User talk:SBJohnny/Archive 3

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Its OK
I under stand the mistake, i forgive you. and thanks for acting so quickly --Moveaway00 02:58, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

?new user?
User:Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Willy Phone! - nothing happened so far but? And I guess where should this be reported? -- Herby talk thyme 15:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * WK handled it -- Herby talk thyme 15:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not ignoring you
Just wanted to let you know that i'm not ignoring you, i've just been busy for the past few days. I talked to Darklama, and apparently he's been running that deletion bot that you talked about. If you would like me to take a look at it, yuo could send me a copy as well (or just tell me where to download it). See you around. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 18:24, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Biodiesel
Thanks for the information. Do you know if it was all copyvio. It seemed fairly original when I last saw it. I just wondered if there might be a non copyvio version somewhere in the history.

P.S. I do not doubt that the version that was deleted was copyvio. Not sure if that was clear from what I wrote above. It is easy to come off hostile when you do not have body language and tone of voice. Dolive35 14:43, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Transwiki query
You being the expert on transwiki'ing! I think this one got lost - Freedom of Information Act 2000 marked in July this year. Should it have happened, should I look out for this kind of stuff, and do what with it? Cheers -- Herby talk thyme 18:13, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * - does this make it a copyvio wherever it is? If so I'll mark it asap -- Herby  talk thyme 19:42, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * It will be tomorrow but I'll mark it -- Herby talk thyme 21:10, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Contra Dancing
Hey Johnny,

Thanks for your help with the categorization of Contra Dance Tips and Techniques. I'm still figuring out how the wiki works. I find it confusing, but I imagine I'll figure it out eventually.

As for the article Ten Stupid Things Beginners Do to Mess Up Their Contradance Experience, I'll grant that it is a more sophisticated book than mine, complete with multiple chapters, but I believe mine is the stronger article. My article conveys essentially the same information as the other; yet it does so much more succinctly, employing a direct approach rather than the abstruse contrarian approach of instructing by telling people what not to do. If I knew how to do it, I would move my article to the fore and relegate the other to a secondary position.

But frankly, it's not that important to me. I appreciate your help and will let you know if I have further questions.

Regards,

Peter B

Block
I was only reverting the change which he'd done after your revert. Answr on the transwiki query above would be good and you'll probably have mail later :-) -- Herby talk thyme 11:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * As much a case of "should it have been listed somewhere" so it was not missed? I'll look at Wsource later.  Regards -- Herby  talk thyme 11:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * OK looked at the cat now - guess it is another backwater that needs looking after -- Herby talk thyme 11:19, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW, if you are going to change policy on "welcoming" folk with no edits you could let those off IRC know so they don't put their foot in it - equally DL and I both edited the template to emphasize the need for edits yesterday! -- Herby talk thyme 13:03, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Welcome
OK not policy but advised practice maybe - Template_messages/User_talk_namespace and Template:Welcome tho DL & I both edited that yesterday. I reckon plenty of people register a name and never seem to use it - maybe why the advice is there? I've placed a fair few but waited until something other than their own page is edited (& they haven't vandalised anything!). -- Herby talk thyme 13:19, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * You want to tell anyone or just edit the page (mind you I put a note about it on mirtone's talk page yesterday )? -- Herby talk thyme 13:26, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice to see you doing some "real work"  - you have mails! -- Herby talk thyme 15:44, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Checks & vandals
Rather tied up today but will do what I can. Did you get the earlier mail? I'll keep my eyes on the spam one and let you know -- Herby talk thyme 15:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Nope - the checkuser one (in between the two you replied to I guess!). I guess you'll force me into IRC in the end.  Agree with comments on possible user tho!  Would make a useful group - couple more I have an eye on - I'll let you know -- Herby  talk thyme 16:23, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikibooks : Future
I want to thank you for proposing this for vfd and the care with which you debated deletion. In my opinion there is some good content on the wiki from which it comes, but it is no way suitable for Wikibooks. Thanks for the time and care you (all) put in to debating the issue. --JC (from future.wikia). 18:05, 30 November 2006 (GMT) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.100.44.184 (talk • contribs) 18:11, 30 Nov 2006  (UTC)
 * Interesting...-- Herby talk thyme 19:13, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Got to be worth following up tho -- Herby talk thyme 21:10, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Primary Contributors
What exactly, should I be doing to contact primary contributors and say? So I can be doing this bit of the process properly. Is leaving a message on the talk page of the book good enough? Do I leave a message on their talk page? How many contributors shoud I be trying to contact? I'm guessing frequency of edits and the last time a contributor made an edit has something to do with figuring out who the primary contributors are, however I'm not sure if thats it or if there's more to it or not. Don't want to end up trying to contact the wrong people. --dark lama  17:57, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Vandal
Action please & gimmee the tools -- Herby talk thyme 18:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Stuff/things etc
I contributed to the help one of yours but it really is a project wide initiative - I'm sure you will see and hopefully think it has something going for it.

