Hello. Future Perfect at Sunrise suggested I contact you regarding a wordlist that I created yesterday. It can be found at List of Portuguese words of Arabic origin. He has suggested that it be moved to the Wikitonary. As much as I appreciate the feedback, I am quite stumped as to why the Portuguese wordlist should be moved and the Spanish, English and French lists are to remain as articles. Would it be helpful for me to mark these lists as well for transfer to Wikitonary? Wachowich 21:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Dmcdevit, in the Kosovo arbitration case, you voted to put Osli73 on revert parole. I wish to bring to your attention that he has been violating his parole with impunity for some time now. On February 24, this behavior was brought to the attention of the arb enforcement board (see link below), but there has not been any action or comment since. Meanwhile, edit warring is heating up again at the Srebrenica article. If those who have been put on parole can violate the limits put upon them with little or no consequence, it puts us at risk of the article falling back into a free-for-all. Could you either respond to this or contact the appropriate administrator? Thank you. Fairview360 01:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Arbitration_enforcement#.5B.5BUser:Osli73.5D.5D
Dcmdevit,
I just posted this message on Jay's talk page.
Since Osli's block ended March 14, he has resumed reverting the same sentence in the intro.
Fairview360 18:14, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I see you deleted File:Vampire watermellon.jpg because it was on Commons. But the image didn't fulfil all the criteria for deletion (see Wikipedia:CSD#Images.2FMedia, #8). Specifically: All information on the image description page is present on the Commons image description page. That includes the complete upload history with links to the uploader's local user pages. So, the image was in danger of getting deleted on Commons and on en, creating general mess. So, in future, please look this up before deleting :) Nikola 09:58, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you have been involved in resolving certain dispute related to page Savafid dynasty. I am professional historian - there is a lot of controversy around issues related to this page. It is sometimes too hard to sort out various theories. Certain users propose their version as only truth. You have blocked Atabek and Tajik. Please be more discrete - I believe there were other people who were involved and who continue to freely edit. Instead of blocking users it is better to mediate the dispute and have appropriate wording. That's my opinion - might differ from others. But in dispute like this mediation and arbitration is a much better tool. It is from my experience and colloboration with various admins -- Dacy69 16:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dmc. You've got mail. Please reply as soon as you can. Regards, - Aksi_great ( talk) 13:32, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
It does seem unfair to punish User:Bjbear71 for vandals operating under the IP address that she uses, when she logs into her account to contribute to Wikipedia. She has much to contribute to Wikipedia, as her vast website [1] will attest to. I know that you are aware of the extreme caution to be exercised when blocking users who use this IP address, and I also apologise if I am a bit blunt, as my knowledge of the community portal and wikietiquette is slight. Yours, Gareth E Kegg 14:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dmcdevit. I was going to review the unblock request of Waialeale ( talk · contribs) and noticed you had blocked with the reason Kimberly Ashton [3]. Could you clarify whether you believe the editor is a sock of Kimberly Ashton ( talk · contribs) - and if so why - or if you are blocking per the same reasoning as Ashton's block (cf. here). Thanks. Rockpocke t 08:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dmcdevit. I would like to inquire why you are proposing to move the List of most popular given names article to Wiktionary. Whilst the etymologies and meanings for the individual given names would belong to Wiktionary, I believe that the compiled list itself does not. The article serves a valid encyclopedic function by giving light to the naming diversity across different national and cultural contexts. Kindly also refer to the earlier vote for deletion for the same article. CounterFX 11:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
I see you have tagged dozens of "List of XXX names" with this template. I know it's good to be bold, but before modifying so many articles with this proposal did you discuss it anywhere? Since these lists are not definitions but indexes into Wikipedia, not Wiktionary articles, I'm not sure transwikiing them would be ideal. Several of these articles have already survived AfDs so I would suggest you tread lightly and seek input before making major changes. — Dgies t c 21:40, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
We got an unblock-en-l complaint from a user in this netspace who appears to be a school teacher. The block is listed as a checkuser block; can you tell us what this was referring to and whether it's safe to work with this guy to get him an account set up?
Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert 22:30, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
You just commented: [4]
I would like to ask you to reconsider. It appears you are making two arguments here. 1) It's useful and shouldn't be deleted, and 2) it is technical jargon, not "simple dictionary definition". As for 1, please read WP:USEFUL: this argument is a fallacy because topics that are not encyclopedic, like dictionary definitions, are often useful. Also, the article is no less useful at its current home in Wiktionary. To reply to your second point, defining jargon is still a dictionary definition. Please read Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary, the first sentence of which reads "Wikipedia is not a dictionary, or a jargon or usage guide." Also it appears, considering these two points, that you haven't offered an actual argument as to why the article is encyclopedic, since it isn't. Thanks. Dmcdevit· t 22:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you blocked this user for supposedly being a sockpuppet of User:Kimberly Ashton. He emailed me to emphatically state that he is not. CheckUser might have confirmed it's the same IP address, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything -- for example, they might go to the same school and all the computers in a lab have the same external-facing IP address. Anyway, I am here just to attest that User:Waialeale to my knowledge (and as confirmed in his contributions list) has never engaged in any vandalism or any other inappropriate editing. I would unblock him myself but I prefer not to engage in any wheel warring, so I respectfully request an unblocking by you. Thanks, howcheng { chat} 17:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
This user is using multiply accounts, believe me he has been warned he's previous sock was banned and he continues, he causes edit wars and trouble please help. Nareklm 04:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Best regards. Nareklm 04:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
It is worth to study Nareklm activity as well. Long list of violations, groundless accusations, removal of references, edit war, etc. -- Dacy69 04:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
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Please look at user User:Fadix and his language. It is not first report about him [7] He is cursing and threatening with war of edits. I have never heard such language. this is because he and like-minded users went unpunished previously-- Dacy69 19:55, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
People can count - let's count my edits. And you, actually, is one who is like-minded people with Fadix.-- Dacy69 20:07, 13 February 2007 (UTC) It is worth to look at this as well [8] Look at his contribution - he is continously reverting many pages - that is it.-- Dacy69 20:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC) another example of activity - this [9] isn'it canvassing
please protect page Urartu in the current version. TigranTheGreat constantly removes well-referenced text. Plus he broke 3RR.Despite the fact the topic in question was discussed numerous times, with third party assistance as well. (See Talk Page)-- Dacy69 03:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC) Nareklm continues his destructive activity as well. He just reverted again and removed refrenced info.
I just saw the note on your usepage. Thank you for the time you spent serving on the committee. I didn't always agree with your proposals, which comes with the territory, but I agreed far more often than I disagreed, and I appreciate the time and attention you gave to the cases. I hope to keep seeing you elsewhere around the project. Newyorkbrad 18:39, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to thank you for your work on the arbcom as well. Even if NYB beat me to it and made it look like a copycat. In particular your talking me round when I was really down after my block was very much appreciated. -- Spartaz 18:48, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Your biggest flaw is that you fail to admit your mistakes -- I'm surprised with your explanation of your previous decision here, you have clearly overstepped your "jurisdiction" and are abusing your arbitrator role and not trying to hear all sides of the dispute and trying to understand what everyone's motivations and goals really are before making a decision. If you actually tried to look into the reality of what's happening, you will maybe see that you are alienating and discouraging editors who are trying very hard to uphold the principles of Wikipedia, but instead you focus on some bullshit, and are hurting Wikipedia in the long run. You can learn a lot from very simple and straight forward WP:IAR. Thank goodness you resigned, it's for the good of Wikipedia, hopefully whoever replaces you will try to look at the bigger picture for what we are really trying to do here with our Encyclopedia. // Laughing Man 05:59, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Looks like you checkuserblock'd the IP -- any chance you could advise/review? – Luna Santin ( talk) 06:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I have students of your age and I know what a good felling for them to have and use power. Power vested to admins is for the resoution of disputes amd making Wiki better. And now about my blocking. Cooling down is sometimes good remedy. I don't argue about that. But I have nothing to do with Nareklm. It is he who is following me and reverting pages. My initial appeal to you was because of Fadix insults. I hope you've seen this [11] Now some other admin took care of this incident. May I advise you to study a case and then to adopt a desicion. You can see that usually I have participated extensively on pages which I edited. And my opponents just removes referenced information.-- Dacy69 19:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Insults and threats are continued [12] Fadix threatens with edit revenge ("Anyway, you've got interested me in contributing on Heider Aliev article. Which I will be doing as soon as possible. Fad (ix) 05:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)") Another user Fedayee also embarked on assaults - his language is also self-explanatory. They accuse me of lack of knowledge ("Read the history Fadix showed you and stop playing dumb") (before they called me stupid, now it seems they refined the language). Fadix was reported several times by other users - no action taken against him. How I can discuss anything with such users and resort to mediation. -- Dacy69 22:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I think its highly unlikely he's a sock of Primetime. Is there an RFCU I can look at? Cardreader speaks fairly proficient Hindi and only edited india related pages. JzG referred me to you after I asked him. Baka man 00:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
This user is still going, [13] Nareklm 03:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I’m really concerned that no action was taken against Nareklm, who was proven to use sockpuppets (See Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Nareklm) and who is edit warring again. Just now he reverted all of my edits to the articles about Caucasian Albania and History of Nagorno-Karabakh without giving any reasons back to the versions of the banned sock User:Tutmoses8 and banned anon sock. I suspect that this disruptive activity is coordinated outside of Wikipedia, because a few users, including Nareklm follow my edits and undo them without any explanation. Anon IPs and socks are also used for this purpose. Those users are not known as contributors to the pages they are reverting and most probably are not even well familiar with the topics of the articles they revert. I would appreciate if you looked again into this issue. Grandmaster 21:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Julian Caballero ( talk · contribs) Khoi khoi 22:06, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Dear Dmcdevit.
When you enforce the rules selectively, you inadvertantly encourage edit warring by some users. User:Grandmaster, who was blocked by you for edit warring before, has been engaging in precisely the kind of edit warring that you have accusing me of. Please take a look on his hostile behavior in these articles: Caucasian_Albania, History_of_Nagorno-Karabakh, Nakhichevan, and Utik. He has been on a reverting rampage on these articles, restoring his prior preferred versions, clearly encouraged by your selective blocks.-- TigranTheGreat 02:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes this time i did not revert what so ever, but i monitored the situation. Nareklm 05:52, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I have renominated the article on Chinese surnames for deletion, I think that the arguments in favor of keeping the article are specious to say the least. I also think we should resist the tendency to create special policies for China-related articles.-- Niohe 22:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Apparently you're on the list of people to ask, and you are active at the moment =). Anyway, are normal users (I am not a sysop at the moment) allowed to access the channel? (In other words, I'm discreetly asking for access ;). Yuser31415 04:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I didn't know you resigned! :( =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC).
Sad to see you go from the bench — you always were my favorite arbitrator... :( All the best! Kyle Barbour 23:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the prompt response. Newyorkbrad 04:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
I trust Jimbo will choose as level-headed an Arbitrator to replace you; and I hope that this means no worse news than that you have burnt out as Arbitrator. Congratulations on being free of it. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 14:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, i gave my perspective in Tigranes page, i will discuss further but Adil does not like to listen he always reverts but i will do my best. Artaxiad 21:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I am contacting you in regards to a situation with Sarvagnya. On October 17, 2006 a usercheck was requested on users Sarvagnya, Gnanapiti, and two others by Bakasuprman here. The final verdict was made by you here confirming that both Sarvagnya and Gnanapiti are the same person. On November 12, 2006, Gnanapiti was unblocked here on the condition that he/she would not edit the same articles as Sarvagnya. You then assumed good faith and told the user to stay out of trouble. Blnguyen, on November 2, 2006, stated that two different users (if they are) using the same computer could count as meat puppetry here. Blnguyen further stated that Gnanapiti was subsequently unblocked and free to edit - under the condition that they did not double vote or use 6RR on linguistic topics here.
