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on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! <> fpo- I have rewritten the article about the leader of a coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2004. I would be grateful if you could take a look. Capitalistroadster 09:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for fixing the article and making it worth keeping, I changed my vote. T C09:42, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for fixing the article and making it worth keeping, I changed my vote.
Hello
- Um? Is this a question? If you're referring to my cat she's named after the T C19:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
why yes
Well, to start off with, we've got the cats on the user page thing in common :-). I have seen you around quite a bit lately, and I think you're doing very good work. Someone like you would make a good admin in the future, and if you stick around long enough, I would be happy to nominate you for admin when the time comes. Just keep a level head if disputes arise, make sure to use edits summaries (which I can see you're already doing), and keep participating, and you'll go far! Thanks for the nice comments, and see you around the wiki. :-) Alhutch 08:45, 15 December 2005 (UTC) P.S. If you ever need to have someone righteously blocked or some other admin help, don't hesitate to contact me!
- My best answer to your question would be to try everything. Hmm, I guess that's not very good advice. Try stub-sorting or responding to Requests for comment on articles to start with. Another thing I like to do is start new articles on topics requested on this page: WP:AR1. It's really not that hard, you just pick a topic that sounds interesting, do some quick google research, and write it up, citing your sources. that would get you familiar with categorizing articles and finding stub categories to put new articles into, and if you think about it, its sort of the opposite of being a deletionist :-). That's my suggestion for now, but if I think of something else, I'll tell you.--Alhutch09:03, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
SA Goons Wikipedia Category
Your comment gave me an idea. I've created a category, (Category:Something Awful Wikipedians) so we can identify ourselves.--Liface 23:46, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I've made a new SA Goons userbox, which you can add to your userpage with the template {{user goon}} --keepsleeping sleepercell 20:53, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Listing vandals at WP:AIAV
Hey no problem, but I do want to let you know that before listing vandals at AIAV please make sure they have been warned up to a {{subst:test4}} . The vandal continued to make vandalising edits, so I was able to warn him up to the test4 and then block when he still continued. Thanks and happy editing. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk07:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
- No need to say sorry :-D, I know sometimes vandals make edits so quick it's tough to choose between warning them and requesting them to be blocked.KnowledgeOfSelf| talk 07:22, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Snurks:
I ran across your post to Klosterdev's talk page, and it occurred to me that s/he is probably a fairly new user (the account was created in July, but the number of contributions is fairly low) and might need some help along the way. You both seem to be interested inYTMND, so I was wondering if maybe you'd take him under your wing and help him along. If there is anything I can do for either of you, let me know!-- Essjay · Talk 08:55, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Sure, why not?
I spend a good amount of time reading Wikipedia for entertainment, and occasionally I come accross minor things I should add or remove. I never really did anything beyond that because I don't know how to do anything beyond basic edits. Even so, if you need someone to help fight vanels, I'd be interested. So I just download the .jar file?
Barnstar
I hereby award you this Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar for being so quick to offer your help to User:Klosterdev. Wear it with pride, and keep up the good work! -- Essjay · Talk 10:44, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I've downloaded it.
Couple things. Is there an FAQ that explains how to use it?
Also, how do I roll back a page? Klosterdev 23:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Now that I'm thinking about it, how do I delete a page that was vandalized? (an article for something non-existant or somesuch)Klosterdev 23:09, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, you've pretty much covered it.
One last question for now. What is that +/- collumn with the numbers stand for?
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Welcome, Theodolite/Archive 1, to
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In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at
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Semiconscious (talk ·home) 07:37, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Couple more questions
First of all, how do you create a table of contents? I came across a page that needs to be Wikified, but I am uncertain on how to create a table of contents so I can organize it.
Also, releating to the subject, how do I nominate a page to be Wikified?
Thanks for the help. Klosterdev 09:57, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Admin Coaching!
Hi Snurks! I'm
23:04, 23 January 2006 (UTC)- Are you 8 hours in front or behind. On Saturdayts, I'm there from 11am until 6pm usually, UTC. Any good? Sundays: 1pm - 10pm.--17:29, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello there!
Good day, I'm Drini, one of the coaches that were assigned to you by the admin coach Esperanza program. I hope we'll stay in touch, if you need any assistance feel free to drop me a note or to Celestianpower (your other coach). -- (drini's page ☎ ) 23:06, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
An Esperanzial note
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of
In other news,
Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --
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Re: Sam's script, modified
I no longer use it as I am an administrator, but I have recently tested it on a spare account to make sure it hasn't been broken by any software updates or whatnot. You can copy it from
Another Esperanzial note...
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see
The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming
Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
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re: coaching
I saw that page, however I don't believe much in quizzes (maybe since I'm a teacher). From what I see you have common sense on your answers (and being admin is after all, just knowing policy and using common sense) so I don't worry much about the general common scenarios (as the ones on the page) since you're likely to handle them well. If I however come up with an interesting situation, I'll ask you to know what you think.
I'm more a believer on you getting your own questions or you questioning what other admins do (and not just about vandalism cleaning up) so you can come up with the reasons, and when you get confused or don't undertand why admins do what they do, you can ask me about it. Good luck on your quizzes.-- ( drini's page ☎ ) 19:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Categories
Hi, Snurks. If you put a colon in the category link like this: [[:Category:Articles that need to be wikified]], it will prevent the page, like this one, from being added to that category. Thanks, Kjkolb 17:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
re: godmode lite and monobook.js
Hey Snurks. I came across your post on User:Klosterdev's User_talk:Klosterdev talk page, and I would like the rollback function as well, but I am unsure as to how to go about doing it. I am interested in fighting vandalism and have started checking the RC page to help Wikipedia in any way I can; I believe that the godmode lite script for rollback would help me go about doing this easier. Could you please assist me in setting this up / set it up for me. I made an attempt to do so, but perhaps I don't quite understand how it works. Thanks in advance. Skomae 18:34, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
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Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks.--Celestianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
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I saw the Username
User:Crazy mofo. Doesn't "mofo" have a reference to Mother Fucker?
I wish to use {{username block}} against him. With your go-ahead I will do so. Please reply swiftly,
Cheers, Jean-Paul 14:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC) Talk to the Emperor
A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on
As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.
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Editing problem
I was linking to a couple articles in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon#See_also but I couldn't get it to link to "Carbon Filtering" correctly. I tried Carbon Filter, Carbon Filtering, and | Carbon Filtering, but none of em' make it look right. What am I doing wrong?
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Reporting a vandel
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=69.241.159.21
Check this guys edits, he's clearly vandalizing. Who should I report this to in the future?
- Thanks. Also, how do I nominate a page for speedy deletion? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_kutter Klosterdev 22:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- One last thing: How do you include the info (talk • contribs • WHOIS • block user • block log) when reporting a vandal? Does it have to be done manually, or is there an easy way to do it?
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