Talk:List of IRC commands

message: this list is supposed to be for "universal" irc commands, and the only way to expand this beyond like one or two more essentially universal /me and /mode-style commands is to start including ircd/services/client specific IRC commands so the list may be very incomplete in terms of being a definitive guide on commands, but considering its goal, i think that this article should be removed from the incomplete lists category.
And also, there are many modes that conflict with each other and aren't always available, so I'm not so sure about the universality of the mode list.  ie RFC 2811 defined channel mode +a as an auditorium-style anonymous chat system, while unrealircd uses that to define a channel admin (+a in this case is NOT a user mode), and hybridircd uses that to make chanops anonymous.  Also, there's the confusion between +l/L and +m/M, all four of which perform different tasks, but can be confused because the only difference between l and L or m and M is the capitalization.  and finally, the +x currently listed as hiding hostmasks only hides hostmasks on unreal, while on hybrid it's a mode for receiving server notices.  janey the crazy 19:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. There's a certain point where this article shouldn't be expanded, it's about at that point, and it doesn't need to be in that category. Oh, and +x hides the hostmasks on ircu as well. My understanding is that it's fairly common. But it's certainly not universal if some modern servers see it as something different. madewokherd 23:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  completeness, modes, et cetera 

message: is this command universal? it works on X-chat aqua and mIrc
Epl18 19:31, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's universal. It's in rfc1459. madewokherd 17:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  /list 

message: This IP kept changing things to "moco" or "modo": 212.81.13.193 see history.
Perhaps it can be watched or locked? Epl18 21:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam 

message: Are we only listing common commands, or listing ones for specific IRC server environments? Some server modes, for example, don't work on the proprietary ChatSpace IRC server, and it also has variances on how its commands operates. I know other IRCd's have difference variances. Smeggysmeg 03:11, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IRCd command differences 

message: what about that command? 70.111.236.90 13:30, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not a standard of any sort. I think the only time you see that is in mIRC, and even there it's not really a command. madewokherd 00:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  slapping with large trouts 

message: Is it "universal" ? or server-dependent?
: The /whowas command is included in RFC 1459, so I would say that makes it universal.  Ralphonso 22:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  /whowas ? 

message: The name and the intro are absolutely incorrect and need to be changed (can the title even be changed?). What you are listing only has in parts to do with IRC commands - but in fact you are not talking about the protocol standard IRC but about the far-spread windows-based IRC-client mIRC. Many people do not seem to understand the difference.
The next thing is that mIRC comes with a help file (use /help <topic or command>) which provides a very detailed help. 
Also the use of and the difference between aliases and variables need to be explained.
210.203.52.253 14:43, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong title! 

message: Further to the discussion above in Cleanup and Wrong title!, I've decided to re-write the article using IRC commands as opposed to client-specific commands.
A copy of the old article is now at User:M2Ys4U/IRC -- M2Ys4U (talk) 19:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good so far. How about changing the title to Internet Relay Chat protocol, and moving most of the content from the prior version to Internet Relay Chat client software? GracenotesT § 22:17, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Kind of funny that this article started with the "me" command two years ago, and now after this rewrite it doesn't contain the "me" command at all.  Is there any article in Wikipedia that describes what that command does?  /me itself is a redirect to CTCP, which still contains a link to the deleted section in this article.  Anyways, I know that "me" is not an IRC command, but shouldn't this article contain at least a hint what it does, where to look, and that it's really just some form of PRIVMSG?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.12.4.132 (talk) 11:35, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, only if it's in an article about mIRC (or other clients which use "/me" for CTCP ACTIONs). /me has basically nothing to do with IRC. Tomalak Geret'kal (talk) 11:59, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

text: No, you are making the same mistake as whoever wrote the old version of the article. Commands beginning "/" are client-specific, such as the internal commands in mIRC which is a popular Windows-based IRC client. This page is about IRC commands. You can see the IRC commands that your mIRC client is using by typing "/debug @moo" and watching it all stream by. Turn off with "/debug -c off". IRC commands are in all caps (although this isn't required by most ircd software and I'm not sure if it's even in the standard). Tomalak Geret'kal (talk) 12:01, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-Write 

message: Where is the /clear command on the list? I've used mIRC, as well as irssi on my linux box, and it exists in both.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.165.122.216 (talk) 20:53, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is still a client-specific command. This article covers the IRC commands defined in RFC 1459 and RFC 2812. I've been thinking about a Glossary of IRC commands article though, which would be the place to include client-specific commands such as /clear. Tothwolf (talk) 04:06, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  /clear! 

message: The recent  has been reverted. 
*The reason given WP:NOTGUIDE, is incorrectly applied. This list is a reference list, not a guide, nor a tutorial, and no examples are given.  
*It is linked to by over 150 articles, not least of which are IRC, and WP:IRC, which discusses the use of IRC for Wikipedia communications between editors for collaboration and assistance.
--Lexein (talk) 19:57, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Lexein pretty much nailed it. To go further with the reasons for which this article exits, this article is also a summary style spin out article for Internet Relay Chat which includes references to the various RFC documents. List articles such as this exist specifically because including all of this information in the parent article would make it far too long. Instead of defining each command each time it is discussed in different articles, in keeping with the purpose of a wiki, it makes much more sense to define these commands in one properly referenced place (yes, proper references took a lot of work to compile and shows one of the many motivations behind creating ...) and link to sections/anchors (in some cases with redirects) as necessary when discussing a specific command.We've also been down this road before with AfDs for List of FTP commands and List of FTP server return codes (although I see someone has since redirected ). This list serves the same purposes as these and others such as List of MS-DOS commands and even List of HTTP status codes (I once did proper references for this one,  which then looked like this but got blindly reverted  by the guy who "wrote" the article for WP:OWN reasons).I suppose I need to follow up with what I posted at WT:NOT because it looks like it rolled off into the archives with no response and as seen not only here but even at Talk:C standard library and this AfD, we are still having problems with misapplication of some of the "newer" additions to WP:NOT. While some of it might have been well-meaning when it was added, misapplication and/or misunderstanding of some of these WP:NOT entries is resulting in a lot of collateral damage within the WP:COMP scope. --Tothwolf (talk) 08:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Prod

message: Universal command?  Should it be added to the list? 204.185.46.1 (talk) 18:33, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: /me is not an IRC command, it's a client feature. Underneath, it uses the PRIVMSG command like the rest of the CTCP spec, which is an overlay protocol. -- M2Ys4U (talk) 17:21, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there is another command that does that, like there is a command called /say and another called /msg, only /say doesn't gets the channel as an argument. By a google search I find the command /describe, but I'm not sure it's the command. Galzigler (talk) 22:10, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Again, these are not IRC commands, they are client features. This article is about the commands that are sent between the IRC server and the user's IRC client. -- M2Ys4U (talk) 18:01, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  /me? 

message: I think those two commands are the same, or at least under UnrealIRCd. Anyway, it gets an argument (the help file's name), unlike the way it's described here. Galzigler (talk) 22:00, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  HELP and HELPOP 

message: Is there a way to get examples for each command?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.155.24 (talk) 00:51, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples