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Vandalism pages

Hi, the vandalism you brought to my attention was dealt with by another admin before I got to it. Here are a couple of pages for your future reference:

Misplaced Pages:Vandalism in progress

Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism

Check 'em out. Vsmith 02:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Cheers

Reedy Boy 11:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

PB dumps

Replying to this: Sure! You should feel free to take over any that are more than a few days old. But we might as well do the ones that nobody has claimed, first. — brighterorange (talk) 17:36, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Cool, it will be good to get through them, and with it being the easter holidays and me being a college student, i've got quite a bit of time, so probably can get through 2 or 3 a day at least. So i could get a long way to getting that september dump finished!

Reedy Boy 18:22, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

"Period Bot Dump Cleanup"

Are you simply moving all punctuation outside quotation marks? They should go inside when they're part of the quotation (see MoS). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

No, im adding extra ones.

It just seems that the general way was having it like ". rather than .", as most seem to be like that, but some are both...

Thanks for imforming me, i will bare that in mind for future. I was just going by the way that most were of the ". format....

Reedy Boy 15:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Your edits to France

You made edits to a vandalized version of the article about France. I have reverted back to the last good version of the article, and reinserted your changes. I just wanted to point out that the article about France is being vandalized constantly, so we must be extra careful when we make changes to it. /Magore 16:07, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

• Thankyou for informing me. I wasn't looking for vandalism, just was checking edits by AutoWikiBrowser

Reedy Boy 16:22, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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) 02:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Afd for your user sub page

You don't need to use the Articles for deletion process for this. Just add: {{db-owner}} to the page User:Reedy Boy/Series Boxes, and an admin will delete it for you soon. Thanks. - Motor (talk) 13:16, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Embraer aircraft

I think Category:Embraer Aircraft should probably be Category:Embraer aircraft, to conform to the usual naming conventions for categories. If so, all the other sub-categories of Category:Aircraft by manufacturer should probably be treated similarly. -- Karada 11:20, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

OOPS, Yeah. Will AWB edit them all to aircraft. Errm, i need to find an admin to rename it then... Reedy Boy 11:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_deletion#Speedy_renaming is probably the best place to make the request. -- Karada 14:31, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Jaye Davidson

Why did you remove the category living people from his article? Ardenn 17:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. AWB Would have had a reason for it. Not sure why it did tho... Why did you move the stub back up there? Reedy Boy

I moved it back up there because I didn't understand why it had been moved down. Ardenn 01:49, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

I added John of Nepomuk to your desk for formatting. Please look at it and accept or let me know and I'll reassign it. The first thign it needs is checking for formatting. There is a large comment on the taskforce page, take it with a grain of salt. If you do some of the work and want someone else to finish it let me know. Thank you for volunteering for the Cleanup Taskforce. RJFJR 21:47, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

RA Formatting

Please see: Wikipedia_talk:Requested_articles#Bullets_or_no_bullets.2C_dense_vs._sparse. Dragons flight 18:33, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

AWB Edits

I don't mean to try to stop your editing, but I just wanted to mention two things to you before you continue using AWB (and Mboverload settings). As some background, I've been using AWB for a month or two, and have received some complaints from other users.

1. Avoid whitespace moves, like this. They're pointless and waste editors' time and server space/bandwidth.
2. Fix the title of your mboverload changes to remove the AWB thing at the end. Two AWBs at the end is sort of confusing and distracting.

That being said, keep up the good work. Alphachimp 22:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Go to SET OPTIONS --> deselect APPLY GENERAL FIXES. Tada: No Whitespace Moves. Alphachimp 11:36, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

General fixes are things like Whitespace elimination, and reordering of templates and categories. There really isn't much useful going on there. Alphachimp 23:19, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually I was wrong. This is what happens: . Regards, Alphachimp 23:46, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Note from mboverload: Set options > Find and replace > Ignore article when no change made --mboverload@ 23:54, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Cheers Mboverload, i already knew that. Alphachimp: Its a bit too much just to stop, i'll request they reduce it to 1 white line. Reedy Boy 08:10, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Just click "ignore" rather than "save", it couldn't be more simple. Martin 09:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Quick note - feel free to delete when done reading

Note that the replace list is actually updated daily - sometimes many times a day - to fix problems and add new words. These problems can be important.

Please check for a new version each and every time you use AWB. Add a bookmark to the top of your favorites. That will ensure you always have the best, most complete, bug-free version. Or you can get the same exact version I'm using at that second by using Subversion. You get to see how I work, change, and develop the list, edit by edit, since it shows you the differences between versions. All old versions of the list can be shown so you can see the progress the list has made. If you need any help setting this up, it's actually really easy, I'd be glad to help you out.

