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If you're here to post a message about a warning that has been left on your userpage or an edit summary attributes the wrong user, there's no need, it's a bug in the software that is under investigation over at ].<br> Just remove the warning from your userpage (but leave an Edit Summary explaining why) and all will once again be well with the world. This happens when I go back to a previous page I've already looked at, whereby it keeps the new page editor details and uses the new editor details to leave a warning and compose the Edit Summary. As I now know how the problem occurred, unintentional vandalism warnings have stopped, but the Edit Summary issue is still being worked upon. Best Wishes ] | |||
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''']''' : I'd like to thank all those who Supported me on my recent Request for Adminship, if your wondering where it went, I withdrew at 32/18/6. It looked pretty unlikely to reach a meaningful consensus. I'll consider resubmitting after New Year to Mid-January in keeping with the following successful RfAs where the candidates have broadly similar time on project or similar previous RfAs : ] | |||
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<div style="border: 3px solid red; background: pink; padding: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 10px;">Just a belated note to thank everybody who commented on my RfA, the opposes and neutrals were really helpful in letting me know where I've gone wrong and I'm overwhelmed by the level of support (97% or so) so a big thank you to everybody. Nick</div> | |||
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== Reversion on ] == | |||
Did somebody already start complaining about your new sig? In case not, always happy to help out there you know. --] 18:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
::No complaints, I just can't settle on anything I really like. <span style="font-family:Arial">--Kind Regards - ]]</span> 18:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
==Civil== | |||
I just noticed that you reverted a good faith talk edit I made on but you attributed the edit to someone else. In fact, it looks like the person you attributed my edit to didn't even edit the talk page. ] 02:59, 9 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
If my suggestion wasn't welcome or helpful, that's fine, but responding with "''yawn''" in your edit summary when you deleted it wasn't exactly necessary. ] 19:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
:It's a bug in VP2 as per the box at the top of this page. Sorry about that. <font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 13:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
:It's archived, not deleted, and I really didn't appreciate your lecture. I lost wireless internet access on my laptop and didn't have time at 4am to sort the laptop out and finish removing AfD tags etc. If you had looked at my contributions and past closures on XfDs, you would have soon found I do know what I'm doing, contrary to the gist of your lecture. It really rather annoys me that you found the time to post a lengthy lecture on closing XfDs but didn't check my past contributions to Misplaced Pages namespace. It's a common problem with Misplaced Pages of course and I won't single you out for undue criticism, but this culture of criticising when something might be done incorrectly but otherwise ignoring people when they make splendid contributions is poisonous to the project. I would have found it much more appropriate to have left a little note saying "You've forgot to remove the AfD template" or some such polite courtesy message. <span style="font-family:Arial">--Kind Regards - ]]</span> 19:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
::That's not an acceptable response, IMO. That edit went uncorrected for ''nine days''. If you knew there was a bug, why the heck didn't you check the edits of the bot to determine if it was breaking WP rather than fixing it? And where is the 'investigation' mentioned in the 'box' at top? I would like to see evidence that more is being done than just apologising for erroneous warning templates; I want to see that there is action being taken to make sure that this bot hasn't got other uncorrected erroneous edits out there. Where is ''that'' investigation happening? ] 17:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
::My apologies if you found it to be criticism, it was not intended as such. It was clearly meant to be helpful. Instead of blowing me off with your ] edit summary, you only needed to say that you were having technical difficulties. Don't take your frustrations out on me. If this is how you treat people who are trying to be helpful, I am seriously concerned about how you might treat those who aren't. Perhaps staying up 'til 4 a.m. isn't the best idea. ] 19:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::Hi, if you visit ] you'll find details of the software and the small number of bug reports we've made. This is the first report of an error I've had on my talk page for a month too. I keep a close eye on all the edits I make manually and with software and I'm quite happy that this is a one off. It could be down to a number of issues, probably the bug as above, an edit conflict or a db error. I'd be happy to even credit it to a human error, but the differing edit summaries do somewhat exclude that possibility. Whatever the reason, it's something that doesn't happen now on anything other than an erratic and exceptionally rare basis. <font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 19:56, 9 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
:::I don't believe your post was helpful however, being unduly critical over '''2''' unfinished AfDs. I most certainly do not think the edit summary in anyway violates civility policy and find that unduly unhelpful too. <span style="font-family:Arial">--Kind Regards - ]]</span> 20:03, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::OK, but if you keep such a close eye on your edits then why didn't you catch mine? And since you didn't catch it, how confident can you be that there aren't more? ] 19:59, 9 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
::::"Critical" would be to simply have said, "you're closing AfDs wrong, smarten up". What I offered was ''constructive'' criticism offered in ]. No amount of reviewing your edit history or malfunctioning laptops could explain to me why the templates were used in the wrong place or why you were not using template substitutions. Like I said, if my suggestions were not helpful you could have simply stated that you were having technical problems or that your laptop was fried. No need to be so defensive. | |||
:::::I'm happy enough to continue using the software, and a whole month with just your comment coming back suggests the software is stable and reliable. <font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 20:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
::::As for the civility policy, I refer to the example given, "''Judgmental tone in edit summaries ("fixed sloppy spelling", "snipped rambling crap")''". I suggest "''yawn''" certainly is judgmental in tone. Take it down a notch. ] 20:22, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::::Hello, just dropping by! I think he meant "yawn" I am tired, not "yawn" this bores me. By what it looks like, he was in a hassle that night, and was up late. Did he make a mistake (the edit summary)? Yes, was it very significant, not really given the circumstances. Agent, I think you did a great job trying to teach him how to close those things properly, instead of just throwing links at him. For that I respect you. I think Heligoland has gotten the message, (as to what he was doing wrong), and will do better. (thats what I read from him archiving the page). Cheers!—— ] <sup>(])</sup> 20:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::::Agent, I apologise for the edit summary and we'll just have to agree on whether your post was critical or constructive and whether my edit summary was uncivil or not. I've not closed an AfD for a few weeks now and I guess I'm a little rusty. <span style="font-family:Arial">--Kind Regards - ]]</span> 20:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::::That's fair, thank you. I hope there are no hard feelings - like I said, I had no intention of being critical, only helpful. After all, I think you have been an excellent editor and only wanted to make sure you continue down that path. ] 21:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
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This IP belongs to a high school. Many constructive edits come from the school. Consider a ]. ] ] ] 19:00, 11 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
:Nevermind, you're not an admin and therefore can't block. ] ] ] 19:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
::Not yet. <font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 19:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
== Newyorkbrad's RfA == | |||
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Thank you for your support on ], which closed favorably this morning, and for your kind comments accompanying your !vote. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, ] 18:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
Why did you revert the edits below? | |||
==Great news== | |||
--] ]] 00:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
Please check the English Misplaced Pages Main Page today, ], ], ] is featured in the ] or Did you know...? section. Please spread the good news! --] (]•]) 00:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
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: I'm not sure as it was several weeks back. Having a quick look, it'll most likely be spam, the website being in a foreign language or the website hosting confirmed or suspected copyright infringing material. <font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 00:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
Hi, I'm just dealing with list of english words of sanskrit origin, so there are lots of words to be collected; and to prove that these words are indeed of sanskrit origin, I felt the necessity of adding the related references. Any comments welcome :) | |||
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== cut-the-knot == | |||
Hi Heligoland, as a vandal-fighter I thought you might be interested in seeing this discussion. Regards, ] 22:15, 12 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
Why did you delete the external link to the article on ] at ]? (I've put it back.) ] 03:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
== My RFA == | |||
:It did say (Warning:Not a reliable source) next to it, so it seemed sensible to remove until I could investigate whether the comment was vandalism or left by whoever added the link, thus indicating the link was inappropriate. You had the link added back in before I could do anything, but judging by the awards cut-the-knot has picked up, it's certainly a reliable source. <span style="font-family:Arial">--Kind Regards - ]]</span> 03:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
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|style="vertical-align: middle; 1px solid gray;" | Hello Heligoland! I want to thank you for taking time to comment in my ] Though it didn't succeed, I value everyone's opinion, and hope to use the descriptions of the neutral and oppose votes to improve. ]]]<sup>]</sup><small>]<sub>]</sub></small> 22:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
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== links to my site deleted== | ||
I am trying to follow procedure here. As you may notice in the same page the ( summation page ) were you deleted the links to http://www.isallaboutmath.com/ there are links to cut-the-knot and some other web sites that are in direct violation of the wikipedia spamming rule. I am very concern to notice that they have not being remove. | |||
I am trying to work with the system and I will like to ask what is the copyright notice you required for my sites links to be added? | |||
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] 03:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
: You need to be able to assert ownership of the material on the pages in question, however there remains concerns over how accessible your site is and how appropriate the links are (aside from a legal standpoint) and further discussion is need at ] before I would recommend you add those links. We're always on the look out for excellent, high quality material to link to, and if consensus permits it, you'll be allowed to reinsert your links. It's not something I or anyone else can really say yes or no to, it does need the benefit of going before a larger number of users. <span style="font-family:Arial">--Kind Regards - ]]</span> 04:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
I appreciate the feedback that I received during the RfA process. Unfortunately, I withdrew my candidacy. However, your participation is appreciated. I have made my New Years Resolution (effective immediately) to attempt to vote on at least 50 ]/week (on at least 5 different days), to spend 5 hours/week on ], to be active in WikiProjects and to change the emphasis of my watchlist from editorial oversight to vandalism prevention. I have replaced several links that I had on my list to some that I think are more highly vandalized (], ], my congressman ], my senator ] and ]). My first day under my newly turned leaf was about what I hope a typical day to be. I quickly found a , made a few editorial changes to ], voted at ] and ], continued attempted revitalization of ] and proposed a new stub type as a result of ] patrol. I hope this will broaden my wikipedia experience in a way that makes me a better administrator candidate. I hope to feel more ready to be an admin in another 3000 or so edits. ] 16:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
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Thanks for your support in ]. I withdrew when it became clear that the uphill climb had crossed the ], but I appreciate your support and the process gave me some good ideas for other ways I can be contributing to Misplaced Pages. I'll work on the areas that came up in the discussion, and try again after I've gained wider experience. -] (]) 12:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Ebay poor customer service == | |||
What does a withdrawn nomination get the same treatment of a no consensus or a keep judgement. I.E., will there be a template with a link to the debate on the talk page? ] 02:15, 15 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
:Ooh, good point, and done. The page technically doesn't need an AfD box but with the need to now prevent a 3rd AfD and considering the strong support to Keep the article, the page warrants the information. <font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 02:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
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# On ], write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all. | |||
:I certainly didn't delete your comments, though between the two diffs, there's a number of comments that have vanished, including a comment I left myself. I can only assume an edit conflict or a technical problem with the history, I'd suggest contacting an administrator and seeing if they can merge the comments back into the page. <span style="font-family:Arial">--Kind Regards - ]]</span> 20:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Thanks. I will mention this on Village Pump/Technical, since I've seen this sort of thing more than once before, but never quite so extensive. ] (]) 20:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
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: Image deleted along with another promo photo. <font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 21:19, 15 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
Got this message off you, I'm unaware of what I have done? ] 04:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
== TfD nomination of Template:{{ucfirst:Needimage}} == | |||
:http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/81.154.118.150 shows the 3 edits in November for which I left spam and vandalism warnings. You are probably only receiving these warnings after your ISP issued you with a new IP address but to ensure you don't receive any further warnings for things you didn't do, you can register an account. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 12:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
