User talk:Mets501/Archive 11

secure login
Is there any to fix this so that it may work with all skins? Or is position:absolute just too evil a hack? --  Netsnipe  ►  16:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: User:Mets501/Sandbox
It seems the text at the bottom of your variation of the csd-bio tag:
 *  Please consider placing User:Mets501/Sandbox ~ on the User Talk page of the author. 

would result in the text:
 * "A tag has been placed on User:Mets501/Sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia..."

I doubt this was your intent, so I am bringing it to your attention. Also, I have removed A7 from your version of the template, so that it does not appear in the category. —Swpb talk contribs 16:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

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Same-sex marriage in the United States by state
I noticed you moved Same-sex marriage legislation in the United States by state to Same-sex marriage in the United States by state without indicating anything on either talk page. Were there any specific reasons? --Joshua4 03:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Metsbot
Hello, Mets501. I am just curious about your bot. Does your bot only use for fixing templates, template substitutions? Well, I didn't even check my old messages [],and didn't even notice that your bot was fixing couple template on my old messages for Esperanza Newspaper. I know your bot automatically fixing templates on user's page, and some links. In my opinion, your bot is also used for removed deleted images. What else does your bot do? Daniel5127 &lt;Talk&gt; 06:40, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

MedCabal
Hi, we have a heavy backload of cases at WP:MEDCAB and since you are on the mediator list I thought I would request your help. Thanks! --Ideogram 10:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure you want to move "Data Matrix"?
I noticed that Mets501 moved the "Data Matrix" article to "Datamatrix" on 04-Nov. However I'm not sure if this is the best move because the official name for this barcode symbology, as defined by ISO and AIM, has a space between the words ("Data Matrix").

This new name would certainly be convenient from a search engine perspective (i.e. "Data" + "Matrix" gives dramatically different results than "Data Matrix"), but it is a big step to intentionally mislabel something and shouldn't be taken lightly. As it stands now, I wouldn't have found this article even though I have researched this subject heavily in the past.

Maybe there were other reasons behind this move, but I wanted to raise this point of view.

Mblaughton 22:09, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Redirect of Wiki Material to other Encyclopias
Hi Mets501...

On Oct 8, 2006, you placed a "redirect" on the Sahaj Marg page.

I refer you to this site (Baghdad Museum): http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/index.php?title=Sahaj_marg

If you click on the first Sahaj Marg, you will see the "re-direct" page and if you click on the 2nd, you will see the "Wiki" article. If you click on the "here", you will get the "history" page. Is this what you had in mind?

On most other "redirect" of articles, the reader does not have access to these pages....

The Toronto post page, http://www.torontopost.biz/Info/?Sahaj_marg is another examble where all the "Edits" and 'redirect" prompt(which takes you to the "redirect" page), are also included (and hot), so it looks like the reader can edit the article from the Toronto Post page, unlike all the other "redirects" for other "articles".....Is that what you had in mind??

Thank you...Just making you aware of these issues... You can reply to me here or on my User page...

Don--don 21:53, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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Youtube
Hi, a few days ago I left a message on youtube article discussion page, about the incorrect info. Just checked if it was fixed, and it was indeed, but now you have reverted back to incorrect version. Wanted to let you know. My IP has changed, it was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/85.107.157.16  85.103.192.96 01:37, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that! I've reverted my revert. — Mets501 (talk) 01:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

User with a bot question
An editor in need of a bot to save time on some redirects after a move has asked me if I know how he could go about asking for some assistance. I referred him to Bot requests but if MetsBot is looking for work and might be helpful you should know he might have a customer. His question can be found User_talk:Newyorkbrad. Newyorkbrad 15:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You know, I just looked at this request in a little more detail (I was on the run this morning). You'd better make sure that this pagemove is uncontroversial and going to stick before you do all those redirects. I never heard before of the second word in the title he's moved the article to! Newyorkbrad 21:54, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I just think you need to look at this not only as the bot-owner Mets501 but also the pagemove-expert-admin Mets501, as the move doesn't seem to have been discussed anywhere and is to a term 2% of the population at best will have heard of. Also, if the move sticks, it needs to be tidied up (see the redlinked disambiguation line on the page for a starter). Newyorkbrad 22:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

proposed new "how to get started writing a bot" page - your opinion?
I think there is confusion on how to go about starting a bot (eg here and here) and there is no wikipage covering this, the main bot page talks only about policy, not avenues for getting started, how to make a bot etc. I have made a suggestion that a howto page be established and, as a frequent editor helping out with bots, I would appreciate your comments. Many Thanks - PocklingtonDan 07:52, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Great idea! I can help out with the pywikipedia section, if you'd like. — Mets501 (talk) 14:21, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, great - thanks for the support. I have pasted your comment into the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Bots, hope this is OK. I will wait to get another comment or two hopefully supporting this and then when I've set the page up I will let you know so we can start filling int he content. Cheers - PocklingtonDan 16:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi mate, I have now started this page at Creating a bot and am frantically adding content to build it up into a full article but there is a huge amount to cover and any input you can help with would be greatly appreciated! Thanks - PocklingtonDan 21:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
It actually needs to be speedied for some legal issues. Do I take it ANI? Thanks again, NinaEliza 19:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Awesome thank you. Thanks also for your very useful-looking bot. Rock on with your bot self! NinaEliza 20:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

