User talk:Kingpin13

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SmackBot talk page stop

That is a good point, but I think it's useful to allow people to stop the bot, it makes it less threatening as well as being a practical help occasionally - even though some still get past all the warnings and stop it in order to say "thanks". I did (reluctantly) semi-protect the page, and nuisance stops were reduced dramatically. One un-necessary (but accidental or good faith) stop every few days I can live with. Rich Farmbrough, 11:01, 6 October 2010 (UTC).

Yes just for my personal stuff. I would need to sort out tool-server if there was significant demand, and Femto is supposed to be tiny. I use SB to edit its own talk precisely so I don't stop myself again, and its sig is set to mine (more or less) - as you say technically I shouldn't, but I doubt any one minds. Rich Farmbrough, 11:27, 6 October 2010 (UTC).

Heh. I use IE for SB, Safari for the others and Firefox for me. Except IE doesn't run on my "main" PC any more. Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 11:45, 6 October 2010 (UTC).

Thank you

Thank you so much mjbmr ^Talk 11:52, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

wikialerter approval request

hi, i've been doing a fair amount of new page patrolling lately and happened across your tool. i believe i have sufficient experience with CSDs (although i am still admittedly learning about their application), but i will be careful with that feature for the time being. my primary interest in wikialerter is for the tagging and stub sorting functionality, i would really appreciate a tool to speed up the addition of stub tags and the process of new page patrolling in general. currently i find i often must go manually look up stub categories if i cannot find them using hotcat. also the maintenance template functionality may be superior to twinkle. let me know, cheers WookieInHeat (talk) 22:11, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Sure, I've added you to the approved list. Please let me know if you run into any problems, or have any questions. Cheers, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 22:30, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

thanks WookieInHeat (talk) 22:35, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

initial impressions: well this tool is definetly more robust than hotcat in the stub tagging functionality. hotcat can find a stub category for you (sometimes, and only if you know what the first word of the stub category you're looking for is going to be) but cannot add the actual template to the page, this must be done manually. wikialerter OTOH shows far more results than hotcat just merely by typing in a keyword and is able to add the template automatically (a major bonus). one minor imporvement to this feature could be the ability to add more than one stub tag, but that is not a big deal as you can just add your first stub template and reload the page to add a second stub template. one thing i did notice about wikialerter is that it takes considerably longer to load pages than say firefox or chrome, and the page is completely frozen until it has loaded in its entirety; again, not a huge deal. my final comment, and the one i would rate as most important, is about the programs ability to open web pages in an external browser. currently you must right click a link to the page you want to open, open its properties window and manually copy and paste the address to your web browser. would it be possible to add a button that simply opens the current page in a new tab in your default browser? this would be convenient as i often not only tag pages but also afterwards go in and wikify, cleanup, correct formatting, etc. and prefer to do this in firefox; mostly because of the previously mentioned delay in loading pages in wikialerter, but also because i have further plugins in firefox (such as WOT) that help in identifying reliable sources and other such tasks. just my two cents, don't feel obligated to do any of this stuff. like i said, i am already quite pleased with wikialerters functionality compared to other scripts. thanks for, and congrats on, creating a rather useful tool. WookieInHeat (talk) 00:45, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey Wookie, thanks for the feedback :). I've been planing to do some tinkering with the program for a while, since there's a couple of other issues which need fixes. I'll take a look at adding your suggestions when I get to it. The open in default external browser should be simple, the hardest part will be figuring out where to put the button/designing it ;). The multiple stub tags is a bit more difficult, I was thinking maybe some character (e.g. "|") used between separate tags in the textbox. But then getting the auto-complete to still work would be a pain. So I'll have a look at sorting something out for that. As to the speed, I use the built in browser (with .NET) so it's difficult for me to fix that. Of course, the program is just a load of stuff thrown together in my spare time. If I ever get around to it I might try making it more efficient (which would probably involve re-writing it pretty much from scratch, so would take a lot of time and effort - not likely to happen any time soon! ;D). Thanks again :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 05:24, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

no problem. don't worry about the multiple stub tags if it is a pain, it's not worth your time since there is an easy workaround. and the browsing lag too, not really an issue; just used to being spoiled with quad core-broadband speeds. the external browser button would be much appreciated though. cheers WookieInHeat (talk) 23:15, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey, new update at sourceforge. I've added the external browser button (although to access it you need to use the drop down (overflow) list on the far right of the toolbar. This allows you to enter a url and open it in the external browser without actually browsing to it in WikiAlerter, and also of course, allows you to go to the current page, by just not changing the text in the urlbox. I've also added a way to add multiple stub-tags at a time. Although it's slightly clumsy. Best, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 13:34, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