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I would have appreciated a note on my talk page that this was being TfD'd. I'm not terribly bitter that it was deleted, but I regret not being able to explain the intention I had in creating it. ]<sub>]</sub> 00:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
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you still update that thing? ive been seeing the 2nd week one for a while now... ] <sup>]</sup> 23:18, 1 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Hi Joe, I'm busy programming a new tool for spam fighting, so I've got a backlog of 8 (I think) days worth of logs to go through, but to be perfectly honest, the stats for the weeks 3 and especially week 4 will be fairly useless as Linkwatcher has been offline lots, trying to monitor lots of other Wikis backfired, there was a couple of bugs, I've knocked the server of the net a couple of times and it looks like Freenode might not be behaving. This past week, I've had to reboot Linkwatcher at least once a day and this morning, it was out for something like 6 hours. Oh, and I'm missing a couple of days worth of logs. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 23:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Well, hopefully things will stabilize. Whats the new tool you're working on, Eagle said it was kind of like VP2 for ELs? Is that right? Hows it going to work? ] <sup>]</sup> 05:10, 6 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
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hi, why do you revert my edits? I have the album and it is only released by , only the second, re-released version is put out by Sony Music... as I have written it in the article --] ] 11:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:: I put references about the publishers. So i'm not talking air. --] ] 11:34, 2 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::Sorry about that, it looked like you had just replaced Sony with random text. Please accept my apologies for the revert. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 12:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::: No problem, I must admit now that I thought about it that the label's name (GRGDN) must have seemed like a rnadom play on the keyboard :) but it's an existing publishing compnay nevertheless :D --] ] 20:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
==Adminship request== | |||
Dear Heligoland | |||
About that link you refered to: you are just misunderstood due to my mistake. I didn't get what was the meaning of that 0/0/0. I thought that this is the place I shoud put the current time. So I added hh/mm/ss. then some one reverted my edit. Take care. ] 17:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:That demonstrates inexperience right there. ] 17:19, 3 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Misplaced Pages:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 22:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Heligoland 22:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Check your email plz == | |||
Check your email plz. Thnx. --''']''' <sub>]</sub> 01:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== RfA == | |||
Thanks for the nom, Heligo. I accept. ] ] 14:36, 5 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== My RfA == | |||
Hey Heligoland, | |||
I just would like to thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 54/13/11. I appreciate the trust expressed by members of the community, and will do my best to uphold it. | |||
Naturally, I am still becoming accustomed to using the new tools, so if you have suggestions or feedback, or need anything please let me know. - ] 21:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Arbroath coat of arms == | |||
Hi. I have a PD image of the royal burgh arms (92 years old) so I will scan that (maybe this evening) and replace what you uploaded which was in fact the community council's arms. The burgh had supporters (Thomas a Becket and "a baron of Scotland") and the depiction is all together grander! ] 18:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:That would be excellent. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 18:24, 12 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== RfA time! == | |||
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'''] would like to nominate you to be an administrator.''' Please visit ] to see what this process entails, and then ] to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at ''']'''. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.</div> | |||
You know it isn't in the link above – ] <-- that's the link. --''']''' <sub>]</sub> 20:34, 12 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:The way things are going, you're due to be given ] access today. Good luck. ] 21:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
<blockquote class="templatequote" style="margin-top:0;"> | |||
"I'm also going to try and help with unblock requests and pay more attention to the various administrator noticeboards, and help out further with the Abuse Reports section, where the ability to view deleted material or delete specific edits can often be very useful." -- Helogland, on the RFA | |||
{{#if:{{{2|}}}|<p style="line-height:1em;text-align:left;padding-left:2em;"><small>—<cite style="font-style:normal;">{{{2}}}{{#if:{{{3|}}}|, {{{3}}}}}</cite></small></p>}} | |||
</blockquote><!-- ] -->That's a good place to start. We have a lot of people getting blocked by trigger happy admins. ] 22:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Warnings == | |||
Hi, I'm user 167.128.143.154 and currently "I" have a warning level of four or such because of vandilism. I'm asking that you please not ban this user because its part of a school county server.Sorry, but there isn't much that I can do because the person writing this is a student. But please do not ban this IP because theres many students that use Misplaced Pages for school work. | |||
Now, about the Tim McGraw edit, I do feel it was no more then vandilism. | |||
: I'm not able to block your IP address (I'm not an administrator), and it's exceptionally unlikely anybody else would block your IP address for something that happened several months ago. Misplaced Pages doesn't block users and IP addresses as punishment, but purely to prevent damage to the project, and even then it's only when blocking is the only way to prevent further damage to the project. You can find out more about our blocking policy ].<span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 16:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
==Your revert of ]== | |||
Hi, you recently reverted an edit I made to ] as spam (see ). However, the links I added are of an online profile and 2 interviews. I am currently working to see if it is possible to cleanup the article and remove its unencyclopedic tone. I'm not sure if the reversion using "Spamda" is automated, so I'll wait a while before re-reverting. Could you please clarify? Thanks, ] 22:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:<s>The page never existed.</s> Actually a typo in the redlink. ] 22:02, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Thanks for correcting this. For some reason, I always type "Henton". -- ] 22:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::Never mind, I re-added the links and deleted most of the article. Oh, and congratulations on your RfA. Cheers, ] 23:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::Thanks, and the article looks much better, much less 'spammy'. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 23:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
] | |||
Well done on passing your RfA with a 97% support consensus - that's a great achievement! A Bureaucrat will be along shortly to issue you with a shiny new set of admin tools. If you need any assistance in using them then please ask and I will do my best to answer you. Best wishes and happy mopping, ] 22:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Thanks mate. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 22:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Winner. All the best, me old mucker. Keep up the top notch work. ] 22:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::Where are the bureaucrats? This is blatantly shows we need another and ''soon'' no matter what anyone says :P Anyway, congrats on being my highest supported candidate yet, and good luck with your shiny new adminly tools. --''']''' <sub>]</sub> 22:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::Thanks Rambling Man and special thanks to Majorly for the nomination. Cheers guys. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 22:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
]]''' 01:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)]] | |||
:Eh, well lotsa work to do, what else can I say? :) Congratulations Heligoland. With overwhelming support, you're now an admin. Use the new tools wisely and have fun helping the project with them. Re-read the policies and don't hesitate to ask questions, and I'm confident you'll do well. Again, congrats. - ] <sup><small>]</small></sup> 01:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Cheers mate. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 01:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
Congratulations! Good luck with the tools. <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms">]_]</span> 01:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Congrats! This was not given to you, you have earned this. ] <small>]/]</small> 02:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
Belated congrats!!--] 12:20, 28 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
==BOT - Regarding your recent protection of ]:== | |||
You recently protected this page but did not give a protection summary. If this is an actual (not deleted) article, talk, or project page, make sure that it is listed on ]. VoABot will automatically list such protected pages only if there is a summary. Do not remove this notice until a day or so, otherwise it may get reposted. Thanks. ] 03:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== School blocks == | |||
Hi, if you're going to block a school IP address for 6 months please use {{]}} as your block reason. It saves us having to deal with a lot of confused and/or angry emails from school staff to unblock-en-l or frivolous unblock requests at ]. Thanks. -- <small><span style="border: 1px solid">]]</span></small> 14:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:The only IP I've blocked for 6 months is ] and I couldn't see any info on WHOIS or the talk page that it's a school, so I'm curious as to how you know it's a school and what have I gone and missed (it's probably quite obvious, I expect). <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 15:02, 20 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Toolserveraccount == | |||
Hello Heligoland,<br/> | |||
please send your real-name, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to ]. We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 23:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned --> | |||
==Thanks== | |||
<div style="float:center;border-style:solid;border-color:#009999;background-color:#BACDDE;border-width:2px;text-align:left;font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;padding:8px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 1em; -moz-border-radius-topright: 1em; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 1em;" class="plainlinks">] | |||
<span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS">It's been a week since ] passed, and since I haven't managed to delete the Main Page - yet - I figure it's safe to send these out. Thanks a lot for participating in my RfA; I hope to do a good job. If you see me doing something wrong, need help, or just want to have a chat, please don't hesitate to drop by :) –</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms">]_]</span> 07:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
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And again, congratulations on your own recent promotion :) – <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms">]_]</span> 07:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== External Link discussion for Netwon Falls, Ohio article == | |||
Since you originally deleted this external link , you may be interested in the current poll at ]. Or you may wisely run the other way and never look back ;-) Thanks, ] 11:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
*Thanks for weighing in with your comment. In case you are interested, I deleted the link twice more and got into a lengthy debate about it with ] (who has added it each time, once as an IP user). This debate can be seen on the Newton Falls, Ohio talk archive (and on his talk page too). ] is an advocate (via ]) for User:NewtonFallsLeader. Thanks again, ] 16:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Your block of Planetary Chaos == | |||
Hello. You blocked {{userlinks|Planetary Chaos}} with the rationale of "sock puppet master". The user, who has issued an unblock request, doesn't understand this, and I don't either. Who do you think the is a sock puppet master of? I'd appreciate your comments at his talk page. Best, ] 22:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Hiya, the report is here ] which details the sockpuppets and the master account. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 22:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Thanks! See his talk for further discussion. ] 07:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::Two more things. I think a month's block for the first recorded instance of disruption is rather harsh (and the evidence isn't really unambiguous). Would you object to a reduction of the block time to a week for Planetary Chaos, if he promises not to vandalise again, and also to reduce the block all addresses? Also, you indefinitely blocked the IP "sockpuppets", although ] says that indefinite blocks should not be used on IPs. For that reason, I'm reducing the IP blocks to one month also. ] 21:04, 24 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::No problem with that here. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 21:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::::Forgive me for butting in, but I'd like to point out that this is not a first offence. A checkuser case to link this user to indef blocked ], who has edited using the same two ip ranges as those named in the SSP case, was based on the strength of the evidence provided at checkuser and on the ssp case. See ] for full explanation by the checkuser who declined the case. Given the circumstances, I think a one month block on this account is more than reasonable. -- ] | ] 21:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::::Thanks, that's very instructive. I'll decline the unblock request and will stop bothering you here. ] 21:48, 24 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Armed == | |||
May need some tweaking (and it is an almost blatant copy of the vandalproof userbox) .. but: | |||
{{User:Beetstra/Userbox/Spamda}} | |||
--] <sup>] ]</sup> 12:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
== I'm confused... == | |||
why did my user talk page disappear? ] 00:42, 25 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Restored now, less the few unpleasent comments that really needed to be deleted from the page history. <span style="font-family:Arial">-- ''']]'''</span> 00:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Gotcha. Those socks posted on at least 2 other users pages. Not sure if any of those other users are admins, and thus can do this on their own or not. ] 00:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
==My RfA== | ==My RfA== | ||
{| style="border:1px solid black; background:#CCFFCC; padding:3px;" align=center | |||
| ] {{PAGENAME}}, '''thank you''' for participating in ] which passed on 13th December 2006 with a tally of '''49/10/5'''. Whilst delighted by the result and a little daunted, I appreciate the various comments re lack of experience in some aspects and I shall be cautious in my use of the new tools. I am well aware that becoming an Admin is not just about a successful nomination, but a continuing process of gaining further experience and I should welcome your feedback about any Admin tasks I become involved with. Again, a whole 1/1 thanks for taking the time to consider my RfA and cast your views. Feel free to ] if you need any assistance. :-) ] 02:35, 17 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
