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Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 07:09, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Screenshot.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 05:00, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

hello

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Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 16:37, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since one of the external links goes to a reasonable third party source are you sure about this deletion?Geni 01:46, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 00:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on My watchlist, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to a user page from the main/article space.

If you can fix the redirect to point to a regular Wikipedia article rather than a user page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you are fixing the redirect. If you think the redirect should be retained as is for some reason, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your reasoning on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- IRP ☎ 00:17, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good day Mets501,

I have a collegue here (William R. Patterson) that you have done so editing for. I would like to create a bio of my work for dotNet Framework Solutons.

Can you assist me with this request?

Regards,

Tony D. Abel —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony D. Abel (talk • contribs) 01:27, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 16:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot II (talk) at 18:54, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Bullet nose curve.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. ZooFari 01:18, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 13:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:51, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I'm (relatively) new to Wikipedia. It occurred to me today that some user boxes have categories associated with them (such as Universities) while others do not (such as college fraternities). Is this the consensus of the community, or just an oversight? Before I make trouble, i wanted to check with the "UBX" guy. Thanks for your insight. --Mblumber (talk) 14:37, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey. I couldn't actually tell you either way; I'd recommend checking Wikipedia:User categories and Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User categories and using your best judgment. Worst that can happen is that someone comes along and deletes them, although I doubt many people are still paying attention to them. —METS501 (talk) 19:37, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Looking at Category:Wikipedians, there isn't even a "Wikipedians by membership" which would then have to contain a "Wikipedians who are in fraternities/sororities" (amongst other groups that people might be in) and that would then contain the subcategories I was looking for. Looks like too much work, and that maybe it would go against the whole Wikipedia is not a social network thing. I think I'm probably best to just sit on this idea and let someone else do the heavy lifting. --Mblumber (talk) 22:12, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you been to the new park yet? 69.117.190.226 (talk) 12:07, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not yet, but I'll be going this summer. :-) Have you? (p.s. Do I know you?) —METS501 (talk) 15:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You know (or cyber-know) me, and I was going to ask the same question. :) Hope you had a good year; we've missed you around here, but I understand about priorities and all. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:35, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, hi! I've definitely had a good year, and I'm back in NY for the summer. —METS501 (talk) 01:17, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 22:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to note that I made a small change to this userbox, altering the border margin from 4px to 1 px. The larger border was preventing it from lining up properly in a grid with other user boxes. Ed Fitzgerald _{t / c} 08:53, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, OK. —METS501 (talk) 01:18, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see a fair use rationale on File:TFF Mad World video.jpg. Was your tagging a mistake or are there other reasons for the tagging? Thanks, —METS501 (talk) 00:51, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What's there is a fair use rationale in name only. It is incomplete (see WP:NFURG). Retagged. Stifle (talk) 14:10, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 11:50, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have attempted to create a new userbox for my own use, Template:User Square, and while it looks good, it doesn't work right on my userpage[1]. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Unschool 18:50, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, you had the

<td>

and

<tr>

tags reversed. If you switch their order (tr should be first) then you're all set. (tr creates a new row - "r" for row, while td creates a cell ("d" for data). You need to make a new row before a new cell :-) —METS501 (talk) 03:10, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:03, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#Why do we have a bot creating redirects that are handled by case insensitivity in the search box? , I think this task ought be revoked. These redirects are unnecessary. –xeno^talk 21:35, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 02:10, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if you could fix this template. Currently the description says

This user uses "logical quotation marks". Internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a style issue!

While it would be more natural to use curly quotation marks (well, since the name of the template is “logical curly quotes”):

This user uses “logical quotation marks”. Internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a style issue!

// Stpasha (talk) 01:02, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, feel free to change it yourself :-) —METS501 (talk) 01:37, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Template:RMlink has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Jafeluv (talk) 07:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 04:33, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i wanna see a youtube poop page i want to know when it was started,where all the material used is from and most of all i want edit some of it

why can't anybody make a wiki page for it?

can somebody please make one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by THE KING OF ALL GAMES (talk • contribs) 12:32, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(THE KING OF ALL GAMES (talk) 12:35, 12 August 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Hi, I copied some userboxes that interested me onto my user profile They from UBX/interests. I hope that was ok. If you don't want me use them you can delete them or tell me and I will delete them. Thanks Stuartsampson (talk) 00:28, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there,

Am new to this way of communication...Please contact me at hoersu@hoersu.ch I would like to ask for your permission to use your olive branch image and would like clarification and confirmation.

Looking forward to your response.

Kind regards,

Kathleen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.162.102.76 (talk) 13:44, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:06, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:06, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm a user of the Basque Wikipedia and I manage a Bot. I have some problems with the Bot because I'm new with Bots and I wanted to make you a question. If in a template there is | koordenatuak = {{|koord|23|45|N|56|34|E}} can I replace automaticcaly with the Bot to get this: | dn = 23 | mn = 45 | N = N | de = 56 | me = 34 | W = E. Is there any possibility? I would be grateful if you could answer me. --An13sa (talk) 11:36, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This bot malfunctioned on 14/4/2007, as it moved the format and content of other user's user page to mine, and thus make the user's information appeared on mine for 2 years. I haven't noticed it until the user tell me a week before, and he found that someone will mix up me and him because we have the same format and information on the user page. Salt (talk) 17:49, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there... I'm currently using the "vandalized" userbox which you have setp up but I was wondering if you could set up another userbox for being "harassed"? Thanks and cheers~! --Dave1185 ^talk 10:18, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey. Feel free to create it yourself in User:UBX's userspace. Just copy and paste the code to a new page and replace the word "vandalized" with "harassed". —METS501 (talk) 16:42, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I've been using Wikipedia for 6 months and I want to a make a userbox but I don't understand how. Can you please guide me? Thanks. Jonathansuh (talk) 21:47, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I was wondering if you can give me back User:100110100? In the past, I had to explain what I wouldn't do to get me blocked again. Is there any other process I must go thru?174.3.111.148 (talk) 20:16, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, you're indefinitely blocked, and I might add for good reason. —METS501 (talk) 18:55, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I am attempting to create a company page fro Infoserve, which was deleted on the 13th December 2006, I beleive for advertisement

Would it be possible to create a new page or reinstate the previous one (without the advertismenet)?

Thanks

Infoserve (talk) 16:56, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is the text (by User:Mikeinleeds):

Founded in 1999, Infoserve Group plc is a local search marketing company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The company employs around 120 sales staff across two offices in Leeds and Stockton-on-Tees, and has a further 47 staff working from its Leeds head office. Infoserve currently operates 130 of its own specific industry vertical websites, and powers a further 150 business websites. Infoserve’s most well known product is the online business directory www.city-visitor.co.uk

Infoserve's website can be found at www.infoserve.com

Make sure to follow the proper style guidelines and cite some sources (maybe one such as this) to make the page more legitimate. —METS501 (talk) 21:35, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:18th Birthday.jpg

Hey, Mets501. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!-- MisterWiki talk contribs 01:36, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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MisterWiki talk contribs 01:36, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there!

I'd like to start for apologizing that I didn't come to you first, I hadn't looked at the user page of UBX, merely the contributions (to check if contacting you was likely to be worthwhile). Please go here where I've outlined my concern over one of the userboxes you've worked with, when you've the time to do so.

Thanks for your time. A F K When Needed 20:36, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mets didn't create, endorse, etc. this userbox. You may wish to nominate it at WP:MFD. –xeno^talk 20:44, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the comment!

Since he's an Administrator, if he feels it appropriate he can delete himself without the need to involve others. Also, if he disagrees, he can discuss it with me first and possibly change my stance on the matter without others needing to be involved.

Cheers. A F K When Needed 21:07, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks xeno for the response. I just went ahead and deleted the userbox, no worries. You're right, it's probably over the line. —METS501 (talk) 00:58, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, cheers for looking into it for me =) A F K When Needed 16:58, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, recently Multichill has started NowCommons tagging a lot of images that are duplicate to Commons images. It would be helpful if your old MetsBot checks could be run on these nominations, to check for potential problems (mostly missing OTRS tickets, which i've seen a couple of times now, missing old upload history). Perhaps just create lists of potential problematic NowCommons taggings, instead of adding the information to the imagepage itself? That ways these images can be triple checked by admins. I see the bot hasn't run for quite a while, so perhaps if you know of a better venue for such a thing ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 20:31, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey. You're right the bot hasn't run for quite a while, and I doubt it would work correctly anymore (too many changes within Wikipedia). I may rebuild it at some point in the future (when I've got some free time) but for now, I'm afraid I can't really help you out. You might try WP:BOTREQ and see if anyone is able to to it for you, though. —METS501 (talk) 17:40, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I presume this edit was an accident? Paradoctor (talk) 09:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, sorry about that; I completely missed the redirect and all of the links to it. Thanks for reverting! —METS501 (talk) 19:09, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. You might want to review the following reverts:

• Quantum dissipation
• Rectangular potential barrier
• Research School of Physics and Engineering
• Spin–orbit interaction
• Symmetry (physics) (I understand "Rectangular potential barrier", but symmetry? ^_^)
• The Physics Society of Iran
• Ulrich Mohrhoff

Regards, Paradoctor (talk) 20:30, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would very much appreciate your help in removing my personal details name and address from a page in wikipedia, posted by a wikipedia user without my consent. I have tried without results to do this Thank you very much for my help - if you would like to email me please reply to galwaycity@gmail.com

Kind Regards, Gerry McLoughlin

Here is the page for your attention http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk:Cellulosic_ethanol

My details are 3/4 of the way down the page and are as follows

McLoughlin, Gerard galwaycity@gmail.com (also: ceetoh@gmail.com)

           3303 Boca Ciega Dr
           Naples, Florida 34112