Would you please find out for me who deleted User_talk:DyslexicEditor/header I had worked a long time modifying freakofnurture's header and I didn't save it anywhere on my hard drive (I don't believe it was freakofnurture because I told thanked the person on their talk page for it). I can't find out who did it in the deletion log (searching doesn't seem to work well). If there is a reason why it was deleted I'd like to know. If not, would you undelete it for me? Thank you. DyslexicEditor 16:44, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
I tried several names and found who it was. It was freakofnurture. DyslexicEditor 16:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Would you undelete it for me or give me the source code to it please? DyslexicEditor 16:55, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I'm just wondering why Emma Watson's and Rupert Grint's birthdates are written the American way then. 70.53.1.49 21:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Dear RadioKirk, I've seen the reaction you had last night on the List of rock instrumentals page. I then decided to explain why I think your suggestion isn't right. You said there that a song whose title starts with an article (the, a, an) should be ordered by the first letter of the second word in its title (The Beatles' A Taste of Honey should correspond to letter 'T' as in 'taste'). I couldn't agree less, because (as you may find it on the talk page there) I consider that article to be itself a piece of the songwriter's point with that title. It's not the same case with the bands starting with 'the', like The Beatles above, where that word just reminds of the old jazzband fashion (also, the plural form of the names: Beatles, Drifters, Shadows, Quarrymen etc. recalls that too) that was inherited through the rock'n'roll era and just a bit after (The Pink Floyds eventually dropped the plural form and the article). Nowadays, modern bands such as The Strokes just want to suggest the rock'n'roll fashion, starting with their name and then, their music and lyrics.
I think that Taste of Honey, A should sound very differently from A Taste of Honey. Moreover, Taste of Honey, A is irrelevant, as the aesthetic impact is another from the one the songwriter thought of. By moving the article in the end of the title, its importance is much diminished. An indefinite article before another word suggests simplicity or may refer to something that is widely regarded as unimportant and turns highly significant for those who know it closely. For instance, Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets implies one to think of a small saucer that can't be too secretive due to its flat appearence. Then one listens to the songs and discovers that things are a little different.
In a similar way, the definite article has its importance. Another Pink Floyd's, The Great Gig in the Sky isn't the same with Great Gig in the Sky, The, as the first makes one think of a certain gig, and even 'the great' one. Such a great gig can't be heard every day, because if it did so, it would lose its uniquity and hence its 'greatness'. Such a title recalls a ritual event, maybe a mystery as in antic cultures. Therefore, it produces a high contrast to the modern lifestyle that is depicted throughout the album The Dark Side of the Moon.
In fewer words, I call all those artistic licenses and they belong to the song as much as the rest of the title does. They are however quite rare and a split shouldn't be applied. A good listener will remember them as well when looking for a song in a list, so don't be afraid of that. A bad listener will eventually turn to a good one.
And, yes, please do not insist in order to determine those on that page reverting all my work to something else that, I think, takes away a little of the song's meaning. Before doing this yourself, rather let a note on my talk page. Impy4ever 07:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Dear Radiokirk, You recently wrote to me saying that when I edited Donna Adamo a.k.a. Elektra, it was vandalism. It was not. In her article, it says that she was once married to Dick Dudley a.k.a. Alex Rizzo. I changed it and wrote Big Dick Dudley. Even though it would seem that that could be vandalism, it's not. Big Dick Dudley was Alex Rizzo's professional wrestling ring name for most if not all of his career while he was still alive. Dick Dudley is incorrect, his name was Big Dick Dudley. Nick9119 68.199.21.217 16:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Dear Radiokirk, I've recently added links to luxury car pages here on Wikipedia. You said that I was "posting commercial links" or "links to my own personal website". I do not actually see it as this, because, although they are to my own personal website, I am not trying to use Wikipedia as a source of advertising or anything such as that, I just think that the pages I link to (which, by the way, are different pages according to the different vehicles) add to the information you give here on Wikipedia. I don't think they are commercial links, because, I don't gain anything from them. I, once again, just think that they "aid" your Wikipedia articles. I would edit the articles with the information from my website, but then that would pretty much make my website useless. I just don't see what the big deal is if they are not spam, because they do relate to the specfic automobile being mentioned, and are not "commercial" websites any more than the rest of the websites on any of the external links sections of one of the automobile pages are. DJ 00:38, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Happy Easter to all of you, and I hope that this version may fix your current problems and perhaps provide you with a few useful new tools. You can download version 1.1 at User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof. Let me warn you, however, to please be extremely careful when using the new Rollback All Contributions feature, as, aside from the excessive server lag it would cause if everyone began using it at once, it could seriously aggitate several editors to have their contributions reverted. If you would like to experiment with it, though, I'd be more than happy to use my many sockpuppets to create some "vandalism" for you to revert. If you have any problems downloading, installing, or otherwise, please tell me about them at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs and I will do my best to help you. Thanks. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 06:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Damn, forgot about that. I'll fix them. --
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I reverted you because of common practice not your personal preference - i have been here for many years and an admin for three - i am entitled to some respect. That article is also not your personal property. PMA 21:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
It's OK - i admit to goofing.
five years with the 'pedia and it still doesn't seem to count for much with many - looking at my user page i have barnstar and an anti-disruptionism award - and yet im treated like a newbie vandal - by the way i did mean well - http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:BruceHallman&diff=49461797&oldid=49459999 PMA 21:39, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Better you than me. :) Mad Jack O'Lantern 05:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, RadioKirk, this is Jim16. I would just like to apologize for all of the vandalism that I have inflicted over the past few months. It was childish, I know. I would also like to apologize for personally attacking you on your talk page. Get back to me as soon as you can. Thanks. Jim16 12:35, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, this is Jim16 again. I would just like to discuss how to delete an article I created (called stock issue). I wish to delete it because I now realize that there is a similar article on Wikipedia, called stock issues. Thanks. Jim16 21:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, no checkuser for me, I'll ask someone who does to take a look though (sorry about the slow response, I had a nightmare with Tawkerbot2 :( -- Tawker 05:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Doing a whois lookup, it reveals that the IP is registered to Loughborough Grammar School. It appears to be shared, so a 24 hour block suffices. If there is continued vandalism this month, I'm sure an admin will block for longer. Thanks for looking into it. -- light darkness ( talk) 13:58, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Cool, as long as the vandalism was reverted. I generally keep a watch on the Columbus page as it seems to be a popular target. Peace. gunslotsofguns 18:49, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I've been editing Maritime archaeology and I created Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) article so obviously I keep a watch on them. I noticed that you reverted link spam on the NAS article, and the Maritime archeology history also shows you as reverting it - although in actual fact the links were not reverted. I just thought that the links on maritime archaeology are reasonable (the article still needs a lot of work, so external links may help researchers until the article is fixed). The links are more clearly spam on the NAS page, although I've put back the list of institutes (with improved reference), as I think it is reasonable for it to remain, given that it lists/describes NAS in a context of listing others institutes. Viv Hamilton 19:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I recently redirected the user page of your archives to the talk page where the material is actually located. [1]. "Smartie" had made a childish remark, so I simply redirected it. If you want it deleted instead, that's fine too. See you around, my friend. -- LV (Dark Mark) 00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Additional note on a different topic... I noticed this linked from your user page. Given any thought to making this one? Are you clean? Need someone to make it for you? ;-) I noticed some talk a few threads above, but nothing seems to have happened. Any desire to go through it again? Perhaps soon? I haven't had the chance to go through all of you contribs, but the last huge chunk seem pretty good. Oh well, just checking. -- LV (Dark Mark) 00:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Yep, and hey, if you don't like anything I wrote, or think I need to change anything, just let me know, and I'll be glad to accomodate. Thanks. -- LV (Dark Mark) 00:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
kudos on the quick fix on the ted nolan page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.216.91.60 ( talk • contribs)
Regarding the Steve Howe issue, I believe the deaths section on the main article for 2006 is getting to be hugely overcrowded; the main page should really include only the 100 or so most notable for the whole year (there are plenty of other places to list the rest), and Howe will certainly not be among even the 250 most significant figures to die this year (I doubt he'll even be among the top half dozen or so baseball figures). At some point in the future, I plan to get around to revising the pages so that only the top 20 or so sports figures are included each year, with about 50 listed on the page for the year in sports. Howe's death will still be listed under 2006 in baseball and Deaths in April 2006, and in the sidebar for April 2006 in sports, as well as the category for the year's deaths; those should be sufficient. MisfitToys 20:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Yes the unblock for 'collateral damage' relates to 'Lady Jane Grey', certainly an "interesting" case. -- pgk( talk) 21:30, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear RadioKirk/Archive02,
You just voted on Nihonjoe's RFA. I accidently posted contrib stats for the user Bottesini for him, since I put them up at nearly the same time. I fixed it now. Please recheck your vote. Thanks. Sorry for the inconvenience. Voice-of-All T| @| ESP 00:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
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Maybe I'm wrong. I thought the arbitration committee was a group of regular users that handle disputes. I thought I saw that as a candidate's credentials. Anyway, you'll be fine as an admin. There is really so much to do here that no one could be involved with everything. Thanks. Dlohcierekim 19:42, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hello RadioKirk/Archive02, and thanks for supporting me on my recent request for adminship! It has succeeded with an unanimous support of 67 votes, so that I am now an administrator. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page should you wish to leave any comments or ask for any help. Again, thanks a lot, AndyZ t 21:56, 5 May 2006 (UTC) |
Spakj1 here. Please forgive my tardy reply to your kind message regarding a few of the entries I've made. I'm a wikipedia novice, who doesn't check his mailbox often and who is a little baffled by the jargon and detail that seems to have sprung up around this (wonderful) resource. In any event, please be assured that I will, slowly but surely, get around to improving my stuff per your suggestions.