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] has closed successfully (79/0/1), so it appears that I am now an administrator. Thanks very much for your vote of confidence. If there's anything I can ever do to help, please don't hesitate to let me know. ] <sup>]</sup> 03:14, 25 February 2007 (UTC) | |||
==Your edits to ]== | |||
Thank you for your edits to Shilpa Shetty, I wasn't aware that the <nowiki>{{needimage}}</nowiki> tag was being deleted, but would like to know where you found <nowiki>{{reqphoto}}</nowiki>? I didn't come across this at ], thanks very much anyway. Is it proper practice to put the <nowiki>{{reqphoto}}</nowiki> tag on talk pages? Wouldn't it be better on the article page as it was, in keeping with other tags for improvement, etc.? ] <sup>]</sup> | |||
:The {{t1|needimage}} template looks set to be deleted. There seems to be a growing trend to move improvement messages away from article space into article-talk space with a feed into a Category. The template isn't at ] as the template has it's own category (]). It's correct use is on the talk page, because it lists the article in ] so photographers and photo hunters can supply a photo. <font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 00:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
::Many thanks for your informative clarifications. I will keep those category pages on my watchlist for easy reference. Thanks again! :) ] <sup>]</sup> 00:55, 18 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
== Speedy Deletion == | |||
{{User:Cbrown1023/Admin|Heligoland|] 03:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)}} | |||
You recently deleted the article ] which had previously been through AfD with a result of Keep as its a significant business/venue operator in relation to the music industry in Perth. When you are running through speedy deletion its advisable to quickly check the talk page, if theres a previous afd linked, or a wikiproject tag you should remove the CSD tag and advise the person who nominated it that the article should be nominated via AfD. I have restored the article and advised the nominator to use AfD instead. I have seen and been caught by speedy deletion tags being used during content disputes, and have seen them plastered all over place by vandals. ]] 12:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Warning! Process is now completely batshit insane. == | |||
== Essjay RFC == | |||
I wonder, now that they've desysopped MONGO, what happens next. I'm waiting for the point where "If you offend someone you get permabanned" stage next. --<font face="Verdana">]]]<small><sup>]|]</sup></small></font> 06:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
Say, on the RFC you asked why this was a big deal now. I think what triggered it was the New Yorker correction and the subsequent reaction to it. If you look you can see that the public reaction to it only started a couple of days ago. That's what brought it to my attention, anyhow. Hoping that helps, ] 23:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Thanks == | |||
Should be noted that most of those logicaly next in line for arbcom as it were (Can't sleep, clown will eat me, Voice of All) have not commented. Indeed if you wish to sart looking for those playing this in order to get "high office" or whatever it would be far more logical to look for those that are very firmly not invovled.] 00:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== blink 182 article == | |||
could it be reverted to my last edit and hoponpop69 be blocked for his continued vandalism (he has only just begun using the talk page)] 23:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
] 23:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC) oh and i have remained civil towards him. he used the word "fuck" regarding me, though. (it wasnt me who said it to him, check) ] 23:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:If you detail your concerns on the talk page and try to build consensus for the content you wish to be present, then I or another admin will look at unprotecting and/or reverting. I tend to believe calling good faith editing vandalism just because it doesn't agree with your own viewpoint incivil, btw, but that's just me. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 00:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
I call constantly reverting edits without discussing it incivil, i also call using words like "fuck" when talking to me incivil, i also call leaving gloating messages on my user talk incivil. however, moving on, if he wants to take off that one source, its ok, i have others to add like this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20020602190348/gladstone.uoregon.edu/~asivam/inter3.html ] 00:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
Also, if you're online could you deal with this user who did this: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Taiping_Rebellion&diff=112680549&oldid=112665292 I told an admin of this already but hes not online ] 00:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Columbian ISP contact == | |||
Hi there! I offered to contact the ISP in ] note. Could you give me some information about this? I will be mailing them (calling if needed too), but need some background (the report page has been copied, so the history is lost). Also, if you have prepared a mail, or at least give me some idea about what to mail to them, I will appreciate that. Thanks! -- ] 19:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
: There's not been any activity I've noticed since before Christmas so I don't know if it's worthwhile pursuing an ISP abuse complaint. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 20:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Should the page be marked as historical/inactive to prevent making it appear as it has not been investigated? If you need help contacting them, just drop a note in my talk page. Cheers! -- ] 03:28, 7 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
==User page== | |||
Hi Nick. Just thought that I would let you know that I have corrected the external links on your user page. Following your name change they were not working properly. Yours, ] 14:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
: Thanks. Much appreciated. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 20:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Alexander Radyushin == | |||
Hello Nick, | |||
As promised I'm referring to this mass spammer: ]. Can you put an end to his efforts? Thanks --] 12:28, 7 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== ] page == | |||
i noticed you unprotected the page, would it be possible to semi protect it as it was before the full protection? --] 06:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
: There doesn't seem to be a need for semi protection at the moment, though if there's a lot of new users or IP addresses vandalising the article, I'll be more than happy to re-protect. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 13:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Please do == | |||
<s>Hi there, could you please indefinitely block it and if you would not mind would you state in the reason of account switch-over and that I requested it and I did not actually do anything as I dont want any users who look to get the wrong end of the stick! I did explain on my user/user talk page that I would still be participating in deletions/debates but not the same ones as under my old user account but you can bet that some users will bring up questions about this, I hope you understand the reasons for my change-over and a fresh strart - Regards ] 15:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)</s> | |||
* I've changed my mind, please do not block it <s>incase I ever decide to return to that</s> I am returning to that account for use! Thanks and Regards - ] 17:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
Good afternoon. I'd like to object to your revert of my reduction in shortcuts at ] - I believe the edit to be valid, and would rather not see my work blank reverted. | |||
Furthermore, please do not check minor edit for reverts of other's work - it indicates a refrain from ], and also is in violation of the minor edit policy - ''A minor edit is a version that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute''. | |||
Rather than blank reverting, why not discuss the work with me at my ], or at the ]. | |||
Please do reply - I've done a lot of work for this portal, and would appreciate even more input from an editor such as yourself who appears to be interested in it. | |||
''Kind regards'',<br><span style="font-family: Verdana">] <sup><nowiki>]]</sup></span> 16:42, 10 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Note == | |||
I updated BCbot the link is in a memoserv note thanks again. ] <sup>(] • ] • ])</sup> 18:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
==My RfA== | |||
{| style="background-color: #339999; border: solid 1px darkcyan;" | |||
| ] | |||
| style="background-color: #e8ffff; padding: 1em; border: solid 1px darkcyan;" | '''Thank you''' for your comments on my ] in which I withdrew because the oppose votes were almost equalling the supporters. I then decided to leave my account (Tellyaddict) and start fresh under a new username, however I quickly decided to reconsider after another user persuaded me not to leave the account - I am now glad I did reconsider because leaving that account and creating a new one was too hasty so I've decided to improve rather than starting again! I hope we can remain ] and that there were no negative feelings caused. Again, thanks for your support even though you opposed and I withdrew it, your vote is much appreciated! Regards - ] (]) 19:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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==]== | |||
You might want to take a look at my ] regarding him. Thanks. <span style="font-family:Verdana">]<sub>'']''</sub></span> 21:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:And also he's already editing from an IP, ]. <span style="font-family:Verdana">]<sub>'']''</sub></span> 21:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Image == | |||
I have put the image up along with the senator infobox on ]. Anyways, it is very kind of you. ] 23:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
{| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|gray}}}; background-color: {{{color|#fdffe7}}};" | {| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|gray}}}; background-color: {{{color|#fdffe7}}};" | ||
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you very much Nick! You have solved the senator image problem. Here I award you the Original Barnstar for the kindness. ] 23:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC) | ||
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==Hey== | |||
You forgot to sign...here . best, ] 02:22, 21 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
==]== | ==]== | ||
Hi, you have protected a version that was the product of vandalism (). I have to ask: does wikipedia condone that? ] 14:17, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
I saw your report on ]. The vandal has neither been blocked before, nor has received more than a singular warning this day. The entry on the page has been removed by another admininstrator. Please report only those vandals who have gone beyond their last warnings, or have received more than two warnings (including a {{tl|bv}}, {{tl|test4im}}, {{tl|test4}}) Regards, — ] 13:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
:Funny, it's always ] --<span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">HIZKIAH</span> <small>(] • ])</small> 14:20, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Nick - You might want to check why NawlinWiki didn't bother warning more than once despite 3 reverts. They beat me to a couple of reverts so I just dropped the IP addy onto ]. | |||
::I don't care about ''always'', HIZKIAH, I care about ''now'', an instance where wikipedia was deprived of NPOV, sourced and reliable information, in order to please some vandal. ] 14:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Well, NawlinWiki is rather ] sometimes. <tt>;)</tt> — ] 11:05, 22 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
I was blocked 2 days ago for calling ] a vandal, like he has just called me above. Could you please block him too for 24 hours? Just for symmetry's sake. Thanks. (] 14:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)) | |||
:::Pot, say hello to kettle. —] (] <small>•</small> ]) 20:41, 22 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
::It's a shame that ] is allowed to call others as "vandals" while he thinks about himself as being "reliable contributor".--<span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">HIZKIAH</span> <small>(] • ])</small> 14:44, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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==Thanks== | ||
Thanks for protecting the page. I would like to mediate the dispute there. --<span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">HIZKIAH</span> <small>(] • ])</small> 14:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
I don't see the personal attack. I think this is a malicious application of the npa warning becuase you are involved in a talk page dispute with me. Please justify the applicataion of this warning or remove it. —] (] <small>•</small> ]) 21:40, 22 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
:It's your last comment. Now doesn't the warning state '''''Comment on content, not on contributors''''' so your comment ''Pot, say hello to kettle'' qualifies as a personal attack, it's nowhere near the worst I've seen but it's a conversation that was of no concern to you. I really do not appreciate you following Nearly Headless Nick around and leaving collateral damage as you pass through my talk page. I don't care that I'm in a content dispute with you, I've not gone and started following you around and I've never once been uncivil in my discussions over you, it's simply not how I do things.--<font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 21:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
== ]'s ] == | |||
: No problem, I'm not going to block anyone for 3RR at the moment, but I've let both parties know I will if they breach ] in future, so hopefully this helps them brainstorm. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 14:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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:::Good. If they will accept I would like to mediate the dispute. --<span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">HIZKIAH</span> <small>(] • ])</small> 14:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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::Nick: when someone reverts massive clumps of ''sourced'' information, it counts as simple vandalism. ] 14:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
|style="background-color: #FFFFCC; padding: 0 10px 0 10px; border: 1px solid #777;"|Hello, and thank you for the support on my recent ] despite your concerns. The final tally was '''63/3/2''', and I have now been entrusted with the ]. I hope I can live up to your trust, and certainly welcome any and all ]. All the best, and thanks again! — ] 12:29, 25 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
I would accept mediation. Nick, I had only reverted 3 times, did I not? As for removing sourced info, I did not see the new stuff as ] reverted me as vandalism. It was not at all my intention to hide sources. Only that ] feels that he owns the pages where he writes, and he reverts me as a rule. (] 14:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)) | |||
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:Ok Icar, I ask now also Dahn if he accepts mediation. --<span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">HIZKIAH</span> <small>(] • ])</small> 14:33, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::No. I ''do not'' accept mediation over allowing vandalism to occur. ] 14:38, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::Ok, I see. Sad, that you continue to call Icar as vandal.--<span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">HIZKIAH</span> <small>(] • ])</small> 14:45, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
