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Pacific Coast University School of Law article

Just an update that Bobak Ha'Eri, Esq. communicated with us and there has been a general agreement that the change proposed by the Vice Dean Charles Hicks, Esq. of our institution was correct and okay to revise.

Also, Bobak's suggestion on where to move that particular paragraph in the article was very, very helpful.

And, yes, even though I am a newbie to all this, I did somehow manage to move the paragraph all by myself.

Thank you again for all your help.

Sincerely,

Robert Campbell, JD for PCU (*)

(*) not the university featured in the movie entitled "PCU"

    : - )

Please stop

Do us all a favour and give up editing. Erase this page. Your superhuman, almost godlike stupidity is contaminating Misplaced Pages, making it worse (it's already pretty bad). Please, please quit! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.12.17 (talk • contribs)

Falun Gong

Ami:

You unfroze the Falun Gong page yesterday and an editor named Dilip Rajeev immediately started a series of edits, exceeding his 3RR limit. I blocked his reverts and exceeded my 3RR limit as well. You issued a warning to both Dilip and I. In response, I stopped doing all reverts or deletions, but if you check the history on the page you will see Dilip resumed several hours later. Check particularly his edit of 10:21 June in which he deleted an entire paragraph claiming it was unsourced. It is a pargraph we had discussed before and we had agreed not to discuss all source issues before making any deletions. If your words have any meaning at all, I ask that you block Dilip now. --Tomananda 18:43, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I agree that he is well in excess of three reverts in one day, but unfortunately I wasn't around when he did, and it's now been eleven hours. Blocking is a preventitive rather than punitive measure, and so if he's refrained from edit warring in the last eleven hours, I don't really see a need to block. I'll be watching though, and thanks for your note. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

If you get the time and feel like it, could you do a revert count on the Falun Gong page again? I don't want anybody blocked, but a stern warning might be in order. :-) Samuel has one that I don't think should count, right after one of mine. I'll take his in exchange for mine, since his is the one I should have done. Thanks! CovenantD 19:30, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind. That was several hours ago and the editing has stopped for now. I think they're all asleep. :-) CovenantD 22:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the E-Mail I sent for "Edie Britt"

The IP address is 152.163.100.73.

Thank you so much for your attention to this. It is much appreciated. Namaste, Edie

Sprint Nextel

Why am I getting into trouble for changing the Established date from 2005 back to 1899???? Locust43 change it in the first place, so I put it back to the correct date. How am I now in trouble for changing it back? So I guess if Locust43 claims Sprint is a carrier with 2 users, and I change it back, then I will get into trouble???? Why am I getting a warning about this??? Why not Locust43??

Updated on June 6, 2006. I guess you don't have an answer for this. You were flat out wrong for tagging me for a warning before even seeing why I restored the listing. Please make sure to read the entire article and changes before shelling out bias punishment.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.229.231.123 (talk • contribs) .

Thinking perhaps it's time I thought about my own RfA...

Hey Daniel. If you don't mind I would appreciate your advice (assuming you have a spare mo). Just recently hit 6 months on wiki and as such started thinking about what I'd need to work on for a successful run for sysop. If you don't mind being brutally honest with me, do you

1. Think it's a suitable time for me, and if not suggestions would be appreciated
2. See anything regardless of the answer to the above that I should specifically be concentration on or improving?

As always, grateful for any help you may offer. - Glen _C (Stollery) 10:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Go for it, and let me nominate. It'll be hilarious. --Avillia 02:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Romania

There's an error in the article about Romania. In the field "Name" the word "Ţeara" is incorect. The corect form of the word is "Ţara". Thanks.

VandalProof source code

A couple of weeks ago you said you would give me the VandalProof source code. Any chance of this happening soon? Please be aware that my WIkipedia email is currently down (domain issues). Werdna_T@CL 23:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Let me know when your e-mail's back up, and I'll send it to you. Sorry that I spaced it. Oh, and please remember that I warned you about how ridiculously messy the code is--but it works! AmiDaniel (talk) 03:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I have a secondary email address from google's mail service with this username. You can send it there at the moment if you like. Werdna (talk) 04:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

--REMOVED-- Paranoia. Werdna (talk) 04:26, 6 June 2006 (UTC)? (Don't want the spambots to pick it up lol). AmiDaniel (talk) 04:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

That's correct. Werdna (talk) 04:26, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Paranoia understood. Let me package that up and send it out to you as soon as I can (may have to wait until tommorow night though). AmiDaniel (talk) 04:36, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I'm specifically looking for how you process the RSS feed, as this is nightmarish for me. Werdna (talk) 05:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