You are now an admin. I'd recommend some more time with the admin reading list, and specifically re-reading the relevant portions of policies before making admin actions especially until you are comforable with them. Also take into account what the (relatively few) oppose and neutral voters had to say to see if you can honestly use them to improve anything. Be conservative at first and post any questions on the administrator's noticeboard, and consider watchlisting Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Again, congratulations - Taxman Talk 03:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations on attaining adminship, RadioKirk. I wish you well and hope to work with you again in the future. -- backburner001 06:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
What are you waiting for? You've got a lot of power to abuse, my friend. Abuse away! :)
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Congrats! Reyk YO! 07:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Congrats! -- Bhadani 11:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
And you are very welcome! User:Dlohcierekim | User_talk:Dlohcierekim 13:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Best wish for your adminship.-- Jusjih 14:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Congrats! I am elated over your promotion. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 14:52, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Congrats and well done, best of luck with the mop. -- Cactus.man ✍ 16:58, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Why not just put in the template {{<includeonly>SUBST:</includeonly>PAGENAME}}. Then it automatically SUBST's it in the user talk page, but not in the template itself. -- George Mon e y Talk Contribs 06:09, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, and congratulations on you elevation as an administrator. -- Bhadani 14:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Got a bit of a problem with a serial spammer ATM. Can you help out? User:205.250.186.181 is spamming for something called Koingo Software, and won't stop even though we've asked him to, and I don't really want to follow him around reverting all the time. Can you do something with your fancy new tools? Cheers. Reyk YO! 22:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Vivaldi claims I am harrassing him and says I am vandalizing to my talk page but he provides no evidence as I have not done anything he is accusing me of. He keeps blanking my talk page and removing my comments to his talk page.
Keeps removing my comments [2] [3] [4] [5] and vandalized my talk page with a false warning. [6] -- KJKruse [7] Now he is saying I harrass him but provides NO evidence of his accusations. Vivalid is being uncivil. He keeps replacing the false warning to my talk page without ever saying why or providing any evidence. 23:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
KJKruse ( talk · contribs · count) is harassing me. He makes no useful edits and his only purpose here is disruption. Where is the proper place to report this "dispute", since it seemed pretty obvious if you just look at the edit history of KJKruse ( talk · contribs · count). Vivaldi ( talk) 23:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
seems to have made only 2 edits in the last 20 or so hours, blocking for past vandalism on a sharedip isn't always a productive solution, since the vandal has almost certianly moved on by now-- {anon iso − 8859 − 1 janitor} 22:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me keep on top of the vandalism - apologies if I hit revert on any of your edits :) -- 9cds (talk) 16:47, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I thought I'd let you know that your 999 day block won't actually stick, since you didn't remove my earlier block: a "feature" of the MediaWiki software is that the shortest active block takes precedence. I've taken the liberty of removing your block message from the user's talk page; feel free to reinstate it (and remove my block message) if you choose to reblock.
In any case, I see no reason to block for 999 days; if you want to block someone indefinitely, just do so. In this case, the first edit from that account was not vandalism, so I chose to assume good faith and not permablock immediately. Who knows, maybe the one day block will send them a message. If the user continues to vandalize after the block expires, I of course fully support an indefinite block. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 22:36, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
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Please block him, be- fore I become uncivil. Thanks! - CobaltBlueTony 16:03, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Wanted to take a moment to say thanks for voting! I did consider my actions in this case rather carefully - over almost two days in fact - and I'm sorry you didn't agree with them. My RfA did not gain consensus, but I'm glad I accepted the nomination. - Amgine 16:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Don't feel bad, it wasn't a tough decision. I'm a crap editor, purposefully sift through pages looking for fights. Having the wrong "tone". And generally should request to be band. That and I'm screwed. H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 18:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
No problem, RadioKirk, you did a great job in stopping vandals, too! Hopefully one day, I can do the same.:)-- 陈 鼎 翔 贡献 Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 04:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 04:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello RadioKirk, I am currently in a rather pointless debate over at Dylan and Cole Sprouse with User:Doctor01, who seems to think IMDB is simply the most reliable source out there, and is removing info cited to magazine articles interviewing the articles' subjects - because they aren't online sources, seemingly. Just wondering if you could help out, since you've also seen how "reliable" the IMDB is. Thanks. Mad Jack O'Lantern 13:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
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Well, I'm not a kiddie, I get that darned ip on a wifi hotspot I use while waiting for some people to hurry up and finish their classes, I hope you don't mind the unblock, its kind of hard to edit whilst blocked :o -- Tawker 16:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking Coldark418. -- backburner001 01:11, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Even though it's AOL, I hit them with a 5 min block before you cleared them from AIV, let me know if this is a problem. — xaosflux Talk 03:21, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Glad to be of assistance! -- Mhking 03:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that for me...My browser was crawling like a dying snail, and I was trying to do ten things at once...<insert violent action directed at slow browser here>
:) Essjay ( Talk • Connect) 13:53, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear Radiokirk, I've recently added links to some Pirate History related pages here on Wikipedia. You asserted that I was "posting commercial links" or "links to my own personal website". This is not entirely accurate, because, although they are links to my own personal website, I am not trying to use Wikipedia as a source of advertising or anything such as that, I just think that the pages I link to add to the information you give here on Wikipedia. My site has been in operation since 1995 and as a result has a lot of assembled data, none of which has any commercial links. None of it. My site is ad-free, I have no sponsors, and I don't gain anything from them any traffic whatsoever (I even pay a small fee to have the ad-free web space out of my own pocket). I, once again, just think that they "aid" your Wikipedia articles. I would edit the articles with the information from my website, but then that would pretty much make my own website useless. I just don't see what the big deal is if they are not spam, they do relate to the specfic topic being mentioned, and are not "commercial" websites any more than the rest of the websites on any of the external links sections of any other pages are.
And frankly, I do NOT appreciate you deleting all of the links I put in place within the EXTERNAL LINKS section of the relevant pages! Did you even LOOK at wat you are deleting? I think not, otherwise you wouldn't have deleted the link to a detailed geneological history on Christopher Columbus within my (ad free) site from the 'Christopher Columbus' listing here on wikipedia! What could concievably have been wrong with that?
As I do not commonly check my messages here on wikipedia, please feel free to email me offlist ( rob_neptune@yahoo.com ) before you start deleting anything else! Thx. Rob_Neptune 18:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Meantime, the incident is here for administrative review. Radio Kirk talk to me 18:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
This IP was warned on May 3rd and again yesterday, and continued to vandalize today. Not sure what the WP:AIV comment on stopped after last warning meant. - Jcbarr 14:00, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Are you sure full protection is needed here? The problem appears to be solely arising from IPs pasting in copyvio text.
Incidentally, the article has also been nominated for deletion. Stifle ( talk) 18:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for voting on my RFA, especially considering your comment. I've decided to withdraw my nomination since I could probably do with more experience. Your comment, however, raises a good point: I should've said "no touchy stuff in the beginning of my duties" - that sounds better and still allows me to stay out of the stressful situations. I'll keep that in mind next time! —
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Hi RadioKirk/Archive02,
Thank you for supporting my RFA! Unfortunately it did not succeed mainly because most opposers wanted me to spend more time on Wikipedia. Thank you for your faith in me & looking forward to your continued support in the future.
Cheers
Srik e it( talk ¦ ✉) 00:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, the user with IP 207.81.57.105 is still vandalizing the Warren Jeffs article, despite numerous warnings. I saw that you temp-banned them for a couple days. Can you IP ban them? Thanks. Mikesherk 03:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking the vandal. This are moments that I wish I had admin rights. Kim van der Linde at venus 05:52, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
You did a great job on creating Ike Altgens and taking it to Featured article status! InvictaHOG 19:01, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
An indef IP block? Mate, I understand your frustration, but in all likelihood it'll be reassigned to a different person in a day. Couldn't we just give it a week or something? An indef seems fairly excessive. Snoutwood (talk) 01:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello again RadioKirk. Could you please have a talk with Col. Hauler, he has yet again started edit wars on Wii, ha has also removed information added by someone else from Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation. He is also calling me a "vandal" and a "sockpuppet" still. It's getting irritaiting as I can't edit without being accused by him. Thank you. Havok (T/ C) 07:45, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't have any experience of deleting pictures, so I guess that one should go for the same reason as Image:001khali.jpg, uploaded by the same RockmanX ( talk · contribs) (he's uploaded other pictures as well). Could you please just check them for me? Petros471 13:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi RadioKirk - I'm very sorry to have disappointed your expectation in me, but it had become impossible for me to compromise my principles. I don't covet adminship at all, so it wasn't a difficult decision - I simply cannot accept misrepresentation and nonsense. However, I cannot tell you how greatly joyous I feel at the enthusiastic, wonderful support you expressed for me. I don't know how hard it will be to understand that your supports means extremely a lot to me. I thank you from my heart, and please let me know if I can ever be assistance or help in anything. Rama's Arrow 21:10, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
This is the Pennridge High School network IP address (my school) it has been blocked many times for the actions of various students. I would sugest that you stop acting like your dealing with one person and that anyone logged on bothers to read the warnings or even cares. Maybe just block it permanently. -- Ian 23:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the note. Rarely do we permablock IP addresses; if, however, it is the wish of school officials that the IP be permanently blocked, please have one of them make contact for further action at WP:ABUSE. Thanks again. :) RadioKirk talk to me 23:36, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I see you edited this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saphin Thank you, I have been fighting vandalism on this page for a few months now by the same ip address 68.194.107.118. I've done everything I can think of to stop this vandalism (user adding completely erroneous info to article), it seems as soon as I correct it, they re-vandalize it. How can I have this user banned? Please help. I happen to know these edits by this person are vendetta based, They are just completely false, (you can tell by the links added.) Is there anyway to "Lock" the original article so that it cannot be vandalized?
The original and official/factual article can be found in the history window, I just didn't think posting it here would be appropriate. I would really appreciate your assistance with this issue. Thanks again. Jim Jim Sunev 01:23, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
I have reported this ip numerous times to WP:AIV, haven't seen much if any response. I'm just not really good at Wiki ways so this is so frustrating. All I wanted to do is help an artist I enjoy and this happens.
This vandal is implicating the artist in activities that have nothing to do with reality, that and he's attempting to portray the artist as much older than he actually is. I really could use some major help with this, I'll try to "link" sources as you suggested, I'm just not so sure how that will help. This user keeps posting links to tripod pages that he has created for the sole purpose of libeling Saphin.
This is so nuts.
Jim Sunev 02:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
....but what's the difference whether I cite sources properly, if this vandal just removes my accurate and factual citing, to re-cite their own inaccurate and erroneous ones? It seems like a game for them.
Jim Sunev 02:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Can I send you the article as it's supposed to read? This might help me anyway... actually, it's been fixed again so i guess you can find it there. Goodness knows you have so much else to do here.... But I hope you can help me keep an eye on this.
I really appreciate all of your help KIrk.
Much Thanks, Jim Sunev 02:59, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Ah. Thanks for the tip. I didn't think it was necessary as these are "magic words" rather than templates per se. However, I'll stub the rest - better to be safe than sorry! — Wh o uk ( talk) 18:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
I had only counted 4 bad faith edits; do we count each edit? 'Cause 205.222.243.75 ( talk · contribs) did two at Nickelback, which would be seen as individual edits. Should we explain that to them somehow? Or not bother, as it is, after all, a vandal? - CobaltBlueTony 18:17, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Thank's for fixing the age of the actor who portrays Ron Weasley. I'm the guy who originally created the {{ age}} template, and I'm always glad to see one of my ideas adopted at Wikipedia.
Best wishes, and happy editing! -- Uncle Ed 18:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
How did you become a Wikipedian/Administrator?
jhfireboy 21:04, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Jhfireboy
Can I know more about becoming an administrator as I would like to become one? I think I'm starting to learn a lot more about how Wikipedia works and its rules. Thanks, jhfireboy 21:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Jfireboy
Thanks.
Hi, I saw that you only blocked User:Rogers12345 for three hours. Since it is a vandalism-only username, don't you think it should be indefinite?-- Kungfu Adam ( talk) 12:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, hoping you can help me out with a vandal. VandalProof is playing up for everyone at the mo and as such the revert all contribs function is non-operational. The user above has spammed his site all over maybe a dozen Nokia articles (and counting), so could use your admin function to revert all his edits please? Would save me a bundle of time. Thanks in advance - Gl e n T C (Stollery) 18:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
I did sign my name like this: ~~~ What's the problem with that? ForestH2
I had a little problem with my name. It came out as: ForestH2 23:25, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2
To further respond why after the UTC does my name appear and it doesn't for other users? So, I switched to doing it with three titles. Actully typing it in. Not actully using the ~'s three times. ForestH2
ForestH2 23:30, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2
Didn't type the name and titles out to respond to your question. ForestH2
ForestH2 23:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2
There's nothing in the nickname box anways. All I did was the check the box underneath. As you can see above after I checked the preferences it's still the same. ForestH2
My current...
