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{{helpme}} As you can see, my archive box is messed up. Any thoughts on how to fix this? I have checked the archiving values and nothing has been changed. Thanks, -electricRush | Sign! 01:40, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

(reset) I think it's messed up again. MathCool10 Sign here! 23:02, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

The Seven Year Itch

Why did you remove Donald MacBride to film cast list? He was in the film! I'm adding him back in! Please don't remove it. Worc63 (talk)

I personally don't remember it, but I apologize if I made the mistake. -download | sign! 01:49, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

your welcome temp

hey electricrush, your welcome template seems simalar to the one i used. I wouldnt personally care if i created it, but i got it from User:TomasBat, and before declaring it on your user database you may want to check in on it. Tell that to MathCool10 as well. If you already did, dont mind this message. Just a friendly reminder. Assasin Joe talk 06:35, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

I know it's from TomasBat, and so does download. We just generalized it for our name for easier use. MathCool10 Sign here! 22:44, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Okay, but Wikipedia user properties deny that right without permission from the Owner. Its not a big deal, i was just wondering if Download checked it. I thought he had, but i was just being sure. You do realize that you need rights from TomasBat or from Charles if he already has the rights from TomasBat to host that template on your userpage. No big deal though. Assasin Joe talk 00:03, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
But edits made are released under the GFDL. We are not using it for profit so it's fine. -download | sign! 01:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
k Assasin Joe talk 20:30, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

UWs

How come after a final warning it begins again? -- Mentifisto 21:49, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm using a script, so it shows up as a first warning. Admins still get notified for the blocking, though. -download | sign! 21:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm using a script as well but it follows up from previous warnings. Where do admins get notified for blocking? You didn't report it in this case, no? -- Mentifisto 21:54, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm using Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool. After a user or IP is warned, I think there's a category that's added, which admins check to block users. -download | sign! 21:55, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
No, it's primarily done on WP:AIV... you didn't report anything though because I've went through your contribs. -- Mentifisto 21:57, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Well most users just rollback the edit and warn the user. It's a bit tedious to inform admins of the vandal. -download | sign! 22:17, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
I fixed it. MathCool10 Sign here! 00:03, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Guestbook

Please sign my guestbook again, as you have a new username. MathCool10 Sign here! 00:17, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Whatever you say. -download | sign! 16:34, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:Fancruft tool

Hello, Download. You have new messages at MathCool10's talk page.
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About that map

Thanks (belatedly) for the star!

About the map you added to Igor Panarin: you published it under the GDFL, but it's from the WSJ -- isn't it their copyright? Same goes for the portrait, even if you took your copy from a blog. - Fayenatic (talk) 21:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Table

Can you help make my userpage into a table format like yours? MathCool10 Sign here! 00:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Sure, you should start by copying the code to something like User:MathCool10/Redesign. But don't copy my random notification and random logo code. -download | sign! 01:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Fine. MathCool10 Sign here! 01:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Could you like help me? MathCool10 Sign here! 04:36, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Sure, I've started a redesign page. -download | sign! 01:52, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Contributions

Are my contributions to Igor Panarin good? MathCool10 Sign here! 02:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

You did some nice work, they are pretty useful. -download | sign! 02:09, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Will you give me a star for this? ;) MathCool10 Sign here! 02:30, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Only if you give me one. :P -download | sign! 02:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

(reset) Fine, be that way.

The Barnstar of Diligence
I present this award to download for his hard work on Igor Panarin. Keep up the good work! MathCool10 Sign here! 02:44, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Happy now? Now give me one. :P MathCool10 Sign here! 02:44, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

You are so childish. -download | sign! 02:52, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
*laughs* What about you? MathCool10 Sign here! 02:56, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Guestbook Award

Suprise suprise!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Congratulations on being the 20th person to sign my guestbook! MathCool10 Sign here! 00:12, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Like my award? MathCool10 Sign here! 00:12, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

You spelled surprise wrong. :P But thanks! -download | sign! 00:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:Forum

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Re:Steward Elections

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Not so fast, kemo sabe

When you've finished shooting the messenger (mea culpa on Bristol Byzantine, but check the logs), kindly back away from the trigger 8-( Andy Dingley (talk) 23:56, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Ah, sorry. I'm using a script that filters recent changes and I thought it was quite strange that you would change only one term to a "badword". -download | sign! 23:58, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, we've all been there. And all those anon IPs do start to look alike after a while, even the helpful ones. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:01, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Thx

Thx for the barnstar, really, i was hoping that somebody would give me an award some day. →RatónBat→ 18:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for thanking me! So, mind if I fix some linking on the barnstar on your userpage? I just want it to contain my signature and the links I added. -download | sign! 22:25, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

No problem! and thanks for thanking me because i thanked you!bye--→RatónBat→ 16:29, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done -download | sign! 06:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

See this, this (slightly newer), this, and this (see hidden comment).

