User talk:PhantomTech/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Welcome!

Hello, PhantomTech, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Thanks :) PhantomTech (talk) 23:22, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

New Section//// At the time of the "Speedy Deletion" process, my ass was not occupying the vicinity of the black hole connection to the world wide web, and thereby i was not able to respond to the execution of your machinisms although not surprised of such behavioral mechanics, it is clear that the grounds of this deletion " Vandalism: G4: Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion)"- were, to say the least, vandalistic of truth, Although the confusion, which is not to be confused with the insight of their balutativity, of the different poles of the elegant body of the donkey, is a well spread virus, an anymore obvious blindness for the change of form, for that is what this in-formation discrepancy is abalut, if not, I must asume that it is the deeper meaning that is referred to as being"recreated"-although i sont see such a word as containing any real balutative value, since it is agains the spiral nature of Balutation to exactly repeat/re-create, I absobalutly agree, the underlying balutativeness of the two discriptions of "Balutology" are the same, and taking this possibility of "grounds for deletion" I must asume that you are on your way to understand more of the Balutivity of the grand Balit, and thereby "Balutology" - For this I will with all my Balutivity, to congratulate and honor you, and seeing that there "deep within the ass of a Don-key lies the seed of a head" My worries for the future of recognized Balutivity is beyond deletion.

Salut! Balut! /Balut 64 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Balut 64 (talk • contribs) 01:20, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Like my post on your talk page about the deletion said: "please contact the administrator who deleted the page or use deletion review". I have nothing to do with deletion other than marking the article, it is up to an admin to actualy delete it. So if you think that it should not have been deleted, contact the administrator that did and explain your reason(s) to them. PhantomTech (talk) 02:42, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Prof K S Bhagawan.

Hi. I've reverted the speedy tag you added to Prof K S Bhagawan, as it clearly asserts notabiity. Please have a read of WP:CSD#A7 for more info on the speedy deletion criteria for biographies. Thanks, Altered Walter (talk) 19:59, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

The reason I marked it as CSD A7 is because, at the time, there were no references in the article meaning that the claims to notability were not credible. PhantomTech (talk) 20:13, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Unreferenced doesn't necessarily mean not credible: for unreferenced articles, it's best to hunt for a reference (took me less than a minute to find one) or if you can't find one after a reasonable search, then use WP:BLPPROD instead. Thanks, Altered Walter (talk) 20:17, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll do that in the future PhantomTech (talk) 20:20, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Welcome

I also wanted to welcome you and let you know if you need any help, feel free to ask on my talk page. Don't worry about the unreviewed message that was posted; It's not really important. - Mr X 20:27, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Here's a few more potentially helpful links.

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Thanks for the links :) PhantomTech (talk) 20:33, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Duplin County Schools

Thank you for marking the Duplin County Schools article as reviewed. Just curious why you tagged it for refimprove. Everything there is referenced. Are you concerned about the reliability of the sources? -- JoannaSerah (talk) 23:36, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I looked at the page and couldn't remember the reason so i removed the tag. Thank you for telling me about my mistake. PhantomTech (talk) 00:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

No problem. Just wasn't sure about the tag. Thank you for your work. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 13:24, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Related to CSD A7

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Just wondering what exactly is considered a "credible claim" under CSD A7? I was wondering because WP:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#A7 says that it doesn't require a reliable source. PhantomTech (talk) 03:57, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

For an article to be deleted under CSD:A7 there needs to be something saying why the subject is important, to a third party. For example: "Bill (born 3 July 1963) is a graduate of XYZ University" would be deleted under A7, but this isn't likely to be deleted: "Bill (born 3 July 1963) is a graduate of XYZ University. Bill was awarded with the universities' highest honour, one of only 5 people in history to receive the award." In this example, graduating is undoubtedly notable to the individual, but from Wikipedia's perspective, thousands of people graduate every year, so it is significantly less notable. The claim to significance would be the award. It could be an outright lie, but its still a claim, so A7 would not suit, G3 might if it's a lie/hoax. Hope that helps. -- Patchy1 REF THIS BLP 04:32, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks but if the information about notability is unreferenced where is the line between a credible claim (Bill graduated with university's highest honor, somthing that is possible) and an uncredible one (Bill created the idea of a university, notable if it were true but is obvious hoax). Im wondering about the definition of "credible" since the claim to notability has to be credible. If there is a new unreferenced article about a person it will either be marked BLP PROD (if it makes a "credible claim" to the persons notability), A7 (if it makes an "uncredible" claim or no claim at all), or G3 (if its obviously a lie/hoax). So what im asking is, what is an "uncredible" claim? I hope that makes sense PhantomTech (talk) 21:07, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Hmm I guess I haven't really thought about it much, and probably most of the pages I tag with A7 I would consider having no claim as opposed to an uncredible one - either that or it has a claim, but that still isn't very credible or important - so I guess that would be uncredible, ie. Bill graduated, he could tie his shoes the quickest out of everyone. The best thing I would do is look at everything on a case by case basis and if it is in a grey area in between, then forget CSD and use AfD. Like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Williams (rapper), I was almost certain it was a hoax, and AfD confirmed, no harm done. -- Patchy1 REF THIS BLP 02:45, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for the help :) PhantomTech (talk) 02:47, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Adrian_Visby_/_Cabalaza_Records#Contested_deletion

Hold on for a bit — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason Flom (talk • contribs) 00:13, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I am contesting  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason Flom (talk • contribs) 00:20, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Deleting Warnings on talk page

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Someone that I warned using a WP:WARN removed the warning from their talk page as soon as they saw it (delete, not archive). I didn't do anything about it because Im not sure what the policy on it is, I know it is their talk page but I also know that those warnings are used for helping other editors/admins look at their recent history without having to check through all the logs. Could someone link me to a policy about this or give me some advice? PhantomTech (talk) 02:18, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

The policy on that is generally to not worry about it - unless it's a block template. It's always in the page history, like you said - although it is a bit inconvenient. The nice thing however is that the user removing the warnings is proof that they read them. Link to policy: Wikipedia:Vandalism#Types_of_vandalism under "talk page vandalism" (I think I interpreted it correctly). It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 02:26, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for that, exactly what I was looking for :) PhantomTech (talk) 02:32, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

No problem :) It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 02:35, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

User Did Not Create New Section

You deleted my addition to the killeen,Tx page on it's recent tennis history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tman21killeen (talk • contribs) 02:36, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

@Tman21killeen: Yes I did, I posted a notice on your talk page about it. The issue was that you did not add a citation to what appeared to be original research. Wikipedia does not allow original research. PhantomTech (talk) 02:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Patilanantprakash

Hello, I've removed the speedy deletion template you added to User:Patilanantprakash because the material appears acceptable for a user page, containing information about himself; it doesn't appear to be unambiguously promotional. ProtossPylon 05:20, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Main reason I tagged it was the websites PhantomTech (talk) 20:48, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

still learning

hi, can you keep my pages? I am learning how this works...once I get going I can do a nice job — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franky Wan (talk • contribs) 05:58, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

All biographies of living people need references. Sorry, i know you are new but like I said, practice or work on your articles in your user wp:namespace so they arent as likely to be deleted. PhantomTech (talk) 20:56, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

what do you mean by references? where can I read the definition of "reference"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franky Wan (talk • contribs) 22:43, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

References are used to establish WP:Notability, for more information about them you can read WP:References. It is also probably a good idea to read WP:First. PhantomTech (talk) 22:47, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

under which category shall I put a "chess player"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franky Wan (talk • contribs) 23:44, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Im not sure, I deal mainly with checking new pages for problems. Try looking at Special:Categories. Also, dont forget to sign your posts on talk pages by typing ~~~~ at the end of them (dont do that in articles, just on talk pages). PhantomTech (talk) 23:54, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Please have a look at: Fernando Silva (chess player)... can you take all those signs out please? I will learn how to sign, I still did not get what ~~~&#126 is... cheers tks for your attention — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franky Wan (talk • contribs) 01:59, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Got rid of the WP:Maintenance tags that don't need to be there, fixed some stuff and moved the page to fit in with a WP:Disambiguation page that already existed. The ~~~~ (shift version of key next to '1' on U.S. keyboards pressed 4 times) is automaticaly replaced by your signature, try testing it out along with any other editing stuff you dont completely understand in WP:Sandbox. PhantomTech (talk) 02:22, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

February 2013

Hello PhantomTech. Thanks for patrolling new pages – it's a very important task! I'm just letting you know however, regarding Sarah Marie Vegliante, that tagging articles for speedy deletion moments after creation as lacking context (CSD A1), content (CSD A3) and articles created through the Article Wizard, is too fast. It's best to wait at least 10–15 minutes for more content to be added if the page is very short, and the articles should not be marked as patrolled. Attack pages (G10), blatant nonsense (G1), copyright violations (G12) and pure vandalism/blatant hoaxes (G3) should of course be tagged and deleted immediately. Thanks. The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 06:58, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Articles for Creation Redirects

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I found some redirects in mainspace that look like Articles for creation/(articlename) that redirect to whatever (articlename) is. I don't know much about the AfC process but should those redirect pages be speedy deleted or deleted some other way? or are they part of the process? And is there any place that I can search for the results of AfC for a specific article? For example, if I wanted to find out how many times someone tried to make FakeArticle with AfC and what the most recent result was. PhantomTech (talk) 23:12, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Such redirects should probably be deleted. I've nominated Articles for creation/Cbazaar and Articles for creation/Mark Peters (sport administrator) for speedy deletion under criterion G6. They seem to be relics of accidents during article creation. If you're aware of any others, please also tag them for deletion.

