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The Original Barnstar
Because of your repeated kindness and willingness to help others when nobody else will even know about it, I sincerely thank you. You've helped me build an army of... well, I'll just leave it there. :-D east.718 at 01:16, December 16, 2007

James Amann

Removing criticism from a politician's article leads one to believe there's an agenda here

Your contribution

Hey, love your DANGER sign...may I borrow?

Anyway, I'm here about your recent contribution to WWII lists. This needs to be done in all the lists, so I was going to ask for a Bot request to do it. Are you doing this by hand? If so, please stop and prevent yourself from getting RSI :) However, your good intention and help is appreciated, cheers--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 00:41, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I have a find and replace js that allows me to mass fix them in about 30 seconds, Ill go ahead and fix the rest then. β 00:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
should be converted to the better format now. β 00:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I placed a request for another issue in Bot requests that may be Misplaced Pages-wide if you want to have a look at that also.--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 01:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for arbitration

I have filed a request for arbitration which involves you. Please see Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration#Betacommand_3. John254 17:45, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Take it for what it's worth, but my advice is to not bother replying there unless requested by the ArbCom, let others defend you. This looks to me like a frivolous complaint by someone with a grudge, based on the extremely POV language in the dispute. But do whatever you think is best. Kelly 19:12, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Conclusion of the AN thread

Per the consensus of the thread on WP:AN, the Sam Korn solution has gained community consensus. You are prohibited from running automated programs to make edits (or edits that appear to be automated), on either a bot account, or your main account. You are also placed under civility parole, and any edit which is seen as uncivil by an uninvolved administrator may lead to a block. Failure to comply with either of these restrictions will lead to a block of up to one week. These restrictions are in place until the community decide that the remedies are no longer appropriate. Regards, Ryan Postlethwaite 00:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Beta, I'd say you're pushing it already with the run of double redirect fixes. It's not like fixing double redirects is a bad thing, but making the same kind of edit every 10 seconds is somewhere on the boundary of "edits that appear to be automated".
Automation can go on without your help. There are existing double-redirect bots out there. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 22:01, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Apparently you need some clarification of what exactly the restriction means. You aren't allowed to make any bot type, automated edits. All your edits should be done manually, and each edit should be checked by yourself before making it. Your contributions should show this as well, and you shouldn't make edits that appear in anyway automated - generic edit summaries like the ones you did for the double redirects are not acceptable. If you did this again, you'd get yourself a block. Ryan Postlethwaite 22:30, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Vandal Proof Request Backlog, Can you clear it? Prom3th3an (talk) 11:37, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Vandal Proof Request Backlog, Can you clear it? Prom3th3an (talk) 11:37, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Polish categories

I am back from the conference, what should I do with regards to our task and User:BetacommandBot/Sandbox 3?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 23:38, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey

Why did you call it vandalisim that I changed the wording in the warning? --81.1.105.183 (talk) 19:59, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

editing others comments on talk pages is vandalism. β 20:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
He's right, if someone else says it, you have no right to change it, even if you think your making it better/more accurate. We have WP:MFD for pages that blatantly cause problems. MBisanz 20:25, 28 May 2008 (UTC)