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Hi Ganesh, this is regarding our discussion about a bot account. I was trying to read up stuff about bots and it seems that User:Kingbotk is doing just the work that we would like to. From what I could gather, we just need a plugin similar to the ones here. But since I dont have any idea about how bots work, I will need your help to get started. Can you guide me on what needs to be done in the technical part? I think I can take care of the permissions part -- Lost 13:39, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Mahawiki

Hi dear Admin,

This is to bring to your notice the wiki-feud I've been having with User:Mahawiki for almost one month now. It started with the Belgaum page which went to mediation, warnings were handed out to both parties, and when Mahawiki's incivil ways continued, Admin:Bluyugen handed him a warning and then a block. Find that here.

I do not want to turn the clock back and go through all those content disputes again. Infact, I dont want to present to you the details of any content dispute we've had. All I want to present to you is the brazen incivility and personal attacks being committed by User:Mahawiki either in the course of his content disputes or even simply just out of spite.

All the diffs(exhibiting his incivility and personal attacks) I provide below are from AFTER, I REPEAT, "AFTER". ADMIN BLUGYUEN INTERVENED, WARNED ALL OF US, BLOCKED MAHAWIKI AND SAID .

Please find below dozens of instances of blatant incivility and personal attacks by User:Mahawiki either on me or on User:Dineshkannambadi and all Kannadigas in general. His remarks are in extremely bad taste and counterproductive resulting in undermining of the good faith efforts of the other editors to carry on editing their articles.

While I dont want to go into each and every diff and explain it, just to give you a sample of his incivility, he has made edits where, even if only in jest or sarcasm, he makes atrocious claims like, I am on a kill Mahawiki mission, that User:Dineshkannambadi is the Kannada (Bin) Laden(sic). In another edit, even if only for jest(which I certainly dont find amusing nor appreciate esp., when it comes from him), he has threatened to sue me. He has called us cultural TERRORISTS, losers, notorious, shameless etc., etc. He uses the word vandalism like one would use 'Hi' and 'Hello'.

Find all the above and much much much more in the diffs I've provided below. Whats worse is his antics are going unchecked because Admin:Blugyen who knows about our feud is on a wikibreak and Admin:Sundar whose intervention I've sought more than once, is busy with other things(I presume, in real life) - which ofcourse, I dont hold against either of them.

But wikipedia will be a poorer place if brazen incivility like this goes unchecked for weeks simply because many admins dont know about it or the ones who know are by force of circumstances, too busy to deal with it.

I request immediate and harsh action on Mahawiki.

Once again, let me remind everyone that in the links below, none of them pertain to any content disputes. I belive in dealing with the content disputes on the relevant talk pages and dont usually bring it out on user talk pages.

Infact, I have even not listed below, the atrocious claim he made a couple of days ago that I had deleted and later undeleted an article. Also not listed below is his blatant removal of {{fact}} tags I had added in a couple of articles without even clarifying or providing a citation for the claim which I had tagged. Also not listed below may be umpteen other instances of incivility and npa violations on his part that I might have missed.

All the diffs below deal purely and only with his brazen incivil comments and personal attacks not just on me, but on User:Dineshkannambadi and also highly respected historians like Mr. Suryanath Kamath et al(who have been cited in some articles by Dinesh) whom he has trashed and dismissed in the most uncivil manner possible.

Apart from this he also makes disparaging remarks on Karnataka and Karnataka politicians who he keeps claiming are oppressing and torturing Marathi speaking people in Belgaum. This is not a content dispute, this is plain nonsense and insanely belligerent language.

His incivility apart, he has made it a habit and a routine to go around all over wikipedia branding me and Dinesh as 'Kannadi' vandals bent on Kannadizing all articles we touch. Ask him if we have included any uncited material or if we has ever cited any references for his numerous claims or whether he has taken it up on the article talk page instead of on a random user talk page. His answer will be negative. And yet, that doesnt stop him from going around shouting that we have been vandalising articles!!

Anway, I dont want to veer this towards the 'content disputes' which is a whole different matter altogether. Content disputes can always be discussed and agreements reached. Let me present to you just his brazen incivility and personal attacks.