Tell me what you think. MathCool10 Sign here! 05:34, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I've seen them all. It's very interesting, how Wikipedia didn't have as strong an article quality enforcement process as now back then. -download | sign! 06:14, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
They did, Odle MS had 2 AFD discussions. MathCool10 Sign here! 06:20, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Side note: Why did you remove Image:Mr. Black.jpg from the article? -download | sign! 06:26, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

As many commented, he is unnotable and therefore does not deserve a place in the article. MathCool10 Sign here! 06:31, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
He is notable, and he adds to the article. Jack Black has won numerous teaching awards and designed the LA/SS curriculum for Odle Middle School. He deserves to be in the article. -download | sign! 06:31, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
  1. Is this information sourced?
  2. This is not important to the school. If he merits a seperate article, put his picture there, but otherwise, leave him out of the school picture. According to your logic, I could put a lot of teachers that have earned awards into this article.
MathCool10 Sign here! 06:39, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

(reset)

  1. Yes, this information is sourced both on the internet and in print. For example, Google "Jack Black teacher Odle".
  2. This is important to the school. Jack Black designed the curriculum, and I was planning to add information relating to this to the article later. In addition, when you look at the article about a band, for example, Linkin Park, do you not see an image of a band member? -download | sign! 06:43, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Get consensus first before adding it, or someone else will just remove it again. MathCool10 Sign here! 06:56, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Nobody cares about Odle Middle School who doesn't have a relationship with it. And the supporters would always outnumber the opposers, e.g. Assasin Joe, Shengwoo, Ankur, etc. Anyways, I thought you were a fan of Jack Black. -download | sign! 07:00, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

68.38.187.31

I noticed your warning on anon user 68.38.187.31. The user has been adding the This TV Network logo to alot of pages. Not sure if you want to revert them all, since it might be overuse of a logo or not. Take Care...NeutralHomerTalk • February 14, 2009 @ 01:38

The logo doesn't seem to be related to most of the articles he's adding it on, so I'll revert his/her edits... -download | sign! 01:40, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Okie Dokie...Thanks for your help :) - NeutralHomerTalk • February 14, 2009 @ 01:44
 Done I've removed all instances of the logo from all articles, other than This TV. Seems like he's trying to promote the company. Also, is there a way I can monitor a user's contributions? I just want to make sure he doesn't add the logo to any more articles before he gets blocked. -download | sign! 01:53, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't think, at this time, there is other than bookmarking the user's contrib page. That is what I normally do. I wish there was a way to watchlist their contribs. Thanks again :) - NeutralHomerTalk • February 14, 2009 @ 01:58

Re: Barnstar

Heh, thanks! Yeah, huggle is pretty fast, although you seem to do excellent work with Lupin's tool, as well. Best, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 01:43, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

I just downloaded Huggle. I actually confused Huggle with Twinkle and thought could only be used with Firefox, but I've researched more. Thanks! 01:46, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

The Santa Clause

I removed a completely irrelevant link from the article on "The Santa Clause" a few minutes ago, and then I got a message saying that I added an inappropriate link and you removed it. However, what actually happened was that you put back the irrelevant link that I removed. I am confused, is there a glitch in some script you're running? 99.231.65.91 (talk) 02:38, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

I apologize for my mistake; I have reverted it. I reverted your edit looking at the edit before you, so it seemed like you were adding spam links. Thank you for notifying me; again, I apologize. -download | sign! 02:41, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Message from 69.255.219.16

NO GUN RI

Son, your bot erased my edits, on no academic intellectual basis which I can discern. Please explain to me the basis. And revert. Bateman_LTC@hotmail.com

Professor Robert Bateman Georgetown University —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.219.16 (talk) 03:28, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

I apologize for the misconception. If you look back to the No Gun Ri article you can see that I reverted my own mistake immediately after I reverted yours. Also, I am not a bot; I am a human being who is looking over his own edits. -download | sign! 03:32, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Quote sections

I was under the impression that having quote sections was considered unencyclopedic on Wikipedia. You marked my edit as vandalism when I removed it. Natural Cut (talk) 06:13, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Could you tell me what article it was? I believe I did revert my edit... -download | sign! 06:20, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
It was Extreme Days and you had actually just reverted your edit before you reverted mine. I figured it was an accident but am still new to Wikipedia so wasn't sure. Natural Cut (talk) 06:22, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
I've reverted it back to your edit. I think you are correct about the quotes. Thank you for informing me about this and good luck! -download | sign! 06:25, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
BTW, your "you have new messages" reminder is clever and useful. But I would hate to see what would happen to my talk page if this became an extended conversation. ;-) Natural Cut (talk) 06:30, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

