User talk:Aaron Schulz/Archive/2008/February

Bot confused about timezone
In this diff, your bot used the heading "January 2008" and signed "00:20, 1 February 2008 (UTC)". A minor point, but in this case the preceding section was "February 2008", so a little confusing. Bovlb (talk) 00:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot has run amok
Good grief! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.172.29.56 (talk) 01:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Soundboard
This wasn't vandalism. I just wrote about thedifferent soundboards and prank calls. 207.118.234.148 (talk) 02:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I can't fathom what you are talking about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodcopper (talk • contribs) 09:20, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Febraury 2008 misspelling.
I think your bot is misspelling the word February when it creates new sections on user talk pages. This messes up other scripts, when looking for an existing section title for Febraury/February. SaltyBoatr (talk) 17:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed :)  Voice -of- All  19:09, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to know why I got accused of vandalism when I didn't edit anything in some time here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.172.35.154 (talk) 17:43, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Those are old warnings from edits by that IP.  Voice -of- All  19:09, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Give us a Chance
Hehe, your bot is extremely effective. Everytime I try to revert something your bot has already done it in a snap! Good job!. Sincerely-- Durza Twink TALK (talk) 02:27, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Gnome
The bot keeps reverting users genuinely removing spam and vandalism. Can you please stop this. Eddie6705 (talk) 14:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Who?  Voice -of- All  20:01, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Fix your bot, fix Gnome
Hello. Someone vandalised the Gnome wiki page and I tried removing all the junk: photos of cats and rodents + spam messages.

Unfortunately, your bot reverted the changes back to the rubbish it was before.

Regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.67.219 (talk) 14:39, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now, I added left diff side repetition checking.  Voice -of- All  20:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

K-pop
BoA will debut in States and the year of Kpop artists debuting there was corrected. However, this bot reverted the last change. These are relevant details of Korean artists expanding into foreign markets. Please undo this. 75.17.143.102 (talk) 17:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Confusing bot message
If you take a look at User talk:Reidweaver, you may conclude (as I did) that a new user was genuinely unable to determine from VoABot's message what the problem with his edits was. See this edit in particular.

P.S. Keep up the good work! Bovlb (talk) 07:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the a & b & c & d kind of wording left open some ambiguities.  Voice -of- All  09:50, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Best selling musician list
Bot revert edits due to removal of large amounts of text that does not belong in article. 220.253.148.56 (talk) 10:10, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Michael Lucas (porn star)
I am writing to you because you have had previous experience working with this article. The edits of David Shankbone on this article have been reported to COIN as seen here,.

--72.76.0.235 (talk) 16:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

edit to VOAB II's category watchlist
I dunno if you like the heads up or not, but I temporarily added Category:Dungeons & Dragons articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction to the bot's category watchlist due to the Grawp socks. Hopefully I did it right, lol. :P Cheers =) -- slakr \ talk / 03:46, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I am removing an unorganized list of trivia items from this article under WP:TRIV. That is not vandalism. WillOakland (talk) 03:23, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The bot should not revert that many times. I did notice a logic error with the rollback caller breaking to soon before checking for older reverts. This error has been fixed.  Voice -of- All  04:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

VoABot II - possible temporary whitelist?
Hiya. I dunno if I'm missing a setting or something, but it'd be freakin' awesome if, whenever you get a chance, you could have a setting that allows an admin to tell the bot to whitelist certain users/ips from the config page. Cheers =) -- slakr \ talk / 03:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * They can, but whitelisting IPs tends to be a waste as they tend to be dynamic.  Voice -of- All  04:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually I was thinking more new users for the time they're still new, as there was I guy that was making an okay (but large) deletion but the bot kept reverting him. -- slakr  \ talk / 09:44, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello Tahr
Why...hai...

