Archive 14: mostly August 2006.

I disagree with your block of me last night. I will admit I was out of line when I vandalized Redvars page, and left him a nasty note. However I felt abused by him, and unfortunately responded in a negative fashion unstead of appropriately. Although I apologize for my actions and admit my wrong, I will note at the time I was being harassed by other individuals who abused their power in an attempt to torment me. 74.136.222.198 06:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC) reply

You redirected the featured article on the Main Page to autofellatio, were blocked for three hours, and then you launched a series of vicious personal attacks on everyone who defended Wikipedia against your malicious actions, including a bizarre "justification" for the autofellatio redirect, and you were blocked again. Now you are claiming that others abused you? What?? Antandrus (talk) 14:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC) reply

That characterization is not accurate in the least and you know it. It seems you are indeed fond of abuse. Yes, I redirected the featured article as a joke. I indeed deserved a warning, not a block. I was enraged by the characterization provided by Redvars, and in anger responded to harshly. Aeon1006 decided at that point to warn me, I attempted to dispute his claims and he embarked on a campaign of harassment, removing all of my comments. I did not, as you so inaccurately put it, launch a series of vicious personal attacks on everyone who defended Wikipedia from my "malicious actions". My actions against Redvars were sadly, malicious, but the same is not true towards anyone else. 74.136.222.198 15:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC) reply

I completely disagree. There was nothing wrong with my block. You do NOT get a "free pass" to vandalise once (i.e. the "warning" you think was an entitlement of yours), and you do not get a "free pass" to leave nasty comments just because you didn't like the consequences to your earlier action. Antandrus (talk) 23:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Saw this 'orphan' article and thought you might have some idea of where it might link. Special-T 17:26, 30 July 2006 (UTC) reply

It's not obvious to me. I've never heard of it, though it gets a lot of Google hits. Somewhere within the GIS section, certainly: maybe one of the GIS articles needs a section on active projects to assemble experts and data within specific sub-disciplines. Antandrus (talk) 19:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi Antandrus,

I'm stuck trying to transport a nice image of a spinet from the French Wikipedia to the English one. It looks like it's legit, but I can't summon up a proper license for it. Could you take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Epinette_Rouaud.jpeg and let me know if there's any way to address the conundrum described there?

Thanks very much, Opus33 18:21, 31 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Yikes. I'm looking, but it's not obvious to me, yet. Thanks for finding the image though! I'll look some more later. Antandrus (talk) 18:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC) reply

<further inquiries ensue...>

Thanks, Antandrus, we'll hope that works! Best wishes, Opus33 23:00, 31 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the revert. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC) reply

You're welcome: my pleasure. Hope you're enjoying the arctic summer! :-) Antandrus (talk) 01:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I thought it probably was him, but I was assuming good faith, for no particular reason. I'm really tempted to put that "This article is crap" template on the List of clichés in music page, but I won't. I've already gotten on enough peoples' nerves there. I was accused of holding the article hostage :P I'm afraid that if I tried to make it better, as one editor suggests, I would be accused of WP:POINT. I do keep thinking of an excellent sourced one, though: "By the end of the decade [1580s] the concerto di donne was a courtly cliché in northern Italy." (Newcomb, 99) I'm encorporating a bunch of stuff from Newcomb into that article now, and when I'm done I think I'll have a Peer review, so look forward to some talk page spam :-) Cheers, Mak (talk) 02:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC) reply

ROFL, that is a temptation, no? Heh. --Hey, imagine what Wikipedia would be like if it were edited by Italians around 1580. You think this place is drama?  ;-) I'm looking forward to concerto di donne: I may actually have something to contribute for a change! Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 03:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Wikipedia:Peer review/Concerto delle donne/archive1 go sixteenth century Italian music! Whoo! Anyway, would you ever so kindly look at this? I've been adding a bit to it, trying to clean it up some, let me know what you think. Remember, be honest. It's more helpful. I promise not to rant at you ;) Mak (talk) 18:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Just thought you should know that I have listened to "Revecy venir du printemps" 22 times since you wrote Musique mesurée. Mak (talk) 01:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I noticed that this article you wrote has had an {{ Expert}} tag on it for over a year. Seeing as you're probably as much of an expert on this topic as anyone here, this seemed curious. I wondered if you could help answer User:Hyacinth's query on the talk page. Cheers! MarkBuckles 02:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Gotcha - good luck with the research :p. Hey, can you also tell me how to include my talk in my sig like you have? MarkBuckles 03:17, 3 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks - except it looks like this now. . . [[User:MarkBuckles|MarkBuckles [[User_talk:MarkBuckles|(talk)]]]] 03:25, 3 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Got it! Had to click "raw signature". MarkBuckles (talk) 03:27, 3 August 2006 (UTC) reply

