User talk:Gurch/Archive 18

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages such as Concordia Academy (Minnesota), to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox

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Hi, I see you are involved in a lot of Wikipedia adverts and I was wondering whether you could create one for WikiProject London Transport? If you could that would be great, thank you! UNI^|SOUTH 06:50, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

ok 24.184.206.83 (talk) 14:58, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to say thanks for cleaning up the vandalism on my talk page. Nothing makes a vandal-fighter prouder than when a vandal does them the honor of vandalizing their talk page! ;^) --Sanfranman59 (talk) 21:53, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for taking care of the vandalism on the article I created. This article has been consistantly been vandalized, I don't know if you are the right person to ask, but is it possible to get the page locked? Thank you in advanced.EwanMclean2005 (talk) 19:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism done to my talk page. --Bobianite (talk) 02:49, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

May I happily second that! Drum guy (talk) 21:53, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I understand that you don't think my edit was constructive. But I did it to be destructive. I created the site. It is on the AfD list. I want to get rid of it. I even wrote a letter to the admin about me being in favor of deleting it. I was just speedy deleting it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anfish (talk • contribs) 21:49, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, the recent edit you made to Jacksonian democracy has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. CanadianLinuxUser (talk) 21:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello. I'm a user on the Romanian Wikipeda and I think I'm going to initiate the Wikipedia Ads project there too. I saw one of your ads, this one and I ask you what font did you use for the text? I'd like to a similar one but I don't know the font... -- Petru Dimitriu (talk) 16:09, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Gill Sans, the font used by the Wikimedia Foundation. It comes with Microsoft Office and can be purchased separately; it can probably also be downloaded for free from somewhere but obviously I don't condone that sort of thing Gurch (talk) 16:50, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey Gurch, I e-mailed a request for Huggle on 6 April; I mentioned this before, but it got archived with no comment from you, though another assured me that you would get to it soon. Just want to make sure I'm still on the list since it's been nearly a month now. Thanks.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 03:35, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I've sent you a request to get huggle. I just thought that I would let you know. Cheers, Razorflame 02:10, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Is there any chance you could make an ad for Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Monorail task force? Oh, and why are you feeling so positive? Basketball110 ^{My story}/_{Tell me yours} 00:44, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Fail. Gurch (talk) 01:31, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, okay. Thank you, anyhow. And happier editing days to you. Basketball110 ^{My story}/_{Tell me yours} 01:35, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

and being late like, two weeks and four days, but happy first edit day, if I did my work right. — NovaDog — (contribs) 01:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Epic Gurch is Epic. I lolled. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 01:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

YOU FAIL.--Uga Man (talk) UGA MAN FOR PRESIDENT 2008 03:12, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you delete or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia, as you did to Wikipedia:Threats of violence, you will be blocked from editing. Bstone (talk) 04:42, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh please. Gurch's edit was clearly humorous. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 05:16, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

He did it right when we were dealing with a terroristic threat and I was on the phone with the FBI. He saw the chatter about it in IRC, went to TOV and blanked the page. Not funny. Bstone (talk) 17:23, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Terroristic? That's not even a word as far as I know. You're taking threats way to seriously, and this is coming from someone who has worked in antiterrorism and force protection. Contacting the FBI was your own fault, you had no legitimate reason to do so, and it was your choice; Gurch isn't responsible for your actions. You ought to calm down and maybe try to write an encyclopedia instaed of saving the world. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 19:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Terroristic is a word. I report all threats which have a location, mechanism and/or date/time to the appropriate authorities. Police repeatedly have told us to report these threats. I also have experience in LE and public safety and I opine to report these things. It is not my fault, however, that Gurch blanked the page. Bstone (talk) 19:46, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Really, police have told us this? I wasn't aware that you were working in the Foundation's legal department, nor handling correspondence with law enforcement through OTRS. My point is your response was over the top, and ridiculous, and since you brought it upon yourself, you have no right to be warning Gurch for "interfering" with it. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 19:49, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes the police have told us that. Look on WP:TOV. Bstone (talk) 21:02, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

You mean, the page that's not a policy, guideline, or any sort of official status on Wikipedia, and the only "thank you" appears to be a sarcastic "Thank you for contacting us with nothing of real substance" from the FBI? It's Super Effective! You might care to take note that (and keep in mind this is not intended to be a threat, just a statement of fact) by reporting these threats you are opening yourself up to liability, whereas by not reporting them you are protected. Or that these threats generally are a waste of law enforcement's time. Or that we have an OTRS Legal team and a General Counsel who are supposed to be dealing with law enforcement; not you. But hey, what do I know, the world needs saving, right? ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 21:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

