Archive 18: 30 Nov 2006 to 31 December 2006. Chit-chat, vandals, trolls, music recording stuff, Mount Pinos, more vandals, thank you notes, Christmas greetings, lots of other stuff.
So I was just trying to get a handle on recording Revecy venir etc., when the effing evensong bells started going off right outside my window. Usually I like them ok, but it's pretty annoying when you're trying to record something. We'll see. Mak (talk) 22:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Mak (talk) 23:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
(arbitrarily de-indenting) It does sound better, indeed. Are there times of day you prefer singing? Weekend coming up ... :) Antandrus (talk) 03:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
(on behalf of Sandstein) BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
I once wrote a gripe on the talk page of Music of the Netherlands about the complete lack of historical perspective. I wonder if you, with your interest in early music, would be in a position to do something about that. -- Lambiam Talk 08:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
-- BostonMA talk 03:08, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
1) How do you feel about infoboxes on biographies? 2) um, I forget. Oh yeah, I have no clue who the person is who's vandalizing my userpage. If they're trying to make a point, they're failing miserably. Mak (talk)
I'm all excited: I get to see / hear Anonymous 4 *in person* for the 1st time tomorrow night out at UCLA!! This newbie's happy! Just wanted to share it with someone who would appreciate my excitement... I made a couple little updates to their article, but maybe after I've heard them I'll have some more! Laurie Fox 03:57, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your support with my RfA. My nomination succeeded. It's an honor to join the admin ranks and I can only hope that I do as good of a job as you. I appreciate all the times you've blocked vandals I've reported and the user page reverts. Thanks again! =) -- Gogo Dodo 05:45, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
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Talk:List of choirs is on my watchlist, so I'll know if /when someone answers my question there. So this morning I discovered a question there by Afil. I checked out Afil's concern & it's clearly junk, so I wanted to revert it. My question is, is there a "revert" button somewhere, or do you just have to go in and manually take out the offending addition?
Also, the same user made a change a day later to another choir, but I can't figure out if it's something that should be kept or not... Could you take a gander at it? Thanks! Mpwrmnt 19:07, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello Antandrus, thanks for keeping a lookout on my user talk page :). I appreciate it. ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 04:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello Antandrus, you've answered some questions for me before, and now I need your help again. I was told to write an essay on the origins of the orchestra, and my teacher sugested to include information about the king's 24 violins of Louis IV (of which I've found plenty of information) and also of the Dresden orchestra. Of the latter I have only found that it was created in the year of 1584, but i need to know more about its characteristics, what intruments it had, how many were they, what was their repertoire, what were their stylistic characteristics, etc. Thank you very much for all your help, sincerely, Charly. -- Cha daniels 04:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
well again, i am now very impressed with the speed and efficiancy of wiki. d***. well hey, passed my tests, and i didn't think i would get an acutal response either, though yours wasn't exactly personable ;)
i wonder if this will be considered vandalizing too.....-_-
ps, i didn't know how to make another section so i jsut wrote here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.222.111.230 ( talk • contribs).
Do you have any memory of this matter? [1] It may be a sock account, and he appears to be referring to another account you blocked. Thanks, - Will Beback · † · 06:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Antandrus! I'm working on wikifying Carlos Salzedo, just because I stumbled across it the other day & there's SO much work to be done on it!! I'd appreciate it if you could take a gander at what I've done so far & make sure I'm going in the right direction &/or give me any suggestions to simplify the process. Thanks! -- Mpwrmnt 08:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting vandalism to my page:) — Lost (talk) 19:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate your support, but have decided to withdraw from consideration for a position as an arbitrator. The community has overwhelming found me to be too controversial to hold that position. Thanks again for your support.-- MONGO 19:59, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Thankyou for reverting vandalism to my userpage- I really appreciate it! CattleGirl talk | e@ 03:21, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks from me too!. After a long period of calm, my user page is now being regularly attacked, but I won't resort to protecting it. jimfbleak 06:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Area 51 isn't a copyvio; the "source" cited is infact a mirror, and a particularly lame and uncompliant one at that. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I know you were just doing routine vandal patrol. Still, I want to offer a humble and appreciative thank you for deleting the vandalism to the Langston Hughes article. You and other vandal patrol members keep me and others contributors to WIKI from getting discouraged and giving up. Thank you so very much. TonyCrew 22:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
"...it's kind of fun swatting vandals, in an odd sort of way." I really love that comment. It's funny and sounds like a great way to reduce stress. Again, as always, a very sincere thank you TonyCrew 17:13, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking Willb285. Unfortunately, he will be right back as 68.106.64.117. I reported them both a half an hour ago and 1568 and I have been reverting their blankings since then. IrishGuy talk 00:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks very much for continuing to protect Richard Wagner from vandalism. As you say, where do they come from, and what possible pleasure can they get from this stupidity? Thanks again!-- Dogbertd 15:51, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks, Corey 16:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Very sorry. Lol, I left to take care of something, and I had a DNA page open ffor work on an assignment. My little brother must have done something, I didn't know anything had been vandalised. Won't happen again ;] peace-<
Mattjblythe 18:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Excellent blocking reason, at least you know how ot have fun with this place...perhaps we can discuss my original account being unblocked SeeMoreDoMore 03:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the revert on my userpage. Wow, I made this guy mad; usually the nonsense page creators aren't as bad as the normal vandals. — Brother Flounder (aka DiegoTehMexican) 04:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
While giving the article "Doorbell" a routine copy edit, I found that the version I started from—the latest version at that point—showed vestiges of vandalistic attention that had been lavished on it at different times. I looked into "History" and found, for instance, that "inside the building," which makes sense in connection with doorbells, had been changed to "inside the turkey," which does not, and had then become "inside the turnkey," which also does not but may have been provided by a well-meaning person.
