User talk:Slakr

slakr's life is usually frolicking with chaos, so his activity and response times to queries can be highly variable. Leave a message and he will respond whenever he gets a chance— that is, assuming he gets a chance. Cheers =)  Fellow Wikipedia administrators: Unless otherwise noted, feel free to modify or revert any of my administrative actions; just let me know. zOMG!!! I need urgent assistance!!!1!! — banana? — kiwi?

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Ideally, please use this link to post new messages at the bottom. If you can't find something you recently posted, I might have moved it down there or it could have been archived if you posted it over 7 days ago. Cheers :)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Regarding slakr: Why did my page get deleted? Please see Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? first. I have no idea what you're talking about. What's vandalism? If you received a warning from me and you're not logged in, you might have gotten an old warning I sent to someone who shares your IP address. On the other hand, if you've made recent edits and received a recent warning message from me and you genuinely believe that it's not vandalism, don't fret-- simply drop me a message below, because I could have simply made a silly mistake. :) Regarding SineBot: Why does SineBot keep signing stuff I've already signed? All comments should have a signature that includes both a link to your user page (slakr) and a datestamp (05:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)) (per signatures - internal links). This is most easily generated by placing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your contributions, which makes something like "slakr 05:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)".[reply] If you have an interwiki-linked user page, consider either creating a user page on enwiki that redirects to your preferred home wiki or simply opting out of automatic signing. If you're still having problems after trying that, post a message below. Be sure to include diffs to make sure I can reference the problem. I don't want my comments signed by SineBot. How do I get it to ignore me or my talk page? Please use one of the opt-out methods listed on its user page. SineBot forgot to sign something it should have signed. Usually this happens because the bot isn't sure if it really should sign something, so it defaults to not signing it (e.g., in cases of complex edits). It does this to avoid being annoying. Other times, a comment might be made when the bot is down for maintenance, so the bot simply never sees it. SineBot signed something that it genuinely should not have signed. Please let me know-- especially if you think it's not a one-time thing. Be sure to include diffs to make sure I can reference the problem. Is SineBot's source code available? Not currently. I'm signing with four tildes (~~~~) but it's still saying I didn't! You likely enabled raw signatures. Open your preferences, click the "User profile" tab, make sure that "Treat the above as wiki markup" is NOT checked, and click Save; it should be fixed. If you have an interwiki-linked user page, consider either creating a user page on enwiki that redirects to your preferred home wiki or simply opting out of automatic signing.

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

Sinebot signed the post of a personal attacking vandal, got in the way of my reversion of it. Starlet! (Need to talk?) (Library) (Sandbox) 16:56, 21 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, there is a move review underway relevant to a discussion you were recently involved in. Link above. Thanks. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 19:55, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, could you check and see what is causing the bot not to fix missing sigs like this, when the Wikipedia:Templates for discussion is in Category:Non-talk pages with subpages that are automatically signed? Gonnym (talk) 09:24, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's the high edit count; unless the user opts back in to autosigning, the bot assumes they know what they're doing. --slakr^\ talk / 12:57, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Can't that rule be ignored for pages like TfD where there is never a valid reason not to sign a post? It makes it much harder to find who commented in some of these large pages. Gonnym (talk) 12:25, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2026).

Administrator changes

• Asukite
• Bobby Cohn
• Bonadea
• Ca
• Drm310
• Reconrabbit
• Sammi Brie

• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

• Ezhiki
• Queen of Hearts

Bureaucrat changes

• WereSpielChequers

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the "persistent usage of large language models" has been included as a common reason for a block.

Technical news

• Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats: Bureaucrats without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119, T423120)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
• The arbitration case Michael Jackson has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election closes on 1 June.

SineBot (talk · contribs) hasn't made an edit since 4 June. Is there an issue? Thanks Danski454 (talk) 03:25, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yep. They apparently removed an api format (format=php / php serialization), so now I need to convert every single api call to json, which is fine and all, but likely a huge time suck for no real gain. --slakr^\ talk / 01:59, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Okay it's fixed now. I'll update my behavioral tests later. :P --slakr^\ talk / 02:56, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]