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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)

• Heyya. Yeah, here are the main rangeblock histories; 123 - the first one is the most targeted. More here and here and here and so on. Plenty more, but you get the idea <_< - Alison 05:20, 2 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)

Ah táim cuíosach maith.. Díreach tar éis obair a críochnú.. Ag fanacht don clár nua de top gear a íoslódáil. Cad atá tú ag déanamh sna Stáit Aontaithe? Bhíos ann ar feadh cúpla mí san Stáit de Michigan cúpla bliain ó shin.. B'fhéidir go rachaidh mé ar ais tar éis mo Masters. Nílim ró-cinnte fós. Is daoine OTT iad lol Dornálaíocht (talk) 21:24, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Paul Baltes

Thank you for your help. I've now been reminded that WP:RFO would have been a better route to go. Cheers, David in DC (talk) 17:34, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

E-mail

Alison; recent e-mail I sent you. It is potentially urgent in wikipedia terms, and I would be grateful for an answer. --Anthony.bradbury 17:43, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry. Anthony - I dint think I got it. Can you resend and I'll get back to you today? It might have ended up in my spam filter - Alison 18:26, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for going above and beyond to look into my situation. I really appreciate it.

Richmondian (talk) 18:24, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

No problem :) Just glad that it got sorted fairly - Alison 18:27, 2 August 2010 (UTC)