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:* To ]: yeah, the BruceJenner thing seems really unfair compared to this. However, without going into ], that guy is all over the place and it's particularly hard to nail down his IP ranges without causing a ''lot'' of problems for a lot of people. And, as you say, things are only going to get worse as people migrate to mobile networks which have by definition, short DHCP leases. And I really don't know what the answer to this one is. That other vandal - the Colonel Saunders guy - uses Blackberry ranges exclusively to create accounts to circumvent softblocks, for example. My personal experience of complaining to ISPs is that it's a waste of time and energy & most of them couldn't care less. :* To ]: yeah, the BruceJenner thing seems really unfair compared to this. However, without going into ], that guy is all over the place and it's particularly hard to nail down his IP ranges without causing a ''lot'' of problems for a lot of people. And, as you say, things are only going to get worse as people migrate to mobile networks which have by definition, short DHCP leases. And I really don't know what the answer to this one is. That other vandal - the Colonel Saunders guy - uses Blackberry ranges exclusively to create accounts to circumvent softblocks, for example. My personal experience of complaining to ISPs is that it's a waste of time and energy & most of them couldn't care less.
: Ok, back to sleep I go. Better things to do right now - ] <sup>]</sup> 05:09, 2 August 2010 (UTC) : Ok, back to sleep I go. Better things to do right now - ] <sup>]</sup> 05:09, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh and matter of interest, here's of an escalating rangeblock of a similar ISP, along with a report ] - ] <sup>]</sup> 05:39, 2 August 2010 (UTC)


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RE: 'grats

Thanks. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 12:54, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

PlaneShift article

Hi, the article of PlaneShift video game has been moved to the Incubator for improvements as suggested by other admins. Many new sources have been added, including scanned magazine articles, computer programming and open source books. I think it's ready to be evaluated and moved to the main space. Please review it and move the article to the main space if you think it's ready. Here is the article Thanks. Xyz231 (talk) 10:15, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Housekeeping

Just out of interest; as you may know, I still spend virtually all my time here reverting vandalism, blocking nominated vandals and considering articles with "speedy" nominations. Everyone else whom I grew up with here appears to have vanished; or has found better things to do. What am I doing wrong? --Anthony.bradbury 21:45, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

And if I find something else here to do, will anyone else do the work which I am currently doing? --Anthony.bradbury 21:47, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Delete page 2

Hello :-), I wrote to you in May and I asked you for your help in deleting the page. Please, can you look at my problem? Thank you very much for your time. --Amonet (talk) 09:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

 Done - I think. Sorry for the delay, but I'm not on WP right now - Alison 09:35, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much :-). It´s ok; it was not big problem, only small mistake. Nice day :-)! --Amonet (talk) 10:52, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Keegscee and sock confirmation in relation to ongoing community ban discussion

Hi, the community ban of Keegscee is being discussed at WP:AN right now. One of the main allegations is that several users are confirmed socks. In Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet_investigations/Keegscee/Archive#Comments_by_other_users_2, however, your statement doesn't confirm that these socks are socks of Keegscee but rather that they are all confirmed as being the same user. Further, the category (Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_PhoenixPhan for confirmed socks does not include Keegscee. Could you clarify? If possible, could we include a note in the SPI archive on the clarification? II | (t - c) 19:57, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

CSD

Allie, I have in the past tended to notify you, with varying degrees of glee, when I remove the last entry from WP:CSD. Although it has probably grown since I started this message, it was empty when I came here. Just wanted to make contact. --Anthony.bradbury 20:59, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi, would you be so kind as to give us support!

Hello, I hope you're doing fine~and that the Irish Wiktionary is growing constantly and surely. I'm part of an association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this hasn't been approved up to that moment. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! Capsot (talk) 11:01, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Go raibh maith agat. Tabhair aire! Capsot (talk) 15:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

South Bay

Hi there, as you're more familiar with the user South Bay (talk · contribs) and their sockpuppetry, you may want to look over Monterey Bay (talk · contribs), as this user just sticks out to me. This user's editing patterns, edit summaries and WikiStalk just makes it all the more fishy. Regards. — ξ 04:57, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

A note

You may be interested (you've probably heard this) in this page. The user has retired, but a block that you issued is cited. Thanks, mono 05:02, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you. DASHBot (talk) 06:46, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Juice Plus distributor edits?