RE: Welcoming
Ah, right thanks, I've forgotten on a few. --Simonkoldyk 22:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion
Just wanted to suggest that you may wish to set your bot to mark its edits such as subst'ing templates as minor. This makes them much easier to skim past on the watchlist. (This can be accomplised in preferences by selecting "mark all edits as minor".) Seraphimblade 04:46, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar!
Thanks for the spiffy technology barnstar you awarded me, looks very dashing on my userpage :-) I'll continue working on that article to expand it - PocklingtonDan 09:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

your move
You moved the page to Line of succession to the Portuguese throne, which had been deemed as POV title already before, by at least three users: John Kenney (who specifically said it to be POV), Septentrionalis (who had moved the article from that name,and indicated POV concerns), and me. At most, three users ever supported that name you now moved it to. And you can see at Talk:Line of succession to the Portuguese throne that the present name was not in the move proposal, which may be the reason why some did not think necessary to oppose just it specifically. Move requestes must not be assessed by surprises (the name was not in the proposal about which the survey targeted). Please redo the closing, with a proper assessment on basis of what was requested. I say that the name to which you moved the page, is POV, and is supported only by (a) ignorant peopåle, and (b) POV pushers. There is no extant Portuguese throne for anybody to be in succession, and the defunct throne is under serious rivalry, and its possibly leading candidate does not hold legitimate succession rights according to laws which were in force in that monarchy until its abolition - thus, "line of succession" is inherently and dangerously POV as to this former throne. Hope you do not want to promote POV. Marrtel 12:08, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The neutrality of the present name of the article Line_of_succession_to_the_Portuguese_throne is obviously POV (as said by three established editors), and that's my position to the move. Any vote cannot make POV to be NPOV, nor can any vote allow a move to POV name. If you have arguments why the name were not POV, you are welcome to present them at Talk:Line_of_succession_to_the_Portuguese_throne. Results of a vote is not an argument, particularly such a result that was interpreted misguidedly, and was not in the proposal (the RM proposal was the thing "voters" took position to, not to any addition). Marrtel 05:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Question
Not to be rude or anything, what were you doing on my talk page? It said that I had a new message, but when I looked, nothing was different. I checked the history of my talk page, and your username came up, what did you want? BobafettH23 That's ok, I usually don't spend a lot of time here so I don't usually get messages. Take care. BobafettH23 16:13, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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User:2wordsforya
User talk:24.253.28.60 has confessed to being the IP address of this blocked vandal. He has expressed his intention to create a sockpuppet, so I thought that I should let the blocking admin know. Cheers, --  T H  L  00:01, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for keeping his vandalism off of my watchlist. --  T H  L  01:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Requesting Unblock for 67.115.220.195
The reason I have brought this to you attention was to request the unblock of the IP address 67.115.220.195 (due to expire on 08:06, 6 October 2007). Administrators have placed this block on 01:36, 21 October 2006 for repeated vandalism over several days.

The purpose of this is to inform you that the above IP address does not alone belong to Whitney High School, as assumed by the warnings/blocks notices on the talk page, but also to Artesia High School. Both schools are within the same ABC Unified School district, and must somehow share the IP address.

Obviously there has been a terrible misunderstanding of some sort, and we would be grateful for further investigation into this matter. Gryffon 05:00, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

bug in date "correction"
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Why go through people's user space?
Can this be stopped, please? &mdash; Sebastian 22:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC) argument has never been substantiated
 * The argument about the strain on servers keeps coming up, but nobody has ever provided any information how big this alleged strain is. By contrast, we know that editing whole big pages is a strain on the server. It is absurd to spend a dollar to save a dime. Going through every page in every userspace to replace them is creating unnecessary traffic on a big scale! &mdash; Sebastian 22:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

