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Unsustained edits.

Waging edit wars, and especially with unsustained claims goes against Wiki policies. Please refrain from doing such. 93.180.98.39 ↗ (talk) 09:02, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
: Oo, that's pretty rich ↗... coming ↗... from ↗... you ↗. DVRTed (talk) 09:10, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Terrorism

You must be a terorrist. Stop to kill people pls — Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by 81.5.32.85 ↗ (talk) 07:55, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Hello, thanks for helping out on :Turkish ↗. I reverted the article to your most recent edit, for some reason it's getting vandalized. Retlawthethird (talk) 19:35, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
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:{{re|Retlawthethird}} Thank you! Both Turk ↗ and Turkish ↗ were getting vandalized by different IPs, but I forgot to keep the latter on my watch-list. Turk is now protected ↗ and I doubt the other one needs any protection now. :) DVRTed (Talk) 19:43, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Rollback granted

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Hi DVRTed. After reviewing your request, I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3ADVRTed enabled] rollback on your account. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:

Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle ↗ or RedWarn ↗.

Rollback should be used to revert ''clear'' cases of ''vandalism ↗ only'', and not good faith edits ↗.

Rollback should never be used to edit war ↗.

If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.

Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback ↗ (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:06, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

Changes made on the Tai Ping carpentry page

Hi, I hope this message finds you well.
I am hoping you could clarify the reasons for your adjustments on the wikipedia page that I was working on? Primarily the reason for reversing the version to a much earlier date. You cited 'Possible AI slop that violates WP:NPOV and COI editing', could you establish what are some the more notable errors that flare out? After further review I can notice some sections that do have some issues regarding NPOV, but could you clarify on the COI section a little more? I read the article but I still find myself a tad bit confused and hope that you can shed some light on this. Thanks. RayTaiPing (talk) 02:32, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
:Hi @RayTaiPing. Sorry for taking quite a while to get back to you. First, to clarify my specific reasons for reverting your edits: most of your additions, such as "{{tquote|Tai Ping specializes in handcrafted carpets, employing techniques such as hand-tufting, hand-knotting, and sculpting handcrafted by skilled artisans using techniques honed over decades}}" are not written in a neutral tone ↗. Additionally, instead of reliable sources ↗, ~15 of the references you added are all different pages from the same website as the article subject. Second, you should disclose your COI following one or more of the methods outlined here: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#howtodisclose ↗, and '''instead of making direct changes to the article, you should propose your changes on the article's talk page''' (see template {{tlx|Edit COI}}.) Regards, — DVRTed (Talk) 15:34, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Hey!

whats your rank on counter strike — Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by ~2025-31205-39 (talk • contribs ↗) 13:36, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
:{{re|~2025-31205-39}} I don't really play anymore, but my highest was ~MG2. (do temp accounts get pinged?) — DVRTed (Talk) 14:00, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For creating User:DVRTed/move-talk-section I award you this here barnstar. Don't feed it after midnight! Polygnotus (talk) 16:06, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
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:By the way I got like 2346787 script ideas and related technical plans that you may or may not be interested in. Polygnotus (talk) 16:07, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
::@Polygnotus Thanks! Sure, I'd love to hear them!--except the ones that rely on external APIs (''cough, cough'' AI-related). Also, did you see the fancy cards I just finished making '''here'''? — DVRTed (Talk) 16:14, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
:::Yeah I was about to ask for a horizontal version. {{smiley|13}}
:::So I was asking LLMs for feedback on articles with User:Polygnotus/Scripts/AI_Proofreader and then I realized it would be more efficient to just generate a bunch in advance so that people without API credits could work on them. User:Polygnotus/Scripts/Backlog.js. And then I thought, what if I ask an LLM if a source supports a claim, and if so which exact sentence(s) User:Polygnotus/Scripts/AI_Source_Verification. Polygnotus (talk) 16:17, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
:::My User:Polygnotus/Scripts/AI Editsummary was kinda a dud in the sense that Claude believes that I remove vandalism when I vandalise an article, no matter how clearly I try to present the temporal relation. Polygnotus (talk) 16:34, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
::::@Polygnotus If you wrap them in a div with {{code|display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr;}}, along with setting something like {{code|1={{!}}card_width=50%}}, it becomes horizontal; not as pretty as the default though.
::::User:Polygnotus/Scripts/AI Source Verification.js looks interesting. I'll play around with it (Gemini), although AIs seem to be notorious at hallucating content of a given URL. — DVRTed (Talk) 16:38, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
:::::Yeah you have to triplecheck if it actually was able to reach the URL, because it will happily hallucinate whatever you want to hear if it can't. {{smiley}} Probably best to have the script fetch the page and feed it to the LLM. Personally I prefer Claude, but it is difficult to compete with free. Polygnotus (talk) 16:40, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
::::::@Polygnotus: User:Polygnotus/Scripts/AI_Editsummary.js#L-185 I think the results will be significantly better if you feed AI only the diff, like {{green|+added line}}, {{red|-removed line}}, and not the entire page; you can format it like that yourself or use :mw:API:Compare ↗. — DVRTed (Talk) 17:04, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
:::::::{{done}} Yeah that was the original approach. Both have up- and downsides. I'll go test it a bit. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 20:41, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
:::::@DVRTed, User:Polygnotus and I decided to move the AI Source Verification script to my user space (User:Alaexis/AI Source Verification). I've made a few changes to it, including claim detection, UX, a proxy for fetching website data and a free model for those who don't know how to get API keys.
:::::Would be grateful for technical and usage feedback. Happy New Year! Alaexis¿question? ↗ 20:36, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Supreme Deliciousness

