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Hi there. I note you've asked "where's the diffs?" on the SPI report on JohnDopp. Having never actually filed one of these before, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. I've pointed to the edits in question - I take it there's some way of pointing to them that illustrates the before/after differences? If that's necessary here, could you explain what I should do (or point me to an explanation)? Thanks! NaymanNoland ( talk) 07:09, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not quite clear on how this works. You say that evidence that I wish to add should be added to the evidence subpage. However, I already presented my response to the original notification of the Arbitration Case on the Request page here. Am I supposed to cut and paste it to the Evidence page as well? Am I supposed to wait until others present their evidence against me before presenting mine? Should my evidence be different from what I've posted to date? Please clarify. Thanks, and Happy Holidays. Nightscream ( talk) 12:13, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
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have another Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Katrina Villegas. How do I reopen? I blocked her. Same-old-same-old. Dloh cierekim 19:31, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, Rschen7754. Like I stated in the above linked investigation with regard to Picker78 admitting only after he is caught that he is Picker78, see here. He taunts like that all time. This is one of the most persistent, mind-boggling sockpuppets (mind-boggling because of the sheer trivial matters he focuses on) that I have ever seen. Is it okay to run a check on his Promiscuous man account now for WP:Sleepers? Flyer22 ( talk) 10:08, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Very well; I guess if this should come up again, I'll simply open up a new case instead, along with an explicit quote of the policy that was abused, making more work for everyone in order to follow the rules. People who misuse policy are generally reverted; this is no different, since (as seen in the link I gave) checkuser's final say had already said that the tool should be used. This was not a revert-war anyway, since your comment made me think that you misunderstood my action; I thought you were thinking that I'd reopened it by accident or confusion. Had you rearchived it a second time, I would have understood that you knew what was going on. Nyttend ( talk) 21:46, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
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Nonsensical deletion request by the same sock puppet who you just blocked. Possible to close it? Bladesmulti ( talk) 03:02, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I was looking up New Jersey Route 139 and I noticed a minor edit you made regarding the Alternate Name Field Box removing State Highway. Now, it's not that big a deal because times can change and so do the rules, however that was put in back in around 2007/2008, way before any alteration or evolution of rules you may have established between 2007/2008-2013 went into effect. Using the reasoning "rm abuse of alt name field" given the age of the edit is very haphazard. After all, how can a 5 year old edit be considered "Abuse" when new rules were not established at the time of the edit? There a lot of edits throughout Wikipedia that are more than 5 years old before any new rules would have gone into effect, so how can they be an act "Abuse" when that Editor was applying rules correctly of that time? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.141.44.35 ( talk) 18:06, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
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Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ali Mohammad Khilji.
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I'll get my evidence heavily trimmed today. I just got carried away, but that's no excuse as I use to give people identical messages. Dougweller ( talk) 07:32, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
FYI, regarding the return of User:Betacommand as User:Werieth, it's you who is barking up the wrong tree. Technical evidence has nothing to do with this - as the account creation/timing evidence in the SPI report have already shown, Betacommand was experienced enough to know exactly how to avoid his illegitimate return to editing being detected by technical means. That is not to say he cannot be blocked under WP:DUCK, as you well know. The issue here is why are so many admins/SPI clerks/checkusers dismissing what is a very very big pile of convincing behavioural evidence that such a block is well overdue, simply because they don't like the way it's being reported? What happened to WP:NOTBURO? If you've seen some unusual things about Werieth, then they're unlikely to be explained by idiots like Reaper Eternal pretending that it's nothing, that I'm just a troll. If your emails have been ignored or blown off, then it's probably because the cover up goes higher than I first thought. Incompetence aside, there's a few more nefarious reasons why some admins, clerks and checkusers would not want Betacommand's return to be discovered. It's up to you really, are you part of the problem, or not? Because make no mistake, Werieth is Betacommand, and he is going to be discovered, whether it takes years or not (and remember, we are talking about a user who is such an experienced WP:GAMEr he managed to keep editing for years after people started first talking about a community ban due to the many and varied issues with his editing) Vector Informal ( talk) 16:34, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Oh, and as he has his talk page protected, can you copy the following to DeltaQuad ( talk · contribs) in reply to this nonsense. Vector Informal ( talk) 16:34, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