Sysopbot - I really am not against it but when even Derbeth asks what is going on I know you are firing from the hip . You have no idea how alike we are! Speaking of such folk feel free to nudge a 'crat to close my RfA, others have closed quicker with less votes??

Seems to have been waay less IP activity thro the night (mine). Hope all is well -- Herby talk thyme 10:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Time you showed up - morning! -- Herby talk thyme 13:54, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Got mail - Willy bit noted (& based on recent timings I'll look forward to the next encounter!). For contacting editors (and a "vehicle" for doing it!) check my suggestion on the help page bit (referred to above).  I've been reading up on the checkuser bit - on this wiki I'm not sure I understand quite why it is such a big deal?  No rush but hear from you about it sometime somehow - best -- Herby  talk thyme 15:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Herby asked me to come say hi to you  --The staff at Wikibooks 15:10, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Checkuser - feel free (of course you may find a similarity with me & the user above!, nothing else I am aware of - one IP is fixed the other dynamic if I switch the router off). That said some feedback on the "idea" of communicating would be good.  Regards -- Herby  talk thyme 18:49, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * PS - Checking RfA - well worth doing -- Herby talk thyme 18:52, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

IRC/IM
Read above first but do you just use IRC or IM as well? On IM you'd hear from me (tho another address!) -- Herby talk thyme 15:09, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Hum
Ok I didn't sleep and its the end of a long day. I'm puzzled. You suggested we need to communicate with ordinary editors, I agree, I'm working on a list. However I don't feel we want to communicate individually but as a team so I set up the "staff" one. If no one likes it and Swift doesn't for goodness sake do a permanent block on it - it is not operating as a puppet - the password is available to anyone who wants it.

Checkuser & a previous incarnation - assuming that is what you are on about - WHAT are you on about. Both situations I was part of were not particularly pleasant and involved sockpuppets - is there any suggestion that I was part of that? I do need an answer - RfA is off -- Herby talk thyme 19:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * more - no idea about what the strange thing was - had enough - block the staff - RFA withdrawn - pissed off -- Herby talk thyme 19:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * We drink tea! OK I was tired - you wanted checkuser, no problem but admin seemed inappropriate until that was answered.  Add to that folks whinging (well thats how it looked) about the account I created to help communicate (after all I had effectively already worked on what you put in your email communicationwise).  Go figure I think is the expression!  Password will be in the mail BTW.  Playing with new toys and going to work up my acting skills -- Herby  talk thyme 11:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Help.
Could you delete this page. Alphabet/A


 * Done. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 04:47, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Hope you are better and
Like it says + I got an query on my page -. Looks to me as tho they should be deleted as Halo has gone? Worth an eye on that one! -- Herby talk thyme 13:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * PS [Meta:WikiProject on open proxies/Tor] - block on default settings and indef? -- Herby talk thyme 13:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok - what comes up using the meta wiki link has anon unchecked (I did one again). Hear about the Halo one in due course & I'll check with DL on the one above -- Herby  talk thyme 13:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * You're still not well - we are talking about the game guide pages Halo and more importantly their subs. My bad explanation too I guess -- Herby  talk thyme 13:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Cos I've not done a protection I'll do it but there are loads of sub pages - no rush at all (did I say that!) but I'm guessing they should have been deleted. I'll be nice - you're ill! -- Herby  talk thyme 13:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * No idea why I'm keeping this one going! Good work on the handbook update.  Needs to deal with unblocks too!  Get to it if I can - minor emergency keeping me offline (other half is on!) -- Herby  talk thyme 20:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Transwiki talk
If you will notice, I moved the page first from Transwiki_talk: to Talk:Transwiki: so that I could revert the two distinct moves and thus move the talk page back into the Talk: namespace. Don't worry, I won't be reverting any more Transwiki talk pages. Cheers, Iamunknown 21:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Let me clarify. Originally (in June, I think) you moved Talk:MIPS Assembly to Talk:Transwiki:MIPS Assembly. Then in November, someone at meta moved it into the new Transwiki_talk: namespace. The talk page is not going to be transwikied, however. I thought it was more approppriate to have it in the Talk: namespace. So first I reverted the Talk:Transwiki:->Transwiki_talk: move, then I reverted the Talk:->Talk:Transwiki: move. Now the page is back in the Talk: namespace. Cheers, Iamunknown 21:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Just go here or here. --Iamunknown 21:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Morning
Hope you are improving - you missed one in that series Satellite Radio. Cheers -- Herby talk thyme 11:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry thought you were after stuff by the "spammer" (only going to show that folks here really do not understand the term). You probably found it anyway but User:Herbythyme/Over EL pages contains some of the choicest cuts of spam I've found so far (one day when I'm having a bad day ....)! -- Herby  talk thyme 11:38, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * And WTF are people editing Collaboration of the Month/January 2006 voting? Rollback and protect or what? -- Herby  talk thyme 11:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * For sure but several have done it, should it have been archived or what? Of course it does save the time if we just recycle I guess  -- Herby  talk thyme 11:46, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Speaking of transwiki'ing I spotted this Cookbook:Irish stew. Don't know what the procedure is? -- Herby  talk thyme 11:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * OK I see what has happened, even if I haven't got a clue how! When I see another I'll get you to talk me thro it - regards -- Herby  talk thyme 12:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Gee thanks! Ok I'll try it sometime -- Herby  talk thyme 12:51, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


 * You have an interesting idea of "fun", remind me not to accept party invites! Are you ever on IM rather than IRC? -- Herby  talk thyme 13:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Know what you mean - but as far as I can I don't allow them around either. One of the things that brought me to WP was that I was after IM software that was not MS/AOL etc - don't they do Trillian (or similar) for macs - ok not trillian but Comparison of instant messaging clients (Adium looks ok)?
 * reset

I guess I am still a deletionist (& DON'T start me on spam) but a real reason I dropped out of the original account (now effectively pointing here) was that I seemed to be spending all my time deleting links (that kept coming back - I love the idea of blocking with far less warnings, that is so right) and not contributing positively - my aim here is to be able to offer something to the community and as I am not much of an editor I'll try for some "community"!! -- Herby talk thyme 14:19, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep your eye on me (mail too) - gone offline for now -- Herby talk thyme 16:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Fan club
Good to be recognized, thanks - tho I would have liked to block him personally! -- Herby talk thyme 18:51, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * And the community quietly sleeps - I was playing with AWB at the time so didn't get there as fast as you -- Herby talk thyme 18:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Back briefly but just then a rather good homity pie came out of the oven and No was not an option - take it you've asked for checkuser -- Herby talk thyme 19:08, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No need to ask, I already checkuser'd, and blocked the source IP address for a day. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 19:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW thanks -- Herby talk thyme 19:43, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, my block included all IPs used by the user, so that wasn't necessary :). -- SB_Johnny | talk 21:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That assumes the attacks are all being done by the same user, and that the wiki software is able to correctly identify all the IP addresses used in the attack. When I blocked the IP address, the software didn't give me the message that "this IP was already blocked", which it normally does in such a situation. I take that to mean that the IP wasnt blocked yet. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 14:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

And the next one!
If you have a mo - check out if I cleared up properly after the earlier one - wasn't awake nor had much time. I semi protected quite a bit too which may deserve review. BTW replied to mail - cheers -- Herby talk thyme 13:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * And I thought you were bright - check Vandalism in prog (another mumfun one) and look at logs around that time, not sure I cleared it all and no one was around - will need checkusrering and the ip blocking for a while at least I guess. Hope to have a bit more time later - cheers -- Herby  talk thyme 13:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * OK - we need to work on understanding one another . While I was still not awake a user vandal did the mumfun stuff.  I blocked him half awake and reverted all stuff user admin rollback, I deleted pages and redirects left and undid moves (tho it took a couple of attempts).  However I've been an admin for less than a week remember so I guess I felt a review might be ok.  More importantly I semi protected a few templates that seem to be targeted and felt a second opinion might be good.  There you go, hope work is good - catch you later maybe - sun is shining so garden calls! -- Herby  talk thyme 14:54, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

dude be my friend
Wikiwarrior 14:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Reminder
Panic, you confuse me. You seem to swing radically back and forth between being a great asset to the project, and being a serious hinderance to the continued growth and improvement of the C++ book. You are now engaged in a conflict with two editors, and you need to step off.

So I repeat my earlier warning: if you engage in edit stalking, unjustified reverts, and insisting upon editorial control, you will be blocked from editing. If you don't feel you can bite your tongue (or keyboard, as it were), I strongly recommend that you simply lay back from the book, take note of the changes, and try to see where your co-authors are trying to go with it. You will not recieve any further warnings. -- SB_Johnny | talk 16:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

What now ?!?! An hindrance you must be jocking, I'm in conflict with no one I do have a different vision for the work from Darklama but we are not in conflict and have been working around it and for the other editor I just asked him to fix or complete his edit even if you don't understand the content you can read the simple cut I made from the page that is evident what resulted from his edit, and so I asked him to fix it... Left is Left if it says Left is Right the logic is flawed even you can understand this... As I said please, refrain from interfering unless anyone asks you to or you seen any violation, I know how to behave myself and I did not offend, revert or made any violation on standard policies... --Panic 17:09, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikibooks & time
Now who was it that said to me "it's different her, things don't move as fast blah blah". Sub 24 hours for an answer - you're getting like me. Morning none the less (& just remember I'm at work so shouldn't be doing this! )

However I had just typed this out - Looks like not - in theory it picks up "special pages" but working on doing some cat'ing for Jim I kept getting 404s. I got around it in his case (& learn't a bit) but even if I could I don't see anything that would allow me to "look" for complete books. You could try Iamunknown who is also running it to good effect at pres. BTW do look at/edit the link in the mail I sent you. Hope the weekend is good for you, cleaning another mumfun one today, getting predictable but only took 6 mins to spot this time!