This is the only warning you will receive for failing.
The next time you fail, you will be rickrolled. Have a nice day. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 10:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

• I'm holding you personally responsible for the backlog at AIV. :o Enigma ^message 19:33, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I have nominated User:Gurch (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 18:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

... for restoring my talk page several times, and for the wonderful tool! Best wishes, --Catgut (talk) 20:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I could probably have phrased it more tactfully. But as far as I can see, the section Alex Grey#Paintings is almost completely original research; it gives a highly subjective editorial assessment of his work without any sources as to who has described it this way. If I placed the tag in the wrong place, or if "unreferenced" would be more appropriate, I'm happy to be guided on that. 81.132.98.34 (talk) 20:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Just a heads up, I've just emailed User:Huggle with a request to be sent Huggle. :) —  scetoaux (T|C) 23:38, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#End this silliness. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk ♦ contribs) @ 06:31, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Nice to know people care so much about my user page, I guess Gurch (talk) 11:20, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

YO if this is the person warning someone about "vandalizing" the Lake Forest Academy page, you are warning the entire dorm of atlass hall. We are probably putting correct information, as we live here. And please don't block the entire ip —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.93.94.125 (talk) 04:17, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Why not try what User:Ral315 has done? Invite people to add stuff here. Like a haiku or something? I'm useless at impromtu poetry, but maybe something that includes the following words: "Gurch", "Rickrolled", "Carcharoth", "ANI", "RfD". "cross-namespace", "redirect", "Mediawiki", "lame edit war". Carcharoth (talk) 12:18, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Because then it looks too much like a talk page. And the amount of attention people seem to pay to my user page, that means I'll soon have to start archiving it, which is just silly -- Gurch (talk) 13:41, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, right. Well, feel free to blank it again. No need to archive this. :-) (Or move it to your talk page if you want to keep this scintillating conversation preserved for posterity). Carcharoth (talk) 14:17, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

scintillating? ;o) NonvocalScream (talk) 18:15, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Would it be possible to make an addition to Huggle so new pages tagged for speedy deletion would automatically be marked as patrolled per WP:NPPLOG? StaticGull  Talk  15:29, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:Drmspeedy5-n has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. MBisanz ^talk 18:39, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Did you make cs_camden? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.165.13.43 (talk) 03:05, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

How do you animate pics? What program do you use? Others told me to ask you.    Juthani1   ^tcs 03:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Why would you leave an editor's telephone number in an article? It's an obvious attack. Corvus cornix_talk 04:25, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

After I saw what s/he was doing, I hurried to block and apparently didn't scroll done far enough. Now fixed. Thanks for pointing that out.--Kubigula (talk) 04:27, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind me asking, but is there a reason for the oppose? weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 09:11, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I thought you'd appreciate that more than thankspam, but anyway, thans for dropping by, and watch out for the cannibal pears ;) -- Avi (talk) 19:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, the recent edit you made to User talk:24.61.101.183 has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. Gurchzilla (talk) 22:42, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I should have said in amongst the feature requests, that I'm really pleased with Huggle as it is, and I do appreciate the work you've put into it - it really makes an otherwise unpleasant task much more comfortable, and gives the pleasantly smug feeling that quite a lot of vandalism is now more hard work for the vandals than for the AV editors... Pseudomonas_(talk) 09:17, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not assuming that edit count makes me a more valued contributor than someone with say, 500 edits. It's the actual contributions that count overall. As i'd reached that milestone I thought I'd ask for a review. Am mulling over whether to go for admin at some point in the future and I think a review would be worthwhile. Mjroots (talk) 17:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Due to popular demand, HAU has a new look. Since the changes are so dramatic, I may have made some mistakes when translating the data. Please take a look at WP:HAU/EU and make sure your checkmarks are in the right place and feel free to add or remove some. There is a new feature, SoxBot V, a recently approved bot, automatically updates your online/offline status based on the length of time since your last edit. To allow SoxBot V to do this, you'll need to copy [[Category:Wikipedians who use StatusBot]] to your userpage. Obviously you are not required to add this to your userpage, however, without this, your status will always be "offline" at HAU. Thanks. Useight (talk) 17:17, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Have posted a (very) long reply here, which (I hope) clarifies what I've been trying to say at WT:RFA and elsewhere about possible restrictions on automation. If you've any reply to it, it would probably be best to reply there in case anyone else comes to me from the RFA conversation and wants to join the discussion. Thanks! — iridescent 16:00, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello Gurch, I have tested Huggle and see this program is just Twinkle with extra gadgets, gizmos, and speed. It seems all those threads on ANI regarding Huggle drama really came down to the user not taking caution when reverting with the program. I wouldn't worry about the future of it. I believe the suggestion in the recent ANI thread of placing sterner caution notices regarding the program should be remedy enough. Any other problems fall down to the user themself. Thanks again for sending me the file, I will try to use it with the utmost care :)!¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 21:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

