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Bot flag

Please flag my bot, User:Danumber1bot so people can recognize his edits as a bot. A user brought up to me that his watchlist was being saturated by bot edits not being marked as such. Thanks. --Imdanumber1 (talk • contribs) 14:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Could you please point me at the approval for the bot; I can't seem to find one in the archives of WP:BRFA. Essjay (Talk) 01:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Sure, see Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval/Danumber1bot 2. --Imdanumber1 (talk • contribs) 01:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much, and your bot flag has been set! Essjay (Talk) 03:44, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Question on archiving bot

The bot has been archiving but it also leaves everything on the talk page. Is that the way it is supposed to be? Then I delete the page? I'm not quite getting how this works. Thanks! Sincerely, Mattisse 15:35, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Could you point me to some examples? Looking at the history of your talk page, I see the bot removing posts as it archives them... Essjay (Talk) 01:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Using the archive pl help

Pl setup the the archive with age of a week on my talk page.User talk:Yousaf465

Please fill out the template as shown on User:EssjayBot III; I need more information than just the timeframe. Essjay (Talk) 01:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Essjaybot II archiving question

We're trying to find the best archiving solution for the Waldorf education talk page. We're currently on archive page 4, and sorely need help with the large amount of data. Right now we're using werdnabot, but I'm not sure if that's best since it's not meant for talk pages.

We probably would need automated archiving of any section with the last comment aged over 30 days. The page is pretty active, so I think we'd be OK with timed archiving.

Thanks for your assistance! Henitsirk 19:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

EssjayBot IV can handle article talk pages, and works on a timeframe like this; it also automatically updates the archive number when the archive reaches an established limit, for example, 100KB. If there is a consensus to have the bot, I can set it up; I'll need to know the age of posts to be archived (i.e., 30 days), the archiving scheme used (/Archive/1, /Archive1, /archive1, etc.), and the KB limit at which a new archive should be created. Once that has been decided, I'll set it on the page for you. It runs twice a day at 3:42 UTC and 15:42 UTC. Essjay (Talk) 01:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Award

For being cool at all times, I hereby award Essjay with the “Cool Award.”  Meteoroid ←  03:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Awwww, thank you very much! Essjay (Talk) 03:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Techincal question

Following this one, is there a way the underlying address(es) can be blocked? If you need the CU info to do this, could you oblige (maybe 6 months if you are unwilling to indef an IP)? Thanks. yandman 11:15, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll have to look and see who else may be affected; if I remember right, it was a fairly large range, so it may not be possible to block him without blocking a bunch of other users. Essjay (Talk) 12:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism by my account

Hi I noticed I got a message saying my account Vandalised some articles.

I will not delete the message. So would you be able to find out what vandalism was done by my account.

I'm 100% sure it was my brother.

If you are able, can you please tell me what he did when he edited. Thanks.

I'm really sorry about him. He's an idiot. I just found out what he did and have warned him. Thank You. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chiloe (talk • contribs) 16:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

Arbcom

Well apparently you finally got landed with the one job you've managed to dodge so far. Congratulations and commiserations in equal measure! I'm sure you will be a fine arbitrator. the wub "?!" 23:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Essjay, do you have to be everything? Share a little! :) Congrats, though this will be quite a workload to add to you. Don't take so many jobs you can't do them all. That said, I am sure you will do an excellent job. Prodego 23:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

ethics again (sorry, but i don't think this is resolved yet...)

hi essjay - i'm writing to you again, partly because i don't think this issue is resolved, and partly because i see that you're going to become a member of the arbitration committee, so these issues become all the more important.

You claimed academic credentials you didn't have on your user page for ages, and you allowed these qualifications to be reported in the New Yorker. Your justification for this was to distract various stalkers from harming you in real life. I popped up and expressed my concerns, and you re-iterated your position, adding that 'you shall not be moved'.

First let me reassure you that I don't want to move you at all! - You contribute a huge amount, and have become a high-profile high-powered wikipedian. This is a good thing. I think my concerns are important too - because i think it's close to the point where your behaviour is seen to represent wikipedia as a whole. What i'm after is a quiet chat here about what's happened and where mistakes have been made, really to re-assure me that we're singing from the same hymn sheet in terms of ethics and the importance of honesty in the encyclopedia.

Your misinformation was biased heavily in padding up your reputation, and would be considered academic dishonesty in most circles - it would be good for you to recognise this. It was very serious of you to allow the New Yorker to re-print this.

Have you worked for a Fortune company, and been a paralegal for 5 years? - If not, just remove this now, and say that it was all part of the misinformation thing that went a bit wrong.

You're a good guy - lets sort this out. - Purples 23:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)