User talk:Thehelpfulone/Archive/November 2008

Another country outline moved to article space!
Topic outline of Zimbabwe is now in article space. It still needs images and some bluelinking, and is undoubtedly missing some relevant links.

Please take a look at it. You will no doubt spot things you can easily fix that I overlooked.

The Transhumanist 19:48, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Your feedback is needed - what do you think of this...


What was your initial impression when you saw the above image?

Please look at it carefully. What is wrong with it?

In what other ways can it be improved?

I look forward to your reply (on my talk page, please).

The Transhumanist 00:22, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: To anyone else who sees the above message, feel free to answer it too (on my talk page please). -TT

Please adopt me!!!
I am looking for an experienced admin to adopt me. I would like it if it was you! Coolgyingman (talk) 22:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Just a Question
Just another Qucick Question. Would i need to get an sysop to add me to the user:rightslog on the english wikipedia as an account creator. Or is that already being sorted out. Thanks -- [ Elite Rhodes  ] [ Talk ] 10:27, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes i realized what i did wrong before i accidently mentioned the password on the main chat emails I am currently Reading the Guidelines that you sent me and i will send yoú a message when i have read them. I will then leave it up to you if you unsuspend me or not. -- [ Elite Rhodes  ] [ Talk ] 13:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok i have now Read the guidelines and i'm sorry for Accidently Posting a password on the main update email

I totally leave it up to you and the other admins to decide if or if not i can use this tool again. Please Message me back with your Decision Soon Thanks -- [ Elite Rhodes  ] [ Talk ] 15:11, 10 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok thanks very much i will try to follow the guidelines this time and make sure this doesn't happen again
 * Just another Quick Question When i click on the create account link there isn't a email password option available to make sure the user recieves an email. Can you help me !!!-- [ Elite Rhodes  ] [ Talk ] 20:08, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Want power?
See this: Linky tutorial

The Transhumanist 01:54, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Im Having Problems Creating Accounts
Hello again

I have been trying Resently to create accounts that have come in by other users and i am now noticing that i won't allow me to create accounts because this IP address (Which is a College IP and has been Blocked because of vandalism). Just wondering if you know what i need to do in able for me to create accounts from this IP because i frequently use this IP to log In

Thanks -- [ Elite Rhodes  ] [ Talk ] 17:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Search/replaces
I've found a major problem on a set of mainstream geography articles, and have added it to your list...

So it's time to tackle User:Thehelpfulone/Find-replace requests.

Woohoo!

The Transhumanist 01:46, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

The Transhumanist lists: automatic find/replace
Please tell me how the automatic find/replace you have completed for Demographics of Tajikistan and Demographics of Uzbekistan can applied by me to other countries. I am not familiar with the technique you have used. Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 01:18, 18 November 2008 (UTC)


 * See WP:AWB. It's an auto-pageloader and semi-automatic editor. The Transhumanist  18:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Please see the cleanup that was required in Demographics of Tajikistan and Demographics of Uzbekistan after the automatic find/replace. --Zlerman (talk) 04:15, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

