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javascript monobook

Thanks for noting that. I don't get any error messages, the whole thing just doesn't seem to work any more. Do you have any suggestions or advice? Jayjg 15:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for finding the problem with the code! The double message was getting annoying after a while:P. Cheers. PerfectStorm 18:43, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

VoA Monobook

The clock in the VoA monobook was causing problems with AWB, so I had to copy the code, move it here and remove the clock. So, if there are any updates to the main one, can you please update this one too? Thanks, --GeorgeMoney 20:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, all I had to do was disable JS in IE. --GeorgeMoney 06:12, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thanks so much for the support on my recent RfA, which I'm quite happy to announce has passed with a consensus of 67 supporting, 0 opposed and 0 neutral. I'm glad you took me into consideration and judged me to be deserving of adminship, and I'll be working hard to justify the vote of confidence you've placed in me. Let me know at my talk page if you have any comments on how I'm doing as an admin. Thanks! TheProject 22:17, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:Crystal_128_password.png

Why did you exactly want this icon be added to Template:Protected? Please see here that Kotepho has informed about licensing issues. -- ADNghiem501 08:13, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

You did not remove the editprotected from Template talk:Protected. I've done so. -- ADNghiem501 08:43, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Commons JS

Yay, it works now. On Firefox, at least. And the "compare to commons"-tab is doubled for whatever reason, but it works. Thanks for writing that script, this should speed up things quite alot. :) --Conti|✉ 14:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

If the tab is doubled, either code was copied twice by acident or there is a bug anywhere in yor js file that causes it to stop (and double tabs I've noticed).Voice-of-All 17:31, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I noticed I have two addTabs functions, one copied earlier to use some other tool and the one from your page. If I remove your function, it doesn't work anymore. If I remove the other addTab function, the tab is still doubled. --Conti|✉ 17:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I hope I am doing this right. I don't know exactly where to report this. There is a user who goes by 'baseballbaby' who seems unclear as to what vandalism is as opposed to (admitedly) poor edits. Judging by his/her talk page I am not the only one who feels this way. S/he seems new at monitoring vandalism. Is there some way you or another experienced wiki administrator could counsel this individual? Thanks so much!

Gibraltar

You have reverted the page on San Roque, there is no complaint about that, however the comment is

2006-07-02 15:11:29 VoABot (Talk | contribs) m (BOT - Reverted edits by 212.120.237.128 to last version by Voice of All .)

It is very dangerous to blacklist a range of Gibraltar IP's and to assume that they are ALL one malicious user. The ADSL IP's are in a common pool and are allocated dynamically. --Gibnews 13:23, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

It checks for two ranges, but it only does it for users that are not logged in, and only for the pages that this troll seems to be hitting all the time, so its no where near as reckless as range block or something.Voice-of-All 15:46, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• Last Gibnews dirty trick: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Gibraltar&diff=63013583&oldid=62977600 --Panchurret 11:19, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

• Hello again, Burgas00 has opened a RfC on Gibnews. Please check it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages%3ARequests_for_comment%2FGibnews

--Panchurret 07:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Bob Beauprez

Seeing as this is an election and things change every day, i feel it is important that the page be unblocked. - beaucredo

Unprotection

Hi, there. Could you please un-semiprotect Talk:Steam (band) so we can get the response of the IP in a compromise offer to settle the issues on the article itself? It makes it difficult to communicate, otherwise. Thanks. Cowman109 16:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Highgate Vampire

I requested semi-protection for this article yesterday, but you felt the acticvity hadn't been sufficient to justify semi-protection. There has been more activity today, and in fact I've just lost the revert war with the IP (without logging in myself). He is still pushing the POV that vampires exist, without citing reputable sources, he is inserting parenthetic comments about the article and other wiki contributors in the body of the article, and he is deleting even the mention that his version of the "vampire" events is a version and not simply THE truth. I'd be grateful if you could intervene, or maybe ask more patrollers to deal with the issue, because I can't cope with this alone. --Anonymous44 17:23, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requested moves

Should this page be archived in some way? —Centrx→talk • 19:50, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I ask because I came to it via Category:Misplaced Pages backlog, and seeing old matters resolved, found no designated place for archival. —Centrx→talk • 21:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure if this is one of those pages worth archiving. My bot auto-moves RfPP fulfilled/denied requests to the completed section on the page...but it also deletes those after a while. In this case, it may be better to just clear them out.Voice-of-All 21:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Script

Yup, I'm still using it. Please go ahead and update it. Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»= 04:14, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Sysop link

I noticed that there is a link to Makesysop on RfA pages now; I assume this to be a new feature of the bureaucrat script. I wanted you to know that you can preload the name in the box, if you're inclined to make it do that. The link I use is: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special%3AMakesysop&wpMakesysopUser=Username. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 08:20, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey! I haven't seen you in a while! Anyways, yes I though about asking for the DOM or the autonamefill (if you could) but never got around to it, I'll string that link in there. Thanks.Voice-of-All 20:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been having fun offline. I've also noticed that the RfA hiding script is awry; rather than just putting RfAs into dropdowns, it's now overwriting with the text on the page and doing other strange things. Can you check into it please? :) Essjay (Talk • Connect) 06:21, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I talked to User:Nichalp about this and fixed it yesterday. My pool of scripts is already updated, the fix is very simple.Voice-of-All 06:47, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Duplicate javascript installations

Hi! I've had a few people come to me with problems installing some of my tools, which I think can be traced to them having them installed already with VoA/monobook.js but not realising it. Double installations often cause problems. Please could you prominently warn people against this wherever the instructions for that js file are? If it's not already there, it may be wise to list all the tools that are installed. Thanks, Lupin|talk|popups 23:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks. I saw 1 place so far where it was not clear.Voice-of-All 06:50, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thank you

Enjoy

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your awesome work keeping WP:PP clear of backlog! Keep it up! --james // bornhj (talk) 09:47, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Why thanks! :)Voice-of-All 16:17, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:ESP/UPA note

Greetings, Voice of All. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to Fir0002 for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.

If you'd like to participate in the contest again, check by the contest page in a few days and sign up. See you around. fetofs 12:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Tobias Conradi

What do you mean by your "Auh...no." to Hauke's "But there was no vandalism on this page."?Chrisjj2 13:17, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

If there is sockpuppetry going on, I'd rather not unprotect. Semiprotection is often used on pages where sock puppetry is involved. The protecting admin (who was familair with the situation) unprotected it yesterday anyway.Voice-of-All 16:24, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Onikage725

Thank you for the help. I know what you mean about it being a user page, but I feel better knowing that while I'm away, fellow users won't check out my info and see messed up bars and declarations of supposed gayness. Also it's one less page that fellow editors need to worry about reverting vandalism. It's not just the one user page, he's doing this to multiple users associated with the same articles. He allied himself with User:Wiki-star during a dispute, and has apparently chosen to "fight" us by messing up our talk pages and any articles we watch. Onikage725

HolyRomanEmperor's death a hoax

I thought I should let you know that HolyRomanEmperor's death has been proven a hoax (here), so his userpage can probably be unprotected now.--Conrad Devonshire 01:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

vandalism on the page of Michel Aoun

the user which has 61.69.12.12 as an IP did some vandalism on the page of Michel Aoun. he wrote the following : "he enjoys sucking cock for a living" (i'v already reverted these edits)

Best Regards,

Captainm

Roger Needham

Continued vandalism on this since it went unprotected. Apparently one editor made it look like it was protected for a short time, and the vandal got an account and started vandalizing again. 3RR got that account permabanned as it was a vandal-only account, but we discovered the protection wasn't real, and he just started using anonymous IPs again. Trying to build consensus on the talk page and figure out what to do. Your input would be appreciated if you have the time. I've no idea why a vandal would waste this much time on a single article, but we're having a tough time of it.--Rosicrucian 14:16, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I've re-semiprotected Roger Needham, since the vandal seems undaunted. Let's leave it up for a month or so to see if it works. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:02, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Voice of All. I noticed that you unprotected Roger Needham again, even though it's only been about ten days. I hope that it'll work, but the vandal has been very persistent in the past. If he returns, please let the page stay semiprotected for a full month. Thank you. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:41, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

As I feared, the vandal is back. I've semiprotected the page once more; please don't unprotect it for at least a month this time. Also, could you do me a favor and reply either on my user talk page or at Talk:Roger Needham, to let me know that you've gotten this message? Thanks. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 23:45, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Denial of Protection on Tweenies

Dear Voice of All, as a courtesy to you and to comply with WP:CIVIL, I am notifying you that I have listed an appeal against your decision to deny page protection for the Tweenies article on wikipedia. I do feel that the amount of vandalism myself and other RCP's and CVU members have reverted should warrant at least a Vprotect to give us a break for a while! The appeal is listed under your decision. Regards, Thor Malmjursson 19:09, 5 July 2006 (UTC) Thor's Multilingual Yack (Talk)

Paris Hilton s-protection

I noticed you unprotected Paris Hilton's article, don't you think it should be re-protected?--Andeh 09:11, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Page move reversion tool

Hi. There was a recent page move vandal under the account User:ZZZZ. I tried to use your reversion tool to revert all the page moves with one click, but I couldn't get it to work. It would say, "reverting changes, page will refresh in 5 seconds." It would refresh, but then nothing seemed to happen. Was I just not being patient enough, was there something wrong on my end, or something else? Let me know what you think. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 10:43, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. This was due to the addition of "block/talk/contribs" links to everything.Voice-of-All 18:59, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Semiprotection of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Hi, Voice. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi wasn't actually locked, only semiprotected, and semiprotection does seem to have been of benefit to it. I don't believe for a moment that the anons editing it before I sprotected were bona fide new users; I think they were regular editors logged out, who had an interest in making both the pattern of their edits and the article history more confusing. Compare my reason for semiprotecting in the first place. It's a controversial subject, edited by several people who are at Misplaced Pages for no other purpose than to input their POV in the Transcdendental Meditation-related articles. And you see the edit warring anon who turned up as soon as you unprotected..? In short, would you mind if I sprotected again? Bishonen | talk 13:37, 6 July 2006 (UTC).

Hasekura Tsunenaga

Hi Voice of All. Would you know how to recover the text of the latin translation in the image Image:HasekuraRomanCitizenship.jpg which you deleted? It was a lot of work by User:Iustinus. Normally I guess a simple revert would do, but strangely it seems this History function is not available for "transit pages" for images coming from Misplaced Pages Commons. Regards PHG 22:15, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Here is the text of the last en version (viewing in edit mode is better).Voice-of-All 00:11, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Title of Roman citizenship dedicated to ]. 1615.
===Transcription===
#QVOD•LVDOVICVS•RENTIVS•VINCENTIVS•MVTVS
#DE•PAPAZVRRIS•IACOBVS•VELLIVS•ALMÆ•VRBIS•
#CONSERVATORES
#DE ILLVST•<sup><small>(IMO?)</small></sup> ET EXCELL•<sup><small>(IMO?)</small></sup> <BIG>PHILLIPPO FRANCISCO</BIG>•FAXECVRA•ROCVYEMON•ROMANA•CI
#VITATE•DONANDO AD SENATVM•RETVLERE •<BIG>S•P•Q•R</BIG>•DE•EA•RE•ITA•FIERI•CENSVIT•
----
#QVOD IN VRBE ROMANA ANTIQVISSIMIS ETIAM HIIS REGVM TEMPORIBVS VSITATVM ET SEQVENTIBVS DEINDE ANNIS RESPVB.
#CONSVLVIT NE NOSTRA QVIDEM ÆTAS OMISIT, HESTEROS<ref>HESTEROS: a misspelling of ''exteros'', based on Italian pronunciation.</ref> NEMPE VIROS VIRTVTE, SEV NOBILITATE INSIGNES AD HANC ALMAM
#VRBEM EX ORBE VNIVERSO CONFLVENTES <BIG>S.P.Q.R.</BIG> NON SOLVM BENIGNITER VERVM ETIAM MVNIFICENTER AMPLEXVS, ILLOS MA
#GNITVDINE ROMANI NOMINIS DESVPER NATIVAM PROPRIAMQVE NOBILITATEM COHONESTANDO CIVITATE ROMAN DONAVIT VT
#VIRI VIRTVTE NOBILITATQVE PRÆSTANTES INTER ROMANOS CIVIS ADSCITI MAGNO REIPVB. NOSTRÆ VSVI ATQVE ORNAMENTO
#FVISSENT VEL ESSE ALIQVANDO POSSENT. <BIG>N</BIG>OS IGITVR ANTIQVISSIMI MORIS NOSTRVMQVE MAIORVM EXIM AVTHORITAT PERMOTI NON OMMIT
#TENDVM PVTAVIMVS INTER CIVES (CAFRIN?)OSQVE ROMANOS ADSCIRE ILLVST.<SUP><SMALL>IMVM?</SMALL></SUP> ET EXCELL.<SUP><SMALL>IMVM?</SMALL></SUP> PHILIPPVM FRANCISCVM FAXECVRA RCVYEMON
#EX CIVITATE SEV CVRIA SANDAI REGNI VOXV IN IAPPONE ORTVM: CVM IPSE EX TAM LONGINQVIS ET REMOTISSIMIS REGIONIBVS AD HANC AL
#MAM VRBEM VENERIT <BIG>ORATOR</BIG> AD SANCTISSIMVM DOMINVM NOSTRVM <BIG>PAVLVM QVINTVM BVRGHESIVM</BIG>
#<BIG>ROMANVM PONTIFICEM MAXIMVM</BIG> PRO SERENISSIMO <BIG>IDATE MASAMVNE REGE VOXV</BIG> IN IMPERIO IAPPONI
#CO VT ROMANVM PONTIFICEM CATHOLICÆ ET VNIVERSALIS ECCLESIÆ <BIG>PASTOREM</BIG>, TOTIVS ORBIS PARENTEM, ET <BIG>IESV CHRISTI FILII DEI</BIG>
#<BIG>OMNIPOTENTIS VICARIVM</BIG> EA QVA(?) DECET REVERENTIA VENERANDO AD ACCIPIENDAM DICTI REGIS AC REGNI TELAM PA
#TERNAMQVE CVRAM HORTARVR EAPROPTER? <BIG>S.P.Q.R.</BIG> VT CVM IPSO STRICTISSIMO AMORIS NEXV COLLIGETVR  ILLV
#STRISSIMVM ET EXCELENTISSIMVM <BIG>PHILIPPVM FRANCISCVM FAXICVRA ROCVYEMON</BIG> AMPLISSIMO MVN <BIG>ROMA</BIG>
#<BIG>NAE CIVITATIS</BIG> DECORANDVM ET IN SENATOR. ORDINEM MERITO COOPTANDVM CENSVIT. <BIG>Q</BIG>VAM VOLVNTATEM AC SENTENTIAM SIN
#GVLARI OMNIVM CONSENSV AC LAETITIA COMPROBATAM? PER SCRIBAS EIVSDEM SACRI SENATVS IN PVBLICAS L(?)I(?)TTERAS AD AETERNAM
#MEMORIAM REFERRE EIDEM <BIG>S.P.Q.R.</BIG> ITA PLACVIT VT BENEFICIVM HONOREMQVE NON MAGIS DARE QVAM ACCIPERE VIDETVR <BIG>A</BIG>NNO AB VR
#BE CONDITA MMCCCL ET AB ORBE REDEMPTO <BIG>M</BIG>•DC•XV• X?II KAL•DECEMBRIS
===Translation===
"Because Luigi Renzo, Vincenzo Muti-Papazurri, and Giacomo Vellio, Conservators of the Beloved City<ref>*''Conservator Almae Urbis'' seems to have been a common, important title in this era. 
*''Alma Urbs'' seems to usually be rendered "Beloved City" in English, but ''alma'' actually means something more like "nourishing," "bountiful" or "endowed with the qualities of a good parent."
*I can find no information on these particular Conservators, but multiple members of their families seem to have held the title, in all three cases.</ref> referred to the Senate as follows regarding the giving of citizenship to the Most Illustrious and Excellent ], the Senate And People of Rome decreed that it should be made so regarding this matter.<br>
"Because in most ancient city of Rome it has been common, even in these<ref>The use of the word "these" is confusing: it is clear that the words "times of kings" refer to the original ], despite the demonstrative. Could HIIS be a misspelling for ''ex''?</ref> times of kings, then in the subsequent years of the Republic it  made it policy, and not even our era has neglected it, that the Senate and People of Rome, embracing them not only kindly, but even generously, should them endow  with Roman citizenship foreign men of particular virtue or nobility who come flocking together from throughout the entire world to this beloved city, decorating them with the greatness of the Roman name in adition to their own, native nobility; as men of particular virtue and nobility, having been admitted among the citizens of Rome, may have been or might someday be useful or glorious to our great Republic. We, therefore, being moved by the excellent authority of this ancient custom of our ancestors, thought that it should not be neglected among the citizens and ''cafrini''<ref>Meaning unknown<!--... to me. If you can figure this out, please do not heasitate to help-->.</ref> of Rome, to admit the most illustrious and excellent man Philip Francis Faxecura Rokuyemon, who originated in the city-state or captital city of ] in the kingdom of ]: whereas he came from such distant and far-away lands to this Beloved City as the speaker to our Most Holy Lord ] The Supreme Pontiff of Rome, on behalf of the most serene ], the ] of Woshu in the Japanese Empire, in order to entreat the Pontiff of Rome and the Shepherd of the Universal Catholic Church, the Parent of All The World, and the ] of Jesus Christ son of All-Mighty God, venerating him with all due reverence, to take up the safety<ref>Possibly meaning "salvation." Or maybe just "security, sacrosanctiy"?</ref> and fatherly care of the aforementioned king and kingdom, for which reason the Senate And People of Rome has decided that, in order to be joined to him with the closest bond of love, this most illustrious and excellent Philip Francis Faxicura Rocuyemon should be decorated with the most ample gift of Roman Citizenship, and deservedly<ref>I.e. "honorarily"?</ref> be elected to the senatorial order. The senate decided with the unanimous consent of all, to refer this wish and sentiment to public leters,<ref>I.e. to an inscription, or perhaps this manuscript.</ref> by means of the same Holy Senate's scribes, for eternal memory, so that it might be seen that it is giving no greater a favor or honor than it has received. In the year 2366 ],<ref>Based on the usual calculation, this would be AD 1613, which does not match the year given. The year AD 1615 is confirmed by other sources, e.g. ]'s ''De Ecclesiae Iaponicae Statu Relatio''.</ref> and the year ] from the redemption of the world, on day 12 before the ] of December.<ref>I.e. ] </ref>"
===Notes===
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Voice of All: Thanks for posting this. I hadn't saved a back-up, and this was a huge loss. I'm glad to have it back. --Iustinus 20:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Carrot unprotection