Regarding the search for AfC results, that's tricky because sometimes editors create multiple drafts about the same topic under different names, and even a single draft's review templates may sometimes be removed, making it rather difficult to ascertain how often a topic has been declined. The draft on "FakeArticle" should be at WT:Articles for creation/FakeArticle, and the page history would probably be the easiest way to make sure the number of review templates on the page indeed corresponds to all reviews that draft has been subject to. You might also try searching the User: and Wikipedia talk: namespaces for "FakeArticle" to make sure you find any additional drafts about the topic either at AfC or in user sandboxes. However, given the creativity of users attempting to create articles, even that isn't guaranteed to find all drafts on a given topic (or conversely the search may produce so many false positives that it's useless). Huon (talk) 00:30, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help PhantomTech (talk) 00:38, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Xbox720

Hello PhantomTech, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Xbox720, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The reason given is not a valid speedy deletion criterion. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. —Theopolisme (talk) 00:17, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Requested Name Change: Alexanderbot

Good afternoon PhantomTech! I agree with your suggestion that I change my username and I have put in a request. Thank you for notifying me of this issue.Alexanderbot (talk) 18:12, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for requesting the change and welcome to Wikipedia. PhantomTech (talk) 21:20, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Warnings Pier Giuseppe Monateri

Hi! Hope all is well. My only concern is that you have not been warning some of the reverts to vandalism you have made. Try using WP:Twinkle. I added a warning to the individual, it is just std procedure to do so. Cheers! Do post on my talk page with any questions. Thanks!! Jab843 (talk) 00:51, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I know, I wasnt able to find the warning in twinkle till after you posted :) I was expecting a different description that what it was. PhantomTech (talk) 00:53, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	I have noticed you are doing a great job of reverting vandalism. I encourage you to apply for rollback rights if you haven't already. Keep up the good work! Command and Conquer Expert! ^{speak to me...}_{review me...} 22:44, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you :) PhantomTech (talk) 22:46, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Good work at Masonic Temple article. Keep it up. Pratyya ^(Hello!) 03:19, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks :) PhantomTech (talk) 03:23, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

evasi0n

Dear PhantomTech, I am currently editing evasi0n, the reason it is "online" is because I accidentally clicked the Save page button as an accident. I was gathering info for the page when I saw you had marked it for Speedy Deletion. I beleieve this is invalid reasoning due to the fact I am still working on the evasi0n page. So please, allow at least an hour to finish up the page before you judge it. Thank You, Nosterdude — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nosterdude (talk • contribs) 05:53, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

You might want to put articles you are working on in your userspace till they are done. Please use the "Contest Deletion" button on the article instead of posting on a talk page since admins will probably not check talk pages when reviewing the request. PhantomTech (talk) 05:57, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank You PhantomTech, also I have posted on the "Contest Speedy Deletion page" Nosterdude (talk) 06:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined AIV report

I just wanted to let you know that I declined your AIV request on User:79.136.70.191. The information that the user removed appeared to be entirely unsourced. While unsourced information does not have to be removed, it can be, per WP:V (with some exceptions). So, a good next step would be to start a talk page discussion on the matter. Even better, of course, would be to find sources for the info and re-add, although that can be a lot more work. Qwyrxian (talk) 08:22, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know PhantomTech (talk) 16:40, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

User page

As you may have noticed, I have fully protected your user page, after deleting it (a piece of vandalism by a now blocked user). This will prevent other editors from recreating the page. If you would like to edit it, please let me know and I will drop the protection or reduce it semi-protection, as you prefer. If I'm not around for some reason, you can request removal at WP:RFPP or just ask another convenient admin. Qwyrxian (talk) 15:37, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Rollback

I have granted rollback rights to your account. After a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, contact me and I will remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Gilliam (talk) 01:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you PhantomTech (talk) 01:52, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Test Section for Archiving

This section is being used to check if auto archiving is working properly. PhantomTech (talk) 19:49, 3 March 2015 (UTC) {{Resolved}}

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Archive Test

Another test. This one deals with templates, should be the last one. PhantomTech (talk) 21:52, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Stale

Davis/BLP

Considering the Davis article is (ETA: often) used to attempt to attack Obama, protecting on the grounds of BLP is reasonable here. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:58, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

[1] I was just on my way here to give the same explanation! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:02, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying, I was pretty confused by it. PhantomTech (talk) 20:07, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Does this diff clarify a bit more? :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:39, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Ya lol, vandals are creative I guess PhantomTech (talk) 20:50, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Note about BLPs that are unsourced

Wait at least 10 minutes before putting up the BLP unsourced tag. It is generally not a good idea to put it up right away. Wgolf (talk) 22:29, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for letting me know. PhantomTech (talk) 00:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Killuminati

The illuminati shot Michael Brown to start a race war. They are the terrorist organization pretending to be Knights Templar Crusaders, fucking I mean fighting Israel. They also did 9/11, and will do much more. They are a decentralized group, but are centrally ideologically corrupt or fanatic. They emphasize words that start with the letter T, wear red like we saw the white protestors doing, with their bold red signs, and point at the eye, to symbolize the symbols of the former (dead) Knigts Templars. Daren Wilson is a corrupt pig and not a police officer. Have some integrity, and quit killing innocent people. You want to serve the public, go after people like HSBC and cut the finances to terrorist groups like ISIS and the Illuminati. -Tupac

Add a reliable source and you can re-add it. See WP:V PhantomTech (talk) 02:38, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

What a nugget

You're probably 12 just leave — Preceding unsigned comment added by MRPS12 (talk • contribs) 06:31, 2 March 2015 (UTC) {{resolved}}

Too much time on Wikipedia

Hi,

You don't appear constructive to me. You apparently take Wikipedia seriously, as though dipshits pooling their ignorance was somehow valuable. :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.113.137.14 (talk) 22:41, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Editor did not create a new section

Cameron doesn't like either picture that has been put up on his page without his approval. As a living actor, he should have input as to which picture represents his brand. His publicist has been in touch thru email with Wiki, and he will be using a picture that he likes and he approves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.95.145.19 (talk) 03:22, 4 March 2015 (UTC) {{resolved}}

Recent rollback

Hi,

I'm User:76.113.201.71 and I decided to log in after you rolled back one of my changes. The change in question a poorly sourced, poorly written, and poorly formatted piece of evidence. Before rolling back someone's changed, be sure to check that change first please. ~Darth Stabro^Palantír 00:10, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

@Darth Stabro: I did look at the change, I saw a citation used throughout the article and that the change had no edit summary. Based on that I assumed that it was being removed by someone with a WP:COI, the page is protected after all. Poor grammar alone is not a reason to assume something without an edit summary is being deleted because of it, see WP:FIES. Had you used the edit summary you did when you made the edit under this account I probably would have approved it. PhantomTech (talk) 00:51, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Halstead Place edit.