(reset) Haha, it's just the talkback template, {{tb}}. I would really recommend using it for your conversations. This will be the last talkback template I'll add to your userpage. :P And, also, there's always the option of automated talk page archiving. -download | sign! 06:32, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I left it on my talk page for future use. The nature of user talk pages kind of irks me as someone new to wikis who has IM'd for so many years, but I'm getting used to it. Not sure which side I'm on yet between those who prefer things to stay in one place and those who would have put their response in the "Re: Quote sections" area.
Where would I find the auto-archive thing you mentioned? Natural Cut (talk) 09:26, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
For help on talk page archiving, you should see Help:Archiving a talk page. I would recommend using ClueBot III, which is the bot that I use. -download | sign! 20:22, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Grats! Hello, Download/Archives/2009. You have a newfound claim to fame on Natural Cut's user page.
You can remove this notice at any time, but I thought it was funny.
Haha, that is very funny; you could use it instead of the talkback template ;). -download | sign! 05:24, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Continental Airlines Flight 3407

If someone famous died, the that should be in the article, so why can't I comment on that? 76.66.196.229 (talk) 06:17, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
I apologize for this; after I realized it was a talk page rather than an article I immediately reverted it. -download | sign! 06:20, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Why did you delete my edit? It was an image decepting the subject. 68.205.179.114 (talk) 05:16, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry I confused you with the vandal who was adding that image also. However, on a second note, the article did not need that many images and the image does not appear to match the definition of the term. -download | sign! 05:19, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Block and Ban?

{{helpme}} I keep on seeing this question at WP:RfA; however, I still don't get the difference between a block and a ban. Could someone explain it to me? (And in simple english, please.) Thanks, -download | sign! 05:33, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

A block is an inability to edit Wikipedia. A ban is either a) a block that no admin will lift, or b) instituted by the community or Arbcom. //roux   05:46, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, I understand it now. :P -download | sign! 05:47, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Roux put it well. But I'll add a little: an admin places a block (temporary on an IP, and often indefinite on a vandalism-only registered account) to stop an immediate problem -- vandalism, trolling, abusive behavior, completely out-of-control disruption, -- a variety of things. A ban is more formal, and requires community involvement in one of a number of ways: ArbCom action, a community consensus, or as Roux says, "a block no admin will lift", which is a de-facto ban. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 05:51, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Also, if you're blocked, you can recreate an account (but not one the account used, as this will trigger an Autoblock for default block settings). However, a ban is saying that the user cannot edit Wikipedia with any account. Or it could be a ban to a specific article(s)/topic(s)/namespace(s). MathCool10 Sign here! 02:50, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
'Scuse me, you don't get autoblocked if you create an account (I think), but you do if you edit with the IP. Hope that helps. Cheers, MathCool10 Sign here! 02:56, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

In an attempt to correct what you thought was an error or vandalism, you have reverted (arbitrarily and capriciously) several weeks of solid research and input. You should reinsert what you reverted immediately. I have set forth certain of your most egregious reversions below:

1) In the section entitled Presidents and Prime Ministers (International), I removed Mary Robinson because she is not an alumnus of CU; I inserted in her place, alphabetically, Pottering, the President of the European Parliament as of 2007. Having not checked to see why Robinson had been removed (for good cause), you removed the correct Pottering change, as well as numerous other correct, material, relevant, and critical entries, all of which had been carefully researched. (See the following.)

2) In the section entitled Cabinet members and Presidential advisers, you reinserted Judd Gregg as the United States Secretary of Commerce nominee in the Obama Administration, when in fact Senator Gregg withdrew his name from nomination for that position several days ago.

3) In the same section, you also removed Charles Evan Hughes as the former United States Secretary of State; Leon Keyserling, as the former head of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Harry Truman; Georgina Kessel as the former Secretary of Energy in the Cabinet of President Felipe Calderon; Carlos P. Romulo, who served 8 Philippine presidents as a cabinet member; Harlan Fiske Stone as the former United States Attorney General, and so on (in this section).

4) In the section entitled Judges, you have omitted at least one federal judge and the first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory (appointed by President Jefferson).

5) In the section entitled Legislators, you have omitted 27 United States Senators and Representatives, including Senators DeWitt Clinton, Paul Douglas, Hamilton Fish, Arthur W. Mitchell, and Frank Porter Graham.

6) In the section entitled Soldiers, you have omitted that General Rickover was "twice awarded" the Congressional Medal of Freedom (a phenomenal achievement).

7) In the section entitled Mayors, you have omitted every mayor save one, so that the only mayor now listed in that section is Seth Low.

8) In the section entitled Candidates, you have omitted 3 candidates, one of whom is Senator Judd Gregg.

9) In the new section entitled Pulitzer Prizes, you have omitted David Levening Lewis, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

10) In the section entitled Academics and Theorists, you have omitted 4 college presidents (all alumni of CU), including Colin Campbell (the 13th president of Wesleyan University) and Thomas Kean (the president of Drew University).

11) Finally, you have inadvertently changed all of the "See also" subheadings in every section that has such a subheading. These subheadings were carefully worded to reflect either "separate" or "additional" listings of notable alumni. The subheadings also included mathematical calculations based upon CU listings and "separate" and "additional" listings.

