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Oh wow!! Thank you so much :) - Alison 19:15, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Can itz be feel better times now pleez?

Starting to feel halfway human again, hoping the situation is the same for you.. here ya go... SirFozzie (talk) 16:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Feeling sick? I hope you feel better soon! :) --Kyoko 22:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Kyoko. I owe you about a dozen emails. Still sick today and on antibiotics but came into work anyway. Hey, Foz - I hope that's vegetarian chicken :) - Alison 22:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Um.. yes.. of course it is.. um... I'll get me coat.... (oh btw, you have an email, hope it gives you a laugh) SirFozzie (talk) 22:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

lol!!! ;) Hope you're feeling better too, Foz - Alison 22:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC) (checking mail)

Actions of Blotto adrift

Please look into the actions of Blotto adrift. He keeps changing the Trenton Ontario page to reflect his own edits. He has edited this page more than 7 times in one day. Now the page has been locked with his incorrect edits showing. Please ask Blotto adrift to understand that this is not the purpose of wikipedia and please correct the page. Thank you Also, it appears that Blotto adrift has several user names and one of them is an admin. How this happened should be looked into. He is abusing wikipedia. For example, Gogo Dodo, Snowfire51, Malcolmxl5 MastCell et al appear to be the same person. Blotto adrift has seriously damaged this sites reputation. Please correct the pages that have his edits and take action against him. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.189.25.208 (talk) 15:37, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

a hug for Alison

Hello, Alison! You have been given this message in recognition of all you have done for Misplaced Pages, and also just for being you. Misplaced Pages's greatest strength is its contributors, and you are a valued and important part of that. I hope that this message has brightened your day, and that it encourages you to spread the WikiLove. Thanks again for your contributions, and have a good day!

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Hi Alison, I decided to leave one of these on your page too, because I don't want you to feel left out. Antibiotics??? Whatever you have, I hope you get well soon! *hug* Kyoko 20:30, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Group Hug! One of two things will happen.. either we'll all feel better, or Alison's bug and my bug will get together and voila, the Black Plague will be reborn! I put odds.. eh.. about 50/50. I'm willing to go for it! (TGIF!) SirFozzie (talk) 20:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

User_talk:Vbtech

Hi Alison

Please see the unblock request on this page. Since this seemed to be a single ip blocked rather than a range, I thought I should defer to you for advice. Is this collateral or expected? Please advise what we should do next. Spartaz 20:48, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Spartaz. See talk page. I've switched to softblock - Alison 21:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Request for rollback permission

Hi Alison,

Will you please rollback me? I recently requested the unprotection of University of California, Riverside after four months and now that article's major troll User:SummerThunder is back. Amerique

Nevermind, I made a request at WP:Requests for Rollback. Thanks anyway, Amerique 21:02, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

All done, so :) - Alison 21:22, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Mail for you!

Hopefully will give you some nice sox to munch on.... nyom nyom nyom ~Eliz81 21:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Munching sox? Now that's fun and nutritious :) — DarkFalls 23:44, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:RFCU

Somehow both times I've tried to use that page I've messed it up somehow. I put in a request for PONDHEEPANKAR vs. Nadarsagham today but it doesn't appear on the page. Maybe since Pondheepankar is a confirmed puppetmaster it got screwed by the page names or something? Can you check it out and let me know what you think? 22:32, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

More socks User:L.L.King

User:MichaelQSchmidt recently registered and has made nearly identical edits to the same pages as L.L.King. A search of DNS entries reveals that Michael Schmidt owns www.cinemapress.biz, which matches the username that was blocked as a puppet of L.L.King, who claims (Leon L. King) to be the head writer for Cinema Press. I left this in a message on Schmidt's talk page, which has subsequently been deleted. It is very likely that L.L.King is Michael Schmidt (and per the usernames for User:MikeTheModel and User:ExtraordinaryActor) and he continues to use Misplaced Pages to promote himself and his work in various movies. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 22:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Is user Cumulus Clouds daft?