Hello, Phantomtech. You recently left a comment on my page concerning the removal of information on the Halstead Place article. Sorry about that. Someone incorrectly redirected the page to Halstead, England. Halstead Place was the name of an historic home in Ocean Springs, Mississippi that was tragically destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. I was going to add the information when I was finished with my research. I guess I'll go ahead and add what I have to the page, but I don't really have any sources yet. If you know or can find good sources to cite, I would appreciate the help. Hope that clears things up. Anasaitis (talk) 02:49, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

@Anasaitis: That's alright, you might want to work on the article in a WP:SANDBOX first so that the actual article page is never blank. PhantomTech (talk) 03:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry threat:GabbyisEbola69

Hello PhantomTech, on GabbyisEbola69's edit on Alan, the user threatened to create a sockpuppet to continue vandalize Wikipedia. If this happens, I'll simply create an SPI case for him/her, so if you see any vandalism on the new account, try to revert that edit in a flash. Thank You. Snowager-Talk to Me! 01:03, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Alright, I was just adding the diff to the AIV report but got caught in an edit conflict. PhantomTech (talk) 01:05, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Change to Xaverian High School

HI, Look, some person from Xaverian made a derogatory post regarding my Alma Mater on this page, to fix this statement, I made a constructive correction to let the world know the true definition of this institution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.183.214.222 (talk) 03:43, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

@71.183.214.222: Your edit was, in no way, a constructive correction. Please read WP:POLICY and do not misrepresent your edits. PhantomTech (talk) 03:51, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Naruto Shippuden Seasons

Sorry, I'm new here and I didn't think that I could be blocked or something. The thing with Naruto Seasons is that I'm just trying to fix the order, because it was wrong. Again, my apologies, I hope you understand — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninguem98 (talk • contribs) 03:57, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ninguem98: That's fine, just remember to use edit summaries. I've added some links related to contributing to your talk page that you can read through. Welcome to Wikipedia, thanks for contributing. PhantomTech (talk) 04:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Thank you for all that you do to maintain the encyclopedia. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 22:29, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you :) PhantomTech (talk) 22:40, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

first circuit

Thanks for watching it! I was a little worried I might come close to WP:3RR. Much appreciated. jhawkinson (talk) 23:40, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

@Jhawkinson: WP:3RR does not apply to WP:BLP issues which this could be considered as justices are living people. PhantomTech (talk) 23:57, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Well, I think that's quite a bit of a stretch! More convincing would be "Reverting obvious vandalism," but I could see people disagreeing that met the definition. Anyhow, thanks for your vigilance. jhawkinson (talk) 00:10, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

@Jhawkinson: You're welcome. Vandalism might be valid but I think this would fall under WP:GRAPEVINE. PhantomTech (talk) 00:18, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Reversed change on Florence Arthaud

Hi!

I appreciate you trying to keep things ok on wikipedia, but in my opinion my change was legit. And at that time it was not the page of a living person any longer. It was even written down in the page, I just completed the life and death dates. Could have had a source though, but non in English at the time. :'( — Preceding unsigned comment added by Florentchevallier (talk • contribs) 08:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

@Florentchevallier: I checked the article and the death is now sourced so your change was unquestionably made in good faith, however, Wikipedia's biography of living persons policy also applies to recently deceased people so your change would still have had to have been sourced. WP:NOENG allows the use of non-English sources when an English source is not available so feel free to use them in similar situations in the future. I checked and, like you said, the page did already list her death which would also fall under the BLP policy however I was using Huggle which only shows me the changes on page. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. PhantomTech (talk) 15:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Birch tree revert

Why did you erase that? There ARE birches in minecraft! I didint lie! Take a look!

File:Minecraft Birches.jpg

Its a forest

You cant revert for no reason!!

@SuperCofee: Content in Wikipedia articles must meet WP:V, it requires citation so that readers can verify it themselves. Additionally, the content was not suitable for inclusion in the article, imagine if every video game that has birch trees was mentioned in the article. If you still feel it should be included fell free to discuss it on the article's talk page to reach consensus. Based mainly on those factors your change did not appear constructive. Please remember to sign your talk page posts. PhantomTech (talk) 22:00, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

CSD criterion for spam sandbox

Thanks for your report on Ashfaq Mohamed at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. In your report, you wrote "once they're blocked please let me know what CSD criteria (if any) that page would fall under, incase I encounter it in the future" (referring to the user sandbox page). It certainly fell under G11 (advertising or promotion), as the page was clearly there to promote a campaign, and I would also have accepted U5 (misuse of Wikipedia as a web host), as it clearly consisted of "writings ... not closely related to Wikipedia's goals, where the owner has made few or no edits outside of userspace". The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:48, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. PhantomTech (talk) 16:53, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Georgia Jones Deletion

{{resolved}} I am new to this wikipedia but I am stumped to figure out how to get the tags removed from the proposed Georgia Jones page. An admin says her page does not meet the WP:PORNBIO criteria but yet when I look at other porn actresses pages they don't meet those criteria either. The process seems so arbitrary and subjective. I want to comply if at all possible but I don't know where to begin. Can you offer any suggestions? TIA Ncmikie (talk) 11:45, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ncmikie: Articles on Wikipedia must meet Wikipedia's notability criteria. For a porn actress, the subject must meet the criteria in any of the following: WP:GNG, WP:BASIC, WP:ENT or WP:PORNSTAR. If a page you create is tagged for speedy deletion and you feel the reason for deletion is invalid you should click the button that says "Contest deletion" and explain why you think so. If you feel a page you have created meets the notability guidelines but was deleted anyway you should ask the admin who deleted it why they deleted it. If, after the admin's reply, you still don't understand why it was deleted, you can ask them for more clarification. If you disagree with their decision you can take other dispute resolution steps. You can get help writing articles at the Teahouse. PhantomTech (talk) 17:40, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives and User:I believe that we can win

One of the attempted edits in question was to User:I believe that we can win/sandbox/User:I believe that we can win, which apparently was an attempt to create a userpage through AFC. The user attempted to replace this version with the following three lines:

Made 18 March 2015

I believe that we will win!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy9JsppEJR8

This is Special:AbuseLog/11785701. Regardless of the content of the link, is it really desirable that our filters prevent the addition of YouTube links to userspace? Without having looked at the video, I can't say whether it's spam or otherwise inappropriate (of course I can imagine that it might be), but the filter can't make that kind of determination, so I assume that this edit would have been prevented regardless of the video's content. There's nothing necessarily wrong with a YouTube link in userspace. Nyttend (talk) 11:46, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Nyttend: You're right, it isn't necessarily a bad thing to have a YouTube video in your user space. I'm not sure (don't have the abusefilter permission so I can't check) but I assume that the filter doesn't block people who are autoconfirmed. If the filter was intended to block user space links also then I assume it was done because a lot of the videos being added were being added in a problematic way, if that's not the case it might be a good idea to change the filter to only warn anyone that's not autoconfirmed about WP:COI and WP:PROMO who tries to post a link. PhantomTech (talk) 14:37, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

YouTube Vids

I like to sometimes put them up.--Voice Farmer (talk) 00:40, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Voice Farmer: are you referencing the topic above about the filter? PhantomTech (talk) 02:55, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Yup. LOL--Voice Farmer (talk) 04:31, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

@Voice Farmer: Like Nyttend pointed out, it isn't a problem in certain situations, just be sure you're familiar with WP:PROMO and WP:UP. PhantomTech (talk) 05:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

my edit on the nestor movie was good!!!!!!!!!!!

hey I gatta say my works were wight ok — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.132.240.222 (talk) 22:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

@75.132.240.222: You removed a significant amount of content without an edit summary and replaced it with what appears to be commentary on the article which should be placed on its talk page.

Nomination of Abhay Vidhya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Hindaun City for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Abhay Vidhya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Hindaun City is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abhay Vidhya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Hindaun City until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jerodlycett (talk) 17:53, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft: Grishko

Hi PhantomTech, Thanks for the comments, they were helpful. I have made some changes that I think address the issues you mentioned, would you mind taking a look and telling me what you think? Thanks! Aspaef (talk) 16:45, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@Aspaef: It does look a bit improved, unfortunately I've moved away from articles for creation and don't have the time to do a full review of the draft. PhantomTech (talk) 19:36, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

periperiwinkle

This is my first article and I need help! So I cannot refer back to the company I was doing? Please advise! Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Periperiwinkle (talk • contribs) 06:04, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

@Periperiwinkle: You can get help writing articles at the teahouse. Articles on Wikipedia must meet several policies including WP:NPOV and WP:VERIFIABILITY. You can find a full list of Wikipedia policies at WP:LOP. PhantomTech (talk) 06:09, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C:9800:5C6:C155:45C8:16A0:D51C (talk) 02:21, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Please Note

Your statement about why my initial template was deleted is not the case. "and likely knew that if the did so again on their account that they would be blocked." I initially started page in live instead of sandbox mode. It had been a year since I built a wiki so I was a little rusty. I am currently working on history section for non-passing mentions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.199.149.130 (talk) 13:51, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

@Desbien: The statement was not made in relation to the reason for deletion of your page. It was made because of the recent warnings you received telling you just that. Deletion logs for the page indicate that it was last created this month, combined with checkuser evidence and the warnings on your page, it is highly unlikely that you were not editing Wikipedia recently. PhantomTech (talk) 15:52, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Please refer again my artile

Hello

Please refer my article again because I am working on that to be set properly in wikipedia by under wikipedia guidelines — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ubskjt (talk • contribs) 18:59, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ubskjt: Please read WP:FIRST along with WP:POL. You might want to consider using Articles for Creation to make your first article. PhantomTech (talk) 19:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

What about my article i.e gurdip singh anand

Can you please give me my article on gurdip singh anand ?? because yesterday you have delete my article and there is no issues in article so kindly give it back my article User:Ubskjt

