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Ironically, #gayteen on EFNet was killed (closed out, locked and nobody ever came back) by a team of eggdrops. Orbital (talk • contribs) 04:19, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ben Dover? That has to be fake. 134.48.103.32 (talk • contribs) 16:19, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How much of the history in this article can be verified? Grocer (talk • contribs) 22:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Although it may sound funny, it's true. And according to the history of Eggdrop, the information about #GayTeen is correct. Nothing in the Eggdrop article is a hoax or a prank, I have correctly sourced the information and proven its validity. - nathanrdotcom ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 00:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• ...and I don't know why it keeps getting removed and restored, it's a fact. — nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 22:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of developers/contributors was removed? Damn I felt so proud being there, c'mon =))) Takeda 06:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking as someone not familiar with Eggdrop or IRC: Could someone please include a jargon-free note at the beginning of this article on just what Eggdrop is/does? (Wikipedia:Explain_jargon#Subject-specific_terms). Thanks. -- 201.37.229.117 (talk) 06:29, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

«Eggdrop is a popular IRC bot.» the page says. One can follow the See also links to IRC bot and Internet Relay Chat. So I don't really see what you expect the page to say? -- skiidoo (talk) 17:42, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just updated with the 1.6.18 update --83.88.93.252 10:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's not right. It's not out yet.--BarkerJr 02:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mention of the EFNet channel #gayteen in the article has been censored many times by different people with various supposed reasons. I'm including additional references below that would be difficult to include as inline citations.

Search Engine Test

Editors should note that this passage easily passes the search engine test.

Google search for "eggdrop" "gayteen"

Valis

Valis was the name of Robey Pointer's #gayteen Eggdrop bot (see below).

Valis and #gayteen are mentioned in Wired 4.04: Bots Are Hot! p.5

ABOUT file

While the ABOUT file included with Eggdrop itself is probably about as authoritative as it gets, it is also possible to find reference to EFNet #gayteen in very old versions of Eggdrop itself.

Many old versions of Eggdrop are available via the Eggheads FTP server.

Notable versions

Eggdrop version 0.7d (released April 11, 1994)

From the file 'sample.config' contained in the 0.7c source archive:

# configuration file for Valis
# (eggdrop 0.7)

# username for user@host
user valis

# real name field (inconsequential, really)
realname the divine invasion

# make a log file?  what's it called?
logfile gayteen.log

# these are dynamic (ie, chan be changed and rehashed)
channel #gayteen
nick Valis

# where to store user records:
userfile gayteen.user

# who's running this damn bot?
admin Reid (reid@boss.math.uic.edu), Robey (rpointe@eng.clemson.edu)

Eggdrop version 0.9r (released December 1, 1995)

From the file 'eggdrop.doc' contained in the 0.9r source archive:

If you have questions or comments about this file, please send me email
at <robey@lightning.net>.  Thanks.

(1) ABOUT EGGDROP

    Eggdrop was created around December 1993 to help stop the incessant
    wars on #gayteen.  It spawned from another bot I had been writing  
    at the time called "Unrest".  The purpose of Unrest was to answer  
    help requests from other bots (the equivalent of eggdrop's current 
    helpbot option).  The first public release was (I think) v0.6, and 
    it's grown a lot since then.

Tothwolf (talk) 00:07, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The references User:Theserialcomma removed [1] are perfectly acceptable and due to the way in which they are used cannot violate WP:NPOV. These references are not used as a source for the subject of the article itself, they are used to establish the fact that #tcl on freenode exists and is not a support channel for Eggdrop.

This reference [2] establishes that #tcl on freenode is indeed the official Tcl channel. And these references [3] [4] make it quite clear in no uncertain terms that the #tcl channel on freenode is not an Eggdrop support channel.

Furthermore, contrary to the edit summary User:Theserialcomma used when making the above revert, wikis are not banned or necessarily unreliable. In this case, the Tclers Wiki is one of the official documentation repositories for the Tcl developers themselves (who are well known experts in their field), as well as their IRC channel, #tcl on freenode. Many of those developers are listed in the first reference mentioned above [5] Had User:Theserialcomma actually bothered to do any fact checking, this would be quite obvious.

--Tothwolf (talk) 04:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

please read WP:V. wikis can be edited by anyone, so therefore their editorial oversight is unknown, and hence questionable. sources should be used that are "based upon reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy," and wikis generally fail that. furthermore, are you sure that you should be editing/edit warring in this article? please see WP:COI and see if this might pertain to you. Theserialcomma (talk) 04:18, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]