User talk:Magister Mathematicae/2005-12

Hey Drini... What kind of vigilante are you?

A good one -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:32, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You are fast... I'll give you that. 206.117.138.216 04:34, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:35, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm kinda new to WiKi... It's cool how you're able to "know" how someone's page was vandalized. Was/is Willy on Wheels a real vandal? He/She/They sound kinda prolific. Is there more about him/her/them to read about? 206.117.138.216 04:37, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

yes he's one of the most notorious vandals. There are several ways to watchout pages. One way is to watch out at [1] -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:38, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if it would be possible to load a bunch of wiki pages into pre-set frames in an HTML page and use a util to select/highlight/delete/enter each individual frame. Like lets say you load 1000 popular wiki pages into a 1000 frameset. That would keep you busy huh? LoL. 206.117.138.216 206.117.138.216 04:43, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not really. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:44, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Damn... I gotta find a way to beat Willy's status. I'll keep you posted on how I make out. Thanks Drini! You're a peach. :)206.117.138.216 04:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How are you so fast? Considering that there are so many posting at one moment in time, how to you isolate vandalism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.235.95.192 (talk • contribs)

hehehehe, I have tricks under my sleeve (basically there 2 bots watching over irc feed and also a java applet, customized to highlight some kinds of edits) -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 05:55, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Drini - first bread, and now a barnstar. Next.. a bonsai? A bonobo? Some brisket? Regardless, it's always a nice feeling to be recognized! Cheers! --PeruvianLlama^(spit) 07:27, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya, I've been admiring the two dual graph jpegs on your userpage. I'm assuming they were made with pstricks. It looks like it would be a nice way to make extensive form game trees. Do you have the code used for those graphs? I'd be keen to see it. -Cheers, Pete.Hurd 06:53, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure, I think the Dual Graphs were actually done on Xfig. (Hint: notice the sansserif upright letters, whereas pstricks uses latex-like cursive letters) -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 06:55, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Xfig?! *eewww* It's been a while since I've used that! ok, never mind too far from LaTeX for my habits. thanks! Pete.Hurd 06:59, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Please look at this dynamic IPs revert war: 81.182.194.197 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log),81.182.104.136 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log),81.182.195.63 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log), 81.182.20.159 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) and 81.182.194.197 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log).

The articles in question are:

• Second Vienna Award (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
• Greater Hungary (political concept) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
• Vienna Awards (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
• Treaty of Trianon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Do something please. I am not admin. -- Bonaparte talk 20:13, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't make such reports on my page. Use WP:AIV or WP:VIP for that -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 20:13, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think those are vandalism, those are content disputes, you should present your case to Wikipedia:Resolving disputes. Since it's not blatant vandalism, I won't block this time. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 20:16, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Drini! Sorry if I erred on the side of conservatism on the block I imposed on User:Your Mom. It was the first time I blocked a vandal, and my thinking was a 15 minute block may serve to "instruct" the individual. I of course defer to your greater experience in these matters. Thanks for blocking the vandal! See you 'round the wiki! Hamster Sandwich 20:44, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Worry do not.. :) I was doubtful if go for indefinite due to unappropiate username -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 20:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

24.61.199.160 20:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)24.61.199.160dear sir why did you delete the link i put up under the Shinidamachu yes the first page was a bit silly but if you had read the entire thing then you would have seen that we are haveing a team of us find out what they are how all mysterys surounding them and when we are done we will post the anwser for the masses singed pyrokingdragon of the keade school of kikkyo studies[reply]

oh ya p.s sorry about the earth thing it was a dare from a friend

I seemed a bit spamy to me, and iventhe IP vandalized, I took my odds -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 20:49, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I know we don't indef block IPs, but I didn't know what to do with him so I was going to check the WP is communism vandal page and then redo the block appropriately (never dealt with one before). Thanks for taking care of it. -- PRueda29 ^Ptalk29 21:23, 06 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The block is very brief. I will wait it out, monitor, and see what happens. --HappyCamper 03:01, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing the changes on his page, it's clear he is not Francs, so I did a longer block due to the personal attacks. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 03:02, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, good idea. --HappyCamper 03:10, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Drini for restoring the list of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer. It was one of the first articles I ever wrote on Wikipedia, and I spent a lot of time researching it and verifying every game one at a time. You have restored my faith in Wikipedia. We can't advertise ourselves as the "sum of all human knowledge" if we don't even know who beat Bobby. Thanks again. Snowfalcon 03:52, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! ;-) Sango123 (talk) 23:58, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice catch [2]. Wofford is another school in South Carolina and one of Furman's rivals, which given the guy's screenname might make sense. I'm just amused by his comment though, while there is a dry campus policy there, there's not so much of a dry campus there. heh. Cheers. Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 01:45, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Drini,