~Ya Boi Krakerz~ (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:54, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your bot...
but this revertion, was not very lucky. I don't know how to fix it, but something about not reverting to a version with the two same chinese characters 1000 times? :-) Also, it was added by another IP just before a second IP removed it, if that's the kind of thing you look at. Just FYI (ignore if nothing should be done). Greswik (talk) 16:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Energy
Error in this diff. Thank You. Tiddly -  Tom  18:07, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like the previous IP had vandalism too. Reverted further.  Voice -of- All  19:54, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Helium: bot out of control
Your bot appears out of control on the Helium page. In the last half hour it has blanked the page twice, apparently trying to return to a page previously blanked by a vandal and then restored by a legitimate user. Please check this out and have your bot leave this article alone. In future I suggest programming the bot to revert only macro-deletions and not macro-additions which are more often legitimate. Thanks. Dirac66 (talk) 18:53, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I can make it never revert to blank pages. Also, it seemed to revert on an odd regexp match "sleyan.edu/research/thrdsnd.html Third sounds]." I'll debug that too.  Voice -of- All  23:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

hehe, so fast
ok, ok, ok, there is policy "don't experiment with wikipedia", but i tried that - i added some semi-humorous stuff into lolcat article (link to the history) and I tried to mimic it with references and stuff and within seconds i were reverted by your bot...

i mean ... how the bot did that? is it because i used too many "masturbate" per word? i guess you do a good work with this bot :)) keep it up --78.128.199.9 (talk) 23:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

"Stan J" article
Hello, I am constanltly receiving automatic edits on the Stan J article. All I did was attempt to make the articule more complete by building on what I previously wrote. All information is accurate and I am commiting no form of vandalism whatsoever. Please regulate the Stan J article so it may be as I am attempting to type it. Thank you.

Respectfully, stanj82 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.39.68.134 (talk) 04:41, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

my edits to Jehmu Greene's page keep getting reversed. please correct. the changes are factual, necessary and enhance the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ladybug2 (talk • contribs) 12:05, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Another user reverted your edits.  Voice -of- All  23:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Mistake
The bot made a mistake. My edits for the National Organization Of Short Statured Adults article were intended to clean-up the article and bring it up to encyclopedic standards.70.187.63.104 (talk) 16:54, 3 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually, this bot makes a lot of mistakes. The author keeps removing complaints about it from this talk page.  It's a bad bot and should be shut down. 138.23.246.0 (talk) 13:16, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Tornado emergency
The bot reverted several recent good faith edits to Tornado emergency. --teb728 t c 06:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It got snared on the regexp "PIECE OF"l extended it to be more specific.  Voice -of- All  12:57, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Count Basie
VoABot II just reverted some legit edits by an IP on Count Basie. Thought I'd let you know :) --Belinrahs (talk) 15:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Relient k
Excuse me i just made a edit to Relient k, and ur bot said i made possible vandalism. I removed one line that couldn't be sourced and added some refs. Would u please remove the comment from my talk page and rv ur bots edit. The Little Corporal (talk) 20:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Central Powers
Wow, I'm impressed that you caught that edit and made this fix. Keep up the good work!LeadSongDog (talk) 03:43, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Luke Skywalker
I just reverted a blanking on the Luke Skywalker page, and this bot reverted back to the vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.13.50 (talk) 07:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

cool
thanks 4 teh reminder ur great —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.97.219.236 (talk) 19:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Radio jamming
The bot is claiming I tried to add "email addresses/phone numbers, Imageshack/Photobucket/Flickr...." I didnt. The links I added were all to other web pages or PDF documents as someone had requested citations for the article. 80.229.222.48 (talk) 14:34, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

VoABot
Hi, sorry to be a pain but could you take a few of issues with VoABot when you have a moment: Thanks, WjBscribe 17:56, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Today the Bot removed 19 completed requests from WP:CHU but doesn't seem to have added them to an archive.
 * The Bot is archiving rejected requests to Changing username/Unfulfilled/2008/Febraury instead of Changing username/Unfulfilled/2008/February
 * The Bot is not removing rejected requests from WP:CHU when it archives them
 * "February" bug fixed.  Voice -of- All  02:47, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Jerry Hall
This bot just reverted my edits to Jerry Hall where I added several references substantiating that Jerry Hall and Grace Jones shared an apartment together. This was hardly spam! 64.122.14.55 (talk) 22:20, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * See WP:AN.  Voice -of- All  02:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by possible sock puppet
Today your bot reverted this [|edit] on my user page. I ran a WHOIS on the IP address, and saw it's on a Miami ADSL network.

