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Thank you...

Template:The GO-PCHS-NJROTC Antivandal Barnstar GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 00:32, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/2008x12

But there's the problem... just because something has a cite on it doesn't mean it should stay up, especially when it's a single cite to a blog. :-) Let me put it this way - imagine you're Ms. Lese and you find that two out of four paragraphs of your article on Misplaced Pages is dedicated solely towards only a couple negative events in your life? There are two questions to consider here: the quality of the sourcing, and whether it merits half of the article's content. east.718 at 20:25, March 1, 2008

Vandalism is anything done in bad faith to compromise Misplaced Pages's integrity - so replacing a page with "lol dicks" certainly qualifies, but an IP address blanking the biography of a less notable person might not. I'm sure there's a guide somewhere (probably WP:VAN), but I wouldn't know, not having read a policy page in around two years. :D east.718 at 20:35, March 1, 2008

Congratulations

A consensus has been reached by your peers that you should be an admin. I have made it so. Please review Misplaced Pages:Administrators' reading list and keep up the great work. Sincerely, Kingturtle (talk) 04:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations! JTRH (talk) 04:17, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

To all my supporters ...

Thank you for having faith in me ... I was initially nervous about diving in again after the Archtransit mess--but then I figured I'd be feeding a troll. I won't let you down, I promise. Blueboy96 04:22, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Congrats! Tiptoety 04:45, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations, Blueboy. I'm proud to have supported you and argued for you in your past two RfAs. Don't let us down! If you ever need any help, please feel free to ask me. :) GlassCobra 21:07, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Follow-up

Thank you again for your swift actions in this matter. Re: this action you just took, you may want to also tag the account JustaHulk (talk · contribs), and the IP 65.2.75.88 (talk · contribs) (WP:NPA, here). Cirt (talk) 06:03, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Your block of User:Menumenumenumenumenu

Hi, I can't find the relevant part of the username policy which you blocked him for... he's also asking for a review of it at his talk page. Personally I don't see anything wrong with it. --SABER 07:40, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Four times, but alright. Thank you for pointing out what I didn't realize. --SABER 07:44, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I believe I just proved your point. Five times it is. --SABER 07:49, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

User:AQGComputing

I very strongly believe this user created a sockpuppet, User:Xjstudios, in order to spam/troll like he was before he was blocked. Grsz11 (talk) 07:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Alright. Didnt realize you were frequenting the AVI board. Thanks. Grsz11 (talk) 07:58, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Jasicom

Yeah, I had thought about doing that but was following the usual procedures for username blocks. I'll harden it up. Daniel Case (talk) 15:22, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

User:208.59.120.90

Thanks for the help, but I just want to make sure you looked at what they did yourself, what may look like a link to a virus to me(which it did) may not to others. Thanks again--Pewwer42  Talk  23:06, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

New sysop

You killed yourself on your second day at work! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.175.11.241 (talk) 00:43, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Page protection

First, congratulations on receiving the tools. I'm here because some of your page protections are questionable. Of the eleven page protections listed here, I see issues with five of them.

• Userpages do not need to be fully protected (User:NOAHcheer, User:HinnT, User:TnniH); blocked users can only edit their user talk, not their userpage. If you were concerned that sockpuppets might vandalize the page, then that's another situation. However, that isn't the case here and we don't need preemptive protection, so protection is unnecessary.
• Josquin des Prez was TFA for March 2, 2008. Per WP:NOPRO, it's advised that we only semi-protect TFAs when the level of vandalism is unmanageable (i.e. vandalism every 2-3 minutes, or something like that). For an example of when TFA protection is appropriate, see .
• Thomas Crapper has received relatively low amounts of vandalism. If you want to go by numbers, I suggest semi-protecting articles if the last 50 edits contains mostly vandalism and vandalism reverts dating back up to a week or so. There are some cases where it may not be appropriate to protect in even those situations. Some articles like Thomas Crapper are heavily watchlisted, so vandalism is quickly reverted.