Please request also the opinion of ], ], ] and the other active editors of the article ] about ]'s "constructive" behaviour there. Basically no other editor is allowed to change articles where he contributes. Complaints about his bullying abound: for instance. (] 14:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)) | |||
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== Thanks! == | ||
For clearing out my report on AIV. Thanks again! ]<sub>]</sub> 23:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
Hi there! | |||
==More thanks and a request== | |||
I'm not getting worked up over Malber (it's not worth that!) but I was merely giving a dramatic example of where his argument is flawed. I really don't understand why he continues to argue about a fallen cause, but .... | |||
Thanks for blocking Groanio, but could you step it up one and protect his talk page for me? ] ] <sup>]</sup> 00:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
Anyway, thanks for supporting me and I hope we can win. | |||
== ] == | |||
Cheers, ]'']'' 02:54, 27 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
: I'm sure our rational discussion will overcome here ;-) --<font color="#27408B" size="2">'''Kind Regards - '''] | ] | ]</font> 02:56, 27 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
] has been to be a sockpuppet of the banned user ]. Per ], "Any edits made in defiance of a ban may be reverted to enforce the ban, regardless of the merits of the edits themselves." Would it be ok if I revert HIZKIAH's edit to that page? <span class="plainlinks">{{mono|]]}}</span> 02:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:: Cheers! {{emot|:)}} ]'']'' 02:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
== My Request for Adminship== | |||
: Yeah, I've no problem with you removing his last edit. It's up to you if you want to revert or delete the edit outright. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 11:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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I have a problem with banning ]. Has anyone except for ] looked at the matter? It so happens that ] had just complained about ]; that ] has a history of reverting on behalf of Dahn when the latter engages in his frequent edit wars (like ); and that it was precisely ] who banned ]. It is possible that ] was unfairly blocked. Where are these blocking decisions explained? (] 12:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)) | |||
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Thanks for your support on my successful ] (final result '''78''' Support /'''0''' Oppose / '''1''' Neutral)</font> | |||
: I strongly suggest you stop prattling on about this or you'll be finding your blocked too, now run along. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 12:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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I have now been entrusted with the ]. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months. I am humbled by your kind support and would certainly welcome any feedback on my actions. Please do not hesitate to ]. Once again, many thanks and happy new year!</font> | |||
What do you mean? Is this a threat? Should I worry about being blocked for asking?(] 13:15, 13 March 2007 (UTC)) | |||
<font color=darkgreen>All the best, </font>]<sup>]</sup> 15:46, 27 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
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: HIZKIAH is blocked indefinitely for being a sockpuppet of Bonaparte. This means HIZKIAH is the same person as Bonaparte, and as Bonaparte is banned, any and all accounts belonging to Bonaparte are blocked permanently. It's policy. Nothing I can do about it I'm afraid. Now, I've told you already, stop complaining, go about your editing without causing further disruption to the project. If you don't, you will find yourself blocked for persistent disruption, revert warring and general trolling. Pip pip. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 13:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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::Nick, you may want to look into (posted 14 minutes after Icar replied below). ] 00:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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== Block clarification == | |||
At , ] says it blocked ] for one day. However, that user has continued to vandalize pages and received another warning on his talk page at 18:30. The user's lists no block. As the edit summary on ] said you did the block, can you please ensure that it was applied correctly? Thank you.↔]•] 19:16, 13 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
: I recall pondering on whether or not I should block GoIrish24 I honestly don't know if I did or not. He's stop vandalising anyway, so a block now would be more punitive than preventative. If he starts with the vandalism again, I'll happily block/re-block. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 19:31, 13 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== hoponpop69 == | |||
http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Blink-182 | |||
"Olir you are being both a jerk and an idiot, I have explained NUMEROUS times why certain sources are invalid but are you too thick headed to accept it. I know I'll be blocked for this, but I can not deal with your nonsense anymore, go fuck yourself.Hoponpop69 02:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC)" | |||
I have remained civil, he can't. What am i supposed to do with someone like this? ] 17:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
: It looks like Gwernol is on the case at the moment. I'm reluctant to block Hoponpop69 as he knows he's wrong to attack you like that, and any block would be leaning towards punitive more than it would be preventative. I'd say try something like ] or get ] involved here and see if you can't agree on a compromise. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 17:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
Nick can you take a look at the ] page and tell this guy why his sources are not vali? He refuses to listen to me, which is why I was so uncivil.] 19:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
You don't listen to me when i tell you why they are valid, you also didnt agree to what you agreed to when the page was locked which was to cut it down to 5, you just hack off a whole bunch. every edit you also seem to do extra stuff, like reverting back to "sometimes" in the first sentence when since march the 3rd the consensus was to change it. Also you are amazingly uncivil to me, there should be some punishment. you actually swore and personally bashed me. I dont know the rules but something has to be done. ] 20:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
You're the one who added the sources after we came to the agreement to discuss them on the talk page first! And your reasons for why things are valid do not cut it as they include, only mention a song, a distant mention of the word punk, a source about one of the members other bands, or a source that downright does not even mention a genre.] 22:59, 15 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Vandalism == | |||
Hey, thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page.--] 22:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Not a problem, happy to help. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 22:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== ] keeps creating improper articles == | |||
You are the third admin to delete that file. This user has created another similar file and is disrupting Misplaced Pages by removing the SD tags. ] 01:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
: It's ]ed so it won't be coming back again. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 01:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
==Aoyama Book Center== | |||
not sure how to use this but wondering why my article on aoyama book center was deleted | |||
: It was blatant advertising and/or a copyright violation. Both against WP policy. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 02:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
there are other articles on other bookstores such as kinokuniya. so long as the article is impartial, and simply provides information about the company, shudnt it be okay? | |||
: It'll fail on notability grounds. We're not Google nor a free webhost. Sorry. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 03:00, 16 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== My RfA == | |||
Thanks for supporting my recent RfA. I hope to put the tools to good use. ] 15:45, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Re: Ads and image protection == | |||
I noticed you've got images being transcluded onto a large number of pages, making your Ads template a high visibility template really needing to have some protection (for obvious reasons). I've semi protected the css file and added cascading protection so as far as I can tell, all the advert images are fully protected. I hope this is acceptable and if you need admin assistance, just shout on me and I'll be happy to help. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 22:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
: Hi, please reverse this immediately. User CSS files are already only editable by the user to whom they belong and administrators. That's the whole reason I named the page with a "css" extension – it's just a normal template, not a CSS file, I named it like that so that it was protected. Nobody except administrators and myself can edit it regardless of protection status. More worrying is the cascading semiprotection; there is a bug in cascading protection which causes any transcluded pages to by FULLY protected; I can no longer edit the image pages – ] 22:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:: Also, since when has a template used by fewer than 50 users been "high-profile"? There are ''hundreds'' of more heavily-used userboxes that aren't protected at all. Not to mention the hundreds of far more visible ''article'' template – ] 22:59, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::It's a blatant vandalism target. If you want to edit the images, all you need to do is untransclude the image from the css page. Personally, I find the potential these unprotected image have for being vandalised is too great. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 23:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::: The particular circumstances are irrelevant here; the ] states that cascading semiprotection should not be used under any circumstances. If you wish, I happily de-transclude the template from the pages on which it is currently used and request that the images be deleted (except those uploaded by AzaToth); however, I refuse to be prevented from editing my own images when they are used on fewer pages than, to pick an example completely at random, ] on {{tl|Sweden-geo-stub}}, which has sat unprotected – on articles, at that – for years with no objections. Thanks – ] 23:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::: One other thing which I think should settle this. Had I been in a particularly malicious mood after seeing your notice, I could have transcluded ] onto {{tl|User:Qxz/ad.css}} and it would have been protected. Or today's featured article. Or your talk page. Or any other page in Misplaced Pages. Essentially, what you did was hand the 'protect' button to a non-administrator (and one who's been with the project for less than two months). Fortunately, it was an honest one. Thanks for your understanding – ] 23:24, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::::You surely realise that in order for you to be able to edit these images, anybody else could edit these images too, which could result in any sort of image appearing anywhere your ad template is transcluded. If your happy to solely accept responsibility for this happening, I'll remove the protection. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 23:28, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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Hi there. I recently uploaded a file to Misplaced Pages (for the first time) and you deleted it. The deletion log says "01:30, 16 March 2007 Nick (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image:Harmon233.jpg" (unfree licence / incorrect licence / copyvio)". | |||
This was a picture of my grandfather, Glen Harmon. He recently passed away and I am trying to update his article information here on Misplaced Pages and wanted to include that picture. It is one of the pictures that he has given me over my lifetime as his grandson. I dont know a lot about this kind of stuff, so I dont know what is wrong with the picture I uploaded that he gave me. If you could please tell me what is wrong with it, and what I need to do in order to upload a picture of him without it being deleted I would appreciate it very much. | |||
You can email me at Jeffrey.Fawcett@sunlife.com | |||
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== Apology == | |||
Hi. This page is back. Still db-bio, still not notable, sourced from . — ] <span class="plainlinksneverexpand">(]|])</span> 22:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
I am apologizing for any uncivil comments I made in Matt's AFD. As it stands, I have removed the comments and hope to let you know I was allowing outside influences (like work) affect my judgement when posting. I wish you all the best this holiday season, and yes, you can count on my support for your next bid at Adminship. --]<sub>(])</sub>/<sup>(])</sup> 22:16, 29 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
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:Hi, it's back again, and now Daniel is complaining on my user talk page. Please explain notability to him, wearing your Admin hat. Thanks! — ] <span class="plainlinksneverexpand">(]|])</span> 08:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC) | ||
== {{ipuser|143.166.226.43}} == | |||
I've unblocked this IP per request on unblock-en-l. This was an inappropriate block. The user only had one warning (from a bot) and the warning appeared to be invalid on the bot's behalf. ] ] 22:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:I've reblocked. I gave ample time for a reply after sending out a list only query about the block and your userpage claims you are on wikibreak, so I couldn't have expected a reply here. In the future, a more informative block message or talk page message would help (same goes for me). ] ] 23:05, 23 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::I had forgotten about the Wikibreak thing. There was quite a bit of confusion on the blocks at the time (we did ponder a range block or individual blocks) and adding the site to the Meta blacklist, so I can only apologise for not providing details of the other IP addresses block as part of dealing with this particular spammer. Best Wishes <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 23:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::I just realized I could e-mailed you directly, sorry about this. ] ] 23:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
==Referencing Problem== | |||
I'm hoping you can help me with a referencing problem. I just started a page about the school that I go to, ]. I just started and when I added the first reference there is a huge gap in the reference at the bottom of the page. I was wondering if you could take a look at it and tell me what the problem is. If this isn't you're most knowledgeable field could you please direct me to another admin that could help me. Thanks, ] 22:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
: Hi there, I find it's easier just to use the following code | |||
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Hope this helps. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 23:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Your reversion at ] == | |||
Thanks, I'm using the code you have me, minus the "2" in from of column to make only 1 coloumn. Thanks for the help!] 02:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
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==Spammer/JB196== | |||
I noticed that you reverted the division of the RfA for BostonMA; while its may be true that the Tangobot and DragonFlight have problems with divided pages, Misplaced Pages isn't designed for the benefit of bots -- but for human editors. For some users, the issue of very long pages, such as at this RfA has become prohibits editing. The subject of division has recently been discussed at ], at which Doc Glasgow stated: | |||