I have not enumerated all of the critical omissions, insertions, and errors your unintended reversion has caused. I would suggest in the future that if you intend to revert one current edit, you do that, and not revert weeks of unimpeachable work without understanding the totality of what you are doing or even checking superficially what you think (in a flash) is vandalism. In conclusion, my writing this to you is a waste of time that could have been used doing research. I know you are well intended but you have just engaged in a colossal blunder.

I am not accustomed to "talking" on these pages so I will simply wish you well, thank you for your immediate attention to this matter, and sign off 69.121.5.149 (talk) 08:03, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done I apologize for reverting your work, and I have reinstated it. However, your last edit was very suspicious (adding a single name with no edit summary), and caused me to revert all your edits. In the future, to prevent other editors from reverting your work, you should consider creating an account and providing an informative edit summary. Also, no need to write such a long essay.  :) Just drop me a note and I'll fix it. Good luck and thank you very much for your edits! -download | sign! 17:56, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
This is probably because of overusing the Huggle software. Huggle uses rollback, not undo. MathCool10 Sign here! 03:00, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Yes it is; his/her last revision was very suspicious as he/she added a single name. Just to be safe, I reverted all the edits as most of these edits are usually vandalism. -download | sign! 03:03, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

download reverted a link to the wikipedia article Babylonian captivity, here: [1]. How this can be considered non-NPOV is beyond me. I restored the link. 68.126.20.227 (talk) 19:25, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for restoring the mistake; the words "so-called" made seem to be biased. -download | sign! 19:27, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
OK, I changed it to "see also". "So-called" can be considered pejorative, that was not my intention. 68.126.20.227 (talk) 19:40, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
I actually think "so-called" would be a better term to use, so I changed it back. On a side note, you might want to create an account so you can keep track of your own edits and not be confused for as an IP vandal. -download | sign! 19:45, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the help!

Hey Download. Thanks for cleaning up the recent vandalism on my user page. Happy editing to you and your kin. FlyingToaster 00:11, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

You are very welcome; it just popped up on Huggle. -download | sign! 00:13, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Sweet

The Excellent Userpage Award
For designing a wicked-cool user page. Cheers! Eustress (talk) 05:10, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks a lot! It took me whole lot of edits to make it.  :) -download | sign! 05:13, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:IgorPanarin.gif

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Possibly unfree File:IgorPanarinMap.gif

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Dead people are not covered by BLP

Hi, re: this - dead people (and William IV is undoubtedly very dead indeed) are not covered by BLP and it is highly inappropriate to issue such warnings in such a case. I would also add that "he remained faithfull to his wife and took no mistresses" is not in any way a negative or highly controversial thing to say about anyone, living or dead. Please be more careful in future. DuncanHill (talk) 23:34, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Edit to Propionibacter Shermanii

Download, you posted a message on my talk page welcoming me to wikipedia, telling me my edit to propionibacter shermani had been unconstructive, and that it had been reverted.

I am not new to wikipedia. I was simply merging the aforementioned page into propionibacterium freudenreichii, where you will find a great deal of overlap. A suggestion for a merge had been proposed by another user. I placed a redirect on the source page as is suggested on the wikipedia help page about merging.

Please give me feedback. 4dhayman (talk) 00:32, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Before redirecting the page, you should see what information should be moved to the other article. In addition, you should only clear the page of its content after consensus is reached. Finally, please provide an informative edit summary to make sure that you edits are not taken as unconstructive. Good luck! -download | sign! 00:35, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Oh, very well. I had already transferred the non-overlapping information, but I did not know I should wait until a consensus before clearing the page. Is there a message I should put on the page to alert people that the page is waiting for consensus to be cleared? 4dhayman (talk) 00:39, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure that if the notice has been there long enough you should be able to redirect it. Just remember to leave an edit summary. -download | sign! 00:41, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. 4dhayman (talk) 00:42, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Please stop overusing Huggle; you make lots of mistakes if you rush to revert. Don't revert the minute you see a change to an article; look at the change. MathCool10 Sign here! 01:14, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I do look at the changes, and I no longer make any mistakes that I don't correct. So stop trying to find ways to attack me, MC10. (Note: Yes, I do know this user in real life.) :P Oh, and also, I only revert very suspicious edits, such as the changing of many names. I've learned a lot in the 2 days I've used the program. (ha. ha.) -download | sign! 01:35, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
My comments:
  1. I'm not attacking you, I'm giving the facts (see most of the messages above)
  2. Download, you don't revert name changes unless they are obvious vandalism, as they could be updating information for a sport team, dance club, etc.
  3. FYI, don't make the mistakes in the first place. There would be no need to correct them.
MathCool10 Sign here! 04:30, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

(reset) My reply:

  1. Those messages were from yesterday. I've learned since then.
  2. Yes you do revert name changes if they are suspicious, because chances are they are vandalism if they are coming from an IP. And I don't revert when they provide an informative edit summary.
  3. You are in no place to criticize me. Try reverting vandalism yourself and you'll see. And also you are the one with less than 1000 mainspace edits and with 50% of your edits towards the user namespace.

