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Freebirditis

Thanks for saving that little gem in bjaodn for posterity. youngamerican (talk) 04:10, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Freebird! Free-fuggin-bird! Freebirddammit! Freebird! Geogre 21:08, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:ANI

[1] Do you think a mention of the courteous e-mail you got would be of interest to ANI readers, to start the ball rolling? Up to you, of course. Don't forget my special name, if you do post! Bishonen | talk 10:51, 13 May 2006 (UTC).

Well, I didn't want to go into details there, but I should have said something right away about Lamb being Wolf. It was one of those things where I thought it was so obvious as to be blinded to the possibility that it even required discussion. It will probably get there soon, and we'll just have to casually start blocking her obvious socks. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:50, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

To help you get started

UK Ice Cream Van

I find that an image is often quite helpful in getting going on writing an article... one picture is good for 1000 words, and that's definitely moving you out of stub territory. So get writing! ++Lar: t/c 01:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Frosty Treats, Inc. v. Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.. I need say no more. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 01:35, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Interesting (and yes, clowns with high calibre weapons scare me) but not DYK nomable as it's not new. Surely you can do better? ++Lar: t/c 16:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, you misunderstood me; I was merely gathering resources for the background of the article. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:55, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Excellent (story). I'd stick with (the story about your activities relating to) the process... LMK if you want me to eat some icecream in aid of your research. ++Lar: t/c 18:30, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Lists of farms in Oppland

The vote for deletion of Lists of farms in Oppland ended in nonconcensus. As a result, I propose moving forward after considering the varous comments in the discussion. As a 'delete voter, I'd be interested in understanding what you think appropraite criteria to merit inclusion in a list might be. Thanks - Williamborg 20:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Appreciate your feedback. Some are rather substantial and are best described as estates (some are royal residences, some military headquarters) but others are just farms. Will give some thought on how to sort by importance... Thanks - Williamborg 21:08, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

are you threatening me?

are you threatening me? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alderweis (talk • contribs) .

There must be some mistake... I have been a member here for since years, and suddenly all my adjust/edits have been replaced and I am being advised/threatened with a block/ban.

What is the for of this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alderweis (talk • contribs) 16:49, May 15, 2006 (UTC)

Looks like only the edit Alderweis made at 11:47 on 12 May 2006 is nto vandalism. That one removed someone else's vandalism. Alderweis' contribs seem to indicate a fascination with birds, feet and measuring everything in years. --Habap 17:15, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes. I noticed that as well. A word beginning with 'T' and ending with 'L' is also occurring to me. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 17:32, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

English has not been my initial language, I apology for this.

--Alderweis 17:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

The only purpose was to adjust/edit spelling for the sir above. My programmed bot is taking malfunctions/deviation with words. I have been fixing/repairing it since years.

I was initially in France, but have been learned/aquired english recently.--Alderweis 17:32, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

But I have received approval/admission to work on the programmed bot. There is allowance given for it, as is listed/documented in my intimate/personal account.

--Alderweis 17:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I admit/perceive that there is many errors/wrongs with it yet. Its phase is 1.

I will provide/supply after midday.--Alderweis 17:57, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Based on the results thus far, it does not seem to be a useful bot. Why would you want to add "feet" wherever you find "birds" and change all duration estimates to "since years". It would seem inappropriate for someone who has a limited grasp of English grammar to write a bot to correct others' English grammar. --Habap 18:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Don't be ridiculous, I was since years gearing up to write my own feet/bird-bot when Alderwies beat me to it. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 18:32, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

At your Expense

It looks like we have a group of people vandalizing Wikipedia to get some laughs at your expense: [2]

68.90.159.56 18:50, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

There was limited/restrained purpose for this programmable bot. I was amidst research for university/college, and to restrain amounts of data for reporting/collecting.

A bad result has been the adjust/edits of pages. I can/not find the origional/unqiue permission for the programme/software bot. It was allowable through my intimate/personal account, which is not evidenced.

The bot is disassociated with our account/user. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.190.14.120 (talk • contribs) 18:58, May 15, 2006 (UTC)

I was very amused. --Habap 19:15, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

It looks like they made the thread private, but I will email screenshots if requested. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.90.159.56 (talk • contribs) .

Well, I got a look at the first page of it before they made it private. Thanks for letting me know! —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 19:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem. Happy banning!

