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Regarding slakr: Why did my page get deleted? Please see Misplaced Pages:Why was my page deleted? first. I have no idea what you're talking about. What's vandalism? If you received a warning from me and you're not logged in, you might have gotten an old warning I sent to someone who shares your IP address. On the other hand, if you've made recent edits and received a recent warning message from me and you genuinely believe that it's not vandalism, don't fret-- simply drop me a message below, because I could have simply made a silly mistake. :) Regarding SineBot: Why does SineBot keep signing stuff I've already signed? All comments should have a signature that includes both a link to your user page (slakr) and a datestamp (05:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)) (per signatures - internal links). This is most easily generated by placing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your contributions, which makes something like "slakr 05:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)". If you have an interwiki-linked user page, consider either creating a user page on enwiki that redirects to your preferred home wiki or simply opting out of automatic signing. If you're still having problems after trying that, post a message below. Be sure to include diffs to make sure I can reference the problem. I don't want my comments signed by SineBot. How do I get it to ignore me or my talk page? Please use one of the opt-out methods listed on its user page. SineBot forgot to sign something it should have signed. Usually this happens because the bot isn't sure if it really should sign something, so it defaults to not signing it (e.g., in cases of complex edits). It does this to avoid being annoying. Other times, a comment might be made when the bot is down for maintenance, so the bot simply never sees it. SineBot signed something that it genuinely should not have signed. Please let me know-- especially if you think it's not a one-time thing. Be sure to include diffs to make sure I can reference the problem. Is SineBot's source code available? Not currently. I'm signing with four tildes (~~~~) but it's still saying I didn't! You likely enabled raw signatures. Open your preferences, click the "User profile" tab, make sure that "Treat the above as wiki markup" is NOT checked, and click Save; it should be fixed. If you have an interwiki-linked user page, consider either creating a user page on enwiki that redirects to your preferred home wiki or simply opting out of automatic signing.

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Huge Letters

I don't know if the recent change to signing in very large letters on the Ref Desks is deliberate or not. Personally, I find the text extremely distracting when it is this large. Can we go back to text the same size as the rest of the desk? Thanks for your help. ៛ Bielle (talk) 01:30, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Not sure what you're talking about. There was a change to {{Unsigned}} recently, but I think it was reverted back to small font use. If you get a chance, can you provide a diff example of the problem? Thank ya =) --slakr 19:04, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

As of today, the large letters are still showing for me (IE browser). Here's a link: Thanks ៛ Bielle (talk) 01:07, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

The big letters are still appearing. They seem to come from this template, if you look about 80% down the page to a group of — Preceding unsigned comment added by ] (] • ]) s all in large type. The Ref. Desk (Humanities) is littered with them and Sinebot seems to be using them. ៛ Bielle (talk) 22:52, 25 September 2008 (UTC) And I just noticed the same large text at the bottom of this page. ៛ Bielle (talk) 22:54, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Bielle: what do you mean by "large type"? Can you post a screenshot somewhere? What browser are you using, and have you made any changes to the default font sizes? — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:36, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Your Bot Signing Signed Posts

Why is your bot signing my posts? I sign them with four tildes, but it signs them again anyway.--Tree 'uns 5 (talk) 06:06, 25 September 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tree 'uns 5 (talk • contribs)

The same thing happened to me just a minute ago. Is it a bug or something? Rigamarole's Needle (talk) 22:50, 25 September 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rigamarole's Needle (talk • contribs)

It looks like it's the apostrophe in your names. Using four tildes inserts a ' rather than a '. SineBot doesn't see your name because it doesn't understand ampersand codes and thinks you didn't sign. --Mosquitopsu (talk) 23:11, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

The apostrophe screw-up was due to my screw-up in accounting for the silly bookmark thing in the regex to make the bookmark thing work. Instead I'm thinking I just need to do processing of the regex match instead, since I can't think of an easy way to make it foolproof on the regex. Anyway, the apostrophe problem should be fine once again. Cheers. --slakr 15:35, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Same issue a day later with Category_talk:Attapu_Province where I signed normally with --~~~~ just on a new line. Is it a bug or is it a feature?!? --katpatuka (talk) 15:27, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

My bad. I screwed up a rollback in the revisions. Should be fixed now, but now I have to figure out how to make sure that in-page bookmarks get fixed again. :P --slakr 15:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Not working correctly and I don't have an apostrophe: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon&diff=241134766&oldid=241134549 --JonnyJD (talk) 15:42, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