A parallel sequence went like this: "In most wired systems..." to "In most sex positions..." to "In most set positions..." In both places, I've restored what I think should be there. I don't know much about doorbells or wiring, however, and I wonder whether the rest of the article is all right.
I'm posting here because your name came up in History as a dedicated reverter (sorry, but them who has gets, you know). The dates in History suggest that the Doorbell article may not be on anyone's watchlist. Do you know who the local doorbell expert is? Someone with technical knowledge should check this article. Cognita 04:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Guess who is linked to in this link? Mak (talk) 20:06, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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well deserved! I've seen you around tirelessly reverting vandalism to articles, well done! Keep up the very good work- CattleGirl talk | e@ 02:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC) |
Why, thank you!! yeah, RC patrol is what I do when I'm feeling lazy... click, rollback, click, rollback, laugh, rollback, snort, rollback, snarl, click, rollback, groan, roll eyes, rollback ... :) Antandrus (talk) 03:00, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
What do you think of having a double photo of Andy?
Can you discuss it with me on Warhol's Discussion page?? Thanks. Thanks. (I don't really, really, statataterrrrr)!! -- Ludvikus 05:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment. No I have not seen any double portraint of Andy - its my own (obvious) idea. And the EMPTY SPACE in the article WITHOUT HIS 2ND IMAGE is HORRIBLE!!!
Anyway, can you support me on this "goofy" idea? I do not think it goofy at all - unless you think him goofy! It's also, obviously, from FILM - Motion Pictures are merely slight variations of highly similar images! And Andy asleep, seems to wake up when we have a DOUBLE of him - one for each eye!!
-- GeeJo (t)⁄ (c) • 01:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey Antandrus, thank's for anwering so fast on the orchestration article, I posted another comment about expanding the article with basic things of Orchestration and some quotations from orchestration books. I'll give it a shot myself so please tell me what you think! By the way, thank you also on the Dresden Orchestra stuff, it really helped me!-- Cha daniels 04:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the userpage vandalism before I even caught it. I appreciate it! Mytildebang 19:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Next time, I will wait for a few seconds before saving! ;-) -- Al Pereira (talk) 20:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the warning Antandrus. I will no longer make personal attacks per your request. However, I trust that you will monitor the Talk:Barrack Obama article and ensure my comments are not deleted ever again. 68.163.135.90 03:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Barack_Obama&action=history
I'm sorry if I'm coming off as a SPAZ, but HOLY SHIT. Wikipedia is seriously run by anti-Islamic bigots. They just delete all my COMPLETELY VALID comments on the talk page for no reason at all. Well, only one reason, because they are anti-Islam and anti-Arab and do not want my comments to be given the light of day. Fuck wikipedia, why should I even bother registering at this site in which a contributor cannot even have his comments on a talk page seen before being deleted with no reason given. FUCK THIS!!!!!!! 68.163.135.90 03:29, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the vandalism on my userpage. 23skidoo 03:40, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Yeah. You really are good at stopping vandals. Okay. No more vandalism from me. I was actually about to edit out my 'contribution' whenever I noticed that you had done it...within five minutes of it being made. Nice work! I'll be good now.
Thanks for reverting my user page "Vandal Return Reciept" :) Did you notice that the vandal actually left an edit summary?? That just cracks me up. -- ShinmaWa( talk) 04:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
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I had no idea that anybody ever watches my Poetry Corner! I hereby award you this barnstar for doing such a kindness and reverting the nonsense that was put on it... ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 20:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC) |
Latest semi-translation from the French. Revue et Opine, SVP. ~Kylu ( u| t)
Someone keeps vandalizing the Louis XIV page (your bot is fixing, but it is presently vandalized).
