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Technical question
Hey Soap, I came across an image being used for vandalism earlier (I won't name it publicly per WP:BEANS) and was about to put it on Mediawiki:Bad image list, when I realised it was used quite legitimately in a userbox. The bad image list allows for exceptions to be made for individual pages, but I wondered if you knew any way to allow an entire namespace?

While I'm here, which IRC client would you recommend? HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   19:46, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I have no idea. I tried some tests on test.wikipedia.org to see if it was possible to use wildcards in the names of the exceptions and it really didn't behave how I was expecting, but from what I can tell, wildcards don't seem to work unless there's some undocumented feature I don't know about.  As for IRC, I'm loyal to mIRC, because I've used it for so long, but it has many obvious shortcomings that you just have to learn to love.  I'm not sure that any one IRC client can claim a majority of users on Freenode or any other network.  If you're on Windows, though, mIRC, XChat, and Chatzilla are the biggest contenders.  Note that mIRC and XChat are payware but that mIRC, at least, allows you to go significantly beyond the expiration date before it starts preventing you from using it.   —  Soap  —  20:04, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

iPhone 4
I've seen the nickname iTouch removed from the iPod touch article because nobody could find a citation that explicitly stated that the iTouch was an other word for an iPod touch. Unless you find something that explicitly states that the iPhone 4 is a slate phone it will be removed again. Marcus Qwertyus   06:32, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Re Template:White people
I saw your comment on Bulldog123's talk page regarding my 'amendment' to this template. If you consider it vandalism, report it as such. I consider the template racist, and as such a violation of policy in any article referring to living persons. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:12, 17 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'd recommend reading Vandalism. More to the point though, do you not agree that the template in question is at best misguided, and at worst blatantly racist in its association of 'white people' in general with such fringe concepts as 'Master race', 'White pride' and 'White nationalism'? Do you really think such stereotyping has any place in Wikipedia?
 * Sorry, I missed this comment until now, but my response is predictable from what I said before, namely that no I dont think it's racist to associate white people with white racism.  —  Soap  —  17:03, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Water fluoridation
I have reverted you here merely to say that the addition was POV (have a look at the publisher, Seven Stories Press), which stemmed from past edits, not just an innocent edit filter bug report. I don't know how this is handled now for this topic, and won't argue if I am reverted back. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 01:48, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Mystichumwipe
Having thought about it I have decided to unblock, so if you are still investigating the case you can save yourself the trouble. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:13, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Helpful AFC/R script
You may be interested in this script that provides a "Review" tab under the "Move" tab on AFC/R. Cheers, → ♠ Gƒoley ↔ Four ♣ ← 02:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Nequam Impleo Ero Pessum Ire
He's the latest in a new sock farm - see WP:ANI. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:51, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

K.R.C. Sonderborg
Thanks for your help HISTOIRE ET D&#39;ART (talk) 20:09, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Sterling Jewelers
I hadn't thought of that. Thanks. If it had been spelled consistently I might have realized, but consistency is important.Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 21:49, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

RfA
Thanks for your feedback! I'll work some more for a while and come back later for another RfA if I can. Silivrenion (talk) 02:55, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Mail

 * Thanks. I'm just heading out though so I'll look at it in about 9 hours.  —  Soap  —  13:27, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Link in edit summary
Hi! Regarding this edit, my browser's balking at copying the URLs so as to paste them into the address bar. The only mentions of Mr. Aykroyd I can find on the article's talk page say his listing was properly cited and the other is inconclusive of whether he was joking in the NPR interview I subjected myself to having to listen to just to fix the malformed entry of an anon. Since I did burn through nearly an hour of my limited time on this plane of existence in an altruistic attempt to help a n00bie stranger, I would appreciate it if you would supplement the edit summary with a note on the article's talk page with links I can actually click. Thanks! &mdash;Elipongo (Talk contribs) 22:03, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The source is http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20041113/msgs/419044.html . Does that work?  —  Soap  —  22:28, 17 February 2011 (UTC)