I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. Even though it failed with a with the final tally of 55/22/6, I want to thank you anyways. I don't want to be one a admin anymore until I reach 10,000 edits now that it's over with. Thanks --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 03:37, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Someone who makes this argument to get unblocked after being correctly blocked for vandalism, doesn;t seem trustworthy to me. I recognize that we want to give people secodn chances, but he would have had one when his block expired. But someone who threatens to do it again, doesn't seem like they've repented. No vandalism yet, but I hope you made the right decisisio in removing that block. I wouldn't have been so lenient with an argument liek that. Just my OP. have a good one.Gator (talk) 18:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah well, it took me some time to learn WP:AGF and this approach has worked me before. It's been a day already and it's being fine. Moreover, it's not like he can't be reblocked if he reincides (and in such case, I bet it's going to be pretty hard to get an admin to unblock him) -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 18:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not trying to unblock, no admin would do that, not even if I were an admin would I do somethign like that. I'm willing to see what happens here too. I just disagreed. We'll see what happens. I hope you're right. Have a good one.Gator (talk) 18:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I understand that, I'm only explaining that it's not really a big problem, if he vandalizes again he can be reblocked inmediately, but by unblocking him (and so far he's been behaving) we for a start stopped the editwarring on the talk page, and open the way for him (or someone else on that IP) maybe adding some good content. My point then is: Unblocking is not big deal, if it goes wrong the block returns , period. On the other hand, we reduce wikihate by trying. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 19:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with all of that. You are a more patient person than I am.Gator (talk) 19:03, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Although I think he's already at it again, but could never prove it.[3]. We'll both keep an eye out. Thanks for talking with me.Gator (talk) 19:05, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, yes I was just checkign that guy, although this is part of what I now think it was a bad idea to restrict anons, they now refuge within usernames and it's harder for us to identify them as the same person. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 19:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work reverting the vandals on Mandan while it was on the mainpage yesterday! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 19:45, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Muchas gracias, señor Drini, por la reversion de mi pagina de discusion. Wighson 00:19, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it that on your profile it says "this user is proud to be American" and then next to it is a Mexican flag??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.108.23.153 (talk • contribs)

Because America is a continent, so all habitants in any country of the continent are americans. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 21:13, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete the page Kevin O'Flaherty? I'm not sure for the text persent on the page when you deleted it, but what I put there was "See Paul O'Flaherty." Both names link from here: Notable list of chess players

They are twins that are in some way good at chess, but nowhere at the level of anyone anyone else on that list. To put into prespective Kevin and Pauls ratings are 1600ish while everyone else on that list havs a rating of 2200+ If you don't know what you are deleting then please don't just delete it. While the content might have made no sense to you it made sense to everyone else that knows the 2 people in question. The only thing that needed to be edited was the notable chess players list, which I shall do. In the meantime you might wish to think things over before just deleting pages as you please. Polar ice 22:46, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, then recreate as a redirect. When I saw it it was just a one sentence with a wikilink to a nonexisting entry. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 22:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, at the time the linked page had stuff on it. I guess someone deleted the other page and then after you saw a page with a link to nowhere you deleted that too. Thanks for replying so quickly Polar ice 18:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

83.9.53.7 thanks for blocking

Prodego ^talk 23:12, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

THISSUX (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)

This user is on test1. Is it an innaproprite user name? If so please block.