Earlier today, I thrice reverted the edits of Ryulen1325 (contribs) to The Lord of the Rings, as said edits contained spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors, and were adding extraneous detail to the page. Similar edits had been reverted by another user on Jan 29 and Feb 1.

After the first couple of reversions, I left notes on the user's talk page suggesting he correct his spelling mistakes, etc., and commenting on how some of the details weren't necessary. After his third time he put the edits on the page, I left him a warning that I was going to report him for WP:3RR if he put them back again.

The edit to my page clearly violated Wikipedia's policies regarding personal attacks, and also commented on "creative writing" at the end. While it's circumstantial, the user's page says he's a student at Miami Dade College. Considering the WHOIS reported a Miami network, I suspect it's the same person. Note, also, that this is the only edit this IP address has made.

Is there any way of determining the IP addresses through which the registered user has been editing Wikipedia, to determine if it's the same network as the vandalizing IP address? The registered user's edits are the only significant changes I've made in the past 2-3 days, and I just can't figure out who else might have done it. The Miami connection for both users is a strong one, but I'm not sure it's sufficient to register a suspected sock puppet report.

Should I just drop it, or pursue identification of the IP vandal?

Thanks...

-FeralDruid (talk) 10:24, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Good lookin' out.
Thanks for unvandalizing my userpage. xenocidic (talk) 17:50, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

good faith edits
diff and diff, reverted with warnings from your bot. Can you let me edit the encyclopedia please? 86.44.6.14 (talk) 11:50, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

stop reverting my edits
your bot is reverting my edits.. i am moving a large section from one article to another (since that's where i believe it should be).. it's not vandalism! 82.6.96.66 (talk) 15:00, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:OP
Can you possibly help out with the backlog at WP:OP? You're on the list of verified users but you don't seem to have been to WP:OP recently. Calvin 1998  Talk   Contribs  02:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't have much time for that at the moment. Sorry.  Voice -of- All  19:42, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Middle East Airlines
The Bot is making an error, I have not vandalised the MEA article, nor have I removed any information, all of it has been moved to the newly created Middle East Airlines destinations article.(125.209.94.12 (talk) 18:03, 10 February 2008 (UTC))
 * The history of that page clearly states that your IP made those edits.--Sunny910910 (talk 19:26, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot's warning's
Hey Voice of All, you may want to look into this. Your bot wrote 4 warnings and in the hidden message they were all increasing but the text in the last 3 were all the same. Just thought you might like to know.--Sunny910910 (talk 19:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It only goes so high :). It normally reports the user if there are high enough recent warnings.  Voice -of- All  10:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

VoABot II
I think you should know about this -- Ossmann talk 15:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It looks like all the "gay" words made it revert. The real problem is that your edit count should have white-listed you, I'll look into that.  Voice -of- All  21:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Tom Lantos
Your bot (VoABot II) is continuosly deleting a full section I added to Tom Lantos's article. Please, stop this bot, since its vandalizing a page. - V —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.97.53.181 (talk) 20:28, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

LOL, it seems, that bots doesn't like me today :)) - V

Bot revert error
Please note that the bot's reverts today on 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit were in error. The material deleted by the IP editor (which included a valid edit summary) was bogus. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 00:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

The Apology of Vandalism
I'm very sorry to have vandalized a page of Mamoru Takuma and Tsutomu Miyazaki. I'll not vandalize page again. Please forgive me. --210.237.33.97 (talk) 04:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

CHU archiving
What aspects of the template structure does the archive bot use? just section headers and done/not done templates? I'm considering altering the template to make it easier to use. —Random832 00:49, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It needs the headers as they are and it checks for the templates. That should be it.  Voice -of- All  06:47, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot reverts
Hi. Your bot has reverted good faith constructive edits on Hurricane Jeanne several times, including here. Is there a chance that this is a mistake? Thanks, Juliancolton (Talk) 01:07, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed.  Voice -of- All  08:46, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Help
I have been blamed for doing stuff I haven't on Wikipedia. Someone is ever faking to be me, trying to get revenge or something. Just see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:202.7.183.130#February_2008 I haven't said anything in those Wiki's on the Totally Spies Wiki because the Totally Spies Wiki is helpful for my site. Yes I have multiple accounts but that is because wiki won't let me log in. Anybody could have just typed my name at the end of a edit section. And I didn't say the f--- word here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:202.7.183.130/archived_warnings Someone else did. And I couldn't have edited The Adelaide Cartel, Adelaide Institute or Matt Cook. Yes I live in Australia but I know nothing about them.