		The Editor's Barnstar
		Antandrus is awarded the Editor's barnstar for his ongoing work in removing unencyclopedic matter from Wikipedia. Blnguyen | rant-line 02:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Have you seen an account like this before? -- HappyCamper 04:06, 5 August 2006 (UTC) reply

- Victory is mine now and forever, you people can not even listen to least reason and especially when I was right many times. The only thing Heros was right is that i am not squid, i may be g reeves dude, but i was accused of bs i had nothing to do with... So many mistakes I found on wiki, you have no idea, some I reverted, some corrected, most I will not touch, besides all post graduate programs are informed and do not use wiki as reliable source...

I have bachelor's in history and music was my minor, I know a lot on and about your kind of music, including composition, I could have done a lot for you and even contributed to music, but alas, you all made up your mind against me long time and ah well, I am wasting my time again on loosers, but you, mak, curps and few others lost! And go back to school of ethics, the ethics you have are the ones you made up in your bird-brains. And so much for your philosophy.... George Reeves Lives —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.107.2.145 ( talk • contribs) .

Um, sure. You have a nice day too. Antandrus (talk) 00:21, 6 August 2006 (UTC) reply

What you mean nice day, you accused me of vandalizing pages I've never heard of before, shame on you all, great detectives you are, many times I had terrible belly laugh from the garbage you wrote about me or the great "investigation" you did into me, lol, all, mostly, wrong. And the way you block people is totally unjustified, there are classic examples all over, like below. George Reeves Lives —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.107.0.130 ( talk • contribs) .

Sure, whatever. If you are here to help build an encyclopedia, fine, though I've seen no evidence supporting that possibility. If you are here for some other reason, please go away. Antandrus (talk) 16:25, 12 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Do you for some reason love michael moore? I mean we all know you cant trust wikipedia for shit so why do you keep aon keeping michael moore ok? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.234.181.120 ( talk • contribs) .

Don't vandalise and you won't get blocked. Liking, or not liking, Michael Moore, is irrelevant, and regarding your "we all know" comment, please see fallacy of many questions. Antandrus (talk) 01:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I was going so fast through Category:Ethics that I didn't check the previous edits. I'm glad you fixed the edit in Cynicism which I overlooked. Common Man 04:23, 6 August 2006 (UTC) reply

This is just banter. No need to reply on my talk page.

You're welcome! (I guess I'm not much of a cynic, even though I think Twain is pretty funny) Antandrus (talk) 04:26, 6 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the welcome back! ahope to see you around! Æon ^{Insane Ward} 17:48, 6 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Open your card!

Dear Antandrus, thank you so much for your beautiful words, your kidness and your trust in me. My Request for Adminship is finally over, and the support and appreciation that the community has gifted me will stick in my mind as long as I live. I have no way to properly express how grateful I am to you for all you've done for me, and all I can tell you is, I'll try not to disappoint you nor anyone else with my use of the buttons... and if I mess up, make sure to come here and give me a good yell! :) Seriously, tho, if you ever need my help, either for admin-related stuff or in any other way, you'll always be welcome to message me, and I promise I'll try my very best.
Dear Antandrus, this is the perfect opportunity to finally speak to one another after reading your words for months and months. I am sure that we'll be able to talk often, and trust me, it'd be my pleasure. Both your contributions and, most important your warm way to deal with others made me notice you long, long ago; and being supported by a person I look up to, like you, meant the world to me. I sincerely hope this is but the beginning of a friendship, and such thought fills me with joy. Please, take good care, and visit me any time you wish! :) With a big hug, your friend,

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If he deserves an article so do I. Stirling Newberry 01:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC) reply

He doesn't. But it appears someone pulled the WP:PROD tag off of it. Oh well. Antandrus (talk) 02:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC) reply

GoldToeMarionette ( talk · contribs) had a WP:RFCU inappropriately completed on their account by Jayjg ( talk · contribs) and Hall Monitor ( talk · contribs) blocked the account after it was identified as a multiple account despite their being no violation of Wikipedia policy by GoldToeMarionette. These users did not respond to requests to undo the action.