@Ubskjt: I marked the article for deletion, I didn't delete it myself. I can't get you a copy of the article but you can see a list of the administrators who deleted it here, one of them might be willing to email you a copy. PhantomTech (talk) 04:33, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Can I recreate the article again ?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ubskjt (talk • contribs) 05:16, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ubskjt: The article was deleted after this deletion discussion. You can recreate the article only if you fix all the problems expressed in the discussion. The article must also conform to all of Wikipedia's Policies. If you recreate it, it should be done at Articles for Creation and you should submit the article for review instead of making it in article space. PhantomTech (talk) 05:23, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

When start to recreate the article it shows the message and not able to edit the data This page is currently protected so that only administrators can create it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ubskjt (talk • contribs) 08:56, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ubskjt: I told you, if you're going to recreate your article do it at Articles for Creation and make sure that it conforms with all of Wikipedia's policies. PhantomTech (talk) 17:25, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

I told you several times that I unable to recreate the article You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reasons: This page is currently protected so that only administrators can create it. then let me know what I do ?? I request to administrator but no response ... ubskjt — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ubskjt (talk • contribs) 18:28, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ubskjt: Use the article wizard. If you get to the end of the article wizard create a draft. If you experience problems you can use the "Live Help Chat" button to get help from experienced editors. Do not create the article in the mainspace, you are being blocked from making the article because you are trying to make it in the mainspace. PhantomTech (talk) 18:47, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

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Smile

Ready for archive

Hello PhantomTech, L235 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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Apology

Ready for archive

I apologize for not assuming good faith on a user, I accidentally copied and pasted the wrong template. Fresh Sullivan (talk) 01:52, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

@Fresh Sullivan: That's alright, just be careful. Good luck and thanks for helping Wikipedia. PhantomTech (talk) 01:57, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

April 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to Template:Freenode, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 14:44, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

WP:DTTR applies here, especially since this warning has no information in it that is useful in this case, but it would also be good to get rid of "Welcome to Wikipedia" in warning templates, because even for inexperienced users it can be inappropriate. I've seen a number of talk pages with several "Welcome to Wikipedia" warnings on them and it just looks silly. ekips39 (talk) 18:36, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

I don't agree, in fact I think that WP:TTR applies much more here. Anyways, this was the most accurate warning template I'm aware of. Making edits to a template with over 11K transclusions without a discussion and consensus is extremely disruptive and puts the person doing so at risk of being blocked. I thought it would be fair to warn this user that since it is such a highly transcluded template, BRD does not apply but instead WP:PINKLOCK rules apply. I've already requested Template editor protection, and will push for this. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 20:49, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
You are right that it would have been fair to warn them of that, but that is not what you did. The template you used does not give any of the reasons you have since provided. It's a moot point now, though, and I'm just nitpicking. ekips39 (talk) 07:07, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Technical 13, thanks for the welcome, I haven't been welcomed since January 2013 and was beginning to think that no one cared. I'm not sure where you got the number in your edit summary from, my change restored the version of the template that existed prior to November 4 2014 and I doubt every single transclusion was updated since then. I'd also like to point out that my change did not break any templates that used the template as described in the docs, which have said the same thing since 2011. I encourage you to be more careful about your reverts, especially as a template editor, your changes can have big affects on Wikipedia and you wouldn't want to accidentally break something people are relying on. PhantomTech (talk) 18:58, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

I got the number from http://tools.wmflabs.org/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&name=Freenode&namespace=10#bottom — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 20:49, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

@Technical 13: I know where the number came from, I was wondering why you're assuming that all those transclusions happened or were updated between November 4, 2015 and today and why a change that

Makes the template do what the docs say
Fixes a problem that causes ##channel to take you to #channel or, if whoever made the transclusion tried to work around it, makes the link for ##channel look like ###channel
Does not break any transclusions for single # channels, as long as the transclusion followed the docs (if it didn't, by the way, the link would read "##channel")

requires consensus. All my change does it make links say the name of the channel they'll take you to. PhantomTech (talk) 22:01, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

As long as no PINKLOCK, BLD still applies. This (might) break some templates, but it's only those that are badly configured. (Fix those insead of keeping the template borked) Please follow proper BRD-policy until a PINKLOCK is in order! (Also, please avoid the continuation of canvassing.) (t) Josve05a (c) 07:05, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

An aside: I am in no why involved with this dispute, i was checking the page for something unrelated and misclicked my rollback button, pleses WP:Trout me as you see fit. Thanks, TheMesquito^buzz 08:51, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Toad's Place Edits

The changes that were made to this listing were made at the request of the club's current owner, who has worked for the venue since shortly after it opened. He wanted to update some listings of performers, correct information that wasn't accurate, and remove a negative piece of information that is not pertinent to the club's history. Updated and original text are below.

Extended content

ORIGINAL History[edit] The building, located on York Street down the street from Ashley's Ice Cream and Blue State Coffee and across an alley from Mory's Temple Bar, was the original location of the Yale Co-op. During the 1960s, it was a popular restaurant called Hungry Charlie's and then the location of Caleb's Tavern. In 1974, Michael Spoerndle, formerly a student at the Culinary Institute of America, rented the building for a French and Italian restaurant, which opened in March 1975. He named it Toad's Place, after a childhood joke. He said, "When my parents were going out to dinner, they would tell me they were going to such-and-such, and I thought it would be funny if they said, 'We're going to Toad's Place.' Plus, people who didn't go out and stayed at home, we'd call them 'toads.' It was the equivalent of a couch potato."[1] In 1976, Spoerndle turned the restaurant into a live music venue,[2] working with a local musician named Peter Menta to bring in bands. Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Koko Taylor were some of the first performers.[1] In 1976, Brian Phelps joined as manager and eventually co-owner. Phelps took control in 1995, after Spoerndle's numerous problems with alcohol and drug addiction.[2] Spoerndle died on May 6, 2011.[3][4]

In 1983, a second location opened in Waterbury, Connecticut, although it lasted only three years. In 2007, a franchise location in Richmond, Virginia opened with a concert by the Squirrel Nut Zippers. It included a restaurant and club for up to 1,500 visitors.[5] The principal owner was Charles Joyner, a local physician who was a disc jockey at Toad's Place while he was a Yale undergraduate in the 1980s. On 9 March 2009, Toad's Place Richmond was closed.[6] All scheduled shows were canceled and/or moved to The National, another venue in Richmond. A third location was planned for Trenton, New Jersey.[7]

Notable events[edit]

A long wall inside the venue the names of the many famous artists to have played there On August 12, 1989, The Rolling Stones played a surprise hour-long concert for 700 people at Toad's Place. They had been rehearsing for the "Steel Wheels" tour for six weeks at the Wykeham Rise School, a girls' school in Washington, Connecticut that had closed earlier that year, and performed the concert as "a thank-you to Connecticut for the hospitality."[8] On January 12, 1990, Bob Dylan started a tour with a Toad's Place performance including four sets that lasted over five hours, his longest show to date. It was his first club performance in 25 years.[1] In July 1980, Billy Joel recorded the song Los Angelenos from his album Songs in the Attic at Toad's Place. Jeff Lorber, a jazz keyboardist, included an instrumental piece called Toad's Place on his album Water Sign.[7] U2 performed at Toad's Place three times between 1980-1981. Their first performance at Toad's Place was on December 14, 1980 during the second leg of the Boy tour. This was only their eighth tour date in North America. The band returned to Toad's Place on May 27, 1981, during the fourth leg of the Boy tour, and on November 15, 1981, during the second leg of the October tour. The May 27 show was the occasion of their first public performance of the song Fire.[9] Adam Clayton is shown wearing a Toad's Place T-shirt in an early poster of the band.[1] On March 17, 2005 the Black Crowes played a concert under the name "Mr. Crowes Garden." This was one of five tour dates at small Northeastern clubs intended as a warm-up for their 2005 tour, after not having toured for almost four years.[10] Through mutual friends, singer Rob Zombie met future wife, actress Sheri Moon, at Toad's in 1989. They married on Halloween of 2002.