Could I ask why you decided to unprotect Carrot? It's been subject to a huge amount of vandalism in the last month or two, up until the time it was protected. Waitak 11:49, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Responses to the questions you didn't like

Might I ask you to explain what exactly you didn't like about the responses to the questions on my RfA? Thanks! --ScienceApologist 09:47, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

RFCU

For making me smile when I see that my Watchlist is filled with someone diligently clearing out cases that needed to be closed/archived. Good work. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 13:12, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Babri_Mosque

Nobleeagle has removed all citation tags in the article with the midleading edit summary rv POV of Anwar saadat. You have inadvertently protected the page at that point. Now the article has no tags but contains full of fundamentalist POV. Is it possible to rectify it? Anwar 13:49, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

What a humorous person this Anwar Saadat is. After vandalizing the article, he begins to combine vandalism and the deletion of references with the addition of the fact templates. Now his vandalism cannot be reverted because in the same edit he also added some dozens of fact templates, often in the same paragraph? He even deleted the citations and added the "citation needed" for the citation he just deleted in numerous cases. See . Anwar should use the "unreferenced" tag instead, but of course he will not: it would not be nearly as disruptive. --Msiev 09:07, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Billy Joel

Hi, did you forget to unprotect this page? Thanks Arniep 19:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Prometheuspan

Why did you delete Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Prometheuspan? As far as I know, Essjay wanted us to keep all the checkuser requests, even the ones that are declined. It also had a prior case, so if you really want it deleted you need to delist it from /Case. Thatcher131 20:15, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

The Case/ page is getting a lot added to it, and I'd rather not let fishing/invalid request go there. I talked to Mackensen about this a while back on IRC and he doesn't mind.Voice-of-All 21:51, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protection

Please don't unprotect pages on Portuguese royalty or the Pretender page that have been semi-protected, for the moment. One user called Manuel de Sousa has been using IPs et al for over a year now to doctor pages to insert dodgy claims that some woman was the illegimate daughter of the second last Portuguese king and so she and her heirs, not the actual heirs, are the real pretenders to the throne. They have been blocked and reblocked over and over again. A host of users have found themselves reverting the vandalism often daily, on occasions hourly or by the minute. Because as de Sousa jumps between IPs blocks on their own doesn't stop it.

In the end the only way those dealing with this asshole have had to try to stop it is to semi-protect the pages for a while; long enough for the asshole (who seems to work for the so-called pretender and is trying to use WP to promote their 'cause') to give up and go away. The page listing protections have notes telling people to leave them locked for the time being — the pages aren't edited by anyone but him: most are obscure, so no-one is being inconvenienced. But then, after a short time someone innocently unblocks one or more of the pages, de Sousa sees it, comes back and the whole farce begins yet again. You have (innocently) unblocked one of the pages. Luckily de Sousa didn't notice that it had been unblocked yet. Otherwise round 40 of the edit warring would have started. *sigh*. Please in the cases of Portugal royal topics, leave the pages protected for the moment. We have had a year of vandalism from that asshole (who not only tries to POV the page but does it in garbled English, so not only is it agenda-pushing, but it is garbled agenda-pushing!!!). A lot of users are fed up daily cleaning up de Sousa's mess. Semi-protecting seems to be the best way to fell the idiot to fuck off. Hopefully it will work and we will finally see the back of the nutcase and his flaming endless quotes about 18th century documents, Vatican tribunal rulings, yada yada yada *yawn* FearÉIREANN\ 01:11, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Useful js

AmiDaniel pointed me in the direction of a javascript that allows you to hide closed AFDs on the AFD date page; it might be a helpful addition to your umbrella js if you're interested. I've integrated it into my page (with limited knowledge, so I'm sure it's not the most efficient way to do it...) (ESkog) 03:18, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Added.Voice-of-All 07:44, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Raul Castro

User utilising multitude IP addresses (including one now blocked) is now vandalising my talk page and making assertions about me on the talk page of Raul Castro.--Zleitzen 03:49, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Rushton

There doesn't seem to be any conceivable problem here. If, against all odds, an edit war were to break out again, it's much simpler to replace a tag than to debate against well-meaning WP editors and force them to accept your decision.--Nectar 09:21, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Is it possible to semi-protect the Rushton page, now that the full protection was removed? Should I just put another request up on the noticeboard? Thanks! --JereKrischel 02:05, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protection of Requests for Adminship

Can you provide a good reasoning why you semi-protected that page? You might recall that the foundation issues say that anyone may edit. Do you now disagree with that? Kim Bruning 20:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

contribs in IP range

You got a script that shows contributions in an IP range? It gets boring clicking 50 contrib links to check an AOL range. I'd love to obtain this script. Kevin_b_er 23:23, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Note that it only checks back 20 contribs (an arbitrary number), and still use more server use for higher ranges. Also not that it only iterates over the last block, like a /24 bit check or less, you'll have to split it up to get it additional ranges. This is due to the fact that ranges larger than /24 tend to be useless and waste server use. That said, the script can be found here .Voice-of-All 23:29, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I ganked it out of the specialadmin js. Seems to work pretty good, though apparently does so synchronously. Kevin_b_er 00:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Your bot on Rajput

Hi, could you check what your bot User:VoABot is doing on Rajput? It's apparently trying to protect it from the Rajput vandal, but instead it is actually reverting to the vandal's version, preventing User:ImpuMozhi and myself from de-vandalizing it. Thanks for your attention. --Scabbers the Rat 13:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

VoA, please get the action right on the page. Your bot is inadvertantly protecting the wrong version. Regards, ImpuMozhi 21:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I'll check over the diffs and regexes to see why it is triggers. Thanks.Voice-of-All 21:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Non-admin anti-vandal rollback tool

First of all, I like the tool, esepcially its checking that the most recent edit is by the vandal to avoid double-reverting. One feature that would really help would be a box for non-standard text - sometimes I want to revert a possibly-good-faith (but unhelpful) edit by a new user without calling them a vandal, or just generally be more descriptive. Pseudomonas 21:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Its called "revert (AGF)", but it is only in the admin version (which still use GML, but just add two more reverts for different cases, the other being vandalism). I will be working on a user conbribs conparison script, so I won't be able to get around to such a thing for a while.Voice-of-All 21:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Zakk Wylde

Hi, after you unprotected the page, a large chunk of text was deleted. I tried to restore it, but your bot reverted the change. Could this text be restored please?

