User:Messedrocker

HemlockMartinis for ArbCom

No one knows what it's like to be the bad man behind blue eyes.

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• November 26, 2004 - August 31, 2006
• September 1, 2006 - November 15, 2006
• November 16, 2006 - January 22, 2007
• January 23, 2007 - April 11, 2007
• April 12, 2007 - July 2, 2007
• July 3, 2007 - September 3, 2007
• September 4, 2007 - April 13, 2008
• April 14, 2008 - Present

[edit] Huh?

Hi Messed, what was the purpose of this edit? Cbrown said it was on your advice. Thanks.--Pharos (talk) 19:04, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I was wondering where the old names went :)--Pharos (talk) 23:02, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RFC bot

On the RFC pages you added the option to hide instructions with {{#ifeq:{{{hide_instructions}}}|yes| |{{RFC tagging instructions|RFCmedia}} }}. Since the tagging instructions are now {{RFC list footer}} and contain manual entries this unfortunately hides those manual entires as well. I've modified {{RFC list footer}} to fix this, and just need the line in the RFC pages changed to {{RFC list footer|RFCmedia|hide_instructions={{{hide_instructions}}} }} (with RFCmedia replaced with whatever value is appropriate for that RFC). Thanks! -- Ned Scott 02:45, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Natalee Holloway#RfC: Proper naming for article

I cannot figure out why the bot isn't picking this one up. It doesn't show up on the list of malformed requests, either.—Kww(talk) 22:11, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Got it now. Just took much longer than the hour stated.—Kww(talk) 22:43, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Spoke too soon. It added it, and then took it right back out.—Kww(talk) 22:50, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

In again, out again.—Kww(talk) 23:10, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Finally staying in. I think that this is related: there were two consecutive spaces in the section header.—Kww(talk) 00:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NYC Meetup: You are invited!

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday November 16th, Columbia University area Last: 6/01/2008 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, finalize and approve bylaws, interact with representatives from the Software Freedom Law Center, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the June meeting's minutes and the September meeting's minutes).

We'll also review our recent Wikis Take Manhattan event, and make preparations for our exciting successor Wikipedia Loves Art! bonanza, being planned with the Brooklyn Museum for February.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 22:31, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BLP RfC entry fix

I manually edited the entry made by your bot: (1) Wikilink to the relevant section of the Talk page instead of the Talk page, (2) Link to the relevant diff as originally given by me instead of link to Wikipedia main page.--Goodmorningworld (talk) 21:53, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Your bot changed the link to the diff again. Is this a glitch?--Goodmorningworld (talk) 22:13, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

"No"? When you write "you have to fix the link on the talk page" I do not understand. The link that I put into the RfC Template at Talk:Denial of the Armenian Genocide is fine already. And when I try to fix the link on the RfC page your bot changes it right back.--Goodmorningworld (talk) 22:27, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

"Incidentally, there is an issue with linking to diffs. I found a way around it which should suffice." Well if you can find the time to also implement your workaround, it would be just terrific. Thank you for all the hard work you do.--Goodmorningworld (talk) 22:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bug in RFC bot

In this diff [1] the bot left a completely broken link. I think you have assumed that the wiki name of a section is the same as the HTML anchor for the section. That isn't true; the HTML anchors are munged in various ways. I don't think the munging algorithm is documented anywhere. When I had to deal with it I just looked up the code in the mediawiki source to see how to make the anchors. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:46, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Missed link?

I can't seem to get the bot to notice the template here. Any reason? --Falcorian ^(talk) 09:02, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfC bot bug

For some reason, RfC bot didn't copy the entire RfC at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Politics. I subsequently fixed it manually, but the bot keeps restoring the old broken version. Is there a way to override this behavior? siℓℓy rabbit (talk) 13:17, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:British_Royal_Family_reduced.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:British_Royal_Family_reduced.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information; to add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia.

For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 06:48, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RFC Template

I've copied the template format verbatim from other pages. Could you please explain what is wrong with the format I'm providing? EagleScout18 (talk) 05:32, 3 December 2008 (UTC)