Download the latest releases all the time from the project page. Please update right now. Several problems have been found and fixed, and many many words have now been added.
Current version as of this message: 0.0.4.9 --mboverload@

Weekly AWB spellcheck changes - 0.0.8 and uberness

• Good news, I now have a new, fancy, professional wikipedia project page (READ EVERY LINE ITS A REQUIREMENT!!!) and an easy shortcut: . I have added every g word and EVERY variation of each word. No, I'm not kidding. I used the dictionary to look for every possible variation. Took FOREVER. =)
• I have a cool new logo, too!
• Bill Gates has offered me $1.3 million in venture capital. I'll be taking him up on that offer.
• Important notice: It has been brought to my attention that several users were unable to open the zip files because they were "corrupted". They weren't corrupted, just using a compression style different than the crappy extractor built in to XP uses. From now all all releases will be checked against the XP extractor. Sorry guys.
• Don't worry about the download size - it doesn't mean anything. It's the extracted size that matters.
• Tell your buddies.
• 0.0.8 is out - go update now.
• John Connor thinks RegExTypoFix is the precursor to Skynet. Unfortunately for him, mboverload can dodge bullets...and molecules of tear gas.

--mboverload@ 11:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Get your userboxen

I use mboverload's RegExTypoFix

{{Template:User regextypofix}} --mboverload@ 06:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Spellchecking archives

Hi, you/the bot had fixed typos at User talk:Cool Cat/Archive/2006/06. I was wondering if you could do the same for other such archives linked on that very page. :) --Cat out 23:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Been through and AWB has edited most of them. Hope this is what you wanted! Reedy Boy 07:35, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I only see a correction at User talk:Cool Cat/Archive/2006/06, I was wondering if you could do the same to User talk:Cool Cat/Archive/2006/07, User talk:Cool Cat/Archive/2006/05 User talk:Cool Cat/Archive/2006/04 ... User talk:Cool Cat/Archive/2005/02? --Cat out 12:25, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Do NOT edit signed comments

please do not edit signed comments from other users, unless they indicate you could do so. — Zanaq (?) 11:13, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you could please refer to where this edit has been made. Reedy Boy 11:14, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I wanted to say the same, in reply to this edit. Not only are you (semi-)automatically changing the words of other people, but you're also introducing spelling mistakes ("gracefully" is spelt with two ls). -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 11:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

(edit conflict) right here. and apparently here as well, though coolcat doesn't seem to mind, but there you even "corrected" a signature yet from another user. — Zanaq (?) 11:28, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I hate saying "me too,", but me too. it is considered extremely bad form to edit another person's signed comments on Misplaced Pages (such as here), for no matter what reason. Please do not do it again. Grutness...wha? 11:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm deeply sorry for this. I didnt realise this was not allowed. As for the spelling mistake, the gracefully has been missplet in WP:RETF. I have requested for this to be corrected.

The only correction of signature i saw, was the unicoding of letters

Again, i apologise for this, and will bare in mind for future reference, and hopefully we won't be crossing paths for this mistake again!

Thanks for alerting me/making me aware about this issue

Reedy Boy 12:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

that's the one. best is to alert the user how his/her signature may be improved, and leave it alone unless permission has been obtained. Easiest thing is not to run your scripts, bots and semi-automatic AWB's on talk pages and the like. — Zanaq (?) 12:20, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what ill do from now on! Thanks for being Understanding Reedy Boy 12:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

The least you could do now is help repair the damage... -- Ned Scott 12:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I shouldn't have sounded so rude there, I know you didn't realize that this was a "taboo" when it happened. -- Ned Scott 13:24, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I noticed this before too, I thought I might suggest that you refrain from using AWB at all on any of the talk namespaces (Talk, Misplaced Pages talk, User talk and so on) to avoid these problems altogether. It's helpful to correct spelling mistakes in articles, and even on Misplaced Pages project pages, so you can continue to do that. --bainer (talk) 13:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

It won't let me rollback my own edits unfortunately... Any ideas? And ill go through and correct them Reedy Boy 14:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I think most of them are reverted by now. (Also exclude Userpages and handle userspace with extreme prejudice) — Zanaq (?) 14:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

- IT would look like there is maybe 20 more.. Would you mind sorting them? Thanks Reedy Boy 14:26, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Looks like way more, you're right. Click the diff link, Click "edit" on the desired version, click "save". Good luck. Maybe I'll check back later and see if there's anything left. — Zanaq (?) 14:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Done them all. Thanks for your time, help, understanding and patience! Reedy Boy 15:01, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Similarly at (I'm mentioning because clearly it didn't get reverted). No big deal, I'll deal with it myself, just so you know. - Jmabel | Talk 20:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

wtf?

