Klosterdev

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We're so glad you're here! -- Essjay · Talk 19:53, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Regarding recent edits to YTMND

Please check out that page's talk page before making edits. Thanks a mint! Snurks ^{T C} 07:26, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Didn't know how to create a new discussion in the YTMND discussion page so I didn't know how to ask.

Thanks. Klosterdev 08:41, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm so very confused; was I somehow involved with YTMND and am not aware of it? The only connection I see between myself and your account is that I left a welcome message for you six months ago. Is there some way I can help you? :-S -- Essjay · Talk 08:45, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

XD. I'm an idiot. I clicked on the wrong user. Sorry about that. Klosterdev 08:50, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

That's okay; if there is anything I can do for you, let me know. I'm always here to help! -- Essjay · Talk 08:51, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey bud!

Essjay recommended that I give you a hand in getting acclimated with Wikipedia, and I didn't think it was too shabby of an idea. Now, I have no idea if you'll read this in the near future, but whenever you do see it I'd love to get an editor on his feet and working. If you don't feel up to writing long paragraphs for articles (to be honest, I don't either yet), there's still plenty of ways to help. One of them is vandal fighting - I do a lot of this, and it's rewarding as well as pretty fun sometimes. There are tools that can help out: CryptoDerk has a cool Java program called CDVF, and both Popups and godmode lite are useful for making rollbacks. Let me know on my talk page if you have any comments or anything. Snurks ^{T C} 09:36, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Yep, all you need is vf.jar and you're set. It's a handy little program. Oh, and remember to sign all your posts with ~~~~. I'm sure you know this, but it's hard to remember the first few times and it's a good habit to have, so I'm just reminding you. Enjoy fighting vandals and good luck! PS: You should make a userpage if you have the time. They're fun to have and let people know who you are. Snurks ^{T C} 10:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Re Vandal fighting

Couple things. Is there an FAQ that explains how to use it?

Not as such, no. But its homepage does a fairly good job of explaining how to use it, and a lot of the options are somewhat self-explanatory - essentially, you can just hit "connect" and get started right away. Certain changes are highlighted in different colors for a variety of reasons; either they're edits by unregistered users (which display as IP addresses instead of usernames), or they're especially large changes (which are often deletions or copy-pastes of bad text), among other things. Using CDVF isn't necessary or anything, so don't worry if you don't like it - normal RC patrolling (constantly checking Special:Recentchanges for vandalism) is often just as good.

Also, how do I roll back a page?

Technically, the rollback tool is only available to administrators. But normal users such as you and me can "roll back" vandalism in a variety of ways. The most simple is to just find the most recent "good" version of the page (typically the one directly before the vandalism) in the page's history, then go to Edit mode and save it as it is, typically with a comment like "revert vandalism" or simply "rvv". However, there are add-ons you can get to make this faster and more convenient. I use something called "godmode lite" - if you want to try it out, just go to my monobook.js, go to edit mode, and copy the entire page's text into your own monobook.js. This will enable a script that allows you to select a "rollback" link that appears at the top of every History page and every (top) change in somebody's Contribution's page. Clicking that link will rollback the page to the newest version not edited by the user you're rolling back, and it even includes a useful change comment. If you're uncertain about giving yourself the "godmode lite" script, I can do it for you! Just give the word on my talk page.

Now that I'm thinking about it, how do I delete a page that was vandalized? (an article for something non-existant or somesuch)

Welcome to the wide world of article deletion! As a non-administrator, you cannot delete articles. There is a rather elaborate system for article deletion, but essentially there are two types: Speedy deletion and AfD. You can read about speedy deletions here - essentially, it's used to alert administrators to delete the most obviously useless or bad articles. You have to make sure the article meets one of the criteria for speedy deletion, though, before you add the SD template. Non-speedy deletion is a bit more complicated - essentially, all you need to know is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. It's a process in which you first tag the article, then create a subpage and then list it in the daily AFD page (see "How to list pages for deletion" at the bottom of WP:AFD), and then people give their vote on what they think should happen to the article. You can do some voting yourself if you want to get a feel for the process before listing articles.

This ended up being a long post, but I hope it's helpful. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask me anything!

Snurks ^{T C} 00:25, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

The +/- column with the numbers

I'm pretty sure it's how many characters the change is: for instance, -23 means twenty-three letters or numbers or whatever were removed in that change, while 382 means that many were added. Extremely large numbers, especially large negatives, are usually vandalism in the form of "blankings". Snurks ^{T C} 00:35, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Couple More Questions

Tables of contents magically create themselves once a certain number of headers (things marked up like ==this== or ===this===) are in an article. There might be a way to manually create them if you don't have enough headings, but it's probably excessively difficult.

As for your second question, marking things for Wikification is easy. Just add the {{wikify}} template to the top of the page and it'll automagically get added to Category:Articles that need to be wikified.

Good luck and keep on editing!