		I'm loving it!
		Over one billion vandals served! Húsönd 02:51, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

fnord

Why not side step any interpretation issues by creating another, separate template for VFs where a bot simply updates it with edits per minute and reverts per minute. For any regular VF, that is all that is needed, IMO. Also, I think it would be interesting to have somewhere a log of reverts per minute so that we could get an actual picture of peak vandalism times. (I'm not surprised you encountered issues related to interpretation - it is the 'subjectiveness' when choosing levels which makes wdefcon rather useless. The other problem is that because wdefcon is not updated regularly, sometimes the 'alert' is several hours old.) Anyway, thanks for your response and also for huggle--an outstanding utility with virtually no bugs (in my experience, at least). κaτaʟaveno^T_C 18:02, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting, but double creation is done on purpose: see http:https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/index.php?lang=en&q=Category%3AImages_with_unknown_source_as_of_20_May_2008&diff=212943995&oldid=212943944This was a comprimise between people who wanted the gallery somewhere and people who said a gallery of copyvios is itself a copyvio. 11:04, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I really like Huggle and I noticed your offer to send the source code by email on request. Then I noticed you don't have email enabled... If you don't want to send it out, I totally understand, but I haven't been able to successfully decrypt huggle beyond 19065 KB of machine code, even when using MS Visual Studio 2005 Pro Ed. (And wow does that mc hurt my eyes.... ;) ). If your offer is still open, I do have email enabled (what I've done in the past when emailing files to fellow users of teh wiki is to email them and tell them on their talk page, then they reply to the email to give me their actual email address and then I send them the file) and I'd really like to take a look at the code for that. I have dabbled some in VB, but I never really made anything more complicated than a customizable equation solver. Regards. Thingg^⊕⊗ 18:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Try emailing User:Huggle. Al Tally (talk) 18:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

And get .NET Reflector if you want to decompile .NET code -- Gurchzilla (talk) 08:10, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

ahehheh.... Major my bad on both counts. (Didn't think about trying User:Huggle and I was trying to decompile it into C#...) Thanks for the advice. Unless you are willing to send the actual *.vb files (!) (and I assume you're not going to do that... and I don't blame you), I don't need the source. I just wanted to look at it...........(ok, ok I admit it. I wanted to mess around with it as well...*hangs head*) btw, just purely out of curiosity, what SDK are you using? I picked up MS Visual Studio at a college library about eight months ago, but I haven't really used it much. Just wondered what you are using. Again, thanks for the help guys. Thingg^⊕⊗ 14:14, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Huggle is written in VB.NET. I'm using the "Express Edition" of Visual Basic 2005, which can be downloaded for free. I will happily send the source (yse, the 'actual *.vb files', don't see what's so scary about that) to you if you email me (I have enabled e-mail on this account too, now)-- Gurchzilla (talk) 15:41, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot!. Email sent. Thingg^⊕⊗ 15:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I would just like to say thanks for the neutral vote in my recent RFA. I will still say thanks as from your comments and the other users comments that opposed me and gave me a neutral vote have made me make a todo list for before my next RFA. I hope I will have resolved all of the issues before then and I hope that you would be able to support me in the future. If you would like to reply to this message or have any more suggestions for me then please message me on my talk page as I will not be checking back here. Thanks again. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 16:33, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

If Jéské would have saw this, he would have blocked you right away. Cheers, Face 19:33, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

You are awesome gurch, and you've done a ton of great things for the project. See you soon I hope :) delldot talk 21:36, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Well it doesn't acctually look like you have had one of these before :D

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For your great work on huggle, my other huggle and everything else you have done for wikipedia. Even if you hate this or oppose this I will still give it to you =] Maybe give it a neutral and see how things go ^^ X100 (btw :D) ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 19:57, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 19:57, 21 May 2008 (UTC)