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I am a legitamte new user and i would just like to point out that some very bad people are using wikipedia to push an anti-american sedisous POV and they should be blocked before homeland security is forced to stop wikipedia's sedition and evality--Bob the nob wence fan 22:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Your signature is a bit annoying. If you could make the color a bit less bright and maybe unbold it, it would be great. Meybe something like Cyde⇔Weys (when you sign it, the Weys won't be bold)... SoaP 01:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
And look, I just made it even shorter ... Cyde Weys 02:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hi, wanted to let you know that I strongly oppose your renaming of the RfD process. Listing my reasons here would be redundant, as I have already posted them on the RfD talk page. In short I think this is a major, possibly harmful change that at least needs real discussion. Thanks. --Nscheffey(T/C) 10:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I have been engaged in debating this on the project talk page. I'm really concerned about your overly confrontational and dismissive tone, though. --Cyde Weys 03:27, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hey, I don't know where to put this and for some reason it says I'm banned so I can't change it. On Roosevelt Brown's bio it says he played "right tackle" which is a myth. I contacted the Pro Football Hall of Fame's website (where this information likely came from) and they said I was right and they changed it on their website. So please, if I cannot post can you or someone else change the "right tackle" to "left tackle" before this NFL myth grows any more? Thank you.
Someone is deleting a page that you'd endorsed, in February, '006.
Thank You.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pneumonic_devices&oldid=70185500 >;
< http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pneumonic_devices&action=history >;
Hopiakuta 08:06, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
now, it's nearly gone.
Someone else had created it.
Thank You.
Hopiakuta 15:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hi Cyde! I wonder if you'd mind taking another look at the indef block of PhoenixPinion? The user, and the one s/he attacked, both say it was a pre-arranged (if not very funny) joke. Even if you don't want to unblock, giving a decline reason would help keep the unblock cat clear! Thanks. ➨ ЯEDVERS 10:12, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I asked you yesterday, but the message appears to have been buried in this page. I've found all of Cydebot's approvals from WP:BRFA. You have two approved actions:
When you requested approval to substitute userboxes (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approvals/Archive2#Userboxbot), your proposal was rejected by the community. I have been unable to find any further approvals on WP:BRFA (other than Antivandalbot). Per WP:BRFA#Organization, you must "list requests for approval for new tasks for your existing bot ". Are there further approvals that I am missing?
Yesterday, a member of WP:NYCS spent several hours reverting your bot's unauthorized actions. Whether or not requesting on WP:BRFA is purely buerocracy, it still seems necessary to request approval beyond some userpage and usertalk edits. It would also seem imperitive to discuss large changes like this before putting them into effect. I'd appreciate your comment on this situation. alphaChimp laudare 11:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Ah, so you're saying that technically I don't have approval to run a vandalbot or handle CFD, huh? I guess the technically part is wrong then. --Cyde Weys 13:12, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
CSS works weird sometimes and Show Preview doesn't work in some cases. That said, delete the page. I don't want it. Will (Take me down to the Paradise City) 13:34, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
In case you were unaware of policy on the matter, "insertion of POV" is not a reason for removing information. See The ArbCom's past decisions page.
If you feel any one of my edits to Choice and sexual orientation changed the article from (A) being neutral (which is what we all want), into (B) being biased, unbalanced or otherwise failing to conform to NPOV policy -- then please explain why. --Uncle Ed 14:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I was actually working on explaining on the talk page when you reverted me. Also, you munged up the grammar in one of the sentences. --Cyde Weys 14:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hopiakuta 15:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I don't particularly care one way or the other ... "pnemonic devices" is potentially a confusing homonym. --Cyde Weys 15:38, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Who's a Peach, Cyde?
A category in the Wikipedian radioheads nomination seem to have vanished in the Cydebot transfer, category:User NPR. That is, there's no sign of the category it was supposed to become either. Am I jumping the gun, or is there a problem?--Mike Selinker 22:54, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
A discussion about a block of yours is ongoing here. I'd appreciate your input. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 23:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I noticed you removed the Gentoo logo from that template, since it's a fair use image. However, the talk page for the template reveals that the license the Gentoo logo is released under allows for the use of the logo in the template. –NeoChaosX (talk | contribs) 00:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that you made a typo in your edit to Template:User GUS UBX to. You put in "after the userbox has bene moved into userspace." "Bene" should, of course, be "been." Thanks. —Mira 01:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hey Cyde,
You indef blocked User:Carmen Chamelion, accoding to the block log, due to confirmed RFCU evidence. Could you give me the link to the appropriate RFCU case page? Thanks, Deathphoenix ʕ 02:49, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
It wasn't done on RFCU. --Cyde Weys 03:08, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Found this on the new users' log, thought you might like it: User:C Y D E W A N K E R ! ! ! ! My my, we are popular, aren't we? :p — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 03:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I assume it's not supposed to say "JEWS DID WTC." Newyorkbrad 15:53, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for you message, i'm not quite sure what you mean about the fair use policy with the image, would you be able to explain please as the some of the Oxford colleges use thier own college crest on userboxes? Thanks very muchAlexD 20:17, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Can you give me some examples of these userboxes with those images in then? --Cyde Weys 20:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your explanation --Hattusili 20:23, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Wikipedia:Userboxes/University_of_Oxford_college_templates and Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education/United_Kingdom use the crests of colleges and universities. AlexD 20:50, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
The majority of those templates do not have images (most likely for licensing reasons). The ones that do have freely usable images that are hosted on Wikimedia Commons. --Cyde Weys 20:55, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for explaining that to me.=) AlexD 10:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
you deleted Notability. I think I edited this page in August. By which policy did you delete the stub/article? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Notability Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
It wasn't a stub/article, it was nothing more than a cross-namespace redirect, which we don't allow per WP:ASR. --Cyde Weys 23:27, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
As I said, I think I edited this and at this time it was not a simple redirect. Can I turn any page in a cross name space redirect and then ask for deletion? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Notability has been nominated for deletion here. Please vote. -- ADNghiem501 02:04, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
May I ask that you review the WP:MoS guidelines on date formats and then undo all your reverts of my careful work? The longer this goes uncorrected, the more edits will be made by subsequent editors and the difficulty of the task will increase beyond trivial reversion. I must also ask that you discuss matters before wasting your time and mine in edit warring. Often other editors will be able to furnish you with guidance, if asked. --Jumbo 23:16, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
No no no, it's the other way around. You stop making those edits that go against the MOS or you will be blocked. I was merely reverting your bad edits. --Cyde Weys 23:27, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
The guideline also says to not change the formatting of stuff that's already written (the same goes for US/UK spelling). Don't make edits that solely change US/UK formats. --Cyde Weys 00:28, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
22:35, 3 May 2006 Cyde (Talk | contribs) blocked "Morton devonshire (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (AfD vote-stacking, don't do it again)[2]
Please see: Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets/Morton_devonshire#.5B.5BUser:Morton_devonshire.5D.5D
Signed: Travb (talk) 00:55, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Just FYI, it appears the block was later lifted due to a misrepresentation? I don't know the details:
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log"--Tbeatty 04:37, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
A misrepresentation? Yeah fucking right. Here are a few diffs demonstrating his egregious vote-stacking. I could show you more, but I ran out of words to pipe through in that last sentence. --Cyde Weys 04:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hi, I'm posting here just because you're an admin I've seen around a lot. I'm pretty new on wikipedia and wanted some advice on the best way to handle a content dispute.
There is an edit war on the Persecution of Falun Gong page. history. Everyone seems to be trying to stick to less than 3 edits a day. But all that's really happening with the article is that they revert each other's edits, but this seems to have been going on for weeks. Entrenched positions and no discussion to attempt to reach a consensus.
It seems pretty venomous and part of an ongoing multi-article dispute on all things Falun Gong. There's a request for mediation template on the page that's 10 days old, but there doesn't seem to be any movement on the request page. So I would try spreading my wings a bit and asking all parties to calm down. But my instinct is that this might do more harm than good. (By the way, I'm not involved. Haven't edited the article and don't particularly want to. I was just looking for some good info after reading an article about the organ harvesting claims.)
Should I just follow standard dispute resolution with this? Leave it alone? Something more creative? Any advice appreciated --SiobhanHansa 01:00, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Well I guess that works! I thought I had to go through some big process to ask one of you to do that. Thanks. --SiobhanHansa 03:32, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Could you tell me please what is rapresenting the photo on your user page. Cannot click on it and it looks very interesting...cheers--TheFEARgod 14:54, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
See Falkirk Wheel. --Cyde Weys 16:20, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
 | This user participatesin WikiProject Animal rights. |
Cyde, can you help me with a userbox query? I've created the one above for WikiProject Animal Rights. My understanding is that this counts as encyclopedic, and therefore is allowed in template space, is that right? I'd like to know so that I can tell the others how it should be written. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 18:08, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
The best location for WikiProject-related userboxes is not out there in the wild of template space but in projectspace; this is instance, Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal Rights/Userbox. --Cyde Weys 18:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
You can transclude every page on Wikipedia, so everything is a "template" in that regard. Whether it's actually located in Template: space or elsewhere doesn't matter. So, rather than using {{User WikiProject Animal Rights}} on your userpage you'd just use {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal Rights/Userbox}}. --Cyde Weys 20:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hello I am a new user to Wikipedia. I like to edit articles about BELGIUM. Do you have any tips that will make my life easier on wikipedia???????????? EdYlC 18:29, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hello there,
A fellow user has notified me of the disappearance of some Ukrainian club templates, [3]. Since you were the one to delete them, I was wondering of your reasoning behind it, since the templates were actually warmly welcomed by all fellow users who make changes to Ukrainian football related articles. Do you have an issue with us replacing them? --Palffy 23:23, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
First of all, some of those templates were being used to gratuitously insert non-free logos wherever a team was mentioned. This is a violation of our fair use policy. Beyond that, there's no need to have a template to just insert a link to a team's name ... just use the Wikilink with the team's name. Templates should only be used when necessary (lik, say, infoboxes). When you're just displaying a normal Wikilink, just display the normal Wikilink. No need for templates. --Cyde Weys 23:27, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hello,
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Tony Sidaway 00:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
So you think Jimbo sucks? Wow, I can't wait to tell him that. User:High Templar
Hi Cyde. You said here that "Some more natural method might be preferred, but given two options ... " Given that I also don't like the parentheses, I'm very curious what other "more natural method" you might have in mind. I think a lot of people involved in that discussion might be interested to have a third option. Powers T 12:37, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Something more natural along the lines of "State Route 15 in Washington" or "State Route 15, Washington" (assuming the highways in Washington are called "State Routes", I don't particularly know, you'd have to ask a roadie). --Cyde Weys 13:21, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
So in other words, if you don't like it or agree with it it should be removed? I won't reinstate the "No GFDL" one but I believe that there should be a template for users who do use Fair Use.--CyberGhostface 13:54, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Please see WP:GUS. The main issue is that they shouldn't be created as templates. --Cyde Weys 14:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Please see the question on my talk page. --wayland 15:28, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Aiman abmajid (talk · contribs · count) has requested to be unblocked. While he has certainly cause quite a bit of disruption, it seems more due to lack of knoweldge of Wikipedia policy rather than purposeful vandalism. Perhaps a shorter block, and an intro on the related policies would be more appropriate? Wanted to see what you thought first, since you were the blocking admin. -- Natalya 15:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Sure, go for it. He seems salvageable. He just needed to realize that there were consequences for just ignoring and blanking all warnings without actually dealing with them. --Cyde Weys 15:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Cyde: This is not a substantive point, just a minor suggestion regarding some wording. The opening of your RfAr posted today reads: "MyWikiBiz is admittedly writing articles on a for-pay basis. This was noticed and he was briefly blocked and then unblocked by Jimbo after he promised that he wasn't going to do anything bad. Well, it appears that he has. Here we see him voting delete in an AFD, saying the subject of the article should have employed him if they wanted an article that should be kept...." In a couple of spots, on first reading, the word "he" is ambiguous - you obviously mean to refer to MyWikiBiz, but at first blush "he" could refer to Jimbo. You might want to slightly edit the RfAr to replace a couple of "he"s with the name. Just a thought, for what it's worth, if anything. Newyorkbrad 16:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I don't really think it's ambiguous; everytime I am using "he" I am referring to the same person, and none of the things I talk about "him" doing could possibly apply to Jimbo. --Cyde Weys 16:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Okay, not a big deal. Newyorkbrad 16:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