Other steps in dispute resolution have been tried

Comments on RFCU itself [1]

Other Admins contacted [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Hall Monitor was emailed with no reply

GoldToeMarionette posted on the account's User and Talk Pages seeking assistance when the talk page was protected without the issue being discussed. User:GoldToeMarionette User_talk:GoldToeMarionette

GoldToeMarionette notified article contributors that illustrative examples were subject to an AfD. The account strictly followed the WP:SPAM#Internal_spamming guideline. The AfD was without controversy. GoldToeMarionette did not participate in the vote. HereToCleanup removed the posts following the AfD in accord with the widely accepted Wikipedia Guideline Wikipedia:Spam#Internal_spamming that states "Clean up your mess. For example, after engaging in cross-posting to promote some election, be sure to remove those cross-posts after the election is complete." [7]

• GoldToeMarionette Contributions
• Breakdown of GoldToeMarionette's Posts
• Example post to 66 article contributors
• Example post removal from 66 article contributors
• HereToCleanup's Contributions
• No AfD participation

Since GoldToeMarionette was strictly following Wikipedia Policy, there should not have been a Check User completed by Jayjg. Hall Monitor only blocked the account because it was labeled as a sockpuppet by Jayjg's completed Check User. Absent policy violation it should not have been processed in RFCU or been blocked. I am asking for your help to confirm that policy was not violated, administrative action should not have been taken, and request that the administrative action be reversed by unblocking GoldToeMarionette and unprotecting the talk page. Thank you for your time with this request. SixWallRoom 04:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC) reply

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		fFor your quick revert of vandalism and a personal attack! Æon Insane Ward 04:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Same here, so far looks like a quite night for vandal hunting Æon ^{Insane Ward} 04:29, 7 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Do you have a personal webpage with, say, MIDI versions of some of the music that you've composed? I might be interested in hearing some of it.-- The Count of Monte Cristo ^Parley 04:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Um... send me an e-mail; I'd rather stay quite anonymous here. I get too many death threats for my anti-vandal work. :-) Antandrus (talk) 04:39, 7 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Hello!

I enjoyed your article on the composer John Bull. In your article, you mention that there's evidence that he was involved in espionage missions for Queen Elizabeth. I'm actually doing a Musicology paper pertaining to this subject; I was wondering which of your sources you got that particular piece of information from, so that I could look it up and use it. Thanks a lot, and I'll look forward to your response.

Jeff

Hi Jeff: sorry, I'm finally getting to my talk page backlog. I did not add that bit about Bull being involved in espionage; it was added by user User:Yellow Lion on 5 September 2005 [8]. I have never read anything about this, and do not have a source to back it up (there's nothing in Grove that I recall). Antandrus (talk) 15:41, 27 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi Antandrus! Thank you for taking part in my RfA! Unfortunately, it ended with a final result of (62/23/7), and with only 73% support, no consensus was achieved. Nevertheless, I thank you for your support and I'll be looking for it in my next RfA! :)   G. H e 02:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Hello Antandrus,

I'm wondering if I can seek your advice. I've recently been involved in a dispute with User:Robin klein that has greatly exacerbated my wikistress. I'm wondering if you would be so kind as to assist me in two ways: firstly, as an experienced editor and music scholar, to offer a third opinion, and secondly, to advise me as to how I might have handled or should continue to handle the situation in the most productive and cooperative fashion possible.

The dispute began on the music page. I copyedited the lead to try to make it clearer and more understandable and my edits were reverted without comment. I then began a discussion on the article's talk page. To my chagrin, this apparent feud continued on the issue of Voice instrumental music. I found this article a while back, couldn't understand what it was about, and tried to copyedit it for a while. User:Hyacinth changed it to a redirect to vocal music, calling it OR, and moved the rest of the contents to Vocal music, after which I copyedited more, removing a lot of what did not seem appropriate for a survey of vocal music. I now think the article was OR as I cannot find any use of the term "voice instrumental music", other than mirror sites of wikipedia. Robin, as the initial author, feels differently. Her comments are on on my talk page and my comments on her talk page.