When you mentioned RSS feed, it brought another question to mind. Do you want my current "in-progress" source code, where I'm working on a lot of cool dealios with precaching rollbacks and filters, or do you want the source code for v1.2.1? The new stuff is even messier and is potentially quite buggy (though the old features still work just fine), but I find it a lot more impressive than my old code. Your call--or I could send you both. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:08, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Either's good. Werdna (talk) 06:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Rollback question

Hi, I've pretty much gotten used to using VandalProof (impressive software if I say so myself!) But sometimes when I rollback articles, a message will pop up saying "The previous edit to this page was by the same user. Do you want to view all edits made by this user before rolling back?" Then you either have to click "Yes" or "No". I'm not sure what to do when this happens. Can you help me out? Thanks! --Tuspm 23:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

If you click "yes" it will load the diff between the last edit made by the current user and the last edit made by the previous user. If you click "no" it will simply revert one edit. It's probably best to review all edits by the on-top user as there may well be more vandalism by that user that you didn't notice in the current diff. AmiDaniel (talk) 03:31, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment from Roger C. Ambrose

FYI: I have posted a comment:
Roger ambrose 01:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, mister splicer.

Completely botched history clean. Can you fix it? --Avillia 04:32, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not really on, but I'll just give you a quick response here: "Old revisions contain personal information about Katefan0 - deleteing and restoring only current version." Contact User:Raul654 if you think the deletion was unjustified, but I'm assuming he has his reasons. If you'd like me to take a screen shot of the history or e-mail you a certain revision, I'd be glad to do though. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:36, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Oceantoursvietnam

I indef'd you 1 week'd I restored the indef, just wanted to make sure that was cool -- Tawker 07:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it's perfectly fine. Immediately after I blocked, I checked his contribs and decided indef was better--checked his blocklog and saw that you had already done it. No worries at all. AmiDaniel (talk) 07:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

please help

• User:Zello faking discussion see http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk%3AKom%C3%A1rno&diff=56962233&oldid=56961167 and http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk%3AZello&diff=56964361&oldid=56871523 --Mt7 08:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I never insulted anyone. And what's wrong with superfluous? Just being 'superfluously' accurate.

Bypassing Cross-Namespace Redirects

Yeah, I forgot to remove it during that run. My bad. (Totally scared me when I saw it on the greylist in #vandalism-en-wp, though, because I had completely forgotten it was running at all... nearly gave me a heart attack :o) --Rory096 03:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Lol. Yeah, it's no problem at all--very easy to correct. Keep up the good work! AmiDaniel (talk) 03:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Signpost updated for June 5th.

Weekly Delivery

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Admin duties

Check your mail soon.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:59, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. Checking it now. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:01, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

And again.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 06:30, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Just in case it was swamped by previous messages.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:20, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Request for page protection

Thanks for correcting the Request for Page Protection (Manitoba disambiguation) for me. My wireless network is acting up and I incorrectly stripped content when I tried to paste. Hu Gadarn 04:50, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

protecting Manoitoba disambiguation page

... and thanks for the very fast response to my request for protection. You're page says that you're sleeping so you must be able to respond even more quickly when awake :) Thanks for using your powers for good instead of evil. Hu Gadarn 04:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Gawd, I always forget to change that--who knows how long I've been "sleeping" this time. No problem at all, and please feel free to let me know if you need help with anything else. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:56, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Your archive has popped up

Ami,

Please see my talk page. Thanks. Marlon Fire Thunder 05:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Harry Magdoff and espionage

Hi, this is a content dispute with good old wikistalking by User:PatCheng mixed in, not vandalism. Thanks. 72.65.77.79 05:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I never said anything about vandalism, simply that you are both almost in violation of the three-revert rule, though I am looking into the situation with User:PatCheng as I'm finding him popping up left and right with edit wars and other questionable behaviors. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:56, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

72.65.77.79 (talk · contribs) and YINever (talk · contribs) are merely the sockpuppets of TJive (talk · contribs), created recently for the sole purpose of evading 3RR. This person has a habit of problemic edits, that adds right-wing POV into articles, including phrases such as "regime" , and "bloody repression", , and outright refuses to discuss his edits. I reverts all of his problemic changes to elaborated versions until further disputes are solved--PatCheng 11:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

For your sure/swift block of 3RR violator

The Editor's Barnstar I just noticed your swift action in blocking a senior editor who indulged in 3RR in Muhammad. I have to admit such courage is rare these days in a world of cabals. Keep it up, admin! I completely trust your integrity now. Anwar 18:17, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Status?

Hey, I noticed you had your status listed to the right of your user name. Wondering how that one works…? Thanks. --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 18:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the prompt attention! Hipocrite - «Talk» 21:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Please Use Edit Summaries

Andrew 00:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, Mathbot seems to think I'm pretty good about using edit summaries, but I'll try to do better in the future =D. AmiDaniel (talk) 00:21, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your understanding. Just ignore this edit; I'm a reasonably experienced Misplaced Pages editor but a newbie on VandalProof, and sometimes my tests with the software go in the wrong places :-). Andrew 00:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

No, it's quite fine--I've become used to it =D. I'd much rather that my talk page get experimented upon than, say, Jimbo's or Tawkerbot2's, so it's really no problem at all. Plus, we can all use a friendly reminder from time to time to use more descriptive edit summaries. AmiDaniel (talk) 00:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

EasyPizza

so why are people constantly vandalising our article/page? we are new to wikipedia but we are entitled to post one page informing the public of our legally registered and fully traceable UK company. We have no desire to take action but people who vandalise our page by directing it to a competitor business against whom we have a court order protecting us are in breech of that court order so should refrain from their actions. please lets stop before this gets out of hand politakis

You can consider this your final warning. If you again threaten myself or any other contributor with legal action, you will be indefinitely blocked from editing per Misplaced Pages's policy on legal threats. As for EasyPizza, the AfD discussion allowed the article to remain on Misplaced Pages provided the article be completely rewritten to conform to Misplaced Pages's neutral point-of-view policy. Please bear in mind that Misplaced Pages is not a vehicle for advertising, and the editors you refer to as having vandlized "your" article have quite to the contrary taken an article that began an advertisement and converted it into an encyclopedia article that is unbiased, verifiable, and well-sourced. In any case, you have already been blocked for violating WP:3RR on that article, and your first action after the block expired was to revert the article back to an advertisement yet again. Stop reverting immediately; your actions are highly counterproductive and disruptive. Instead consider using the talk page to discuss why you disagree with the changes being made to the article, and the same goes for the proposed merger--repeatedly reverting the article will get you no where; you have to discuss the article with its other contributors if you would like to see any of your changes implemented. AmiDaniel (talk) 07:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

He's not paying a lot of attention to this. It's been reverted again since your comment. I was just a passer-by who got caught up in the dispute by accident, but it seems to need some administrative attention at this point. The lad's persistent, if nothing else. Cheers. Tony Fox 15:33, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Gah, you got any recommendations on this one? I've been tracing this since its AfD, which confused me due to another company (now at EasyPizza (easyGroup)) having a bunch of results on google, but none on this one in particular that I could find worthwhile(besides forum posts). Helped end the AfD by withdrawl to try to salvage the page to be about a corp. that seemed to fit WP:CORP. lowercase is pretty much in the sample pickle as he withdrew the AfD for it to try to fix it. I'm now 'involved' through the subject of lots of contact with the first author of the page. Though now that the page can't as easily be confused with an article about this company, is it even right for me relist it on AfD? Kevin_b_er 01:06, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

This whole situation is an absolute mess. I'm trying to sort out everything that's going on with it--this article EasyPizza (easyGroup) was cpmvd from the EasyPizza article, and I'm trying to calm down my obsessive-compulsive urge to merge the histories as I think it's relevant to keep the histories intact locally. The user also forked the article at Easypizza, but this was quickly fixed by User:RHaworth--I've now got all three watchlisted and am monitoring the user's contribs quite closely. I would personally recommend that you wait and see how the proposed merger from EasyPizza (easyGroup) into EasyGroup goes, as I think the previous AfD demonstrated that the community quite strongly believed the article on the chain to be nothing more than, as lowercase stated, an SEO article that is unverifiable and non-notable. (God, am I sick of dealing with users whose only concerns are SEO.) However, I have the feeling that regardless of any overwhelming consensus, Politakis will consider his unbased reversions of any article until he gets his way. I'm not sure that an AfD on the matter would really accomplish anything, as the consensus has been clear since the very start--it's only Politarkis who stands adamently opposed. Lowercase suggested going through dispute resolution, namely mediation, and I think that may well be the best approach--that or a user RfC. In any case, I'm monitoring Politarkis quite closely as I certainly don't believe he is done with his disruption, and I will do my best to prevent any future forking of the article. AmiDaniel (talk) 01:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I feel quite guilty for getting that AfD stopped. I worry what's spreading, like Ambassador Cars and Minicab links on all several UK articles and new articles created to forward or otherwise enhance credibility to other sites he runs like www.eminicabs.co.uk and www.etaxicabs.co.uk, all with minor edits. Worries me a lot. Kevin_b_er 02:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages rule question

