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The Link off the Danny Kaye page for "The Kid from Brooklyn" redirects to an irrelevant page. There is a phrase referring to 'The kid from brooklyn' but it has nothing to do with the movie of that title. Your bot corrected my deletion, and that was an error.

Look up

AntiVandalBotwatchers replied on every mail after mine; please, see top of this page under 'Rumold' (best read till the end of that chapter before undertaking anything). -- SomeHuman 2006-06-19 01:09 (UTC)

Look up again

'Rumold'... SomeHuman 2006-06-21 04:37 (UTC)

Edits outside of namespace

Just a suggestion, but whenever AVB or TB2 revert changes to a category, they leave a heading formatted like this

"==Your edits to [[Category:namehere]]==",

which of course adds that user to

[[Category:namehere]],

rather than warning them off, that should probably be altered so it adds the : in front of 'category'--64.12.116.6 18:22, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Saint Rumold of Malines

After Tawker's first reaction where he seems to have misunderstood what was required, my further explaining and reminder (chapter 'Look up again') are still left unanswered. In short now: I risked to make 'Rumold' a redirect page myself (hoping AVB doesn't again intervene) and created the four other firstname redirection pages. So everything should be finished for Saint Rumbold and all its aliases.
BUT there is also still an article 'Saint Rumold of Malines' though the saint was never known that way: There is only one (non-wiki-)'Saint Rumold of Malines' on the web, with a link under 'Saint Rumold', the 'of Malines' is even in that single article not part of the name. Thus, please DELETE the 'Saint Rumold of Malines' page that is just taking up space and comprises a depricated name of the city of which Saint Rum(b)old is the patron saint. I do not know whether the 'proposed for deletion' tag would be opportune in a redirect page, that's why I ask Tawker's assistance. -- SomeHuman 2006-06-25 03:39 (UTC)

GUNDAGI PAGE

There is a link on the Gundagai page to a commercial venture near the bottom of the page then reference 2. Does wiki have commercial ventures signposted with links to them? Is the Gundagai page being vandalised? There is angst in this town (Gundagai) re the stuff I have put up re an Aboriginal massacre so not suprised if some here try and delete any talk re it as its a very sensitive topic around the area. Can someone check that commercial link at reference 2 on the bottom of the Gundagai page. I'm new here and dont know how to do stuff yet. Cheers.

Edit containing the word "bullshit"

The bot stopped me from making an edit containing the word "bullshit" in the context of a reference to the TV-show "Bullshit!".

pearl jam

this bot keeps fucking up the pearl jam page. Sort it out.

All Headline News

I keep posting accurate information about All Headline News and the bot keeps editing it out as "vadalism." The latest changes to the article are accurate. If you'd like to see the grammatical errors for yourself visit: www.allheadlinenews.com/briefs.

There you will find the errors as well as the unattributed articles. If you have time, simply revert to any major news outlet like AP, Reuters or the BBC and you will find these same stories on their sites. AHN plagiarizes. I am a writer for a major news organization and I would just like the public and AHN clients to know the shoddy product found at www.allheadlinenews.com/briefs. My language on this message may seem bias but the article I posted is accurate. Thank you

oooooOooOOoooOoOooh

please don't add nonsense to this encylopedia, it's a perfectly nice online reasource and you're ruining it with your vandalism

incorrect deletion by bot

Hi. Your bot incorrectly targetted an edit I did two days ago. My changes to Francisco Torres were not vandalism. They mostly involved fixing a very obvious stylistic problem (a sentence that stopped abruptly with no ending) and provided more detail.

Yours,

Ed Johnson

Naomi Robson

I simply edited 'fuck' in instead of leaving it censored since most pages do not censor the word and for the sake of consistancy.

Incorrect Change by AntiVandalBot

Hi,

I made a change to the List of NUS (Australia) Office Bearer Pages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Office_Bearers_of_the_National_Union_of_Students_of_Australia

I changed the faction that Belinda Cooper, Queer Officer (WA 2005) belonged to from "unaligned" to GenderFuck Group.

I imagine the problem is the partword "fuck". However not only is this a legitamate group, but it is certainly NOT degrogatary in anyway.

GenderFuck is the particular practise of Drag (a form of cross-dressing) that tries to break down culturally normalised stereotypes in a upfront manner. The people that engage in this form of drag are proud and this change simply reflects Belinda's political alliances within the NUS structure. Although the genderfuck group was only ever small, it was something that she helped setup and actively worked on during her term.

Of course I understand the problem with the word "fuck" but in this context it is exactly the title that the group is called and their isnt an alternative name... if this change isnt possible then the next best thing is to leave it as unaligned.

Cheers

Fern

Rodne Galicha deletion

hi.. i mistakenly posted an article that is supposed to posted just within my user page not discolosed to the main. kindly delete the article. thanks. i do apologize...

Redirect to Operation actus-Lilly

Hi ya mate,you're bot wouldn't let me edit a page titled [[Helibridge over Meghna]], which was a legit edit, involving a redirection to the page [[Operation Cactus-Lilly]].

