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Two socks needing blocking

Please take a look at these two users if you didn't.

For Kramden4700 (talk · contribs), see , , , , , and his identical behavior and interests to this user's other sockpuppets, such as uploading numerous screenshots from TV news right after the account was created.

For Tobyvonmeistersinger (talk · contribs), see

Steers got horns kid, you don't (talk · contribs)'s only three edits were to correctly tag Kramden4700 (talk · contribs) and Tobyvonmeistersinger (talk · contribs)'s pages as socks of Spotteddogsdotorg (talk · contribs). Your closing comment was inappropriate and indicates that you didn't really look at the evidence. 70.108.138.47 10:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Take it to WP:ANI or WP:RFCU, I'm not familiar with Spotteddogs and the sockpuppetry isn't obvious from the evidence you provide. Accounts should not be created for the sole purpose of putting sockpuppet tags on user pages, it's an extremely common form of harrassment. --Sam Blanning 11:05, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Alternatively the admin who blocked Spotteddogs originally may be of more help to you. --Sam Blanning 11:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Newtonmas

I think you made the right call in deletion (even though I voted keep.) Sdedeo (tips) 03:47, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, good to know. --Sam Blanning 10:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Laserfiche

At the point of the sockpuppetry enry, there were at least 2 and possibly 3 votes that were suspect. No implied threat on the keep vote here; I just forgot to add to the section after voting a (marginal) keep. Cheers. Alex 14:36, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Inflation

RandomP already suggested those reasons for governments to restrict the printing of money. I belive I addressed them, did you miss that part of the disscussion? Should I restate the arguments in a different manner? Carbonate 10:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Userpage

Thanks for reverting. I wonder if Curpsbot can add Konob to his list of blockable names? Probably kinda pointless since it's pretty low grade vandalism, but it seems like this guy is counting them up like trophies. Mak (talk) 14:55, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, I hope I've done what I can to stop him displaying his vandalism as trophies, at least. --Sam Blanning 14:59, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Tales of the Seventh Fleet on ST Fan Productions page

Could you explain why you removed the listing for Tales of the Seventh Fleet from the ST Fan Productions article? You are, I know, aware that their individual article was deleted since you were the one who closed it off. That result, however has nothing to do with the ST Fan Productions page where TOTSF easily fits in with the criteria that has been agreed upon. Unless you can show reason why not, I shall be reverting your change.

You are most welcome to discuss your thoughts on the discussion page of the article, since your action would mean a major change in inclusion criteria. You do know what the criteria are don't you?--Kirok of L'Stok 10:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I see your point. I've restored the listings minus the wikilinks. --Sam Blanning 10:53, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you--Kirok of L'Stok 11:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Flags of English subdivisions

I would like to report that not all of the flags on this page are visible even though in the page edit they all apear please can you assist in fixing this problem.Lucy-marie 18:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

They all look fine to me. Try purging your cache - press Ctrl-F5 if you're using Internet Explorer, Ctrl-Shift-R if you're using Firefox. --Sam Blanning 21:05, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject User Page Design Committee

Hello. I am here to inform you that they now have the wikiproject up for mfd here. You thoughts would be appreciated. Thetruthbelow 04:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Translation request

Would you be able to integrate the material from the German wiki article on Paul Fagius into the English article. I can read the German, more or less but my German isn't at an encyclopedic level. I ask because I noticed you translated Protestation at Speyer thanks! Sumergocognito 07:50, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Done, let me know what you think. I left the list of his works alone, as I'm not sure on which basis it's currently done - it looks very different from deWiki's version. --Sam Blanning 20:45, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Vielen Dank! I left a message for the fellow who first started the article to take a look at the differences, hopefully he'll be able to help resolve the issue. Sumergocognito 22:02, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Drop me a line if you find anything else that needs translation, I haven't had much luck finding anything interesting on WP:GTIE lately :-) --Sam Blanning 13:06, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Be careful what you ask for. There is much at ] which could be added to Carolina Constitutio Criminalis (I would also suggest moving the English article to Constitutio Criminalis Carolina which I think is the more commonly known name for the criminal law of the Empire). Thanks- Sumergocognito 04:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