. Based on his track record you might want to consider semi-protecting the pages sooner rather than later. Thanks. <span style="font-family:Verdana">]<sub>'']''</sub></span> 01:08, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::''Bots? Tough. Most people using AfD don't refer to bots. We don't create pages for the benefit of bells and whistles. Splitting the support/oppose/neutral sections makes perfect sense. Let's do it. The bots can catch up when they can.--]<sup>g</sup> 14:30, 21 December 2006 (UTC)'' | |||
:Indef blocked as a sock and I've semi protected the pages again per your request, but without expiry this time. If your on IRC, drop by irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-en-spam and it'll show you links being added in realtime. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 01:17, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
Further, the author of Tangobot pointed out: | |||
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::''The code suggested above is pretty much what was come up with last time this was discussed (I think it was shortened slightly, but the same basic idea). The issue with bots is a non-issue, the programmers in question can simply alter the bots to understand the new format, as they've done in the past when changes have been made to the template. Oh, and that's not the right archive, try looking under July 2006 - that's when I made my sample page during the discussion. --] 17:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)'' | |||
] does no apply to userfied items. Keep your finger off the delete button if you don't understand the speedy criteria. ~ ] 02:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
: It was only userfied to circumvent process. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 02:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Bullshit. If the user makes a reasoned reques for userfication we userfy. End of story. ~ ] 02:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::You are aware of the clear consensus for deletion over at WP:DRV, I assume. If your not going to remain civil, I think our little chat is going to be over pretty soonish anyway. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 02:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::<big>'''HELLO! REALITY CHECK! I ''CLOSED'' THE DRV AFTER THE USER WITHDREW HER REQUEST'''</big> I also participated in it and offered the user to userfy it so that she withdraws her request. This was backed up by Chris. Nothing to see here, and especially nothing to delete if you don't have a ] what you're doing. ~ ] 02:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::::You really don't understand ] do you. Ah well. <span style="font-size:95%">-- ]<sup> ]</sup></span> 03:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::::I understand our policies though, which is where you have your deficits. ~ ] 03:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC) |
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Did somebody already start complaining about your new sig? In case not, always happy to help out there you know. --Van helsing 18:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- No complaints, I just can't settle on anything I really like. --Kind Regards - Heligoland 18:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Civil
If my suggestion wasn't welcome or helpful, that's fine, but responding with "yawn" in your edit summary when you deleted it wasn't exactly necessary. Agent 86 19:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's archived, not deleted, and I really didn't appreciate your lecture. I lost wireless internet access on my laptop and didn't have time at 4am to sort the laptop out and finish removing AfD tags etc. If you had looked at my contributions and past closures on XfDs, you would have soon found I do know what I'm doing, contrary to the gist of your lecture. It really rather annoys me that you found the time to post a lengthy lecture on closing XfDs but didn't check my past contributions to Misplaced Pages namespace. It's a common problem with Misplaced Pages of course and I won't single you out for undue criticism, but this culture of criticising when something might be done incorrectly but otherwise ignoring people when they make splendid contributions is poisonous to the project. I would have found it much more appropriate to have left a little note saying "You've forgot to remove the AfD template" or some such polite courtesy message. --Kind Regards - Heligoland 19:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- My apologies if you found it to be criticism, it was not intended as such. It was clearly meant to be helpful. Instead of blowing me off with your incivil edit summary, you only needed to say that you were having technical difficulties. Don't take your frustrations out on me. If this is how you treat people who are trying to be helpful, I am seriously concerned about how you might treat those who aren't. Perhaps staying up 'til 4 a.m. isn't the best idea. Agent 86 19:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- I don't believe your post was helpful however, being unduly critical over 2 unfinished AfDs. I most certainly do not think the edit summary in anyway violates civility policy and find that unduly unhelpful too. --Kind Regards - Heligoland 20:03, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- "Critical" would be to simply have said, "you're closing AfDs wrong, smarten up". What I offered was constructive criticism offered in good faith. No amount of reviewing your edit history or malfunctioning laptops could explain to me why the templates were used in the wrong place or why you were not using template substitutions. Like I said, if my suggestions were not helpful you could have simply stated that you were having technical problems or that your laptop was fried. No need to be so defensive.
- As for the civility policy, I refer to the example given, "Judgmental tone in edit summaries ("fixed sloppy spelling", "snipped rambling crap")". I suggest "yawn" certainly is judgmental in tone. Take it down a notch. Agent 86 20:22, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hello, just dropping by! I think he meant "yawn" I am tired, not "yawn" this bores me. By what it looks like, he was in a hassle that night, and was up late. Did he make a mistake (the edit summary)? Yes, was it very significant, not really given the circumstances. Agent, I think you did a great job trying to teach him how to close those things properly, instead of just throwing links at him. For that I respect you. I think Heligoland has gotten the message, (as to what he was doing wrong), and will do better. (thats what I read from him archiving the page). Cheers!—— Eagle 101 20:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Agent, I apologise for the edit summary and we'll just have to agree on whether your post was critical or constructive and whether my edit summary was uncivil or not. I've not closed an AfD for a few weeks now and I guess I'm a little rusty. --Kind Regards - Heligoland 20:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- That's fair, thank you. I hope there are no hard feelings - like I said, I had no intention of being critical, only helpful. After all, I think you have been an excellent editor and only wanted to make sure you continue down that path. Agent 86 21:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- I don't believe your post was helpful however, being unduly critical over 2 unfinished AfDs. I most certainly do not think the edit summary in anyway violates civility policy and find that unduly unhelpful too. --Kind Regards - Heligoland 20:03, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- My apologies if you found it to be criticism, it was not intended as such. It was clearly meant to be helpful. Instead of blowing me off with your incivil edit summary, you only needed to say that you were having technical difficulties. Don't take your frustrations out on me. If this is how you treat people who are trying to be helpful, I am seriously concerned about how you might treat those who aren't. Perhaps staying up 'til 4 a.m. isn't the best idea. Agent 86 19:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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Newyorkbrad's RfA
Thank you for your support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning, and for your kind comments accompanying your !vote. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 18:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Great news
Please check the English Misplaced Pages Main Page today, 22 January, 2007, Arnold Zamora is featured in the WP:DYK or Did you know...? section. Please spread the good news! --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 00:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
External Links
Hi, I'm just dealing with list of english words of sanskrit origin, so there are lots of words to be collected; and to prove that these words are indeed of sanskrit origin, I felt the necessity of adding the related references. Any comments welcome :) Chapultepec 03:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
cut-the-knot
Why did you delete the external link to the article on mathematical induction at cut-the-knot? (I've put it back.) Michael Hardy 03:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- It did say (Warning:Not a reliable source) next to it, so it seemed sensible to remove until I could investigate whether the comment was vandalism or left by whoever added the link, thus indicating the link was inappropriate. You had the link added back in before I could do anything, but judging by the awards cut-the-knot has picked up, it's certainly a reliable source. --Kind Regards - Heligoland 03:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
links to my site deleted
I am trying to follow procedure here. As you may notice in the same page the ( summation page ) were you deleted the links to http://www.isallaboutmath.com/ there are links to cut-the-knot and some other web sites that are in direct violation of the wikipedia spamming rule. I am very concern to notice that they have not being remove. I am trying to work with the system and I will like to ask what is the copyright notice you required for my sites links to be added? Regards SilentVoice 03:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- You need to be able to assert ownership of the material on the pages in question, however there remains concerns over how accessible your site is and how appropriate the links are (aside from a legal standpoint) and further discussion is need at WT:EL before I would recommend you add those links. We're always on the look out for excellent, high quality material to link to, and if consensus permits it, you'll be allowed to reinsert your links. It's not something I or anyone else can really say yes or no to, it does need the benefit of going before a larger number of users. --Kind Regards - Heligoland 04:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
My RfA
Thanks for your support in my RfA. I withdrew when it became clear that the uphill climb had crossed the snowball threshold, but I appreciate your support and the process gave me some good ideas for other ways I can be contributing to Misplaced Pages. I'll work on the areas that came up in the discussion, and try again after I've gained wider experience. -FisherQueen (Talk) 12:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Ebay poor customer service
Please see discussion. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pgr94 (talk • contribs) 20:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
My comments deleted from Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 January 19
I notice that you deleted numerous of my comments from Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 January 19 as shown by the following diff: . I can see no reason for the deletion and would appreciate an explanation. Robert A.West (Talk) 20:29, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- I certainly didn't delete your comments, though between the two diffs, there's a number of comments that have vanished, including a comment I left myself. I can only assume an edit conflict or a technical problem with the history, I'd suggest contacting an administrator and seeing if they can merge the comments back into the page. --Kind Regards - Heligoland 20:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. I will mention this on Village Pump/Technical, since I've seen this sort of thing more than once before, but never quite so extensive. Robert A.West (Talk) 20:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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Got this message off you, I'm unaware of what I have done? 81.154.118.150 04:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/81.154.118.150 shows the 3 edits in November for which I left spam and vandalism warnings. You are probably only receiving these warnings after your ISP issued you with a new IP address but to ensure you don't receive any further warnings for things you didn't do, you can register an account. -- Heligoland 12:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
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I would have appreciated a note on my talk page that this was being TfD'd. I'm not terribly bitter that it was deleted, but I regret not being able to explain the intention I had in creating it. BigNate37(T) 00:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
EL stats graph
you still update that thing? ive been seeing the 2nd week one for a while now... JoeSmack 23:18, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Joe, I'm busy programming a new tool for spam fighting, so I've got a backlog of 8 (I think) days worth of logs to go through, but to be perfectly honest, the stats for the weeks 3 and especially week 4 will be fairly useless as Linkwatcher has been offline lots, trying to monitor lots of other Wikis backfired, there was a couple of bugs, I've knocked the server of the net a couple of times and it looks like Freenode might not be behaving. This past week, I've had to reboot Linkwatcher at least once a day and this morning, it was out for something like 6 hours. Oh, and I'm missing a couple of days worth of logs. -- Heligoland 23:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well, hopefully things will stabilize. Whats the new tool you're working on, Eagle said it was kind of like VP2 for ELs? Is that right? Hows it going to work? JoeSmack 05:10, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, it'll load in a diff from any of the linkwatcher feeds, and work just like VP2, (hopefully). -- Heligoland 13:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Gripin
hi, why do you revert my edits? I have the album and it is only released by GRGDN, only the second, re-released version is put out by Sony Music... as I have written it in the article --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 11:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- I put references about the publishers. So i'm not talking air. --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 11:34, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry about that, it looked like you had just replaced Sony with random text. Please accept my apologies for the revert. -- Heligoland 12:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- No problem, I must admit now that I thought about it that the label's name (GRGDN) must have seemed like a rnadom play on the keyboard :) but it's an existing publishing compnay nevertheless :D --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 20:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry about that, it looked like you had just replaced Sony with random text. Please accept my apologies for the revert. -- Heligoland 12:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Adminship request
Dear Heligoland
About that link you refered to: you are just misunderstood due to my mistake. I didn't get what was the meaning of that 0/0/0. I thought that this is the place I shoud put the current time. So I added hh/mm/ss. then some one reverted my edit. Take care. Sangak 17:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- That demonstrates inexperience right there. Jeffpw 17:19, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Tengah pic issues
You said the following. My question is this - I mentioned both the source of the pic (government) and the copyright status (uncopyrighted) when I uploaded the image. Where and how am I supposed to say this again to fix these problems? Thanks!
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Check your email plz
Check your email plz. Thnx. --Majorly (o rly?) 01:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
RfA
Thanks for the nom, Heligo. I accept. Shadow1 (talk) 14:36, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
My RfA
Hey Heligoland,
I just would like to thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 54/13/11. I appreciate the trust expressed by members of the community, and will do my best to uphold it.
Naturally, I am still becoming accustomed to using the new tools, so if you have suggestions or feedback, or need anything please let me know. - Gilliam 21:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Arbroath coat of arms
Hi. I have a PD image of the royal burgh arms (92 years old) so I will scan that (maybe this evening) and replace what you uploaded which was in fact the community council's arms. The burgh had supporters (Thomas a Becket and "a baron of Scotland") and the depiction is all together grander! Lozleader 18:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- That would be excellent. -- Heligoland 18:24, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
RfA time!
Majorly would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Majorly to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Nick. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.You know it isn't in the link above – Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Heligoland 2 <-- that's the link. --Majorly (o rly?) 20:34, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- The way things are going, you're due to be given major access today. Good luck. Axiomm 21:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
"I'm also going to try and help with unblock requests and pay more attention to the various administrator noticeboards, and help out further with the Abuse Reports section, where the ability to view deleted material or delete specific edits can often be very useful." -- Helogland, on the RFA
That's a good place to start. We have a lot of people getting blocked by trigger happy admins. Axiomm 22:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Warnings
Hi, I'm user 167.128.143.154 and currently "I" have a warning level of four or such because of vandilism. I'm asking that you please not ban this user because its part of a school county server.linkSorry, but there isn't much that I can do because the person writing this is a student. But please do not ban this IP because theres many students that use Misplaced Pages for school work.
Now, about the Tim McGraw edit, I do feel it was no more then vandilism.
- I'm not able to block your IP address (I'm not an administrator), and it's exceptionally unlikely anybody else would block your IP address for something that happened several months ago. Misplaced Pages doesn't block users and IP addresses as punishment, but purely to prevent damage to the project, and even then it's only when blocking is the only way to prevent further damage to the project. You can find out more about our blocking policy here.-- Heligoland 16:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Your revert of Karen Hanton
Hi, you recently reverted an edit I made to Karen Hanton as spam (see diff). However, the links I added are of an online profile and 2 interviews. I am currently working to see if it is possible to cleanup the article and remove its unencyclopedic tone. I'm not sure if the reversion using "Spamda" is automated, so I'll wait a while before re-reverting. Could you please clarify? Thanks, Black Falcon 22:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
The page never existed.Actually a typo in the redlink. Axiomm 22:02, 19 February 2007 (UTC)- Thanks for correcting this. For some reason, I always type "Henton". -- Black Falcon 22:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Never mind, I re-added the links and deleted most of the article. Oh, and congratulations on your RfA. Cheers, Black Falcon 23:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, and the article looks much better, much less 'spammy'. -- Heligoland 23:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Never mind, I re-added the links and deleted most of the article. Oh, and congratulations on your RfA. Cheers, Black Falcon 23:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for correcting this. For some reason, I always type "Henton". -- Black Falcon 22:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations!
Well done on passing your RfA with a 97% support consensus - that's a great achievement! A Bureaucrat will be along shortly to issue you with a shiny new set of admin tools. If you need any assistance in using them then please ask and I will do my best to answer you. Best wishes and happy mopping, (aeropagitica) 22:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks mate. -- Heligoland 22:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Winner. All the best, me old mucker. Keep up the top notch work. The Rambling Man 22:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Where are the bureaucrats? This is blatantly shows we need another and soon no matter what anyone says :P Anyway, congrats on being my highest supported candidate yet, and good luck with your shiny new adminly tools. --Majorly (o rly?) 22:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks Rambling Man and special thanks to Majorly for the nomination. Cheers guys. -- Heligoland 22:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Where are the bureaucrats? This is blatantly shows we need another and soon no matter what anyone says :P Anyway, congrats on being my highest supported candidate yet, and good luck with your shiny new adminly tools. --Majorly (o rly?) 22:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Winner. All the best, me old mucker. Keep up the top notch work. The Rambling Man 22:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Eh, well lotsa work to do, what else can I say? :) Congratulations Heligoland. With overwhelming support, you're now an admin. Use the new tools wisely and have fun helping the project with them. Re-read the policies and don't hesitate to ask questions, and I'm confident you'll do well. Again, congrats. - Taxman 01:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Cheers mate. -- Heligoland 01:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations! Good luck with the tools. riana_dzasta 01:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Congrats! This was not given to you, you have earned this. JungleCat Shiny!/Oohhh! 02:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Belated congrats!!--Hu12 12:20, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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School blocks
Hi, if you're going to block a school IP address for 6 months please use {{schoolblock}} as your block reason. It saves us having to deal with a lot of confused and/or angry emails from school staff to unblock-en-l or frivolous unblock requests at CAT:RFU. Thanks. -- Netsnipe ► 14:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- The only IP I've blocked for 6 months is User:70.168.40.2 and I couldn't see any info on WHOIS or the talk page that it's a school, so I'm curious as to how you know it's a school and what have I gone and missed (it's probably quite obvious, I expect). -- Heligoland 15:02, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Toolserveraccount
Hello Heligoland,
please send your real-name, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.58.251.79 (talk) 23:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC).
Thanks
It's been a week since my recent request for adminship passed, and since I haven't managed to delete the Main Page - yet - I figure it's safe to send these out. Thanks a lot for participating in my RfA; I hope to do a good job. If you see me doing something wrong, need help, or just want to have a chat, please don't hesitate to drop by :) – riana_dzasta 07:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
And again, congratulations on your own recent promotion :) – riana_dzasta 07:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
External Link discussion for Netwon Falls, Ohio article
Since you originally deleted this external link diff, you may be interested in the current poll at Talk: Newton Falls, Ohio. Or you may wisely run the other way and never look back ;-) Thanks, Ruhrfisch 11:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for weighing in with your comment. In case you are interested, I deleted the link twice more and got into a lengthy debate about it with User:NewtonFallsLeader (who has added it each time, once as an IP user). This debate can be seen on the Newton Falls, Ohio talk archive (and on his talk page too). User:Blah0401 is an advocate (via WP:AMA) for User:NewtonFallsLeader. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch 16:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Your block of Planetary Chaos
Hello. You blocked Planetary Chaos (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) with the rationale of "sock puppet master". The user, who has issued an unblock request, doesn't understand this, and I don't either. Who do you think the is a sock puppet master of? I'd appreciate your comments at his talk page. Best, Sandstein 22:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- Hiya, the report is here Misplaced Pages:Suspected_sock_puppets/Planetary_Chaos which details the sockpuppets and the master account. -- Heligoland 22:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks! See his talk for further discussion. Sandstein 07:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Two more things. I think a month's block for the first recorded instance of disruption is rather harsh (and the evidence isn't really unambiguous). Would you object to a reduction of the block time to a week for Planetary Chaos, if he promises not to vandalise again, and also to reduce the block all addresses? Also, you indefinitely blocked the IP "sockpuppets", although WP:BP says that indefinite blocks should not be used on IPs. For that reason, I'm reducing the IP blocks to one month also. Sandstein 21:04, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- No problem with that here. -- Heligoland 21:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Forgive me for butting in, but I'd like to point out that this is not a first offence. A checkuser case to link this user to indef blocked User:Piratesofsml, who has edited using the same two ip ranges as those named in the SSP case, was declined as unnecessary based on the strength of the evidence provided at checkuser and on the ssp case. See User_talk:Jpgordon#Checkuser_case for full explanation by the checkuser who declined the case. Given the circumstances, I think a one month block on this account is more than reasonable. -- Vary | Talk 21:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, that's very instructive. I'll decline the unblock request and will stop bothering you here. Sandstein 21:48, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Forgive me for butting in, but I'd like to point out that this is not a first offence. A checkuser case to link this user to indef blocked User:Piratesofsml, who has edited using the same two ip ranges as those named in the SSP case, was declined as unnecessary based on the strength of the evidence provided at checkuser and on the ssp case. See User_talk:Jpgordon#Checkuser_case for full explanation by the checkuser who declined the case. Given the circumstances, I think a one month block on this account is more than reasonable. -- Vary | Talk 21:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- No problem with that here. -- Heligoland 21:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Two more things. I think a month's block for the first recorded instance of disruption is rather harsh (and the evidence isn't really unambiguous). Would you object to a reduction of the block time to a week for Planetary Chaos, if he promises not to vandalise again, and also to reduce the block all addresses? Also, you indefinitely blocked the IP "sockpuppets", although WP:BP says that indefinite blocks should not be used on IPs. For that reason, I'm reducing the IP blocks to one month also. Sandstein 21:04, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks! See his talk for further discussion. Sandstein 07:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Armed
May need some tweaking (and it is an almost blatant copy of the vandalproof userbox) .. but:
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I'm confused...