Portuguese pretender

Hi, I am Manuel de Sousa and my real account was blocked because accused me of vandalism but this is not true. I defend only the objective hystorical truth based on offcial documents. In Portugal there are many pretenders but many people here want the knowledge of only one pretender, Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza. But also another pretender there was and this is Hilda Toledano and now Rosario Poidimani. This was daughter of the king Charles of Portugal and this is also write in the definitive sentence of Sacra Romana Rota. So the doubts of many persons here about if Maria Pia is daughter of the King were only their doubts because the documents affirms that she was daughter. She is considered pretender and also Rosario Poidimani for many Portuguese monarchists. I wrote to Jtdirl page this : "I wrote only objective and documented facts. If you write "impostor pretender" in Maria Pia page or fake pretender in "pretender" page this is NPOV affirmations. You can't write this. Infact I don't understand why you continue to insert the name of Maria Pia of Braganza and Rosario Poidimani as false pretender to Portuguese Crown in wikipedia page as the voice "pretender" and "Hilda Toledano". The pretension of these pretenders has value for many portuguese monarchists, historians, Tribunals so if you define these pretenders as false or impostor this is a defamation, so please have the courage of your words and indicate me your real name and address so I am sure dom Rosario Poidimani will bring an legal action against you and you will be able to explain your convictions and diffamations in a Tribunal. Many monarchic associationes consider Rosario Poidimani a pretender ,,; many famous hystorians ; the most historian portuguese encyclopedia consider Maria Pia as pretender, and in many sentences of international Tribunals ,. So please stop with this partial consideration about false o impostor pretender. Your considerations, also if you are an administrator here, have no objective value and so please reinsert Rosario Poidimani as true pretender in pretender page and delete impostor pretender in Maria Pia page. So please explain me where I can see that these pretender are fake. What are sentences of Tribunal that states this? For many monarchist this pretender is the lawful pretender so please reinsert this pretender as true pretender. At the contrary I must advise all the other admistrator about this abuse of power. Can explain me why you don't insert in Duarte page his opposition about his claims? Is not convenient for the objective truth? "

Infact I don't understand also because they don't want write in Duarte Pio page the opposition of him claims. This is not impartial method in an encyclopedya. You are the most important administrator here so PLEASE take part in this discussion and insert Maria Pia and Rosario Poidimani as true pretender in pretender page and delete impostor pretender in Maria Pia page and insert opposition claim in Duarte Pio page and rewrite in impartial way Maria Pia page. For example I don't understand because they use the name Hilda Toledano if in all her official documents states as Maria Pia de Saxe Coburg Braganza ,. They put in the mind of the people only doubts but without certainties because their words are not proved or documentated , at the contrary when I write is only documentated words. This article in not NPOV and is not impartial. Please help me. I ask only this: the impartial truth and not the Duarte Pio supporter truth. Thanks! Manuel de Sousa, 13 July 2006 (UTC)82.54.244.85 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Please see also the official wiki page in portuguese language about the duke of braganza where Maria Pia is considered Maria Pia Saxe Coburg Braganza (only a.k.a. Hilda Toledano, but not her most famous name, it is only a pseudonym wneh she was a writer).Many monarchists considered her and now Rosario Poidimani as lawful Portuguese pretender . See Thanks! Manuel de Sousa, 13 July 2006 (UTC)82.54.244.85 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

My RfA

PS: I took the company car (pictured left) out for a spin, and well... it's not quite how I pictured it. --Chris S. 23:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Additions to semi-protected list

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to contact you before or after adding articles to Misplaced Pages:List of protected pages#Protected against spambots or banned users... Anyway, Bay of Gibraltar and La Línea de la Concepción need to be semi-protected probably permanently against obsessive vandalism by the banned User:Gibraltarian, which has been ongoing since January (!). -- ChrisO 07:37, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

If you add the {{sprotect-banned}} tag to it, it will be added to Category:Semi-protected from banned users. If you want to add pages to the bot watchlist, then you do have to contact me, so that they can actually be watched (and not inadvertedly deleted from the list when the bot updates it). I'll see what I can do. Voice-of-All 07:42, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The tag's already on one article but not the other - I've added it. Thanks for the help. -- ChrisO 07:53, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

See also portuguese newspaper about their pretender

Hi, also one of the most famous newspaper in Portugal "Destak" of today 14 July 2006, in the page 5, tells about the portuguese succesion and mentioned dom Rosario Poidimani as pretender and Dom Duarte Pio as an illegitimate pretender for his exclusion from the last monarchic Constitution. This affirmation was an affirmation of the president of the P.P.M. The only Moanrchic Party in Portugal. So please again reinsert Rosario Poidimani as a true pretender,Maria Pia as true pretender and Duarte Pio opposition in his page. Please reply Manuel de Sousa, 14 July 2006 (UTC)82.54.244.85 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) In particular: One of the most famous portuguese newspaper, the “Destak”, http://www.destak.pt/default.asp , today 14 july in the page 5 entitled: “ Royal War divides portuguese monarchists” and writes about the war between portuguese pretenders. Many supporters of the pretender dom Rosario Poidimani claim the legitimate rights as Duke of Braganza of this italian prince after the abdication of the last daughter of the king Charles of Portugal. Many of these monarchists attacks the pretender Duarte Pio of Braganza because the last monarchic constitution of 1838 excluded perpetually dom Miguel and all his descendant (of which Duarte Pio is one) and also because in really Duarte Pio of Braganza born in Swiss territory of Berna and not in the portuguese ambassy of Berna (because in 1945 there was the “Banimento” Law) and so he is a Swiss without power of succession for the last monarchic constitution. In particular the president of P.P.M., the only monarchic party in Portugal affirms the illegitimate of Duarte Pio of Braganza as duke of Braganza and also as pretender and so affirms that now Duarte Pio in Portugal is considered from most the head of the Royal House of Portugal only because the miguelist branch hides and falsifies the historical truth of Portuguese Royal House. Best regards Manuel de Sousa, 14 July 2006 (UTC)82.54.244.85 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Request for banning 83.1992.2006

I would like to request that 83.1992.2006 be banned from editing the FC Barcelona article and that the article be given extra protection against him. He has behaved like a vandal, continuously adding incorrect and inaccurate info to the article. His edits fail to recognise the following facts.

• FC Barcelona has never won the UEFA Cup and reference to this competition should not be included in the major trophies section. They have however won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, a precursor competition, on three occasions.
• There are separate articles about the Supporters of FC Barcelona and FC Barcelona in Europe and these can be expanded. Excessive info/stats and external links about these subjects does not need to be here as they only make the page exceed article size.
• The following statement cannot be substantiated. "In May 2006 the number of club members (socis in catalan language) surpassed 140,000 making the club third worldwide only to Manchester United and Benfica." I'm not sure it is possible to accurately measure how many supporters actually support any particular club, so statements like this should go.

While inserting these edits over and over again, 83.1992.2006 shows no regard for other edits from genuine editors. Edits have to be reinserted constantly or they become lost. Despite several requests from myself and other editors, he refuses to discuss anything on Talk: FC Barcelona and he also uses a misleading User ID. At least two other editors, Yonatanh and Bcnviajero have expressed concern about his edits. Djln--Djln 16:59, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your support!

Habbo Hotel

You removed the sprotected tag on Habbo Hotel but never unprotected the page - oops! :) --james _{// bornhj (talk)} 03:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Ooops indeed. Done.Voice-of-All 04:44, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Nikki Grahame

can you unprotect this page please.