Hello Antandrus, I noticed you issued an indef block to another Willy on Wheels sockpuppet. I just wanted to alert you to his unblock message. Surely that will also go out on wheels. ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 21:19, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey, many thanks for keeping an eye on my user page. Much appreciated, especially when I'm not around to revert it. WHeimbigner 21:35, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
I've been reluctant to do any blocks lately, so glad you took care of that situation.-- MONGO 06:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
I have but a cloudy crystal ball...but best wishes anyway.-- MONGO 06:37, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm glad you just blocked that user there. He was continually blanking the Soil article and replacing it with abusive comments, he did it 3 times, I gave him a final warning and he altered it so it said, it was his first warning. I was just about to report him but thanks for helping me out. Nitro calibur 16:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Block the user who blanked my page. They're going wild and have blanked 3 more after it. Nitro calibur 17:01, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Block this user: User:Big black penis has a very bad username. Nitro calibur 17:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
here's the proof (User creation log) 17:26, 17 December 2006 Big black penis (Talk | contribs) New user account.
I know, you weren't here so I told him. Nitro calibur 21:12, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Do you have a preference between and ? (I won't bother putting them in the player thingie since the browser player is broken right now) Mak (talk) 21:59, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Martinp23 is going to block me for being a sock, but I'm not a sock, and I've made no bad edits, can you persuade him to stop?? Nitro calibur 21:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
For historical purposes please restore the user and user talk pages for A Man for the Glen, Dirkenstein, Danielle Cunio and Jake Remington. I could do it under my only admn account, Curps, but I lost my password to that account. Daygoe 00:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Antandrus. Can we sprotect Mauna Loa for a while? An entire section of the article was destroyed back on November 21, and no one noticed for a month!! This is crazy: one of our featured articles is being trashed under the weight of vandals.
Thanks! hike395 05:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
About me changing the location of where you took the picture, I'm almost 100% sure that you took the picture from here...
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=34.81201&lon=-119.13985&size=m&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG
I took a hike to the top yesterday actually and took a picture from the exact same spot. I know where I took the picture for sure. I took it before I reached the top, so there's no way I was looking from the west. I think the pictures look the same, here it is...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Cygnus/test598.jpg
Are you sure you're not mistaken?
Cygnus 00:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your quick response regarding the tenor clarinet question. I wasn't expecting a response for a couple of days, but in minutes you had a pretty thorough answer. Thanks a lot! - Kevin 06:17, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for the support! MONGO 09:36, 20 December 2006 (UTC) |
Antandrus, may I ask you to have a look at my new page: Parthenia (music). This is my very first entire contribution to Wiki, and I would like to ensure that it 'conforms'. As a lover of this music like myself, and an experienced editor, I am sure you can improve on the layout or whatever is missing. 'Parthenia' was a serious lacuna in Wiki, and I'll now link the mentions in John Bull etc. to the new page. Any editing, comments, criticism, will be gratefully received. With many thanks. Nick Michael 22:54, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I think there should probably be a 'disambiguation' page involved, as entering Parthenia alone brings up something completely different, but I have no idea how to create such a page. Nick Michael
Thanks for blocking 24.208.81.207 and for your help with the reverts!
Thank you. User:Zoe| (talk) 23:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Antandrus, as announced, I have entirely revamped and enlarged the Giles Farnaby article. My source was mainly the bio in MB XXIV. May I again ask you to have a look and add any necessary edits. Hope this meets with your approval. Thanks a lot. Nick Michael 23:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking this guy. I really couldn't be bothered to WP:AIV such a poor troll. :)
Hi! I was just wondering if you could help me block an unregistered user who is angry about the edits I have made to his page and has thus decided to go to my talk and profile page and blanked them! I have reverted all this, but I think he/she should be blocked. His IP is 66.21.220.86. His talk is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:66.21.220.86. Thankss! Ashu just worked hard. xD 03:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ashuduff ( talk • contribs) 03:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC).
Thanks for confirming my suspicions re: the socks at Don Lorenzo Perosi. You might want to have a look at the suspected sock page I set up for them.-- Dmz5 09:35, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Regarding This User and his contributions. If you notice the links he posts in articles concerning weight loss and models, they all lead to similar websites, with similar templates. You will also notice that in the top right corner of all the sites there is a link to the same amazon site selling diet pills etc. I suspect that this user is doing nothing more than sneaky advertising, but am unsure how to deal with him, having only been here a short time. I'm passing him on into your capable hands. Thanks! :)
Update: Found a sockpuppet, Wilkinsj
Tkenna 14:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
those edits were done by me, i forgot to sign in. i moved it in its own section. i do believe, however, that much of that trivia is nonsequencial or can/needs to be moved into other categories. Urban909
yes i totally agree. that section, in general, probably should just be deleted. actually, its taken me a week thus far to go through and move, edit, change, sub-catergorize, etc albuquerque's page. its an absolute mess! Urban909
You have some. Mak (talk) 02:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
You know, removal of false aligations from my talk page that isn't even posted by a Wikipedia personel is totally within my rights. And, subsequentally, I demand that it is removed. Demand because
A) It is a false allegation that was made by non-wikipedia personel B) You protected it in the first place C) I don't want it there
And, quite frankly, both locking and banning me was uncalled for.