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Who are you going to track down for help? ForestH2
Lol, technically yes, I do have a few limits on what I can take, I guess you could say I was making a point of pointing out a point. On your second point, they recreated the copyvio, another delete (ahh) -- Tawker 05:28, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hello, now I understand why Lakinekaki/Bios theory citations was speadily deleted. I thought that I created it as my user sub page, while actually I forgot to put User: User:Lakinekaki/Bios theory citations at begining. Thanks. You can totally delete it now. I wont try to recreate it. Lakinekaki 19:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
RadioKirk, there is a message for you and all others who put up with my recient antics, on my talk page. 216.164.203.90 20:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! 216.164.203.90 21:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
How come the Miller Park page can have a section calling it Wrigley Field North (which cub fans call it), but when I try to edit the Wrigley Field page to say Miller Park South (which Brewer fans call it), I get banned? This kind of double standard is what helps causes errors to appear on these pages.
69.81.196.192 14:17, 18 May 2006 (UTC)Me
You are most deserving. Oh...and so you know...in giving this award out, I am representing the Esperanza Barnstar Brigade. I have announced your award there for all to see as well. Best, Kukini 00:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
For my own edification, how did you determine that 67.138.78.50 is Kingman Unified School District 20? I didn't get anything useful from WHOIS or nslookup, other than that it's probably DHCP. Thanks, Chinasaur.
Col. Hauler would like you to read his talk page and reply. Cheers, NoSeptember talk 15:24, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks RadioKirk,
I am honored by your support in my recent successful request for adminship. As an administrator, I am your servant, ready to help however I can. (In your case, since you've had the tools longer than I, my best use might be menial labor!) My talk page is always open; should you need anything, or should you see me making a mistake -- probably a common occurrence -- please do let me know. I will depend on the good sense of the community to keep me from making a complete fool of myself! :) In gratitude, Xoloz 16:26, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
PS. I know you said you didn't any comments on your "special" support for me, but I gotta say... that was the most unexpected, ah, "bit of pleasure", I've ever given anyone. :) I hope it was as good for you as it was for me! ;) (I can't believe I just typed that on Wikipedia!)
In response to Tony Sideaway's complaint about your sig, I did a bit of work in the sandbox and found a way for you to shorten it without it losing any flair:
<tt>[[User:RadioKirk|<span style="color: #161;">Radio</span>]][[Special:Contributions/RadioKirk|<span style="color: #161;">Kirk</span>]]</tt> [[User talk:RadioKirk|<span style="color: #161;"><tt><small>talk to me</small></tt></span>]]
It looks like this: Radio Kirk talk to me
How's that?-- The i kiro id ( talk)( Help Me Improve) 17:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thank you for fighting the vandalism of User:DrogenNeger, I am baffled how offensive vandals can get. cheers Gryffindor 00:04, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for stopping that vandal. Just a quick note to let you know that for some reason, your signature did not come through on the block of that IP user. Best, Kukini 14:54, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
66.99.250.130 is a ip for a public school, and it seems a student has vandalized something on wikipedia. you may want to permenently block editing.
Hey thanks for blocking that vandal. You where fast and right on it. :) -- Ac t o w n e 18:55, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I'm new to wikipedia, so I dont know all the rules. Telling me this was a lot more helpful than simply deleting the site, like happened last time. Briancua 23:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
-→ Buchanan-Hermit ™/ !? has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{ subst:smile}}, {{ subst:smile2}} or {{ subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!
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Thank you for your vote on my RfA. Unfortunately there was no consensus reached at 43 support, 18 oppose and 8 neutral. I've just found out that there is a feature in "my preferences" that forces me to use edit summaries. I've now got it enabled :) Thanks again. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 15:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Oops! I suppose its a good idea to make sure I'm typing vandal's names correctly. - Smahoney 18:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Since your the one who just deleted Image talk:1085181759 lg.jpg, a blank talk page, I guess I'll ask you this. Should I be encouraged to seek and tag image talks like these? I also have another question, should Image talks that have only a single sentence irrelavant to the Image or that have a single comment that was placed dating back to 2004 be deleted? DG X 22:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
RadioKirk/Archive02, did you ever find out or our you in the process or are you going to begin soon why my name comes out as it did? Remember, using the 4 ~'s, it came out as: ForestH2 00:01 21 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2. Thanks, ForestH2
Thanks for being so helpful in removing some of the articles I have tagged for speedy deletion today. -- Laenir 22:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you, RadioKirk, for voting in my RFA. It closed with a final result of 75/1/0. Now that I am an administrator here, I will continue to improve this encyclopedia, using my new tools to revert vandalism, block persistent vandals, protect pages that have been vandalized intensively, and close AFD discussions. Any questions? Please contact me by adding a new section on my talk page. Again, thanks to all of you who participated!!! -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:02, 20 May 2006 (UTC) |
I have noticed you fighting the good fight against vandalism, and ask you to visit Karafarin Bank . It may not actually be deliberate vandalism, but it is having that effect.. User:Lavaneer originated this article, expanded it with stuff which is obviously cut and paste, such as the phrase "As the first privately-owned bank in operation, we intend to contribute towards advancement of banking industry in Iran". Nonetheless, despite the copyvio I thought that by rewriting and cleaning up I could make a reasonable keeper, which is here. Thirteen edits later Lavaneer has progressively changed it to this mess here despite me leaving messages on his talk page which he has not acknowledged. I am not risking 3RR, but as he is not responding on his talk page, what's my next move? Cheers. Moriori 03:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you deleted this article because it "fails notability standards." You ought to reconsider such deletions in the future, because there are no notability standards that allow speedy deletions. There is only WP:CSD A7, which allows articles about people/groups with no assertion of notability to be deleted. Radio Humsafar did not qualify in this regard, as the first sentence ("the world's largest...") seemed to me to be just such an assertion. This was a much better candidate for proposed deletion. -- SCZenz 02:17, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! -- AmiDaniel ( talk) 02:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
So we can store large image files, regardless of content, as long as they are on our user pages? Please clarify. Thanks.-- <b>Chris Griswold</b> 08:16, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank-you for your efforts on Spore (video game). Now maybe we can get on with the sorely needed reworking of the article. Robovski 00:08, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed one thing when I saw your name on my watchlist. If I see your name out of the corner of my eye, it almost looks like RickK. ;-) -- Deathphoenix ʕ 15:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi RadioKirk,
Just picked up your message:
"Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. The links you added to the page Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem have been removed. Please do not add commercial links—or links to your own private websites—to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. RadioKirk talk to me 15:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC)"
I'd like to ask a few questions if I may (being a relative newbie to Wiki). I checked through the information on external links you provided and couldn't find anything in there to suggest that posting the external link was a no-no. I take on board the point that Wiki wants 'internal' content, but short of rewriting or copying and pasting stuff from the review which I linked to I don't see another option.
The site I linked to (www.opensenses.com) isn't owned by me, nor is it a comercial site or affiliated with any comercial operation. I do however write reviews for videogames that are published there under the name "Madbury". My first question then is what were the criteria for judging the link to be inappropriate for Wiki?
My second question is what is the correct process for getting an external link added? And my third question is how do I go about creating new wiki entries from stuff I've already published on OpenSenses which doesn't as yet have a Wiki?
Hope you can help me with some of these so I can have a clearer understanding of the ethos behind Wiki and get contributing.