You fat ass

Peach DOES wear a thong in Mario Power Tennis. It's not my fault you don't know

Warnings on Userpages

Why does AntiVandalBot add 2 line returns before the first edit to a userpage? Is it so it doesn't have to check to see if it is the first edit to the page or not to allow for proper spacing after a previous edit? Anyways, not a big deal, just curious. Also, AntiVandalBot does one good job on reverting vandalism. :-) Thanks! --Porqin 21:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk page message

If this is a good example, The message that shows up on the user's Talk page is far too gentle for the vandalism that is being reverted. We should not weasel-word the warning.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood today but I think that vandalism should be confronted directly. I know you have to worry about the problem of unintended consequences but the "humble creator's apologies" is too much. It weakens the rebuke - and a rebuke really is appropriate in most of the cases I've seen. Rossami (talk) 21:46, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dark Side of the Moon

This bot keeps reverting a change regarding the voices at the beginning of Pink Floyd's famous Dark Side of the Moon album that is not vandalism. "I've been mad for fucking years" really is the first line (and quite famously so), and while the line that was quoted before does also appear in the same opening speech, it's not nearly as well-known. "I've been mad for fucking years" should stay. PurplePlatypus 22:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The bot's edit summary when reporting at WP:AIV

Hi, can you change the bot so it'll link to Special:Contributions/... instead of User:..., so I'll get by with one less click next time. Thanks. (There's no real hurry, I'm just lazy.) - Bobet 21:08, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Two problems

Not vandalism Not only was diff my edit not vandalism, but it added my user talk page to the category Kurdish film directors. I don't know if you can fix it so that the "Category" namespace is written [[:Category:]], but that would be great. Thanks. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 23:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit conflicts

The bot seems to ignore edit conflicts: example. Owen× ☎ 00:34, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

edit to Lance Dowds

The edit of the Lance Dowds article ("Pickle Boy" to "Pickle Fucker") is a legitimate edit, as that is the character's nickname as used in the movie.

I have to agree with the above anonymous user. "Pickle Fucker" is the character's name. Sixtus LXVI 05:33, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tried to remove Opentask template from my page

Sorry, not intent to vandalize template. Just tried to remove it from my discussion page!--Fahrenheit451 02:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Parsis

This idiot bot has thrice restored a list that was mistakenly added to a category! Don't do that! --William Allen Simpson 13:43, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've blocked it for the time being. Feel free to unblock when the problem is worked out. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 14:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's another reason why this bot shouldn't be in "angry" mode all the time, especially when the other bots are reverting only once. --Ixfd64 18:04, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blame someone who set it on angry.... it's not designed to start that way. I've reset on calm and unblocked -- Tawker 07:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zar'it-Ayta ash-Shab incident

Dear AntiVandalBot,

Your automated thing refuses to let me fix a faulty move and re-move done by two inexperienced editors who are fighting each other. Instead of using the move tab, they have been copying and pasting and using redirect on both the article and the talk page, ending up with a situation where the edit log is almost impossible to find. So, I tried fixing this by doing their thing in revert and then do a proper move back to the article's established name. However, as soon as I empty the page Zar'it-Ayta ash-Shab incident, which I must do in order to be able to move the identical content from Ayta ash-Shab/Zar'it incident (which is the wrong name), the automated bot instantly reverts it, making it impossible for me to finish what I'm doing. It apparently reacts within seconds, thus making these clean-ups impossible. So, 1) Could you please sort out the mess on those two pages, as you probably can stop your diligent but stupid robot while you're doing it, and 2) perhaps you should look into the possibility of introducing at least 10-15 seconds delay into an otherwise good bot.

So, to help you along, what needs to be achieved is a restore whereby article, talk page and edit log all reside under the name Zar'it-Ayta ash-Shab incident, i.e. to the situation that existed before User:Yousaf465 did his first move, while Ayta ash-Shab/Zar'it incident only has a redirect to it. Thanks Thomas Blomberg 14:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Partially solved. See WP:SPLICE. Good night... Fuzzy 05:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of female porn stars

Hi - this wasn't vandalism; it was just me not getting things quite right and having to make too many edits in a row, I think.

What I was attempting to do (and finally accomplished) was to add the "don't wikilink" comment to each section of the list, as people tend to edit only the section they're updating. Folks were continuing to wikilink names that don't have articles; since I spent a fair amount of time deleting all that wikilinking (but not the names themselves), I'd like to try to keep more from being created. I realize that it's probably a losing battle; but someone might get the message somewhere along the line.

I don't know what triggered the bot. If it wasn't the multiple edits, it may have been that I originally tried to use [[ WIKILINK ]] as part of the comment to illustrate what wikilinking was (there may be those unfamiliar with the term).

Thanks for your diligence. Have good days.—Chidom ^talk 15:46, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

use of ***

As unhabitant of a country were words such as fuck or cunt are used casually in all media at all times, this practice of eg. writing f*** looks extremely childish, reactionary and hypocritical, to name a few. I am sad to see Wikipedia fall into it.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.120.151.79 (talk • contribs)

Just so you know, you're talking to an automated bot, essentially similar to anti vandal script, only this bot ~~blindly~~intelligently reverts all recent changes that flag from the 'bad words' list--64.12.116.6 21:51, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]