Please believe me, I wouldn't have done any of that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.7.183.130 (talk) 09:09, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Revert or not!
Hi! I want to hear your judgment to select whose revision of Religion in China; Angelo or Saimdusan:



Thank you so much!

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 09:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

VoABot II's current edit summary
It has suddenly become common throughout Wikipedia to not link the second username when reverting. I suggest you do this for your bot's edit summaries. --209.244.43.122 (talk) 23:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

False positive
What's the deal with this? Ron Duvall (talk) 06:56, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

LEAVE MY EDITS TO SOUTH HARMON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ALONE YOU STUPID BOT!!!!!!!!!! FASHION DESIGN SHOULD BE ADDED AS AN AREA OF STUDY!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.137.146.52 (talk) 02:06, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

That's mean, lol.--Xxhopingtearsxx (talk) 16:07, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

p.o.d.
There is someone and change it to something diffrent without a source but when i put it back to that what it was than its wrong?????????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.211.118.110 (talk) 15:52, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Guivon puppets
You have looked case Guivon in August 2007. We are now having new case of confirmed puppets but because Velebit/Purger account is stale clear confirmation has not been possible (but 2 users are connected) if they are puppets of Guivon aka Purger aka Velebit aka ... I have been informed that only users which have before checked on Purger puppets can now confirm this connection (but this is not very sure). Can you please check if there is connection between users Guivon/NovaNova/GiorgioOrsini and Standshown/Smerdyakoff/Stagalj ? --Rjecina (talk) 17:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't save that data, so I'd be no better off than another checkuser in this case.  Voice -of- All  19:33, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid the bot isn't working
For some strange reason, VoABot took some of the requests that were not done at WP:CHU and placed them in the archives, but didn't remove them. Cheers, Icestorm815  •  Talk  17:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * According to the bot, the page layout changed, so it stopped.  Voice -of- All  19:24, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Buckeye meet-up
Walking through the oval the other day, I was pondering an unofficial OSU Wikipedia meetup. What do you think the turnout would be? Would you be interested, perchance? Just brainstorming rather than studying for midterms...  нмŵוτн τ  05:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd be able to go, I don't have any clue what turn out could be.  Voice -of- All  05:47, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

False positive on Ten Little Niggers
The bot's re-instating vandalism here. See
 * And here to on A380 [] Its inposible to corect and the page its destroyd only reversing by bot !!! MW 85.225.96.49 (talk) 20:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed now.  Voice -of- All  20:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

ALF
oops my internet connection is cutting out after x chars. Thx for the revert--68.243.6.169 (talk) 02:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Rockin' Squat
Problem with your bot here Rockin' Squat. My contribution aren't vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.167.81.130 (talk) 14:30, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Knobee
Bot seems determined that me adding a NOTAM to the Sea-based X-band Radar page is link spam. Can this be checked please?

Fixed -- had to do with amt. of CAPS in submitted data. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Knobee (talk • contribs) 16:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot flag
This bot doesn't seem to have the bot flag set. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 02:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Antivandal bots don't use flags.  Voice -of- All  06:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot blocked
I had to block VoA bot II; it is apparently malfunctioning. It broke WP:3RR on Steam (content delivery); it was inappropriately reverting in the first place, and ended up reverting the same edit 4 times. I don't know why it thought this edit was vandalism, but the bot should not be reverting that kind of thing more than 1 time, if that many times. Mango juice talk 02:47, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now.  Voice -of- All  06:49, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

WTFuck!
WTF Cuz Green is a good color! That's all I put! WTF, man, WTF. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.234.216.232 (talk) 01:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Nick "The Goat" Thompson
I am new here and just completed a large edit to a new page that was deleted by a bot. Is there any way for that info to be retrieved?