At any time YOU COULD HAVE checked the validity of the claim (and I don't act like I understand how the notifications work, all I know is that placing a tag can put a page on a list). Isn't it your responsibility to verify a claim before making an action? Anyone could take an existing notification of ban and post it on another persons talk page. User:72.187.119.195
<<trolling removed>>
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You're welcome, and thank you. :-) As for my contributions, it's not much to be proud of. :-( | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 21:05, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
The beginning of a new project I thought you might be interested in, partially in response to the whole J.S. Bach mess: Wikipedia:Requested recordings. Cheers, Mak (talk) 07:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user talk by User:Wheelspergers syndrome SUBWAYguy 02:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Antandrus.
I've returned to actively editing Wikipedia, which you might or might not have noticed from some edits I've been doing recently. Sorry I didn't post a wikibreak message or anything. It's nice to see that you're still active and doing an excellent job in the fight against vandals.
I was wondering if you had any interest in venturing over to Wikibooks and working on some material there, specifically musicology, although there are a lot of possible topics to cover [6]. I don't really know a whole lot about Wikibooks, but maybe it's worth looking into? I would be willing to assist with the musicology section, and possibly write a guide to playing the organ--except that those both seem like dauntingly huge projects to cover well. There's certainly enough around here to keep me busy, anyways. — Sesquialtera II ( talk) 03:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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For blocking that Blixagon dumbass. o THEr ONE ( Contribs) 03:07, 27 December 2006 (UTC) |
Hi there! Hoping your solsticial event has been restful, or exciting, or profound, or whatever it is supposed to be. (How much more PC can I get?) Now, on to business: This article ( Brian Ganz) just appeared, which I noticed because of the link to Leon Fleisher. I have tagged it as needing cleanup, but you will know better than I if it's the proper tag for the press-release article that it is.
I am having some people over tonight to read through some Obrecht (Missa Rosa Playsante), and if there's time Dufay (Nuper...), Josquin (Nymphes...), and maybe even Tallis (Lamentations); and also if there's time, some things I've written, so's I can at least hear how they sound. It promises to be a good evening, depending on how many actually arrive. We shall see... -- Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 17:06, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Antandrus: If you happen to have some time, I'd greatly value any comments you might have on this discussion, since I know you have a great deal of experience with the project. Thanks, Heimstern Läufer 18:50, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I was recently contacted by a user who I'd like to keep anonymous who says that his/her edits are being reverted unfairly, and the reason being that an admin is saing he is a sockpuppet even though I assume his edits were perfectly fine and not against Wikipedia Policy in any way, I've emailed him and he says he is going to send me links of these examples of unfair reversion shortly and that he believes that this particular Administrator is picking on him unfairly, I'm not saying that he is right or wrong and that the Admin is right or wrong. At the minute I have no evidence except for his email, but hopefully he/she will shortly send me the evidence of this matter. I also provided links on the email about administrator abuse and a link to send a message directly to Jimbo Wales, but I told he/she that this should be a last resort. This user also says that he/she has contacted other Admins to investigae this, but he is asking for my help so I am trying to do my best (he also pointed out that he noticed on my User Page I would like to be a admin some day and that he would happily nominate me if I could help him - but I'm not doing it for that, I don't even think I'm experienced enough to be an admin!). Anyway I would just like some adivce on this matter. Also the user claimed that he had to create a new account to lose the watchful eye of the Admin who he believes is treating him unfairly, and that he was an experienced user. But please do not add this user to the sock puppet page as he is not really a sockpuppet and not vandalising Wikipedia at all, please could you help me to help him and if you will need the links to these unfair reversions, I will send them to you as soon as I get them (but please tell me if you will need them or any other data). I'm not taking sides with anyoe over this matter as I do not know the facts so I'm just trying to help this user get to the bottom of this so he can continue editing Wikipedia! Please Help soon and please reply on my talk page.
Respectfully...
Tellyaddict
Talk 17:26,
30 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, No no, you were not the one tagging this person as a Sock puppet and sorry if I accidentaly made you think you were, but I just chose you at random from the list of administrators and it was purely just to get your adivce on the matter, I hope you don't mind if I ask you any more questions on this matter at a later date, even though I've been here for a few months I won't know half as much as you do about that sort of thing. Thanks
Respectfully....
Tellyaddict
Talk 18:39,
30 December 2006 (UTC)
See this. Would you object to me extending Jacob's block? Jacob has been a serial block evader. -- tariqabjotu 03:19, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I was just about to try submitting him to WP:AIV as a vandal-only account. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 05:07, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
That didn't seem like a big deal to me...he made some very minor uncited comments, and I removed them as a matter of course. No big deal, really, and of course I was already aware that various commentators have made comments to that effect...my only issue was with including them uncited in the article. I explained my concerns on his talk page...and for some reason, he chose to be obtuse and added a citation for the fact that 6am is, in fact, morning. FWIW, I don't provide a link for it, but my email is enabled. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 05:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Archive 18: 30 Nov 2006 to 31 December 2006. Chit-chat, vandals, trolls, music recording stuff, Mount Pinos, more vandals, thank you notes, Christmas greetings, lots of other stuff.
So I was just trying to get a handle on recording Revecy venir etc., when the effing evensong bells started going off right outside my window. Usually I like them ok, but it's pretty annoying when you're trying to record something. We'll see. Mak (talk) 22:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Mak (talk) 23:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
(arbitrarily de-indenting) It does sound better, indeed. Are there times of day you prefer singing? Weekend coming up ... :) Antandrus (talk) 03:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
(on behalf of Sandstein) BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
I once wrote a gripe on the talk page of Music of the Netherlands about the complete lack of historical perspective. I wonder if you, with your interest in early music, would be in a position to do something about that. -- Lambiam Talk 08:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
-- BostonMA talk 03:08, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
1) How do you feel about infoboxes on biographies? 2) um, I forget. Oh yeah, I have no clue who the person is who's vandalizing my userpage. If they're trying to make a point, they're failing miserably. Mak (talk)
I'm all excited: I get to see / hear Anonymous 4 *in person* for the 1st time tomorrow night out at UCLA!! This newbie's happy! Just wanted to share it with someone who would appreciate my excitement... I made a couple little updates to their article, but maybe after I've heard them I'll have some more! Laurie Fox 03:57, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your support with my RfA. My nomination succeeded. It's an honor to join the admin ranks and I can only hope that I do as good of a job as you. I appreciate all the times you've blocked vandals I've reported and the user page reverts. Thanks again! =) -- Gogo Dodo 05:45, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
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We are from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The project was approved by our university research committee and members of the Wikipedia Foundation.
Thanks, -- Sharlene Thompson 18:08, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Talk:List of choirs is on my watchlist, so I'll know if /when someone answers my question there. So this morning I discovered a question there by Afil. I checked out Afil's concern & it's clearly junk, so I wanted to revert it. My question is, is there a "revert" button somewhere, or do you just have to go in and manually take out the offending addition?
Also, the same user made a change a day later to another choir, but I can't figure out if it's something that should be kept or not... Could you take a gander at it? Thanks! Mpwrmnt 19:07, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello Antandrus, thanks for keeping a lookout on my user talk page :). I appreciate it. ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 04:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello Antandrus, you've answered some questions for me before, and now I need your help again. I was told to write an essay on the origins of the orchestra, and my teacher sugested to include information about the king's 24 violins of Louis IV (of which I've found plenty of information) and also of the Dresden orchestra. Of the latter I have only found that it was created in the year of 1584, but i need to know more about its characteristics, what intruments it had, how many were they, what was their repertoire, what were their stylistic characteristics, etc. Thank you very much for all your help, sincerely, Charly. -- Cha daniels 04:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
well again, i am now very impressed with the speed and efficiancy of wiki. d***. well hey, passed my tests, and i didn't think i would get an acutal response either, though yours wasn't exactly personable ;)
i wonder if this will be considered vandalizing too.....-_-
ps, i didn't know how to make another section so i jsut wrote here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.222.111.230 ( talk • contribs).
Do you have any memory of this matter? [1] It may be a sock account, and he appears to be referring to another account you blocked. Thanks, - Will Beback · † · 06:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Antandrus! I'm working on wikifying Carlos Salzedo, just because I stumbled across it the other day & there's SO much work to be done on it!! I'd appreciate it if you could take a gander at what I've done so far & make sure I'm going in the right direction &/or give me any suggestions to simplify the process. Thanks! -- Mpwrmnt 08:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting vandalism to my page:) — Lost (talk) 19:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate your support, but have decided to withdraw from consideration for a position as an arbitrator. The community has overwhelming found me to be too controversial to hold that position. Thanks again for your support.-- MONGO 19:59, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Thankyou for reverting vandalism to my userpage- I really appreciate it! CattleGirl talk | e@ 03:21, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks from me too!. After a long period of calm, my user page is now being regularly attacked, but I won't resort to protecting it. jimfbleak 06:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Area 51 isn't a copyvio; the "source" cited is infact a mirror, and a particularly lame and uncompliant one at that. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I know you were just doing routine vandal patrol. Still, I want to offer a humble and appreciative thank you for deleting the vandalism to the Langston Hughes article. You and other vandal patrol members keep me and others contributors to WIKI from getting discouraged and giving up. Thank you so very much. TonyCrew 22:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
"...it's kind of fun swatting vandals, in an odd sort of way." I really love that comment. It's funny and sounds like a great way to reduce stress. Again, as always, a very sincere thank you TonyCrew 17:13, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking Willb285. Unfortunately, he will be right back as 68.106.64.117. I reported them both a half an hour ago and 1568 and I have been reverting their blankings since then. IrishGuy talk 00:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks very much for continuing to protect Richard Wagner from vandalism. As you say, where do they come from, and what possible pleasure can they get from this stupidity? Thanks again!-- Dogbertd 15:51, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks, Corey 16:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Very sorry. Lol, I left to take care of something, and I had a DNA page open ffor work on an assignment. My little brother must have done something, I didn't know anything had been vandalised. Won't happen again ;] peace-<
Mattjblythe 18:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Excellent blocking reason, at least you know how ot have fun with this place...perhaps we can discuss my original account being unblocked SeeMoreDoMore 03:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the revert on my userpage. Wow, I made this guy mad; usually the nonsense page creators aren't as bad as the normal vandals. — Brother Flounder (aka DiegoTehMexican) 04:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
While giving the article "Doorbell" a routine copy edit, I found that the version I started from—the latest version at that point—showed vestiges of vandalistic attention that had been lavished on it at different times. I looked into "History" and found, for instance, that "inside the building," which makes sense in connection with doorbells, had been changed to "inside the turkey," which does not, and had then become "inside the turnkey," which also does not but may have been provided by a well-meaning person.
A parallel sequence went like this: "In most wired systems..." to "In most sex positions..." to "In most set positions..." In both places, I've restored what I think should be there. I don't know much about doorbells or wiring, however, and I wonder whether the rest of the article is all right.
I'm posting here because your name came up in History as a dedicated reverter (sorry, but them who has gets, you know). The dates in History suggest that the Doorbell article may not be on anyone's watchlist. Do you know who the local doorbell expert is? Someone with technical knowledge should check this article. Cognita 04:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Guess who is linked to in this link? Mak (talk) 20:06, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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well deserved! I've seen you around tirelessly reverting vandalism to articles, well done! Keep up the very good work- CattleGirl talk | e@ 02:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC) |
Why, thank you!! yeah, RC patrol is what I do when I'm feeling lazy... click, rollback, click, rollback, laugh, rollback, snort, rollback, snarl, click, rollback, groan, roll eyes, rollback ... :) Antandrus (talk) 03:00, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
What do you think of having a double photo of Andy?
Can you discuss it with me on Warhol's Discussion page?? Thanks. Thanks. (I don't really, really, statataterrrrr)!! -- Ludvikus 05:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment. No I have not seen any double portraint of Andy - its my own (obvious) idea. And the EMPTY SPACE in the article WITHOUT HIS 2ND IMAGE is HORRIBLE!!!
Anyway, can you support me on this "goofy" idea? I do not think it goofy at all - unless you think him goofy! It's also, obviously, from FILM - Motion Pictures are merely slight variations of highly similar images! And Andy asleep, seems to wake up when we have a DOUBLE of him - one for each eye!!
-- GeeJo (t)⁄ (c) • 01:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey Antandrus, thank's for anwering so fast on the orchestration article, I posted another comment about expanding the article with basic things of Orchestration and some quotations from orchestration books. I'll give it a shot myself so please tell me what you think! By the way, thank you also on the Dresden Orchestra stuff, it really helped me!-- Cha daniels 04:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the userpage vandalism before I even caught it. I appreciate it! Mytildebang 19:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Next time, I will wait for a few seconds before saving! ;-) -- Al Pereira (talk) 20:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the warning Antandrus. I will no longer make personal attacks per your request. However, I trust that you will monitor the Talk:Barrack Obama article and ensure my comments are not deleted ever again. 68.163.135.90 03:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Barack_Obama&action=history
I'm sorry if I'm coming off as a SPAZ, but HOLY SHIT. Wikipedia is seriously run by anti-Islamic bigots. They just delete all my COMPLETELY VALID comments on the talk page for no reason at all. Well, only one reason, because they are anti-Islam and anti-Arab and do not want my comments to be given the light of day. Fuck wikipedia, why should I even bother registering at this site in which a contributor cannot even have his comments on a talk page seen before being deleted with no reason given. FUCK THIS!!!!!!! 68.163.135.90 03:29, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the vandalism on my userpage. 23skidoo 03:40, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Yeah. You really are good at stopping vandals. Okay. No more vandalism from me. I was actually about to edit out my 'contribution' whenever I noticed that you had done it...within five minutes of it being made. Nice work! I'll be good now.
Thanks for reverting my user page "Vandal Return Reciept" :) Did you notice that the vandal actually left an edit summary?? That just cracks me up. -- ShinmaWa( talk) 04:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
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I had no idea that anybody ever watches my Poetry Corner! I hereby award you this barnstar for doing such a kindness and reverting the nonsense that was put on it... ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 20:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC) |
Latest semi-translation from the French. Revue et Opine, SVP. ~Kylu ( u| t)
Someone keeps vandalizing the Louis XIV page (your bot is fixing, but it is presently vandalized).
