Hello Tim -

I posted a request for reconsideration of deletion to Alphachimp on October 1st. I see that Alphachimp doesn't appear to be very active any longer.

See my argument there

Would you be able to help me with this request? Thanks -

Gouache23 (talk) 13:27, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Sure, the NPR source seems to bee good enough to assert notability. I ask the admin to unserfy the article in question, and Ill help the user get it ready to be moved to the main-space. thanks! Tim1357 (talk) 16:17, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have undeleted it to Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Canasta (band). That gives you and Gouache23 a month to get it ready for the mainspace. This is a useful but fairly new idea: see Wikipedia:Article Incubator for details of how it works. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:33, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, that works too. Thanks! Tim1357 (talk) 16:34, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't heard back from him. You asked me to let you know.--Rockfang (talk) 06:20, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okey Dokey, Ill get to it this weekend. Would you want the bot to add a box to all the previous days? Or just start from current? Tim1357 (talk) 12:46, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You could just start from the current I'm thinking. Thank you for this.--Rockfang (talk) 12:52, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And just every night at midnight kinda thing? Tim1357 (talk) 22:34, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Every new day (12 am) going with UTC time would be my suggestion. Or maybe like 5-10 minutes later to make sure Zorglbot has started the new day's FfD page.--Rockfang (talk) 05:16, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I would let you know, I've posted the motivation and purpose statement for CollabRC (tenatively-named), the tool I was discussing in IRC a few days ago that I would like to develop to improve the capabilities of rollbackers on Wikipedia. I thought you might be interested in it and wanted to invite you personally to look it over and let me know if you have any specific features or criticisms that may be constructive for the project. I hope you don't feel this is inappropriate canvassing; I just respect you and figured you might want to get a better idea of where I am going, and I value your input. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, or if you have any comments regarding the project itself, feel free to bring it up on the talk page there. Thanks! --Shirik (talk) 06:15, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Tim1357. You have new messages at User_talk:Shirik/CollabRC#Sample sets.
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Shirik (talk) 18:20, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The way to process these is by scanning them which is actually pretty quick. The articles "only" dump takes between eight minutes and an hour, depending on what I am doing with it - probably it could be sped up more. I use perl, I can write a script in a few minutes from scratcch and if it is one I already have something similar, even quicker. For example I was trying to find a language stub I created, the following code listed all where I am the last editor. (Didn't actually find the stub, but that's another story.)

 
while(<>){
     chomp;
     if(/<title>(.*)<\/title>/){$title=$1;}
     if(/<username>(.*)<\/username>/){
         if($1 eq "Rich Farmbrough"){
             $mine=1;
         }
         else {$mine=0;}
     }
     if ($mine ==1 && /lang-stub/){print "$title\n";}
}

Rich Farmbrough, 10:54, 19 December 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Tim1357, and thanks for your interest in igloo. Before using the program, please read the following information carefully - failure to do so may result in your test access being revoked.

igloo is a JavaScript-powered, browser-based anti-vandalism tool, which means you do not have to download or install anything on your computer and it will work on multiple operating systems. However, it does mean that the performance relies on that of your browser and it may operate more slowly than downloaded programs. You must have either Mozilla Firefox 3+ or Google Chrome to use igloo, as it is currently incompatible with other browsers.

igloo relies on a system called iglooNet to assist you in finding and reverting vandalism. It is this system that transforms the program from a pretty version of recent changes to an actual anti-vandalism tool. Naturally, this is beyond the power of a client-side program, and igloo will regularly communicate with an external, non-Wikimedia server. Because of things like server logs, and the iglooNet abuse tracker, this may allow your IP address to be attached to your username - something which is otherwise impossible on Wikipedia. If you do not want this to happen, you MUST NOT USE IGLOO.

If you decide that you do want to test igloo, please keep in mind that it not wholly stable, and you may experience problems where it performs an invalid edit, or other unwanted action. If this happens, fix any mistakes you've made, apologise to anyone you've offended, and let me know. I don't take any responsibility for your use of the program - if you aren't willing to fix any errors, don't use it.

igloo is already quite powerful. The following is a simple guide to using the program:

• The igloo interface is similar to that of other software, including huggle. Recent changes appear on the left, and diffs appear on the right.
• igloo sorts diffs based on iglooNet data so that edits most likely to be vandalism are displayed first. You can press spacebar to view the top diff, or click on any diff to view it directly.
• When you find vandalism, press 'Q' or click the revert button to revert the change, and issue a warning to the user. igloo automatically issues the correct warning. It will ignore existing warnings that are more than 5 days old, and restart from the beginning.
• The iglooNet assertion system tags clean and dirty edits with colour coding - if it suspects an edit is vandalism, it will be flagged as red, and if it believes it to be clean, it will tag it green.
• At any time, you can re-review diffs you have already seen by pressing backspace or using the icons to move through the diff history.

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions or other feedback, I'd love to know. If you hate it, and won't be using it again, please let me know why - and I'll remove you from the test whitelist. If you now try and use igloo, you should find that it will allow you to use the program. Thanks, and good luck! Ale_Jrb^talk 10:42, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed that you've begun removing transclusions of Template:R uncategorized (per WP:TFD/H). I just wanted to let you know that there is already an almost-completed bot request for this task (see Wikipedia:Bot requests#Orphaning a template. While you are more than welcome to continue and your involvement is definitely appreciated, the template has several thousand transclusions, so I don't know if you want to undertake the task... –BLACK FALCON ^(TALK) 22:01, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]