User talk:MediaWiki default

Welcome

Hello there MediaWiki default, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style. Experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. If you ever think a page or image should be deleted, please list it at the votes for deletion page. There is also a votes for undeletion page if you want to retrieve something that you think should not have been deleted. Κσυπ Cyp 18:51, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Gee, thanks for the welcome, Cyp. But I'm really only interested in creating about 500 short pages on each wiki, perhaps with the occasional reversion. I don't think I'll have much need for VFD. -- MediaWiki default (User:Tim Starling)

You should be aware that you should not be protecting pages that you have edited. Also, you have been creating many pages without bolding the titles. You may want to review our policies in more detail. :) Pakaran 23:09, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Why do you show up when I tell wikipedia to only show anonymous users? Perl 03:41, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Because my user ID is zero. In many places in MediaWiki, it is assumed that a user ID of zero means anonymous. However, it is convenient for automated scripts such as myself and my good friend Conversion script to use a user ID of zero, that way we don't have to set up entries in the user table. -- MediaWiki default (User:Tim Starling) 14:27, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)

o_o;; --- RockMFR 23:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ACK IT'S TIM STARLING AS AN IMPOSTER OF THE SCRIPT 66.224.229.18 16:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you edit a bunch of random pages outside of the MediaWiki namespace, back in July? Ashibaka (tock) 19:15, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I understand, it was an error in the bot. – rotemliss – Talk 07:50, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See this old thread entitled "Mystery history" and T4559. Graham87 05:59, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also see my response in the recent technical village pump thread about this issue. Graham87 18:22, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		Thanks for your work in setting defaults for pages in the MediaWiki namespace. You are truly the unsung hero of Wikimedian software. I'll see if I can nominate you for adminship after you start editing more frequently. Gracenotes^T § 07:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's pointless, as this contributor is already, by default, an administrator (not at the moment, though) - it's an alternate account of User:Tim Starling, as seen above. :) Valtoras (talk) 07:30, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 04:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks MediaWiki default, for being the best bot possible. You bring defaults to MediaWiki. --Onekopaka 00:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of List of magical items in Jackie Chan Adventures

List of magical items in Jackie Chan Adventures, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that List of magical items in Jackie Chan Adventures satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of magical items in Jackie Chan Adventures and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of List of magical items in Jackie Chan Adventures during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Man It's So Loud In Here 22:08, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Tooltip-article

Template:Tooltip-article has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Rocket000 (talk) 12:08, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was deleted as a mistake by the bot Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_November_18#Template:Tooltip-article 132.205.44.5 (talk) 02:32, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Top tier (fighting games)

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Top tier (fighting games), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

A neologism, with little coverage outside a couple of fourms, urban dictionary. No RS, certainly.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 18:41, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How are the edit buttons generated?

Hi MediaWiki default! I think understand what you are (some sort of Agent Smith superbot?)... But anyway, you deleted MediaWiki:Bold tip, MediaWiki:Italic tip, etc. about two years ago. You stated that these messages are "No longer required" – out of interest, can I ask what replaced them? I was thinking that a few of the buttons could do with a tweak (altering the caption "embedded file" into something a bit more intuative like "insert photograph or diagram"), but I have no idea how the text or the image file is summoned. Could you point me in the right direction? -- Anxietycello (talk) 01:53, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, they were deleted because the current versions matched the software's (MediaWiki's) default. They can still be changed (by an admin clicking Edit then making the needed changes) if there is consensus to do so. Superm401 - Talk 18:22, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello MediaWiki default! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 28 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Harriet Sansom Harris - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Johnny Kim - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 21:39, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Johnny Kim

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Johnny Kim. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johnny Kim. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:11, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage

MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Kaldari (talk) 23:40, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called MediaWiki default. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name MediaWiki default~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

01:44, 20 March 2015 (UTC)