Hello Antandrus, I noticed you issued an indef block to another Willy on Wheels sockpuppet. I just wanted to alert you to his unblock message. Surely that will also go out on wheels. ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 21:19, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey, many thanks for keeping an eye on my user page. Much appreciated, especially when I'm not around to revert it. WHeimbigner 21:35, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
I've been reluctant to do any blocks lately, so glad you took care of that situation.-- MONGO 06:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
I have but a cloudy crystal ball...but best wishes anyway.-- MONGO 06:37, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm glad you just blocked that user there. He was continually blanking the Soil article and replacing it with abusive comments, he did it 3 times, I gave him a final warning and he altered it so it said, it was his first warning. I was just about to report him but thanks for helping me out. Nitro calibur 16:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Block the user who blanked my page. They're going wild and have blanked 3 more after it. Nitro calibur 17:01, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Block this user: User:Big black penis has a very bad username. Nitro calibur 17:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
here's the proof (User creation log) 17:26, 17 December 2006 Big black penis (Talk | contribs) New user account.
I know, you weren't here so I told him. Nitro calibur 21:12, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Do you have a preference between and ? (I won't bother putting them in the player thingie since the browser player is broken right now) Mak (talk) 21:59, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Martinp23 is going to block me for being a sock, but I'm not a sock, and I've made no bad edits, can you persuade him to stop?? Nitro calibur 21:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
For historical purposes please restore the user and user talk pages for A Man for the Glen, Dirkenstein, Danielle Cunio and Jake Remington. I could do it under my only admn account, Curps, but I lost my password to that account. Daygoe 00:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Antandrus. Can we sprotect Mauna Loa for a while? An entire section of the article was destroyed back on November 21, and no one noticed for a month!! This is crazy: one of our featured articles is being trashed under the weight of vandals.
Thanks! hike395 05:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
About me changing the location of where you took the picture, I'm almost 100% sure that you took the picture from here...
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=34.81201&lon=-119.13985&size=m&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG
I took a hike to the top yesterday actually and took a picture from the exact same spot. I know where I took the picture for sure. I took it before I reached the top, so there's no way I was looking from the west. I think the pictures look the same, here it is...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Cygnus/test598.jpg
Are you sure you're not mistaken?
Cygnus 00:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your quick response regarding the tenor clarinet question. I wasn't expecting a response for a couple of days, but in minutes you had a pretty thorough answer. Thanks a lot! - Kevin 06:17, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for the support! MONGO 09:36, 20 December 2006 (UTC) |
Antandrus, may I ask you to have a look at my new page: Parthenia (music). This is my very first entire contribution to Wiki, and I would like to ensure that it 'conforms'. As a lover of this music like myself, and an experienced editor, I am sure you can improve on the layout or whatever is missing. 'Parthenia' was a serious lacuna in Wiki, and I'll now link the mentions in John Bull etc. to the new page. Any editing, comments, criticism, will be gratefully received. With many thanks. Nick Michael 22:54, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I think there should probably be a 'disambiguation' page involved, as entering Parthenia alone brings up something completely different, but I have no idea how to create such a page. Nick Michael
Thanks for blocking 24.208.81.207 and for your help with the reverts!
Thank you. User:Zoe| (talk) 23:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Antandrus, as announced, I have entirely revamped and enlarged the Giles Farnaby article. My source was mainly the bio in MB XXIV. May I again ask you to have a look and add any necessary edits. Hope this meets with your approval. Thanks a lot. Nick Michael 23:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking this guy. I really couldn't be bothered to WP:AIV such a poor troll. :)
Hi! I was just wondering if you could help me block an unregistered user who is angry about the edits I have made to his page and has thus decided to go to my talk and profile page and blanked them! I have reverted all this, but I think he/she should be blocked. His IP is 66.21.220.86. His talk is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:66.21.220.86. Thankss! Ashu just worked hard. xD 03:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ashuduff ( talk • contribs) 03:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC).
Thanks for confirming my suspicions re: the socks at Don Lorenzo Perosi. You might want to have a look at the suspected sock page I set up for them.-- Dmz5 09:35, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Regarding This User and his contributions. If you notice the links he posts in articles concerning weight loss and models, they all lead to similar websites, with similar templates. You will also notice that in the top right corner of all the sites there is a link to the same amazon site selling diet pills etc. I suspect that this user is doing nothing more than sneaky advertising, but am unsure how to deal with him, having only been here a short time. I'm passing him on into your capable hands. Thanks! :)
Update: Found a sockpuppet, Wilkinsj
Tkenna 14:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
those edits were done by me, i forgot to sign in. i moved it in its own section. i do believe, however, that much of that trivia is nonsequencial or can/needs to be moved into other categories. Urban909
yes i totally agree. that section, in general, probably should just be deleted. actually, its taken me a week thus far to go through and move, edit, change, sub-catergorize, etc albuquerque's page. its an absolute mess! Urban909
You have some. Mak (talk) 02:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
You know, removal of false aligations from my talk page that isn't even posted by a Wikipedia personel is totally within my rights. And, subsequentally, I demand that it is removed. Demand because
A) It is a false allegation that was made by non-wikipedia personel B) You protected it in the first place C) I don't want it there
And, quite frankly, both locking and banning me was uncalled for.