I know there was something else but I've lost it for now

All the best -- Herby talk thyme 09:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikiversity stuff
IP going round removing the moved to wikiversity signs on some pages Department of Buddhist Studies as eg. I reverted one then followed the link on another and they don't seem to be there??

Cheers -- Herby talk thyme 13:40, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * no problem - I'll keep an eye -- Herby talk thyme 13:51, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * paranoia User:Mhumpage? -- Herby talk thyme 14:27, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

User:Panic2k4 blocking
I noticed that you had blocked for two hours. As you hardly decided on doing so lightly, I wanted to mention that from what I know I think you acted correctly. Thanks for keeping an eye on this and your actions in working towards a productive community. --Swift 00:43, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

User:Panic2k4 has been blocked
I have blocked you for 2 hours. Next time will be longer. You have successfully chased a fellow editor off, and whether this was intentional or not, you need to rethink your approach. -- SB_Johnny | talk 21:45, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't agree with your assertion of the problem but will not discuss the problem further. I could have been more diplomatic on exposing the problems that those point edits caused or just edited the parts that made no sense, but as I thought it was a work in progress I chose to ask the user to do it for himself within a time frame so not the corrupt the content, the user did not bail because of that discussion, he said he had no time to respond to my VP on other editorial interpretation (Type Casting vs Type Conversion) on his discussion page, I even tried to help him understand how to use templates and participate on the book discussion. He was a valued asset to the book, he made some very good points that I will keep implementing, I've even asked apologies to him if my first post was in any way offensive. --Panic 02:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Katrina...
Ok. Thanks. Icelandic Hurricane 02:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Great job!
Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education/Chapter 7/What impacts does this have on practice? 2 is a great module. Thanks for contributing to this module and Wikibooks. Tannersf 18:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Mail
u have it -- Herby talk thyme 18:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

WB:OR
I did a lot of work on that page yesterday, I hope I didnt make too many mistakes! --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 18:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

C++
I don't think I can find enough time and patience to work on the C++ wikibook, whether or not Panic is blocked. I see there still aren't good policy pages on things like w:WP:OWN so it looks like there'll be similar issues for a long time (either with newcomers or with old-timers who might not accept new policy pages like w:WP:OWN. I'll try to check back sometime and see if I can contribute somehow.

The one issue I'd like to get sorted out ASAP is whether any text copied from other C++ books (whether GFDL'd or not) or Wikipedia without attribution has been fully removed (or otherwise fully attributed -- in case of GFDL). If someone is patient enough, one could look into my (not so huge) edit history to find some talk about this issue.


 * The stuff about copyvio from some book was moved out of Talk:Programming:C plus plus in this edit: . After that I don't know where it went. The archive went through a series of moves to and after that no reference to that copyvio seems to be found anywhere. -- Paddu 06:36, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Panic's way of working seems slightly different from what I'm used to in en.wikipedia -- he leans towards w:WP:OWN and feels if 2 contributors disagree the best thing is to fork. Hence about a year back I was contemplating writing some text on my user subpages and asking people to check if anything could be merged in (kind of giving in to his ideas), but couldn't get any further on that. There were a few more irritants like his archiving my suggestions on talk page without giving enough time for people to react (given the low traffic on wikibooks -- 2 years ago, that is). -- Paddu 06:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * See also the striking off of my comment currently at Talk:C++ Programming/Examples/Hello_world. -- Paddu 06:36, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the invitations, though! -- Paddu 06:39, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Yours I guess!
How to Grow Daylilies? regards -- Herby talk thyme 08:15, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Bot Requests
I picked a few of those links at random, and every one of them is already properly categorized. I could simply append the | tag if you want me to, but I'm not going to recategorize all those pages. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 14:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok this one is annoying me now!
User:Jmoinian - could you take a look at the contributions (!) and the talk page. I have twice asked the user to follow styles guidelines etc and twice they have done their own sweet thing. Really don't see why we have to sweep up after folks ignore the advice they are given - views?? Me - I'd speedy the lot! Cheers -- Herby talk thyme 16:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Morning & Mail -- Herby talk thyme 11:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No worries - getting to know what you are like . Formatted what there is and placed a bold "I will speedy anything else" message on his talk page.  Leaves us room to get nicer/nastier! -- Herby  talk thyme 14:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * And back to you (mail that is!) - thanks -- Herby talk thyme 16:38, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Server-side programming language
I noticed your question on Darklama's talk page, and thought I'd give you my own $0.02. I would recommend learning PHP. It is a very powerful, and not-too-difficult server-side language (so no user-end stuff) that has been used to develop the MediaWiki software, many forums (InvisionBoard, for instance), and other programs. I have found it to be the easiest to install, at least on Windows. I think everything is easier to install on Macs..:\ I personally have used it, and enjoyed it. Anyways, sorry for interjecting in your convo. :\ --Iamunknown 21:50, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * PHP isn't terrible. Python's cleaner, if you like hygienic.  C++ isn't very friendly as a first language, to be honest.  C is worse still.  (And I like both, for expert users.)  Perl... a great tool, but tends to be messy -- but it does have a great community.  Java isn't a bad language, particularly in its latest incarnations with generics, auto-boxing, a nice for construct and assertion support.  If I had to pick one on little information, I'd say Java or Python as a way to get into programming; both can do plenty of web things, but they're much more than tools for web development.  PHP tends not to be used much outside of the web dev world. -- James Dennett 09:11, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I would second Python. I have personal experience with it, and have enjoyed it on all accounts. I used it for its arbitrary integer precision, as I was coding number theory at the time, and it was very intuitive. Granted, there was syntax to be learned, but not as much as in C++ or Java. And it is a scripted language, so you do not have to compile it to run your programs &mdash; but you may if you want, though I imagine that would be a stricter learning curve. The original BitTorrent client was created entirely with Python. And lots of Google's server-side software was created with it. It is very versatile. --Iamunknown 09:15, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Its all about preference, I don't believe a person should be cuddled when first learning a language. I think a language which lets you screw up has a better chance of teaching good habits that will stick with a person when using other languages. Languages like Python, PHP or Perl, may be quick to learn and be useful in web development, but result in not completely understand why it works or doesn't work, without some insight into whats hidden behind the curtain. I consider C or C++ a good starting place and has the advantage of being able to do anything Python, PHP and Perl can and more, since after all the interpreters for these languages are written in C. C++ makes for a nice middle ground in that you can have some of the safety that languages like Python provide, without being completely forced on a person.

