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Request for account to be renamed

Hi Daniel. I recently listed User:BlackBab00nHamilton at the UAA noticeboard with the suggestion that the account should be renamed per WP:BLPABUSE, as the username is a racial attack against Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton. However HBC AIV helperbot7 removed the listing because the account has already been blocked. I'm assuming that if I relist the account at UAA, the bot will just remove it again, so I thought I would approach you directly, as you appear to be active at the UAA holding pen. Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 11:07, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Why would we rename an account that's blocked indefinitely? That's what we do with offensive usernames, we don't rename them...WP:RBI ES&L 11:18, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

WP:BLPABUSE says "Certain disruptive and offensive usernames (for example those containing contentious material about living persons, or those that are clearly abusive towards any race, religion or social groups) may be immediately blocked by administrators and renamed by bureaucrats to protect Misplaced Pages and the subjects involved from harm." (my bolding). DH85868993 (talk) 11:30, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Account clarification

Hi, I recently created a new account after losing the password to my old one. EricChuang676 is the account that I will be using from now on, so please disregard EricChuang. (EricChuang676 talk) 7:00, 29 October 2013

Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon! Saturday November 2

DYK for United States v. Vampire Nation

Craigkrullgallery

I've unblocked Craigkrullgallery to allow for a name change. He seems to have answered the COI questions fine, and the proposed new name was okay. As always, please feel free to re-block if I've missed something. Kuru (talk) 17:52, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

YGM

Incomplete DYK nomination

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Arab street at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; see step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 04:58, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Re:Insufficiently closed DYK nom from two months ago

I have reclosed the nomination. Hopefully this will resolve the issue. --Allen3  01:37, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

User_talk:ZeraBOT

Although they don't have an approved bot task, did you see their userpage ... or their request at WP:RFP/C? ES&L 00:26, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

Worldstridesm

Any objections to unblocking User talk:Worldstridesm? His latest unblock request seems fine. I can add that article to my watchlist as well. Kuru (talk)

DYK for Hermann Stieve

User:Gniibe

I made an unblock request on his talk page. Could you review one more time? The block is the subject of some on identi.ca. --ESP (talk) 02:09, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

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The Center Line: Fall 2013

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Question

Hello Daniel Case, I was just wondering whether, considering your recent indefinite block of Edaniels1004 (talk · contribs), the page Misplaced Pages:Edaniels1004 should be deleted. Thanks, Toccata quarta (talk) 07:27, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Non-violation of Vantage Production Ltd

Hi,

I've just spotted at WP:UAA you've not blocked, for example, "Vantage Production Ltd". Surely that account is either misleading due to it not being controlled by a company, or it is controlled by a company and therefore afoul of our rules about accounts only being for one user? I can see a few cases where you've declined to block in similar circumstances, and I don't understand the logic for letting them lie when, for example, "Juiceentertainment" has just been blocked on these grounds.

—me_and 14:35, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

T: template redirects

Hi, you participated in Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2009 October 20#T:ITNBOX and other Template redirects, some of which I have relisted at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 November_18#T:WPTECH. Please come along and share your thoughts .. ;-) John Vandenberg 15:32, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Reliable Source and Link Deletion

Hi Daniel. I posted on Ronz's page regarding the links I placed and the links I still see making their way on wikipedia. The kind of links allowed to stay on wikipedia are confusing me with the term reliable source !!! Please check my talk here - https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Ronz#Your_link_deletion_strategy Thank you. --UpalC (talk) November 21, 2013 (IST)

A longer block

Hey Daniel, I was thinking that User: Shoka1234 deserves a longer block due to this comment, the user was blocked for personal attacks and harassment before, and frankly the user frequently violates WP:V and probably deserved a longer block then 12 hours from the beginning. Its all on your opinion though. STATic message me! 04:12, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I mean it is one thing to call names to another editor, but to tell two editors to "kill themselves" is a bit extreme to me, people that are going to say those type of things frankly do not belong here, in my opinion. But I will message the blocking admin. Regards, STATic message me! 04:54, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

User talk:CleanOceanProject requesting unblock

Hello Daniel. Could you take another look at the unblock rationale that this user provided and indicate what more he can do? He has already selected a non-promotional username, and his unblock seems to be saying he'll abide by our policies if unblocked. The only thing he didn't mention was notability. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 16:08, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Your DYK nomination of Eduard Pernkopf

Hello! Your submission of Eduard Pernkopf at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Iselilja (talk) 15:09, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

OTRS issue

An issue has been raised via OTRS regarding an image you added: File:Fair Lawn, Cold Spring, NY.jpg

The homeowner may be offering to provide a replacement image. They are making that offer to you. I offered to arrange to upload and deal with the permission, but I want to know if you would object to a replacement photo and/or want to be involved.--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:48, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

You may wish to see this deletion request I filed.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:58, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

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Continuous spamming of Kolkatafootball.com

I would like to draw your attention on a certain URL that is spamming Misplaced Pages since 2007. For reference please check... https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul_2#Spamming_of_http:.2F.2Fspam.kolkatafootball.com

The placement of this link has not stopped even after multiple warnings. For reference please check...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Kfdc

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:59.93.194.3

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:59.93.208.153

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:59.93.212.214

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:59.93.243.205

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:122.163.79.233

Recently the same spam is being repeated by a new range of IP on https://en.wikipedia.org/Kolkata_derby (may be on other articles as well which I did not verify) and these IPs are...