60.234.157.64

It seems our old friend User:60.234.157.64 has been acting up on Socialism, among other things. Clearly an address of the puppetmaster's, clearly a vandal. Can the IP be blocked? --Nema Fakei 11:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Blocked for a month, looks static. Certainly I'm not seeing any useful contributions, and they all bear the hallmarks of TMECM/Joel/whoever. --Sam Blanning 12:02, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject User Page Design Committee

Hi Samuel. I have read your request on the Wikiproject User Page Design Committee's talk page and most of those changes seem reasonable. What people seem to not be getting is the point or focuses of the project, how members were aquired, etc. I think the changes you are proposing are reasonable and Thetruthbelow would agree with them, not sure how he feels about it though. I am also considering moving this to Misplaced Pages:User page design committee so its not considered a WikiProject anymore, because that also seems to be an issue. I read that you would help with some of these changes with a little endorsement, so here it is. :-) — The King of Kings 21:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Sam, I agree with almost everything you said. My only response though is that I think this should stay as a wikiproject, for when I conceived the idea, I conceived it as a wikiproject. Thanks, Thetruthbelow 21:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, maybe not that idea, but everything else can go. — The King of Kings 22:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

One last thing, I think that we should still help the person by going to their page and designing a little, but explaining to them as we do it. I dont want the project to become just a guidline, instead i want it to be a do-it-yourself page with someone to help you if you need it. Thetruthbelow 22:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the Questions section, and changed the title from designers to participants. ThetruthbelowThetruthbelow 22:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I have also changed the Design requests to help, with an explanation that we only help, not design the entire page. Made other changes also. Thetruthbelow 22:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

More changes

We have recently made even more changes to the project. When we created the project, we set out with the only intention being helping other users. We have greatly expanded the do-it-yourself section, changed the "hired gun" aspect of the project, and also listened to all of your suggestions. We want to be able to help all users, new and old, with everything technical about wikipedia, but we can't if we are deleted. So I beg you sir, from the bottom of my heart to reconsider, especially after all of the changes and improvements we have made. Thank you, Thetruthbelow 02:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

It's like an episode of Brookside

...over on the Merseyside article. Please could you take a look and hand out any semi-protections and sockpuppet blocks you deem necessary ? Many thanks, Aquilina 14:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I blocked the latest IP, though he's probably already on another one. Only one IP has hit that page today so I don't think it merits semi-protection yet. Let me know if there are any other pages or sockpuppets that need attention. --Sam Blanning 14:42, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

User Undeletion Request

I'm making this request on behalf of Alpinoch...he/she had created the article NameAction, which was initially quite spammy, and I had {{prod}}ed the article as such on June 16. Alpinoch made what I believe to be good faith efforts to remove the promotional-sounding text from the article (which left very little, but...). I added {{business-stub}} to the article later that day, and left a note on Alpinoch's talk page that he/she could add content freely, but without the POV/promotional material. I got a response on Alpinoch's talk page today stating that the article had been deleted (after only 3 days, and the {{prod}} tag had been removed). Any chance of getting the article restored to Alpinoch's user page so that he/she has an opportunity to improve it somewhat? I have no doubt that there is some tie between Alpinoch and the company, but if the claims that were in the article are verifiable, the article may have some value. Thanks! --Bugwit grunt / scribbles 15:11, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. --Sam Blanning 15:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Great Job Sam

Samuel, I must say that you are doing an amazing job. When I originally came up with the idea for this project, I never thought it would be this good. You have greatly improved the project, and for that I am grateful. Actually, I was wondering if you would join in on the Esperanza talk page about merging this project with the trading spaces one. Let me know what you think, Thetruthbelow 23:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I was just about to hit 'save page' on an update at the project's talk page :-) --Sam Blanning 23:22, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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Barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar For dealing with vandals, being a great editor, and helping users. Also for being a great editor! Sunholm(talk) 11:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks :-) --Sam Blanning 14:09, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Wolok RfC

As a person who was falsely accused by M. Wolok as mentioned in my RfC, I thought you might be interested. -lethe 14:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Stone Trek again

As you can see, it's a blue link yet again, and doesn't have deleted page on it. It's apparently not a recreation as it establishes "notability" which was missing before. As the sci-fi.com "site of the week" claims of notability were totally shot down in both AFD and DRV, I really think it should be speedied. - Hahnchen 14:31, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

The recreation hinges on an article that mentions the series here. I'm not convinced that it magically makes the series notable, but I'm not prepared to simply ignore it by speedying the article. Maybe renominate it for AfD? As the edit summary of the recreation said, WCityMike was contacted about it, and he's indicated he's not sure whether it suffices either but he's not going to make a second nomination. --Sam Blanning 14:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

RE Question

Sorry 'bout that, I'm having major difficulties on my computer...I think it's being hacked or something. Either way, that wasn't me on the Myspace thing (I don't even have one) and i'm not the one deleting your question. I'm going to contact my ISP tomorrow to see if they can do anything.

User:Flameviper12

Sam, please see for the reason for Flameviper12's indefblock, in particular, edit comments like

"O, I dunno...just imitating the inimitable style of my dear pal Willy. Wonder how long it'll take for me to be banninated. Anyway, I just realized I could move pages...it took AGES to move a page before now...so happy with my newfound power. I must abuse..."

do not inspire confidence in Flameviper12's willingness to be a good-faith editor. Note that this page-move cascade started by moving an article-space page (Goth cartooning), and occurred after Flameviper12 had been unblocked from two previous indefblocks by promising not to be a vandal any more. (See for block log.) I can't see how Flameviper can legitimately complain about this: this comment shows that he clearly knew at the time that being "banninated" again was a likely consequence of misbehavior.

Flameviper12's only response to the block to date has been to blank his user talk page, with the edit comment "I don't think so". -- Karada 22:25, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Karada, I don't see what Goth Cartooning had anything to do with User:Flameviper12/Vandal. Note the name of the page, "Vandal". We all need to blow of some steam now and again. I chose to do so within my own userspace. I still don't see the problem. And Karada, the only reason I have not emailed you is because you have no registered email address. I am upholding my pledge not to vandalise. Please get back to me, ~ Flame-viper 12 (16:06, 25.06.06 UTC)

Flameviper12, I think you knew very well what was going to happen, as your edit comment shows, and that you have been enjoying the attention-seeking cycle of repeatedly making a mess then begging for, and getting, forgiveness.

You have now been indefblocked three times. Twice before you have asked to be unblocked, with promises of good behaviour, only to be re-blocked again each time. Now, you have been indefblocked for a third time, this time for a frenzy of WoW-style page moves, complete with all of the characteristic tropes of WoW-style vandalism, and you want to be unblocked yet again. As far as I can tell, you are not "upholding your pledge".

Think about it; if your behaviour consists of taunting edit comments like vandalism, page titles just like vandalism, and the characteristic back-and-forward page moves just like page move vandalism, can't you see that it might just possibly actually be vandalism? Relying on a technicality to excuse it is simply gaming the system. -- Karada 22:46, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

It's like trashing your own house. I certainly see no issue. 24.145.222.85 00:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

"21"

Does that "21" on your userpage denote your age? Tanager 19:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes. --Sam Blanning 16:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

My goodness, so little experience of the world and yet so willing to...shall we say..."project" oneself? Tanager 17:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Please check user:Grandmaster he is making unfounded personal attacks

I have a user that is making unfounded accusations and attacks against me. As shown here. I left him a polite warning, but noticed that this has been a discourse of behaviour and that he has been warned for uncivil behaviour in the past. I told him on his talk page to be polite and keep all comments directed towards edits and that he has no right to make such accusations and additionally no grounds; I said I will let it pass as a warning and act in good faith and consider it an honest mistake on his part. But after looking at his talk page and contributions I have noticed he is making accusations to other editors about me. Maybe as an administrator you can talk to him and see what his problem is. I am not here to fight, I am here to edit and have fun. He has accused me of being anti-Azari when I myself am a Azari!? I do not know what makes him an authority to make such attacks? I would like him to stop making uncivil comments about me to other users and on article talk pages. Anyways thank you, best regards 69.196.164.190

Hi. I have a reason to suspect that the above person is 72.57.230.179 (you know him), evading the block. It is enough to check the contributions of both to see that they are absolutely similar and mostly are anti-Azeri statements, posted on the talk pages of articles and other users. A good example can be found here: Do you see much difference between the last two postings? Regards, Grandmaster 06:22, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

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