At any time YOU COULD HAVE checked the validity of the claim (and I don't act like I understand how the notifications work, all I know is that placing a tag can put a page on a list). Isn't it your responsibility to verify a claim before making an action? Anyone could take an existing notification of ban and post it on another persons talk page. User:72.187.119.195
<<trolling removed>>
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You're welcome, and thank you. :-) As for my contributions, it's not much to be proud of. :-( | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 21:05, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
The beginning of a new project I thought you might be interested in, partially in response to the whole J.S. Bach mess: Wikipedia:Requested recordings. Cheers, Mak (talk) 07:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user talk by User:Wheelspergers syndrome SUBWAYguy 02:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Antandrus.
I've returned to actively editing Wikipedia, which you might or might not have noticed from some edits I've been doing recently. Sorry I didn't post a wikibreak message or anything. It's nice to see that you're still active and doing an excellent job in the fight against vandals.
I was wondering if you had any interest in venturing over to Wikibooks and working on some material there, specifically musicology, although there are a lot of possible topics to cover [6]. I don't really know a whole lot about Wikibooks, but maybe it's worth looking into? I would be willing to assist with the musicology section, and possibly write a guide to playing the organ--except that those both seem like dauntingly huge projects to cover well. There's certainly enough around here to keep me busy, anyways. — Sesquialtera II ( talk) 03:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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For blocking that Blixagon dumbass. o THEr ONE ( Contribs) 03:07, 27 December 2006 (UTC) |
Hi there! Hoping your solsticial event has been restful, or exciting, or profound, or whatever it is supposed to be. (How much more PC can I get?) Now, on to business: This article ( Brian Ganz) just appeared, which I noticed because of the link to Leon Fleisher. I have tagged it as needing cleanup, but you will know better than I if it's the proper tag for the press-release article that it is.
I am having some people over tonight to read through some Obrecht (Missa Rosa Playsante), and if there's time Dufay (Nuper...), Josquin (Nymphes...), and maybe even Tallis (Lamentations); and also if there's time, some things I've written, so's I can at least hear how they sound. It promises to be a good evening, depending on how many actually arrive. We shall see... -- Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 17:06, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Antandrus: If you happen to have some time, I'd greatly value any comments you might have on this discussion, since I know you have a great deal of experience with the project. Thanks, Heimstern Läufer 18:50, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I was recently contacted by a user who I'd like to keep anonymous who says that his/her edits are being reverted unfairly, and the reason being that an admin is saing he is a sockpuppet even though I assume his edits were perfectly fine and not against Wikipedia Policy in any way, I've emailed him and he says he is going to send me links of these examples of unfair reversion shortly and that he believes that this particular Administrator is picking on him unfairly, I'm not saying that he is right or wrong and that the Admin is right or wrong. At the minute I have no evidence except for his email, but hopefully he/she will shortly send me the evidence of this matter. I also provided links on the email about administrator abuse and a link to send a message directly to Jimbo Wales, but I told he/she that this should be a last resort. This user also says that he/she has contacted other Admins to investigae this, but he is asking for my help so I am trying to do my best (he also pointed out that he noticed on my User Page I would like to be a admin some day and that he would happily nominate me if I could help him - but I'm not doing it for that, I don't even think I'm experienced enough to be an admin!). Anyway I would just like some adivce on this matter. Also the user claimed that he had to create a new account to lose the watchful eye of the Admin who he believes is treating him unfairly, and that he was an experienced user. But please do not add this user to the sock puppet page as he is not really a sockpuppet and not vandalising Wikipedia at all, please could you help me to help him and if you will need the links to these unfair reversions, I will send them to you as soon as I get them (but please tell me if you will need them or any other data). I'm not taking sides with anyoe over this matter as I do not know the facts so I'm just trying to help this user get to the bottom of this so he can continue editing Wikipedia! Please Help soon and please reply on my talk page.
Respectfully...
Tellyaddict
Talk 17:26,
30 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, No no, you were not the one tagging this person as a Sock puppet and sorry if I accidentaly made you think you were, but I just chose you at random from the list of administrators and it was purely just to get your adivce on the matter, I hope you don't mind if I ask you any more questions on this matter at a later date, even though I've been here for a few months I won't know half as much as you do about that sort of thing. Thanks
Respectfully....
Tellyaddict
Talk 18:39,
30 December 2006 (UTC)
See this. Would you object to me extending Jacob's block? Jacob has been a serial block evader. -- tariqabjotu 03:19, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I was just about to try submitting him to WP:AIV as a vandal-only account. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 05:07, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
That didn't seem like a big deal to me...he made some very minor uncited comments, and I removed them as a matter of course. No big deal, really, and of course I was already aware that various commentators have made comments to that effect...my only issue was with including them uncited in the article. I explained my concerns on his talk page...and for some reason, he chose to be obtuse and added a citation for the fact that 6am is, in fact, morning. FWIW, I don't provide a link for it, but my email is enabled. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 05:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)