Zeq and anon IP

The abuse would have been circumventing a ban on editing Operation Summer Rains. See the edit and the ban notice (which is not there currently as it was later removed by an anon IP). Homey 22:07, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Heads up

Just wanted to give you a heads up on using the bureaucrat script to delist failing RfAs, like . Be sure you alter the automatic edit summary to reflect that it's an early closure; otherwise, it may be misinterpreted as closing a full term RfA in lieu of a bureaucrat doing so. I saw it come across my watchlist and had to go check the RfA to see why a non-bureaucrat was closing it; it worries me that someone less likely to investigate and more likely to start screaming would have stirred up a lot of problem over something that really wasn't. (You know how it can be around here.) Anyhow, just wanted to drop the suggestion. Essjay (Talk) 19:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

VoABot mistake on Requests for page protection

Here VoABot mistakenly classified a request for protection of Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe as fulfilled/denied when the request was still outstanding. Tim Smith 22:42, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Fixed, I've modified the algorythm...though I still have to copy over to the computer that runs the bot.Voice-of-All 23:37, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Friend

I'll be your friend :). I'll start by pointing out that on one of your userboxes, it says this user a CheckUser clerk. Wikibout-Talk to me! 05:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

La Línea de la Concepción

I noticed that you unprotected this article. Please don't - the page is the subject of a long-term vandalism spree by the former Gibraltarian, who is one of the most persistent vandals I've ever come across. He's been hitting this and other Gibraltar-related articles and their talk pages on at least a daily basis for at least the last seven months (just yesterday he vandalised Talk:La Línea de la Concepción five times). We can't ban his IP range because he's using Gibraltar's only ISP - our other Gibraltarian users would become collateral damage. Regrettably, these articles need to be semi-protected for a lengthy period. -- ChrisO 08:11, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid that the articles you just unprotected have been vandalised again by Gibraltarian. This is a long-term vandal who has been at it for months. The only way we're going to get rid of him is to stop him from vandalising in the first place. Is your bot able to detect anonymous and newly registered accounts vandalising the articles? It doesn't seem to have intervened on most of the articles in question. If it can't do this, we need to reprotect those articles. -- ChrisO 07:13, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, it wasn't running for several hours due to a reboot.Voice-of-All 18:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

John Cena

The John Cena page is getting heavily attacked! I dont think you should unprotect it for a good few months.

Sanctimonius

Stop pretending to be neutral and fair, you are Wiki-Taliban hiding behind a rock like most administrators. You arbitrarily block and protect pages for your pals so they can beat the crap out of anyone who dares to disagree with their points of view! You are a fake, phony, and fraud. If you believe you are not, I dare you to leave this message on here! Better yet, why don't you delete it and protect your own page! ///// Truth_be_Known

Trinity Grammar School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Twice, I have requested this page for protection and the amount of reccent activity has not made it justfiable, either it needs to be watchlisted by as many as possible, or VoABot (talk · contribs) needs to watchlist it and automatically revert backlisted edits. So what do you think? Myrtone (☏) 14:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Kitty May Ellis (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Thank you for unprotecting, but when I go to this page it still says its protected. This was a simple redirect to Kittie May Ellis. Can you also unprotect that second page? Thanks. Wjhonson 20:47, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I unprotected Holocaust, but when I listed it, someone already added a RfPP section, so the offset was wrong, so it went to the wrong section.Voice-of-All 20:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

While I was in the middle of trying to rewrite the article, and it was marked with Hangon and Underconstruction both, it was marked for speedy delete and deleted. How am I supposed to write the article to "conform" when I dont' even get the chance to finish writing it? Argh. Wjhonson 21:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

huh?

i thought wikipedia didnt have siggies-do you mean my nickname thing in my preferneces?SNAPE KILLS A FLY HAHAHAH PWNED! 02:21, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Your user name is OK, but the name on your signature is not.Voice-of-All 02:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

oh the snape kills a fly one,ok ill change it.

Thank you so much

Hi, VoA. Fist of all, thank you so much for your kind words. And thank you for all your help during this request of mine, not only here on the English-language Misplaced Pages, but also at Meta. You've been invaluable in making this go as smoothly as possible! I really can't thank you enough. Cheers, Redux 02:50, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

the oscar guiterrez page

i do have it on my watchlist,its just that they add so much its really hard.i am snape.i killed innocent bugs. 04:40, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

Can you re-semi-protect this article, this is getting a large amount of vandalism, a good portion from ip's. Hello32020 19:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Looks like someone else took care of it.Voice-of-All 23:03, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Has again been unprotected. Please re-semi-protect. Hello32020 00:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm afraid you'll have to ask a different admin this time.Voice-of-All 00:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Time math.

A friendly reminder; its not a big problem, so don't take it as such. Its mon, July 24 2006 3:00 (UTC), and the checkuser request you recently archived ended on 00:36, 21 July 2006 (UTC). Archive time is 4 days. You've been almost perfectly spot-on for a 3 day archive time period. People tend to make mistakes in mental math made around time since a 0 and 1 numeral, so I figured you might've done the same. Kevin_b_er 03:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Ohh...I used to due four and when I asked Essjay he said 3-4. This was still a while ago, so it must have changed. Sorry, noted. BTW, I write advanced javascript, and whether something starts at 1 or 0, and what gives index amounts and true amounts has confused me several times before :).Voice-of-All 03:19, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeshivah of Flatbush

Unless you're willing to babysit the article yourself, and immediately revert all the vandalism to it, please stop unprotecing the Yeshivah of Flatbush article. It has been undergoing sustained vandalism attacks, which start up soon after you unprotect. As this is now the third go-round of sprotecting the article, I suggest it would be better to wait several weeks this time, until the vandalizing editors get bored and go play elsewhere. Jayjg 00:20, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Irritating bot

Your bot is constantly pestering me for a number of protection notices that are well explained (, ) and I'm starting to get very annoyed with it. Raul654 05:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

User scripts

Shouldn't user scripts be protected, so someone doesn't change them with nasty effects, or is this not a problem? —Centrx→talk • 17:14, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Any script subpage of an existing user is protected by default (the user and admin only can edit it). So that usually not an issue.Voice-of-All 19:01, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Eluchil404's RfA

Thank you for taking the time to express an opinion in my recent request for adminship. I have withdrawn my self-nomination because there seemed little prospect for further productive discussion or the formation of a consensus to promote. Many commentators offered constructive critisism that I will use to improve myself as a user. Others suggested that the nomination was premature and that a re-nom in a few months would be more likely to gain consensus. Thank you for your constructive critisism. Eluchil404 19:24, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Edit count

What program do you use to count edits? I'm just curious. I can't seem to find anything out there that seems to replicate the same layout of results as your counts. Do you like sit there and manually do it? :P --T. Moitie 21:41, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

A note about Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Samuel_Luo

This request (you just closed) is part of an ongoing issue regarding the block of CovenantD in that page. If it matters or you're interested, more details are under the AMA request on my talk page. Regards, --Kickstart70-T-C 03:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you so much for voting in my recent RFA. It passed on the relatively narrow vote of 38/8/8. It was also one of the least-participated-in RFA nominations in several months, so pat yourself on the back, and join the party on your left, but first, take your cookie! NOTE: I can't code HTML to save my life. I copied this from Misza13. I guess I should write him a thank you note as well. Cookies sold separately. Batteries not included. Offer not valid with other coupons. May contain peanuts or chicken. Keep out of the reach of small children, may present a choking hazard to children under the age of 3. Do not take with alcohol. This notice has a dark background and therefore may be eaten by a grue at any time. The receiver of this message, hereafter referred to as "Pudding Head" relinquishes all rights and abilities to file a lawsuit or any other litigious activities. RyanGerbil10, Jimbo Wales, and the states of Georgia, North Dakota and Wisconsin are not liable for any lost or stolen items or damage from errant shopping carts.

Thank you so much! RyanGerbil10(The people rejoice!) 04:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Criticism of Islam

Could you please add a disputed tag on the top of the page. If you look at the talk page, it's overwhelmingly clear the content is highly disputed. His Excellency... 18:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Having trouble with non-admin rollback .js

I'm currently working on a different computer than normal, and it isn't working right... Though I thought it was just a few days ago, which makes me wonder if something changed in the script? Maybe I really hadn't tried it yet on this computer - but it's the same OS and browser as the other. (XP SP2 and latest release of Firefox). I get this error on any page: "Failed to parse XML data returned by the server. Hint: try to disable both "Enable section editing by right-clicking on section titles (JavaScript)" and "Edit pages on double click (JavaScript)" in your editing preferences until a proper fix is found.", followed by pages of stuff. I checked, and both those options are already off, and I haven't changed anything else either. Also, this is only when clicking the blue revert link on a diff page - if I use the red "revert to this version", it works fine. -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 04:16, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Iglesia ni Cristo troubles

I noticed you protected the Iglesia ni Cristo article. You may want to take a look at WP:ANI#User:Emico_sock_proxies_and_Iglesia_ni_Cristo. I need your input on this matter. Thanks --LBMixPro 04:19, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:B/AG

Its a secret society, run by the cabal! Looks like the last few (including myself) were invited by the existing members at the time. Being a regular contributor to the discussions, and being a bot operator are unofficial requirements. — xaosflux 05:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT had a huge backlog, and Essjay just made some signigant rewrites of the page (sectioning), and cleared out >30 requests that were backlogged. I just (this week) got added to the approvals group, prior to that I was smoewhat active in the discussions, but not making any approvals. Some of the other "approvers" are active, but may have not been editing much if they didn't object to the approvals being made by others, User:Freakofnurture and User:Pgk are fairly active elsewhere as well. Community input is welcome on that page at all time, of course. — xaosflux 20:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Activity on WP:BRFA

VOA, I'm a little confused about this edit. First off, it seems a lot like a bot edit, but you're obviously not a bot. Second, it modifies what people are saying in a discussion. I'm obviously a lot newer to Misplaced Pages than you are, but I didn't think that was OK to do. I'd really appreciate if you responded on my talk. Thanks, αChimp 18:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I dunno. Even though it doesn't modify my actual language, I still don't like my posts modified in any way. Obviously you can keep running the script, but I don't really agree with it. Running on articles and running on talk and project pages seem very different to me. Do you actually look at the changes before the script saves them? αChimp 19:38, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it auto-clicks preview, and I have to click "save" for it to work. I rarely run it on talk pages though.Voice-of-All 19:40, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

User:VoABot II

Please wait until this bot is approved for a trial before runing it anymore. See comment on WP:RFBOT regarding a recent edit it made. — xaosflux 22:38, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your patience! Your bot has been approved for trials, please see the notes on WP:RFBOT. — xaosflux 14:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Edit breakdown

I want to see my edit breakdown - the percentage edits in each namespace etc ie what is posted to many RfAs. (not Interiot's tool) Is there a tool I can use to do this? Viridae 11:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Viridae 22:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I never did at the start. I now have the "prompt me when making a edit with a blank summary" ticked. Forcing me to provide one. Viridae 23:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Lightbringer RFCU

Can you check the formatting on that last edit you did? It looks a bit wonky...--SarekOfVulcan 00:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding what?

protecting

I mentioned before the problems that exist with Pretender, Hilda Toledano and some related articles. The problem is simple. A user called Manuel de Souza spent months inserting widely discredited claims suggesting that a self-proclaimed illegitimate daughter of the second last Portuguese king (a kind of Portuguese version of Anna Anderson) had been the legitimate pretender to the defunct Portuguese throne, and that another guy had been named as heir by her. Most people regard the claims as 100% bullshit but for months de Souza kept doctoring articles to claim that she and since her death her so-called heir are the real pretenders and the real pretender is a fake. Endless edit wars have been fought all over Portuguese pages about this for at least a year now. Finally when Souza would not stop he was banned from the site. Now he openly admits to using IP sockpuppets to doctoring articles to continue to push the claims (in frequently garbled English which on occasion have reduced articles to gobbledigook).

As users are struggling to keep up with the vandalism, the above two articles and two or three more have had to be semi-protected. That stops them being under seige. But then some well-meaning user comes along and removes the semi-protection after a couple of days. De Souza immediately pounces and garbles them again. If we are lucky, people spot it immediately and fight a reversion war until they are semi-protected and the various new batch of sockpuppets blocked. If we are unlucky a couple of innocent users have edit after him and various users then end up digging back through the archives to try to piece together the original article with correct changes while finding all the bits of rubbish de Souza has inserted and removed them again.

Is there any other solution you can think of bar resorting to semi-protecting these articles? You would think after at least a year of this farce the prick de Souza would have given up, realised that his POV crap is not being added on to Misplaced Pages, and looked for some other site to use to promote his claims. (I suspect, as do others, that he works for, or is linked to, the self-proclaimed pretender, and is trying to use WP as a means to promote his cause.) The best I can come up with is to hope that if the articles are left in a semi-protected state for a few weeks he might give up and go away. Unfortunately they never get to remain semi-protected for long enough. Just when he might be tiring of waiting, someone unprotects them. He spots it, comes rushing back and starts the edit warring again. And the same bunch of users (luckily for Misplaced Pages they are so dedicated) end up undoing the damage and trying to find an available admin to block his various IPs and protect the pages again. FearÉIREANN\ 00:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Your comment

what WP:PA do you mean? there are entire sections to attack me on that page by people that doesn't even contribute at all. There should be more attention to make talk pages about content and not about attacking people. I just aded a section with no attacks, actually just complements and two regular editors took it off without concensus. I didn't know I could also do that. That's just perfect, I can go aroud taking whatever I don't like.--T-man, the wise 01:06, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Your comment on User:Inge's talk page

Hi Voice of All. I just noticed your note on WP:PAIN regarding User:Comanche cph. Consequently, I'm somewhat surprised that you've posted the warning on User:Inge's page instead. To me it looks like you've mixed up the two editors. Regards. Valentinian 08:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza

you've unprotected this article and it started immidiatly to be vandalized by Manuel, using an ip address...everyone is reverting, but the guy doesnt stop! --Pedro 11:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Is correct to insert in Duarte Pio page the opposition to him claims because in Portugal there are many people that consider Duarte Pio not the duke of Braganza. This becauseDuarte Pio is excluded by the last monarchic contitution because he is a miguelist descendant (of the usurper king Miguel), because he is Swiss born and because he is not the most direct relative of the last king of Portugal. Infact if for absurdity had not existed Maria Pia of Saxe Coburg Braganza, the last daughter of the king Charles, before Duarte Pio there are 36 others pretenders more direct to the last king of Portugal than him. So is absurd to consider Duarte Pio of Braganza the legitimate pretender to portuguese Crown or the legitimate duke of Braganza. Why the supporters of Duarte Pio want delete and hide this important informations about this pretender? MS, 12:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Hilda Toledano, (Maria Pia of Saxe Coburg Braganza) and the paragraph about the considerations

In an encyclopedia as wikipedia has no value the considerations because they are only personal considerations and has not objective value. Here we must insert only fact and documents and not consideration or talks. So please delete the paragraph about the consideration in Hilda Toledano/Maria Pia Saxe Coburg page because are NPOV. Thanks . MS, 12:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Can also explain me because you entitled this page Hilda Toledano and not Maria Pia Saxe Coburg Braganza. This woman real name is Maria Pia Saxe Coburg Braganza. This is reported in all her official documents. She used the name Hilda Toledano only as writer, and this is only a pseudonym. But here we discuss about Maria Pia for her claims as heir to Royal House of Portugal and not as a writer so please change the name of this page in Maria Pia of Saxe Cobur Braganza. MS, 12:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding your comment

I am a bit pussled. Could you elaborate. You say on the personal attack page that the user has been notified. But you have left a comment on my talk starting with: "Your comments with User:Inge have become less that civil at time" . Was that comment for Comanche or for me? I appreciate your involvement, but I'm not sure what to make of it. The issue regarding this user is complex and I have been in the front line of trying to direct him towards a more axceptable behaviour. This has meant I have had to take the brunt of his "attacks". I repported him now because he has been accusing me in talk pages of pushing a pro Norwegian POV and stating that many of my contributions have been reverted. Both statements are false and are made only to discredit me. I believe that to be a personal attack. He has been previously blocked for describing other users as nationalist. I urge you to take a closer look at this users history (not only the block log), and previous Incident notices such as this one. Hope to hear from you. Inge 14:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that was just a mis-post due to me clicking the wrong talk page link; fixed.Voice-of-All 18:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I see you fixed it now. Thanks:) Just wanted to point out as well that I didn't call him a vandal or state he was blocked for vandalism (allthough some of his behaviour might be described as such). I did revert some of his first edits and described them as vandalism in the edit summary because they appeared to be random removal of text. I stopped that emediately when I realised it was a user trying to assert his opinion on the subject. I stated in the alert that he has called other users vandals. Inge 19:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Voice of All/Specialadmin/monobook.js

There seems to be something slightly wrong with this script - See , and . Thanks, — FireFox _{16:47, 31 July '06}