Having discovered a nest of sockpuppets and having had them successfully blocked with your help mean he must run back here to you when he feels he is loosing his fight to further destroy Wiki and promote his opinion as fact?

Last August, and being ignorant of Wiki guidelines, I put an article about myself on Wiki. Naturally it was quickly removed. My ignorance taught me to simply turn such matters over to those who job it is to do promotions and publicity. It has developed that my subordinants had a number of accounts to deal with edits and additions and image uploads. Best evidence indicates that these acounts made no votes nor destroyed anyone's work.

An incident took place in December where user Cumulus Clouds decided without consensus to censor certain informations in the article on Paris Hilton. He tagged a constructed set of relevent, related, and mutually supportive facts "trivia". He then removed most of these facts, again without waiting for consensus, and deconstructed the section.... turning it into the list of trivia he at first claimed. Unfortunately, these accounts attempted to undo theCumulus Clouds damage when they should have simply let the issue die and hope that someone might have decided to put Cumulus Clouds in check. Well... no one did stop him. His actions got worse. Their defense of Wiki actually became more active. And Cumulus Clouds's proffering ill-thought opinion as fact became more extreme.

At this point, when Cumulus Clouds could only have thought these actions represented a consensus against his actions, he ignored that supposed consensus and became even more antagonistic. Later research has shown that he does indeed have a rather acrimonious history on Wiki and has been able to undo nearly every correction to his own poor works. He bacame inflamatory and accusatory. And convinced you as a checkuser to determin the IP addresses of the consensus to determine if it were the same. Yoy then rightly had the users blocked. Fine.

Already feeling empowered by earlier successes in bullying other minor editors, and now acting positively sanctimonious, he then took further actions, and again without consensus. He went over the contributions made by these now blocked accounts and made haphazard choices on what to remove or what to leave... based totally upon his opinion' of what was notable or not, and with no regard to the reletive merit or worth of the contributions. He went to images these persons had uploaded, and tagged each for deletion. His reasons were in the vein of "uploaded by someone later found to be a sockpuppet", "probably without permission...", or "I suspect..." or "they likely do not have permission.." or "I feel....", or even a blatant "uploaded use is a copyright violation"... but he did not check nor verify any of these facts before making his claims... nor even grant that if they were all sockpuppets of mine (rathet than an overzealous subordinants) then they would certainly have had permisions to use my images. He says ONLY what he feels supports his narrow POV. And with others now afraid to challenge his actions (the few other editors who suggested he move with greater caution, the "consensus" Wiki is so proud of, were immediately rebuked) he went through these contributions as if with a machete.

Now I will grant that my knowledge of Wiki protocols is not very sure... but is there some specific section that states that images uploaded by accounts later found guilty of sockpuppery should be sumarily removed without thought or consideration to whether or not they contribute? Is there a guideline that encourages an editor to make repeated and blatantly false claims after he locks out any who might have shown him to be in error? Does Wiki support their own creation of Wiki bullies?

I learned of the actions of my subordinants and came online to study what had happened and why. I also discovered his picking and choosing among the contributions of the puppets, to remove only that which offended him. I wrote tell him that I agree that the article about me should be removed from Wiki... because of how easily my subordinants were able to make changes, and because of how easily he was able to make his opinions become fact.

To step back a few days in these events... by way of example... The "sockpuppet" group had put an article about me on Wiki, as well as one for an associate, actor James Evans, and they had been creating articles about projects we had been in and had been improving aricles about others with whom I had worked. After his "victory" over the "sockpuppets", Cumulus Clouds tagged lagged the article about me as being "non-notable". Then removed cogent informations that might have proved to other Wiki users that I might actually be noteworthy enough to remain, thus leaving an empty article that was not worth verifying. This is the same tactic he used in the Parid Hilton article when he first tagged a well constructed set of relevent, related, and mutually supportive facts as "trivia", removed the parts of the section that made it cohesive, and turned it into the "trivia" he first called it. This fellow creates his own reality. Interestingly enough, the article created by these "puppets" about actor James Evans had much less information and fewer links and references... yet Cumulus Clouds chose to leave it. This would seem to be a strong indicator of a vendetta against me personally... and that seems to be completely against Wiki protocols.