So actually go get some editing done, and don't flame people. -download | sign! 05:37, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and just a thought: You were the one who was asking for a barnstar from me. -download | sign! 05:45, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
An informative edit summary doesn't mean the edit wasn't vandalism. Also, reverts count as "special pages edited," not "mainspace."
Also, you should be the one to stop attacking other editors and giving out unjustified warnings. I'm stating the facts. I'm calling a spade a spade. MathCool10 Sign here! 02:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I never said an informative edit summary meant the edit wasn't vandalism. And I am not attacking you, I am stating the facts as well. Please assume good faith and stop trying to destroy other editors. -download | sign! 02:29, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

The minor barnstar

Thanks much for the award. Much appreciated. It does refuel me. LilHelpa (talk) 01:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

No problem; it refuels me too giving people barnstars. :P -download | sign! 01:47, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
You give barnstars to almost every person you meet, even if they hadn't done much. This is not the point of barnstars; they are meant to congratulate people constantly making useful contributions to Wikipedia (such as reverting vandalism). MathCool10 Sign here! 04:35, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Look, MC10, what is your problem? (No offense, I'm quite mad right now) I've probably given only 10 barnstars in my whole time on Wikipedia and LilHelpa has done a whole lot for Wikipedia. Probably even more than a whole lot; look at his contributions. So. Just because you're jealous doesn't mean you should go around flaming people. -download | sign! 05:32, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I wasn't talking about LilHelpa, I was talking about some of the previous one you gave out. And please don't attack me. MathCool10 Sign here! 02:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

(reset) You are the one attacking me. Look at the contributions of the users I gave the barnstars to before trying to play teacher with me. -download | sign! 02:27, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

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Order of Thistle revert

Wow you're fast, I was about to do that but you beat me to the punch. I was wondering I've had issues in the past with reverting multiple vandalisms (vandalism upon vandalism edits) is there an easy way to do that. I typically load the last good page, edit this page, and then save over. Is there an easier way? Admins really ought to lock down featured articles while they are on the main page. Thanks. Naufana : talk 23:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Haha thanks. I would recommend requesting rollback privilidges (you can see the description). It's really helpful. I would also recommend downloading Huggle, which is a really cool anti-vandalism program. -download | sign! 23:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

See WP:EfD. MathCool10 Sign here! 01:12, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Not funny... -download | sign! 01:58, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Why not? Nominate a bot and see what happens. MathCool10 Sign here! 03:07, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't have time. I want to revert vandalism. -download | sign! 03:07, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Tips

OK, I shortened your signature to 3 lines (in my small laptop view). You can go see it here. Fix it a bit more. Also, make your images smaller. On a computer that doesn't have a wide screen, the images go off the 100% page. Make the images like 200px instead of 400px. MathCool10 Sign here! 03:19, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

When I say images, I mean images for your navigator. MathCool10 Sign here! 03:20, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
I saw your edits to my signature; thanks! I do not want to make the images smaller as they won't look as good. -download | sign! 03:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Improper use of AWB

According to AWB's terms of use, this edit, and edits like it are not what AWB should be used for. If you continue to make edits such as these you may have your access revoked. Just a heads-up. Thanks. --Closedmouth (talk) 07:10, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I checked your contribs, and all of your recent AWB edits are against policy. You should really have read the terms of use before you started using it. --Closedmouth (talk) 07:14, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand what I did wrong. Is is because I didn't make significant edis or is it because I made too many edits per minute? I checked over every edit that I made. -download | sign! 18:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
To do work like this (general cleanup), turn typo fixing on, and then "Skip if no typo fixed". –xeno (talk) 18:13, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Ok, so what you're saying is that I shouldn't waste server time with the moving of items and adding blank space, and that I should only fix typos? -download | sign! 18:15, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
That about sums it up. The former changes have no visible effect to the reader so they should only be done alongside more significant edits, such as typo fixing. –xeno (talk) 18:16, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

(reset) OK, thanks. I understand now. -download | sign! 18:17, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Hm... I can't seem to get many typos with the random articles list. Is there a better way to find typos? -download | sign! 23:22, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

If you want to do some constructive typo work, try using WP:Typoscan. --Closedmouth (talk) 09:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Prose tool

When it says:

// <nowiki>If you are editing a page, click the prose button on your tab bar to add "{{fancruft|{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}" to the top...</nowiki>

change {{fancruft}} to {{prose}}. MathCool10 Sign here! 04:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Done, thank you. -download | sign! 18:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Non-free images on your gallery/image page

Hi Download, I've removed these again as non-free images are only allowed in articles - not in userpages or other places - Peripitus (Talk) 06:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Ok thanks for informing me; I'll have the page deleted in this case. -download | sign! 18:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Happy editing - Peripitus (Talk) 20:48, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