why did my user talk page disappear? Natalie 00:42, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Restored now, less the few unpleasent comments that really needed to be deleted from the page history. -- Heligoland 00:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Gotcha. Those socks posted on at least 2 other users pages. Not sure if any of those other users are admins, and thus can do this on their own or not. Natalie 00:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
My RfA
My request for adminship has closed successfully (79/0/1), so it appears that I am now an administrator. Thanks very much for your vote of confidence. If there's anything I can ever do to help, please don't hesitate to let me know. IrishGuy 03:14, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Speedy Deletion
You recently deleted the article 78 Records which had previously been through AfD with a result of Keep as its a significant business/venue operator in relation to the music industry in Perth. When you are running through speedy deletion its advisable to quickly check the talk page, if theres a previous afd linked, or a wikiproject tag you should remove the CSD tag and advise the person who nominated it that the article should be nominated via AfD. I have restored the article and advised the nominator to use AfD instead. I have seen and been caught by speedy deletion tags being used during content disputes, and have seen them plastered all over place by vandals. Gnangarra 12:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Essjay RFC
Say, on the RFC you asked why this was a big deal now. I think what triggered it was the New Yorker correction and the subsequent reaction to it. If you look here you can see that the public reaction to it only started a couple of days ago. That's what brought it to my attention, anyhow. Hoping that helps, William Pietri 23:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Should be noted that most of those logicaly next in line for arbcom as it were (Can't sleep, clown will eat me, Voice of All) have not commented. Indeed if you wish to sart looking for those playing this in order to get "high office" or whatever it would be far more logical to look for those that are very firmly not invovled.Geni 00:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
blink 182 article
could it be reverted to my last edit and hoponpop69 be blocked for his continued vandalism (he has only just begun using the talk page)Olir 23:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Olir 23:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC) oh and i have remained civil towards him. he used the word "fuck" regarding me, though. (it wasnt me who said it to him, check) Olir 23:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- If you detail your concerns on the talk page and try to build consensus for the content you wish to be present, then I or another admin will look at unprotecting and/or reverting. I tend to believe calling good faith editing vandalism just because it doesn't agree with your own viewpoint incivil, btw, but that's just me. -- Nick 00:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I call constantly reverting edits without discussing it incivil, i also call using words like "fuck" when talking to me incivil, i also call leaving gloating messages on my user talk incivil. however, moving on, if he wants to take off that one source, its ok, i have others to add like this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20020602190348/gladstone.uoregon.edu/~asivam/inter3.html Olir 00:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Also, if you're online could you deal with this user who did this: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Taiping_Rebellion&diff=112680549&oldid=112665292 I told an admin of this already but hes not online Olir 00:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Columbian ISP contact
Hi there! I offered to contact the ISP in this note. Could you give me some information about this? I will be mailing them (calling if needed too), but need some background (the report page has been copied, so the history is lost). Also, if you have prepared a mail, or at least give me some idea about what to mail to them, I will appreciate that. Thanks! -- ReyBrujo 19:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- There's not been any activity I've noticed since before Christmas so I don't know if it's worthwhile pursuing an ISP abuse complaint. -- Nick 20:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Should the page be marked as historical/inactive to prevent making it appear as it has not been investigated? If you need help contacting them, just drop a note in my talk page. Cheers! -- ReyBrujo 03:28, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
User page
Hi Nick. Just thought that I would let you know that I have corrected the external links on your user page. Following your name change they were not working properly. Yours, Rje 14:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. Much appreciated. -- Nick 20:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Alexander Radyushin
Hello Nick,
As promised I'm referring to this mass spammer: User:SpamAssasin/Voyages. Can you put an end to his efforts? Thanks --SpamAssasin 12:28, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Blink-182 page
i noticed you unprotected the page, would it be possible to semi protect it as it was before the full protection? --Dan027 06:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- There doesn't seem to be a need for semi protection at the moment, though if there's a lot of new users or IP addresses vandalising the article, I'll be more than happy to re-protect. -- Nick 13:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Please do
Hi there, could you please indefinitely block it and if you would not mind would you state in the reason of account switch-over and that I requested it and I did not actually do anything as I dont want any users who look to get the wrong end of the stick! I did explain on my user/user talk page that I would still be participating in deletions/debates but not the same ones as under my old user account but you can bet that some users will bring up questions about this, I hope you understand the reasons for my change-over and a fresh strart - Regards Aquasplash 15:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- I've changed my mind, please do not block it
incase I ever decide to return to thatI am returning to that account for use! Thanks and Regards - Tellyaddict 17:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Portal:UK Railways
Good afternoon. I'd like to object to your revert of my reduction in shortcuts at Portal:UK Railways - I believe the edit to be valid, and would rather not see my work blank reverted.
Furthermore, please do not check minor edit for reverts of other's work - it indicates a refrain from AGF, and also is in violation of the minor edit policy - A minor edit is a version that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute.
Rather than blank reverting, why not discuss the work with me at my talk page, or at the Portal talk page.
Please do reply - I've done a lot of work for this portal, and would appreciate even more input from an editor such as yourself who appears to be interested in it.
Kind regards,
anthonycfc 16:42, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Note
I updated BCbot the link is in a memoserv note thanks again. Betacommand 18:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
My RfA
Thank you for your comments on my my recent RfA in which I withdrew because the oppose votes were almost equalling the supporters. I then decided to leave my account (Tellyaddict) and start fresh under a new username, however I quickly decided to reconsider after another user persuaded me not to leave the account - I am now glad I did reconsider because leaving that account and creating a new one was too hasty so I've decided to improve rather than starting again! I hope we can remain civil and that there were no negative feelings caused. Again, thanks for your support even though you opposed and I withdrew it, your vote is much appreciated! Regards - Tellyaddict (Talk) 19:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC) |
User:SPmilkshakeGuru8
You might want to take a look at my ANI report regarding him. Thanks. One Night In Hackney303 21:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- And also he's already editing from an IP, see here. One Night In Hackney303 21:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Image
I have put the image up along with the senator infobox on James Semple. Anyways, it is very kind of you. Wooyi 23:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
Thank you very much Nick! You have solved the senator image problem. Here I award you the Original Barnstar for the kindness. Wooyi 23:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC) |
Valter Roman
Hi, you have protected a version that was the product of vandalism (deleting information and blanking sources). I have to ask: does wikipedia condone that? Dahn 14:17, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Funny, it's always The Wrong Version --HIZKIAH (User • Talk) 14:20, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- I don't care about always, HIZKIAH, I care about now, an instance where wikipedia was deprived of NPOV, sourced and reliable information, in order to please some vandal. Dahn 14:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
I was blocked 2 days ago for calling User:Dahn a vandal, like he has just called me above. Could you please block him too for 24 hours? Just for symmetry's sake. Thanks. (Icar 14:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC))
- It's a shame that User:Dahn is allowed to call others as "vandals" while he thinks about himself as being "reliable contributor".--HIZKIAH (User • Talk) 14:44, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for protecting the page. I would like to mediate the dispute there. --HIZKIAH (User • Talk) 14:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- No problem, I'm not going to block anyone for 3RR at the moment, but I've let both parties know I will if they breach WP:3RR in future, so hopefully this helps them brainstorm. -- Nick 14:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Good. If they will accept I would like to mediate the dispute. --HIZKIAH (User • Talk) 14:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Nick: when someone reverts massive clumps of sourced information, it counts as simple vandalism. Dahn 14:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
I would accept mediation. Nick, I had only reverted 3 times, did I not? As for removing sourced info, I did not see the new stuff as User:Dahn reverted me as vandalism. It was not at all my intention to hide sources. Only that ] feels that he owns the pages where he writes, and he reverts me as a rule. (Icar 14:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC))
- Ok Icar, I ask now also Dahn if he accepts mediation. --HIZKIAH (User • Talk) 14:33, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- No. I do not accept mediation over allowing vandalism to occur. Dahn 14:38, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, I see. Sad, that you continue to call Icar as vandal.--HIZKIAH (User • Talk) 14:45, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- No. I do not accept mediation over allowing vandalism to occur. Dahn 14:38, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Please request also the opinion of User:AdrianTM, User:Vintila Barbu, User:Dpotop and the other active editors of the article Vladimir Tismăneanu about User:Dahn's "constructive" behaviour there. Basically no other editor is allowed to change articles where he contributes. Complaints about his bullying abound: for instance. (Icar 14:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC))
Thanks!
For clearing out my report on AIV. Thanks again! Logical2uReview me! 23:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
More thanks and a request
Thanks for blocking Groanio, but could you step it up one and protect his talk page for me? Philip Gronowski 00:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Valter Roman
HIZKIAH has been confirmed to be a sockpuppet of the banned user Bonaparte. Per Misplaced Pages:Banning policy#Enforcement by reverting edits, "Any edits made in defiance of a ban may be reverted to enforce the ban, regardless of the merits of the edits themselves." Would it be ok if I revert HIZKIAH's edit to that page? Khoikhoi 02:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I've no problem with you removing his last edit. It's up to you if you want to revert or delete the edit outright. -- Nick 11:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I have a problem with banning HIZKIAH. Has anyone except for Khoikhoi looked at the matter? It so happens that HIZKIAH had just complained about User:Dahn; that Khoikhoi has a history of reverting on behalf of Dahn when the latter engages in his frequent edit wars (like here); and that it was precisely Khoikhoi who banned HIZKIAH. It is possible that HIZKIAH was unfairly blocked. Where are these blocking decisions explained? (Icar 12:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC))
- I strongly suggest you stop prattling on about this or you'll be finding your blocked too, now run along. -- Nick 12:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
What do you mean? Is this a threat? Should I worry about being blocked for asking?(Icar 13:15, 13 March 2007 (UTC))
- HIZKIAH is blocked indefinitely for being a sockpuppet of Bonaparte. This means HIZKIAH is the same person as Bonaparte, and as Bonaparte is banned, any and all accounts belonging to Bonaparte are blocked permanently. It's policy. Nothing I can do about it I'm afraid. Now, I've told you already, stop complaining, go about your editing without causing further disruption to the project. If you don't, you will find yourself blocked for persistent disruption, revert warring and general trolling. Pip pip. -- Nick 13:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- Nick, you may want to look into this (posted 14 minutes after Icar replied below). Dahn 00:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer. Icar 13:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Block clarification
At 08:00 on 3/13, User:HBC AIV helperbot3 says it blocked User:GoIrish24 for one day. However, that user has continued to vandalize pages and received another warning on his talk page at 18:30. The user's block log lists no block. As the edit summary on WP:AIV said you did the block, can you please ensure that it was applied correctly? Thank you.↔NMajdan•talk 19:16, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- I recall pondering on whether or not I should block GoIrish24 I honestly don't know if I did or not. He's stop vandalising anyway, so a block now would be more punitive than preventative. If he starts with the vandalism again, I'll happily block/re-block. -- Nick 19:31, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
hoponpop69
http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Blink-182
"Olir you are being both a jerk and an idiot, I have explained NUMEROUS times why certain sources are invalid but are you too thick headed to accept it. I know I'll be blocked for this, but I can not deal with your nonsense anymore, go fuck yourself.Hoponpop69 02:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC)"
I have remained civil, he can't. What am i supposed to do with someone like this? Olir 17:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- It looks like Gwernol is on the case at the moment. I'm reluctant to block Hoponpop69 as he knows he's wrong to attack you like that, and any block would be leaning towards punitive more than it would be preventative. I'd say try something like Dispute resolution or get Mediation cabal involved here and see if you can't agree on a compromise. -- Nick 17:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Nick can you take a look at the blink-182 page and tell this guy why his sources are not vali? He refuses to listen to me, which is why I was so uncivil.Hoponpop69 19:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
You don't listen to me when i tell you why they are valid, you also didnt agree to what you agreed to when the page was locked which was to cut it down to 5, you just hack off a whole bunch. every edit you also seem to do extra stuff, like reverting back to "sometimes" in the first sentence when since march the 3rd the consensus was to change it. Also you are amazingly uncivil to me, there should be some punishment. you actually swore and personally bashed me. I dont know the rules but something has to be done. Olir 20:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
You're the one who added the sources after we came to the agreement to discuss them on the talk page first! And your reasons for why things are valid do not cut it as they include, only mention a song, a distant mention of the word punk, a source about one of the members other bands, or a source that downright does not even mention a genre.Hoponpop69 22:59, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Vandalism
Hey, thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page.--Orthologist 22:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- Not a problem, happy to help. -- Nick 22:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
User:Bigmonkey500 keeps creating improper articles
You are the third admin to delete that file. This user has created another similar file and is disrupting Misplaced Pages by removing the SD tags. Ronbo76 01:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- It's WP:SALTed so it won't be coming back again. -- Nick 01:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Aoyama Book Center
not sure how to use this but wondering why my article on aoyama book center was deleted
- It was blatant advertising and/or a copyright violation. Both against WP policy. -- Nick 02:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
there are other articles on other bookstores such as kinokuniya. so long as the article is impartial, and simply provides information about the company, shudnt it be okay?
- It'll fail on notability grounds. We're not Google nor a free webhost. Sorry. -- Nick 03:00, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
My RfA
Thanks for supporting my recent RfA. I hope to put the tools to good use. Shimeru 15:45, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Re: Ads and image protection
I noticed you've got images being transcluded onto a large number of pages, making your Ads template a high visibility template really needing to have some protection (for obvious reasons). I've semi protected the css file and added cascading protection so as far as I can tell, all the advert images are fully protected. I hope this is acceptable and if you need admin assistance, just shout on me and I'll be happy to help. -- Nick 22:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, please reverse this immediately. User CSS files are already only editable by the user to whom they belong and administrators. That's the whole reason I named the page with a "css" extension – it's just a normal template, not a CSS file, I named it like that so that it was protected. Nobody except administrators and myself can edit it regardless of protection status. More worrying is the cascading semiprotection; there is a bug in cascading protection which causes any transcluded pages to by FULLY protected; I can no longer edit the image pages – Qxz 22:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Also, since when has a template used by fewer than 50 users been "high-profile"? There are hundreds of more heavily-used userboxes that aren't protected at all. Not to mention the hundreds of far more visible article template – Qxz 22:59, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- It's a blatant vandalism target. If you want to edit the images, all you need to do is untransclude the image from the css page. Personally, I find the potential these unprotected image have for being vandalised is too great. -- Nick 23:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- The particular circumstances are irrelevant here; the protection policy states that cascading semiprotection should not be used under any circumstances. If you wish, I happily de-transclude the template from the pages on which it is currently used and request that the images be deleted (except those uploaded by AzaToth); however, I refuse to be prevented from editing my own images when they are used on fewer pages than, to pick an example completely at random, Image:Sweden stub.png on {{Sweden-geo-stub}}, which has sat unprotected – on articles, at that – for years with no objections. Thanks – Qxz 23:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- One other thing which I think should settle this. Had I been in a particularly malicious mood after seeing your notice, I could have transcluded Talk:Main Page onto {{User:Qxz/ad.css}} and it would have been protected. Or today's featured article. Or your talk page. Or any other page in Misplaced Pages. Essentially, what you did was hand the 'protect' button to a non-administrator (and one who's been with the project for less than two months). Fortunately, it was an honest one. Thanks for your understanding – Qxz 23:24, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- You surely realise that in order for you to be able to edit these images, anybody else could edit these images too, which could result in any sort of image appearing anywhere your ad template is transcluded. If your happy to solely accept responsibility for this happening, I'll remove the protection. -- Nick 23:28, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Image:Harmon233.jpg - Why was it deleted?
Hi there. I recently uploaded a file to Misplaced Pages (for the first time) and you deleted it. The deletion log says "01:30, 16 March 2007 Nick (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image:Harmon233.jpg" (unfree licence / incorrect licence / copyvio)".
This was a picture of my grandfather, Glen Harmon. He recently passed away and I am trying to update his article information here on Misplaced Pages and wanted to include that picture. It is one of the pictures that he has given me over my lifetime as his grandson. I dont know a lot about this kind of stuff, so I dont know what is wrong with the picture I uploaded that he gave me. If you could please tell me what is wrong with it, and what I need to do in order to upload a picture of him without it being deleted I would appreciate it very much.
You can email me at Jeffrey.Fawcett@sunlife.com
Thanks again.
-Jeff Fawcett
Jeffrey Fawcett 19:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- If your the copyright holder, you would need to release your photograph under a free licence, something like the GFDL or Creative Commons licences. Misplaced Pages:Image_copyright_tags provides all the necessary information to upload the image under a licence which satisfies our requirements. It's mainly technical stuff which permits us to create offline and paper versions of Misplaced Pages, or for other sites to mirror our site here. -- Nick 21:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Image tagging for Image:Weed temp.png
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Daniel Miller-Medzon
Hi. This page is back. Still db-bio, still not notable, sourced from this admitted autobiography page. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 22:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, it's back again, and now Daniel is complaining on my user talk page. Please explain notability to him, wearing your Admin hat. Thanks! — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 08:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
143.166.226.43 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
I've unblocked this IP per request on unblock-en-l. This was an inappropriate block. The user only had one warning (from a bot) and the warning appeared to be invalid on the bot's behalf. John Reaves (talk) 22:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- I've reblocked. I gave ample time for a reply after sending out a list only query about the block and your userpage claims you are on wikibreak, so I couldn't have expected a reply here. In the future, a more informative block message or talk page message would help (same goes for me). John Reaves (talk) 23:05, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- I had forgotten about the Wikibreak thing. There was quite a bit of confusion on the blocks at the time (we did ponder a range block or individual blocks) and adding the site to the Meta blacklist, so I can only apologise for not providing details of the other IP addresses block as part of dealing with this particular spammer. Best Wishes -- Nick 23:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- I just realized I could e-mailed you directly, sorry about this. John Reaves (talk) 23:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- I had forgotten about the Wikibreak thing. There was quite a bit of confusion on the blocks at the time (we did ponder a range block or individual blocks) and adding the site to the Meta blacklist, so I can only apologise for not providing details of the other IP addresses block as part of dealing with this particular spammer. Best Wishes -- Nick 23:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Referencing Problem
I'm hoping you can help me with a referencing problem. I just started a page about the school that I go to, William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute. I just started and when I added the first reference there is a huge gap in the reference at the bottom of the page. I was wondering if you could take a look at it and tell me what the problem is. If this isn't you're most knowledgeable field could you please direct me to another admin that could help me. Thanks, Joesixpac 22:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi there, I find it's easier just to use the following code
<div class="references-2column"> <references /> </div>
Hope this helps. -- Nick 23:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I'm using the code you have me, minus the "2" in from of column to make only 1 coloumn. Thanks for the help!69.158.112.50 02:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Spammer/JB196
Back already FYI. Based on his track record you might want to consider semi-protecting the pages sooner rather than later. Thanks. One Night In Hackney303 01:08, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- Indef blocked as a sock and I've semi protected the pages again per your request, but without expiry this time. If your on IRC, drop by irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-en-spam and it'll show you links being added in realtime. -- Nick 01:17, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
User:Sue Rangell/B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I.C.A.
WP:CSD#G4 does no apply to userfied items. Keep your finger off the delete button if you don't understand the speedy criteria. ~ trialsanderrors 02:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- It was only userfied to circumvent process. -- Nick 02:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- Bullshit. If the user makes a reasoned reques for userfication we userfy. End of story. ~ trialsanderrors 02:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- You are aware of the clear consensus for deletion over at WP:DRV, I assume. If your not going to remain civil, I think our little chat is going to be over pretty soonish anyway. -- Nick 02:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- HELLO! REALITY CHECK! I CLOSED THE DRV AFTER THE USER WITHDREW HER REQUEST I also participated in it and offered the user to userfy it so that she withdraws her request. This was backed up by Chris. Nothing to see here, and especially nothing to delete if you don't have a clue what you're doing. ~ trialsanderrors 02:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- You really don't understand WP:CIVIL do you. Ah well. -- Nick 03:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- I understand our policies though, which is where you have your deficits. ~ trialsanderrors 03:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- You really don't understand WP:CIVIL do you. Ah well. -- Nick 03:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- HELLO! REALITY CHECK! I CLOSED THE DRV AFTER THE USER WITHDREW HER REQUEST I also participated in it and offered the user to userfy it so that she withdraws her request. This was backed up by Chris. Nothing to see here, and especially nothing to delete if you don't have a clue what you're doing. ~ trialsanderrors 02:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- You are aware of the clear consensus for deletion over at WP:DRV, I assume. If your not going to remain civil, I think our little chat is going to be over pretty soonish anyway. -- Nick 02:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- Bullshit. If the user makes a reasoned reques for userfication we userfy. End of story. ~ trialsanderrors 02:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)