User talk:Mets501/Archive 22#Er..

Hi Mets,

your bot tagged :Image:Electric cattle prod.jpg as reviewed, but the image doesn't meet the 6th criterium in the bot's documentation; I only tagged it with {{NowCommons}} 11 hours before. This is not a problem with me, but maybe you should review the criteria?

Regards, Phaunt (talk) 11:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

:Hi, and thanks for your concern. The time requirements are frequently ignored by admins, and are generally considered to be unnecessary in most cases. As such, I do not have the bot deal with the requirements for time, leaving it up to the administrator whether or not to delete the image early (the bot, after all, can't delete anything). —METS501 (talk) 19:09, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

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It has come to my attention,Mr "Mets",that I have transcluded a userbox onto my userpage and the below message has appeared:

"This is the alternate account of Mets501....."

I need your assistance again.Thank you.Paul 1953 13:01, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Paul_1953&diff=175623749&oldid=175473753 Fixed]. —METS501 (talk) 01:52, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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Suggestion: Add category and/or template "PD-author" on commons to the "good" list. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Your bot had messed up the Infobox for Ikot Ekpene. I have removed the mess-up, but I may also have damaged the data - I hope not. Maproom (talk) 00:30, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

:Sorry about that. None of the day was lost. —METS501 (talk) 01:41, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Would it not be more correct to have three right angle indicators instead of only two?

:Image:Not_a_square.GIF‎ :Image:Square.GIF

:Can you explain what you mean? Any quadrilateral with 2 right angles is a rectangle (maybe also a square), and if it has 2 right angles it has 3. —METS501 (talk) 02:45, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Could you restore Allsup's, with its edit history, to my userspace? The company is notable, and a legit article can be salvaged from the deleted version, I'm certain. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 02:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

:Sure, no problem. It's at User:SMcCandlish/Allsup's. —METS501 (talk) 03:05, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

::Thanks. It's worse than I thought, but at least a legitimate stub can come of it, I think. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:55, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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Hello, on :Image:Minato-machi River Place.jpg I don't understand why your bot wrote "not a bit-by-bit copy", because I think it is. Arthena^(talk) 22:58, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

:Hmmm...neither do I. Must be a fluke thing. —METS501 (talk) 23:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Take a look...

I've fixed it. Turns out its VERY simple

Lol

Stupid MS

—Reedy Boy 19:44, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

:Wow, that's a pretty lame thing to cause such big problems! lol —METS501 (talk) 02:05, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

::Heh. Max thought so too, said something about a microsoft and a unfinshed OS.. Oh well! —Reedy Boy 16:19, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

OMG METS501 IM YOUR BIGGIST FAN!

--PwnersRule (talk) 19:09, 18 December 2007 (UTC)PwnersRule

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|style = background:Blue;border: 1px solid #CC9999;

|textstyle = color:white;

|text = Just a happy Birthday message to you, Mets501, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

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• FROM YOUR FRIEND:

--  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 00:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

--  Idontknow610  (WANNA SIGN??)

Can I have permission to use some of your userboxes on my profile? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bllasae (talk • contribs) 18:08, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

:Definitely! No need to ask permission. —METS501 (talk) 03:05, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

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I have created few userboxes on your UBX space. I felt that you want other people to create userboxes here so that userboxes can be found in a single place. In fact, I appreciate this your initiative. But, unfortunately, few people are trying to mark my activity as vandalism and it became a debatable issue once again. Could you please come and express your view regarding this issue? It would be a great help for me. Here goes the link Debate . Cheers - Niaz^{(Talk • Contribs)} 19:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

:Thanks very much for your support. One quick question, did you mean by the second last line to delete the userboxe I created? (I'd ask Od Mishehu to delete the ones he has already deleted.). Cheers. -- Niaz^{(Talk • Contribs)} 15:56, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

::Oh, sorry about that! That was a typo. I meant undelete. I've fixed it. —METS501 (talk) 16:46, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

:::Thanks once again. Cheers. -- Niaz^{(Talk • Contribs)} 23:56, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

When I proposed that we create an article on Wikipedia vandalism I noticed that you seemed interested and thought that one was merited. I've started a stub at User:Urban Rose/Wikipedia vandalism and if you're interested feel free to help expand it.--Urban Rose 22:34, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I am puzzled by the notices placed on this image page. Do they mean there are some specific doubts about copyright matters? If so, what is the nature of those doubts? Michael Hardy (talk) 01:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

At [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canyon_Lake%2C_California&diff=148590438&oldid=148544908], you update IB lake in addition to the city one. -- User:Docu

:Image:22e169.png is idd not a bit-by-bit copy of Image:Mars Viking 22e169.png, however, the lather one is an improved version. (And I put both online). What should I do with the message you put on the image site? Thanks! Van der Hoorn (talk) 12:43, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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In [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:JayCEastonSaxFamily.jpg&diff=next&oldid=183079679 this edit], the bot posted the en wikipedia log on en wikipedia. This looks like a bug. Superm401 - Talk 16:36, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

:Never mind. I see it's just copying the Commons page. Superm401 - Talk 16:47, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Dear MetsBot:

When I started to upload this image to commons, the software told me that an image with the same name already existed there and the thumbnail view it presented was the same image. I did not investigate further and should have.

Since then, I have uploaded the higher resolution image to commons, updated the information template to reflect the information that can be found here and now I am here, leaving a message about all of this along with an apology.

I should have looked more closely at the images and I appreciate a good bot who can and does do this. -- carol 13:33, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

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Hi. I tagged this image as available on Commons, but your bot complained about the uploader (in this cause also author) not getting credit. So I have adjusted the page on Commons, it should be okay now. But I have an additional question: this file has some historic versions which we are asked to preserve on Commons by uploading them all in the right order, but that didn't happen here. Is that necessary (one historic version seems to be a mistake, another is a version with slightly different colours), and is it possible to correct this now? Greetings, StevenDH (talk) 11:54, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I intentionally renamed the 7,5 x 55 Swiss4.jpg image-file to Image:7.5 x 55 Swiss.jpg in Wikimedia Commons and removed the link to 7,5 x 55 Swiss4.jpg from the 7.5x55mm Schmidt Rubin article. You can remove the 7,5 x 55 Swiss4.jpg image-file now. Francis Flinch (talk) 09:05, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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I have noticed that you have created and edited Automate The Schools. I am very curious about this topic, and have been doing research on it for quite a while. I would appreciate it if you would have a discussion with me about it. HockeyInJune@gmail.com --HockeyInJune (talk) 02:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

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This image is also on the commons, [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:2008primarycounties.png|here]. I've been making the same updates to each, as have other users. How should I go about getting the wikipedia one deleted, in light of this duplication? Coemgenus 19:11, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

:Sorry I'm a bit late with the response. It looks like it's been deleted already, so I assume everything's good now. —METS501 (talk) 16:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

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Hi Mets501 :) I just noted that MetsBot was unsure about the licensing of :Image:Horace_Silver_by_Dmitri_Savitski_1989.jpg on commons, can you tell me why? I moved it using CommonsHelper, so that might be an interesting issue to look at (since the text was automatic and the same situation might therefore repeat itself)... Cheers, Waldir ^talk 20:00, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. I ran across {{tlx|Db-botnomain}} while clearing out :Category:Speedy deletion templates and wondered if you were still using it. I wouldn't want to take the rug from under you if you or your bot are still making use of this or related pages, but if you aren't planning on using it again I will send it to MfD or CSD#G6/G7 it, as it's a bit annoying (it doesn't fit into any of my nice tidy CAT:SDT sorting categories :D). Happy‑melon 21:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I had a question. Scepia seems to have disappeared or gone on a long wikibreak. No edits since October 4. I was wondering if it would be appropriate to draft some kind of notice for the top of his discussion page. I know that I, for one, didn't know about Userbox migration, and thought that he was just some kind of userbox master who created all those userboxen. and there are a number of other people who obviously thought the same, and have been asking about them on his discussion page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Scepia#User:Scepia.2FSimCity] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Scepia#Zelda_userbox] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Scepia#Xbox_Live_userbox]. anyways, getting to the point, perhaps drafting some kind of notice explaining that he may or may not be the creator of said userboxes, to check the history of the userbox to locate the original creator, and that he hasn't been active since October so don't expect a response. if this is totally off-base and inappropriate, I understand. xenocidic (talk) 01:42, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