Would you please cast a quick eye over the recent history at Juice Plus? There have been several dubious edits and it may be necessary to protect the article. Also some details of remuneration systems have been added, which are (presumably) specific to the US market and are therefore too specific on WP. Whatever, action may need to be taken, even if it's just warning the current protagonists! Thanks. --TraceyR (talk) 16:33, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

As a non involved editor I have come across an article mentioning Misplaced Pages and the use of a POV tag as advertising. Have thus removed the tag as without any indication of what the POV concerns are the tag does not belong. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:23, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

SPI Sudafedfiend8

I ran across a new account with obvious Wiki skills and did quick search on their activity. I discovered an SPI where the master was blocked indefinitely and I think I found some more of their socks. The suspected socks are Passenger8 (talk · contribs), 66.213.124.194 (talk · contribs), 66.213.15.250 (talk · contribs), and 64.134.161.50 (talk · contribs). I saw that you were the checkuser and wanted to alert you before I take any action. I'll probably monitor the pages for a little longer before I do anything of course unless you want to take care of it yourself. Please leave me a tb if you respond here. OlYeller 19:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Feminism

Hello, Feminism Task Force Member! Please accept this invitation to join a discussion on creating a full-fledged WikiProject Feminism. If you support this idea, please register your support here. All feedback is appreciated! Thanks!

Email

Alison, I have sent you an email regarding a checkuser related issue, please check your email and reply ASAP. Thanks. PCHS-NJROTC 02:54, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Pedophilia

Hi, I have undone your recent edit here. Please do not add the important policy tag to pages that have not achieved consensus to become a policy. Check over the discussions on the talkpage-- there is no consensus there either way and the current tag is much more accurate in describing the function of the page. Please seek a well-advertised RfC if you want this to be a policy. Remember, no editor here can declare policy by fiat just because he/she wishes it to be that way. Thanks, ThemFromSpace 02:21, 29 June 2010 (UTC)


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Re: your recent edit..

Are you telling me, and the whole world that you haven't received your ArbCom draft notice yet? Or are you trying to avoid it? :D *grins* SirFozzie (talk) 00:39, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

You are being discussed on the Administrative Noticeboards.

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding reason for discussion. The thread is Misplaced Pages User:McYel responds to User:Alison, User:Crazycomputers, and admins.The discussion is about the User:McYel. Thank you. --McYel (talk) 01:51, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! I've replied over there. I could do a video response, but I suck at YouTube - Alison 02:16, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for understanding the fact that those items on my user page actually did belong to me.
Someone has poured you tea.

--McYel (talk) 02:55, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Alison. You have new messages at Toddst1's talk page.
Message added 14:45, 7 July 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Smart Telecom saga continues...

FYI, at the suggestion of User:NuclearWarfare over at my talk page, I've filed an abuse response report on this contiiiiiinuing saaaaaaga. Feel free to add or tweak the heck out of it if I've messed up the format, or omitted key information. Smartiger (talk) 15:05, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

User page protection

Can you please unprotect my user page? The protection isn't needed anymore. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 16:23, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 15:10, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Child protection

I notice your interest in child protection and would be interested to hear your thoughts on an issue that I came across recently. I was involved in mediation of a dispute on the Monty Hall problem page. Note that this mediation ended some time ago. During the mediation, the mediator at one time suggested that he wanted to start private mediation with individual editors and wanted to contact me off-wiki by phone, IRC, or Skype to help with the mediation process. I declined to accept this although I was put under some pressure by the mediator and other editors to do so. My reasons for doing this are given in full here ] and discussed at some length later on in that page.

One of my reasons for not complying was child protection. For the most part, Misplaced Pages is a relatively safe place for the vulnerable but you can see clear child protection issues arising when editors can be put under pressure to speak privately to another person. I was staggered by the mediation committee's lack of understanding of this subject.

In the end I changed the mediation policy to state that private mediation can be declined without giving a reason. There was some resistance to this to start with but my latest additions are still in place. Whether this is because they have become accepted as a consensus view or because no one notices or cares I do not know.

As the policy is fine now, I am not asking for any action by you but I would be interested to hear your views on the subject. Martin Hogbin (talk) 13:33, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

One of the mediators AKG has now confirmed that he supports my policy changes, so the situation would seem to be resolved. I would still be interested to hear you opinion on the subject though. Martin Hogbin (talk) 12:36, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Martin. My personal opinion on this is that no editor should be forced into off-wiki mediation for any reason. It's a breach of privacy and is worrying, especially in the case where minors are involved. Children should, IMO, be actively discouraged from contact with adults by phone, etc. It's a disaster waiting to happen and impacts their privacy and safety. In short; yes, I agree with you - Alison 05:34, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Something's fishy

Please confirm that User:AliceMushroomsDwinlol is your alternate account. Otherwise, I will recommend it for blocking as an evasion of block sanctions on the account User:Mickey Darwin. —Duncan / What I Say 10:05, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

