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What do you think of my essay

User:Igorberger/Social engineering (Internet) I would like to move it to main space as an essay after I have proofread it and fixed the syntax a bit. Igor Berger (talk) 20:07, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I made a new tool for you Batman. When someone complains why you deleted their article tell them WP:AGF and WP:NOT#Democracy. Also ask them if they claiming WP:SEI. That should do the trick..:) Igor Berger (talk) 06:20, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Clarification of username block

You username-blocked this person: User talk:Beautifulangrymusic. Pourquoi? I don't see anything wrong with the name per-se... Could you elaborate on their talk page so others can see the reasoning. Thanks! --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:19, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

No problemo, done here. Let me know if you need anything else! Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 19:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

GOtcha. All is clear. Thanks! --Jayron32.talk.contribs 19:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Yoshi525 (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Ioeth, the above guy or gal has appealed against your recent block, which you made whilst citing WP:SPAM violations. It's clear that that is indeed true, but at the same time, the individiual has also showed some hope in their contributions: e.g., he or she made no further attempts to insert spam links, or make unverified claims, after their last warning.

In the hope you have no objection, I have shortened the block to a period of 8 hours. Feel free to start a discussion on my talk page, that user's talk page (I'll be watching it), or alternatively shoot me an email.

All the best,
Anthøny 21:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Nope, all looks good to me; thanks for taking care of that. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 21:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I guess I should note that it looks like the user is familiar with using sockpuppets, since it appears that the links they were adding (as well as some others) were also being spammed by TonyMcnam (talk · contribs) and 86.9.138.53 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 21:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

That is worrying :) I'll look into it, unless you haven't already? Anthøny 22:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, to me it looks like the three are all the same person and are all SPAs, and the other account and IP were used to facilitate the same types of edits as well as covertly edit war. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 22:02, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I concur—they're all blocked, so there shouldn't be too many worries from that end of the field. I'll tag, and keep an eye out for any more suspicious activity ;) Cheers, Anthøny 22:04, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good; I'm definitely concerned about Yoshi525's past editing pattern, especially with these apparent sockpuppets, so I'll try to keep an eye out too. It'll be interesting to see if Yoshi is autoblocked after your block expires, since I blocked the above IP for 2 weeks, heh. Probably not though, since I did anons only. On a sidenote, you appear to be on IRC, but aren't responding. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 22:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Now it appears that this has made it to WP:ANI here. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 22:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I've commented there ;) Anthøny 17:54, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

User talk:62.60.123.90

Thank you for blocking this user, the vandalism went beyond a joke in the end Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs) 16:16, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Very well

I will let it go. I will no longer edit WP:AE to replace the refactoring. I do wish that people would recognize that they can simply file another complaint against me if they have one. Their complaints about my civility have nothing to do with Martin's disruptive editing. These two users have been harassing me for a few months now, and no administrator has done anything about it. ScienceApologist (talk) 19:19, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I can understand where you're coming from. The two messages at AE seem to be pretty minor on the grand scale of things, though. However, if you do have definitive instances of harassment you'd like me to look at, I'll be more than happy to. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 19:22, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Dlabtot

Instances of wikistalking/forumshopping:

Instances of uncivil baiting:

Ad hominem dismissal of my comments:

Oblique personal attacks:

I could continue, but what's the point? This user has been on my case since just about the moment he arrived at Misplaced Pages. That he was suspected of being a sockpuppet of User:Nrcprm2026 is of note. That user has been placing socks at Misplaced Pages to disrupt for some time now and although the checkuser confirmed that this user is not editing from the same IP, I'm not convinced that this is not the same user. He is interested in depleted uranium obviously and has an extreme vendetta against me (just like User:Nrcprm2026). This user especially makes Misplaced Pages a very uncomfortable place for me as he follows me wherever I go.

ScienceApologist (talk) 19:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll let the facts speak for themselves. Not just on the question of whether the characterizations of the diffs above are accurate, but also on the question of sockpuppetry, where I would urge you to examine Nrcprm2026 as well as Nondistinguished, Fraudulent Ideas, Velikovsky, and Mainstream astronomy. Dlabtot (talk) 20:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

...and Joshuaschroeder! -- Levine2112 07:58, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Findings

I've looked over both of your contribution histories and a fairly large sample of your edits, and I just don't see anything that's worth acting on at this point. SA, just because you're engaged in a disagreement with someone who's interested in the same topics as you does not mean that they're Wiki-stalking you. Dlabtot, I'm fairly sure the sockpuppetry issue with SA has been fully dealt with and I really don't see how changing those talk pages to redirects is any kind of offense. I think the fact of the matter here is that you're both acting childish (edit warring at WP:AE for goodness sake!) and that if you really tick each other off as much as it appears, it might be best for you to try to avoid each other for a bit. If either of you feel differently than this, I would urge you to file a report at WP:AE (bring better "evidence" than what you gave above, though) or create a request for comment or arbitration. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 14:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

204.234.17.51 Vandalism

Hello, I noticed that you put a 24 hour block on the said IP. There have been numerous vandalism coming from the IP. This IP's host is strongbad.esu10.k12.ne.us which is a school IP. I attend the school that it's set for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/204.234.17.51

There are the contributions from the IP, many are vandalism.

I really believe a softblock should be considered.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeroxysm (talk • contribs) 19:33, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

It is softblocked; only anonymous users are blocked from editing. Is there something else you'd like me to do? Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 19:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh wait, wrong month, nevermind! You can make future reports to WP:AIV if your monitoring the contributions from that IP address.  :-) Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 19:40, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Alright, thank you. Thanks for the tip too, wasn't exactly sure where to report this kind of thing. --Zeroxysm (talk) 20:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Keep up the good work! Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 20:48, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Analysis tool?

What "analysis tool" did you use? PouponOnToast (talk) 21:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Given that this is somewhat sensitive information, I'd appreciate it if we could discuss this off-wiki. You can find my contact information on my userpage. Thanks. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 21:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

The name of an analysis tool is sensitive? How could an analysis tool be sensitive? I will contact you when I find a public hotspot. PouponOnToast (talk) 22:04, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Well it doesn't have a name, and access to it is privileged and only granted by its creator. All it does is go through the public contribution histories of two or more accounts and compare them to each other. It finds the total common pages that the accounts have edited along with some other statistics. So, it's like I said yesterday, anybody could do the exact same thing with a calculator or a spreadsheet. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 14:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I ran the same thing on OpenOffice at home. Could you check your median calculation? I am getting far different values. PouponOnToast (talk) 14:31, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Is this tool hosted on a private server or on the Wikimedia tool server? I have need of this for a Checkuser investigation. Lawrence § t/e 14:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

It's hosted on the tool server. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 14:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

How do I get access? Lawrence § t/e 14:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)