Hey, how's it going? Anyway, there's this one user that I ran into: Acethebunny. On his talk page, he recently got a vandalism warning from Tawkerbot2 because he vandalised MySpace by writing "Myspace.com sucks" or something like that. He keeps removing the warning even though he just got it like 2 days ago. I put it back once, but I don't want to get into a revert war. So I guess my question is this: Is it actually against Misplaced Pages rules to delete vandalism warnings from a talk page? If it isn't, I think someone should definitely propose it. It makes it a ton easier for me to be able to go to someone's talk page and see what sort of trouble they've gotten into in the past. Thanks, WIKIPEEDIO 02:50, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

The "rules" on this are so ambiguous at this point; the only thing that can be agreed upon is that it is disruptive and should not be prohibited. I posted a {{wr2}} warning and will keep an eye on him. A short block for disruption may be in order. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Edit conflit

There seems to be some edit conflict on Misplaced Pages:Requests for page protection

I made a mistake and undid redid it while you also fixed it.

Also While i cicked edit a responce was instad of being saved moved to my edit in prgress and when i casled it was never saved.

You may want to re add the resonce to my unprotecion if you were the one who make it. (It is not visable in the hisory as of the last time i cheked but i deifitly saw the comment saying someting about)

I have not used this page befoe so i am unfarliar as to how it works. It may be my page Cache but there was a respoce to my reqest that is not visble anymore.

--E-Bod 03:14, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

You mean List of Lost episodes? I added back into the appropriate section and am reviewing it as we speak. AmiDaniel (talk) 03:16, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

AntiVandalBot

Yeah, its a clone run by Cyde - we decided to spread the code around a bit in case Tawkerbot2 dies :o -- Tawker 04:20, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

LOL, I was wondering if that was going to happen :o -- Tawker 04:21, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, okay. Sorry about blocking it. You may want to make that a bit more clear on the userpage as I simply assumed it was an imposter or someone using TB2's code without permission--didn't want to take any chances. Also, the bot's name makes it sound like a fake, no offense. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandal Proof Login

Hi Daniel,

I just installed VandalProof and ran the 121.exe - however, despite entering my correct username in VP and logging into Misplaced Pages through the VP browser, I couldn't get on. Being as you added me to the list, I hope that you can help. Thanks, Tewfik 06:16, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I forgive you.

Even though you are rather obscure... Jude (talk) 07:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Anon keeps vandalizing

Hi, an anon, 202.156.6.54, keeps vandalizing pages; one of his recent vandalizing initiatives was renaming an episode of an anime television series, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, from Asahina Mikuru's Adventure - Episode 00 to Asahina Mikuru's Breastventure - Episode 00. I recall this anon was temporarily blocked by yourself a few days ago, and given a last warning - but he/she has vandalized yet again. If you would like to, can you take the necessary action? - 'Ganryuu 09:59, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

answered

Hi, thanks for the bug report, answered on my talk. --Yurik 14:25, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Block IP

Hello, can you block this IP: 202.156.6.54. Vandalism. Thanks. -- minghan 15:31, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

{{unblock}}

Hi, i'm Ruthlyn. I was just blocked and this is the message I recieved.

Your IP address, which is 64.12.116.139 The name of the blocking admin, which is AmiDaniel The reason you were blocked, which is: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Urbanshocker". The reason given for Urbanshocker's block is: "3RR on Manitoba (disambiguation)".

I don't know who the hell Urbanshocker is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ToxicArtichoke (talk • contribs)

Done, IP was AOL. Prodego 17:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

IMPORTANT

In your archives you have this page User_talk:AmiDaniel/JLK_Archive. However, an IP has contacted me telling me that Wikimedia assured them references to John would be removed.

PS: VandalProof still says I'm not a moderator --mboverload@ 21:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

You can just blank it, and leave the history. That should be sufficient for archiving purposes, while satisfying Mr. Lekay. Prodego 21:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I deleted it for now. We can discuss whether it has a place on Misplaced Pages and then AmiDaniel can restore it if he thinks that it does. --Tony Sidaway 21:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)