I don't wish to burden you - I'm just not sure what's best to do in this situation and I hoped you might be able to help. Thank you. Best, MarkBuckles (talk) 09:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks for getting back to me! I didn't realize you were on Wikibreak when I first posted this. I hope the conference went/is going well! The situation has become amicable most thankfully, but has not been resolved. There are two unrelated issues. First, the lead of the Music article. Some discussion regarding this at Talk:Music. Second, the future of Voice instrumental music or its former content. Copious discussion of this at both our talk pages. I would be most grateful to get a third educated and experienced opinion, whether or not you agree with my views. Your general advice on the interaction is also quite welcome. I think I'm learning from this experience and I'm hoping to improve my general method of Wikitalk. Since text-based communication tends to be dehumanizing in a way, and because people are inherently protective of their creations (even though this is a Wiki), I've found assuming good faith to be extremely important at all times - and not just that you assume it, but that you actively demonstrate it in the tone and content of your messages, since that's all we have to go by. MarkBuckles (talk) 06:00, 17 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I just came across this, which sounds maybe a little, teensy bit POV-ed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Kert%C3%A9sz but am not certain of how to proceed. Merci! Wspencer11 14:04, 10 August 2006 (UTC) reply

<poke> Would you look at Concerto delle donne and comment at the peer review when/if you get a chance? Mak (talk) 04:07, 11 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Yes: I haven't forgotten. I have a bit of a request backlog on this page right now. :-) Antandrus (talk) 18:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Cool, thanks. I wasn't sure whether it had gotten lost in the shuffle, or was simply still in the queu, or however those Commonwealthers spell it. Mak (talk) 18:43, 12 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I have given up the North Carolina vandalism. I actually stopped last month, but you blocked the accounts I was using in the sandbox. Steinerstein 02:16, 12 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Not so. I just blocked you again. Antandrus (talk) 03:00, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Mr. Lefty 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 page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

-- Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 05:14, 13 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi, I listed a user on the vandalism board just now. You removed him saying that he was already blocked. He wasn't. Why did you remove him? Tobyk777 19:31, 13 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Um, I think there has been a slight misunderstanding. I was informed that I was blocked because someone happened to be using the same internet service as me. To my knowledge, blocks were meant to block people who did something wrong. Could you please unblock me so that I may continue contributing to Wikipedia? Green Machine 6 04:41, 14 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Sure. First of all, if you are able to edit my talk page, you can't be blocked. Second, since there's nothing in the block log for you specifically, you must have been hit by an autoblock, i.e. by someone who shared an IP with you. I just cleared the only three autoblocks for which I was the blocking admin in the last 24 hours. Without the actual message on your block page that's about as far as I can go; hope it helps. Antandrus (talk) 04:52, 14 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Apologies if I'm becoming tiresome, I just thought that I'd let you know that I've shoved the concerto delle donne article on to FAC, largely because I'm going to have to give the Newcomb book back soon, and I want to have it for the majority of the FAC, just in case. If you feel like making constructive criticisms, the link is Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Concerto delle donne. I hope you're having a lovely time at your conference and causing as much trouble as possible. Cheers, Mak (talk) 01:07, 15 August 2006 (UTC) reply

No problem: I just haven't had any quality time to really have a close look ... these things happen. I did read it through already a few days ago, and it was a nice article. Cheers! Antandrus (talk) 00:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

More concerto - User:Makemi/Concerto delle donne, dramatic version. I thought you might be amused. Mak (talk) 18:53, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Hello. I'm afraid I'm having a bit of a tango with Dafoeberezin3494 concerning several major changes that he or she been undertaking in the "classical composers" catagory. I posted something about this on August 12th at [ [9]], but haven't had any response. At my suggestion, he or she has posted something to the composers project page at [ [10]] but this seems to be escalating rather than deflating.

• My main problem is that he or she is using very questionable sources (a textbook generally used in non-music major Music appreciation classes at American Universities, "standard repertoire" lists and the like....) and has a tendency to use lots of non-POV language such as "the greatest", "the best" , "the most important". This wouldn't really be a problem except that he or she works very quickly and this is starting to change the whole structure of the catagorization of composers. I can personally can foresee several problems with this.
  • This person should obviously be encouraged as a young person with lots of energy, but quite frankly, I'm not the person to do so as we're not getting on at all. I'm wondering if you would mind perhaps communicating a bit about this and perhaps giving some insight. I think that if I say anything else, that this person is probably going to explode. And really, at this point, I would quite understand. It's just not a "fair fight". If you can't help with this, I would appreciate your passing this on to someone who can. Thanks in advance. Musikfabrik 20:10, 15 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Okay, this is the second time I have been blocked today based on my IP address...Can you please unblock my user name? I didn't do anything wrong. I was editing my user page when I saw I was blocked for something relating to Fidel Castro...I haven't edited that article...ever.

Its Dwslassls...

Okay, well I may not be blocked from editing a talk page, but submitting the information is quite a problem...That is what I meant...