THO, the demographics pages need another pass. Some of the headings had data on the same lines, rendering the wikiheading codes you inserted to display as ASCII text. You need to use regex in AWB to add a carriage return (in regex, /n = new line). Good luck. The Transhumanist 18:23, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm, would that be on the Find/Replace Option or ticking "Regex"? The  Helpful  One  Review 18:31, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know. I've never used regex.  When you figure it out, you can teach me!  :)  The Transhumanist  18:34, 18 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes: tick Regex. Then you type in regular expressions where you normally would type in find/replaces.  See AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression and WP:REGEX.  The Transhumanist  18:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The  codes also still need to be replaced with carriage returns.  See the instructions at User:The Transhumanist/List of country demographics pages.  (I think you skipped the testing step).  :)  The Transhumanist  18:52, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Nomination
 Pedro would like to nominate you to become an administrator. Please visit Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Pedro to accept or decline the nomination. A page for your nomination at Requests for adminship/ . If you accept the nomination, you must state and sign your acceptance. You may also choose to make a statement and/or answer the optional questions to supplement the information your nominator has given. Once you are satisfied with the page, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so. - User:Stwalkerster is also adding a joint nomination. Meantime you might like to work on the questions. Don't forget to sign the acceptance, revert anyone who tries to support before it goes live, and ask if you want me to transclude it! Good luck. Pedro : Chat  08:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * i can haz co-nom? –Juliancolton Tropical  Cyclone  14:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I was going to co-nom too, but too many co-noms can be frowned upon, so I added my "beat the nom" support instead. Good luck THO!
 * Good luck, I left a msg for you on Pedro's talk page... but I also wanted to remind you to close your Editor Review. It is generally frowned upon to have an ER going while under RfA.--- Balloonman  PoppaBalloon 19:09, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * You, sir, are a fine editor who would do great with the tools. Don't want to celebrate too early or jinx it altogether (whoops!) but I see no reason why the community should not find a consensus to promote you. Best of luck! :D &mdash; neuro(talk) 19:19, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :D The  Helpful  One  19:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Why thank you... I appreciate the vote of confidence... oh wait, were you really commenting to Thehelpfulone?--- Balloonman  PoppaBalloon 19:38, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Lol! The  Helpful  One  19:39, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, you've been doing something (everything?) right. :)  I'm impressed with your RfA.  The Transhumanist  20:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'm wowed too! :) The  Helpful  One  20:53, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Demographics of Tuvalu
I notice that you have twice run a search and replace on Demographics of Tuvalu in an attempt to create subheadings, but the result is broken markup. I would have thought you would have noticed that the result was poor when you viewed the page after your edit. You do check your work, don't you? Please fix it. I also saw a similar problem with your edit at Niue, but on that article even if your edit had not been broken, it would have been undesirable to have so many subheadings in a country-level article.- gadfium 20:28, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Subheadings are fine, and they support redirects pointed at them. The Transhumanist  21:29, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Regex

 * Hmm, I don't think that AWB has been working properly, I think it worked for Demographics_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands but not as well for things like: Demographics_of_the_Isle_of_Man? Is that what you meant by regex? The  Helpful  One  20:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * "regex" is short for "regular expression". When you click the regex box, AWB interprets search/replaces as regular expressions (boolean logic formulas).  I haven't started using them yet, as I didn't realize how powerful they are.  I'll start just as soon as I get a new laptop.  The Transhumanist  20:45, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Regex can do things that the basic search/replace feature can't, like search for blank lines, and add blank lines in. You can also search for multi-line entries, which is an extremely powerful ability.

Look at the  codes. Those need to be removed, but if you replace them with nothing, then the lines will run together. Therefore, they need to be replaced with new lines. That will create some double blank lines, so you'll have to make another pass to change the double blank lines with single blank lines - AWB does that automatically if you have its general fixes box checked.

I see more comments are coming in on the typos. What have I gotten you into (you must have missed my suggestion to test first before "running amok"). :)

Good luck!


 * Demographics of the Northern Mariana Islands - removed the "br" codes. ✅
 * Demographics of the Isle of Man - I don't know if AWB's regex feature supports wildcards - I can't make heads or tails of the instructions - but if it does, you can specify "===" followed by anything, followed by new line, and replace it with the same thing but with a new line (/n) after the ===. That's what you need regex for.  Have fun!  :)

The Transhumanist 21:04, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

You've got company
Rjwilmsi has been working on the "Demographics of x" CIA stats too. He requested feedback, which I've provided at User talk:Rjwilmsi. I thought you might find it relevant. If you drop on by his talk page, be sure to say "hi". :) The Transhumanist  21:52, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Demographics cleanup
I've cleaned up these using WP:LINKY and WP:WikEd:


 * 1) Demographics of Albania – Republic of Albania
 * 2) Demographics of Algeria – People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
 * 3) Demographics of Angola – Republic of Angola
 * 4) Demographics of Australia – Commonwealth of Australia
 * 5) Demographics of Austria – Republic of Austria
 * 6) Demographics of Argentina –
 * 7) Demographics of Canada - Canada
 * 8) Demographics of Ecuador – Republic of Ecuador
 * 9) Demographics of Egypt – Arab Republic of Egypt -
 * 10) Demographics of France – French Republic
 * 11) Demographics of Germany – Federal Republic of Germany
 * 12) Demographics of Iceland – Republic of Iceland
 * 13) Demographics of India – Republic of India
 * 14) Demographics of Indonesia – Republic of Indonesia
 * 15) Demographics of Iran – Islamic Republic of Iran
 * 16) Demographics of Iraq – Republic of Iraq
 * 17) Demographics of the Republic of Ireland - Republic of Ireland
 * 18) Demographics of the Isle of Man  (British Crown dependency)
 * 19) Demographics of Israel – State of Israel
 * 20) Demographics of Italy – Italian Republic
 * 21) Demographics of Japan
 * 22) Demographics of Macau  – Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Area of special sovereignty)
 * 23) Demographics of Mexico – United Mexican States
 * 24) Demographics of Russia – Russian Federation -
 * 25) Demographics of Taiwan'' –
 * 26) Demographics of Thailand – Kingdom of Thailand
 * 27) Demographics of the United Kingdom – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
 * 28) Demographics of the United States – United States of America
 * 29) Demographics of Zimbabwe – Republic of Zimbabwe

The Transhumanist 00:09, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics
I'm cleaning 'em up again, using this heading for the statistics section.

The Transhumanist 01:51, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Rjwilmsi
Rjwilmsi implied he knows AWB/regex very good. So feel free to bombard him with questions on how to set up regex search/replaces. :) The Transhumanist  03:03, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

OK, I think I figured out how to approach this
I'm in the process of standardizing the headings, to the following heading:

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics
AWB can be configured to skip pages that don't have that, which should help keep the run focused.

Each data type has an identifier (surrounded by ''' usually), so by keying off of those specific terms, the formatting around those can be cleaned up pretty easily. Most of the data to be changed is in the same (incorrect) format. And most of the rest of it is in another (equally incorrect) format.

Also, pages in the correct format can be identified pretty easily and skipped by specifying strings that are found only in that format.

Does that make sense?

The Transhumanist 03:03, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

I've added the above heading to all the country demographics articles up through Demographics of Malawi, replacing whatever other weird heading was there (they varied a lot).

I also added lead sections where there were none using:, placing the country's name after the pipe.

The Transhumanist 05:33, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Saw Epbr123's oppose on your RfA about some questionable speedy tagging including this user. I think you did the right thing per this admins speedy deletion logs. Take a look when you become an admin. Cheers 211.30.109.24 (talk) 11:11, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Your RFA
Best wishes for your RFA --  Tinu  Cherian  - 05:13, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Best of luck in your RFA. I will be adding a support in a moment. When you are an administrator, be kind to others. Your nominator notes that you have used edit summaries 100% since starting. That's great! That shows that you pay attention to detail. However, others have been mean and have used flimsy evidence like that as an excuse to ban someone as a sock. (Imagine, You are blocked/obvious sock/too familiar with wikipedia editing). Try to be nice. I think you will be so I'm supporting your RFA. Chergles (talk) 17:55, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

You are now an administrator!
Yayy, now go delete the main page and get your happy-jollies. :) Woooo!  iMa tth ew  19:57, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * WOO! Perhaps an overreaction :P  Your tee will be done in a couple minutes :P Garden . 19:58, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, too many IRC pings to reply! :) The  Helpful  One  20:02, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Omai, thankspam with AWB? Lazy! :P Garden. 22:11, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I would call it efficient, I'm doing CSD too :P. The  Helpful  One  22:13, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Your RFA was successful
Congratulations, I have closed your Request for Adminship as successful and you are now a sysop! If you have any questions about adminship, feel free to ask me. Please consider messaging me on IRC for access to the #wikipedia-en-admins channel. Good luck! --Deskana (talk) 19:59, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Damn, ec... had written a "beat the crat congrats" but I no longer beat the crat... anyways congrats.--- Balloonman  PoppaBalloon 20:00, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * :DD! Congrats!   Sam  Blab 20:01, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * (e/c) Beat the cat congrats. :D &mdash; neuro(talk) 20:01, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Notes that Garden and I beat the crat ;)  iMa tth ew  20:03, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks to all, I'll spam soon a nice message ;) The  Helpful  One  20:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Ach, don't spam. It's a waste of time and energy! What's wrong with a nice userpage notice? The best candidates all do it. ;) Well done on your RfA. A long time a-coming, in my view! AGK 20:11, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Congratulations! You know, of course, tradition demands that you now either block Jimbo or delete the Main Page.  Actually, tradition demands that someone suggests you do those things, but who's counting? &mdash; Coren (talk) 20:17, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks to the above section, first comment ;)  iMa tth ew  20:18, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * And many more on IRC... :) The  Helpful  One  20:19, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Good news. If you need any help ask me. Another one for the collection and my highest number of supports for any nominee! Pedro : Chat  20:45, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Who's next to join? ;) :D The  Helpful  One  20:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I suspect the other nom of mine at RFA at the moment. After that probably a few of my other wiki mates :) Pedro : Chat  20:51, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Lol, that's a good one. :) The  Helpful  One  22:16, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Congratulations and "burn" those users who opposed you. ;) By "burn", prove them wrong. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 22:25, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

