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VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:56, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

No problemo, gotta love VP ;) --james °o 07:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

nForce 3 250

Not necessarily. 100 Mbps Ethernet controller doesn't have to be included in chipset or motherboard. So nForce3 model 250 that I have (Epox 8KDA3I) comes with 100 Mbps Ethernet and hardware firewall. Some versions (motherboards) don't have firewall, some don't have even ethernet.

I am not aware of any currently produced mainstream motherboard that doens't come with ethernet. --mboverload@ 05:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

smosh's webpage

Hi.

I was wondering how does the smosh's wiki page sound like an advertisement?

Thank you,

chris.

I just responded on the talk page and said you were correct and that I did indeed put the wrong tag. Thanks for speaking up, and I have put in the cleanup tag instead. =) --mboverload@ 06:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-05-24 jeryl-heath-midg

I hope you will comment on the mediation case Midgley commenced:

This relates to your recent edits to Mumps vaccine (disambiguation)

IP user telling me I'd censoring him

There is nothing POV about facts. There is something very POV about your censorship. If you have any evidence beside Byrd's claim he left the Klan, provide it. Till then the fact is the apparant only evidence to suggest Byrd is no longe a Klansman is his claim. That's a fact. --12.74.187.118 02:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

If you have a content dispute then talk about it in the talk page. I really couldn't care less about him, I am merely here to stop people from putting things in articles that do not belong here. In the mean time, stop putting in poorly written accusations. The proof of him still being in the KKK rests on YOU. Not our editors. Find something and we'll be MORE than happy to add it in. --mboverload@ 02:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

About hard drive image

Thanks!

As an aside, can you tell me how to edit Wiki Commons images?

http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:IBM_old_hdd.jpg

I cleaned up that one, but I can't find out how to replace the original. -David Indech

Just upload the image with the same name =) --mboverload@ 09:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Wow

I'll install it right after work, thanks dude. But before I install it, can you tell me some of the cool "vandalizing" tools I can use, and how to get used to it (I'm very peeved about new downloads) Whopper Talk to me12:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar For refusing to allow the Robert Byrd article to become a political platform, I hereby award you this barnstar. youngamerican (talk) 12:58, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! =D --mboverload@ 17:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I'll install it later today if I get the chance. And, yeah, I've been voting on a lot of RfAs lately... :-) -- Deville (Talk) 16:19, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:ABUSE

Hey, no problem. It's fine, don't worry. Thanks for helping at all! Snoutwood (talk) 01:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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Finally, an userbox compromise that seems popular

Noticed you like userboxes. I think we've come up with something that's got overwhelming support. Please chime in here. --Dragon695 06:50, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Filipino hip hop - suggesting that the pillage be slowed.

I'm suggesting that we slow down a little, to give the regular contributors time to adjust. They don't appear to have had much feedback from a wider audience, and there's really no rush to clean it up. This was starting to turn into a pile-on, and that's no fun for the guy in the receiving end. Heck, up to now he'd been hearing that he was doing a great job. So, I'm backing down from my normal "chainsaw and napalm" routine.
brenneman 09:53, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree, and I have said on my talk page that I will not edit it until more editors get to comment. --mboverload@ 10:05, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

There were a few dozen copyright violation problems with the article which have since been resolved, namely the 16 audio "samples", some of which were well over two minutes in length! From what I understand, ASCAP, BMI, and other agencies do not recognize anything longer than 30 seconds as brief, and do not qualify as fair use. Please see my additional comments on the article talk page. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 07:37, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

CAUBXD

Thanks for requesting the speedy, it was kind of getting out of hand. And even if the deletion had been allowed to continue there would have been a 90% consensus of Delete. In shorter terms, you put it out of its misery. :P Freddie 00:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: referrer IDs