Asking for people's opinion on programming languages is like religion, your asking for a war of opinions. --dark lama  19:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Thursday part 2
Part 1 is in the mail!


 * 1) Phones.  Calling your cell would put back retirement a bit from here!  Landline to landline is probably cheap, will look into it?  Does that mean no to skype or similar which would be free?


 * 1) Folks.  I had noticed those two and will look more at them but I guess I basically agree for now.

Doing stuff here so probably won't be on line much till am tomorrow my time.

All the best -- Herby talk thyme 10:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

answer
on foot im not a porn vandal im just new —The preceding unsigned comment was added by wikiwarrior (talk • contribs).


 * His contribution history seems to suggest a trustworthy person (no evidence, besides the RFA of any malintent). However, I ran a checkuser on him, and his IP address was responsible for the addition of "YOU SUCK" to one page, and "i am a jew" to another page, several days before the user account was created (about 6 days, i think). Because the vandalism was before the creation of the user account, I would say this user has plausible deniability, but still should probably not be an admin. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 15:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Reference
Q: Why is the reference to 7579 on WB:RFI "silly"? --Iamunknown 20:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Q: Why is that single reference so egregious as to merit removal? Policies and tools don't have to be referenced, but they don't have to remain unreferenced. --Iamunknown 21:47, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I would probably of removed it myself. That bugzilla report was what made RFI possible. What purpose is served by mentioning it? What was your motivation for adding it? --dark [[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]] lama 22:03, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * My motivation for adding it? :D I feel like I'm being judged. Might you be thinking my actions were in bad faith? Oh well. I added it because I (foolishly/vainly/etc.-ly) hoped that it might pique users interest and get them more active in the community/bugzilla/etc. I only just discovered last week that quite a lot of activity goes on at bugzilla, and I've been on Wikimedia projects for more than a year now. I thought including a reference (I also intended to reference mailing list archives in on a couple of modules) might expedite the process for those users, so they don't have go through the drudgery I've gone through to try to catch up with everything. I think that answers both your questions; they're the same, the latter is just the first one with a mistrustful overtone. --Iamunknown 22:14, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry that it sounded like I was judging you or that my questions sounded mistrusting, that wasn't my intention. I was curious what brought it on, in case it would help any with the discussion. Perhaps your interested in pages like Mailing lists and IRC channels. I think it would be nice if such pages could be merged and include reference to bugzillia as well. Not sure if that would require discussion or not. --dark [[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]] lama 22:43, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * "...so egregious as to merit removal?" -- I removed it because it was cluttering the page... nothing to do with you. If we started referencing every policy page and noticeboard, they would become useless :). -- SB_Johnny | talk 22:57, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * egregious: extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant...that has nothing to do with me, and I'm not taking it personally. I disagree, however, that it was cluttering the page, and it seemed (to me) to add a significant piece of historical context through which the module could be understood. Specifically, if you think that a reference, which is for the date only, is useless, "silly" clutter to be removed, why not remove the date as well. It provides nothing but historical context, and is rather useless for the average contributor, and is clutters the prose. --Iamunknown 01:55, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Morning
You have a mail about checkuser which needs your attention. Hope all is ok -- Herby talk thyme 08:10, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * And back - was the preamble ok & is it a "joint" one or just me!, will be around on & off today -- Herby talk thyme 11:43, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Which user name for yours - think it thro! -- Herby talk thyme 13:02, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Just use this one... the other is not a sysop account. Still trying to get them merged, so it shouldn't matter.-- SB_Johnny | talk 13:07, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Done, accept please - good luck! -- Herby talk thyme 13:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Pop in the lounge and checkout a problem I've had please - cheers -- Herby talk thyme 19:49, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