Snurks ^{T C} 17:39, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Editing problem

You wanted [[Carbon filtering]]; it seems like the capital F was the problem, since Wikipedia is case sensitive. I fixed the article, but in the future make sure to pay attention to case! Snurks ^{T C} 20:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Antarctican Dollar

Why did you remove the AfD notice in the above article? I have reverted your edit and ask that you not remove the notice again until the AfD process is completed. -- I@n 12:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I was under the assumption that since the article had been rated as mid-importance on the importance scale there was no reason to delete it. Klosterdev 12:55, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Just so you know, the importance scale has nothing to do with the deletion process. Importance is a single persons view whereas AfD seeks community consensus on notability and encyclopaedia worthiness according to our policies of same. -- I@n 13:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Encyclopedia Dramatica

I deleted the article because I closed the AfD. I salted the article and talk page so that it couldn't be recreated. Hope that helps! Nandesuka 00:58, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:AIV

I believe the page you're looking for is Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism -- sometimes just called AIV. :) Luna Santin 21:46, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: reporting a vandal

First you need to make sure the vandal's been warned, usually to {{Test4}} or {{Blatantvandal}} or an equivalent. Then, if they continue to vandalize, you alert the administrators using WP:AIV, following the instructions on that page. Generally, they will be blocked soon afterwards. Snurks^TC 22:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

There are good instructions on WP:VAND. Ideally, warnings should be incremented, with exceptions for pretty bad vandalism. The rules have to be much laxer when dealing with an IP - especially a shared IP. You'll see; the page is pretty self-explanatory. -Patstuart^{(talk)(contribs)} 22:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletes

First, you make sure it's a page that deserves speedy deletion rather than {{Prod}} or WP:AFD. If you think so, decide which speedy deletion template to use using WP:SPEEDY and the list on the right under "speedy," then add the tag to the top of the page. I took the liberty of adding it to the page you mentioned, but now you know! Snurks^TC 22:26, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Answer to last question

It's part of the {{ipvandal}} template, just fill in the IP like this: {{ipvandal|192.168.1.1}} (except with a real IP) and it adds all that stuff for you. Snurks^TC 22:36, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

You asked what program I used for the Goldbach pictures,

I used a simple Python script to generate the numbers, and "gnuplot" to render them as a graph.

Contact me at sidney@jigsaw.nl if you have more questions.

Re: mass image deletion

I'm not too familiar with WP:IFD, so I can't tell you more than what's on that page. If you scroll down the IFD list, you'll see that even when there's a large number of similar images being deleted, they're listed one by one; see the Interstate images on that page, for instance. It looks like you're just going to have to list every offending image per WP:IFD. Snurks^TC 22:52, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm in ur userpage

Addin useless comments to it. Also, sup Klost, greetings from CN /b/

Oh hai Klosterdev 03:13, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks .. =

... for the report on WP:AIV. Sorted now :) - Alison^☺ 17:40, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

To nominate for deletion

Hi, to nominate something for deletion, please see Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion if it's something obvious. If it's something that's debatable, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 03:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

o lawd, is dat sum CP? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.213.220.186 (talk) 05:14, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Fappers Remorse

A tag has been placed on Fappers Remorse, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Beeblbrox (talk) 06:20, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Beeblbrox (talk) 06:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Ports article

I agree with you on the list in the Port article. There was proposal from early March to relocate it to List of seaports. As no one opposed this I've moved it over. Hopefully this means the article can now become about the concept, history and structure of ports instead of a simple location guide. Euryalus (talk) 05:51, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Reference Lists are missing

{{helpme}} In Melbourne IT There are tables and reference lists in the article under "edit this page," but for some reason they aren't showing up in the article itself. Part of the page is gone. What's up with it? klosterdev (talk) 23:12, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. An unclosed <ref> tag. Algebraist 23:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:IRB-7-MUDDY2.jpg listed for deletion

Image has been cropped to remove watermark - Leonard G. (talk) 17:49, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Template:Islamic Culture

Thanks for your kind words, and I can use a brighter color of blue to perhaps give more contrast. Would that work? Also, does Template:Islam or Template:Buddhism cause similiar distraction? --Enzuru 03:00, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

I made this design originally for Template:Islam, along with several other designs. The one you currently see was the one most accepted, and the one I am using for Template:Islamic Culture was the one I liked the most (as well as other editors), but was controversial for obvious reasons (the Taj Mahal is a symbol of Islamic Culture, but not Islam itself). I am not going to make changes right away, I am going to wait for more feedback. The reason I was okay with the colours is because I've tested it on several monitors, including an old CRT, and different operating systems and different web browsers, and it seemed fine. But, if there is a huge voice for change, I will change it (others have pointed out what you said too, but others seem oblivious to it). I won't figure out how to fix this smoothly for a while, I always think rather slowly on fixes. But hopefully something wonderful soon. Thanks for your input, all suggestions are good. --Enzuru 03:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Template issue

Hello Klosterdev. It's fixed. One of the links was not closed properly. --McSly (talk) 04:40, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

June 2010

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Age disparity in sexual relationships. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write practically anything you want. Uncle Dick (talk) 03:32, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Klosterdev. You have new messages at Uncle Dick's talk page.
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Move discussion for "Press-up"

Happy New Year! As a user who has previously stated support for moving Press-up to "Push-up", I invite you to weigh in on the move discussion currently under way: Talk:Press-up#Requested_move_2. Clconway (talk) 23:27, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

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