FYI to User:Mets501, this is under discussion on the ANI noticeboard here. Newyorkbrad 22:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I would prefer to keep the discussion about the bot here. All I'm asking for on ANI is that somebody push the button for now. I am always open to rational arguments and have no intention to obstruct this bot altogether. &mdash; Sebastian 23:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That's fine, it's just good when posting about an editor to a noticeboard, to let him or her know that he or she (or in this case "it", meaning the bot) is being talked about. I'd want to know if there was a conversation about me and I'm sure so would you. Not a big deal. Regards, Newyorkbrad 23:26, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Question about MetsBot
Just to let you know, if you were running this in pyWikipediaBot, you could input a large list of sig transclusions to subst and it would clean up each talk page in a single edit, rather than having to loop through on each separate template, potentially requiring a much larger total number of edits. -- Cyde Weys 00:20, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Transreal number
You redirected Transreal number to NaN as per Articles for deletion/Transreal number, but it appears that someone considered that vandalism and it is now back to how it was. Maybe the page could use some protection? Readro 22:46, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Is there any chance you'd reconsider your decision, and redirect transreal number to James Anderson (computer scientist)? After I mentioned the idea in the AFD, I noticed a number of people changed their vote to endorse that idea.  My original argument was something along the lines of transreals aren't NaN (and not wheels, and not hyperreals, and whatnot), and that it might be better to merge the articles on transreals and James Anderson.  That way someone looking for transreals could get the references for transreals and the discussion around them.  Thanks, Lunch 23:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Okey dokey. Thanks.  Lunch 00:13, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Transreal numbers
In connection with the transreal numbers AfD, I found the whole concept to be reminiscent of the surreal numbers concept introduced by John Conway, which was the subject of a lecture I attended at HCSSiM. The whole thing strikes me as more a difference of nomenclature for dealing with infinites and infinitesimals more than anything else. I guess I'll more of your thoughts on this when you're asked to give your close reasoning when this one inevitably winds up at DRV. Regards, Newyorkbrad 23:07, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism pages
Why did you restore User:Fredil Yupigo/VaNdAlIzM!?? Need I point out that it meets the speedy deletion criterion CSD G3, pages that are pure vandalism? Also, are you aware that you just restored vicious personal attacks, such as "Fred likes Teletubbies. He also masturbates while thinking about his mother."? Vandalism subpages are a terrible idea, as they create all sorts of problems and need to be patrolled regularly. Don't you think that a page encouraging vandalism might be a bad idea? Should we be at all surprised when clearly inappropriate attacks show up on pages that seem to encourage such? I urge you to reverse your actions. We are writing an encyclopedia here, and due to the problems that vandalism subpages cause, we should not allow them to exist, even if their creators want them. -- Cyde Weys 14:28, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Google earth
If concensus is for making the chage proposed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports/Infobox, would you bot be able to do the update? Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:00, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah!
Congratulations, you're a AWB developer now! Max S em 16:22, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
 Happy Birthday ! | A ndonic O Talk 01:06, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome Mets. :-) | A ndonic O Talk 12:30, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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Request for comment on my campaign to become an administrator
Hello , I hope that you are having a happy holiay season. I have recently been nominated to become an administrator here on Wikipedia. I am asking that since I have worked with you in the past that you stop by my nomination page and consider entering a vote, hopefully in support of my becoming an administrator.


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A Happy Birthday From Randfan

 * Happy b-day! Hope it's a good one!  Cheers!  :  )  &mdash;  Rand  fan  !  !  00:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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Improper name
I hadn't realized that my name violated Wiki policy. I'll take a few days to think to consider my choice, then submit the change request. - Boombot 05:39, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the vandalism of my user talk page by. JRSpriggs 06:16, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

12/10/06 changes
Your edit to my user page here I know you were "helping" wikipedia by editing my userpage but you could've asked me before you did that. Is it a L-A-W about including links on one's userpage? If it isn't that please don't bother mine.--Chikinpotato11 21:24, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * well, you might have forgot it or something...or something. cy'uh

Good work
Hi, Mets501. I noticed that you created the page Added or removed characters which the What do the colored numbers mean? link point to in the watchlist. This is a good idea as it is better than linking to the Village pump, so, good work. By the way, I congratulate you on your new computer.

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AWB
I'm an admin for AWB and was away when (unfortunately) Martin left. I just found out that he's gone. I look forward to talking with you soon about the future of AWB and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
 * -- That Guy, From That Show! 08:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

DX10 operating system move
Hi Mets,

I'm leaving a note here just in case you didn't notice the message at the top of my talk page. I replied there. &mdash; Gennaro Prota &#8226;Talk 09:12, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Close Move poll (Oral contraceptive -> combined oral contraceptive pill)
Hi, Mets501. I'm writing in regards to the fact that you closed the above-mentioned Move poll. When I proposed the move, another user (Lyrl) went ahead and made the move only a day and a half after I officially proposed it. Of course I am in support of my own proposal, but I think that that person's action was a bit hasty, especially since at the time it was two days before Christmas and many people are busy. I opted at that point to leave the change intact, with a note stating that the debate was still open, since I didn't think it should have been done so hastily. Then you closed the move poll, so now there is no official place for people to voice their opinions. My questions: Why did you close the poll? What can we do to make sure everyone has time and a place to be heard? Thank you. Joie de Vivre 18:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Mets501, thank you for approving me to use AutoWikiBrowser and IRCMonitor. I look forward to using this tool in the near future. Thanks again for your kindness. With regards, AnupamTalk 00:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Apostolos Nikolaidis
On what grounds did you decide that the singer is more famous than the athlete? Almost everybody in Greece knows the athlete but few of them know the singer. It should really be the other way round. --   Avg     11:50, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Not being Greek myself, I was relying on internet searches to determine which one is more well-known. From the searches, it appeared as if the singer is the most well known, then comes the stadium names after the athlete, and then the athlete.  If I'm wrong, I'll more than gladly place a disambiguation page at Apostolos Nikolaidis leading to both the singer and the athlete. — Mets501 (talk) 14:07, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea. I'd go for disambig as well (singer, athlete, stadium). The reason most people know the athlete is indeed because of the stadium after his name. --   Avg     16:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

signature
I did see your comment, and I read the rationale about why not to use them. I left it because the concerns mentioned don't seem to apply to my case. It's a standard image used on multiple templates and pages, so new image upload is not relevant. The image is very small and doesn't reduce searchability, actually I think it adds to searchability because my signature is easier to pick out. Not potentially distracting, again because it's so small and simple. The scale to text would only be relevant in extreme cases, because the image is already very small (I could make it even smaller if that is a concern). Clutter up file links, maybe; but so do templates that use the image. Drain on server, not really; my image is half of one kilobyte when on the page. Once the image is loaded once, it is stored in the cache, not downloaded multiple times.

I think some of the reasoning there is flawed, and if you want to push the issue I'll get involved in the policy page. Cuñado  -  Talk  08:34, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Please refrain from changing my userpage.
Greetings; I am User:Seth Ilys, now editing under the name User:Sethant; I recently turned my old userpage into a redirect at my new username, but noticed that you reverted this edit of mine. I have restored it, and would appreciate it if you would a) not edit another user's userpage without permission, and b) refrain from editing User:Seth Ilys or User:Sethant in the future. If there is some policy that you believe I have violated, I'd politely request that you cite that policy to me at User talk:Sethant before taking any further action. Thank you. - Sethant 03:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

And to confirm that this is, in fact, me, the same person. - Seth Ilys 03:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you [[Image:WikiThanks.png]]
Thanks for substituting templates for UBX's of mine. I'm kinda new to userfying, but you really helped me out. Thanks again! -- Will Mak  050389  17:18, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Flemish
Hey, there.

You closed the poll on Flemish with the summary "The result of the debate was determined by Peter Isotalo to be move." Does this mean that merging the edit histories isn't relevant in this case? Should I just make a cut'n'paste move of the current content to Flemish (terminology)?

Peter Isotalo 12:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry Mets501, I do not see where your statement "determined by Peter Isotalo to be move" comes from. He put the latest comment in the discussion section and his position has been clear (1. undiscussed unilateral modification followed with edit-war, 2. unilateral move when the move was obviously most controversial, 3. multiple tagging unduly discrediting the article and repeated WP:PA against named and unnamed but known opposition, 4. WP:RfC, 5. another WP:RfC, 6. immediate support vote on a proper proposal by Anþony to move) but I do not see where PeterIsotalo determined the outcome of 6. This proposal had 3 supports (including the proposer's) against 3 opposes and then one more support. At 4 against 3, I would assume the proposal for a change would be denied as being undecided [in fact, it seems logical to assume that LucVerhelst, the initiator of modifying the much earlier disambiguation page to an article style, would probably oppose if he would decide to end his Wikibreak]. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding, as I see that the move (which you performed yourself for other requests) has not (yet) been executed though the request has been put into the backlog. May I suggest going over the whole (lengthy) Talk:Flemish before actually committing? Kind regards. — SomeHuman 31 Dec2006 14:16 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your very kind concern expressed on my talk page. Keep up the good work. — SomeHuman 31 Dec2006 15:13 (UTC)

My Signature
Sorry, I didn't notice that. Thanks brother. Codu (t)⁄(c) &bull; 16:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Sadler@d50.org
I took the liberty of unblocking. The account was created early enough that we allowed the use of email addresses in user names. It's only more recently that this became inappropriate. --Yamla 00:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:BAG
Welcome to WP:BAG please do not approve your own bots. — xaosflux  Talk  06:51, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi. Congratulations on your accession to BAG too.  Looks like your inaugural approval has a little problem, though.  Cheers,  Redux 17:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

DarknessBot (Request)
done. D•a•r•k•n • e • s•s•L•o•r•d • i•a•n ••• CCD ••• 20:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)