I can type all I want into an article...not a talk page, but whenever I try to submit the edits, it just says "your IP is blocked for...Fidel castro"...Then I try again, and everything i've typed is completely gone and I can't do anything. I spent about half an hour typing the articles I've edited on my user page, and I couldn't submit it, and all the work went down the drain. I'm not raving or anything, I'm just wondering if you can help when you have the chance.

Thanks a lot. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dwslassls ( talk • contribs) .

(Responded on your talk page). Antandrus (talk) 00:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Why blame me for what some unrelated jackass named "Buzawz" did? Steinerstein 03:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

And you just happened to notice that he got blocked thirty seconds before, when you haven't used this account at all today? LOL. Antandrus (talk) 03:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Now why did you block Buzawz indefniely, although he wss being a victim of wikistalking. Steinerstein 03:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Please don't talk about yourself in the third person--it's confusing. I blocked you because you were vandalising, and I blocked your "Steinerstein" account because it is a sockpuppet for block evasion. Now please go away and leave us alone--we're an encyclopedia, not a gaming forum. Antandrus (talk) 03:15, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I will leave and never come back if you delete Wikipedia:Long term abuse/North Carolina vandal. Firaddahides 03:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Put it on WP:ANI and see what kind of response you get. I couldn't do that unilaterally anyway. Antandrus (talk) 03:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

(edit conflict) User:Buzawz was also attempting to pretend to protect Wikipedia:Sandbox using a very similar protection summary in edit summary, and to remove the sandbox header from a sandbox page to replace something like "This article is indefinitely protected.". -- ADNghiem501 03:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

And regarding Steinerstein, he himself added his original username "Jake Remington" [11] to Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians which I've removed. -- ADNghiem501 03:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks for reverting the massive redirect vandalism. — ERcheck ( talk) 00:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Maybe you could sprotect the page because it is a current event (likely continued vandalism)? The same was done for the JonBenet Ramsey article (seems like the same person/bot is vandalizing over and over on these pages). — Super-Magician ( talk •  contribs •  count) ★ 01:21, 19 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Sure thing; let's try it. He/it will just move on to a different article, but we can sprotect that one too. Antandrus (talk) 01:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC) reply

There's no point in reasoning with him. Due to his history, he won't care or stop. Just delete and ban him PLEASE. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MikailMoolla ( talk • contribs) 06:20, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. From all of us. *hug* I don't know how to give you a Barnstar but you deserve one anyway. - I eat cake! :->

You're welcome. Antandrus (talk) 14:29, 19 August 2006 (UTC) reply

It's been a particularly nasty outbreak - goes across myspace and blogs as well as here. Stirling Newberry 05:25, 20 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I have no idea what the whole history is on this one, but his talk page is frightening. At any rate there's no reason we have to put up with this kind of crap. Antandrus (talk) 05:27, 20 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Perhaps he is trying to reach the GNAA standard of notability. :) Stirling Newberry 05:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Under the account User:Ilokon i tried to show you all that I had stopped, but they deleted everything I did. Please unprotect Wikipedia:Long term abuse/North Carolina vandal, User talk:A Man For The Glen, User talk:Dirkenstein, and User talk:Remington and the Rattlesnakes. Also unblock Remington and the Rattlesnakes. None of this will be used for anything bad. Deloty 03:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC) reply

User:SCCC and I are having a fundamental disagreement over the lede to the Gregorian chant article. If you have a few minutes, could you please look over our discussion at Talk:Gregorian_chant#Alteration_of_lede and give your input? Thanks! Peirigill 21:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Some people don't understant I have given up and they are blcking my accounts, although I am not using them to vandalize. Maybe you should make it more well known I have given up. The Robertson Quinn 01:59, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