Would you please find out for me who deleted User_talk:DyslexicEditor/header I had worked a long time modifying freakofnurture's header and I didn't save it anywhere on my hard drive (I don't believe it was freakofnurture because I told thanked the person on their talk page for it). I can't find out who did it in the deletion log (searching doesn't seem to work well). If there is a reason why it was deleted I'd like to know. If not, would you undelete it for me? Thank you. DyslexicEditor 16:44, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
I tried several names and found who it was. It was freakofnurture. DyslexicEditor 16:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Would you undelete it for me or give me the source code to it please? DyslexicEditor 16:55, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I'm just wondering why Emma Watson's and Rupert Grint's birthdates are written the American way then. 70.53.1.49 21:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Dear RadioKirk, I've seen the reaction you had last night on the List of rock instrumentals page. I then decided to explain why I think your suggestion isn't right. You said there that a song whose title starts with an article (the, a, an) should be ordered by the first letter of the second word in its title (The Beatles' A Taste of Honey should correspond to letter 'T' as in 'taste'). I couldn't agree less, because (as you may find it on the talk page there) I consider that article to be itself a piece of the songwriter's point with that title. It's not the same case with the bands starting with 'the', like The Beatles above, where that word just reminds of the old jazzband fashion (also, the plural form of the names: Beatles, Drifters, Shadows, Quarrymen etc. recalls that too) that was inherited through the rock'n'roll era and just a bit after (The Pink Floyds eventually dropped the plural form and the article). Nowadays, modern bands such as The Strokes just want to suggest the rock'n'roll fashion, starting with their name and then, their music and lyrics.
I think that Taste of Honey, A should sound very differently from A Taste of Honey. Moreover, Taste of Honey, A is irrelevant, as the aesthetic impact is another from the one the songwriter thought of. By moving the article in the end of the title, its importance is much diminished. An indefinite article before another word suggests simplicity or may refer to something that is widely regarded as unimportant and turns highly significant for those who know it closely. For instance, Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets implies one to think of a small saucer that can't be too secretive due to its flat appearence. Then one listens to the songs and discovers that things are a little different.
In a similar way, the definite article has its importance. Another Pink Floyd's, The Great Gig in the Sky isn't the same with Great Gig in the Sky, The, as the first makes one think of a certain gig, and even 'the great' one. Such a great gig can't be heard every day, because if it did so, it would lose its uniquity and hence its 'greatness'. Such a title recalls a ritual event, maybe a mystery as in antic cultures. Therefore, it produces a high contrast to the modern lifestyle that is depicted throughout the album The Dark Side of the Moon.
In fewer words, I call all those artistic licenses and they belong to the song as much as the rest of the title does. They are however quite rare and a split shouldn't be applied. A good listener will remember them as well when looking for a song in a list, so don't be afraid of that. A bad listener will eventually turn to a good one.
And, yes, please do not insist in order to determine those on that page reverting all my work to something else that, I think, takes away a little of the song's meaning. Before doing this yourself, rather let a note on my talk page. Impy4ever 07:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Dear Radiokirk, You recently wrote to me saying that when I edited Donna Adamo a.k.a. Elektra, it was vandalism. It was not. In her article, it says that she was once married to Dick Dudley a.k.a. Alex Rizzo. I changed it and wrote Big Dick Dudley. Even though it would seem that that could be vandalism, it's not. Big Dick Dudley was Alex Rizzo's professional wrestling ring name for most if not all of his career while he was still alive. Dick Dudley is incorrect, his name was Big Dick Dudley. Nick9119 68.199.21.217 16:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Dear Radiokirk, I've recently added links to luxury car pages here on Wikipedia. You said that I was "posting commercial links" or "links to my own personal website". I do not actually see it as this, because, although they are to my own personal website, I am not trying to use Wikipedia as a source of advertising or anything such as that, I just think that the pages I link to (which, by the way, are different pages according to the different vehicles) add to the information you give here on Wikipedia. I don't think they are commercial links, because, I don't gain anything from them. I, once again, just think that they "aid" your Wikipedia articles. I would edit the articles with the information from my website, but then that would pretty much make my website useless. I just don't see what the big deal is if they are not spam, because they do relate to the specfic automobile being mentioned, and are not "commercial" websites any more than the rest of the websites on any of the external links sections of one of the automobile pages are. DJ 00:38, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Happy Easter to all of you, and I hope that this version may fix your current problems and perhaps provide you with a few useful new tools. You can download version 1.1 at User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof. Let me warn you, however, to please be extremely careful when using the new Rollback All Contributions feature, as, aside from the excessive server lag it would cause if everyone began using it at once, it could seriously aggitate several editors to have their contributions reverted. If you would like to experiment with it, though, I'd be more than happy to use my many sockpuppets to create some "vandalism" for you to revert. If you have any problems downloading, installing, or otherwise, please tell me about them at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs and I will do my best to help you. Thanks. AmiDaniel ( Talk) 06:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Damn, forgot about that. I'll fix them. --
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I reverted you because of common practice not your personal preference - i have been here for many years and an admin for three - i am entitled to some respect. That article is also not your personal property. PMA 21:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
It's OK - i admit to goofing.
five years with the 'pedia and it still doesn't seem to count for much with many - looking at my user page i have barnstar and an anti-disruptionism award - and yet im treated like a newbie vandal - by the way i did mean well - http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:BruceHallman&diff=49461797&oldid=49459999 PMA 21:39, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Better you than me. :) Mad Jack O'Lantern 05:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, RadioKirk, this is Jim16. I would just like to apologize for all of the vandalism that I have inflicted over the past few months. It was childish, I know. I would also like to apologize for personally attacking you on your talk page. Get back to me as soon as you can. Thanks. Jim16 12:35, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, this is Jim16 again. I would just like to discuss how to delete an article I created (called stock issue). I wish to delete it because I now realize that there is a similar article on Wikipedia, called stock issues. Thanks. Jim16 21:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, no checkuser for me, I'll ask someone who does to take a look though (sorry about the slow response, I had a nightmare with Tawkerbot2 :( -- Tawker 05:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Doing a whois lookup, it reveals that the IP is registered to Loughborough Grammar School. It appears to be shared, so a 24 hour block suffices. If there is continued vandalism this month, I'm sure an admin will block for longer. Thanks for looking into it. -- light darkness ( talk) 13:58, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Cool, as long as the vandalism was reverted. I generally keep a watch on the Columbus page as it seems to be a popular target. Peace. gunslotsofguns 18:49, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I've been editing Maritime archaeology and I created Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) article so obviously I keep a watch on them. I noticed that you reverted link spam on the NAS article, and the Maritime archeology history also shows you as reverting it - although in actual fact the links were not reverted. I just thought that the links on maritime archaeology are reasonable (the article still needs a lot of work, so external links may help researchers until the article is fixed). The links are more clearly spam on the NAS page, although I've put back the list of institutes (with improved reference), as I think it is reasonable for it to remain, given that it lists/describes NAS in a context of listing others institutes. Viv Hamilton 19:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I recently redirected the user page of your archives to the talk page where the material is actually located. [1]. "Smartie" had made a childish remark, so I simply redirected it. If you want it deleted instead, that's fine too. See you around, my friend. -- LV (Dark Mark) 00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Additional note on a different topic... I noticed this linked from your user page. Given any thought to making this one? Are you clean? Need someone to make it for you? ;-) I noticed some talk a few threads above, but nothing seems to have happened. Any desire to go through it again? Perhaps soon? I haven't had the chance to go through all of you contribs, but the last huge chunk seem pretty good. Oh well, just checking. -- LV (Dark Mark) 00:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Yep, and hey, if you don't like anything I wrote, or think I need to change anything, just let me know, and I'll be glad to accomodate. Thanks. -- LV (Dark Mark) 00:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
kudos on the quick fix on the ted nolan page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.216.91.60 ( talk • contribs)
Regarding the Steve Howe issue, I believe the deaths section on the main article for 2006 is getting to be hugely overcrowded; the main page should really include only the 100 or so most notable for the whole year (there are plenty of other places to list the rest), and Howe will certainly not be among even the 250 most significant figures to die this year (I doubt he'll even be among the top half dozen or so baseball figures). At some point in the future, I plan to get around to revising the pages so that only the top 20 or so sports figures are included each year, with about 50 listed on the page for the year in sports. Howe's death will still be listed under 2006 in baseball and Deaths in April 2006, and in the sidebar for April 2006 in sports, as well as the category for the year's deaths; those should be sufficient. MisfitToys 20:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Yes the unblock for 'collateral damage' relates to 'Lady Jane Grey', certainly an "interesting" case. -- pgk( talk) 21:30, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear RadioKirk/Archive02,
You just voted on Nihonjoe's RFA. I accidently posted contrib stats for the user Bottesini for him, since I put them up at nearly the same time. I fixed it now. Please recheck your vote. Thanks. Sorry for the inconvenience. Voice-of-All T| @| ESP 00:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
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Maybe I'm wrong. I thought the arbitration committee was a group of regular users that handle disputes. I thought I saw that as a candidate's credentials. Anyway, you'll be fine as an admin. There is really so much to do here that no one could be involved with everything. Thanks. Dlohcierekim 19:42, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hello RadioKirk/Archive02, and thanks for supporting me on my recent request for adminship! It has succeeded with an unanimous support of 67 votes, so that I am now an administrator. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page should you wish to leave any comments or ask for any help. Again, thanks a lot, AndyZ t 21:56, 5 May 2006 (UTC) |
Spakj1 here. Please forgive my tardy reply to your kind message regarding a few of the entries I've made. I'm a wikipedia novice, who doesn't check his mailbox often and who is a little baffled by the jargon and detail that seems to have sprung up around this (wonderful) resource. In any event, please be assured that I will, slowly but surely, get around to improving my stuff per your suggestions.
You are now an admin. I'd recommend some more time with the admin reading list, and specifically re-reading the relevant portions of policies before making admin actions especially until you are comforable with them. Also take into account what the (relatively few) oppose and neutral voters had to say to see if you can honestly use them to improve anything. Be conservative at first and post any questions on the administrator's noticeboard, and consider watchlisting Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Again, congratulations - Taxman Talk 03:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations on attaining adminship, RadioKirk. I wish you well and hope to work with you again in the future. -- backburner001 06:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
What are you waiting for? You've got a lot of power to abuse, my friend. Abuse away! :)
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Congrats! Reyk YO! 07:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Congrats! -- Bhadani 11:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
And you are very welcome! User:Dlohcierekim | User_talk:Dlohcierekim 13:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Best wish for your adminship.-- Jusjih 14:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Congrats! I am elated over your promotion. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 14:52, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Congrats and well done, best of luck with the mop. -- Cactus.man ✍ 16:58, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Why not just put in the template {{<includeonly>SUBST:</includeonly>PAGENAME}}. Then it automatically SUBST's it in the user talk page, but not in the template itself. -- George Mon e y Talk Contribs 06:09, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, and congratulations on you elevation as an administrator. -- Bhadani 14:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Got a bit of a problem with a serial spammer ATM. Can you help out? User:205.250.186.181 is spamming for something called Koingo Software, and won't stop even though we've asked him to, and I don't really want to follow him around reverting all the time. Can you do something with your fancy new tools? Cheers. Reyk YO! 22:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Vivaldi claims I am harrassing him and says I am vandalizing to my talk page but he provides no evidence as I have not done anything he is accusing me of. He keeps blanking my talk page and removing my comments to his talk page.
Keeps removing my comments [2] [3] [4] [5] and vandalized my talk page with a false warning. [6] -- KJKruse [7] Now he is saying I harrass him but provides NO evidence of his accusations. Vivalid is being uncivil. He keeps replacing the false warning to my talk page without ever saying why or providing any evidence. 23:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
KJKruse ( talk · contribs · count) is harassing me. He makes no useful edits and his only purpose here is disruption. Where is the proper place to report this "dispute", since it seemed pretty obvious if you just look at the edit history of KJKruse ( talk · contribs · count). Vivaldi ( talk) 23:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
seems to have made only 2 edits in the last 20 or so hours, blocking for past vandalism on a sharedip isn't always a productive solution, since the vandal has almost certianly moved on by now-- {anon iso − 8859 − 1 janitor} 22:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me keep on top of the vandalism - apologies if I hit revert on any of your edits :) -- 9cds (talk) 16:47, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I thought I'd let you know that your 999 day block won't actually stick, since you didn't remove my earlier block: a "feature" of the MediaWiki software is that the shortest active block takes precedence. I've taken the liberty of removing your block message from the user's talk page; feel free to reinstate it (and remove my block message) if you choose to reblock.
In any case, I see no reason to block for 999 days; if you want to block someone indefinitely, just do so. In this case, the first edit from that account was not vandalism, so I chose to assume good faith and not permablock immediately. Who knows, maybe the one day block will send them a message. If the user continues to vandalize after the block expires, I of course fully support an indefinite block. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 22:36, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
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Please block him, be- fore I become uncivil. Thanks! - CobaltBlueTony 16:03, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Wanted to take a moment to say thanks for voting! I did consider my actions in this case rather carefully - over almost two days in fact - and I'm sorry you didn't agree with them. My RfA did not gain consensus, but I'm glad I accepted the nomination. - Amgine 16:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Don't feel bad, it wasn't a tough decision. I'm a crap editor, purposefully sift through pages looking for fights. Having the wrong "tone". And generally should request to be band. That and I'm screwed. H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 18:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
No problem, RadioKirk, you did a great job in stopping vandals, too! Hopefully one day, I can do the same.:)-- 陈 鼎 翔 贡献 Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 04:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 04:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello RadioKirk, I am currently in a rather pointless debate over at Dylan and Cole Sprouse with User:Doctor01, who seems to think IMDB is simply the most reliable source out there, and is removing info cited to magazine articles interviewing the articles' subjects - because they aren't online sources, seemingly. Just wondering if you could help out, since you've also seen how "reliable" the IMDB is. Thanks. Mad Jack O'Lantern 13:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
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Well, I'm not a kiddie, I get that darned ip on a wifi hotspot I use while waiting for some people to hurry up and finish their classes, I hope you don't mind the unblock, its kind of hard to edit whilst blocked :o -- Tawker 16:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking Coldark418. -- backburner001 01:11, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Even though it's AOL, I hit them with a 5 min block before you cleared them from AIV, let me know if this is a problem. — xaosflux Talk 03:21, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Glad to be of assistance! -- Mhking 03:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that for me...My browser was crawling like a dying snail, and I was trying to do ten things at once...<insert violent action directed at slow browser here>
:) Essjay ( Talk • Connect) 13:53, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear Radiokirk, I've recently added links to some Pirate History related pages here on Wikipedia. You asserted that I was "posting commercial links" or "links to my own personal website". This is not entirely accurate, because, although they are links to my own personal website, I am not trying to use Wikipedia as a source of advertising or anything such as that, I just think that the pages I link to add to the information you give here on Wikipedia. My site has been in operation since 1995 and as a result has a lot of assembled data, none of which has any commercial links. None of it. My site is ad-free, I have no sponsors, and I don't gain anything from them any traffic whatsoever (I even pay a small fee to have the ad-free web space out of my own pocket). I, once again, just think that they "aid" your Wikipedia articles. I would edit the articles with the information from my website, but then that would pretty much make my own website useless. I just don't see what the big deal is if they are not spam, they do relate to the specfic topic being mentioned, and are not "commercial" websites any more than the rest of the websites on any of the external links sections of any other pages are.
And frankly, I do NOT appreciate you deleting all of the links I put in place within the EXTERNAL LINKS section of the relevant pages! Did you even LOOK at wat you are deleting? I think not, otherwise you wouldn't have deleted the link to a detailed geneological history on Christopher Columbus within my (ad free) site from the 'Christopher Columbus' listing here on wikipedia! What could concievably have been wrong with that?
As I do not commonly check my messages here on wikipedia, please feel free to email me offlist ( rob_neptune@yahoo.com ) before you start deleting anything else! Thx. Rob_Neptune 18:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Meantime, the incident is here for administrative review. Radio Kirk talk to me 18:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
This IP was warned on May 3rd and again yesterday, and continued to vandalize today. Not sure what the WP:AIV comment on stopped after last warning meant. - Jcbarr 14:00, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Are you sure full protection is needed here? The problem appears to be solely arising from IPs pasting in copyvio text.
Incidentally, the article has also been nominated for deletion. Stifle ( talk) 18:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for voting on my RFA, especially considering your comment. I've decided to withdraw my nomination since I could probably do with more experience. Your comment, however, raises a good point: I should've said "no touchy stuff in the beginning of my duties" - that sounds better and still allows me to stay out of the stressful situations. I'll keep that in mind next time! —
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Hi RadioKirk/Archive02,
Thank you for supporting my RFA! Unfortunately it did not succeed mainly because most opposers wanted me to spend more time on Wikipedia. Thank you for your faith in me & looking forward to your continued support in the future.
Cheers
Srik e it( talk ¦ ✉) 00:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, the user with IP 207.81.57.105 is still vandalizing the Warren Jeffs article, despite numerous warnings. I saw that you temp-banned them for a couple days. Can you IP ban them? Thanks. Mikesherk 03:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking the vandal. This are moments that I wish I had admin rights. Kim van der Linde at venus 05:52, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
You did a great job on creating Ike Altgens and taking it to Featured article status! InvictaHOG 19:01, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
An indef IP block? Mate, I understand your frustration, but in all likelihood it'll be reassigned to a different person in a day. Couldn't we just give it a week or something? An indef seems fairly excessive. Snoutwood (talk) 01:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello again RadioKirk. Could you please have a talk with Col. Hauler, he has yet again started edit wars on Wii, ha has also removed information added by someone else from Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation. He is also calling me a "vandal" and a "sockpuppet" still. It's getting irritaiting as I can't edit without being accused by him. Thank you. Havok (T/ C) 07:45, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't have any experience of deleting pictures, so I guess that one should go for the same reason as Image:001khali.jpg, uploaded by the same RockmanX ( talk · contribs) (he's uploaded other pictures as well). Could you please just check them for me? Petros471 13:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi RadioKirk - I'm very sorry to have disappointed your expectation in me, but it had become impossible for me to compromise my principles. I don't covet adminship at all, so it wasn't a difficult decision - I simply cannot accept misrepresentation and nonsense. However, I cannot tell you how greatly joyous I feel at the enthusiastic, wonderful support you expressed for me. I don't know how hard it will be to understand that your supports means extremely a lot to me. I thank you from my heart, and please let me know if I can ever be assistance or help in anything. Rama's Arrow 21:10, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
This is the Pennridge High School network IP address (my school) it has been blocked many times for the actions of various students. I would sugest that you stop acting like your dealing with one person and that anyone logged on bothers to read the warnings or even cares. Maybe just block it permanently. -- Ian 23:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the note. Rarely do we permablock IP addresses; if, however, it is the wish of school officials that the IP be permanently blocked, please have one of them make contact for further action at WP:ABUSE. Thanks again. :) RadioKirk talk to me 23:36, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I see you edited this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saphin Thank you, I have been fighting vandalism on this page for a few months now by the same ip address 68.194.107.118. I've done everything I can think of to stop this vandalism (user adding completely erroneous info to article), it seems as soon as I correct it, they re-vandalize it. How can I have this user banned? Please help. I happen to know these edits by this person are vendetta based, They are just completely false, (you can tell by the links added.) Is there anyway to "Lock" the original article so that it cannot be vandalized?
The original and official/factual article can be found in the history window, I just didn't think posting it here would be appropriate. I would really appreciate your assistance with this issue. Thanks again. Jim Jim Sunev 01:23, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
I have reported this ip numerous times to WP:AIV, haven't seen much if any response. I'm just not really good at Wiki ways so this is so frustrating. All I wanted to do is help an artist I enjoy and this happens.
This vandal is implicating the artist in activities that have nothing to do with reality, that and he's attempting to portray the artist as much older than he actually is. I really could use some major help with this, I'll try to "link" sources as you suggested, I'm just not so sure how that will help. This user keeps posting links to tripod pages that he has created for the sole purpose of libeling Saphin.
This is so nuts.
Jim Sunev 02:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
....but what's the difference whether I cite sources properly, if this vandal just removes my accurate and factual citing, to re-cite their own inaccurate and erroneous ones? It seems like a game for them.
Jim Sunev 02:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Can I send you the article as it's supposed to read? This might help me anyway... actually, it's been fixed again so i guess you can find it there. Goodness knows you have so much else to do here.... But I hope you can help me keep an eye on this.
I really appreciate all of your help KIrk.
Much Thanks, Jim Sunev 02:59, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Ah. Thanks for the tip. I didn't think it was necessary as these are "magic words" rather than templates per se. However, I'll stub the rest - better to be safe than sorry! — Wh o uk ( talk) 18:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
I had only counted 4 bad faith edits; do we count each edit? 'Cause 205.222.243.75 ( talk · contribs) did two at Nickelback, which would be seen as individual edits. Should we explain that to them somehow? Or not bother, as it is, after all, a vandal? - CobaltBlueTony 18:17, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Thank's for fixing the age of the actor who portrays Ron Weasley. I'm the guy who originally created the {{ age}} template, and I'm always glad to see one of my ideas adopted at Wikipedia.
Best wishes, and happy editing! -- Uncle Ed 18:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
How did you become a Wikipedian/Administrator?
jhfireboy 21:04, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Jhfireboy
Can I know more about becoming an administrator as I would like to become one? I think I'm starting to learn a lot more about how Wikipedia works and its rules. Thanks, jhfireboy 21:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Jfireboy
Thanks.
Hi, I saw that you only blocked User:Rogers12345 for three hours. Since it is a vandalism-only username, don't you think it should be indefinite?-- Kungfu Adam ( talk) 12:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, hoping you can help me out with a vandal. VandalProof is playing up for everyone at the mo and as such the revert all contribs function is non-operational. The user above has spammed his site all over maybe a dozen Nokia articles (and counting), so could use your admin function to revert all his edits please? Would save me a bundle of time. Thanks in advance - Gl e n T C (Stollery) 18:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
I did sign my name like this: ~~~ What's the problem with that? ForestH2
I had a little problem with my name. It came out as: ForestH2 23:25, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2
To further respond why after the UTC does my name appear and it doesn't for other users? So, I switched to doing it with three titles. Actully typing it in. Not actully using the ~'s three times. ForestH2
ForestH2 23:30, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2
Didn't type the name and titles out to respond to your question. ForestH2
ForestH2 23:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2
There's nothing in the nickname box anways. All I did was the check the box underneath. As you can see above after I checked the preferences it's still the same. ForestH2
My current...
Username: ForestH2
E-mail (optional)*
Nickname:
Raw signature (no auto link; don't use templates or external links in this) Language:
ForestH2 23:41, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2
Who are you going to track down for help? ForestH2
Lol, technically yes, I do have a few limits on what I can take, I guess you could say I was making a point of pointing out a point. On your second point, they recreated the copyvio, another delete (ahh) -- Tawker 05:28, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hello, now I understand why Lakinekaki/Bios theory citations was speadily deleted. I thought that I created it as my user sub page, while actually I forgot to put User: User:Lakinekaki/Bios theory citations at begining. Thanks. You can totally delete it now. I wont try to recreate it. Lakinekaki 19:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
RadioKirk, there is a message for you and all others who put up with my recient antics, on my talk page. 216.164.203.90 20:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! 216.164.203.90 21:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
How come the Miller Park page can have a section calling it Wrigley Field North (which cub fans call it), but when I try to edit the Wrigley Field page to say Miller Park South (which Brewer fans call it), I get banned? This kind of double standard is what helps causes errors to appear on these pages.
69.81.196.192 14:17, 18 May 2006 (UTC)Me
You are most deserving. Oh...and so you know...in giving this award out, I am representing the Esperanza Barnstar Brigade. I have announced your award there for all to see as well. Best, Kukini 00:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
For my own edification, how did you determine that 67.138.78.50 is Kingman Unified School District 20? I didn't get anything useful from WHOIS or nslookup, other than that it's probably DHCP. Thanks, Chinasaur.
Col. Hauler would like you to read his talk page and reply. Cheers, NoSeptember talk 15:24, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks RadioKirk,
I am honored by your support in my recent successful request for adminship. As an administrator, I am your servant, ready to help however I can. (In your case, since you've had the tools longer than I, my best use might be menial labor!) My talk page is always open; should you need anything, or should you see me making a mistake -- probably a common occurrence -- please do let me know. I will depend on the good sense of the community to keep me from making a complete fool of myself! :) In gratitude, Xoloz 16:26, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
PS. I know you said you didn't any comments on your "special" support for me, but I gotta say... that was the most unexpected, ah, "bit of pleasure", I've ever given anyone. :) I hope it was as good for you as it was for me! ;) (I can't believe I just typed that on Wikipedia!)
In response to Tony Sideaway's complaint about your sig, I did a bit of work in the sandbox and found a way for you to shorten it without it losing any flair:
<tt>[[User:RadioKirk|<span style="color: #161;">Radio</span>]][[Special:Contributions/RadioKirk|<span style="color: #161;">Kirk</span>]]</tt> [[User talk:RadioKirk|<span style="color: #161;"><tt><small>talk to me</small></tt></span>]]
It looks like this: Radio Kirk talk to me
How's that?-- The i kiro id ( talk)( Help Me Improve) 17:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thank you for fighting the vandalism of User:DrogenNeger, I am baffled how offensive vandals can get. cheers Gryffindor 00:04, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for stopping that vandal. Just a quick note to let you know that for some reason, your signature did not come through on the block of that IP user. Best, Kukini 14:54, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
66.99.250.130 is a ip for a public school, and it seems a student has vandalized something on wikipedia. you may want to permenently block editing.
Hey thanks for blocking that vandal. You where fast and right on it. :) -- Ac t o w n e 18:55, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I'm new to wikipedia, so I dont know all the rules. Telling me this was a lot more helpful than simply deleting the site, like happened last time. Briancua 23:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
-→ Buchanan-Hermit ™/ !? has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{ subst:smile}}, {{ subst:smile2}} or {{ subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!
-→ Buchanan-Hermit ™/ !? 03:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your vote on my RfA. Unfortunately there was no consensus reached at 43 support, 18 oppose and 8 neutral. I've just found out that there is a feature in "my preferences" that forces me to use edit summaries. I've now got it enabled :) Thanks again. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 15:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Oops! I suppose its a good idea to make sure I'm typing vandal's names correctly. - Smahoney 18:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Since your the one who just deleted Image talk:1085181759 lg.jpg, a blank talk page, I guess I'll ask you this. Should I be encouraged to seek and tag image talks like these? I also have another question, should Image talks that have only a single sentence irrelavant to the Image or that have a single comment that was placed dating back to 2004 be deleted? DG X 22:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
RadioKirk/Archive02, did you ever find out or our you in the process or are you going to begin soon why my name comes out as it did? Remember, using the 4 ~'s, it came out as: ForestH2 00:01 21 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2. Thanks, ForestH2
Thanks for being so helpful in removing some of the articles I have tagged for speedy deletion today. -- Laenir 22:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you, RadioKirk, for voting in my RFA. It closed with a final result of 75/1/0. Now that I am an administrator here, I will continue to improve this encyclopedia, using my new tools to revert vandalism, block persistent vandals, protect pages that have been vandalized intensively, and close AFD discussions. Any questions? Please contact me by adding a new section on my talk page. Again, thanks to all of you who participated!!! -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:02, 20 May 2006 (UTC) |
I have noticed you fighting the good fight against vandalism, and ask you to visit Karafarin Bank . It may not actually be deliberate vandalism, but it is having that effect.. User:Lavaneer originated this article, expanded it with stuff which is obviously cut and paste, such as the phrase "As the first privately-owned bank in operation, we intend to contribute towards advancement of banking industry in Iran". Nonetheless, despite the copyvio I thought that by rewriting and cleaning up I could make a reasonable keeper, which is here. Thirteen edits later Lavaneer has progressively changed it to this mess here despite me leaving messages on his talk page which he has not acknowledged. I am not risking 3RR, but as he is not responding on his talk page, what's my next move? Cheers. Moriori 03:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you deleted this article because it "fails notability standards." You ought to reconsider such deletions in the future, because there are no notability standards that allow speedy deletions. There is only WP:CSD A7, which allows articles about people/groups with no assertion of notability to be deleted. Radio Humsafar did not qualify in this regard, as the first sentence ("the world's largest...") seemed to me to be just such an assertion. This was a much better candidate for proposed deletion. -- SCZenz 02:17, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! -- AmiDaniel ( talk) 02:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
So we can store large image files, regardless of content, as long as they are on our user pages? Please clarify. Thanks.-- <b>Chris Griswold</b> 08:16, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank-you for your efforts on Spore (video game). Now maybe we can get on with the sorely needed reworking of the article. Robovski 00:08, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed one thing when I saw your name on my watchlist. If I see your name out of the corner of my eye, it almost looks like RickK. ;-) -- Deathphoenix ʕ 15:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi RadioKirk,
Just picked up your message:
"Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. The links you added to the page Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem have been removed. Please do not add commercial links—or links to your own private websites—to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. RadioKirk talk to me 15:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC)"
I'd like to ask a few questions if I may (being a relative newbie to Wiki). I checked through the information on external links you provided and couldn't find anything in there to suggest that posting the external link was a no-no. I take on board the point that Wiki wants 'internal' content, but short of rewriting or copying and pasting stuff from the review which I linked to I don't see another option.
The site I linked to (www.opensenses.com) isn't owned by me, nor is it a comercial site or affiliated with any comercial operation. I do however write reviews for videogames that are published there under the name "Madbury". My first question then is what were the criteria for judging the link to be inappropriate for Wiki?
My second question is what is the correct process for getting an external link added? And my third question is how do I go about creating new wiki entries from stuff I've already published on OpenSenses which doesn't as yet have a Wiki?
Hope you can help me with some of these so I can have a clearer understanding of the ethos behind Wiki and get contributing.