User talk:Evilkolbot

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For previous discussions with me, see User talk:Evilkolbot/archive1.

Evilkolbot I apologize for breaking standards. I must confess that i did not completely read all the rules and that in itself is a bad thing. I figured that since it was a discussion page and not the main article that it did not matter and thinking back on that it was stupid action. I was not intentionally trying to be rude or difficult. I am unsure if it is ok to post this here also. Please delete this if so. I have started appreciating the Haiku format the more i read the page and probably should have just posted that comment then trying to remove my previous. I will strive to be much more compliant in the future if i make any posts. Also if possible could you point me to the appropriate standards page. I see the one for the main article editing but want to make sure i understand all the rules. Again sorry Rovorcen 13:11, 9 September 2008 (CDT)

• that's ok, as the comment said it's a heads up, not a reprimand. as far as i know most things here are done by consensus and precedent, so i'm not sure i could point you to the rules. hang about, listen to what's said and try to fit in. --Evilkolbot 14:08, 9 September 2008 (CDT)

Thanks for the warning, I was not aware that I was breaking the rules, Thanks for the advice too. --Drok 4:50 PM 9th, September 2008 (MST)

Re: Talk:Drunkenness - the unsigned comment you've tagged as mine was from User:Xmakina, not me (diff). I've not been around the wiki as an editor for very long so I figured it's better to mention it to you rather than potentially incur bad karma by fixing it myself (not sure of the etiquette, given that it's on a talk page but not an actual comment). Cheers. --GalenKemensen 12:54, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

• gah, sorry. should be more careful. i'll fix it. --Evilkolbot 16:57, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Recent Changes cleanup

Just thought I'd mention a slightly easier method of cleaning up user page edit spam from the Recent Changes list - rather than delete the page and then re-create it with the text of the last edit, just delete it and then undelete it with however many revisions you prefer. It's much simpler to just restore the latest revision (since you don't have to check all of those checkboxes), but even if you restore every single revision, it won't list any of them in the Recent Changes list; as an added bonus, your name won't be added to the page's revision history (for users who might be sensitive about that sort of thing). --Quietust (t|c) 23:33, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

• thanks for the heads up. --Evilkolbot 07:03, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Stench

I think we're going to need to contact the Coldfront admins to get this one fixed - I've tried undeleting the article (not the first time I've seen this happen - the last time was by my own hands, so you're definitely not alone), but every time MySQL returns error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (mysql.coldfront.net)". I've never seen any other site do this (at all, let alone how frequently Coldfront does it), and undeleting an article with 144 revisions should not be that big of an operation. --Quietust (t|c) 21:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

• Ah, I see you've managed to get it undeleted - still, Coldfront really needs to do something about these database performance problems (first they were causing bulk updates to kill the site, which was "solved" by making the queue only process one single page per 100 pageloads, resulting in a big template edit taking days to propagate). --Quietust (t|c) 21:45, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Archiving

What do you mean by "That's not how it's done" when you talk about archiving? I used the archives of Discussion as an example, since I couldn't find an established standard or policy or anything for archiving. If that's not "How it's done" then how is it done? The whole point of an archive is to maintain the old talk page information while keeping the main talk page readable. --Lordebon 22:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

• i was wrong. sorry again. --Evilkolbot 22:54, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

The Fresh-faced Young people in the Neighborhood

I was very much aware of that reference. I just couldn't bear the pain of typing out something involving them. Thanks for doing that for me. But what's with the "Pop culture references are hard" line in the actual page, though? --Flargen 19:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

• because the reference seems to imply that whoever wrote it thought that "the right stuff" was a new kids album. --Evilkolbot 19:13, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Personal page

Please note that the edits I have been making have been safely ensconced on my personal page. There is no way anyone could find them other than by linking either a) directly to them or b) clicking a link that exists only one place: my personal page. They therefor do not interfere with the operation of the wiki, and are created for a contest currently being run by Senams Provocable Nice Guys.--Icelight 20:19, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

• you're mistaken. they exist in the main space and are therefore everybody's business. see your talk for some ideas on how you can go about what you want to do. --Evilkolbot 20:22, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: PythagoraSwitch

Hi - it's a bit pedantic to point this out, but in fact the Wikipedia article isn't internally consistent because "Pitagora Suitchi" also appears a little further down the page. Suitchi / Suicchi are more accurate romanisations; it's possible to sit down and laboriously match each syllable to its "letter" even if you don't read Japanese. But, on reflection, I realise the transliteration was pretty pointless anyway, so I won't try to add it back. Sorry for any confusion about the discrepancy. ~ Redwinger (talk) 17:36, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

• the beauty of wikis is that if you spot something sub-optimal you can change it. its tragedy is that there are not enough people with exactly the right flavours of ocd to tidy up effectively. maybe some other time. --Evilkolbot 19:54, 29 April 2009 (UTC)