UPDATED History[edit] The building, located on York Street across from the Sterling Memorial Library and next door to Mory's Temple Bar, was the original location of the Yale Co-op. During the late 1960s, it was a popular restaurant called Hungry Charlie's. In 1974, Michael Spoerndle, formerly a student at the Culinary Institute of America, and with two other partners Mike Corpus and Charles Metzger, rented the building for a French and Italian restaurant, which opened in January, 1975. They named it Toad's Place, after a childhood joke. People who didn't go out and stayed at home, we'd call them 'toads.' It was the equivalent of a couch potato."[1] In late 1976, Spoerndle bought out his two partners and turned the restaurant into a live music venue,[2] working with a local musician named Peter Menta to bring in bands. Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Koko Taylor were some of the first performers.[1] In 1976, Brian Phelps joined as manager and eventually co-owner. Phelps took control in 1995. Spoerndle died on May 6, 2011.[3][4]

In 1981, a second location opened in Waterbury, Connecticut, although it lasted only three years. In 2007, a franchise location in Richmond, Virginia opened with a concert by the Squirrel Nut Zippers. It included a restaurant and club for up to 1,500 visitors.[5] The principal owner was Charles Joyner, a local physician who was a disc jockey at Toad's Place while he was a Yale undergraduate in the 1980s. On 9 March 2009, Toad's Place Richmond was closed.[6] All scheduled shows were canceled and/or moved to The National, another venue in Richmond. A third location was planned for Trenton, New Jersey. This did not come to fruition[7]

Notable events[edit]

A long wall inside the venue the names of the many famous artists to have played there On August 12, 1989, The Rolling Stones played a surprise hour-long concert for 700 people at Toad's Place. They had been rehearsing for the "Steel Wheels" tour for six weeks at the Wykeham Rise School, a girls' school in Washington, Connecticut that had closed earlier that year, and performed the concert as "a thank-you to Connecticut for the hospitality."[8] On January 12, 1990, Bob Dylan started a tour with a Toad's Place performance including four sets that lasted over five hours, his longest show to date. It was his first club performance in 25 years.[1] In July 1980, Billy Joel recorded the song Los Angelenos from his album Songs in the Attic at Toad's Place. Jeff Lorber, a jazz keyboardist, included an instrumental piece called Toad's Place on his album Water Sign.[7] U2 performed at Toad's Place three times between 1980-1981. Their first performance at Toad's Place was on December 14, 1980 during the second leg of the Boy tour. This was only their eighth tour date in North America. The band returned to Toad's Place on May 27, 1981, during the fourth leg of the Boy tour, and on November 15, 1981, during the second leg of the October tour. The May 27 show was the occasion of their first public performance of the song Fire.[9] Adam Clayton is shown wearing a Toad's Place T-shirt in an early poster of the band.[1] On March 17, 2005 the Black Crowes played a concert under the name "Mr. Crowes Garden." This was one of five tour dates at small Northeastern clubs intended as a warm-up for their 2005 tour, after not having toured for almost four years.[10] Through mutual friends, singer Rob Zombie met future wife, actress Sheri Moon, at Toad's in 1989. They married on Halloween of 2002.

There were other classic sold out shows held in the late eighties and nineties such as Johnny Cash, Dave Matthews, Bruce Springsteen, Frankie Valle & the 4 Seasons, James Taylor, R.E.M., Bon Jovi, N.K.O.T.B., David Bowie, BB King, Bonnie Raitt, Santana, Cyndi Lauper, Keanu Reeves, Eddie Murphy, George Thorogood, Hootie & the Blowfish, Joan Jett, Joe Cocker, Joe Walsh, The Kinks, Marilyn Manson, Meatloaf, Melissa Etheridge, New Haven‚ own Michael Bolton, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sheryl Crow, Tom Jones, Tower of Power, Weezer and Blue Oyster Cult.

More recent sellout performances include: LMFAO, Lupe Fiasco, Macklemore & Lewis, Tegan and Sara, Wiz Khalifa, Dipset, George Clinton & the Parliament Funkadelic, Kings of Leon, O.A.R., Beck, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, Black Keys, Bryan Adams, Drake, String Cheese Incident, Phish, Black Eyed Peas, Iggy Azalea, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wolfgang Gartner, Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, J. Cole, Hunter Hayes, Jeezy, Alkaline Trio, Tyga, Ingrid Michaelson, Cake, Citizen Cope and Sara Bareilles.

Newhaveninfo (talk) 23:03, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Newhaveninfo, while I can understand that the owner doesn't want any "bad press" about the establishment, Wikipedia is NOTCENSORED. This means that all press, good or bad, should be included in an article. As long as a neutral point of view is observed it is just as acceptable (and encouraged) to list negative things as it is to list positive things. As an addendum, it is always a good idea to give rationale in the edit summary so others know why you edited the page. Primefac (talk) 23:16, 10 April 2015 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

wm-bot and ##PhantomTech

Just a heads up that there must have been a netsplit which caused wm-bot to drop from your ##PhantomTech channel on IRC. Due to the fact that your channel is invite only, this prevented the bot from rejoining your channel and I had to @part ##PhantomTech in order to get the bot properly reconnected to IRC. If you wish to have wm-bot in your channel, please add it to the auto-invite list so that it can rejoin as is needed. Thanks. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 23:18, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

wm-bot's cloak is already on the auto invite list. Once wm-bot4 came back online I didn't have a problem getting it to join without a manual invite. PhantomTech (talk) 23:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

per http://tools.wmflabs.org/wm-bot/logs/index.php?start=04%2F11%2F2015&end=04%2F11%2F2015&wiki=true&data=true&display=%23wm-bot -

2015-04-11 17:50:46 [wm-bot] Join error: Cannot join channel (+i) - you must be invited channel: wm-bot4140 ##phantomtech reason: InviteOnly

2015-04-11 17:51:30 [wm-bot] Join error: Cannot join channel (+i) - you must be invited channel: wm-bot4140 ##phantomtech reason: InviteOnly

2015-04-11 17:52:19 [T13|mobile] Hrmm. Wm-bot4 needs renumbering again

2015-04-11 17:52:40 [T13|mobile] @part ##phantomtech

2015-04-11 17:52:53 [T13|mobile] Let's see if that fixes it.

2015-04-11 17:57:04 [wm-bot] Join error: Cannot join channel (+i) - you must be invited channel: wm-bot4140 #vetklephoek reason: InviteOnly

2015-04-11 17:57:19 =wm-bot4140 joined channel

2015-04-11 17:57:34 [T13|mobile] :)

This is what happened. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 02:46, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Odd, maybe the cloak hadn't been applied yet? Looks like it would have had to go about a minute without a cloak though and that doesn't seem likely. Whatever it was, it's working fine now. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 03:00, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Feature request: Please include page titles in ThePhantomBot reports

Hi again! User:ThePhantomBot/reports/UA/bad pages currently says things like:

2015-04-13 07:48:34 Revision 656241163 (512.0) may be a bad recreate

It would be cool if you could make it instead say things like:

2015-04-13 07:48:34 New page "American International School of Vienna" (512.0) may be a bad recreate

The current behavior is useful, but my proposed behavior would be even more useful. That way people (such as myself) who really only hate spam articles about one type of entity (such as corporations only, or such as musical groups only) could more easily skim the report and decide which links to click.

P.S. Thanks again for ThePhantomBot.

Cheers, —Unforgettableid (talk) 19:37, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

@Unforgettableid: The reason revision numbers instead of page names are used right now is in case there is a problem with the page name, for example, if it is an attack page. But, right now only recreates are checked though, and since it would be unlikely for an attack page to not be create protected when it was first deleted, I think I could make the change when I have time. I've been busy so I'll probably be able to do it in about a week. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 08:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

@Unforgettableid: Sorry it took so long, bad recreates now list their page title at the end of the report. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 07:56, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't know what you are talking about.

I may have done a joke and called my friends to show it once, but I think I deleted it right away. You claim that I changed 3 articles, that is not true. I only changed 1. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.103.203.76 (talk) 22:56, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

@174.103.203.76: I don't see where I claim you changed 3 articles, it looks like I only posted on your talk page once about a single article but feel free to point me somewhere if I'm wrong. Please don't use Wikipedia for jokes, even if you undo your changes right away, since someone could see your edit before you revert it. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 05:17, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Obnoxious js questions

Hi PhantomTech. I have some questions/comments about IRCNick.js.

On line 11, is 'a' defined anywhere? also on line 10, that for loop won't exit, right? we just defined i and it doesn't have a length property.
why are we counting underscores to determine if we fall through to offering colors?
Why are we coercing that random number to a string on line 21? You can access array locations w/ a string e.g. array["1"] but they're not properties.
why is there a check against nickChanged on line 24? We'll set it to true in either path before then.