doubtless someone else will be along - just wasn't sure what to do - cheers -- Herby talk thyme 20:00, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

hiya, just wondering about the imports
Hi SBJohnny, I missed you on IRC where you mentioned: "it's a bit eerie importing your stuff by the way". Just wondering what you meant by that. I can see that it's quite a bit of work to import articles as big as some of those I've requested, but then I guess the subject I'm trying to cover in this book is huge. I'm currently focussing on the chapter on Holocaust victims, so won't request articles to be imported for a while. Cheers, WietsE 20:28, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks back!
Nice - actually have one very like that that the sig is modeled on. When it flowers next year I'll upload pics - not culinary but great in the rockery. And BTW I was actually weeding (my garden) when you sent it.

Other point - the guy whose contribs were bugging me earlier just placed another "offering" - policy on the hoof but is User_talk:Jmoinian ok in your view. I reckon a couple more like that and then maybe block? Cheers -- Herby talk thyme 17:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Gee - so helpful . Sadly you appear to have noticed what I'm doing too!  Starter for 10 - reflecting the work back seems ok, I'll do that a couple of times at least (none of the WP haste here).  Then an explained block I guess.  I do agree - vandalism is not always the obvious (oops next I'll mention an El policy).
 * If you haven't - get your checkuser status request in - best -- Herby talk thyme 18:43, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The idea - yours - was that we all should have checkuser run on us going for RFA type stuff - Derbeth "did" me and commented in the space provided. -- Herby  talk thyme 08:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok - quite a bit taken out - you are obviously having a lie in!!! Derbeth sorted most and I hoovered up some bits left (circular redirects are "interesting" to sort).  Read the checkuser bit above tho. All the best -- Herby  talk thyme 13:56, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

A view?
User:Bobabobabo - look at the wp page - going off line for a while now & posted to WK too -- Herby talk thyme 17:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok - I'll take a chance - blocked for a week pending review - cheers -- Herby talk thyme 18:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Kind of in hand but your view would interest me -- Herby talk thyme 19:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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Proxies etc
I'll start as soon as I have some time (I take it it is NOT anon IP only block and it is indef?). As to the user I've placed a message on the blocking admin's page on WP but looking at the history I think unblocking (except to block for longer) would be a little unwise. I appreciate Wk's "clean sheet" approach but for this one I have some real doubts - in your view indef? I've asked Derbeth too.

Hope all is good with you -- Herby talk thyme 12:05, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Think I'll probably re-block on indef then (still takes time to get used to co-operative anarchy!). BTW can we get someone to put something on the bulletin board about the checkuser voting (iffy for us to do it - there is advertising and there is ...) - someone might watch it after the mailshot.  Thanks & regards -- Herby  talk thyme 13:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Why does it always happened to me
User:VFDBot just VfD'd a page in the gardening book and another one (which was junk)!!?? Blocked for a couple of hours, know anything? -- Herby talk thyme 14:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Done let me know what it's all about in the end -- Herby talk thyme 14:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW - maybe advertising does work <g> (course you need to read RC to see it!) -- Herby talk thyme 15:09, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * FFS User talk:66.226.79.49????? -- Herby talk thyme 15:25, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * No idea - I couldn't find a perm block template & BTW it wasn't blocked (but it is now!!) -- Herby talk thyme 15:35, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

You gonna do the rest?
Or are you just being idle (hehe). DL noticed my error before. I'll happily do it but it won't be tonight -- Herby talk thyme 19:18, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Question about starting a book...
You probably don't remember me, I was one of the people who voted on your English Wikipedia RfA that failed. Anyway, I'm sort of on a Wikibreak due to some ... personal stuff, but you know how wikibreaks go. Everything always seems calmer here, so I actually fired up an account and I had a question.