Why is your bot editing my user page?--Frenchman113 on wheels! 16:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

As above. If you looked you would notice that i have also reverted these edits Reedy Boy 16:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Dipics

Editing (by bot or by hand) other people's entries on users talk pages is going a bit overboard. I don't mind you contributing to the discussion on the page but please don't edit other users' comments. Dipics 16:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Comment and retraction Sorry, I should have read the above comments. Didn't mean to pile on. Dipics 16:07, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, didnt realised. But as above, it aint gonna happen again. And any edits that hadn't been reverted, i have reverted Reedy Boy 16:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Christmas comes early for RegExTypoFix users

35 lines added in all

Well it's 2 AM on West Coast USA. California, homies. We all surf (even the 8 billion illegal immigrants). Los Angeles is just like they show it in GTA: San Andreas (but with more hookers). Oh yeah, and we only have one season. We call it "perfect".

Anyway, it is RETF Christmas Secular Celebration Day, and I'm not failing to deliver. I'm saying good bye to converting that whole list over. It's full of misspellings that aren't misspellings and words that aren't ever misspelled. From now on this is my method for finding new words:

1. Spellcheck a random word from the existing list
2. Open any article where it corrects more than 1 word
3. Load it into Microsoft Word and spellcheck
4. See how many times it shows up in Misplaced Pages using AWB
5. If it shows up more than 6 times I'll put it into dictionary.com to make sure it's not a real word
6. Integrate all versions of a word into regular expressions using dictionary.com as a reference
7. <datagridFAR find="\b(E|e)nvrionmen(t|ts|tal|tally|talist|talists)\b" replacewith="$1nvironmen$2" />

You can do this too and get thanked in the section below! It really works well!

Shoutouts!

This is a new section dedicated to thanking people who found problems or suggested new word(s). PLEASE do this, even with one false positive. And please suggest new words, that's how it's going to expand.
Removed

• "eminent" corrected to "imminent" Thanks to Guinnog for finding this.

• "Calender" corrected to "calendar". calender is a word. Thanks to Alphachimp. Major props.

Added

• "noteable" now corrects to "notable". Thanks to Mets, keep it up!

Fixed

• "gracefuly" is the wrong spelling. it's "gracefully" - Thanks to r b-j, who reported this even though he doesn't use RETF!

Download

You can get the latest version, 0.1.01, here. --mboverload@

"But mboverload, you ALREADY sent the weekly newsletter"

Well this is important, so suck it up.

RegExTypoFix is now completely built into AutoWikiBrowser

Yes, that's right. My little project has now been integrated into Misplaced Pages's most famous utility. This expands my reach to around ~250 active users!

• But mboverload, what does this mean? - It means that Misplaced Pages is going to suck less! Yay!
• What do I do? - Download the latest version of AWB and go to More Options > Enable RegExTypoFix. Then go to then in the Start tab > Summary dropdown box select RegExTypoFix
• What happened to including your name in it? How am I going to praise you with every edit? You mean "mboverload's RegExTypoFix"? Oh, just stick it in there, and complain on the AWB talkpage if you want my name in there standard =P.
• How did this come about? Why wasn't I told? - Because it was secret. I have known about this for about a week I think. Putting my typofixing into AWB was suggested in the talk page, however people talking about including spellchecking in AWB has gone back awhile. Martin, the creator and only developer of AWB, informed me and I was absolutely flattered. I now have developer access to AWB so I can update AWB with the latest RETF without having to bother him.
• What about updates and the newsletter?
  • All updates are just going to be small files with the latest new words and fixes. When AWB updates just throw out the file until I release the next supplemental update.
  • I will be releasing the full RegExTypoFix, however it's going to be in the format that AWB uses it and not in its settings xml format. It's way easier to read, though.
  • You'll still be getting the newsletter, full of keen insights into the wiki hivemind and commentary on mind-body meta relationships.
• mboverload, how long HAVE you worked on RETF anyway? I estimate 50 hours. Using my most accurate method of finding and verifying typos nets me 20 new lines an hour. This does NOT include the hours I've spent testing it.
• Where can I find a list of typos to fix? User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix/full
• Whore-much? Silence you republican neo-con communist hippie! --mboverload@ 09:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Using AWB

I don't know if you've read the basic rules for using AWB, but your suppose to avoid making tiny insignificant edits such as removing a space and pointlessly moving test edits which need to be deleted anyway. It doesn't appear the rules are strictly enforced but when AWB is misused repeatedly you risk losing the privelage of using, which wouldn't be a good thing! Please put AWB to more good use and check your edits before hitting the Save button, otherwise you might aswell just be a bot ;).--Andeh 15:55, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

