User talk:Tawker

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Funny

Ooo, you got me :) But at least I got to put in the Japanese transltion for practical joke. ;) Cruinne 02:11, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Use of bloody in Canada

Hi,

I noticed on your home page that you're from Canada, so I thought I'd ask if they use the word bloody as a swear word in Canada very much? Do only some regions use it and others not?

Regards,

Primetime 04:20, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

So, some people use it? If Canadian says "bloody", do others think they're eccentric? The reason I ask is that I'm verifying this entry in an article for a Canadian slang word on Wikipedia. They used bloody in it, and I thought that it was strange. --Primetime 04:28, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks! I just voted for you on the admin page. --Primetime 04:35, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

"For" vote

Hi Tawker! I just wanted to thank you for the "for" vote on the admin page.  :) --Dijan 21:14, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Adminship

It looks as though there is enough support for you to become an admin, and there do not appear to be any behaviour reasons to reject the status. I would, nevertheless, like to wait until you have been on this project for at least a month before doing anything.

I have disagreed with you about the use of "bloody" in Canada, and added a couple of quotes from Robert Jordan (an American) to illustrate the intensifier usage. I live in Richmond; would it be convenient to sit down over a beer someday? Eclecticology 01:44, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

User:203.109.252.196

You you please run your proxy scan against 203.109.252.196? --Connel MacKenzie T C 17:06, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Kassios 18:29, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Your promotion

Hi Tawker,

I'm not sure what you're asking me on my talk page. Are you asking for permission to continue with what you are doing, or do you need some help doing it? — Paul G 08:46, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Eclecticology and I are pleased to let you know that you are now a sysop. Congratulations! Contact either of us if you need to know more about the powers and responsibilities this gives you. — Paul G 07:37, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Canadian terms

Connel did find a strange place for this weird assortment of pages. I have heard supply teacher before, but it doesn't have any particular pronunciation issues. It may be a term that is more frequent in Eastern Canada than in the west, but I can't say for sure that it is exclusively Canadian. In BC the term "TOC" is used standing for "Teacher on Call". Eclecticology 03:52, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

The Transwiki process

See Wiktionary:Transwiki log for details. It is a bit of a bind and, since most stuff from moved from Wikipedia is of low quality, it gets low priority. SemperBlotto 07:13, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

• And I was wondering if AESP was deleted a little too rapidly. It is used in w:NewsBlog for instance. SemperBlotto 07:20, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

The intent of the Transwiki process was to offer material which originated in Wikipedia to Wiktionary or some other project when its deletion was imminent. The person doing this was presumed to be unfamiliar with the policies and practices of the new host project; he was not required to check whether the new host already had an entry, or whether the new community would even want the term. By using a "Transwiki:" pseudonamespace these terms could be kept apart from the rest of our content.

When incorporating this material I prefer to start an article on the word anew. Moving the transwiki page means also including, for GFDL purposes, the Wikipedia edit history; that's not necessary for a whole new article. That history cannot be traced unless a person is also a Wikipedia sysop, and much of it would refer to deleted "encyclopedic" material. Once the information in a transwikied article has been incorporated into an article that conforms with our standards, or if we decide that we don't want that material at all the transwiki article may be deleted along with the references to it in the Transwiki log. Eclecticology 09:02, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

My monobook

Well, I want to condense it so that it just does the whole top bar thing changes. Can you help with that? Celestianpower 17:25, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello Andrew You deleted my word and definition of PLANEHUGGER with no explanation. I ameposting it. If you have a comment to make please be courteous and leave it. Not saying anything and deleting is rude don't you think?RayAntoky 19:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

4 to delete.

This, This, this, this, this could go.

Deletion requests.

hingethunder, this, slong, this. Especially the first one. --Dangherous 15:36, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Bot request

Tawker,

Could you please do me a favor? You know the bots much better than I do. For a very long time, we've had many language indexes clogging the Wiktionary: namespace. This makes the namespace hard to search. Last year, we had an actual vote, ending in approval for the "Appendix:" and "Index:" pseudo namespaces being made into formal namespaces.

For example, Wiktionary:Aragonese index should become Index:Aragonese and the redirect left behind for now. After one week, when special:DoubleRedirects is updated, my redirects bot will correct all pages linked to the old pages. Then we can discuss mass-deleting the residual redirects (although we may want to keep them for 6 months for Wikipedia's sake.)

Could you please move the following language indexes (and all child index pages for each of these) to the "Index:" pseudo-namespace? Note that you cannot simply search the namespace for entries with "index" as there are a handful of false-positives.

1. Aragonese
2. Armenian
3. Aymara
4. Balinese
5. Basque
6. Betawi
7. Bosnian
8. Brithenig
9. Bulgarian
10. Burmese
11. Capeverdean Crioulo
12. Catalan
13. Chickasaw
14. Chinese Cangji
15. Chinese Cantonese
16. Chinese Hanzi
17. Chinese Pinyin
18. Chinese Wubi
19. Chinese Zhuyin
20. Chinese four corner
21. Chinese
22. Chinese radical
23. Chinese topical
24. Chinese total strokes
25. Cornish
26. Corsican
27. Croatian
28. Czech
29. Danish
30. Dutch
31. English Prefix and Suffix
32. English
33. Esperanto
34. Estonian
35. Farsi
36. Filipino
37. Finnish
38. French
39. Frisian
40. Geographical
41. Georgian
42. German
43. Gothic
44. Greek
45. Greenlandic
46. Griko
47. Gujarati
48. Hawaiian
49. Hebrew
50. Hellenic
51. Hindi
52. Hungarian
53. Ido
54. Index of Indonesian words with prefixes
55. Index of language indexes
56. Indonesian
57. Interlingua
58. Inuktitut
59. Irish Gaelic
60. Irish
61. Italian
62. Japanese Furigana
63. Japanese Kana
64. Japanese Kanji
65. Japanese Prefix and Suffix
66. Japanese
67. Kannada
68. Kashubian
69. Korean
70. Korean Hanja
71. Kurdish
72. Latin
73. Lojban cmavo
74. Lojban cmene
75. Lojban gismu
76. Lojban
77. Lojban lujvo
78. Low Saxon
79. Malayalam
80. Manchu
81. Manx Gaelic
82. Manx
83. Maori
84. Mongolian
85. Nahuatl
86. Neapolitan
87. Norwegian
88. Novial
89. Old English
90. Papiamento
91. Persian
92. Polish
93. Portuguese
94. Provençal
95. Rohingya
96. Romanian
97. Romanica
98. Russian
99. Sanskrit
100. Scots Gaelic
101. Scottish Gaelic
102. Serbian
103. Sicilian
104. Slovak
105. Slovene
106. Spanish
107. Sw
108. Swahili
109. Swazi
110. Swedish
111. Tagalog
112. Tahitian
113. Tamil
114. Telugu
115. Tok Pisin
116. Tumbuka
117. Turkish
118. Ukrainian
119. Urdu
120. Vietnamese
121. Vo
122. Volapük
123. Welsh
124. Yiddish
125. italian
126. Wiktionary Index:Tamil

The next phase would be to move all "Wiktionary Appendix:" entries to "Appendix:".

--Connel MacKenzie T C 06:16, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Request

Vandal Z-viffle. Please block this one. --EncycloPetey 08:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Blocking of open proxies

The recent changes page is completely flooded with those blocked, blocked, blocked. Isn't it possible to use the bot flag or something else to hide them? Dart evader 09:37, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Nope, not on bots, sorry (hmm, weird how the new messages flag didn't come up, I think I was getting flooded with Connel's bot request changes and ignoring them) -- Tawker 16:57, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Sysop actions are not supposed to ever be masked with the bot flag. I don't think any steward would set both flags on an account. --Connel MacKenzie T C 17:06, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Yet another bot request

Hello,

Sorry again about w:WP:RFA. Perhaps I did get carried away.

Could you please devise a 'bot that will take the list of Wikipedia Admins, and if they have a corresponding uer page here on Wikt:, protect their user page, and protect their talk page from moves?

--Connel MacKenzie T C 11:56, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

E-mail

Hi Tawk. Could you specify an e-mail address please? As an admin, you should be contactable for people who have been blocked. Cheers. —Vildricianus 15:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh crud, I've been on a bit of a break, I thought I had one set, oops -- Tawker 23:08, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Update 2: Fixed (I forgot confirmation was in effect) -- Tawker 23:13, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Still error: no e-mail address. Have you confirmed the email? Have you checked the box Enable e-mail from other users? —Vildricianus 10:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Transwiki

I just made my first contribution to Wiktionary, a transwiki, and I'm not sure if I have done it right. Since you're the only user I know on Wiktionary (so far), I am asking you! Can you please take a look at transwiki:lump it and tell me if I made any major mistakes? Thanks! --Ginkgo100 20:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

desysopping

As you have been inactive on this Wiki for more than a year, your administrater status has been removed.

If you become active here again, and want to be an administrater again, just ask, and it can be provided without the need for a vote. SemperBlotto 14:49, 19 February 2011 (UTC)