deleting my article
hey why did you delete my article about saphire music inc.??
 * The first of many... ;)  iMa tth ew  21:13, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Sublime!! Get used to it! Pedro : Chat  21:14, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, replied. The  Helpful  One  21:16, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Just wait for the messages you'll get when you figure out how to get past this :P On a serious note, don't actually do it if you figure it out! Also, just to point out, most of those in the village stocks are there because of an admin action, so be careful, or you may get "nominated"! Anyway, congrats on the RfA, and remember that too many tabs can be confusing... I've got a chronic case! :D  Stwalkerster  [  talk  ]  00:06, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

About your RfA
Congratulations on your successful request for adminship. I am glad you passed, and you are welcome for the support. For information on using your new tools, see the school for new admins; you will find it very useful. Good luck! Acalamari 22:41, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Congrats. Just stay a helpfulone. --Efe (talk) 22:52, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Well done on the RfA success! Hope you enjoy your new mop. Happy editing :-) Sloan ranger (chat) 23:00, 25 November 2008 (UTC)\
 * No need to thank me, You deserve it. Maybe when I run you can vote in my RFA =).  SteelersFan- 9 4  00:18, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, Thehelpfulone. Don't ever be in the title of an ANI thread, don't delete the main page, and don't block me. :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  02:04, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Gratulations :D  Matt (  Talk  )  02:48, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Have a great time with the mop and bucket, good luck and congratulations from me! see you around on the wiki. Andy (talk) 06:55, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I would just like to say, gratz :) (Sorry for the late reply :P)  ·Add§hore·  T alk /C ont 09:29, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

re: adoptme
It doesn't matter about whether you are an admin or not... How much do you know about editing on wiki??? Coolgyingman (talk) 23:06, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Notice of request for deletion of editor :)
, the editor you are, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that you satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space. Your opinions on yourself are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at User:GlassCobra/Editor for deletion and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit during the discussion but should not remove the nomination (unless you wish not to participate); such removal will not end the deletion discussion (actually it will). Thank you, and have a good sense of humor :).  iMa tth ew  01:59, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Congrats...
...with your RfA. Thanks for answering a few of my s. -- Vltava 68  (talk  contribs ) 03:46, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Congratulations on the success of your recent RFA. :D لenna  vecia  04:11, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Although I understand the guidelines of Wikipedia ( I use it on a regular basis ) I don't appreciate the page that you deleted called AloeCure. I was trying to shed some lite on the product and aloe juice in general. I had only just gotten started and planned to include a lot of useful information. I did not intend the page as a advertisement, there are plenty of those already on the internet, you just need to do a google search.

Although the username is "Thehelpfulone" in this case it was "Theharmfulone." I will make sure others are aware of this too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.49.192 (talk) 07:45, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * No custom RfA thankspam? *is greatly offended* O_O — Possum (talk) 09:00, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Congrats in your resent success from you RFA i hope to be hearing from you in the future again congrats [ Rhodes416  ] [ Talk ] 09:11, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Congratulations :) &mdash; E  ↗ 12:56, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Well done on passing RfA, good luck. Camaron2 | Chris (talk) 13:35, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Belated congratulations. So how about making me that turkey sandwich? -- Scorpion 0422  19:17, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Article deleted (user 1)
Why did you delete my GregSolomon article? HE'S EPIC, and wikipedia needs to know :< —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emogutten (talk • contribs) 20:43, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Article deleted (user 2)
Hello. I just joined as ABooth and posted a new page for my company "Firmex". One of my competitors also has a page already up under "Intralinks". I modeled my page after theirs - you deleted mine and theirs is still up. Why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajbooth (talk • contribs) 22:11, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!


I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, A NobodyMy talk 02:32, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Just a Quirey
I Was wondering what it would take to become an admin in using the ACC tool.

I understand that i was suspended for sending a incorrect password on the entire mailing list and i have understood what i did wrong and i sincerly sorry about that.

I just want to know what i would need to do to maybe become one. I also understand that their will not be more than 23 admins on the ACC tool.

Congrats on your resent RFA by the way and hope to be hearing from you soon

Thanks [ Rhodes416  ] [ Talk ] 16:47, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you...
For semi-protecting the Iraq War edit war. (apropos) GetLinkPrimitiveParams (talk) 23:53, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Removal of Rushing Rivers Institute
You recently removed the page of Rushing Rivers Institute based on copyright reasons. We are the owners of said copyright and as such have the authority to publish the content. An e-mail was sent to permissions@wikipedia.org several days ago but the issue has not resolved itself. Quick action would be appreciated as its current status reflects poorly on us.

Thank you. Bhartt (talk) 18:11, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Belated Happy first edit day :D
Hoorah! <font color=#000000>Garden. 23:04, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Machu Picchu
Hiya, just as a second opinion from another admin, I wouldn't call the actions of vandalism (see WP:VANDAL). I do agree that the block was appropriate since they were edit-warring and not responding to talkpage messages, but I didn't see anything from the IP that looked like a deliberate attempt to compromise the encyclopedia. Ditto with the protection notice at Machu Picchu. Protection was appropriate, but it might be better to change the reason to edit-warring, rather than for vandalism. Would you have any objection to my changing the message? --Elonka 18:52, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Changed, and thanks. :)  BTW, I see that you're a new admin, welcome.  :)  I've been working on an "advice for new admins" page, at User:Elonka/Advice.  I'd be interested in your feedback as to whether or not it's useful, or whether there are other things that you'd like advice on? --Elonka 19:06, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

PopSinger623
He immediately restored his bogus article. Why did you unprotect his talk page?&mdash;Kww(talk) 15:15, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * But that was exactly the point. This editor is on indefinite block because he creates this same bogus article, over and over and over and over. He has used up 4 unblock requests, days of conversations with me and other editors, and is now inappropriately using his talk page. Please blank his talk page, protect it, and lets be done with this.&mdash;Kww(talk) 15:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Scuse me for butting in, I've been watching this situation for a few days. Please take a quick look at PopSinger's talk page as of this revision. PopSinger was given a real article to work on, but did not complete the task. See especially the comments at the bottom of the page, where attempts to explain to him what's going on appeared to fall on deaf ears. PopSinger then blanked the page, restored his bogus articles, and continued to edit them. He was told that any hope of unblocking was contingent on him not doing this. You seem to be inviting him to continue as per previous discussions about letting him edit an article, but that did not refer to this article. I don't think there is much point in trying to help this person further. Since he is acting like a youngster (so I presume he is one), and claims his albums are to be released more than a year in the future, I doubt they exist at all, and he is just using Wikipedia for playing. Also note that what brought attention to him in the first place, was a separate incident where he and/or his cousin were blanking multiple articles for fun. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 16:05, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link, but I have already blanked and protected the talk page now. :) The  Helpful  One  16:22, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Edit protect on Sarah Palin article
I'd strongly recommend that you extend the period of full protection on the Sarah Palin article. The content dispute that prompted you to lock the article (at least, the one I think you were referring to -- the dispute about the rape kits) has not been resolved nor has it died down. Please note, in my opinion the protected version is the wrong version, since the lockdown occurred immediately after repeated deletions by a single user of a compromise revision fashioned by numerous editors – but I think it should remain locked anyway, while this and other debates play out. Factchecker atyourservice (talk) 20:48, 30 November 2008 (UTC)