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Milhist coordinators election has started

The February 2008 Military history WikiProject coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting nine coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of fifteen candidates. Please vote here by February 28. --ROGER DAVIES  —Preceding comment was added at 10:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Likely TyrusThomas4lyf sock-puppetry (again)

Notification of all-but certain sock-puppetry: 99.129.71.32 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and Give me more information (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) are likely sock-puppet of TyrusThomas4lyf (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). The same article selection and characteristic edit summary styles are telling. If you need more evidence, please let me know. Thanks. — Myasuda (talk) 14:18, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Give me more information

I would be inclined to unblock this user on WP:AGF grounds. But I am going to check how you feel about it first. Stifle (talk) 11:05, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

• I'm also looking at the request. Can you confirm which user you think this is a sock of? Thanks Spartaz 13:48, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Don't I look stupid now?? ;) There is such an enormous overlap in their edits that I don't think there can be any doubt its the same user. I don't know, I don't really favour unblocking long term sockmasters until they have, well, confessed and made convincing statements of future good behaviour. Spartaz 13:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

For whatever reason, User:TyrusThomas4lyf has been incredibly resilient (and resourceful) in finding a ton of IP adds to edit from. It's been going on for a year already I think. Anyway, appreciate the swift action taken against his socks. Chensiyuan (talk) 15:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Wow - I can hardly believe it's been almost a year already, but indeed it has. Well, I wish it wasn't necessary, but I'm happy to help where I can. Kafziel 06:58, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Vacation

Just saw your vacation template on User_talk:Chasze's talk page. Hilarious. David D. (Talk) 23:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I just saw it, too. Made my day!! What a great notice. Thanks. Tim Ross (talk) 16:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Banned user via 220.233.238.4

Hi! You might want to consider blocking User:220.233.238.4 for a little while. It's that "Kingarthur" nincompoop. I just reverted a whole slew of his edits.

By the way, I was thinking of adding the "vacation from editing" template to that sock of his, but ya beat me to it. Seriously, that is THE funniest template on Misplaced Pages. Heaven knows this site needs a bit of humor at times. Best, --PMDrive1061 (talk) 07:33, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks; I see you went and clobbered him. Hopefully, he'll learn the lesson. Talk to you soon.  :)) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 07:35, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Comments from Heim

Re: this: Yes, I felt it came down to blocking one or neither, and decided to give one more chance largely because Collectonian might have felt her earlier reverts were justified due to the removal of the tag. I find the method of giving a final warning and watchlisting the article sometimes lets one stop the edit war without using the tools.

And here's a classic response. I wonder if we should consider making some sort of note on the 3RR page that edits that are "against consensus" are not vandalism and reverting them isn't exempt from vandalism. It seems to be a really widespread misconception.

Just saw that you moved to Orange County, CA last year (yeah, I guess I'm slow), which makes us almost neighbors (I live in San Bernardino County, myself). Anyway, belated welcome to SoCal! And since I'm apparently just in a chatty mood now, I'll go ahead and finish this post off. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 20:26, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Blocked a range you've been dealing with

I've blocked 118.137.0.0/17 for a week due to the massive amounts of vandlism only edits coming from that range (for example, on the article Sunrise (company)). As you've blocked several of the IPs in this range, I thought you'd want to know. ···日本穣 00:24, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Please cancel an edit violating The 3RR

1. Some days ago, an editor made this edit.
2. On 23 February, at 5:15, the same editor has made his first revert.
3. On the same day, at 22:23, the same editor made his second revert.
4. On that very day, at 22:57, the same editor made his third revert.
5. On the same day, at 23:26, the same editor made his fourth revert.

Please cancel his fourth revert - which violates 3RR. No need to warn him, because I'm sure it was not done on purpose! He's an honest person who is absolutely aware to the 3RR and has always obeyed the 3RR. Eliko (talk) 00:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

You'd need to take that up with the admin who protected the page. It often happens that articles get locked on the wrong version, but it's generally against our protection policy to change protected articles in that way. Kafziel 21:34, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I didn't ask you to undo the "wrong" version (since nobody can determine that previous versions are "better"), but rather to undo the version which violates the 3RR. Such a request is absolutlely legitimate and backed by objective criteria (not like any hypothetical request for subjectively preferring a "better" version over a "wrong" version). Eliko (talk) 21:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

But there's no basis in policy for "undoing" someone's edit just because it violates 3RR. The user himself might have undone it to avoid being blocked in the first place, but undoing it just because it broke 3RR would just amount to one more person adding to the edit war. Once article protection comes into play it can't be changed, but you might want to ask the protecting admin to remove the protection (if that would be appropriate - I can't really say, not being too familiar with the situation myself). Kafziel 22:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Company name in photo

Dear Kafziel,

I received your final warning for using our company name in the subscript of our photo. Why aren't you following the same policy for our competitor Arrowbio? http://en.wikipedia.org/Materials_Recovery_Facility

On this page some one removed all our photo's and references to our company name REDOX Recycling Technology. Now you're doing the same with the photo of our DAF unit of our company REDOX Water Technology.

Obviously I am doing something wrong here, what should I do to get the same reference to our company name as our competitor Arrowbio?

Thanks in advance.

SmileJohn —Preceding unsigned comment added by SmileJohn (talk • contribs) 17:36, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

The mention of Arrowbio has been removed and the redirect page deleted. You now both have equal reference (i.e., none). Kafziel 23:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by SmileJohn (talk • contribs) 09:39, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Help!

It's days like this which make me wish I were still an admin. Might I impose on you to consider blocking User:Hockertonman as a vandalism-only account? His silly hoax article has been deleted and he's making a living mess out of my talk page and that of User:JohnCD. Thank you SO much. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:59, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

• Yay! THANK YOU.  :)) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 18:03, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

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Wait!

WAIT!!! I thank you for blocking the vandals, but don't block Saber!! He was only trying to stop them!!! User:Sceptre and I will vouch for him!!! Please? I know he broke 3RR, but he was only reverting their vandalism. They were blatantly vandalizing the page. He only was stopping them. Blizzard Beast 00:58, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Stubbornness, using incorrect style, bold editing, and addition of links (if well-intentioned) aren't vandalism. I know you guys don't like the changes those other users were making, but if it isn't vandalism then you have to step back and look for help through the proper channels. Remember:There are no emergencies on Misplaced Pages.

On the other hand, if another admin reviews the block and would like to lift it, I won't have a problem with that. Kafziel 01:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I think I'll just leave it. It's only 24 hours, I guess. I feel bad for Saber but I gotta go soon, anyways. I realize what you're saying, but I don't think that's quite what those users were doing. I still think they were vandalizing. I also think Saber did his best to stop them, but oh well. It's only 24 hours, though, like I said. Blizzard Beast 01:11, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

block of User:Andyvphil

If you read his second unblock request, Andy makes a pretty good case that he's not the anonymous reverter -- he seems insistent that he's in Pacifica, and the anon IP is 400 miles away (and a non-proxy). Would you mind taking a second look? Thanks. - Revolving Bugbear 12:56, 2 March 2008 (UTC)