Hi DVRTed. I'm not going to you on reply on Supreme Deliciousness' Talk page as that is likely to be used as an excuse for further kvetching and trolling but I just want to assure you that that was not an overreaction, in fact I worry that I may have been overgenerous. If I had been aware of how long they have been causing trouble on Wikipedia then I might have taken it straight to the noticeboards but I didn't check that until after I posted that warning. Check their contributions. Check their block log. This isn't some rando who just wandered in off the street and doesn't know what goes on around here. This ↗ shows clear and intentional trolling. They know Doug's circumstances and they thought that they would try to cause him trouble. I think it would be best if you removed your comment lest it be taken as encouragement. --DanielRigal (talk) 04:52, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
:"try to cause him trouble." ... dude, I don't even know how to reply to this. It was a suggestion, trying to help someone. I linked to some medical studies, I believe its a good suggestion to try fight cancer. Assume good faith. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 05:07, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
::No it wasn't. You know that. Stop! --DanielRigal (talk) 05:28, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

User:DVRTed/author-link.js

Something might have changed. I can no longer see the tab to start the app. -- '''Green''''''C''' 18:17, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

:I copied the version from September 24 2025 over to User:GreenC/author-link.js and that worked. -- '''Green''''''C''' 18:22, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
::@GreenC That's odd. I haven't made any recent changes to the script... and also, it works for me. Are there any errors in the browser console (WP:CONSOLEERROR ↗)? — DVRTed (Talk) 22:54, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
:::Changes between September 24 and current https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ADVRTed%2Fauthor-link.js&diff=1319863294&oldid=1313138789 ↗. Something in there. I can try to narrow down which diff where it stopped working. -- '''Green''''''C''' 23:21, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
::::If the old version works, then it's very likely this diff: Special:Diff/1317361821 ↗; let me know if you see anything in the console when the Author links option doesn't show up. — DVRTed (Talk) 23:27, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
{{od}}
Yes broke here, same:Special:Diff/1315720789/1317361821 ↗. Console is showing tons of "NS_ERROR" type failures:
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PushService: receivedPushMessage: Error notifying app NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIPushNotifier.notifyPushWithData]
_notifyApp resource://gre/modules/PushService.sys.mjs:1005
_decryptAndNotifyApp resource://gre/modules/PushService.sys.mjs:871
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I'm not an expert but it may be an incompatibility with skins. I'm using MonoBook. -- '''Green''''''C''' 23:31, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

:I've added some console debug messages here: User:DVRTed/sandbox/temp.js; could you try copying it over or importing it? You should see some console messages that start with "[author-link] ..." — DVRTed (Talk) 23:56, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
I tried unfortunately not seeing any console messages with author-link .. the NS_ERROR are old messages I think, cleared those. Now see only a couple error messages:
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NotFoundError: No such JSProcessActor 'BrowserToolboxDevToolsProcess'
AbortError: Actor 'Conduits' destroyed before query 'RuntimeMessage' was resolved ConduitsParent.sys.mjs:383
_raceResponses resource://gre/modules/ConduitsParent.sys.mjs:383
Missing resource in locale en-CA: devtools/client/toolbox.ftl
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-- '''Green''''''C''' 04:34, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

:Welp. I'm out of ideas. It works for me on monobook, even when I copy your entire common.js. I guess I'll test w/ monobook on different browsers (old Firefox?) when I've got enough time. — DVRTed (Talk) 05:22, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
::Placing the load entry at the top of my commons.js seemed to solve the problem. Not sure why. -- '''Green''''''C''' 15:20, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
:::https://xkcd.com/1316/ — DVRTed (Talk) 15:53, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
::::LOL. I'm sure there is an explanation but probably at a deep level of obscurity. My theory was a conflict with other scripts (I have a lot loaded), and maybe it loads them in order, so getting this in first would help. I'm not sure how the userscript system works in memory, maybe there are global variables or functions with the same names overlapping. -- '''Green''''''C''' 16:40, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Filtering

thumb|right|Filter mockup ↗
I did do some filtering experiments for history and contrib pages: User:Polygnotus/Scripts/Filter.js and User:Polygnotus/Scripts/FilterTags.js and User:Polygnotus/Scripts/NamespaceFilter.js and User:Polygnotus/Scripts/FilterPages.js. Because I am lazy I just filtered whatever was already on the page, that usually works fine.

I think making a semi-decent script that can filter history and contrib and whatlinkshere pages based on namespace(s), tag(s), and editsummaries could be very popular.

The linter script is cool but I have my userpage on meta so I did this. Polygnotus (talk) 20:23, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

:@Polygnotus I've implemented the changes to lintHelper here: Special:Diff/1326415892 ↗. Thanks! Re:Filtering, contribs already has the filters; it'd be a useful addition to other special pages. Snippets from multiContribs.js might be helpful. I'll try making something when I'm free. — DVRTed (Talk) 21:47, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
::Interesting, thank you! I use my poetically named 'wikiTool2' but that is written in Java. I asked my wife if I could name our first three kids 'kid0', 'kid1' and 'Bob' (if its a girl) but she didn't think that is funny at all.
::I asked Claude to convert it to JavaScript, see User:Polygnotus/Scripts/DiffViewer.js. Polygnotus (talk) 23:09, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
::Maybe something like User:Polygnotus/Scripts/Filter2.js? Are you on Discord? Polygnotus (talk) 10:18, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
:::Oh, this is nice! I went into a spiral thinking and coding of a way to add extra filters onto the existing form and replacing the "Search" button with something that makes custom API request—it was very complicated rendering similar HTML based on the API response with pagination and all that. But with this: filtering ''after'' the "vanilla" page is rendered is a lot simpler. Maybe use the OO.ui input components so it looks consistent with everything else: https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/1.31.6/js/#!/api/OO.ui.ButtonInputWidget. Discord username is same as here: "dvrted". — DVRTed (Talk) 11:01, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
:::@Polygnotus Try it out: User:DVRTed/sandbox/temp.js. I should note that my rewrites ended up straying far away from the original script, but I still managed to keep all its functions (and added some new ones). I retained the uglyCase. For history of changes, see: https://github.com/DVRTed/enwiki-userscripts/commits/experiments/workshop/Filter2.js. Regards, — DVRTed (Talk) 18:40, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
::::Ooh that is excellent! Thank you! We can steal the "collapsibility" from Special:Contributions's Search for contributions-thing and store the state in localStorage, a bit like User:Polygnotus/Scripts/temp2.js. I apologize for my camelcasing, it is one of my many flaws. I only escaped the 8.3 ↗ convention last year. Polygnotus (talk) 23:36, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
:::::{{done}}. Also added support for Special:LinkSearch ↗ (NS only). — DVRTed (Talk) 11:32, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

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Possible issue with AINB-helper

In this case:

Wikipedia:AI noticeboard/2026-07-10 MaduraiSelvam ↗

the helper seems to have missed at least five articles; they have subsequently been manually added at the top. No idea why.

I want to thank you again for this excellent helper, which (alas) I've used about 8 times in the past 3 days. (This one was someone else's though.) M kuhner (talk) 04:59, 11 July 2026 (UTC)