Thanks, Protonk (talk) 13:23, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Also... The script doesn't meet the CC/JS requirements for global scripts/gadgets; the script isn't jQueryfied (not a strict requirement, but strongly recommended whenever possible); your script creates nicks longer than NICKLEN=16 and as such will fail (For example, the nick generated for me by it is "Technical_13-WP29", which is 17 characters in length). — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 13:46, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

@Protonk: Thanks for pointing out these issues. 'a' was a typo, I replaced it with 'i' and it looks like it was just skipping over the loop instead of never exiting but I've fixed that also. Underscores are counted to prevent a username that has a lot of non-latin characters from being given a nick similar to '______-WP32' or 'sa_____-WP21' which would be useless to helpers, it isn't the best method since it might be better to check for the percentage of the nick that is underscores so I'm thinking about replacing it with that. Fixed line 21. Removed nickChanged check on line 24, can't think of a reason for it to be there. @Technical 13: I fixed the nick length issue which cut off nicks one character too late and will look at the coding conventions for JavaScript. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 20:02, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing those. I think the nickChanged variable should be renamed or used differently, because it doesn't immediately express what's going on. For instance, if we mangle a username and insert 3 underscores, nickChanged is set to true, where if we change it more nickChanged is not set to true and we provide an alternate nickname based entirely on a poor man's guid (no judgment, that's just what it is. :)). The last if statement contains code that we want to run to completely replace the nick. We only want to run it if we don't have a meaningful nick to start with (anon users) or if our nick has changed so much as to require we not mangle things. My suggestion is just to put the creation of a whole new nick into a function and at line 20 invoke that function if the underscore count is over a certain threshold (rather than not doing it if it is under). That also means if you define the function early you can just do something like:

if ( isAnon ) {
 createNick();
} else {
 mangleNick();
 if ( tooMangled ) {
   createNick();
 }
}

Does that make sense? Protonk (talk) 12:17, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

@Protonk: I think this is what you're suggesting?

Code

// Intended to be used to make IRC help links use a default nick that's much
// easier to work with
// Author: PhantomTech
( function () {
	/**
	 * Pick a random nick.
	 *
	 * Uses a randomly selected color to get a "user-friendly" nick.
	 * Nicks are given in the format [color]-WP[number] where [color] is
	 * the random color and [number] is a random number between 100 and 999.
	 *
	 * @return {string} Nick
	 */
	function getRandomNick() {
		// Might not be a bad idea to have some more colors
		var nickOptions = [ 'red', 'pink', 'orange', 'yellow', 'green', 'cyan', 'blue', 'purple' ];
		return nickOptions[ Math.floor( Math.random() * 7 ) ]
			+ '-WP' + Math.floor( Math.random() * 899 + 100 ).toString();
	}
	
	/**
	 * Pick a random nick based on user's username.
	 *
	 * Uses the user's username to get a "user-friendly" nick. Nicks are
	 * given in the format [username]-WP[number] where [username] is the
	 * username with non-alphanumeric characters replaced with an underscore
	 * and [number] is a random number between 10 and 99.
	 *
	 * @return {string} Nick
	 */
	function getUsernameNick() {
		return mw.user.getName().substring( 0, 11 ).replace( /\W/g, '_' )
			+ '-WP' + Math.floor( Math.random() * 89 + 10 ).toString();
	}
	
	// 'User:PhantomTech/sandbox/IRC_Disclaimer' will be replaced
	if ( mw.config.get( 'wgPageName' ) === 'User:PhantomTech/sandbox/IRC_Disclaimer' ) {
		if ( document.getElementById( 'ircLink' ) !== null ) {
			if ( mw.user.isAnon() ) {
				userNick = getRandomNick();
			} else {
				userNick = getUsernameNick();
				var underscoreCount = 0;
				for ( i = 0; i < userNick.length; i++ ) {
					if ( userNick.charAt(i) == '_' ) {
						underscoreCount++;
					}
				}
				// If nick has so many underscores that it probably isn't useful
				if ( underscoreCount <= 4 ) {
					userNick = getRandomNick();
				}
			}
	
			document.getElementById( 'ircLink' ).innerHTML = document.getElementById( 'ircLink' ).innerHTML.replace( /WPhelp\?/, userNick );
		}
	}
} );

If not, let me know. I made these changes kind of quickly so I haven't tested it yet and so haven't updated the script either. I'll test it when I have some more time and will then wait for your comments (if you haven't commented already) before updating the script. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 16:44, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

I'll take a closer look when I get home tonight. Protonk (talk) 19:12, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Something like that. Except if you want to get a random nick based on underscore count, you'd want to do that if it is more than 4, not 4 or less, right? sorry for asking so many questions, I just want to make sure the intent is clear to someone reading it. Protonk (talk) 11:35, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

@Protonk: I've tested it and it seems like it's working fine so I've updated the actual script. I fixed underscoreCount <= 4 in the actual script, I forgot to change it when I updated the code to use function, thanks for pointing it out. If you have any more suggestions or see any more problems feel free to let me know. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 15:00, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

That's much more clear, thank you. I'd also recommend taking Technical 13's suggestion onboard and jQuerifying the places where you touch the DOM (just 2 lines). Protonk (talk) 16:36, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I've updated it to use JQuery. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 23:06, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Goldsmiths University.

Hi Phantom, thanks for your message, I am quite new to wikipedia so I am learning as I go, this one seems quite important. I have added in my citation now. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.31.231 (talk) 02:28, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

@89.240.31.231: You're welcome, thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 02:39, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Same minute?! Nicely done. :) Faceless Enemy (talk) 04:00, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Huggle magic :) PHANTOMTECH (talk) 04:16, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Still cool, and still helpful. Faceless Enemy (talk) 04:45, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

George Stephanopoulos

This has apparently become a GOP target page with CRAP like this!

Stephanopolous' undisclosed $75,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation has led some conservatives to refer to him as "George Clintonpolous."

It is not only BS it has no citations EITHER. I have made several changes as to the post rank belonged in ABC history, stating that the book referred to alleged things that were not factually documented (with references) and replaced the above line with the fact that he has always been considered a Democrat.

Burger2227 (talk) 18:48, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

@Burger2227: As something with no citation, it can be removed per WP:V, however, changing it to something without adding a source to support the new information does not fix the issue that there is unreferenced information in the article. Feel free to remove that information from the article if it is unreferenced, but do not replace it with unreferenced information. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 18:59, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

OK, but I'm gonna keep an eye on things for now. Thanks Burger2227 (talk) 19:15, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome, thanks for your contributions. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 19:19, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Assistance

An editor has ignored my warning for edit warring and removing sourced content, and just kept doing it. I saw you have edited the Drake Bell page as well. Can you do anything to help, please? -- Deadpool100 (talk) 01:46, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@Deadpool100: I'd recommend starting a discussion on the article's talk page and notifying the user of the discussion with a talk page message, if after a few days no one gives a reason for why the information should not be there re-add it pointing to the discussion in the edit summary you use. Alternatively, since the other editor's problem seems to be with the source being YouTube, you could try to find a written source. The editor has not yet broken WP:3RR so administrator intervention is probably not required at this point. If they do not provide a valid reason the source cannot be used and continue to revert the addition, they will likely be considered to have violated edit warring policy even if they do not technically violate 3RR. If, during the discussion, you are unable to come to an agreement you can use WP:Dispute resolution steps like WP:3O. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 02:10, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I went ahead and started a discussion on that talk page. Thanks for the advice! :) --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Attract and Repel ‖ 02:22, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

A star for you

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For your Village pump (technical) contribution. "An act of kindness" is a thing I love, both to give and to receive. -AsceticRosé 17:14, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Automated tool

Just checked what you've written on WP:ARC. I would like to request you to change your wording a bit, "but at 20+ edits per minute with an automated tool" should be either "but at 20+ edits per minute with an AWB" or "but at 20+ edits per minute with a semi automated tool (AWB)".

For a while, I thought what kind of "bot" is he using, had to check the recent contributions. Thanks. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 02:46, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

@OccultZone: Made the change, sorry for any confusion it caused. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 03:22, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

AFCRHS.js in Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace

This is presumably due to any of several {{template names}} being parsed by the MediaWiki software as actual templates, but I haven't checked which one. The workaround is to split the offending string constant(s) into two or more concatenated strings, as you already did to prevent subst: from being parsed.

(One could argue that this MediaWiki parsing behavior is itself a bug to be fixed, but that's a discussion for elsewhere.) --SoledadKabocha (talk) 18:43, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

@SoledadKabocha: Fixed, thanks for letting me know about it. The parsing behavior is a bug that should probably be fixed, but that'd be a silly excuse to try and use to get out of one or two minutes of "work". PHANTOMTECH (talk) 19:00, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

A Letter Concerning Toleration

Well, I'm just going to relay my unpleasant experience at Wikipedia to every person that I know. You people are bullies and pretenders! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thepointofit (talk • contribs) 12:23, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

@Thepointofit: Wikipedia has a policy on original research. When Wikipedia editors look at information and attempt to interpret it, they are doing original research. Wikipedia editors are usually not subject experts, for this reason Wikipedia trusts the views of published sources over those of Wikipedia editors. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 02:16, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Targeted

I'm maintaining a list of valid trolling targets. You are now on it. When I finally choose to strike, it will be devastating and you will all be shown. 82.132.247.187 (talk) 12:11, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration case notification

PhantomTech, you were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Technical 13. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Technical 13/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 30, 2015, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Technical 13/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. I apologize the delay in notifying you of this case opening.
For the Arbitration Committee, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:43, 17 June 2015 (UTC) Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:43, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Technical 13 arbitration evidence phase closing soon

As a listed party to this case, this is a notification that the evidence phase of this case is closing soon on 30 June. If you have additional evidence that you wish to introduce for consideration, it must be entered before this date. On behalf of the committee, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:13, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Technical 13

He has made lots work regarding xtools. The guy is very helpful. xtools are created by him along with other people . Please don't put indefinite block on him. Past few days we are having trouble with xtools. If he leaves then the situation might be bad. --Cosmic Emperor 03:33, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@CosmicEmperor: I do not have the power to block or ban anyone, I cannot decide what will end up happening. I have no intention of allowing Technical 13, or anyone else, to be treated any differently based on any "good work" they do. Both new and experienced users are expected to follow the same policies and guidelines as any other editor. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 23:21, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Proposed decision posted for Technical 13 arbitration case

Hi PhantomTech, in the open Technical 13 arbitration case, a motion has been proposed which relates to you. Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:24, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Technical 13 closed

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following motion has passed and been enacted:

Technical 13's indefinite block is converted to an indefinite ban imposed by the Arbitration Committee. Technical 13 may appeal this ban at any time to the Arbitration Committee if he wishes to return to editing.
Technical 13 is limited to one account, and may not edit through any account other than "Technical 13". He is explicitly denied the right to any sort of clean start.

For the Arbitration Committee, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:25, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Technical 13 closed

Thank you kindly...

...for your support over at my RfA. I shall do my best to be worthy of it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:48, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Eh?

I'm not sure that I understand your oppose vote here. This is Cyberpower678's RfA, not Technical 13's. --Biblioworm 21:16, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

@Biblioworm: My oppose is about Cyberpower's response (here) to T13's actions and what the response says about Cyberpower's judgment of editors' intentions. Despite the multiple issues T13 has been involved in, including abuse of other tools, Cyberpower still trusts him with a level of control over xtools that allows T13, if he choses, to make (probably temporary) malicious changes to xtools which could quite easily harm editors. I don't think Cyberpower can reliably judge the intentions/competence of other editors accurately and this has the potential to cause issues anywhere they interact with editors as an administrator. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 21:36, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

BAGBot: Your bot request ThePhantomBot

Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ThePhantomBot as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 05:02, 27 August 2015 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:59, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

The Tech Barnstar for you

		The Technical Barnstar
		Dear PhantomTech. On behalf of myself, Wikiisawesome, Josve05a, and Ahecht many thanks for creating the AFC/R Helper Script, it's a wonderful time saver and works well so far._ Sam Sailor ^Talk! 17:53, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

... Until today when we got a (rare) request in Diff of Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects asking for a redirect from Portal:Quilon to Portal:Kollam. That one I had to do by hand. No big deal, but I thought you'd like to know. Best, Sam Sailor ^Talk! 17:53, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Name + job

Hi! I like your name. Phantom. I'm glad you are running the bot. The bot is very helpful. Thank you for contributing to the World Wide Web.. namely.. WIKIPEDIA! Me ow !! 04:40, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Mistaken Identity?

I received this in error, as I've never been on that Wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:50.170.218.104&redirect=no — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.170.218.104 (talk) 20:44, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Possible removal of AWB access due to inactivity

Hello! There is currently a request for approval of a bot to manage the AutoWikiBrowser CheckPage by removing inactive users, among other tasks. You are being contacted because you may qualify as an inactive user of AWB. First, if you have any input on the proposed bot task, please feel free to comment at the BRFA. Should the bot task be approved, your access to AWB may be uncontroversially removed if you do not resume editing within a week's time. This is purely for routine maintenance of the CheckPage, and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You will be able regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:36, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Greetings!

The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

Arbcom

Magioladitis ARBCOM case has closed. The remedies of the case include:

Community encouraged to review common fixes
Community encouraged to review policy on cosmetic edits
Developers encouraged to improve AWB interface
Bot approvals group encouraged to carefully review BRFA scope
Reminders/Restrictions specific to Magioladitis

BRFAs

We currently have 27 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular:

RFC on COSMETICBOT
Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes
Requested move for the Bot Owners' Noticeboard
A phabricator ticket T162685 has been made to have a "bots" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked

New things

Several new things are around:

A BAG Guide has been created (WP:BAGG, discussion).
Users now have the option to hide AWB from their watchlists via a script (WP:HIDEAWB, discussion)
The guidance on how to deal with bot issues has been overhauled (WP:BOTISSUE, discussion)
The bot policy has been updated to clarify that bot operators are required to register accounts. (WP:BOTACCOUNT, discussion)

Wikimania

Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know!

Thank you! edited by:Headbomb 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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Since you've been inactive for a while, I've removed you from the subscription list. Feel free to re-add yourself to the newsletter if you become active again though. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:04, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Concern regarding User:PhantomTech/sandbox

Hello, PhantomTech. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that User:PhantomTech/sandbox, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 14:02, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Duplicate warnings on User talk:I eat windows

Apologies about that whole mess, I'm on mobile right now and that's the first time I've ever had someone submit a warning at the same time as me. ~XyNq^t_c 07:58, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

@XyNq No worries :) PHANTOMTECH (talk) 08:10, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Iceland national team

Hi,

Someone keeps reinserting content on the page for the Iceland national team that should be removed. More than 12 months have passed since these players were called up to the squad and that section should only list callups from the last 12 months. Please watch out for that instead. Hattuppi (talk) 05:40, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

I would also like to point you to the edit history of the page for the last 10 days, as I have made the exact same edit and left a comment about the edit. Hattuppi (talk) 05:43, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

@Hattuppi Thank you for using an edit summary in your more recent edit to the page. While some of your previous similar edits to the page have included an edit summary it doesn't look like they all have, which could confuse editors as to why you're removing the information. Please try to use accurate edit summaries with all your edits, especially ones which remove content that is not obvious vandalism. If your edits continue to be reverted, even when using edit summaries, try to reach out to the editor that reverts your edit as you did with me. If that doesn't resolve the issue, you can try other dispute resolution methods. You can also request the page be protected if it is being disruptively edited by multiple editors. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 05:51, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

W&M网络太古仙狐

狐（嚟）＿歪（邪、不正＿斜） 14.0.152.85 (talk) 13:58, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

@14.0.152.85 鄞宏 14.0.152.85 (talk) 13:59, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately I don't know Chinese and Google Translate hasn't helped me understand what you're trying to say. I've looked through your global contributions and did not see any recent contributions that might have allowed me to figure out what you're trying to contact me about. Wikipedia:Local Embassy may be helpful. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 20:24, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Charge of the Light Brigade

Hi, you left a message on my talk page about my deletion of the "New Information" section of the Charge of the Light Brigade article. Apologies if I went about this the wrong way; but I did intentionally remove it.

This issue is problematic, because I am not in a position to replace the section, if it in fact deserves to be replaced (having no current access to the appropriate sources). But the section is plain wrong, and really shouldn't be there in its current form. The information which is claimed as "new information" from 2016 has in fact been well-known since 1854. (There is a reference provided to a Sunday Telegraph article, which I can't read since it is behind a paywall. I imagine that this article has been misinterpreted somehow, but cannot tell how.)

This part article stood out to me as obviously wrong when I read the article the other day. On reading the talk page, I saw that the error had been pointed out by user Khamba Tendal in a lengthy post from 2020, which had elicited no response. I judged it best simply to remove the section, and I added a note to the talk page to say that I had done this. (I realize now that I should have written an edit summary referring to the talk page for my reasons.)

I have no stake (or particular interest) in this topic, and will leave it to your judgement whether the section should remain or not. JBritnell (talk) 18:54, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

@JBritnell Hi, thank you for this message and for your contributions to Wikipedia, I've restored your changes. Please do use an edit summary in the future, especially when making big changes or removing content that isn't obvious vandalism.

I haven't looked heavily into if the section should be in the article or not but I did see that there does appear to have been an attempt at a discussion on the talk page and that you noted your changes there. While it's possible that another editor might still disagree with the change, my original reason for reverting it was that it was an unexplained removal of apparently cited information and that's no longer an issue as you have very much explained your reason. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 20:15, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

My edits

Hi there. The reason I changed the Delaware categories from Northeast to South is because the Census Bureau classifies the state as South, Wiki follows the Census definitions, the maps in the category pages follow the Census definitions, etc. 2603:7080:9D3F:2C32:A8FF:1273:D8C2:7205 (talk) 01:37, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Can you provide a link please. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 01:39, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Sure. https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf--2603:7080:9D3F:2C32:A8FF:1273:D8C2:7205 (talk) 01:41, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, sorry I'll begin reverting my edits. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 01:43, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Just for having to deal with that one dude. FrederalBacon (talk) 05:56, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Moving user talk pages

Please the script you use to move user pages to draft space to not also move the talk page to avoid messes like what happened with User talk:E.abhir. Thanks. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 13:21, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

@Pppery I think you missed a word in your message but I'm aware of what happened and have already disabled the script until I fix the issue. Out of curiosity, how did you become aware of it? PHANTOMTECH [TALK] 19:35, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

I did indeed (I meant to say please fix your script), and the answer to how I became aware of it is that I've been running a database query to find all moves of user talk basepages to targets outside of the user talk namespace every day since around 2020. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:41, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, cool query idea. PHANTOMTECH [TALK] 20:01, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

nice guy

Zqjrushi (talk) 04:28, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

For adding the history of foundation of baidynath temple

With respect I want to say that in the page of Baidyanath temple , the history and foundation of the temple is not added. So, I want you to add the history of foundation of the temple.

