User talk:Slakr

Hello! I noticed you're a bot operator, so I thought you might be interested in a hackathon we're organizing: the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026, on 13–14 March in Arnhem, Netherlands.

It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Whether you want to work on bot frameworks, tools, or other technical projects, this could be a great opportunity to collaborate with fellow developers. Registration closes mid-January or when full. Let me know if there are any questions. Hope to see you there! Daanvr (talk) 23:21, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Saw this too late, but I wouldn't have been able to make it, as I'm staffing 2 cons, one on each side of March—in the US, as well. But thanks for the heads up ♥ Maybe in the future? --slakr^\ talk / 08:54, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

SineBot keeps signing comments left by Anonymsiy‬ (talk · contribs), see e.g. Talk:Ganymede_(moon)#Request_to_process_the_True_color_of_these_Galileo_images. Their signature looks like this:

[[User:Anonymsiy‬|<span style="color:green;">'''anonymsiy.user‬'''</span>]] 20:46, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

anonymsiy.user‬ 20:46, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:24, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

i like it that way :) anonymsiy.user‬ 15:55, 22 January 2026 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymsiy (talk • contribs)

Was just about to comment here about the same. The only thing I can think of is that there's no talk link, but that's not a requirement for the bot. Anonymsiy, whatever you did to make the bot think that you haven't signed, undo that action; it is disruptive. Primefac (talk) 23:55, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

what did i even do wrong anonymsiy.user‬ 07:30, 29 January 2026 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymsiy (talk • contribs)

We don't know, and it may be a bug in SineBot's code. But my signature uses <b> instead of apostrophes for bold markup. As such this might alleviate the issue:

[[User:Anonymsiy‬|<b style="color:green;">anonymsiy.user‬</b>]] 07:30, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

anonymsiy.user‬ 07:30, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:39, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

okeh i will try that anonymsiy.user‬ 15:48, 29 January 2026 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymsiy (talk • contribs)

It likely has to do with the lack of link to a User talk page. WP:SIG historically required that a custom signature link to the User talk page, with the User page link being encouraged but optional. At some point it looks like the guideline was changed to only require one of: User, User talk, OR contributions, and I'm guessing I either missed a message at some point or nobody ever told me. :P Regardless, I'll stick this on the to-do list; for now, if it gets annoying, the usual opt-out methods can still apply, and as always it'll just start ignoring users with enough edits anyway (which is like 99% of the users who get around to customizing their signatures in the first place). --slakr^\ talk / 09:29, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Thought that might be the case, thanks. Primefac (talk) 10:19, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi Slakr! Hope you are doing well. I wanted to let you know that after a recent ArbCom motion, page protections are automatically logged, so you no longer need to do this manually. See Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/Protections § About this page for exact details.

I am reaching out as a fellow admin, not as an arb; you are absolutely not in trouble :)

Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 17:47, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Sweet; thanks for the heads up, and cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 09:00, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

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