So are you here as a good editor then? Post it to ANI. "Yes, I was the NCV. I'm promising not to vandalize any more. I'm not trolling. This is an honest post." Or something. The problem is that you've vandalized SO much, for more than a year, that people are jaded. But give it a try. People here are smart: they can tell when someone is sincere. Antandrus (talk) 02:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I gave up vandalism last night, and posted it to AN/I, but it was quickly reverted. The Robertson Quinn 02:11, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Please unprotected the pages I requested you to unprotect further up, and try to Unban Remington and the Rattlesnakes. The Robertson Quinn 02:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi, Saw you reverted an edit from the AOL address a minute ago. Looks like there is a vandal bot on the go from that address, look at my contribs from the last 30 mins or so, reverted loads. WP:AIV doesn't deal with range blocks, how can I get a range block put in place for 15 mins or so? This is similar to one I was involved in a couple of months back but I've forgotten how it was done. Cheers Khukri ^{( talk . contribs)} 22:15, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I'm not an admin so can't block, but I'm with you I'm not up for blocking for a longtime, just 15mins usually calms it down. Stopped using VP for this as it's not quick enough, back on popups. Cheers Khukri ^{( talk . contribs)} 22:18, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I noticed that you had reverted this logo before, it has been vandalized again, and my reverts don't seem to work. Can you help? DVD+ R/W 22:51, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Did you clear your cache? It looks fine to me. Mak (talk) 23:01, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

No, how do I do that? DVD+ R/W 23:05, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Nevermind, I got it. Thanks for the second opinion though. DVD+ R/W 23:15, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Ah, yes: looks right. (I've had trouble with image reversions too. Sometimes it's cache.) Antandrus (talk) 23:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply

You appear to be the originator of the section on the New England School. I find this sentence curious:

Their intellectual and stylistic descendants, such as Howard Hanson, Walter Piston, and Roger Sessions, and have remained through the 20th and into the 21st centuries in the major universities in the cities of the northeast and elsewhere.

"Their descendants" what? Eliding the examples of Hanson, etcet, gives "Their intellectual and stylistic descendants ... and have remained" which is gibberish. Could you supply the missing copy? For me? Please? :-) Signinstranger 19:20, 28 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I honestly have no memory of having written that. Looks like I am perfectly capable of writing crap. Oh well. Maybe I was drunk. I removed a lot of it. :-) Antandrus (talk) 00:45, 29 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Despite the names negative connotation, the V|rus truely means no harm. Its simply a fun community builder in which many users spread the word of the |nfection. There is no hacking, or even an actual computer virus involved. I know at first glance it seems like an evil thing, but it isnt really. I also understand why the V|rus was blocked, i just wanted to clear things up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DJLO ( talk • contribs) .

Please unblock me. Evidently a vandal has a similar IP address? Thanks MajorRogers 02:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

when they take wine and merriness the jws rebel againt king jimbo Zarbon The Great 03:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Take? I prefer to drink it. Antandrus (talk) 03:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Thank you for reverting that vandalism to my userpage. It's very odd to me, because I've never heard of this user, let alone interacted with him/her. Is this vandal just targeting userpages at random? Anyway, thanks again. -- Fsotrain ₀₉ 13:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

LOL, Antandrus is a Mensan and politically correct :) Anyway, I ran into this while attempting to research graduate musicology programs (got any suggestions, btw?) and thought you might get a kick out of The Browns they were from Cleveland. Who knew Ross Duffin (I hope that's a bluelink) was so into sports? Mak (talk) 19:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Yeah, it's pretty hilarious. As for grad schools, Case Western looks pretty nice, but I think I'd really like to be on one of the two coasts (excepting Florida) or in England. I might be convinced to go to Austin, Texas or maybe Michigan, but they'd have to be really great and give me money. As that troll on my talk page kindly pointed out to me, I'm not fluent in languages other than English, so I'd rather not try to go to school in another language. Mak (talk) 19:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Hm, so far actually, the only schools which have appealed to me are in California. I wonder what's up with that? Mak (talk) 20:06, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks, for the sake of the sanity of a number of people, for voting delete in this AfD, but couldn't you have just deleted the wretched thing altogether and closed the AfD? It's been 5 days, and you are an admin...oh well, too late now! Cheers, Moreschi 19:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

OOPS!! I didn't even look at the start date. You're right. Too late, alas! Antandrus (talk) 19:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Argggh...oh well, never mind. I don't see how any other decision can be to delete. Back to sanity, I've stuck a new paragraph into Opera... the one about Gluck... feel free to hack away!! Cheers, Moreschi 19:57, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Ha, yeah, as amusing as it was, it was getting out of hand. -- Vary | Talk 20:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Its sickening, but.... how about deleting their image vandalism versions? They'll just make another account to revert to the vandalism versions otherwise. I tried to enlist some admins to delete the vandalism, but so far they think that reverting is probably good enough. Kevin_b_er 04:42, 31 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Yeah, I know, you're right. We should. My mouse-hand is getting tired and it's getting late ... I'll make another annoying request for assistance on AN/I. Thanks! Antandrus (talk) 04:43, 31 August 2006 (UTC) reply