And also, while I'm on the subject - where it asks you to confirm a complete rollback or reverting all moves, it says "Confirm type:" and then nothing else. What are you meant to type? Thanks, — FireFox _{17:25, 31 July '06}

Fixed. Also, see this.Voice-of-All 19:01, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, right, I wondered what that was about. Cheers, — FireFox _{19:22, 31 July '06}

Sorry to bother you about this again, but for some reason, when you use the admin revert button and you get beaten to the revert, it prompts you to delete the page (for example, like this: ). Thanks, — FireFox _{11:08, 01 August '06}

Fixed. It will only do that if the author is the only contributor now.Voice-of-All 07:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. This will be the last thing, I promise; I am unsure about where to put this. So far, the only way I have been able to get it to work is by copying out the whole code, and editing the values in that? I presume there is a way to make it work by only using what is shown here, but I don't know where to change the values? Thanks, — FireFox _{10:45, 02 August '06}

There are default values for the confirm codes, but its probably better to just copy that script (with the three variables) to the .js file of yours and edit them.Voice-of-All 18:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Like this? Because it just comes up with "operation aborted" when I try to do that. — FireFox _{19:11, 02 August '06}

It works :) thanks very much. — FireFox _{10:28, 03 August '06}

I said before that that would be the last thing, and I intended it to be but... I tried using the revert all moves feature today, with this move log, but it only opened one tab and performed one revert. Just letting you know, there might be a bug of some kind here. Thanks, — FireFox _{14:26, 03 August '06}

Thanks :) Sorry to keep bothering you with this! I'm really impressed with this whole thing by the way, it's really good – you must have spent a lot of time and hard work on it! Cheers, — FireFox _{19:21, 03 August '06}

User:VoA/monobook.js

Hi, did you recently add rollback links to contribs? I was wondering if you could remove them or only show them on users other then your own as they look a bit messy? Matthew Fenton (contribs) 07:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

VoABot II

Howdy!!! VoABot II does not appear to be giving "test1," "test2," etc. warnings after reverting vandalism. Can this be fixed somehow? Kukini 21:51, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Gotcha. I hope we someday come up with a better answer for AOL/shared IP folk. But...onward and upward. Kukini 23:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Another side not on VoABot II... it doesn't catch interspersed vandalism. I saw it get all but one bit of vandalism from a user (which ended when another user put something random in), so I had to go back and revert past back the bot... Dunno if that's physically possible to fix, but just a note. Logical2u 23:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

My RfA and your vote

Hi Jason, Thanks for participating in my RFA! Ultimately, no consensus was reached, but I still appreciate the fact that you showed up to add in your two cents. I can assure you that I will focus on making a large amount of article contribs in these upcoming months. You can feel free to talk to me about it or add some advice on my improvement page. Sincerely, The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me)

User:WordBomb sockpuppet

Thatcher131 suggested that I drop you a line about this page, which consists entirely of posts by a sockpuppet of a banned user evading an indefinite ban. He said you might want to delete this just as the main page was deleted.--Mantanmoreland 04:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Done (actually I deleted it right before noticing this message). Cases of at least some merit are preserved for future reference. Since this is a garbage request, there is no need to keep it on the record against you.Voice-of-All 04:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. It appears still on the Talk page, but I trust that will be removed?--Mantanmoreland 04:25, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Dafturd Sockpuppet

The checkuser case showed that there were sockpuppets being used for WP:POINT as well as vote stacking in an AfD. Why wasn't the user banned or at the very minimum tagged as a sockpuppet? Is there something more I need to do? IrishGuy 04:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've blocked the IP for a week and the accounts indefinetely.Voice-of-All 22:08, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. In the future, is there any particular action I need to do after a puppet is confirmed by checkuser? IrishGuy 22:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

A third-party unblock request

Hi VoA! I'm just clearing out Category:Requests for unblock and there's one of yours in there: User:Chrisirwin on IP 192.94.94.106 has been hit by one of your range blocks on Rajput. Now, I'm useless with range blocks, both applying and removing them - could you clear this bit of collateral damage for him? Thanks in advance if you can. ➨ ЯEDVERS 20:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I've modified the block to only effect anons (but it stop account creation too, so any socks will run out).Voice-of-All 21:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

VoABot II

Sorry for having to block your bot; however it seems to be having a few problems, i.e., . There are other similar diffs if you'd like me to dig them up. Please let me know once the problem has been corrected or if there was something here I failed to understand. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:RPP

Hi Voc, You said that you protected Noua Dreaptă at WP:RPP, but it appears to still be unprotected. Perhaps you forgot? —Khoikhoi 00:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I've decided to just range block instead for now.Voice-of-All 01:18, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. —Khoikhoi 01:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Please delete Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Mantanmoreland

Please delete Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Mantanmoreland as an abusive request filed by two sock puppets of a banned user. Fred Bauder has made it clear on ANI and his talk page that he is not entertaining any more requests in this case. Whisky Tango (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is a reincarnation of Whiskey Tango (talk · contribs), a confirmed sock of blocked user WordBomb, and if Barbamama (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) isn't also a sock of WordBomb, its a sock of someone else in this feud. Blocking those two accounts wouldn't hurt either. Thatcher131 (talk) 01:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Done.Voice-of-All 01:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Super. Although I'm sure this isn't the last we'll hear of this guy. Thatcher131 (talk) 01:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Rollback

I can see that the rollback actually works, but I am unable to rollback through the contributions/history pages. Is there a problem in the script, or a problem in something else? Ryūlóng 08:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Fixed :).Voice-of-All 08:24, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay :D. Ryūlóng 08:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Do I have to load the script, again? Cause when trying to test it on my own talk page I got "Page rollback error: Invalid token!" Ryūlóng 08:32, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, it does work (I had to force a reload) but should I be able to rollback from the history page? Ryūlóng 08:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

A history page rollback would only be able to revert the last edit (though a "revision restore is possible"). This can be accomplished by clicking "last" and then "rollback". Voice-of-All 08:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah... Thank you. Ryūlóng 08:37, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Please help

Please protected arcicle: Rapcore. User:Egr / 85.18.14.4 is vandal. Some users reverted edits by User:Egr / 85.18.14.4. Please protected arcicle. LUCPOL 20:27, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Fully protected due to revert warring. Voice-of-All 01:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, a handy comment section on just the very topic. I notice you're a RFCU clerk, v-o-a, so I'd be interested if the pattern of editing on said article rings as many sockpuppet alarm bells for you, as it did for me. (It didn't seem a likely case for an actual CU request, on that basis.) Alai 04:03, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes.Voice-of-All 09:01, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Prevention of vandal rollback on static AOL range

I recently tried to vandal rollback on a reversion and I was blocked because of the fact it was an AOL IP page. However, ranges within the following blocks are non-portable, although belonging to AOL:

• 172.192.0.0/12
• 172.208.0.0/13
• 172.216.0.0/16

Perhaps something can be programmed into the rollback script to ignore the AOL status of these pages.

Also, there appears to be a problem with the rollback links on IP contribution pages. Sometimes, they do not work. Ryūlóng 09:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Blocked? You mean the talk page did not open?Voice-of-All 19:33, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

IP contribs edit fixed.Voice-of-All 20:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

The talk page did not open for the IP range of semi-static IPs, yes. Also, there appears to be a minor problem with and pages that contain special characters (letters with diacritics) in the titles. Ryūlóng 04:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

I can't seem to find this bug. What page was this on? As for the ranges, I've updated that.Voice-of-All 05:09, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

When I reverted a blanking to José Antonio Víctor Díaz Acosta. When the popup opened, and I warned the user using one of the tabs, the link to the article editted was changed to this mojibake: "José Antonio Víctor Díaz Acosta". Ryūlóng 05:42, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Fixed.Voice-of-All 05:50, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

One last thing; can the "report" function be tweaked to identify IP addresses and utilize {{IPvandal}} instead of {{vandal}}? Ryūlóng 07:25, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Not easily, the script is SRC included. AIV report was written by User:Lightdarkness.Voice-of-All 07:33, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Your user contrib analysis tool

Hi VOA, I was using your javascript tool for analysing user contributions a little while ago, and I noticed that it has been marking some edits with obvious summaries suggesting major changes as minor. See: , , , , and . All these are marked as superficial (in green) when they are clearly major edits. I understand that my definition of 'wikify' wrongly includes big rewrites, but edits marked with 'Major section rewrite' should really be counted as significant or notable. Its not really a priority, and I understand that the admins are very busy with backlogs around now, but if you could take a quick look at the code and maybe add a js equivalent of if(substr("rewrite",$summary) $type=4; (my limited php understanding of the sort of code possible) it would be good. --Draicone 09:34, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Added .Voice-of-All 20:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I noticed I added one of those regexps twice :D.Voice-of-All 20:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

It works fine now and no longer marks these edits as superficial. However, I went through your code and found a problem on this page where a few edits are being counted as reverts, yet the really are not. It seems the problematic edit summaries are:

• Add banner (created by me a few mins ago), wording about articles that cannot be wikified
• Add note about activity and relative youth of project
• Remove CSS id
• Add note about syncing chart data - might try that right now.
• Add header, shortcut box, NOTOC.