P.S. Everything I added can be verified in the links I have provided. Joh02639 (talk) 04:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * All edits are stored in the page history. See "history" tab. Though I think someone reverted back already.  Voice -of- All  06:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[STOP IT NOW]]

Your recent edit to dunker20 was reverted by an automated bot. The edit was identified as adding vandalism, or link spam to the page or having an inappropriate edit summary. This is your last warning. If you continue to vandalise, just like scum like you do, you will be sentenced to 3 years in the Wikiprison for vandals.

who is dunker20 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.3.149 (talk) 07:29, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Admin Coaching Re-confirmation
Hello, previously you expressed interest in participating in the Admin coaching project. We are currently conducting a reconfirmation drive to give coaches the opportunity to update their information and capacity to participate in the project. Please visit Admin coaching/Status to update your status and move your entry to the Active list. Also, please remember to update your capacity (5th table variable) in the form of a fraction (eg. 2/3 means you are currently coaching 2 students, and could accept 1 more student). Thank you.  MBisanz  talk 09:34, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Madonna discography
How do I prevent your bot stopping me making a legitimate edit? 60.234.242.196 (talk) 07:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I have nothing to do with this bot (I came here to report a bug) but I do have a suggestion. The section of text you are trying to edit has an in-line comment in it with lots of exclamation marks.  I think that might be what is getting the bot upset - vandals often use multiple exclamation marks but legitimate editors do not.  Try taking out the comment, it serves no purpose anyway, the vandals sure won't take any notice.  Or at least take out the exclamation marks.  I know you didn't write the comment but that's probably not the way the bot is seeing it - it thinks the whole paragraph is yours.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  19:43, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

VoABot
Hello, VoABot is not recognizing redirects? Cheers. Carlosguitar (ready and willing) 07:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Girls At The Cairo National Stadium
Hi,

Your bot is a bit too harsh with the article Girls At The Cairo National Stadium. It is a problematic article, but it keeps getting reverted again and again too sternly. Please check it. Thanks. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

RfB
I'm very impressed at your years of experience as an admin and at your work as a MediaWiki developer. As such, I'd like to nominate you for bureaucrat. Any objections?-- TBC !?!  02:07, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not really active on RFA anymore, so that probably wouldn't pan out. But thanks.  Voice -of- All  02:53, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. However, if you're ever interested in becoming one, I'll definitely support your nomination.-- TBC !?!  21:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Possible fault with VoABot II
Take a look at this diff. The Bot has inserted a level 3 vandalism warning (time-stamped 18:02 22 Feb) above a sequence of warnings level 1,2,3,4 which predate it (time-stamps 17:52, 17:58 17:59, 18:00). There is another example of the same thing higher up the page on 19 Feb. This seems to have had the effect of delaying the vandals inevitable eventual block. Is your bot being fooled by the multiple February 2008 headings? There used to be another heading above the earlier example but the vandal has vandalised his own talk page.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  11:01, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * How high up do they go? I haven't followed all the details of the standardization really.  Voice -of- All  08:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't understand your question. The later example occured on 22nd Feb and the earler example occured on 19th Feb.  Both incidents together are the last 14 edits in the history.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  18:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It inserted a level 4 warning. It was in the wrong place because of the two headers.  Voice -of- All  20:01, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * In that case there is some undesirable interaction between your bot and Cluebot. They tell me over at Cluebot that warnings older than two days are ignored by Cluebot and it essentially starts the sequence again, hence multiple headers if they are in the same month.  Could I suggest that you should discuss this issue with Cluebots' operator as there is obviously something wrong here?  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  23:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Wonderful Script,
I love your admins script, but would you be able to add a script or make one that allows closure of every xFd? The Placebo Effect (talk) 13:35, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Leap year!
Bot is marking February 29th warnings as "March 2008", see for one example Yngvarr (c) 15:12, 29 February 2008 (UTC)