Hi Mboverload,

yeah, I do use a set of regular expressions for removing referrer IDs. As an example, here's my allmusic.com (Python) code. I feed it the text inside wikilinks

allmusicre = re.compile(r'(http://www\.allmusic.com)(.*?)( |$)')
allmusictokenre = re.compile(r'&token=*')
allmusicuidre = re.compile(r'&uid=*')
allmusicsearchlinkre = re.compile(r'&searchlink=*')
allmusicsampleslinkre = re.compile(r'&samples=*')
def fixallmusic(match):
	'''Remove the token=... referer ID and other unneeded query terms from allmusic.com URLs'''
	global allmusicrefcount
	tmp = match.group(2)
	tmp = allmusicuidre.sub('', tmp)
	tmp = allmusictokenre.sub('', tmp)
	tmp = allmusicsearchlinkre.sub('', tmp)
	tmp = allmusicsampleslinkre.sub('', tmp)
	if tmp != match.group(2):
		allmusicrefcount += 1
	return match.group(1) + tmp + ' '
print allmusicre.sub(fixallmusic, "]")

Hope this helps, Cmdrjameson 23:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! --mboverload@ 09:28, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Rosslyn Chapel

You're welcome. I live just a few miles from the chapel and took one of the pictures on the page too. --Guinnog 09:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

User page rendering

FYI, your user page renders pretty crazily in Opera. The boxes on the left overlap the table in the middle(ish). Wrapping the table in a div that starts with <div style="float:right;"> and the bit with the boxes in a plain div seems to make it render more consistently, though I can't test it in a bunch of browsers right now. Aluvus 17:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the tip and bothering to check out my userboxen. Yeah, I know that they don't display properly in anything put Firefox, but thanks for telling me how to fix it! Cheers! --mboverload@ 19:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof Moderator!

Hey, I changed usernames from User:TKE to User:Teke; could you fix my authorization name? Thanks in advance! Teke 04:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Done =) --mboverload@ 04:39, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Thankyamuch, time to take my evening constitutional with it. Teke 05:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Liquid Molten Metal is Reported by FEMA

WP editors are not required to prove anything, and with your 5000 edits, you know this. We are required to report on what has been published by reliable sources. The molten metal cascading out of WTC2 is such a thing. Stop it. Three revert rule. TruthSeeker1234 06:06, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

YES, they ARE. That's the point of the encyclopedia, to gather proven sources. If you can find the source document, I'll be more than happy to put it back in myself. --mboverload@ 06:07, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Sources are not proof, sources are sources. I wish we were supposed to prove things. That would be better. WP policy is about sources. In this case, the sources are FEMA, which admits molten metal pouring out of WTC before collapse. NY Times which reported structural engineers observing steel beams partly evaporated, and various structural engineers who reported observing molten metal flowing and in pools, and dripping off the ends of beams. Have you not seen all this? Promise me that if I link you to these things, you will use your amazing bot powers to include them in various articles. You have god like powers, and I bow down to you.

TruthSeeker1234 06:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

As I said, prove to me that it's in a FEMA document. No, wait, you don't have anything to prove to me. Just cite the source. --mboverload@ 08:08, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, it is NIST which mentioned the molten metal streaming out of the WTC2. They say it is "possibly aluminum" and leave it at that. Of course we know that it cannot be aluminum. Is this good enough for you? If I dig up the NIST page and send it to you, do you promise you will fight with me to include it in the article? TruthSeeker1234 02:38, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, add it in. 9/11 is just one confusing mess. =( --mboverload@ 06:56, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Just FYI

Joshbuddy was working on Tawkerbot2A - tho its pretty nice to see Curpsbot is back, it slows the urgency to get this TB2 addition up -- Tawker 07:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean, I'll be on IRC. --mboverload@ 07:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

At this rate, I might even consider logging in to my old account again. 81.104.165.184 10:47, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Your AWB edits

===>Troubling I don't know anything about your AWB edits other than this: they deleted a misspelled word in an article, and consequently turned a misspelling into an unintelligible phrase . Personally, I would prefer a misspelling in an article. Could you please fix this? -Justin (koavf), talk, mail 16:45, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for alerting me! I have gone through all my AWB edits and I found 5 other occurances of it, and I reverted them. I have also removed the offending line that did this and I have checked the rest of my settings to make sure nothing like this happens with any more of them.--mboverload@ 19:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

===>Thanks. -Justin (koavf), talk, mail 01:00, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Take a look at this and , thanks.--Striver --Striver 10:21, 4 June 2006 (UTC)