Back in college, I and several graduate students and a professor were working on a series of notes for abnormal psychology -- basically, it was a primer textbook for abnormal sexual psychologies, and the clinical definitions of such. I still have most of the reference materials and chapter outlines, and I've tinkered with it since then due to my own personal interests. However, I'm not sure that it's the sort of thing that's appropiate for Wikibooks, so I wanted to ask you (since you're an admin, you should know). The quick oneline description of the book would be a primer text, stepping through explainations of the types of aberrant sexual psychologies, their common features, their broad catagories, and how they are expressed, and the relating impact on modern culture (the last part is what I've been working on.) Is this totally inappropiate? --Elaragirl 22:36, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

My nomination for adminship
Johnny, thank you very much for taking the time to discuss Whiteknight's nomination of me for adminship. I am afraid, as you pointed out, that I am not well versed in Wikibooks or Wikimedia policy. Thank you for pointing that out. I had not considered it. I appreciate your time and thoughtful comments. Cheers, Iamunknown 01:31, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Namechange, adminship,etc
I've been looking at the situation, and I think i can straighten out your name situation if you are willing to try. I think we can do the following: Once all this happens, your contributions under your current username, as well as your administrator status should be maintained. I would have to ask the stewards for help if you wanted to try and merge your two accounts instead of just having them switch places. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 14:39, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Rename the user account User:SB Johnny to a temporary account name (like User:Temp1).
 * 2) Rename User:SBJohnny to User:SB Johnny.
 * 3) Rename User:Temp1 to User:SBJohnny (so it stays identifiable as you).


 * I'm just worried that once SUL happens, I won't be able to rename you on a local basis. I think all renames will be global. It won't benefit you at all if that's the case. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 15:13, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Another dumb question...
I can't edit Template:New or any of the bookshelves aside from miscellaneous. How do I add a book I'm working on? Do I have to wait until I add more information to it? (Help files say edit the pages, but they only give me View Source links). --Elaragirl 00:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you.I'm in IRC now. :) Even more questions. --Elaragirl 00:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

GFDL copyvios
I have two questions. If you have any questions regarding my convoluted questions, please ask here. I will watch this page. Thanks, Iamunknown 01:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) By what measure is the Wikipedia article, List of Trinidadian English terms, a copyvio?
 * Because the first edit is apparently a copy-paste version of the article as it stood before being deleted. It was apparently part of an undeletion discussion that wasn't handled properly. Check out the dates on the wikibooks version and the wikipedia version and you'll see what I mean.
 * 1) Could you take a look at Psychiatry and Psychiatric Disorders? You moved Psychiatry to Psychiatric Disorders on 2006-09-02 02:33 where it stayed until 2006-09-30 23:02 when Djs2 ( talk | email | contribs ) pasted it back into Psychiatry. By my compare tool (included with WordPerfect), the second revision &mdash; the copy-and-paste revision &mdash; at Psychiatry (2006-09-30 23:02) is an exact copy to the antepenultimate revision (the penultimate and the ultimate revision are an attempt to redirect to Psychiatry and a redirect thereto, respectively) at Psychiatric Disorders save for an additional header. Wow...I sure know how to make things complicated. Basically, I wonder if you could look at the two articles to make sure I'm correct, and then, if I am, merge all the revisions except the first one at Psychiatry into Pyschiatric Disorders.
 * Actually, that page looks like a bad wikipedia dump, it's really hard to say. I'll peek into it though.
 * np. Next time 86 on the wiktionary links though please... makes it hard to read while I'm typing my response :). -- SB_Johnny | talk 02:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yup, it's a bad wikipedia dump from Clinical_depression. Any time you see masses of redlinks like that, it's probably taken from wikipedia. -- SB_Johnny | talk 02:10, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh my, I didn't even notice those redlinks *stupid me* that should have been obvious. Nice catch. --Iamunknown 02:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Arrr, this catch is yours, matie! :). -- SB_Johnny | talk 02:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Another one: Textbook of Psychopharmacology, pasted from (at least) Antidepressant, Benzodiazepine, Antipsychotic, Anxiolytic. And another: Textbook of Psychiatry for Medical Students, at least in part from Clinical depression. All by user 137.158.128.105. I'll post a note at his talk page. Do what you will with those modules. --Iamunknown 02:26, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Cold this side of the pond
And last day off before the break too.

Got the mail (& just when I was thinking you were a friend). Looks like I'll be lonely over the festive season - no one to pull a "virtual" cracker with!

You can't honestly be asking me to spam people can you - more seriously I was thinking it was going pretty well so far. An email from WK on the subject heavily mention "long time". I think there are a couple more votes in the pipeline for each of us and there are folk who are around who haven't voted yet - I think I only count 6 admin votes each so far. I have approached one or two folk individually and will do more when inspired. I also think it probably should lead in the next Gazette for mid Jan ish. If we aren't there just after that I could be persuaded to consider (grrr) spam.

BTW (& completely unrelated ;-)) not sure if you noticed User:Celestianpower's work on Spanish (user namespace at pres). Looks really good but there is a current Spanish page (details on my talk page if you want them) - I suggested approaching WK but as he is enjoying the break you may want to contact the user (I'm guessing you know the user)?