This time I wasn't being an idiot. When I filed, no SPIs on this editor were showing on the main page, nor were they showing a few minutes after I filed mine and discovered there were others. I did check as I'd planned to file on on Honkeytonknightmare. Slow bot I presume (I thought at first maybe not working at all). Dougweller ( talk) 13:52, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
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Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of Interstate 805 to FA status recently. If you would like to see this (or any other FA you may have helped to write) appear as "Today's featured article" soon, please nominate it at the requests page; if you'd like to see an FA on a particular date in the next year or so, please add it to the "pending" list. In the absence of a request, the article may end up being picked at any time (although with 1,329 articles in Category:Featured articles that have not appeared on the main page at present, there's no telling how long – or short! – the wait might be). If you'd got any TFA-related questions or problems, please let me know. Bencherlite Talk 17:03, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Saw this on an SPI page that you commented on requesting more info. Looks like someone vandalized a template? (I believe the notification of "requesting checkuser" has an issue) GRUcrule ( talk) 21:57, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Hey, I see that you recused, but I'm wondering if you could tell me if there's a template I can use for notifying named parties? A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 19:16, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Several new proposals have been submitted at Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2014 since you last commented on it. You are invited to return to comment on the new proposals. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 01:14, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
User talk:Savesgypsy/Editnotice includes a block notice placed by you on behalf of Arbcom — seemingly this user is a reincarnation of someone you've blocked as part of an arbitration remedy. Just thought you might find it funny, especially if you try to edit his talk page (and might want to do something about it), rather than blocking the user myself. The user's third edit is rather funny, so I had to be slightly absurdist/overly bureaucratic when undoing the edit. Nyttend ( talk) 04:57, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
I must have removed That by accident, I wasn't even aware I had done anything. my apologies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.31.177.135 ( talk) 05:49, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Why have you closed it? Why should it matter that the four accounts are blocked? Do I need to have an active user harassing myself or Zarbon for this case to be looked at? And for all we know there are sleeper accounts and last I checked that was a valid reason to use checkuser on someone who's already this prolific with sockpuppets.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜) 08:28, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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21:56, 24 January 2014 (UTC)You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Austrian economics. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Austrian economics/Evidence. Please add your evidence by February 8, 2014, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Austrian economics/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Ks0stm ( T• C• G• E) 01:49, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Remember that guy who was chasing you off a certain Nationalist, POV-pushing set of road articles? He seems a repeat offender. I wouldn't want to be accused of "hound" behavior but he seems to make a habit of skirting sourcing and other policies to serve the proper portrayal of his particular axe to grind. I didn't have a great reception from some admins, but I do think the point can be made that this person is a bad actor who is not abiding by the good faith guidelines. Andrevan @ 07:07, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
You mind confirming if these socks are all actual socks of the sockmaster? Thanks. LightandDark2000 ( talk) 16:28, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
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My apologies for the frivolous Sock Puppet report. I am sorry to have wasted everyone's time, I truly am. It was not my intention. I seem to have misunderstood the process. If somebody would be so kind as to visit my talk page and suggest how I should best proceed about this IP editor, I would really appreciate it. Thank you all for your time, and again I apologize for the trouble. be well. -- Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 18:58, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't think this worked correctly. Isn't it supposed to leave a link to the archived case page? WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 12:23, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I have lived in the East Bay for over 40 years and am well versed in what things are commonly called. I drive for a living, so I know the names of interchanges. I listen the the radio and hear what traffic reporters call things. When I listen to the KSFO traffic report, they refer to the distribution structure as 'the maze' and they call the Macarthur Maze, 'Macarthur Maze'. Go figure.
The Bay Bridge Distribution Structure is commonly referred to as 'The Maze' There are a few reporters who mistakenly call the interchange by the wrong name, from time to time. This interchange was built in the 1930's, long before General Douglas Macarthur was a household name.
The Macarthur Maze has, since its construction in the 1970's referred to the interchange officially known as the 'Macarthur Maze'. It is named for General Douglas Macarthur,the Macarthur Freeway which runs through it, and Macarthur Boulevard, which parallels it. Pretty much everybody, (save for some young people) call it the Macarthur Maze to distinguish it from 'The Maze'.
I can find NO reference, prior to the mid 1990's of anybody mistaking these two interchanges.