There would be so many more if i clicked OK at everyone! It skips some by itself, and then i click ignore on most... Its just the odd few that get caught. Sorry Reedy Boy 15:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Utilitarianism

I'm creating a new Category:Utilitarianism, and I'm moving the categories from the article Utilitarianism there. However, I'm not sure why you included Category:Criminology topics, so I'm leaving this one out for now. Granted, utilitarianism does consider some crimes, but so do most schools of ethics. Common Man 00:04, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

August 6th, 2006 WP:RETF update

Hey guys. Before I do anything, I have to thank all these people who have helped me make RETF more bug-free via my challenge to them on the Language noticeboard. Some were redundant lines, and some were words that probably never appear in Misplaced Pages, but as I said, I don't want any false positives in RETF.

• User:ColourBurst for finding 7 lines to fix
• User:Road Wizard for finding another 13 lines to fix!
• User:MeltBanana for finding 6 lines
• User:Skittle for finding 3 lines
• User:Nunh-huh for finding 1 line

THANKS GUYS! Now for the fixes and suggestions put on the RETF page:

• 'behaviour' is a legitimate UK English spelling --Guinnog
• 'councellor' to 'councillor' when 'counsellor' could be the intended word. --mattbr
• "Costal" is a real word, meaning "related to the rib" —Mets501 (talk)
• 'judgemental' to 'judgmental'. According to my dictionary, both are equally acceptable. mattbr
• 'Adaptions' to 'Adaptations'. JoeSmack
• repond and variants -> respond --Guinnog

RETF development

I don't know what to say really. Something has come up and I might not be able to continue to update RETF after the next week or so.......I have put in countless sleepless nights of just me, my computer, and a case of Rockstar energy drink working on this. It has made me feel that I really am a devoted Wikipedian.

I have developed RegExTypoFix from a little hobby of mine into a full SourceForge project. I told a friend that I’ve worked 50 development hours in all. I have a really bad sense of time, but I’m sure it was more. I won’t lie, I am very proud of my work. Hopefully this will be used long after I leave.

To ensure that, I need a person/people to become admins on the RETF project. I don’t ask that you do anything but fix any errors that people report. There is a bit of a process to doing this, but I can teach you. Please send me a message on my talk page. Please my close friends only please, I hope you understand that I want to 100% trust this person. However, I might just hand it off to User:Bluemoose, as if he didn’t have enough on his plate =D.

Download + more

User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix/updateboxTo keep an eye on RETF, you can use {{User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix/updatebox}} and it will produce the box you see here =D. When AWB updates, I can turn it green on command =P

Extract Typos.xml from the zip file either using the zip extraction tool provided with XP or use 7zip.

Under the new system that Martin (User:Bluemoose) developed Typos.xml is separate from the settings file. This way it can be easily swapped out and doesn't interfere with your own personal find and replace settings. Put it in the AWB directory. It is loaded automatically when you start AWB.

In addition, each Typos.xml file comes coded with a version number. Perhaps in some future release AWB will be able to check to see if there's an update for you!

The latest version is not built into AWB, you will have to download it here Just updated a few minutes ago. --mboverload@ 01:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

RETF update box

AWB is now going to load RegExTypoFix from the web, so the update box User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix/updatebox is no longer needed on your page. Thanks! --mboverload@ 00:05, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Please do not make trivial edits with AWB such as this, you have made a string of these, despite the edit summary indicating that you were fixing typos. Martin 13:02, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for informing me of this. This is a small problem in AWB, will get it fixed. Reedy Boy 21:48, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Just found out it has already been moved. Sorry for the inconvience Reedy Boy 21:51, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Second Corrigan Archive

Would you mind creating a second archive for the Corrigan article? The instructions for how to create a second page in the archive aren't exactly clear and I'd rather not mess up and need to ask for help on a page that is so damn contentious. (Oh, and don't get upset about the guy above. You made an honest mistake, given where you are from.)Jodyw1 17:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, no problem jody i'll do that. Im not bothered, its just one of the few mistakes in AWB which is an automated editor, and when checking the edits, i wouldn't know. Lol, but yeah, its fair enough, it is a WP policy :D Reedy Boy 16:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Breakage of Comparison of SQL syntax

Your AWB edits to the Comparison of SQL syntax article have broken it (at least) twice by changing "COMMIT ]" to "COMMIT ]" . It should be quite clear from the context that those instances were not intended to be linked. Please be more careful when performing AWB edits on the article in the future. -- intgr 19:32, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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            Get
                Return "Cat"
            End Get
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        Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property TemplateTalkClassParm() As String
            Get
                Return "Template"
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