An editor has asked for a deletion reviewofBushtarion. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. --Azzer007 17:51, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Unneccessary wikidrama is a big time-waster and has never improved an article. Help do your part to prevent it by not going out of your way to irritate other editors. Thanks! Friday (talk) 18:57, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Agreed, but some things are so hysterical I find them hard to resist. If you look at my block log you may see a few other examples :-P Cyde Weys 18:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Cyde - when you couldn't get wikivoter to work, the problem was that you didn't add yourself to the wikivoter category. As shown in this diff [5], you had the wikivoter category commented out. The program checks the category itself for the user names of those who try to use it, and by commenting out the category when you first put it on your user page, you weren't added to the category at all. I'd encourage you to add yourself to the category properly, and try using wikivoter again. This comment is also at Eagle's RfA - I'm posting it here so you see it quickly and can hopefully test WV for yourself. Martinp23 19:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Actually I originally got that error message, and by adding myself to the category (even though it was commented out) I got past that stumbling block and then started tripping up on JavaScript errors. I had previously gotten the "not in the category" error but had succesfully resolved that, and am now getting errors that seem to be entirely separate. --Cyde Weys 19:09, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hmmm... that seems strange, although there could be a js conflict, as you suggest. Did you get any specific error numbers, and do you know what version of WV you were using? Thanks Martinp23 19:51, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Cyde, somehow, perhaps with the use of magic, I managed to get Wikivoter to work with the JS adjustments in User:Cyde/monobook.js. This can be seen in the following two screenshots:
(click them for an enlargement).
Also, you may want to check the page history of my monobook.js, to prove to you that I'm not lying :). As you can see, there is full functionality in the second screenshot with all of your JS additions shown in the toolbox. On the screenshot on the left, you can see that we are referring to my monobook, which is also the page open on the right, just scrolled down. I also include the time on both (with two three clocks no less!)- the difference being caused by something IRL. Anyway, do you think you could try commenting out the category in your user page, then WV will probably work - after all, it is not a crystal ball for seeing what people want to hide in their userpages! With the category commented out, you are not included in the category itself (take a look), so the progrm won't let you use it. Please let us help you by trying to remove the comment tags around the category, and perhaps post some screenshots of any problems you may have (which Eagle 101 has kndly licensed to be available to all for free :) ) Thanks Martinp23 22:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hello, Cyde -
Cydebot broke my userpage while changing a category in a userbox. I have a 'nurse' userbox, because I'm an RN, and I substed that userbox so I could change the wording from 'nurse' to 'registered nurse'. Cydebot changed the category associated with that box, Category:Nurse Wikipedians, to Category:Wikipedian nurses. That was fine - but in the process, it took the categories out of every substed userbox on my page and moved each one outside the "</div>" tags of their userbox, which had the effect of breaking all the HTML. It put the entire contents of my userpage inside the userboxbox and moved all categories to the bottom.
Since pictures are worth a thousand words, here's the diff between what Cydebot did and what it should have done. For simplicity, I reverted back to the last version before Cydebot's activity, then I changed the category manually.
It's not a problem for me 'cause I can read the code, but users who aren't versed in HTML or wikispeak might think the bot is malicious or defective. I know it's not malicious, but I'll leave it to your good judgment to determine if Cydebot is defective. I'm not upset or anything, so it's not necessary to reply - this is just for your information. Thanks - Baseball,Baby! balls•strikes 20:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hi Cyde, did you see this question? Where do you think this whole issue should go from here? David D. (Talk) 21:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Illegal in the sense that his video display technology is being used for copyright infringement, not illegal in the sense of, say, murdering a busload of babies. --Cyde Weys 21:52, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
For WP:SNOW and the WP:FUCKPROCESS, I think of the novel WP:SNOWCRASH.
PS: What do you think of my user page's boxes? Anomo 23:17, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Excuse me? This is way out of line. --badlydrawnjeff talk 23:20, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply