User talk:Nixeagle/Archive/2009/May

Template mapping
I think I have the mapping set up, please give it a once-over at Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations. Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 21:50, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. I'll try to get to it in a while, I'm approaching finals week here and its getting sorta frantic because of that. I may not be able to implement the bot mapping for a week or so. ——  nix eagle email me 00:13, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Ethnic?
I see that on article Requests for arbitration/Macedonia 2/Evidence you have transferred information on ethnicity. Out of curiosity, what made you do it? Also I 'corrected' mine. Thanks. Politis (talk) 13:00, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Since creating that page I have not touched it. The section on ethnicity was added by ChrisO with the this diff. If this section is not what you are referring to please clarify. Thanks. ——  nix eagle email me 01:36, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Arbcom case: Macedonia 2
Hi. I am one of the participants in the above case and I received your message on my talkpage but when I went to the arbitration page my statement was not there. Could you please include it? Thanks. Dr.K. logos 04:09, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Done, sorry for missing out on it. The fact that you sign as "Dr.K." and had "statement by Dr.K." threw me off ;). Its all fixed with a slight modification to your header to make it clearer that you are one of the parties to the case. ——  nix eagle email me 04:16, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I know. Sometimes it happens. : ) Thank you very much for fixing it so fast. Take care. Dr.K. logos 04:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for trying to help everyone out. Particularly for those who have less experience with ArbCom, having someone point out "the ropes" is extremely helpful. John Carter (talk) 22:16, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Blocks on user:Eckstasy and user:Quotebucket
Heya, I've been informed of your blocks on these two accounts and my review of it makes me think this is not a case of strongly abusive sockpuppetry. I think a warning/talking to on the main account should suffice rather then an indef block on both. Thoughts? If you don't want to do it, would you mind if I did it? Thanks ——  nix eagle email me 02:44, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm ok with that (actually appreciate the extra eyes). Glad to have you sort it out. I figured that user would be unblocked as did FisherQueen, per []. Toddst1 (talk) 04:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll do it now. In the future please don't use talk back and simply copy paste the reply to my talk page. I'll be copying this to mine now. :) ——  nix eagle email me 22:23, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Happy 's Day!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk  • 01:43, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Unblock of user:Eckstasy
Hi Nixeagle; I'd like to question the decision to unblock user:Eckstasy, whose last series of edits was strictly promotional; who was also operating under a sockpuppet making the same promotional edits ; and who under either guise left inappropriate messages or templates on my talk page and accused me of vandalism,. Thanks, JNW (talk) 03:48, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

List of ethinicities
Hi, I just wanted to mention explicitly my feeling of utter disgrace about [|this list]. It was deleted before. I have tried to nominate it for speedy deletion but I was instructed it was a wrong policy. I'm new and I didn't know what WP:MFD is about.

I am no vandal. Like a descendant of people that appeared in similar lists in dark periods of history. The existence of that list, even temporarily. is in my opinion a disgrace for Wikipedia. Is there no analogue for speedy deletions outside the namespace? Because any similar or worse list could be kept if we rely solely on straw polls

I have detailed my reasoning in the arbitration for Macedonia 2 too. Thanks for listening Shadowmorph (talk) 08:36, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I understand people might not be sensitive to the matter and see it as just a list. Keep in mind that the list mixes Greek and Unknown editors (to make them appear as Greek) alike. Just imagine it was instead a list of editors from Israel of Wikipedia. People might copy paste it elsewhere, like in I don't know, Iranian blogs? It is a dangerous thing. I know I have said what my ethnicity is but that is not equivalent of it appearing in lists that way. And I'm not talking about myself. I'm not even in that list. Shadowmorph (talk) 08:43, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

You have two choices as far as the correct procedure to go about what you want. 1) MFD, or 2) make a motion in the arbcom case. I have not looked at the case in 48 hours or so, but its my guess that this topic is now a part of the case... as such I'd be careful. ——  nix eagle email me 17:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Re:Signature
Sorry about that. Problem fixed :) Canadian   Nine  02:02, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I've been hanging around in there for a couple days, bouncing opinions off people trying to "test" myself on CU requests. I'm doing alright so far, and I'm thinking I'll ask about clerking again in 3-4 weeks. Thanks for closing that :) Canadian   Nine  02:06, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

EcKstasy
Thank you for unblocking my account, I received a private message on my IRC network saying that I was unblocked from Wikipedia (I'm guessing this was you, as it was randomly said at the time of the unblock) The spamming of my non-profit websites I understand is not tolerated on Wikipedia; It won't happen again and I'll contribute better by writing articles with useful information, such as *nix/IRC knowledge I've experienced through out the years.

Eckstasy (talk) 08:03, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I have never contacted you by IRC. I don't even know what your IRC network is :P. Had to have been someone else. I would suggest you read up on WP:SPAM, and EL. Generally to stay in the clear don't even mention your IRC network on wikipedia articles. ——  nix eagle email me 15:14, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

X-10-Sion
I think Wikipedia 'Requests for arbitration/Macedonia 2/Evidence' ends 5 May. It seems to me like a full time job to contribute to them. Is that the case? An extension of the deadline might be appropriate. Politis (talk) 15:22, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Removal of sockpuppeteer template?
Hello, a user you've recently identified as a sockpuppeteer has removed the sockpuppeteer tag from his user page in this edit. Is it acceptable per Wikipedia's policies or should I revert his change? Regards, Laurent (talk) 11:22, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Eeeeeewtw/Archive]] and the current case at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Eeeeeewtw]]. For the time being don't worry about the tag as the last SSP was sorta inconclusive as far as him actually socking. ——  nix eagle email me 14:37, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Category:52 births
Could you please recreate this category? We have Trajan. If anything, you can reach me on my talk page. Debresser (talk) 20:00, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK bot
It has been many months of manually updating the DYK template for the main page (since mid February). We really do need this bot. I'm sure your busy. After all, we are all volunteers and this is a hobby. I want to start a thread on the DYK talk page asking if someone else will do the programming and bug repairing for the bot; Shubinator will probably be willing to do it. I'm being polite and telling you about it so you have time to respond before I start a thread.  Royal broil  12:36, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * If someone else wishes to do so, they may. I've attempted several times to test out the problem only to have the main page manually updated while I was testing. I've just assumed that you guys would rather manually update :P. I can make an attempt after Friday this week (finals) if you would like or we can let someone else try. The main issue as far as me is getting everyone at DYK to not update the main page, which they invariably do anyway because every time one person misses the message. >.> If you guys don't mind waiting to friday I can probably do a better job of testing by creating a bunch of test pages and fix the thing off the main page, as getting people to wait is just impossible. ——  nix eagle email me 00:51, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

TestBotOnIRC
A tag has been placed on TestBotOnIRC, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add  on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the page's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. You may also want to move the page to EverythingWiki. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SpitfireTally-ho! 16:13, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Umm...Testing isn't permited, and defintly not in a mainname space article, any way please contact the deleting admin if you have any further problems, cheers SpitfireTally-ho!
 * Righto, thats OK SpitfireTally-ho! 16:24, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

DYKadminbot
It is currently shortchanging the articles about 10-15 minutes per run. Can you tweak it to run for six hours or more.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 20:33, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * That is currently intentional, see Wikipedia_talk:DYK where I explain the reasoning behind it. Regardless by Friday I intend everything to be back to normal. ——  nix eagle email me 00:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Gentleexit
You might be interested in this unblock request :) My belief is that they are 2 different people. However, that might be "luck" or meatpuppetry. -- Luk  talk 08:47, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

SPCUClerkbot notice is a little odd
This notice about an error that I made in filing a sockpuppet report is a little odd... It was delivered to the suspected sock, instead of to me. No big deal, really, since I'd already found and corrected the error, but I'm assuming that this isn't what you had planned. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:30, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks for the error report, its partly due to the case being misformatted though, but obviously the casepage parser needs a bit more work. :) ——  nix eagle email me 12:08, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * This may be a similar case - the bot notified the suspected puppetmaster that I had forgotten to include a code letter for the checkuser request. The case is Sockpuppet investigations/Scubadiver99 and the notification is . Delicious carbuncle (talk) 13:08, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

It is not notifying users
Hi, SPCUClerkbot is not notifying users listed as suspected sockpuppets that they are subject of an SPI. Is there something I have to do in order to initiate the bot to place the notices? --Falastine fee Qalby (talk) 05:34, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It never did ;). I am still considering the ramifications of always notifying socks, plus there is a bit of dev work that needs to be finished and won't be done until this weekend at the earliest. ——  nix eagle email me 02:23, 10 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for replying. I advise placing a note on the bot's page letting users know the function is not active yet, just so you don't get any more of these messages. -Falastine fee Qalby (talk) 20:48, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It is a wiki, you may do so yourself :) I don't really see the point as I don't think its documented anywhere that the bot should be doing this. How did you come up with the expectation that the bot would do this anyway? :P I mean you guessed right that its in the plans, but its not actually in action :). ——  nix eagle email me 15:32, 15 May 2009 (UTC)