Remember that protection is supposed to be used as a last-ditch resort to prevent edit warring, vandalism, BLP violations, or other things. I hope you can work out these issues in time and I wish you the best of luck in the future. Protection is a very tricky issue, so if you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Regards, Nishkid64 (talk) 19:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, protecting talk pages is appropriate if users are abusing them. Sometimes these pages stay protected for months on end, so might you want to put an expiration on these protections. I think few weeks at most would do the trick. Nishkid64 (talk) 01:37, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

196.10.121.2 (talk · contribs)

He's at it again, but this edit was rather innocuous - changing "aren't" to "are not" in an old talkpage discussion - and there's only the one edit so far today. You may want to keep an eye out, just in case. Argyriou (talk) 23:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Backlog

Hi, there is a backlog at the SSP page and i was just hoping you can take a look at this case i made, . Seems no one has yet looked into it and the user has used yet another I.P. as a vandalism-only account. -- LaNicoya  •Talk•  00:02, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for help with vandalism!

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Tenshi G

Thanks for the heads-up ; sounds good to me. My block was regarding the WP:AIV report. Thanks! --Kralizec! (talk) 20:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for help re usernames

I appreciate your fast blocking of the two abusive usernames. I also noticed the timing, and it made me suspicious. User:Starorion20 started out as merely misguided, but he seems to have become frustrated by the failure of the community to come around to his point of view on Superdelegate. I gave him a vandalism warning about this edit. His frustration may have also prompted him to create these usernames. JamesMLane t c 21:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

A big thanks from me as well. I think there is also a possibility that Starorion20 also edits as Starorion5. →Wordbuilder (talk) 21:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I think Starorion just changed his mind about which number to append to his username. He began editing as Starorion5, but his last edit under that name preceded his first edit as Starorion20. He hasn't used the two names together or otherwise abused the system with them. If your only basis for the block was the 5-and-20 issue, I'd reluctantly suggest that you unblock. If the checkuser confirmed the suspicion that this user created Wordbuider and JamesMLanet, though, then fire away. JamesMLane t c 22:03, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps someday Starorion will learn to contribute positively. Funny thing is, I didn't even disagree with the idea. I just didn't think the presentation and sourcing was encyclopedic. →Wordbuilder (talk) 22:09, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

No surprises on that. Thanks for the help. →Wordbuilder (talk) 14:38, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Buckeyes

Thanks for protecting the Buckeyes football article. :) Burner0718 23:37, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Although it is protected WITH the vandalism still on it Bcspro (talk) 03:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Congrats

On becoming Admin. Keep up the good work! Remember (talk) 20:54, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Username

how can i change it then? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddfffggg2008 (talk • contribs) 21:01, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Unblock?

I see you rightly blocked User:CliffordRay. I was looking at his edits in detail and saw that he was removing derogatory content on a WP:BLP article. I asked him to let me know what his intent was and if he would abide by Misplaced Pages policies if unblocked, he answered me via email and I think his intentions were good - even if he went about it in the wrong way. I'll keep an eye out and be his mentor if you would be so kind as to unblock him. I'll reblock if he acts up again... :) Dreadstar † 22:23, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks man. I totally agree, if you hadn't beat me to the block, I would have blocked him myself...;) You did the right thing. Dreadstar † 22:29, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Regarding your timely block of User:Jeh akuse

I'm wondering if, given the newest comments, you might reduce the block to 24 hours, and give the user another shot, after some cool down. BusterD (talk) 13:50, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

That was user's first edit. As the person who asked for the block, I was wondering how an admin makes that sort of assessment on the fly. Do you mind a bit of pedagogy this morning? BusterD (talk) 13:56, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

As a long-time user just learning about admin procedure and practice, I can say it's sort of difficult to watch blocking as a process compared to other such tasks. AfD and RfA processes are so refined, it becomes easy on reading to understand what sorts of behaviors are acceptable and what sorts go out of bounds. Clicking though diffs on AIV tells some of the blocking story, but watching very active admins seems another. Please don't mind my watching over your shoulder, from time to time. Thanks again for the timely block. BusterD (talk) 14:09, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Stop censoring people, and stay off my talk page. Lirath Q. Pynnor (talk)