Thank you 2409:4063:2297:9651:EC56:4981:968:A728 (talk) 05:01, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi, you can add the history and foundation yourself as long as you support it with reliable sources. PhantomTech[talk] 05:03, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks

...for getting to reverts so quickly. The edits you reverted should have been reverted IMHO, but I took too long thinking. Thanks again. One question: How do you catch and revert these edits so quickly? weeklyd3 (block | talk | contributions) 04:56, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

@Weeklyd3 WP:Huggle + experience. You get faster as recognizing bad edits the more practice you have at it and you get faster at performing the revert as you get used to using whatever you're using to do the reverts. PhantomTech[talk] 05:10, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Before I got rollback I used recentchanges but set to highlight probably bad faith edits. weeklyd3 (block | talk | contributions) 05:11, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

@Weeklyd3 Tools like Huggle or User:Ingenuity/AntiVandal can be much faster but can take a bit to get used to. Don't worry too much about speed, it will come as you get used to things. PhantomTech[talk] 05:19, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Ip

I didn't do anything. 42.0.6.251 (talk) 18:52, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi, IP addresses can be shared by multiple users at once and the IP address you're using can change without notice. Here are the edits made by IP 42.0.6.251, as you can see, even if you yourself didn't do anything, someone using the same IP address you used when you left me your message did. This is completely normal and not something you should usually be worried about. You can avoid getting messages not related to your activities by using an account. If you never edit Wikipedia, you can completely ignore any messages left for you when you aren't logged in. PhantomTech[talk] 23:25, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is I'm being falsely accused of disruptive editing.. Thank you.

This ANI notification is on behalf of Sjms111 (talk · contribs), who failed to warn you of this discussion as required, so I am doing so in stead. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 11:44, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Fixing an article

Dear PhantomTech can you fix one article? Ello Morro fellow Patriots (talk) 23:42, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

@Ello Morro fellow Patriots Which article? PhantomTech[talk] 23:44, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Horror film. Ello Morro fellow Patriots (talk) 23:44, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Since the history of horror films is its own article now can you erase all the contents on the horror film article's history section just so we can make room. Ello Morro fellow Patriots (talk) 23:46, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

@Ello Morro fellow Patriots I'm not familiar enough with the article to feel comfortable removing that much contentment, you can make an edit request to see if someone else is willing to remove or trim the section though. PhantomTech[talk] 23:49, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Can you do it for Wikipedia? Ello Morro fellow Patriots (talk) 23:49, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

FYI, this is a sock of LTA Jinnifer. Please do not make proxy edits on their behalf, the article is protected because of them. - MrOllie (talk) 23:50, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

July 2022

Hello, I'm Notcharizard. I wanted to let you know that one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to A Reaper at the Gates—has been undone because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thank you. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 05:44, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

@Notcharizard Are you sure you meant to revert my removal of BOOK THREE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES: ... An Entertainment Weekly Summer Reads pick and New York Times bestseller! as promotional? PhantomTech[talk] 05:50, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, must've tried to remove the promotional stuff at the same time as you and accidentally undid your undo instead! Cheers for pointing it out. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 06:11, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Yes, Eddie Griffin is an antisemite

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/06/seth-rogen-eddie-griffin-anti-semitic-rant-1234647112/ 107.131.184.107 (talk) 15:19, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

I'm not sure that one source reporting on someone's claim of an anti-semitic rant is enough to justify saying that they are in fact an antisemite in the article. Are you aware of any reliable sources confirming the incident or themselves calling him an antisemite? PhantomTech[talk] 15:25, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Seth Rogan, whom was one of the victim of his antisemitism, talks about it in a published book entitled, "Yearbook". Crown / Penguin Random House on May 11, 2021. 107.131.184.107 (talk) 15:51, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

I'm asking if:

There is a source other than Seth Rogan confirming the incident
There is any reliable source claiming that Eddie Griffin is an antisemite, instead of just that this one incident occurred

PhantomTech[talk] 15:54, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Help

Hello PhantonTech, Thank you so much for helping to clarify the problem I have with the link. The reason why I include it support her professional activities - another words the things she actually does in reel life. I am a new here I just want to help by putting the right info and help Wikipedia community. I would be grateful if you can give me some advice on what kind of links I should include. I want to follow the rules but not clear on finer points. Is there such a thing as a paid moderator out there to post things to Wikipedia for pay ? Would be a great gig. David Starbuck (talk) 22:25, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi David Starbuck, welcome to Wikipeida! You can get information about what kinds of external links are appropriate at Wikipedia's external link guideline page. The sections What to link and Links normally to be avoided may be especially helpful. It's important to remember that External links normally should not be placed in the body of an article, in those cases, a wikilink (a link to another Wikipedia article) is more appropriate. PhantomTech[talk] 22:34, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Edit filter helper granted

Forgot to leave a message when I closed the thread. Apparently there's no template for this because it hardly ever gets granted, so guess I have to come up with something to say myself. Well, first of all, congratulations. And uh... well to be honest EFH is really hard to accidentally do anything wrong with, so uh, make sure you have a secure password, and please don't go rouge. :) -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 06:47, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Welcome back

I knew I remembered you from some time ago. Good to see your name again. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:54, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you :) PhantomTech[talk] 01:55, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: User:M1507o

Hello PhantomTech. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:M1507o, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a webhost. Thank you. Ged UK 06:58, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: User:M1507o/sandbox

Hello PhantomTech. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:M1507o/sandbox, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a webhost. Thank you. Ged UK 06:58, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

@Ged UK Hi, could you give me some clarification on these? The user appears to be using the pages to track the progress of a reality TV show. This edit, for example, appears to be adding new information to the page which is presumably original research. If it is original research, it cannot be used in an article and so would fall under Extensive writings and material on topics having virtually no chance whatsoever of being directly useful to the project, its community, or an encyclopedia article. (For example, in the latter case, because it is pure original research, is in complete disregard of reliable sources, or is clearly unencyclopedic for other clear reasons.) of WP:UP#GOALS as pure original research. The other criteria of U5 is that the user have little to no edits outside of userpages, this user has none despite editing these pages almost daily for 2 weeks. PhantomTech[talk] 07:14, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

It's a sandbox. It's what it's for really. Reality TV articles are full of stuff like this. Relist them if you want. Ged UK 07:06, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

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	For helping my edit FerDeLancer (talk) 18:55, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Igloo Software (August 17)

Moved to User talk:Zaurus § Your submission at Articles for creation: Igloo Software (August 17)

– PhantomTech[talk] 07:18, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

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Can you help with declining drafts and moving those drafts?

While I was reverting the removed information about the episode lists of the English dubs of Crayon Shin-chan, I came to the realization that they're different enough of adaptions to be considered their own show, so I was wondering if you are willing to decline the drafts I made, so these can be edited until they fit those standards. I was also wondering if you can move these pages, since I don't have the rights to do so.

Thanks in advance for the help! CinnamonYT (talk) 06:09, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

@CinnamonYT Done, good luck with your drafts :) PhantomTech[talk] 07:14, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

In continuation to a comment about an edit suggestion

Hey :D I recently have made an edit suggestion to Names of large numbers that was flagged by the bot. In continuation to your comment, it seems that there is no objection raised on my suggestion as of yet.

I'd really appreciate it if you could go ahead and allow that edit. Thank you so much! ^_^ UltimateLobster (talk) 18:55, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

@UltimateLobster Done PhantomTech[talk] 20:34, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Help please

With my thanks: WP:Edit filter/False positives/Reports#DaydreamBelizer DaydreamBelizer (talk) 16:46, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Already done by The4lines. @DaydreamBelizer There's no need to leave contact someone directly after making a false positive report, it usually won't speed up the response to your report. PhantomTech[talk] 20:01, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Much obliged. DaydreamBelizer (talk) 20:46, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Incredibly impressed with your recent work at Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports. Keep up the good work! (Whoever gave you EFH deserves the real credit, of course. /j) -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she\|they\|xe) 19:04, 17 August 2022 (UTC)