Az's thing obviously works quite well (he was playing in his sandbox earlier!). It will be good to have him on board. Bound to catch you again before the break -- Herby talk thyme 13:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Mail on way -- Herby talk thyme 13:43, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Bot
Fun really - running on auto at pres as Matt didn't quite give me the full info! Nice site stuff - understand. Better see what its doing <g> -- Herby talk thyme 17:29, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Tomorrow
Probably won't be on much as it will be a busy day for me. All good wishes for Christmas and here's to a New Year that brings health and happiness and some opportunities to continue developing our communication skills <g>. Take care -- Herby talk thyme 18:02, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia
I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry, but have you seen this mess? --Elaragirl 17:41, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Bug 8001 fixed... you can edit this page now
this page = Panic's talk page

The request for allowing blocked users to edit their own talk pages has finally been fulfilled, so if you'd like to discuss things, you can now edit this page (only this page). -- SB_Johnny | talk 16:17, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I didn't check if you are monitoring my talk talk page so I moved it here and you can reply here as I'm watching this page... (or delete it you don't want to reply)

Not only the user talkpage should be write enabled to blocked users, the lobby and the voting pages should have a flag that should enable users that were blocked (but are not vandals) to participate on other discussions. --Panic 19:09, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Transwikiing
Hello, I wondered if you could help me? I want to transwiki a page from wikipedia Rational_choice_theory to add to Introduction to Game Theory. From reading the help on wikimedia I think I need to be an administrator to do this automatically? Is that correct? If so, do I request an admin to do it for me, or do a cut and paste job. The later seems wrong as I would lose the history. Thanks for your help. --AdRiley 12:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! --AdRiley 15:00, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Canvassing
I would prefer you not to include me for now. Thanks -- Herby talk thyme 14:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Hum - I know I'm impatient BUT
 * past checkuser ones that have succeeded (ex WK) have taken months - never mind the failed ones.
 * We've got to 2 0 1 votes each in 2 weeks, if we were lagging behind maybe I would worry (or withdraw) but we ain't.
 * It will go out with emphasis on the next Gazette which I feel should be out mid/late Jan.
 * I've just looked at a wp RfA involving canvassing - a not bad editor probably won't make admin cos he canvassed - folks here won't vote against but I'd prefer them to be happy with us (both!).


 * If it gets down to needing just one more - yep I'll go ask someone (& yes I've asked a couple but because they were interested anyway).


 * Obviously you are welcome to do what you wish but I would prefer not to be included - thanks -- Herby talk thyme 15:33, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Help!
How do you remove the links from print versions to images when you remove the link from the original source but it still shows that the image is linked there? There are alot of images ready to be deleted if this problem is solved. Tannersf 03:29, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

WMOG etc
While I was trawling thro I noticed there were a few pages (I think) that did not have the WMOG category on them? Do you want me to add them on the next run (I picked them up from your contributions - good job it is a fast broadband - then filtered them).

Very best wishes for 2007 and hope it brings you and your family good things (& maybe even checkuser status <g>) - regards -- Herby talk thyme 17:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * What's with the Category:WMOG project??? Should it be on all?? -- Herby talk thyme 16:34, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * THEN ANSWER MESSAGES ON YOUR TALK PAGE ffs! - will revert them -- Herby talk thyme 16:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Reverted -- Herby talk thyme 16:46, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * BTW - how come it took you "hours" - don't you know anyone with a bot! -- Herby talk thyme 16:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * OK but - yes there are un cat'd pages and some of the cat'd pages are not alpha. Hand out instructions and it will be done - I have rv'd all that I did and will go and find someone else to play with! -- Herby  talk thyme 16:52, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Explained situation to partner - she laughed and said at least you know me better now!
 * reset

So... I guess I will leave it for now rather than mess up your year any more (today) but it really is very easy to deal with cats via awb if I know what I'm doing (& it was not running "auto" and I got a "popup" saying there was a message as a point of interest - won't let you work without going to it). I'll go and try and work out how you are organising it - you have a think about how I can help.

On the one below I will look out the notes but I really would like to see a "peer review" for quality thing - we may follow policy but that does not ensure quality (IMO) quite often. I guess there are some pages not cat'd and not on bookshelves that I am pleased aren't there cos they are bad! -- Herby talk thyme 17:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Hum - communication
Wish I'd talked to you/you'd talk to me - RFC - was working towards a "review of book" type idea myself looking to improving the standard of offerings. I'll go think -- Herby talk thyme 16:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Dispute res was not the issue (for me, tho I understand that one) it was a "quality drive" one as far as I was concerned (last posting on Rob's page was a hint of where I might be going) - I'll go look for notes - BTW read the new one above to!!! -- Herby talk thyme 16:34, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Put a bit in RFC - if it isn't too off the mark will get a bit more in tomorrow -- Herby talk thyme 17:29, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * OK I'll do my own -- Herby talk thyme 17:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You removed everything I had put in - not helpful at all - for two pins I would revert your work however I look for agreement not conflict - I will work on my own project thanks -- Herby talk thyme 17:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

You'll get mail tomorrow and answers to other stuff here or on the appropriate page(s) -- Herby talk thyme 19:39, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * reset

Hello
The format is Wikipedia, but it doesn't exist anywhere on it, as time progresses I'm going to fix up broken links--and other tweaks. BookManOne 20:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC)