Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 21:02, 1 January 2009

JARIAN

I thought there was a gray area about restoring old talk page warnings--only reason I restored them was because in the event I didn't find anything blockable, it would have been difficult for future admins to review the case.

And I admit, normally I wouldn't have full-protected his talk page, but he'd abusively moved it earlier. Was I really that off there? Blueboy96 14:45, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

At least one sleeper account from this guy. Good grief ... sorry, something about sleepers rubs me the wrong way. Blueboy96 19:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Lectures

I'm going to leave you the same comment I left the other person:

Taking the time to lecture me on how to address banned users that have been causing me grief for months was a waste of both my time and yours. Try to focus your efforts on a) the encyclopedia itself, and b) users that are causing damage to it. Thanks. Warren -talk- 01:47, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Request

Hi, would you mind taking a look at Howard Rich again? Lots of removal of cited content. Any assistance appreciated. -Pete (talk) 17:06, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Unblock request that could use your attention

BufferedIO is requesting unblock. Seems to be a school kid caught in the autoblock of Ztsfu. While his edits are mainly computer tech-support requests at the reference desk, I don't see any harm in letting him continue. What we can do about this? Daniel Case (talk) 14:37, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, I did because I'm hesitant to even remove the autoblock on some schools. Daniel Case (talk) 15:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Reverting my changes on Ambitious card

Hi there. I was wondering why you reverted my changes on ambitious card? The only thing I deleted was the actual way of doing it. It can be alluded to, without spoiling the trick. I even left the citations in tact, which someone could discover the method. This is an encyclopedia, not a how-to magic book. Ideally, we should generally speak about how something is done, but we should not give specific directions of how to do it.

Also, shouldn't we be a bit more careful about the "magic" of magic? We have a spoiler tag for books and movies, yet this article carelessly spoils the trick. Furthermore, as it stands, the article is inaccurate, because it claims the double-lift is how it's done, as if that's only methods.

I'd like to come up with a compromise. I am an amateur magician, and I'm also a Wikipedian. Keep your eye on the goal: a good article. I'd like to take a stab at reworking the article again, trying to preserve what you're wanting to save. It would help if I knew your motivation for reverting my changes. I outlined my reasons on the talk page. But if you sent me a quick comment about this it would be appreciated.

Thanks! -- Yekrats (talk) 14:16, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I didn't realize that spoilers were being deprecated... thanks!

I don't mind an example of how the trick is done. (Knowing what a sleight is, does not a magician make.) However, Misplaced Pages is not a how-to manual. (See: Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not#Misplaced Pages is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook.) The changes that I made today was an attempt to make it less of a "how-to" and more "these are examples of sleights that can be used." -- Yekrats (talk) 15:37, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Changing the name of a thread on WP:AN

I didn't change the name of the thread. In fact, I was trying to preserve the original name of that thread. Any complaints you have about changing the name of the thread should be directed to the administrators who were responsible for the change: JzG and Jehochman. Tennis expert (talk) 20:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Toes

I see you are on yours Ten of All re Conway's Game of Life– appreciate your notice and trust your judgement completely. Thanks for making it better all round,  : ) Julia Rossi (talk) 22:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Guido

In the case you described on my talk page I think being explicit and citing the canvassing the user is doing is the better course of action, otherwise the closing admin may make the same mistake as I did. - Mgm| 21:01, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

• The template probably won't cause major problems, but without any clear indication canvassing is actually happening it's not very helpful either. Feel free to put it back. I won't edit that particular discussion any further than I have already. - Mgm| 22:38, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: User talk:flaming#A question

Sorry, I did answer that but put it on his talk page. That's bad form, so I'll post it on my talk too. flaminglawyer 21:41, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Regarding IP addresses

I saw your recent comments regarding the posting of IP addresses, and though you might be interested in this discussion: Misplaced Pages talk:Harassment#Adding IP address to WP:OUTING. --ZimZalaBim 16:30, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

JPH

Yeah you're right - lapse of judgement. My mistake. I saw one of his old personal attacks was removed from this talk page today - I thought this was as similar situation.

BTW You'd think 2 final warnings would be enough. I mean how many times would it take of me making the same edit that you've just warned me for before you'd block me? 2 or 3? 4 if you were really lenient? Yet JPH has 2 final warnings from two different admins and he's never been blocked once? How does that work? Sorry I'm a bit confused here because clearly, this user needs to have his editing privledges removed. He clearly has no respect for admins and based on his comments will keep doing this regardless of how many warnings he gets. I've spend the better part of a few hours writing carefully on his talk page outlining what he's doing wrong any why - and that was 6 months ago. He simply does not respect other editors contributions or opinions. I would think that a warning from Jimmy himself would be the only thing he'd respect. He's combative in nature and isn't going to change - and I have a year of his edits to prove it. --Quartet 17:06, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Convenience Valet

I neither work for this company or have any financial stake in Convenience Valet. My friends father (David Baum - as stated in the article) is the sole owner of Convenience Valet. My dad works for the company but has no stock or financial stake in the company given it's privately held status. I am a frequent contributor to Misplaced Pages and thought Convenience Valet is an interesting company that people should know about. Bmedick (talk) 05:55, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Re:Shustov

Yes, both IPs are Shustov. Happy New Year! Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 21:02, 1 January 2009 (UTC)