I got all the ones that had been on the second page. Pathetic of them, if you ask me. Perhaps not even worth the trouble to ban. --Habap 19:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I actually was amused, but I'm perverse. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 19:31, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

No great diatribe on the evils of editing poasts for fun and profit at the expense of others? Come now... why register an account unless you intend to use it.--65.190.14.120 19:36, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

and 2ndly, it IS amusing :) And you shan't stop us! Maby for a day or two... but you will NEVER stop the spread of what we have started calling "Feet/birds disease".

--65.190.14.120 19:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

The NSA likely can provide you not only with the screenshots, but also with the bank statements, medical records, and phone logs for each of the users; perhaps you can intimate that they're connected to al-Qaeda, and then they can all edit from Gitmo. Btw, when you say that I shouldn't read the cheese fly article, I find myself compelled to read. You were, however, correct--I shouldn't have read it. I hold you responsible for the mental trauma. Joe 19:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I hope you didn't skip casu marzu either; that's the real treasure. Thanks for the revert on this page. Anybody looking in, please feel free to revert 65.190.14.120 or similar. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 19:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

[3] DGX 23:27, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Jack the Ripper etc.

I won't mess around with pages anymore, I promise... It was mostly to amuse my friend, because her city is basically doomed by a really bad flooding and so on (Dover, New Hampshire, incidentally). So I won't do it anymore, sorry. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Theclassical (talk • contribs) 00:20, May 16, 2006 (UTC)

Ah yes, I've heard nothing gives comfort to flood victims like Jack the Ripper killing Elvis. Thanks! —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 01:43, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!!

Thanks for your appreciation of my user name! You're the first. Aside from our respective childhood Encyclopedia Brown obsessions, we also share the same alma mater! Cornell EE (class of 2000) -- Go Big Red!

Wikipedia brown 02:16, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting vandalism of my user page. The more one fights vandalism, the more one's userpage gets vandalize. Comes with the territory, I guess... ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 23:35, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Hurricane Irene reply

Re: this edit - please see my comment to Eloquence. Raul654 05:52, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I am considering stating this explicitely at the top of the FAC. Raul654 05:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thank You!

Thanks Bunchofgrapes,

I am honored by your support in my recent successful request for adminship. As an administrator, I am your servant, ready to help however I can. (In your case, since you've had the tools longer than I, my best use might be menial labor!) My talk page is always open; should you need anything, or should you see me making a mistake -- probably a common occurrence -- please do let me know. I will depend on the good sense of the community to keep me from making a complete fool of myself! :) In gratitude, Xoloz 15:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello thar!

Porphyric Hemophiliac § has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

My innate inclinations regarding this sort of chain letter are waging a furious internal battle with WP:CIVIL right about now. Everybody needs to stop it with these things, right now. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 18:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Inane was what I thought you said at first. Just a freudian slip I guess. No one has yet to/(dared to?) leave me one! I prefer to get my WikiLove other ways I guess. (time to head over to Bishi's page maybe, there's a lot of good humour to be had there!) Oh and did you hear the one about the guy who woke up in a bathtub full of ice with his kidneys missing? ++Lar: t/c 19:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I did, a few years back, when a coworker believed it and decided to forward the warning to the entire company. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 19:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Exactly the reference I meant. Speaking of references, what do you think of this image: [4] ...is it me or is that an attack image not necessarily given out in good humour? The placement of the "barnstar" seems rather um, inauspicious! ++Lar: t/c 04:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

It appears to be a mild attack image, yes. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 15:08, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

When I've seen those, I've been reminded of Dorothy Parker's famous review, in The Constant Reader column of The New Yorker magazine, of A. A. Milne's The House on Pooh Corner: "Constant Weeder fwowed up." Geogre 21:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Modulatum

You have previously blocked, and unblocked (Read here - 12th May), this user for the use of, and promise to cease using, a banned Bot. May I draw your attention to this conversation on this talk page:- [5]. It seems to indicate he still uses the Bot. Reading through his talk page, where he seems to constantly promise various users he wont do things, which he then goes and does. Looking through his contributions does show he is a bit of a renegade. Perhaps a long term 'irreversible' block may curb his misplaced talents?, or at least give a breather to other users, as his promises to cease his vandalistic activities do not live up to their expectations. 82.30.73.87 07:23, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

No, he's not still using the bot. Whatever problems he is currenlt having with User:Urthogie do not merit a block. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 15:05, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Mints

You're right: the mint was not a prison. The Clink was a prison. I have had the most bizarre trouble with The Mint. And, of course, Bobblewikibot just went through to unlink every flippin' date in every article I wrote, despite the fact that I've taken to linking them very carefully and I don't give a rotten fig for the MOS. <sigh> Automated "help" is no help at all. Geogre 21:10, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

/me runs away from an argument about Bobblewiki or date linking! —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 21:17, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

On the other topic, I guess the Mint could be sort of like a prison -- if you were hiding out there to escape the duns, in some weak sense the district was then a de facto prison for you. Yeah. OK. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 22:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll edit war the MOS. I'm not date linking just because they're dates. I'm date linking significant years in the careers/developments of the topics. As for The Mint, it was never a prison in any sense. You could leave if you wanted...you just might get arrested...and you could leave on Sunday anyhow. No debts could be served on Sunday, so you were free to leave then, and you'd go abegging about then. Remember the Charlotte Charke went abegging after an arrest and got released based on a collection taken up by the prostitutes and pub proprieters of Covent Garden. (I think there's a tale there, but I haven't read her Memoir.) Geogre 00:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

True. As a good Patrick O'Brian reader, I'm forced to say you are wasting your time with The Mint and should spend all your efforts on the dunning-free Liberties of the Savoy instead. (The Bunch of Grapes, of course, being the Inn that was Stephen Maturin's home within that district.) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 01:02, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:11, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Stop it

(Original message, quickly removed from User talk:Eternal Equinox:)

I've just had a close look at your last 250 edits, EE. It's interesting. Of the 250, every single edit was on a topic relating to pop music or videogames, except for these:

• Three edits on 19 May to Anastasia (1997 film)
• One edit to Paris, Ontario
• One edit to Milk
• Five edits to Butter and three to Black pepper on 16 May. There are both featured articles mostly written by myself.
• Two image-fiddling edits to S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 today and one to Talk:S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. This article is mostly written by Bishonen.

This is a hair's-breadth from stalking. If you want to develop broader editing interests, I recommend it, but find some way of doing it other than hounding articles that you know Bishonen or Bunchofgrapes follow closely. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 18:41, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I am beginning to become very ill-hearted toward you. I am absolutely not stalking you, I have simply been editing these articles because I was over-looking Wikipedia:Featured articles (with the exception of Bishonen's article, whose I am editing since it was at FAC a little while back and I found all of the support votes from her friends interesting — it turns out it is well-written, but I was still suspicious). In addition, yes, I have edited very many popular culture articles, but I don't understand what you mean by "video games" articles at all. Looking at my last 250 edits, "video games" can certainly qualify as part of the list you provided me as I do not edit them on a daily basis. I question your motive.

On a different note, I would consider checking each of my contributions to be slightly more stalker behaviour than what I have done thus far. Why am I so interesting to you? Because I have connections to Courtni? What if someone else was doing this, would you care? I highly doubt it — but then, you never know. Yes, I started editing Gwen Stefani articles! Oh my. The return of Mariah or whomever her other pseudonym was. Seriously, I would prefer to edit in utter-most tranquility and peace: I am allowed to edit whatever articles I choose, correct? No, I am not stalking you. I certainly would like to develop a further interest in topics (which is why I edited Anastasia (1997 film), it would make for a nice FA), but please don't accuse me of such intentions. What happened to the fluffy and welcoming outside Wikipedia provided? I decided to register an account because it seemed this way... please don't tell me that this is the depth of the project, which I would cite as threatening. Stop posting on my talk page unless it is necessary, of course. —Eternal Equinox | talk 19:26, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

"I have simply been editing these articles because I was over-looking Wikipedia:Featured articles". Really? Let's see, there are 984 featured articles right now. I have written four of them. Assuming you picked two FAs at random to edit that day, there is an approximately a one-in-60,000 chance you would pick two of mine. Do you really want to stick by your story that it is a coincidence, or do you want to admit the obvious, say you won't do it again, and move on? —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 20:06, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

No, no. I chose one of yours by chance. I knew of the other one because I had come across it a month or two ago and noticed that you had edited it. Butter I had just happened to pick at random. Sorry, but I certainly didn't select two of yours purposely, because, honestly, I have better things to do than worry about you. —Eternal Equinox | talk 20:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

So one of them (black pepper) you decided to edit because you knew I had... and the other (butter), where you had a little edit-war with me, that was a complete one-in-250 coincidence? —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 20:26, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Start believing the possible. And it is possible. You very well know that. —Eternal Equinox | talk 20:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Black pepper you may remember from here. —Eternal Equinox | talk 20:30, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. Great example. "Removed unusual extra word" -- how again is "bags" an unusual word? —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 20:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I simply don't like the word "bags". Yes, it was a POV edit. —Eternal Equinox | talk 20:35, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Well to your happiness, goodbye. —Eternal Equinox | talk 21:00, 21 May 2006 (UTC)