All I Ever Wanted

Removing irrelevant info from an article by reverting edits is NOT vandalism. Get a clue 76.109.42.17 (talk) 02:23, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Please tell me how it is not vandalism. The part you removed seems to be important to the article, and is cited. -download | sign! 02:28, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
it's not relevent in anyway, it's about athe album being leaked and cites commnuity forums as sources. for one thing, leaking albums is illegal, secondly, community forums are not reliable sources as per wikipedia itself 76.109.42.17 (talk) 02:32, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
OK thanks for the explanation. You might want to consider creating an account and leaving an edit summary in the future. Best of luck! -download | sign! 02:33, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Excuse me

I did not commit any vandalism. I edit here in good faith. I am asserting my right to WP:BOLD and rewriting the article to fit within the standards of WP:BIO Fletch81 (talk) 02:26, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Ah, sorry for the false positive. It seems like Doulos Christos made the same mistake. I'll remove the warnings from your userpage. -download | sign! 02:31, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. If you re-read the article now and compare it to what it was before, there was undue weight given to a minor violation that resulted in no penalties for KU basketball after Coach Williams had left. I feel the article was in violation of WP:COAT. I would appreciate your input into my edits. I did not remove the material, but I trimmed out a lot of the fat, as it didn't warrant its own section. Fletch81 (talk) 02:35, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
I think you're doing really well with your edits. Again I apologize for my revert. Happy editing! -download | sign! 02:42, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Stop vandalism

what's wrong with you??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Java scriptus (talkcontribs) 00:04, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

User download, please stop doing vandalism —Preceding unsigned comment added by Java scriptus (talkcontribs) 00:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

You are the one who is vandalizing. You added false info, changing the dates on many articles. You will be blocked if you continue. If what you added is true, please include an informative edit summary. I will gladly revert my edits if I am wrong. -download | sign! 00:08, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the message you left on my talk page [2]. Since they were making much the same disruptive edits, I blocked 76.109.120.66 (talk · contribs · block log) at 19:07 and Java scriptus (talk · contribs · block log) at 19:09. --Kralizec! (talk) 00:19, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
This is messed up... You could always use WP:AIV. MathCool10 Sign here! 01:12, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I did automatically use WP:AIV and I was requesting a checkuser as well, so stop being nosy, MC10. -download | sign! 00:28, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Design help

{{helpme}} Is it possible to make a right pane to put my userboxes in on my userpage in the "About Me" section? It really looks bad with the userboxes where they are. Thanks! -download | sign! 20:54, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

I wonder if the one I use would work? If you look on my user page, it's the boxboxtop part. -FaerieInGrey (talk) 20:57, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much! It works! -download | sign! 21:00, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Good! Glad to have been able to help! -FaerieInGrey (talk) 21:03, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Huggle

Hi there, Please see the download page for the new release of huggle. It should work and should be the only version to work. Thank Xclamation point and if you have any questions please get to me on my talk page as I will not be checking back here. --·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 21:19, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks; just saw it. What happened? -download | sign! 21:20, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
The guys at wikimedia changed something on all the servers, In other words the servers were giving huggle something it wasnt expecting and couldnt handel it, now it can :) ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 21:28, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Alright, I was getting quite worried. :P -download | sign! 21:29, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Make sure you thank Xclamation point !!! :P ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 21:42, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

(reset) Haha thanks; gave you both barnstars. -download | sign! 21:45, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

ok - that would be great

give me 24 hours to update my user page, and then I'm ready to go. only started this on 19th December and have only just discover how to search using WP:, so its been a steep learning curve. Earlypsychosis (talk) 22:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Looking forward to adopting you; you're my first adoptee and I've started creating an adoptee's classroom. -download | sign! 22:03, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the multiple reverts on my talk page. :D LittleMountain5 22:07, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

You are very welcome! I try to revert vandalism as fast as I can using Huggle. -download | sign! 22:08, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, you've beaten be quite a few times. :) LittleMountain5 23:28, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar! Much appreciated, even if I'm late with the thanks. Glad you noticed the donwload typo corrections in response. LilHelpa (talk) 01:56, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Welcome Template

Hi download i was wondering if i have your permission to use your welcome template and slightly modify it so that it say my name and not yours i copied the source and created the necessary pages that are needed for the template to work at the bottom i gave you credit for making the template.here it is


Staffwaterboy Critique Me Guestbook Hate Comments 00:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Of course! Feel free to copy the source to your own subpage and welcome users using it. -download | sign! 03:03, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

How come

You reverted a perfectly good edit I had inserted, including a reference I got from the medical helpdesk, after asking them for help? I noticed you reverted yourself now, but is there maybe something wrong with the heuristics you are using? That happened now several times, how comes? 70.137.151.133 (talk) 03:52, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

I apologize for the false positive. I reverted myself after I saw that it was not vandalism, as it looked pretty suspicious at first. -download | sign! 04:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Exactly! Thats what I wanted to know, what made it look suspicious? My edits seem to look suspicious all the time... 70.137.151.133 (talk) 05:09, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