 * The link works, but since the citation I provided was to the actual audio of the interview at the NPR website, I do not see how it has any bearing whatsoever on NPR's status as a reliable source. Also, at the risk of repeating myself, you need to discuss this at the article's talk page, not here. Thanks. &mdash;Elipongo (Talk contribs) 23:01, 17 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi! I didn't notice the question you asked on my talkpage under the talkback template until today. I've replied there. Thanks! &mdash;Elipongo (Talk contribs) 16:50, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Edit requests on Child Development Stages
Would you please restore the edit requests from the user you have just blocked, which you removed from the talk page of this article. You should not censor the talk page as it encourages others to simply blank anything they don't like and means that other editors cannot see the whole reason why the block has been put in place. Information on talk pages should be removed only in the case of extreme personal attacks, extreme obscenity and information with BLP implications. Britmax (talk) 09:45, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Related

 * A similar edit request just came in. I responded to it thinking it was a serious request before reading the comments above; you may want to reblock the person now if you're convinced they're just vandalizing. Qwyrxian (talk) 07:21, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. For anyone reading thsi, please note that it isn't just me who's involved in blocking this vandal; she's been around for a while, though I didn't realize that myself at first.  —  Soap  —  12:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Re: Could you help? (Oduzeta stanarska prava)
Thanks for telling me. The user was likely well-intentioned, but completely misguided. They have a humanitarian promotional campaign, and this was some kind of a leaflet or a press release for it. I've tried to explain to them why this isn't a Wikipedia article, and removed it. If you feel it should stay, feel free to undelete it, but I don't think there's any point in it as it was. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 19:24, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

UncleDouggie is back
I had to take an extended break over the holidays, but I've been back for awhile now. With the recent rekindling of the Pending Changes debate, I'd appreciate getting back edit filter manager rights to do some analysis. Thanks! —UncleDouggie (talk) 13:47, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

70.79.191.145
You have blocked this IP previously. Since another administrator who already blocked this user since your own block failed to reply, I'm here notifying you that this IP constantly misuses the talk page. Can talk page access be disabled?Jasper Deng (talk) 06:21, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll keep an eye on that page. The thing is, she has made it clear that she uses many different IP's, so a block on just one of them isn't going to solve much.  A rangeblock will probably be necessary in the long term to keep full control, although a recent checkuser concluded that a full rangeblock would block out a lot of innocent users as well.     —  Soap  —  17:25, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * This is a problem :( .Jasper Deng (talk) 18:30, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

IRC invitation
Because I have noticed you commenting at the current RfC regarding Pending Changes, I wanted to invite you to the IRC channel for pending changes. If you are not customarily logged into the IRC, use this link. This under used resource can allow real time discussion at this particularly timely venture of the trial known as Pending Changes. Even if nothing can come from debating points there, at least this invitation is delivered with the best of intentions and good faith expectations. Kind regards.  My 76 Strat  09:27, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Filter 9
I see that you have contributed to the ever so lovely edit filter number 9. One part of the filter contains "\x22^\r^\n". While this works fine, it seems to me that it should really be "\x22\r\n". I've tested this change on a few edits and it seems to work. While this is a very minor issue, I'm really more interested in whether the syntax in the current version does something magical that I don't understand. Thanks! —UncleDouggie (talk) 12:31, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Im not feeling well so Im taking a break from Wikipedia for a while. I wouldnt be able to help you anyway as I dont have any knowledge of regex and mostly just work removing words from lists.  I do have a regex manual that I can use when I really need to but if it isnt obvious what's going on even to someone who knows regex well (as I assume you do from your comment) it wouldnt be obvious to me either.   —  Soap  —  23:02, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem. My concern is that there are a dozen varieties of regex and many of them reference portions of each other, so it's always possible that something that doesn't make sense is actually magical for a particular tool. I'll ask someone else before fixing it. —UncleDouggie (talk) 23:56, 6 March 2011 (UTC)