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repeated lesser attack by User:194.17.116.224 despite warning

User:194.17.116.224 persistently tried to get his/her favourite quote on Portal and Portal 2. This was reverted, with explanation, by several people. I pointed out the issue on the article's talk page. I also pointed out that Portal is not a prequel to Portal 2 in the edit summary. This was met with this entry, with a harmless "tongue out", which I ignored (in the sense that I didn't complain about it anywhere; I did acknowledge it in the reply on my own talk page). Then, all I received was another "tongue out", to which I replied with an "only warning" regarding personal attacks. A while after that, I got called a "Dansk bastard". Again, fairly harmless, but a notch up from "tongue out". Since personally attacking me is pretty much the only thing the IP does at the moment, I request either an indefinite block of my talk page, or a user block of at least a week (the IP only seems to come in once a week; a shorter block would have no effect), or just a stern warning from an administrator, or any combination. Seems to be harmlessly misguided more than badly malicious, but something should be done. I put my request here because the other ones, like etiquette noticeboard, didn't seem to apply. -- Nczempin (talk) 10:06, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

• 194.17.116.224's block log shows previous blocks of 48 hours (April 2009), 3 months (December 2009), and 6 months (May 2010). We could move on up to a one year block (I don't see much in the way of constructive contributions and messages such as this aren't encouraging) or be mellower about it with another shorter block, I suppose. Other views? – Athaenara ✉ 07:36, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Just block us, we mean, we're like this huge school that has been annoying Misplaced Pages for the last three years. If we get a blocking, then the problem is solved. There are different persons each time. Therefore, block us!

Sincerely, 194.17.116.224 (talk) 09:43, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

• • • Sounds like a reasonable request. Block indef, account creation allowed, and perhaps a more precise notice on the talk page like I have seen for other schools. -- Nczempin (talk) 09:53, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, something like that. 194.17.116.224 (talk) 12:13, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Multiple spoofer hacking accounts?

• Spoofer vishal hacking (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (registered March 2)
• Spoofervishalhackingas (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (registered April 12)
• Spoofervishalhackings (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (registered April 13)
• (admins can see deleted contribs for 113.193.98.133 and 124.125.249.167)

I don't know what this is but it doesn't look good (and are there more)? – Athaenara ✉ 06:47, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

The kid keeps posting to his "blogs" which are just links to other blogs, apparently about hacking. Doesn't seem to be any actual threat, will hopefully move along once he understands there is nothing for him here. Beach drifter (talk) 06:54, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Eh, threat, no threat, whatever, there's no need for three or more accounts for this. I'd like to hear from experienced admins about it. – Athaenara ✉ 07:41, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) His user page User:Spoofervishalhackings claims some outrageous things: CERTIFIED ... Verified Misplaced Pages Account ... ✔ Verified Misplaced Pages Official Spoofer Vishal Hacking ... ✔ Misplaced Pages V.I.P Account ... ✔ Misplaced Pages Certified no such things exist; then worse, he claims 2011© All Rights Reserved. © Misplaced Pages Original & Spoofer Vishal Hacking Official®' he cannot claim "All Rights Reserved" on Misplaced Pages because he agreed to a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license upon submitting his edits. Elizium23 (talk) 10:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

• As said above, the kid will drift away eventually. Meanwhile I have blocked the two more recent accounts. — ] (talk · contribs) 12:44, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Edit warring on Richard Trevithick

This page is seeing a great deal of activity today, due to the subject being linked from Google's main page. It's recently been subject to edit warring about Trevithick's nationality, so I've fully protected it for 24 hours. As I won't be around this evening, could someone else keep an eye on it please. Thanks. —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 17:02, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

It's the 240th anniversary of Trevithick's birth, hence the link from Google. Mjroots (talk) 19:40, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Oh, lummee, is it the usual battle between Cornish and English/British nationalists...? LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:03, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Facepalm *sigh...* LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:15, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes, the usual bollocks and the usual single-purpose IPs. DuncanHill (talk) 20:52, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Mistake on Something Short of Paradise Poster

I misspelled the file name: "Sometting Short of Paradise." Now I want you to put on the one with the technical file name from www.movieposters.com -- File:MPW-51222.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by W. Arnold Holmes (talk • contribs) 18:42, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you meant by the second part of your request, but I have moved the file to the correct spelling of the title. I also reduced it in size to bring it in line with our fair use practices. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:21, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism

User made this ]. If you find it bad do something about it. (p.s. I find it bad!)Kazemita1 (talk) 18:59, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

non-admin comment: This is not the place for reporting this. Have a look here: Misplaced Pages:Vandalism#How_to_respond_to_vandalism. The user has been warned for vandalism by the reverter. This is normal procedure. If the user continues, he will get more (and sterner) warnings, and eventually he'll get blocked. That can happen pretty fast if the user keeps vandalizing. -- Nczempin (talk) 19:39, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User:LiteralKa/Gay Nigger Association of America and Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User:Nmatavka/N0rp

Would an admin (or admins) close Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User:LiteralKa/Gay Nigger Association of America and Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User:Nmatavka/N0rp? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 09:37, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Done by Graeme Bartlett and The Anome. Jafeluv (talk) 11:54, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Need 1 brave uninvolved admin

...to close the very lengthy Request for Move Talk:Battles_of_the_Mexican–American_War#Move.3F. WP:RM is backlogged, nobody has commented in more than 10 days, and it's getting in the middle of this closely related CfD. --Enric Naval (talk) 10:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

(And, when you close, could you clarify if the decision at this RM can be applied to all the related articles that use "Mexican-American War" in the title? Mexican–American War campaigns Battle of Santa Clara (Mexican–American War) List of U.S. Army, Navy and Volunteer units in the Mexican–American War. These moves are going to be contested, and I would rather not be forced to open 3 new RMs, one for each related article, and rehash the exact same arguments. Please assess this if you can.) --Enric Naval (talk) 10:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

There's no reason "Mexican–American War" should be punctuated differently than "Spanish–American War" or any of the many other "X–Y War" articles that follow our MOS conventions. If WP:TITLE is really intended to supplant the MOS, and to say that we need to follow our sources for style and formatting and not just for naming (italics? underlining? curly quotation marks? long S?), then we need to discuss it there and make that policy explicit so we don't have these arguments. — kwami (talk) 11:16, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Enric Naval's post cries out for comment:

• The editor is not making a neutral call for closure, but a flagrant call for partisan support. An admin closing this case would do well to attend to the issues raised, and to note the count of supports and opposes.
• The matter is highly complex, and involves broader issues that are being addressed at WP:TITLE concerning how punctuation (as opposed to the raw choice of name for an article) is settled at WP:MOS; but if the RM were closed in a way consistent with the last closure at Mexican–American_War, the deciding factor would have to be "no consensus for change".
• Enric Naval, and the other proponents of moving to a form with a hyphen (against the great majority of similar articles that follow WP:MOS and retain their en dash), were invited to consider jointly ALL of the articles with "Mexican~American War" in their title: collegially, in a correctly formed multiple RM. They refused to negotiate. If they now want to parlay a single RM into a multiple one (without proper procedure, and proper advertisement to the community), that is an abuse of the mechanisms of WP:RM.

Noetica 11:23, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Hey

At Talk:2010–2011 Ivorian crisis, there's a merge discussion going on. Is anybody watching it? B-Machine (talk) 15:11, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Why does it need watching?  Sandstein  18:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

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