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I can't believe that you've been here this long without a welcome. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:11, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Mr.Adey
I closed the discussion as a speedy attack. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:11, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Good. Syced

Session poisoning
Hi,

Hmmm, I will see if I can improve descriptions on that scenario!

--Blaufish 20:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Security
Are are you writing on the security related pages? I have seen that some people have lists of "these pages are my most important contributions". I really like such pages, gives a feel for the user's efforts into wikipedia, makes a "user" more into a "person" so to speak :-)

--Blaufish 20:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)


 * You're right, I should describe my topics of interest on my user page ... but I am not really a topic editor, I just use wikipedia, read articles and correct things when I feel I can ... Anyway I am not a security expert ... but trying stuff once in a while and reading bugtraq when I have time ;-) Syced 14:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Adobe Acrobat
Hi Gscshoyru. You just reverted my edit on Adobe Acrobat giving "useless and misplaced" as a reason. Useless ? Knowing how a software has been developed is really important, it is like knowing how the Taj Mahal has been built, concrete or stone. Misplaced ? There are 3 sections in the article: header, history, criticism. The latter two sections can not be considered, I am left with the header, because I don't want to create an entire new section for just this simple sentence. I guess you will agree on the second point, but you will need to elaborate on the first one. Cheers, Syced 17:12, 19 July 2007 (UTC).


 * Yeah... Um... not sure what I was thinking. Not useless. Is misplaced though... there's probably a better spot that the summary, since it really doesn't belong there. But I was being stupid... Gscshoyru 17:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Single editor
I think that this list is a very useful idea! I've moved it to a public place so that other people can e.g. strike the articles they've fixed, and added it to our "cleanup" list.  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  12:09, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Great :-) Sorry I could not find the"public place" and "cleanup list" pages you mention, would you be kind enough to post the links ? Thanks a lot ! Syced 13:52, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * WP:ASE and CAT:CLN. By the way I'd suggest making subpages for the list, perhaps one per letter, since it appears to be getting pretty long.  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  14:31, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

The single user list seems like a great idea but it currently empty, just thought I'd let you know. Mustardscuffle (talk) 04:11, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

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REPLY: WP:ASE checklist
Hello, You previously comment about the Articles written by a single editor page. By the way, thanks! I really thought it needed some good redesigns :) And it looks like the page is active again! At first, I had no clue what the purpose for the project page was. So I designed the checklist for wikipedians:) More will be added soon. If you want, you can add the typos idea you mentioned (or anything else you think it needs). If you want me to post your suggestions, just let me know.

Thanks,  Zoo Fari  00:38, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks ! Let's have a collaborative work on this, we will probably refine the guidelines after using them for a while :) Syced (talk) 16:22, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:ASE
These single-editor page directories, for which you have my highest praise for composing a program to write, are a little out of date. Just clicking on a few of the first links will show that many have multiple edits going back to mid-2007. I will try to get the groovy code to work for me, but if I cannot by December, (or if you'd like to do so before then), can you update the page? Thanks! - Monk of the highest order (t) 07:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello Monk of the highest order, thanks for your involvement ! Indeed, the list have been generated a while ago, and needs to be updated. It would be great if you could launch the generation, for two reasons: First to update the list; but more importantly to make the project more sustainable: long-living projects are not those who in the hands of a single person, but those mastered by several people. I can help you master the Groovy scripts, don't hesitate to ask if you need anything :-) You may want to create a subpage of [WP:ASE] to share your experience and potential difficulties with running the generation script. Cheers Syced (talk) 16:19, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Globalize tag
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ASE
You're welcome! Let me know when the list is updated & I'll swing by again sometime. Cheers! Mattopaedia (talk) 14:15, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That's some list! No wonder you're only planning on updating it twice a year! Mattopaedia (talk) 07:25, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Syced,   thank you for taking the time to comment on WT:Notability_(fiction). I am glad you see how important this guideline will be, since it will determine the inclusion or exclusion of television character and television episodes. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Ikip (talk) 15:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

By the way, another editor responded to your comments with a four line response. Ikip (talk) 15:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I am concerned about how new editors are treated here also. As I have found, the majority of articles for deletion are articles created by new users. Ikip (talk) 15:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for removing that pesky bracket at User:Graham87/Page history observations. :-) Graham 87 14:55, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi, thank you for your help and feedback on both Kalachakra stupa and Buddhism in Denmark. The WP:ASE is a very good idea! Siru108 (talk) 09:08, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Syced/Wikipedia Reference Search
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 * Oops, I intended to create User:Syced/Wikipedia Reference Search, not Syced/Wikipedia Reference Search. Fixed. Syced (talk) 05:12, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

For you

 * yum :-) Syced (talk) 05:17, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe you should make the Wikipedia Search known to admins. I like SearchRef. --♪♫The New Mikemoraltalkcontribs 00:34, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

A very flashy award that seems awfully Soviet (sorry!)

 * Thanks comrade :-) Syced (talk) 23:16, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Neural network
"The web application will collect the user's choice and use it to train a neural network." What will be the final result of this training? What will an editor do with it? How will it improve Wikipedia? What do you really mean by this? Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 15:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The trained neural network is a mathematical function that takes an article's metrics and output a number. This number is an estimate of how much this article might interest the user who trained the neural network. Applied on all articles, it would give a list of the Wikipedia articles this user most likely want to edit. Thus the user would check (and potentially edit) articles he really feels like editing, and probably does a better job at it. It is just theory, nothing has been implemented yet, and the result would probably be far from perfect. Syced (talk) 15:44, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Ah, this sounds promising, but isn't there something like this already? I remember getting a message about a year ago concerning "Articles that might interest you." GeorgeLouis (talk) 20:05, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I actually used it myself, its name is User:SuggestBot. SuggestBot mostly uses a user's edit history, whereas the program I described uses mostly the user's reaction to each suggested article, trying to refine the suggestions over time based on whether the user edited the suggested article or not. Also, SuggestBot tries to find topics that will interest the user (like industry-related chemicals, 12th century travels, etc) which is quite difficult to do. The program I described would not be able to understand topics, instead focusing on articles metrics, for instance it could guess that a particular user will want to edit an article that has had an edit-war a year ago and contributions from only one author since then. It can be thought of as WP:ASE with an adaptive algorithm, rather than the well-defined rules ASE has right now. By the way, we could eventually take the algorithm that adapted well to a given user, check whether it also works for other users, and if it works better than ASE's default algorithm, we would override ASE's algorithm with this adapted one. Cheers Syced (talk) 06:42, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Boke
See the talk page. But if you don't care, you are still wasting a huge amount of effort. It's far easier to do than that. Proofreader77 (talk) 13:51, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I let the administrators deal with you on the talk page you mentioned. Syced (talk) 03:26, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Nikolas1981. You removed Fabasoft from the list. Now I found a better reference for the CMIS. You can find it here: go to line 27.05.10 Installation and Configuration of Fabasoft Integration for CMIS, there you can download the pdf: pdf | 247 kB. I will put Fabasoft in the list again, hope you do agree now. thank you. --Fishbone16 (talk) 13:24, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

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List of designated terrorist organizations
ill start a new discussion on the talk page.Lihaas (talk) 12:07, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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 * 44% market share in China... still not notable? Syced (talk)

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Disambig pages at ASE
Hi,

I was looking through the new articles on ASE and many of them are disambiguations, how should I process the disambiguation pages? Curious81 (talk) 19:20, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi! Disambiguation pages are most usually created by experienced users, so they can be quickly removed from the ASE list. Thanks a lot for participating in ASE! Syced (talk) 02:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Re-generate list of articles written by a single editor
Articles written by a single editor/Articles list

The list is empty. Brightgalrs ( /braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/ )[1] 21:37, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks for letting me know! Syced (talk) 05:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

The list is getting close to empty again ...  Djembayz (talk) 18:36, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The list was getting old anyway so I refreshed it. Thanks for letting me know! Syced (talk) 04:02, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

I emptied the list today. Would you please regenerate it? Thanks. --LukasMatt (talk) 03:26, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking all articles! OK, I will generate a fresh list soon, please ping me again in a week if I forget. Cheers :-) Syced (talk) 03:29, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Done! Syced (talk) 12:14, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

The list is down to a single article. Please fill it up again when you have a chance. Thanks! BlackcurrantTea (talk) 06:56, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

re
Thanks for the reply. I've added some gov source, guess it's fine now?--Jsjsjs1111 (talk) 17:25, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the great research, very interesting links! I think we need to find the TEL list though. See the article's talk page. Keep up the nice work! Syced (talk) 07:49, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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HMCS Preserver
WRT (with respect to) HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) Preserver edit to the TLA (three letter acronym) CUM this was not a joke it stands for Cubic Meter as a unit of measure describing how much fuel was leaked. Any other edits that were previously made in Oct were accurate and referenced (see exterior refs) to news docs attached yet DND (Dept of National Defence) hijacked the page and took them down. If you look at the IP address making the edits registered to DND the same address has done this a number of times and been warned by you. Just sayin! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.192.116.8 (talk) 00:54, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Preserve meaning
Hi, Syced. In you made to the The Great Gatsby article, you incorrectly changed a sentence to say that Myrtle said the quote rather than Tom. This error the better part of a year. Please be more careful in the future. Jason Quinn (talk) 22:16, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. The sentence was extremely unclear and confusing, I tried my best to sanitize it but the original meaning was lost to me from the beginning, it seems. While you are at it: that sentence is still of extremely low quality, with wrong case and punctuation errors. Syced (talk) 02:21, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

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Acronym or portmanteau?
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Are you a Syed ? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:14, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Nearly :-) Syced (talk) 16:19, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
 * LOL. What do you mean by that? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:50, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Articles by a single editor
Hi. Is the WP:Articles written by a single editor project inactive? It's been 11 months since I mentioned that the list was down to a single link. It's been empty since early February. Would you please generate a new list, or change the project page to reflect that it's inactive and add it to Category:Inactive project pages? Thanks. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 21:57, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi BlackcurrantTea! Thanks for caring! I am too busy on Wikidata to maintain that project, would you be interested in taking over? You just need to run the script once in a while. Cheers! Syced (talk) 07:11, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I fear I'm not qualified. I looked at the code formerly on your ASE Source code page (asespotter.groovy & asespotter2011.groovy), and understood just enough to know that I don't know enough. I'll likely find some of the ASEs with the orphans I work on, so they won't be entirely neglected. Thanks for all your past work on this! BlackcurrantTea (talk) 09:27, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Articles written by a single editor/Articles list
List is empty. Cheers! bd2412 T 11:30, 6 June 2017 (UTC)


 * , please see the section immediately above this one. Syced, I added a note on the listing page that it was inactive, removed it from the Active Wiki Fixup Projects & MiniAWFP templates, and added it to the inactive list on Template talk:Active Wiki Fixup Projects. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 07:43, 7 June 2017 (UTC)


 * ,, guess what, I am generated a new list right now :-) Since this project seems to be getting a bit of interest, I figured out it is worth maintaining. I will upload it tomorrow. Thanks for your patience! Cheers! :-) Syced (talk) 08:00, 7 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Hurrah! That's me off to self-revert those edits, then. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 08:24, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that haha Syced (talk) 08:26, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, all! bd2412  T 11:24, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Splashtop Inc. for deletion
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WRS
Hi Syced. WP:WRS appears to be broken. Goes to a "Custom Search Engine" page with a "Sign in to Custom Search Engine" button. --77.173.90.33 (talk) 20:06, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback! I updated the URL. Does it work better for you now? Syced (talk) 02:05, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --77.173.90.33 (talk) 06:40, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Greetings, as you know a few days ago I expressed doubt whether this tool should be trumpeted at the Help page. It does seem like a good start on a valuable tool and I'm glad to see improvements not deletion. Carry on! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:47, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your encouragement! The search engine really needs involvement from people who are passionate about reliability, and I am too busy on Wikidata and Commons to follow closely enough what happens at WP:RS. Cheers! :-) Syced (talk) 12:52, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Syced, thanks for clarifying that you'll be maintaining WP:WRS. At first, I was a bit shocked to see NNDB on the list, but I understand that many editors don't necessarily read the reliable sources noticeboard on a regular basis. Since you've removed the questionable domains mentioned in my comment from the TSV file, everything looks good to me. In the future, I plan to condense the information from WP:RSP, WP:A/S, and WP:VG/S into a machine-readable format, and I'll be happy to supply updated TSVs for WP:WRS. By the way, do you mind if I add the WikiProject Reliability banner on User talk:Syced/Wikipedia Reference Search? (If you're interested in WikiProject Reliability, you're certainly welcome to join.) —  Newslinger  talk   11:04, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Of course, feel free :-) Syced (talk) 03:24, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Added image on Oculus Quest
I just wanted to thank you for adding an image to the Oculus Quest page. It looks much better now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrconter1 (talk • contribs) 12:15, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

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Articles written by a single editor/Articles list
Hello. The list was emptied earlier today. Would you please fill it up again? Thanks, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 23:01, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Wow sorry I won't have much time for like a month... would you mind trying to run the script? Thanks! :-) Syced (talk) 01:48, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I may give it a go in the next few days and ask someone at the Village Pump to guide me through the process. I got as far as looking at asespotter.groovy, and haven't the slightest idea what to do next. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 03:58, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I added more info to the README :-) Syced (talk) 04:07, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * That makes it much clearer. Unfortunately, it also makes it clear I won't be able to run the script myself right now. Perhaps one of the other editors who works on the page can take it on. Thanks, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 08:49, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Articles written by a single editor/Articles list
Hello! The list of articles written by a single editor is empty! Just leaving you a message to let you know. Golem08 (talk) 02:06, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Golem08 Fixed, thanks :-) Syced (talk) 13:21, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Articles written by a single editor/Articles list
Hello there! I was scrolling through the list of Wikiprojects, when I came across the list of articles written by a single editor. The sole contents of the page were a list of guidelines, and text saying to notify you if the list was empty. Seeing as it is, would you mind running the script? Thanks in advance, Opalzukor (talk) 12:50, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip! The parsing is currently broken, possibly because of some format change serverside. Rather than fixing the code (which is unefficient anyway), I will try to write a query and update the page when it is ready. Thanks for your patience! Syced (talk) 15:02, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Opalzukor I refreshed the list :-) Syced (talk) 13:20, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * @Syced Thanks a ton! Opalzukor (talk) 08:24, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
That google search is so much better!!!

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Test from Wikipedia app
To check edit tags Syced (talk) 00:50, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about NPGP
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Please do not insert cartoon portraits into biographies
This was discussed extensively at No_original_research/Noticeboard last month, where most who participated were against the usage, per no original research and BLP concerns. Zaathras (talk) 12:35, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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