That was before I fixed it. If you see anything after 15:37:47, 26Sep08, then lemme know. --slakr 15:46, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

nsigned template

Your revert here, besides changing the font size, also removed the css class from the template. Also, since you only edited one template out of the 10 or so unsignedX templates, that one is now out of sync with the others. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:05, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Not sure why it was changed in the first place. For one, there is no "autosigned" class. Second, small is XHTML-1.0 compliant. Third, it predates (html 3.2) the span tag (html 4) and is thus more likely to be universally understood by browsers of all shapes and forms. Finally, it's smaller, more user-friendly in its meaning, less obtrusive, and I never had to deal with a complaint in the last few years over bugs in it rendering due to CSS issues in modern browsers. Why, exactly, do you believe it urgently needs to be changed? Please help me to understand.--slakr 15:57, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Also, please let this user know as well, because I have no idea what to tell them. :P --slakr 15:59, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

It was changed to add the css class; I don't know what you mean when you say there is no such class, as any user can use the class in their own CSS file. I was originally going to add it to Common.css, but people prevailed on me that it's better to put the style in the template itself, and also include the CSS class so that users can override the size. It's been discussed at length. When you reverted it, you put it out of sync with all the other unsigned templates; reverting all of them would have kept them consistent. Just reverting without adding to the conversation doesn't help resolve the overall issue. — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:26, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Any html element can take a class parameter, including small. Example: <small class="autosigned">this is more predictable than <span style="font-size:smaller;" class="autosigned">this. Again, if it's not broke, why fix it— especially if it reportedly gets broken in the process of fixing it, and it never really gets fixed? --slakr 16:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

There were people complaining about it being broken when it was small - hence the desire to add a CSS class to give them a chance to override the font size. I agree that we could change to <small class="autosigned"> and I would be perfectly fine with that - but that isn't what your revert accomplished.... — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:48, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Auto-sig inappropriately added

See diffs. El T (talk) 15:41, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Problem was fixed @ 15:37:47, 26Sep08. --slakr 15:47, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for restoring my talk page

I appreciate it! Billollib (talk) 00:58, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Problem with bot

There seems to be a problem with the bot as on the Special Action Force's talk page. I had removed its comments that personally attack the article, but keeps coming back. Ominae (talk) 05:24, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Double check the page history. After you removed the comment, the user re-added it (again unsigned), so the bot signed again. --slakr 05:37, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Please semiprotect blocked user talk page

User talk:202.156.8.9 is now being cyclically blanked by the user (blocked by you); would you please also semiprotect the talk page? Thanks! Todd Vierling (talk) 16:25, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

I happened to see this request. I semi-protected the user talk, timing it to the end of the current block (if I did the arithmetic correctly). The user's recent behavior might justify a longer block. I'll leave that to slakr to decide. EdJohnston (talk) 18:47, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Yay, thanks a million. I was totally away when this was posted. For future reference, Todd, it might be faster to stick a request on requests for page protection, as more admins are likely to monitor that page than this one. Thanks for keeping a look out, and cheers. =) --slakr 04:07, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Sinebot

Hello again. I told you about an autosign problem with sinebot due to my new customed signature. You said, and I thought, that it had been fixed. But sinebot seems to be up to his old tricks again. I signed a talk post and it came through and autosigned it.  Declan Davis   (talk)  17:26, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Basically what happened is when I fixed your problem originally, I screwed up my regex such that it prematurely stopped at the "#" in escaped characters (like the quotation mark), thereby fixing the problem for you, but breaking for anyone who had a signature with escaped characters in it, including the people a few threads up that had quotations in their names. Anyway, I quickly realized my mistake and reverted the change, then re-fixed your problem a little while later. The bot's signing on the talk page happened about 2 hours before I had re-fixed the problem, and since it doesn't appear to be signing your posts any more, it should be finally fixed for good :P --slakr 04:03, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Good work!  Declan Davis   (talk)  12:13, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

SineBot bug, please fix

I signed a message here with the date and time but SineBot said it was unsigned (2nd comment). In the page history it shows I signed. Neptune5000 02:36, 30 September 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neptune5000 (talk • contribs)

You forgot to include links to your userpage and talk page in your raw signature; that's why it autosigned you (above included). Make sure there's a ] and ] in your sig, but you can customize the appearance of those as you wish. Todd Vierling (talk) 03:09, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

OK. I now have a link to my userpage and user talk page. Neptune5000 (talk) 03:18, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeppers, t'was likely the problem. =) --slakr 04:08, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

About that vandaliser

Argh I didn't notice because he kept blanking his discussion page. I just started reporting vandalisers so I'm new to his.--Megaman en m (talk) 13:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

MY GLASSES ARE TOO BIG TO FIT ON MY FACE - UAA

Could you look over the request I made at UAA? Thanks. — Ceranthor 14:19, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

MY GLASSES ARE TOO BIG TO FIT ON MY FACE

THAT IS WHY I CANNOT SEE MY GLASSES ARE TO BIG TOO FIT ON MY FACE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.36.211 (talk) 14:52, 5 October 2008 (UTC)