Here we go -

Sarvagnya 21:45, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

dab

I suggest using "X, Erode" instead of "X, Erode district". The shorter should be sufficient, because I _assume_ not many X to exist in Erode town _and_ in Erode district. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 06:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

CUTPASTE

Hi Ganesh. I've (hopefully) fixed the cutpaste move. Basically, if you want A redirecting to B in the end, first delete B. Then, move A to B. View edit history of B. Click on restore the deleted edits. WP:CUTPASTE has more details. -- Sundar 06:57, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

:) Check this out before taking Ibuprofen. ;)

Good to know you fixed the talk pages. Cutpaste merges are a breeze after doing once. -- Sundar 07:14, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Party Color templates with shortnames

Sorry Ganesh, but with {{Election box candidate with party link}} it is not possible because according to it we need to make color templates with full name. Just have a look and analyze. The template is associated with many parties, so it is not possible to make changes in template itself. What you wanted to say, I have experimented with the template also but did not get succeed. This template is associated with many Lok Sabha constituencies, so replacing it with another template would be difficult. If any more suggestions you have, then please tell me. I will try else we will have to make either two templates (one with shortname and other for fullname) or replace the shortname templates with full name to avoid redundant templates. Shyam 07:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Great, I supposed that REDIRECT won't work here. Thanks, Shyam 08:17, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

My Bot

I was using a 1 second delay only because I wanted to get this task compleated before peak hours because I dont like my bot running durring peak times and I normaly run at about 10 second delay. If you have any questions feel free to ask me Betacommand 16:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

{{UttarPradesh-geo-stub}}

I have added an image to the above template, but it does not appear in the template !! Could you please help me on this? IrfanAli 11:12, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the jpg image, but still don't understand why png did not work?? Anyways lets leave it that way. IrfanAli 18:40, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

No I don't use a bot for stub sorting, WP:AWB dose not work on linux ...yet. IrfanAli 18:44, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I have requested for AWB at Misplaced Pages talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage IrfanAli 20:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Kangrali (BK) and Kangrali (KH)

What kinda parentheticals are those? Do we have more informative names to move these to? - CrazyRussian talk/email 02:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I will check and advise you. - Ganeshk (talk) 06:57, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Ladakh

Thanks Ganeshk, it was a collective effort of so many people. By the way, sometime we have to run the bot for Hindi/other Indian language wikipedias. I'll try to convert the file sometime... such things are harder to do when the semester is going on. deeptrivia (talk) 03:44, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

India

Oops,

I thought he meant the earlier one. I have reverted myself. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Mayiladuthurai Entry

Dear Ganesh, This is Koteshwar from Ongara Ashram, Chennai. Santhosham.

I recently happened to view the Misplaced Pages page on Mayiladuthurai. I have been associated with Mayiladuthurai for over 3 years now - I traveled there on several occasions to gather details on the 21 saints who lived thereabouts. My Guru Swamy Ongarananda (who himself grew up in Mayiladuthurai) compiled these life histories of the saints in a 450 page book, which was released by Dharmapuram Mutt Adheenam on Sep 15, 2006 in Mayiladuthurai itself.

The fact that I mentioned the book, Mayiladuthurai Mahangal, on the Misplaced Pages page, was with the earnest desire that net users who browse this page learn of the numerous saints who lived here and the vast tomes of teachings they have left for us. Mayiladuthurai is indeed a special place for siddhars and this book does contain concrete evidence in the form of photographs, sculptures, documents, palm leaf scripts etc. to reinforce this claim.

With regard to your comment that this is 'book promotion' - well, this is Swamiji's 45th spiritual book over 30 years and we hardly are in need of such 'promotion' stunts. The rich spiritual legacy of Mayiladuthurai is there for everyone to claim and I have borne witness to sacred footprints that the saints have left on its soil over the centuries.

Its only to transmit this message worldwide that I made this entry. Please re-consider whether you have it edit it again.

One other thing - Mayiladuthurai Parabrahma Sadguru Siddhar Swamigal, an illustrious saint - lived over two decades in mayiladuthurai and attained Siddhi there. was honoured on His Birth Centenary in 2004 by a commemorative stamp release by the Department of Posts, Govt.of India. Placing him alongside other important citizens of Mayiladuthurai (both living and past) would indeed be appropriate, I guess.

Santhosham Koti. Email: arudram@yahoo.co.in

Priyanka Chopra // Kareena Kapoor - vandalism

Hello, GaneshK, thank you very much for the help with the anon vandal. It's really very much appreciated. Best regards, --Plumcouch 16:50, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Good work. I was going to remove that sockpuppet tag myself. I am going to warn that user, if you already haven't. He's on ArbCom probation (ManiF) — Nearly Headless Nick 08:57, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Mokele-mbembe

Hi. I was just working on move requests, and saw the request for Mokele-mbembe, which I'd looked at a couple of times over the last few days, and was thinking of moving. I then failed to notice that you had relisted it, and didn't see that you had until I'd completed the move. I wasn't trying to overrule you, so much as just a bit unobservant there. Since the requester had posted their reason for requesting the move on the talk page, and nobody had objected, and the reason seemed good and source-based, and held up to inspection, I figured it was fine, and if someone objects, we could discuss it then. If you'd like, I'll revert myself. -GTBacchus 09:36, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

An evening with Jimmy Wales

Hello Ganeshk. Thanks for your message. It was a great evening! --Bhadani 15:15, 30 September 2006 (UTC)