Wiki is allowing this individual to run amuck. The "checks and balances" Wiki claims to have in place have not stopped him. I granted in a lengthy response that wrong as the puppet group was to break Wiki rules, he was much worse when he continued promoting personal opinion as fact under the guise of authority. And that yes, I now wished the article about me to be removed because his very actions underscored the deepest flaw of the Wiki system... that fact matters far less than opinion.

The puppet group bent Wiki guidelines, and that is unfortunate... but they never put anything on Wiki that was not 100% verifiable and true. Cumulus Clouds continues to spout opinion within Wiki guidelines, using opinion as fact, and acting without consensus... and THAT is even more unfortunate. He is the problem with the entire Wiki system.

But here is the reason I am writing. This Wiki user... this Wiki expert.... this person allowed to run ammuck with no regard to others... this anonymous Cumulus Clouds, has now made it possible... even encouraged others, to find my home and family and perhaps do damage to me and mine. Oh yes... withing the guidelines of Wiki, he began with a disclaimer that anyone following his instructions could find out these informations... but he put on a direct link to my name, home address, and telephone number. For all intents and purposes, he put up a big glaring sign that says "LOOK HERE". It was not neccessary.. He had won his battle. He was getting his way. No one was stopping him. But the fact that he was able to do all that he has done... that the total inaction of Wiki administrators to caution him, was accepted by him as consensus, and he went one step too far.

You need to visit "http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:MichaelQSchmidt " and see what he wrote. As part of his vendetta, he wrote "This information is freely available in the Whois directories maintained by NetSol and other major domain name services. Here is the DNS entry...". While the information IS there, and individuals with the knowledge could find it, isn't his placing the link that leads directly to me and my family and then encouraging others to use it yet another abuse of his power and position? Do you not have some "rule" or "guideline" that discourages such rash actions? That he is actually inviting individuals who might not otherwise have known how, or even cared, to now have access to my home and my family is scandalous at best and criminal at worse.

I would ask that that specific link to my personal information, and any archives that include that link, or instruction on how to reach that link, be removed immediately. Certainly it is public information, but in the context used by Cumulus Clouds it is akin to posting instructions on how to make a bomb with kitchen chemicals. Sure the chemicals exist... and one can put them together in a certain order to create an explosive device... but does that make it right to share that information with the world??? It would be very unfortunate if the actions by user Cumulus Clouds, working within Wiki under the color of Wiki authority and using Wiki as the means, might result in the perpretration of any crime against myself or my family. He stepped waaaaaay out of bounds and he is using Wiki to do it.

One last point... the puppet group was wrong, but they did not break any rule of law... only rule of Wiki and they paid for their actions. Cumulus Clouds is using Wiki in abusive ways that could result in direct harm to individuals or property... and THAT is illegal.

And now he is here... whining back to the individual he feels is his biggest supporter and who seems to give affirmation to his abuses, calling me a sockpuppet of myself? Saying that someone working for me is me... or that I am he? Saying that my "edits" are the same as Leon King? Logic and truth is the same everywhere except on Wiki... and his own actions have decreed that the only pages I make comment of his abuse of Wiki are those same pages and same action of the sockpuppets. I will make no edits to Wiki. I only ask that this person not be allowed to continue in a vendetta against me... that he not be allowed to put up a flad pointing out where my family lives. Any wonder I agree my article should be removed? TELL HIM I AGREE. And tell him to grow up. And no.. he has not written me to verify or confirm anything... he keeps making invalid claims and assertions. It just amazes me that now, in asserting that I am someone else or vice-versus that he wishes to have you shut me up as well.

How do you think I should respond to the inquiries I have had from popular media about Wiki due entirely to his actions?

With regret to the bad press this man has created for Wiki.... Michael Q. Schmidt, non-notable actor —Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelQSchmidt (talk • contribs) 23:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)