:I put something at User talk:Scepia#ATTENTION: Scepia is inactive.21 but preferably I'd like to move it to the top of the talk page, unless you think that would be inappropriate. xenocidic (talk) 18:31, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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Is it still running the commons checker function? Mønobi 01:11, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

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Please read and, if possible, discuss :). Thanks, Martinp23 18:34, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

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I see that you moved this Userbox template to user space (if I have correctly understood the explanation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UM|userbox migration] referenced in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Template%3AUser+GIMP deletion log]). Is there any way to discover exactly where it was moved to, so that I may use it on my user page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by OldManLink (talk • contribs) 18:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

:User:UBX/GIMP. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 18:40, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

::Thanks for a speedy reply --OldManLink (talk) 19:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Lol

You alright?

—Reedy Boy 20:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

:I'm glad to see an edit, too. You have an e-mail from me from about two months ago, if it's still there. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

::Hi guys!! I'm most certainly alive :-) I've had an extraordinarily busy few months, so I've been taking some time off. I'll probably be back on a bit, but on and off. We'll see what happens. —METS501 (talk) 23:53, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

:::Welcome back! Your opinion on User talk:Mets501#Scepia would be greatly appreciated. xenocidic (talk) 00:42, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Template:Character requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:40, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

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Dunno if you noticed, but that darn Px bug seems to have affected your cquote thingy. I went and tried to fix the code myself but ended up breaking a bunch of stuff, so I posted your page to the Wikipedia:ClickFix/Broken page so that it could get fixed. I hope you don't mind, it just looks so wrong otherwise. Casull 06:28, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello Mets501. Say, what's up with MetsBot? The bot's work on images moved to Commons is sorely missed (as you can see by the unusually large backlogs on the two relevant categories). Hope you'll consider returning it to active duty. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson (talk) 02:58, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

:Yeah, it was broken and I never really had the time or energy to fix it. But now it's back online :-) —METS501 (talk) 17:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

::That's great news. Actually, though I know deleting bots are not exactly popular, I'd be interested in arguing that MetsBot (or some specific bot working in tandem with MetsBot) should be deleting those which are clear-cut cases. I used to do a lot of this cleanup and step 1 was always to just identify the ones MetsBot said were ok and open lots of tabs to delete them. It's such a stupid waste of time. Pascal.Tesson (talk) 17:57, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

:::Yeah, it's about time you got your butt bot back online. Newyorkbrad (talk) 18:44, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

::::Haha. Yeah, it's really stupid. MetsBot virtually never makes mistakes, but (as far as I remember) there's still a group of people who are freaked out at the idea having more privileges than them. —METS501 (talk) 18:55, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

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Would it be possible for MetsBot to "fail" an image review if either {{tl|KeepLocal}} or {{tl|NoCommons}} have been placed on the en Wikipedia image description page? Kelly ^hi! 22:23, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I suppose you commonly get people asking about images they have created or uploaded. I am just stating that i did make the transfer (do i have to be an admin to do this as i am not). For the licenses i was trying to make them the same or similar. Also, i changed the file name during the transfer to Commons to be more in line with the other image as i am going to have a small series of maps (next up, Hull Trains). Finally i think both images should be kept as i made numerous revsions to this image but not all of these revisions were transferred to Commons, just the current version (as of April 2008). Simply south (talk) 12:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

And i suppose i could have come up with better names but never mind, i'll stick with these. Simply south (talk)

Never mind on this. Per advice i asked for on this on the Help Desk, i removed NewCommons and MetsBot's message and left a separate message in the Summary section. Simply south (talk) 20:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)