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Wikipedia:WikiProject Virgo

Personally, I have no objections to the idea at all, but, as an editor who is associated with a lot of religion projects, that might not surprise you. I do like the idea of maybe having a place in wikipedia where we could reasonably discuss whether a given image, which may or may not be objectionable because of its graphic nature, could be replaced by another image which is otherwise just as acceptable but without the graphic nature. I regret to see that you have seemingly given up on the idea. If you would have no objections, though, I might consider doing a little to revive it (maybe including a name change, I dunno) and see if it could be successful. John Carter (talk) 20:02, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree that with the current situation we might be very much damaging ourselves by in effect offending individuals who have certain religious codes by making them risk violating those codes by using our site, and some problems with juvenile editors on the same basis. Unfortunately, I am myself not that familiar with with developing new routines. Wikipedia:Bot requests or Wikipedia:Village pump might be better places to go to find someone more familiar with such things. Based on my own limited knowledge of such things, we might be in effect requesting that certain images get one or more "alternates" made mechanically available under certain conditions. We would probably have to have someone add somehow a hidden redirect to another image which would show that other image if such were indicated as desirable in the editors "My preferences/User profile" page. We'd also probably need some people at Wikimedia Commons help list potentially objectionable images that are used, and maybe find other "replacements" which don't have those problems. Having not prepared this response in advance, I might go to the Village Pump first to see if anyone there thinks it feasible. From previous experience, I know it can sometimes take a long time for messages there to get a useful number of responses, so be prepared. But if the idea meets with enough approval there to be viable, then the next step would be to get some help at Commons in finding alternate images and maybe getting a bot created. Keep me posted in any event. John Carter (talk) 20:45, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Bots do more than just tagging, though. I've seen several articles on politicians and places which were created by bots using public domain text. Unfortunately, I myself am over my head in dealing with any programming matters. Regarding the name, Virgo is good. If for whatever reason you don't like that, most bot creators use a variant of their own name, and there isn't a User:Bobbot or User:Bob the bot yet. John Carter (talk) 22:37, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

What do you mean ?

I think I dont understand so much what do you mean on your post o my talk page, please provide explications on your or my talk page, thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Historian19 (talk • contribs) 23:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

On hygienical apparatuses

Did you even read the link in my edit summary? Judging by your incredibly ironic templating, I would guess not. Also, you should probably read this. --Cyde Weys 15:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I've responded on my talk page. --Cyde Weys 23:28, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Please Help or redirect me to one that can help :)

Dear Bob the Wikipedian. "NORTH" became standard and "NORTHERN" became obscelete in references to NORTH CYPRUS. In Wikipedia, I do NOT know how to make all articles to make this legal change at once. Unfortunately, I make the shifts one by one :( I think making all such shifts at once requires some coding and script. I do NOT know. Please Help. DirenisVarYikilisYok (talk) 22:43, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

• Thank you very much. I will follow your suggestion. Ctrl + F finds the required changes. Thanks a lot, once more. DirenisVarYikilisYok (talk) 22:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Bob, thanks for the warning, but this is yet another sockpuppet from a prolific puppeteer. Typically, all contributions from socks of banned users are rolled back. AKRadecki^Speaketh 23:10, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

If I offended you, I do apologize. This editor is very persistent in pushing a particular politically charged POV against consensus. AKRadecki^Speaketh 23:15, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Your rollback request

Hi! I regret that I must inform you that your request for the rollback permission has been denied. You can discover why by checking the archives at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Denied/February 2009#Bob the Wikipedian. SoxBot X (talk) 04:00, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Ha! I got nominated by an anonymous IP. I don't think my unpredictable busy life allows for any such admin rights, so this was pretty hilarious to me. Thanks for the laugh. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:20, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight elections/February 2009/CheckUser/Kingturtle

Hi Bob, just wanted to let you know the Arbitration Committee has requested that no one places comments next to their votes, instead you can leave comments in the "Questions and comments" section, or remove it all together. Up to you. Cheers, Tiptoety ^talk 03:56, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

User:Bob_the_Wikipedian/Maluku_frogfish

Is just a rediscovery - http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=9259 Shyamal (talk) 06:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Oops sorry, I misread something on the net. Shyamal (talk) 13:41, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Keebler

All I was doing was adding to the details of their various brands (there was very little). I just had time to do it today. I found this one great article online about the elves.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:52, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomaination of Psychedelic Frogfish

Hello! Your submission of Psychedelic Frogfish at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 23:39, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Psychedelic Frogfish

On March 10, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Psychedelic Frogfish, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congratulations! PeterSymonds (talk) 08:59, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Organismal Biomechanics

Thanks in part to your support, I've created WikiProject_Organismal_Biomechanics, and I thought I should drop you a line to let you know it's open for business. Mokele (talk) 04:07, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China

Hi, I left a comment for you here. Thanks, Jafeluv (talk) 05:42, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Nicrophorus cadaverinus

Hi, I must admit being confused about this disambiguation page. Should I take all this to mean that 3 different persons independently described what they thought was a "new" species as Nicrophorus cadaverinus, but each time described an already known species, so that "their" N. cadaverinus is just a synonym? I removed the text on the disambiguation page because I had no clue how to interpret this (and, mind you, I was trained as a taxonomist - albeit years ago). Perhaps the text on the disambiguation page could be reformulated to make things less ambiguous... --Crusio (talk) 21:50, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Italics

Hi Bob,

My watchlist shows you've been adding an italics template to several genus-level dinosaur articles. However, these articles already are italicized. The List of dinosaurs has over 1,000 articles that haven't received your template, which actually doesn't do anything, since they are all properly in italics (except a few which should not be in italics). Is there a way you can exclude these articles from your to-do list? Firsfron of Ronchester 01:11, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Got it! That's very cool. :) Firsfron of Ronchester 01:50, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

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Hello

I was flying over some talk pages when I realized we have a lot in common, so I decided to drop by your talk page and say "Hey!". --MahaPanta (talk) 08:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiDragon Census

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My email address is: novothule@gmail.com --MahaPanta (talk) 17:26, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

By the way, I have Open Office Portable on my USB Drive, so that's also an option.--MahaPanta (talk) 18:19, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Also User:MahaPanta/Sandbox/Meeting_Cave is now up.

Question

I have abasic question to ask you. If I want to give someone an award, should I place it directly on their user page or on their talk page? BillClinton1000 (talk) 16:47, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Award

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For taking time to answer my basic question. -BillClinton1000 (talk) 15:44, 1 July 2009 (UTC)