Prodego ^talk 23:25, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Its not advertising moron, its a relevant link —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.169.64 (talk • contribs)

No it's not. And if you call me moron again, you can be blocked for personal attacks and uncivility -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 23:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Drini

I noticed your user page link on the robert frost history where you refer to it as "vandal proof". I added a small sentence to your user page ("vandal proof test" iirc). It was removed almost immediately by Lbmixpro - were they just a diligent wikipedian or evidence of a vandal proof user page? If the latter, how is that accomplished (if not a trade secret - on wikipedia, shame the thought ;)? Many thanks. --Tomandlu 23:41, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

;) it's a secret of the trade.... (hehehe actually not) It's just a bait so vandals will waste time on my page instead of vandalizing real articles. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 04:41, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ah - a honey trap... neat. ttfn

Hmm... Feel free to add any others. Also since you like "baiting" you may want to use one or more of the "vandal honor" templates on my userpage. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 20:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

that Ernie 85 and Errina15 could be the same person, vandalizing. I'm sorry to bother you, but can you please look into this, since you just blocked Errina? Thank you.--ViolinGirl^♪ 01:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I saw you blocked him/her. I appreciate your quick work and checking that out for me. You are appreciated!--ViolinGirl^♪ 02:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. --Nlu (talk) 03:45, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Drini, I was wondering if you had any opinions on the {{Maintained}}, see Template_talk:Maintained and discussion on Templates_for_deletion. If you do, I for one would be keen to hear them. Best regards, Pete.Hurd 18:58, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Zscout370 here. I'm still missing from EN, but I want to ask you if the recordings of the Mexican anthem at http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/?contenido=15008#mexico_simbolos_himno are in the public domain. If so, I want to upload a few recordings to the Commons. Thanks. 68.8.237.154 02:20, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Drini. We need someone to look over Permaculture, and I guess referee a little. Don’t know if you would be interested or not. Right now it has a –NPOV- tag on it that appears to me to be fine to take down, but another opinion is needed.

The other editor is a guy named Sholto Maud User:Sholto Maud. He seems to have fights going on on multiple fronts, mostly relating to trying to connect almost everything under the sun to Howard T. Odum. (Well, maybe it would be better to say that he has had multiple fights over the last month, not all at this time – its just Permacultures turn it seems)

I haven’t even suggested to him yet that an outside referee is needed, so I would understand if you wanted to avoid jumping into the fire at this time, I may be asking for a referee prematurely, not real sure about that..

The relevant discussion about the tag is at Talk:Permaculture Neutrality. And about Odum in the next section right after Neutrality, which I just added. Thanks much for any help or advice Brimba 06:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'd try, but right now I'm traveling for holidays, besides the fact I?m not very knowledgeable on the subject, therefore I will decline for now. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 18:32, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think of the movement? Reply here. Thanks. --Kin Khan 03:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting, but futile I think -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 03:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 18:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. File:Pressie.gif, in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! File:Unclecrimbo.gif Dr. McCrimbo 23:27, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Drini! I hope you have an enjoyable and relaxing winter break. :) Take care, Sango123 (talk) 00:09, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Heh...no problem. I was just thinking about my old RfA and saw that it changed to someone elses. I was gonna ask you why it changed, but i just reverted it anyway. Thunderbrand 06:23, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, as I said, I was removing instances of {{Sig}} which I could find, since it was about to be deleted -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 06:23, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you deleting references to notable TV comic John Stewart?--Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz 06:59, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm [4] [5] [6] .... -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 07:02, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You stop it--Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz 07:25, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Er, sorry about that; I apparently reversed the order of uploader and notifier in that image. I'd tagged a lot of BANi's, I'm checking now if I reversed any other ones. JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:39, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Why were my additions to the Albanians page deleted? They were true, valid contributions. I added more to symbolism, an explanation of why the current Albanian flag is used. Plus, I added another prominent non-Albanian that studies the Albanian language.

Can you please give me an explanation and explain what I must do in order to successfully contribute to this encyclopedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shqype (talk • contribs)

Well I don't think adding that lisas cool it's a very good contribution. Here's the diff [7] and although albaninas are amazing, I don't thikn that was a very encyclopedic statement [8]. SO I rolledback, unfortunately I missed that you had done several contribs on a row and they were all undone. Perhaps you could reinstate onlly the encyclopedic contributions. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 07:16, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I understand, for that I am very sorry, my younger sister is rather immature (She's the "Lisa" that wrote that). We were using a cable router, thus the same IP/internet connection. She was scolded but her actions were enough to get my legitimate additions deleted. I will reinstate the legitimate encyclopedic contributions. I'm sorry for any trouble that may have been caused. -- ( User:Shqype )

I appreciate your feedback and help. As you can probably guess, this is my first redirect. I embarked on this project knowing it would be my most ambitious new article but not anticipating how new article patrol would ignore my edit note and nominate the first save for AfD.

Writing under scrutiny of AfD has made this difficult task harder. I've never doubted that the article would be kept. Yet the process exposed the work in progress to exactly the attention I'd hoped to avoid. This subject demands a tasteful and balanced approach. No early draft can hope to meet that standard.

This AfD abused both my good faith and the readers'. It gave editors who were most able to make positive contributions a misleading impression about the value of doing so. The overwhelming positive votes do not compensate for that loss. Durova 07:47, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well from what I see the article will be kept. However I sympathize with you. AFD is a really stressing process If you need assistance, I'm usually around and you can request assistance from me. (however I'll be away a couple of days from next tuesday and rest of week). Try not to become discouraged, and I apologize if I was a little bit too short on my explanation, it's jsut that I'm already tired at this time of the day, after lot of cleaning up during the daytime. Cheer up and keep the good work with your articles!! -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 07:51, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to thank you for reverting the vandalism to my page quickly it's most appreciated. Chooserr 08:50, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why, hello there--Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz 06:04, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to say thanks for reverting my user page. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:16, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In case you have a unix shell available, there's also a python bot to monitor vandalism that can be left unattended (and it's also portable to any OS where python is ported) -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 16:43, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm interested in everything related to vandalism fighting. I have access to unix shell. Can you tell me more about that python bot? Thanks. -- lijealso 17:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

PS.:(I also use CDVF)

Well, User:Pgk is developing the new bot, it's done in python. I have almost a packaged to unzip and run out-of-the-box, but due me not having much access until 2nd week of january, I don't have it right now. Basically you need these dependencies:

• Twisted.words from http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/words
• Twisted words depends on Twisted.core: [9]

above packages are the ones who handle the raw irc stuff. Twisted.core depends on Zope.interface which you may or may not have. In any case, you can get it from

• Zope.interface [10]

It's a bot designed to run unattended (so it doesn't ned a gui program like mIRC, it can run within a detached screen. You only need to do a minor configuration before running it, which will be included in the package I'm making. I'll drop you a note as soon as I finish it. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 21:02, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Presenting a picture of a Lego block when a user is..well, blocked. :) Royboycrashfan 07:59, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well :) It's a personal template, since when I put it on the real blocked tempalte, it got reverted and got yelled at for being informal and unserious ;) -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 08:00, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's not like all warning templates are serious (for example, this one isn't). Royboycrashfan 08:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Three revert rule violation on Moldova (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views).

Serhio (talk · contribs):

• Previous version reverted to: [11]
• 1st revert: [12]
• 2nd revert: [13]
• 3rd revert: [14]
• 4th revert: [15]
• 5th revert: [16]
• 6th revert: [17]
• 7th revert: [18]
• 8th revert: [19]

Insults users like "MF"...203.188.144.62 10:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well I wasn't around, but I see it's been taken caren of already. I just hope the admin who did checked for both sides breaking 3RR. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 19:36, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

Happy New Year! ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 20:24, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

These boxes were not created by me. They were created by Mistress Selina Kyle ^{(Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉)} 22:36, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am only the person who spotted them while I was doind Vandal Fighting. (By Crypto Derk's program)Eagle (talk) (desk) 22:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't mix me up. That post was hers in response to mine on here page.

yeah I think I mixed thing s up, I mean Selina Kyle, sorry. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 23:01, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, just protecting my reputation. Thank you for understanding.Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:03, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How did you create this neat Subject/Headline: organization table for your talk page.

Can you show me. I'm impressed.Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused at what you mean. Do you mean the headlines index? It's automatically created when more than 2 or 3 == headlines == exist. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 23:23, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well exactly that way, copy and paste the code. asically the whole page is a table and the header message isa table inside the table. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 23:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try it. Thank youEagle (talk) (desk) 01:07, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Rather interesting to watch the Black Box Debate.

Where is the chart or list of colors. I want to change the backgroundEagle (talk) (desk) 01:14, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It uses html colors, I doubt there's a complete table. For instance #878da4 is RGB: 87 for red, 8d for green, a4 for blue (those numbers in hexadecimal). -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 16:38, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

templates substituted by a bot as per Wikipedia:Template substitution Pegasusbot 08:09, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]