1. 14.99.33.169

2. 14.96.106.55

Can you please provide a way out to stop this continuous spam of a certain link from various IPs ? Thank you. --UpalC (talk) November 27, 2013 (IST) —Preceding undated comment added 18:11, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#User_Upalc may shed some light on this. --Ronz (talk) 16:16, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

UAA issue

Since I've talked with you in the past about the UAA list, I thought I'd turn to you in this case. Another admin was clearing out the UAA list and removed two (1 and 2) offensive names because of their lack of edits. I've not seen any other admin have this policy, nor is it mentioned anywhere in the guidelines or on TW. I understand why we have this policy for promo names, but it seems unreasonable to patently disregard offensive usernames because of their lack of edits. Indeed, I've seen many usernames be hard blocked for offensiveness without any edits. As I've explained to the admin, my issue is not with the ruling of offensiveness, it's the removal of the names due to lack of edits (instead of a UAA|no and it being left on the board for others to see and possible discuss). I just request that a second opinion on this issue. Thank you for your time. EvergreenFir (talk) 22:50, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Eduard Pernkopf

Avoidance of a block

An IP editor that you blocked today is avoiding his block and being disruptive on Talk:Kleargear. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:02, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Persistent Alvin and the Chipmunks vandal again

Daniel, please could you investigate this disruptive user who persistently puts unsourced / unhelpful material about "Alvin and the Chipmunks" into articles about songs. You previously issued a block against the user, but whenever the anonymous IP user is blocked, he or she just comes back again under a different IP address.

Over a sustained long period of time, the amount of disruption that he or she has caused to articles is huge.

97.86.5.61 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Then evaded block by coming back as:

198.246.7.69 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Has come back recently as:

68.186.161.55 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

If I report him or her to "Administrator intervention against vandalism", I may possibly be told by Admin that not enough warnings have been issued against the latest IP address 68.186.161.55. But the problem is that he or she continually does this under different IP addresses and evades blocks in this way.

The IP user's persistent disruptive edits in my view now merit a long-range IP block. Otherwise this will carry on indefinitely and continue to damage the Misplaced Pages community. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 20:54, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Daniel,

Thank you for your reply. I have now reported this issue to Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 21:50, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

AN

I didn't mention your name. I didn't even point to the specific example that triggered my post, but just in case someone ties the topic to our "conversation", I thought I should give you a heads up. My guess is my questions will go nowhere, anyway, but I'm a glutton for punishment.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:21, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for Thanks

Daniel, thanks for reaching out re: the revenge porn article and for creating/adding the Wiktionary entry! I was only able to dedicate the time and resources to working on the article because I pitched it as a Directed Research project to my law school. It's going up for evaluation soon and I would be honored if you or User:Jayen466 looked through the article - it's gone through a lot of changes - and improvements! - since it was first evaluated in October. Thanks again. - Amphiggins (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:29, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

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December 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment

Hi, Daniel. I'm just wondering how a section about how to get around the accident is germane to the article. Doesn't WP:NOTTRAVEL still apply? Epicgenius (talk) 16:53, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

I don't think that information comes directly under WP:NOTTRAVEL, at least not based on the examples given there (putting in the MTA's phone number or URL and telling people to call for information would be closer to what I think that's intended to exclude). In any invent I didn't phrase it as a direct how-to for that reason, as well.

But I think that how the two railroads—including the one whose train did not derail—responded to the accident in terms of guaranteeing service to their riders is useful information, for comparison purposes if nothing else should something similar happen in the future. We did, after all, find Sandy's effect on the city's transportation network notable enough to have a section on (and that's sort of how that section of the derailment article should read once this is all safely in the past). Daniel Case (talk) 22:55, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Although it may not come under WP:NOTTRAVEL, saying "The next day, the first regular business day back from the Thanksgiving holiday, it restored limited service as far south as Yonkers, three stations north of where the derailment occurred. From there riders were advised to take a shuttle bus to the Van Cortlandt Park—242nd Street subway station, the northern terminus of the 1 service into Manhattan and Penn Station, where they could take the 42nd Street Shuttle to Grand Central, the usual southern terminus of the Hudson Line," is basically answering the question "How do you get from Yonkers to Penn Station on the day after the crash?"

These can be interpreted by some as travel directions for the commute on Monday, and they were not under WP:NOTTRAVEL because you added that text today. By contrast, Sandy's effects on transport were just that—effects on transport. So, your text was not exactly travel directions; however, they sounded like they were. Epicgenius (talk) 23:59, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

You got it. If I had written that as more of an explicit how-to, as something like "travelers can take a shuttle bus from Yonkers to ...", then it would fall afoul of NOTTRAVEL. A description of a process can sometimes be read as instructive (See French press#Preparation, for instance—you could derive instructions for how to make coffee that way just from that section. And then you could literally see the accompanying video of me making coffee that way, in case the text wasn't enough. Daniel Case (talk) 06:38, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Okay, got it. Epicgenius (talk) 13:21, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

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User:Contegosecurity

You left the block notice for this account, but didn't block the account, so I went ahead and blocked it. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:01, 5 December 2013 (UTC)