It's obviously not Alison. --Bsadowski1 10:06, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
This would be Mickey Darwin or GEORGIEGIBBONS again. Color me shocked, I say!! :-D - Alison 05:31, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Pedobear.png

Please add to MediaWiki:Bad image list. Kthnxbye. Jolly Ω Janner 13:38, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

 sorted ;) - Alison 04:07, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Unblock 3Network

You would appear to have blocked IP editing from the 3 Network. I know that you personally don't want any IP editors, but this block is improper and disruptive. DuncanHill (talk) 12:05, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

You also have a semi-protected talk page, with no readily apparent alternative method for non-autoconfirmed/IP editors to contact you. Please rectify this. DuncanHill (talk) 12:07, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Alison, could you comment at Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#3 mobile blocked, where DuncanHill is requesting a review of this rangeblock? Thanks. Fences&Windows 19:59, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
See my comment there as well; it seems perverse that we allow Brucejenner to continue socking because a rangeblock would cause "collateral damage", but are happy to rangeblock one of the biggest mobile phone networks in Europe. It ought to be both or neither. – iridescent 20:03, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
LOL - good grief already. I take 24 hours away and this happens? :) Okay, in no order;
  • DuncanHill, please read WP:FORUMSHOP and take it on board for next time you go on a shopping spree.
  • If you want me to unprot my talk page, or any other for that matter, just ask. Don't go to WP:RPP to stir drama, waste bytes, and cause trouble. As others have pointed out, one glance at this ridiculous prot log for my talk page will explain everything. About 1% of all anon edits here are constructive, the rest are stuff like "I am going to shoot you in the head and laugh as your brains splatter onto the ground and blood pools around your corpse" or "I am going to rape your children and mutilate their dead bodies" - stuff like that. It goes with the oversight/checkuser territory, and largely washes over me; the main issue being the timewasting on everyone else's part that goes with things like this. I'll unprot it now, just for you :) - see how things go.
  • You make very good points indeed about {{checkuserblock}} and, fortunately, they weren't lost amongst the vitriol. I see that FT2, Roger and others have made great improvements to the template, so that's good progress :) tho' I see you're still not impressed
  • Surprisingly - and this comment is for Iridescent too - that particular /16 segment of Hutchinson 3G Network (H3GUK Subscribe Block3) is surprisingly quiet apart from - *coff* - a small few constructive editors (the useragents on CU make that very clear), some registered editors, and bored teenagers like GEORGIEGIBBONS and that Mickey Darwin guy. And again, as a CU and admin, one has to weigh up the access of unregistered editors versus the torrent of timewasting socking, vandalism and other shite that emanates from that netblock. My personal feelings on anon editors never reflects on my blocking actions here; rules are rules and I resent your (DuncanHill's) suggestion that I did this out of some sort of personal bias. That is not the case at all and indeed, I welcome any other checkuser to review this rangeblock and act accordingly. No agendas here. BTW - the Hutchinson 3G Network spans quite a number of other ranges; it's one subsection of the overall 3G network. You can get more info here, for example.
  • A one-week softblock is not "ostensibly indefinite", no matter what way you slice or dice it. This range has been blocked before and will likely be again, unfortunately.
  • Next time you mention someone on WP:AN or WP:ANI, the polite and proper thing to do is let them know with something like {{ANI-notice}}. In fact, the edit notice says you must. Just sayin', since we're talking rules ...
  • To Iridescent: yeah, the BruceJenner thing seems really unfair compared to this. However, without going into too many details, that guy is all over the place and it's particularly hard to nail down his IP ranges without causing a lot of problems for a lot of people. And, as you say, things are only going to get worse as people migrate to mobile networks which have by definition, short DHCP leases. And I really don't know what the answer to this one is. That other vandal - the Colonel Saunders guy - uses Blackberry ranges exclusively to create accounts to circumvent softblocks, for example. My personal experience of complaining to ISPs is that it's a waste of time and energy & most of them couldn't care less.
Ok, back to sleep I go. Better things to do right now - Alison 05:09, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh and matter of interest, here's another example of an escalating rangeblock of a similar ISP, along with a report here - Alison 05:39, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

See...

these... did the rangeblock on JDH's home IPs expire? If so, shouldn't it be reinstated? Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 01:53, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

RE: Gheo

Haigh :) Ní bhfaca mé d'teachtaireacht go dtí anois. Conas atá tú? Dornálaíocht (talk) 17:44, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

LOL - conas tá tú, a bhuachaill? :) Yeah, táim ar scor ar Vicipéid anois agus is fearr liom mo uaireanta a chaitheamh ar áiteanna eile ;) Ar aon nós, fáilte anseo! - Alison 05:23, 2 August 2010 (UTC)