk) contribs 00:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Bot-maru editing other people's comments
Your bot is editing other people's comments ([2], [3]), and even changing a talk page archive ([4]). Please avoid doing this. --cesarb 02:35, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- The archive example is just me fixing Acetic Acid's screwup with his welcoming template. --maru (talk) contribs 04:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Super Dimension Fortress criticism section
I know that you are on the other side for keeping the controversy section in, but I removed the criticism. It's been two months of edit warring over a minor issue, and you did not make any comments on the talk page in your reversions and semiprotection. I respect your status as an admin, but I completely disagree with your involvement and use of protection privileges without engaging in the discussion. Teke 20:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for your responses on the subject. I edited the controversy to just Some former users have criticized the administraton of SDF as high-handed, accusing them of removing accounts, erasing files, defaced their webpages, and deleted bulletin board postings of those critical of SDF's policies and its administration. I can live with that, I hope everyone else can so we can have peace on our watchlists. Teke 01:55, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
- As I've said on the talk page, with the addition of the link, I'm happy. If only all disputes could be resolved so easily. I just hope the anon I semi-protected against will be content with this compromise as well. --maru (talk) contribs 04:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna
Feel free to remove the tag from Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna if you so desire. The tag was applied because the core of the article — namely the subsections entitled Blade Children and Characters — had only one word which was wikified. Of course, it's not do or die, but it immediately struck me that more than half the content of the entry was unwikified.
TTFN. --Folajimi 01:26, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
- That seems reasonable. I'll leave it alone then.
FYI
I've issued a strongly worded warning to Moby Dick about stalking [5]. This is grounded in remedy 2 of your arbitration case (about harassment by Davenbelle, Stereotek and Fadix). --Tony Sidaway 16:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you!
- I am curious though if it would be posible to take a few precations.
- I'd like to make sure Moby Dick has no "other" sockpuppets lurking around me. If he had like 10 accounts it would be very hard for me to gather any reliable evidence.
- Posibly keeping logs that make a checkuser posible longer than a month if Moby Dick decides to stalk from a different alias. These logs can be kept on wikimedia servers away from public reach.
- --Cat out 17:42, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- That last would require both a policy and a technical change; it might be nice, but it's unlikely. A number of editors (like myself) are happy to know that if they choose to leave for more than a week (or whatever it takes for Recentchanges to expire here on en) that their IPs will be forgotten. --maru (talk) contribs 18:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Recentchanges/IP data expire in a month. I just want the log of Moby Dick to stay longer making it easier to identify his sockpuppets if they appear. It would have been a great help if we had the logs for davenbelle to compare with Moby Dick.
- As for the sockpuppet check, do you think you can get someone to look into it?
- --Cat out 07:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
- Really? A month? I have to say, I'm kinda surprised. A months' worth of RC must take up an enourmous amount of space. But I guess even that wasn't long enough to correlate davenbelle and Moby Dick.
- As for Checkusering, there's not much I can do besides point you to the Checkuser request pages. But I'll ask Essjay personally the next time I see him on IRC whether he can run a Checkuser for you, if at all possible. --maru (talk) contribs 04:28, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Unauthorized Bot
Hello, it seems that you are running a bot called User:Bot-maru, without any authorization to do so. Please seek approval from WP:BRFA before continuing. Thank you. --lightdarkness (talk) 17:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
- FYI, I blocked the bot until its problems can be fixed. It now appears there is substantial consensus that it should not edit talk pages, so please don't unblock until you rewrite it to avoid them. (You should also, obviously, deal with the authorization issues as above, but I don't know much about those.) -- SCZenz 17:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I sort of noticed the block when all my programs began failing mysteriously. --maru (talk) contribs 18:17, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Confused
What is this redir for: MediaWiki:VfD-List of computer games featuring exploding sheep? —xaosflux Talk 04:22, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- I was following a link on the Weird-but-good-articles page to List of computer games featuring exploding sheep; it had been up for deletion at some point, and on its talk page, someone had linked to that weird link (I don't know whether it's a relic of the old namespaces for deletion and VFD in particular or just a weird spaz out by the author). Anyway, I had just been at the AFD, so I killed a redlink. --maru (talk) contribs 04:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- I fixed the redlink at Talk:Exploding sheep and killed the dobule redirect, and the MediaWiki page entry. Looks like a bad template was subst'd in there. —xaosflux Talk 03:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
- I make redirects- I don't scrap them. But I wouldn't know about AFD templates; I usually avoid the place. The templates make it too damn difficult a place to work in, and none of the AFD helper scripts seem to work with the blue-cologne skin. --maru (talk) contribs 04:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Re: Your corrections to one of my subpages
Hey, I'm just leaving a note to say thank you for your wikification of links on my "Things I Like" subpage, and for your notification of the dead link therein. As for the thing about Kisokaido/Tokkaido: yes, I am sure that it's Kisokaido (or Kiso Kaido if you prefer—Kiso Kaido Rokujuku Tsugi), and it's definitely not from the Tokkaido road series. Anyhow, thanks again; I appreciate it. —Saposcat 06:35, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- No problem. (Well, if you're sure: I knew of The Sixty-nine stages of the Kiso Kaido (not, strictly speaking, entirely Hiroshige's work), but it's just that one sees it mentioned orders of magnitude less than the Tokkaido road series, and it seemed more likely to me to be a mistake.) --maru (talk) contribs 06:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)