I made the corrections to the 'Macarthur Maze' page because it is both inaccurate and causes confusion with another location. If you insist that Wikipedia have correct information, then I will stop correcting the incorrect information that you keep reverting to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 946towguy ( talk • contribs) 08:41, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there. I note you've asked "where's the diffs?" on the SPI report on JohnDopp. Having never actually filed one of these before, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. I've pointed to the edits in question - I take it there's some way of pointing to them that illustrates the before/after differences? If that's necessary here, could you explain what I should do (or point me to an explanation)? Thanks! NaymanNoland ( talk) 07:09, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not quite clear on how this works. You say that evidence that I wish to add should be added to the evidence subpage. However, I already presented my response to the original notification of the Arbitration Case on the Request page here. Am I supposed to cut and paste it to the Evidence page as well? Am I supposed to wait until others present their evidence against me before presenting mine? Should my evidence be different from what I've posted to date? Please clarify. Thanks, and Happy Holidays. Nightscream ( talk) 12:13, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Rschen7754, Wishing you a very Happy and Wonderful Merry Christmas! Hope you are having a great time with family and friends :-) Best wishes. ~ TheGeneralUser (talk) 21:04, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
have another Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Katrina Villegas. How do I reopen? I blocked her. Same-old-same-old. Dloh cierekim 19:31, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, Rschen7754. Like I stated in the above linked investigation with regard to Picker78 admitting only after he is caught that he is Picker78, see here. He taunts like that all time. This is one of the most persistent, mind-boggling sockpuppets (mind-boggling because of the sheer trivial matters he focuses on) that I have ever seen. Is it okay to run a check on his Promiscuous man account now for WP:Sleepers? Flyer22 ( talk) 10:08, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Very well; I guess if this should come up again, I'll simply open up a new case instead, along with an explicit quote of the policy that was abused, making more work for everyone in order to follow the rules. People who misuse policy are generally reverted; this is no different, since (as seen in the link I gave) checkuser's final say had already said that the tool should be used. This was not a revert-war anyway, since your comment made me think that you misunderstood my action; I thought you were thinking that I'd reopened it by accident or confusion. Had you rearchived it a second time, I would have understood that you knew what was going on. Nyttend ( talk) 21:46, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
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Will do, sorry. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 05:42, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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I will be away until late Tuesday December 31, only having phone access. -- Rs chen 7754 16:56, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
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Nonsensical deletion request by the same sock puppet who you just blocked. Possible to close it? Bladesmulti ( talk) 03:02, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I was looking up New Jersey Route 139 and I noticed a minor edit you made regarding the Alternate Name Field Box removing State Highway. Now, it's not that big a deal because times can change and so do the rules, however that was put in back in around 2007/2008, way before any alteration or evolution of rules you may have established between 2007/2008-2013 went into effect. Using the reasoning "rm abuse of alt name field" given the age of the edit is very haphazard. After all, how can a 5 year old edit be considered "Abuse" when new rules were not established at the time of the edit? There a lot of edits throughout Wikipedia that are more than 5 years old before any new rules would have gone into effect, so how can they be an act "Abuse" when that Editor was applying rules correctly of that time? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.141.44.35 ( talk) 18:06, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
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08:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ali Mohammad Khilji.
Notifying you due to your prior investigation of related case.
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I'll get my evidence heavily trimmed today. I just got carried away, but that's no excuse as I use to give people identical messages. Dougweller ( talk) 07:32, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
FYI, regarding the return of User:Betacommand as User:Werieth, it's you who is barking up the wrong tree. Technical evidence has nothing to do with this - as the account creation/timing evidence in the SPI report have already shown, Betacommand was experienced enough to know exactly how to avoid his illegitimate return to editing being detected by technical means. That is not to say he cannot be blocked under WP:DUCK, as you well know. The issue here is why are so many admins/SPI clerks/checkusers dismissing what is a very very big pile of convincing behavioural evidence that such a block is well overdue, simply because they don't like the way it's being reported? What happened to WP:NOTBURO? If you've seen some unusual things about Werieth, then they're unlikely to be explained by idiots like Reaper Eternal pretending that it's nothing, that I'm just a troll. If your emails have been ignored or blown off, then it's probably because the cover up goes higher than I first thought. Incompetence aside, there's a few more nefarious reasons why some admins, clerks and checkusers would not want Betacommand's return to be discovered. It's up to you really, are you part of the problem, or not? Because make no mistake, Werieth is Betacommand, and he is going to be discovered, whether it takes years or not (and remember, we are talking about a user who is such an experienced WP:GAMEr he managed to keep editing for years after people started first talking about a community ban due to the many and varied issues with his editing) Vector Informal ( talk) 16:34, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Oh, and as he has his talk page protected, can you copy the following to DeltaQuad ( talk · contribs) in reply to this nonsense. Vector Informal ( talk) 16:34, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