You might want to consider creating an account and leaving an informative edit summary. This will cause your edits to not be taken as vandalism in most cases. -download | sign! 05:10, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Thats what I did: "undo, the ref given says to the contrary". the edit reactivated a ref to the contrary of the previous revert... And you can't well revert IP edits because they are IP edits. 70.137.151.133 (talk) 05:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, again, I apologize for clicking the revert. But I'd really recommend creating an account as there's many benefits. Happy editing! -download | sign! 05:17, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Adoptee

Crossing my fingers that I'm writing in the right space I think I'm hereby accepting your adoption offer. I'm just mostly lurking around now, I've changed some minor things, and I think I'm doing alright for now. In case of questions, I just wave a huge flag on your talk page and write the question? Thanks! Lascoot (talk) 19:10, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Alright! Looking forward to get started. Firstly, you might want to read my adoptee's classroom and ask questions in the corresponding discussion page. Happy editing! (P.S.: When editing someone's talk page, I would recommend clicking "new section" to add a new message to the bottom of the talk page, not the top.) -download | sign! 19:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I wanted to do that, but failed to find a new section button. I've read your adoptee classroom already, and will probably refer to it whenever I need something. Which brings me to the first question. Is it okay to order External links, e.g.

External links

general

  • link
  • link
  • link

examples

  • link
  • link
  • link

Lascoot (talk) 19:55, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Alright, I've moved this to User talk:Download/Adoptee's Classroom and I will be answering it there. I would recommend you watch that page to check for updates. -download | sign! 20:00, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Thankles

Thanks for the adoption offer. If I have any questions I'll be sure to ask. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TravisAF (talkcontribs) 15:47, 22 February 2009

Hey there! You might want to check out my adoptee's classroom and also your personal question page, where you can feel free to ask questions. Please watch your question page so you can keep track of when I reply. P.S.: Please remember to sign your messages by typing four tildes (~~~~). -download | sign! 01:14, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

I would like to nominate you for adminship if you wish to. You have a full 8k edits (almost 9k). MathCool10 Sign here! 03:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Not yet, not yet... But thank you; maybe later. :P -download | sign! 04:02, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Well then, I'll give you some tips.
  1. Do more WP:AIV work.
  2. Have some WP:AFD work done.
  3. Do some WP:PR.
  4. (Optional) Work in WP:DYK,
Tell me what you think. MathCool10 Sign here! 04:06, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Oh, and also apply for WP:ER. MathCool10 Sign here! 04:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
I will obviously be doing WP:AIV and WP:AFD. I'm not that interested in WP:DYK but I do plan on writing some featured articles. -download | sign! 04:09, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Icons in AFD discussions

We don't do that. AFD is not a vote. It's a discussion. Uncle G (talk) 01:35, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Confusion...

Hi there DOWNLOAD, VASCO from Portugal here,

Regarding this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:217.129.67.28#February_2009): No problems, man, mistakes happen! Have a nice week yourself.

P.S. If you browse through my talk page, you will see, just above yours, that not everybody is that polite in recognizing a mistake, even when accusing of something worse...

From Portugal, keep it up, VASCO AMARAL - --217.129.67.28 (talk) 02:59, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for dropping by! May a recommend that you create an account? There's many benefits, including being able to keep track of your edits and not being confused as a vandal as much. Happy editing! -download | sign! 03:02, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Silly me, man, should have told you the first time around...I already have an account (see here User:NothingButAGoodNothing) but, from time to time, edit anonymously (since i got nothing to hide and never change IP, as i sadly and recently understood many vandals do :(, therefore i am easily traceable)...Feel free to drop by anytime, happy editing yourself!!

Cheers, VASCO - --217.129.67.28 (talk) 03:10, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Top editors

On your userpage you say:


However, you are nowhere to be found (using CTRL-F). Are you sure you are correct? MathCool10 Sign here! 03:50, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes I am correct; however, the list has yet to be updated. -download | sign! 03:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Meh

It's an unusual headline, but 'meh' is the only thing I could think of. I mainly put the adoption template up because of my dismay at joining Wikipedia only to find Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics/Core topics COTF completely dead per talk and Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology/Collaboration of the Month and Wikipedia:Science collaboration of the month are festering.

I think I found the answer at Wikipedia talk:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive#Proposal to close: 'Some of the other collaboration projects are not in much better shape. ... With the closing of ACID the Golden age of Wikipedian Collaboration comes to an end.' I don't know, I guess the adoption thing was me crying for attention since they all seemed like such grand ideas. --Wetenschap (talk) 20:56, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Alright; if you need any help in the future feel free to put the {{helpme}} template on your talk page to get help. -download | sign! 23:15, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Questions

I added some questions to my questions page.

Axmann8 (talk) 21:00, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry about notifying me in the future, as I already have the question page watched. Happy editing! -download | sign! 23:16, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Signature

How do you do your signature? I've been trying all day to get it right... How do you do yours? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Axmann8 (talkcontribs) 02:57, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Remember to sign your posts! I've explained at your question page, so you should watch it for my replies. You can see my signature at User:Download/Signature, but don't copy it too much. -download | sign! 03:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Bots?