excellent, thanks a lot. just downloaded and updated, new functions work like a charm. i'll keep you updated with any issues. cheers WookieInHeat (talk) 22:09, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Fab :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 22:28, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For taking the time to tag several hundred categories I was too lazy to do, I would like to award Kingpin13 the Tireless Contributor Barnstar! Thank you for taking care of the task, much appreciated. — ξxplicit 08:14, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey, no problem :). Thanks - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 08:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Adam Laskowski

okay this is ridiculous the page i made was an actual person. He is real and suicidal and you calling him unimportant isn't helping things. If Simon Cowell is important enough to have a wikipedia page i don't see why any other normal human being isnt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Huffnat (talk • contribs) 15:11, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Kingpin!

Thanks for your kind thoughts, and I do appreciate the warning. However, you're probably not familiar with my history with kingping. He has been quite the nuisance, and given his non constructive approach to my previous communication I've felt that I need to strengthen my language. Do you think I've gone too far?

Thanks ever so much,

Kirsty. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.203.2 (talk) 18:23, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

In response

My reasoning is quite simple. He, or she, currently ignores what I am saying. Somewhat more forceful language is more likely to be listened to (and I should stress here that I am not being gratuitously offensive, of course).

I wish it were not so but it's human psychology.

XXX

Kirsty

P.S. There is no need for dispute resolution at this time, I would rather settle things like adults. I just need his or her attention first :)

Hehe!

How careless of me, just noticed I gave your name, when of course I was talking about TT.

Sorry about that; I have a visual memory so wasn't thinking. Of course I have no quarrel with you whatsoever :)

Peace and good weekend,

Kirsty

XXX —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.203.2 (talk) 18:49, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for that! I find PAs like that quite funny – especially when I speedy-nominated that article over a year ago... matt (talk) 08:46, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

No problem :). Yeah, have to admit I was slightly surprised when I saw the age of the account :D - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 09:55, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the bot approval, Kingpin! --Bsherr (talk) 14:07, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

On it! --Bsherr (talk) 14:10, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikialert

If it's mac-compatible, I wish to be approved for wikialert. --I dream of horses @ 22:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Hmm.. Well Katerenka tried back in late 2009 to get it to work on a Mac, although I know that in the end she used a Windows, so presumably that didn't work out. You can experiment with it on the Mac if you want, I've added you to the approved list. I'm sceptical as to if it will work. But no harm in trying - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 22:06, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Hmm....maybe once I'm more awake, I'll try. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 07:52, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

wikialerter logo

don't know how attached you are to the current logo. i created this spiffy new one... ok not that spiffy, just less pixely. let me know what you think and i can impose it on the current title bar, make an .ico file, etc. if you wish. cheers WookieInHeat (talk) 16:11, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, some aspects I like more, but personally I quite like the currently logo. I think the exclamation mark has more "character", and also like the white foreground more. Although I agree that the current one is a bit too "pixely", as you put it ;). I might try and soften if up a little bit. By the way, there's a higher quality image of the logo here. Also, there would be a couple of other problems with changing the logo, because it is used in the program. For example, in the "mark as patrolled" button (where the exclamation mark becomes a tick), and in the "alert box", which is partly why the background is a gradient from red to blue (blue = low priority, red-blue = medium, red = high) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 22:36, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

ah i see, wasn't aware of its integration with the program or the higher res version. mainly just made it as a topicon for my user page, the "character" of the existing exclamation mark made it look jagged when displayed at such a small size. regardless, i just threw the logo together with a couple other images and applied a filter to it (i'm no graphic artist by any means), wasn't a laborious event. not particularly fussed whether it's used for the program or not, especially if you prefer the other logo. WookieInHeat (talk) 03:04, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

come to think of it, i didn't know about the higher res version when i was making the topicon, i ripped the version i used off the programs page. switched to the higher res file you provided and it looks much better now. WookieInHeat (talk) 03:22, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Okay, great :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 11:42, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Gregg Avedon

I Resolve --G DEULOFLEU ™ 11:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Hmm.. All right, although I'm not sure about the IMDb's status as a reliable source.. I believe there's been some controversy over it in the past. If you could find some other sources that'd be better - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 11:42, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

CSD

Sorry about that. When I get going, it's really hard to stop CSD-ing the new pages. Something like 60% of the pages I choose to CSD end up being deleted, so I figure I must be doing something right. -- mitchsurp -- (talk) 17:16, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

I will do my best to scale back my CSD-ing of articles. -- mitchsurp -- (talk) 17:27, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Some articles don't need 20 seconds. For example, Kid Nesor. But yeah, I'll slow down. -- mitchsurp -- (talk) 17:32, 13 October 2010 (UTC)