This time I wasn't being an idiot. When I filed, no SPIs on this editor were showing on the main page, nor were they showing a few minutes after I filed mine and discovered there were others. I did check as I'd planned to file on on Honkeytonknightmare. Slow bot I presume (I thought at first maybe not working at all). Dougweller ( talk) 13:52, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
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Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of Interstate 805 to FA status recently. If you would like to see this (or any other FA you may have helped to write) appear as "Today's featured article" soon, please nominate it at the requests page; if you'd like to see an FA on a particular date in the next year or so, please add it to the "pending" list. In the absence of a request, the article may end up being picked at any time (although with 1,329 articles in Category:Featured articles that have not appeared on the main page at present, there's no telling how long – or short! – the wait might be). If you'd got any TFA-related questions or problems, please let me know. Bencherlite Talk 17:03, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Saw this on an SPI page that you commented on requesting more info. Looks like someone vandalized a template? (I believe the notification of "requesting checkuser" has an issue) GRUcrule ( talk) 21:57, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Hey, I see that you recused, but I'm wondering if you could tell me if there's a template I can use for notifying named parties? A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 19:16, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Several new proposals have been submitted at Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2014 since you last commented on it. You are invited to return to comment on the new proposals. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 01:14, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
User talk:Savesgypsy/Editnotice includes a block notice placed by you on behalf of Arbcom — seemingly this user is a reincarnation of someone you've blocked as part of an arbitration remedy. Just thought you might find it funny, especially if you try to edit his talk page (and might want to do something about it), rather than blocking the user myself. The user's third edit is rather funny, so I had to be slightly absurdist/overly bureaucratic when undoing the edit. Nyttend ( talk) 04:57, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
I must have removed That by accident, I wasn't even aware I had done anything. my apologies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.31.177.135 ( talk) 05:49, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Why have you closed it? Why should it matter that the four accounts are blocked? Do I need to have an active user harassing myself or Zarbon for this case to be looked at? And for all we know there are sleeper accounts and last I checked that was a valid reason to use checkuser on someone who's already this prolific with sockpuppets.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜) 08:28, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Rschen, did you mean to leave
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21:56, 24 January 2014 (UTC)You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Austrian economics. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Austrian economics/Evidence. Please add your evidence by February 8, 2014, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Austrian economics/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Ks0stm ( T• C• G• E) 01:49, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Remember that guy who was chasing you off a certain Nationalist, POV-pushing set of road articles? He seems a repeat offender. I wouldn't want to be accused of "hound" behavior but he seems to make a habit of skirting sourcing and other policies to serve the proper portrayal of his particular axe to grind. I didn't have a great reception from some admins, but I do think the point can be made that this person is a bad actor who is not abiding by the good faith guidelines. Andrevan @ 07:07, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
You mind confirming if these socks are all actual socks of the sockmaster? Thanks. LightandDark2000 ( talk) 16:28, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
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My apologies for the frivolous Sock Puppet report. I am sorry to have wasted everyone's time, I truly am. It was not my intention. I seem to have misunderstood the process. If somebody would be so kind as to visit my talk page and suggest how I should best proceed about this IP editor, I would really appreciate it. Thank you all for your time, and again I apologize for the trouble. be well. -- Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 18:58, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't think this worked correctly. Isn't it supposed to leave a link to the archived case page? WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 12:23, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I have lived in the East Bay for over 40 years and am well versed in what things are commonly called. I drive for a living, so I know the names of interchanges. I listen the the radio and hear what traffic reporters call things. When I listen to the KSFO traffic report, they refer to the distribution structure as 'the maze' and they call the Macarthur Maze, 'Macarthur Maze'. Go figure.
The Bay Bridge Distribution Structure is commonly referred to as 'The Maze' There are a few reporters who mistakenly call the interchange by the wrong name, from time to time. This interchange was built in the 1930's, long before General Douglas Macarthur was a household name.
The Macarthur Maze has, since its construction in the 1970's referred to the interchange officially known as the 'Macarthur Maze'. It is named for General Douglas Macarthur,the Macarthur Freeway which runs through it, and Macarthur Boulevard, which parallels it. Pretty much everybody, (save for some young people) call it the Macarthur Maze to distinguish it from 'The Maze'.
I can find NO reference, prior to the mid 1990's of anybody mistaking these two interchanges.
I made the corrections to the 'Macarthur Maze' page because it is both inaccurate and causes confusion with another location. If you insist that Wikipedia have correct information, then I will stop correcting the incorrect information that you keep reverting to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 946towguy ( talk • contribs) 08:41, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
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