This seems to be the line causing the issue:

''if (the_sum.search(/(RV|Rv|rV)|-rv|\(rv|\(R|RV|Rv|rv/) !=-1 || the_sum.search(/rever(t|ted|ting)|rever(t|ted|ting)|reversion|graffitti| nonsense|vandal ed| vandal|rollback| irrelevant| unverified/i) !=-1 || the_sum.search(/(t|ed|e) vandal|(V|v) |inkspam|emov(ed|ing)|elet(ed|ing) |einsta(t|ted)|estore(d) |(un|n)ecessary | previous| version /) !=-1 || the_sum.search('m ') !=-1 || the_sum.search('mv') !=-1 || the_sum.search('(Remove|remove|emoved|emoved|emove|emoved\|emoved\|emove\|seriously|WTF|\\?\\?|!!)') !=-1 || the_sum.search('estore(|d|ing )') !=-1 || the_sum.search('(un|n)ecessary ') !=-1 || the_sum.search(/(Should|should|Is|is) (ot|OT) |hould(nt|n't) |(an't|annot) /) !=-1 || the_sum.search('/re-added|re-inserted|added back /i') != -1 || the_sum.search(/back again|POINT|no such |speculation\)| such thing| agree with| don't| do not|\(surely|\?|\?\.|\?\)/) !=-1 || the_sum.search(/no need/i) !=-1 || the_sum.search(/Abuse of |admin powers | violat(e|es|ed) | your standards| doesn't| your| you're| yours| you | aren't| isn't/i) != -1 || the_sum.search(/roll(s|ing)\)|raffitti/) !=-1 || the_sum.search(/linkspam|\(If |nonsense|vandal ed|ollback| vandal| vandals | vandal/i) !=-1)''

Should phrases like cannot and remove really be included? Most reverts don't include a 'cannot' in the edit summary (in fact, i haven't yet seen one which does) and generally rv's are automated thanks to VP, VF and lupin's tool, where terms like Revert and RV are used - cannot is nowehere to be seen. 'Remove' is, I suppose, a rv style edit comment, but it isn't neccessarily vandalism. Maybe make it a superficial edit? --Draicone 03:12, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Error in Rapcore

Please first reverted old version arcicle (when there was edit war) and just protected page. Please correct. LUCPOL 09:51, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure want you mean?Voice-of-All 20:33, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Pseudo-Rollback

I tried to rollback something in a sandbox of mine, and got "Page rollback error: Last editor is Talk, not GeorgeMoney. The user may have already been reverted." . Is that a bug? It should say "error:the only editor is georgemoney". GeorgeMoney (talk) 10:50, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

That occured it there was only 1 edit. Fixed.Voice-of-All 19:31, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Maria Pia of Braganza title

Please reinsert the name "Maria Pia of Braganza" or "Maria Pia of Saxe Coburg Braganza" in the Hilda Toledano page. Maria Pia Saxe Coburg Braganza is the name of this woman that we can see in all her official documents while the name Hilda Toledano is only a paseudonym as a writer. Here in Misplaced Pages we write about her claims as Duchess of Braganza so the unique real name of this woman is Maria Pia of Saxe Coburg Braganza and not Hilda Toledano. The miguelist supporters(the supporters of Duarte Pio of Braganza) want delete this truth and they want insert the name Hilda Toledano to discredit this pretender. Please read the considerations also of a impartial user of wikipedia about this argument. Thanks

Noel S McFerran in Hilda Toledano discussion page wrote: "I dread to raise this issue again - since last time (before I got involved in editing this article) it was so contentious.

The name "Hilda de Toledano" (note the "de") was used by this lady as a pen-name when she wrote two books (one in 1937 and one in 1954). I presume that she also used the name when she published articles in the Spanish press in the 1930s. Other than that she does not seem to have used this name.

Pailler suggests that the first official document which this lady had (ignoring the missing baptismal certificate) was her marriage certificate and her subsequent Cuban passport (thanks to her civil husband). From that point on she seems always to have used the name Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo de Braganca (or some variant thereof). This is the form for her death certificate and for numerous other documents.

Nobody could call me an adherent of this lady (although I think it quite possible that she may have been an illegitimate daughter of Carlos I). Her legal relationship to Carlos (or lack thereof) is, however, unimportant when it comes to her name.

In Misplaced Pages we use the name most commonly used in English-language works for an individual. In this case that is certainly not "Hilda Toledano". There are all sorts of newspaper articles (NYT, Globe and Mail, Sydney Herald) all of which refer to her as Maria Pia and some form of Braganza.

It seems to me that just as one editor who favours Maria Pia has repeatedly added all sorts of inappropriate statements to the article, there are other editors who favour Duarte Pio (whom I have always regarded as quite admirable) who have felt compelled to respond by creating an article which was one-sided in the opposite direction.

Can we try to produce an article which is appropriate for an encyclopedia (i.e. not arguing a particular case, but presenting what evidence is available)? Noel S McFerran 04:42, 2 August 2006 (UTC)"

M. 13:35, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Easy DB

Could you please include Easy DB in your non-admin RC patrol script? Thanks. MER-C 13:32, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Closing CU cases

When you've closed cases recently where there is a previous case on the page, the <div> and <noinclude> tags are getting put in the wrong place. It looks like {{Rfcub}} is being added below the previous Rfcua rather than above it. Look at Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ericsaindon2 and Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/RJII for example (well, look at the version before I fixed it. My guess is a scripting error? Thatcher131 (talk) 00:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

It is supposed to put the tags before any <noinclude> marks. OK, I think I see whats wrong is using "txt" rather thatn "document.editform.wpTextbox1.value", since "txt" was already split before the "noinclude". Fixed.Voice-of-All 01:09, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Archiving

I need a bit of extra information to set up EssjayBot III to do your talk page; in particular, I need:

• The archive scheme you use, for example, User talk:Voice of All/Archive1 or User talk:Voice of All/Archive/1 or whatever.
• The current archive number you're on: 1, 6, 42, whatever.
• The age at which posts should be archived; this bot works by most recent timestamp (not the one at the bottom of the section). Pick an amount of time, in 24 hour increments, after which something shoudl be removed; for example, if you pick 7, anything with no additional comments in 7 days will be archived.
• The size an archive should reach (in KB) before the bot starts a new one. For example, if you specify 100KB, when the bot detects the page has gone over that, it will autoincrement the archive number and post there the next time.

If you'll drop that on my talk page, I'll set it up for you. Essjay (Talk) 07:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I have it set, if you're ready for a test, let me know. I can hard code it to handle the 0 issue for now, just let me know when it switches over to 10 and I'll take the 0 out. Essjay (Talk) 08:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

You've got a Thank you card!

Dear Jason, thank you so much for your beautiful words, your kidness and your trust in me. My Request for Adminship is finally over, and the support and appreciation that the community has gifted me will stick in my mind as long as I live. I have no way to properly express how grateful I am to you for all you've done for me, and all I can tell you is, I'll try not to disappoint you nor anyone else with my use of the buttons... and if I mess up, make sure to come here and give me a good yell! :) Seriously, tho, if you ever need my help, either for admin-related stuff or in any other way, you'll always be welcome to message me, and I promise I'll try my very best.
Dear Jason, it is great that our paths have crossed again, and to see you're doing fine. Your strong support, coming for an awesome editor (and an awesome guy! :) was incredibly special to me - and all I can tell you is, thank you, dear J! :) Hope to talk to you asap, and take good care, k? With a big hug, your friend,