{{helpme}} Seems like bots are ignoring my talk page. ClueBot III isn't archiving threads; some are 3 days due. In addition, SineBot is not automatically signing unsigned comments. I've had two users not sign and I had to manually add {{unsigned}}. Any thoughts? -download | sign! 02:28, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

If memory serves, there's a bug in ClueBot that ignores the page if the ClueBot parameters are contained within another table template--in this case, the archive box. Move the params out and it should work. No clue about Sinebot; ask Slakr. //roux   05:05, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Hmm.. I've moved the parameters out but it actually previously worked before. I'll ask Slakr about SineBot. -download | sign! 18:41, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Actually, now that the parameters are out, the archive box doesn't display anything. On ClueBot's page, it actually tells you to format it like that. I'm putting the {{helpme}} back up. -download | sign! 00:06, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism on this page

Some people do like you :P - see the history. (BTW, I'm being sarcastic) MathCool10 Sign here! 06:32, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I know; I get a "new messages" notification in Huggle. -download | sign! 18:10, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Adoption

Yes, I'd definitely be up for it! I am in dire need of some help lol —Preceding unsigned comment added by Axmann8 (talkcontribs) 17:13, 23 February 2009

Looking forward to helping you! You might want to read my adoptee's classroom and see your personal question page, where you can ask all your questions. Be sure to watch your question page so you can keep track of when I reply. Also, be sure to sign your messages by typing four tildes: (~~~~) -download | sign! 02:19, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the barnstar, I always appreciate them. I agree too, people need to keep an eye out for small print. I got suckered into a 5 year magazine subscription because I didn't!

Have a good day, Andrew647 19:49, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

You are very welcome! -download | sign! 23:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Adoption (2)

Thanks for your offer, I accept and hope to learn a lot! Firstly, how do i create a private project? (~~~~)

User:LouiseKRose —Preceding unsigned comment added by LouiseKRose (talkcontribs) 14:50, 24 February 2009

I'll create a personal question page where you can ask questions at User:Download/Adopt/LouiseKRose. You might want to watch this page so you can keep track of when I reply. Please also read my adoptee's classroom, which is a beginner's guide. P.S.: Please remember to sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) and leave your message at the bottom of the page, not the top. -download | sign! 00:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm mad...My adoptees are mainly inactive and don't edit much. Can I borrow some? MathCool10 Sign here! 01:37, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I think it would cause some confusion, so not now. But I won't be taking any more for a few months, so keep an eye on Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user. However, feel free to help me answer questions on their personal question pages. :P -download | sign! 02:01, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll take advice from anyone Earlypsychosis (talk) 10:30, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Signature (2)

I understand what you're saying. I mean, how did you make your "raw signature" work with all those HTML tags in there? I tried using all wikitext, and even tried using {{subst:}} then using HTML tags, but it wouldn't work.

What I'm trying to get is just "Axmann8 (Talk)" <--everything in the quotations, with a black background and yellow text., but I kept trying and trying (about 25 some tries), but it always had SOMETHING wrong with it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Axmann8 (talkcontribs) 10:44, 25 February 2009

I'm not very good at this type of designing. You should try putting {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will help you. Also, remember to sign your posts!!! -download | sign! 02:58, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I keep forgetting haha -Axmann8 (Talk) 21:28, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Tick the "raw signatures" box in your preferences. MathCool10 Sign here! 19:20, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, that's the problem lol, the raw sigs can't contain html... so I'm kinda screwed, but I think I got it fixed. -Axmann8 (Talk) 20:25, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

(reset) To allow it to contain HTML, create a page at User:Axmann8/Signature, and put what you want your signature to be in it. Then in the "Signature" field in your preferences, insert {{subst:User:Axmann/Signature}}. This will solve your problem. -download | sign! 20:35, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

THANK YOU!!! That's what I was trying to figure out. Before, I tried putting the actual signature code in the subst: tag. -Axmann8 (Talk) 21:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Only doing my job.  :) -download | sign! 21:30, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, man! Finally got it working! -Axmann8 (Talk)

Thanks!

- Jameson L. Tai's Guestbook Barnstar
For signing my guestbook - I, - Jameson L. Tai talkguestbookcontribs, hereby present Download with this award. Cheers! -- - Jameson L. Tai talkguestbookcontribs 07:27, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! :) -download | sign! 22:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Comment from 84.50.181.246

hey download teach me how do to this page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.50.181.246 (talkcontribs) 17:59, 27 February 2009 y do u keep chainging it omfg answer my questiton —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.50.181.246 (talkcontribs) 18:02, 27 February 2009

Sure, but please create an account first and consider becoming a faithful editor rather than making disruptive edits. Also, please do not blank my talk page as you did previously. -download | sign! 02:03, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Top Up Fees

I've 'undone' your revert to top up fees. For reasons see talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.238.214 (talk) 14:55, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Looks reasonable. Thanks for informing me. -download | sign! 20:18, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

BarnStar

For being a good friend. →RatónBat→ 20:47, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:User:Mathcool10

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