Both Sarvagnya and Gnanapiti user accounts have failed to abide to what you have told them. On February 9, 2007, both Sarvagnya and Gnanapiti were involved in a vote fraud here on a motion to ban Sarvabhaum which had an effect on the vote outcome resulting in Sarvabhaum being blocked. Both of these accounts have been found editing the same topics here. Apart from all this going on Sarvagnya has been engaging in bad conduct, trolling, and incivility towards myself and other users. I recall his rude statement towards you here in regards to your confirmation of him and Gnanapiti being the same person.
I humbly urge you to look into this matter in confirming that both Sarvagnya and Gnanapiti are sockpuppets and that both accounts be blocked. Thank you. Wiki Raja 06:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Could I get in on this? I've mediated these guys a lot in the past and would like to make a statement. - Francis Tyers · 10:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I don't think it is a good move to include Armenian Genocide Denial, it is not a Azer-Armenian issue, it is a Turkish-Armenian issue, and Armenian and Turkish editors have better relations with eachothers than Azeri and Armenians. Fad (ix) 17:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey -- there's an unblock request here: collateral damage of a checkuser block that you apparently did (possibly a rangeblock, doesn't show up in the log). Could you check it out, please? Thanks. Mango juice talk 13:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand. Puzzled!!!! -- SahirShah 11:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Why do you say this is an open proxy ? -- SahirShah 06:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not involved in this, but I have been watching it over the past several months. This user has been confirmed as not a sockpuppet of This user, but this user remains blocked long after the second checkuser proved the first one false. Is there a reason for this? Should that user be unblocked (not a sockpuppet) now that it has expired? Thanks. A stroHur ricane 00 1( Talk+ Contribs+ Ubx) 20:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 18:19, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to notify you that User:E104421 has - once again - violated the 1RR on Xionites. He is not allowed to have more than 1 rv in 24h, yet he has reverted 2x in the past 24h. Besides that, he is ignoring the talk-page. His last edits in general were reverting to old POV, for example in Nasreddin or in Hephthalites. Tājik 20:20, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Could you oversite some edits on Skyline Chili and Wales? An anon user on a dynamic IP has been saying not-too nice things about me in the edit description windows. Cheers. youngamerican ( ahoy hoy) 21:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi,I was accussed of sockpuppetry by Rama's Arow for editing from my IP adress and over one comment I had made out of anger.According to user:Bakaman you verified that I'm a puppet master or somebody's sockpuppet.
Can you please confirm if this is true.I'd also like some evidence.Please make a statement here to verify.Thanks alot.-- Nadirali نادرالی
Hi Dominic, would a List of Portuguese words of Arabic origin be candidate to be moved to Wiktionary? I seem to remember you were active with such things and I've no experience with Wiktionary myself. Could you perhaps give some advice to a newcomer who's been working on that one: User talk:Wachowich. Thanks, Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
You said that Cardreader is me??? He later asked to be unblocked but was declined because they said that you check-usered him. Jzg then protected his talk page. This makes me sick. Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Primetime#Primetime4: User:Fundelu, User:Balthazarduju, User:Joycedula, User:Mikesamras. Where do you get this crap? I doubt that you even did a check. You should not checkuser.-- Primetime 11:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Am I misunderstanding a policy here. I thought people were allowed to make comments on a vote? McKay 18:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello Dmcdevit. I wanted to check in with you on something. The user noted above is requesting for an unblock. According to the block log he was blocked for being the Kate McAuliffe vandal. I do not see anything in the contribution history to indicate that so I was wondering if you could tell me what might have caused you to believe that the account is related to the recreation of that article. If its a case of mistaken identity, I may consider unblocking his account. Hope to hear from you soon, thanks. ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 18:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I've double checked the finding and confirm that Dmcdevit's identification is correct. Essjay (Talk) 23:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Is Truehindu ( talk · contribs) related to WP:RFCU#Pens_withdrawn ? He has similar editing patterns. Baka man 23:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Can you please tell Adil to stop stalking me? the guy is reading every message on my page, or contributions its really annoying, thanks. Artaxiad 10:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if you could shed some light on this deletion. To be honest, it's a while since I checked the article (I wrote the band's album articles back in August). I was sure it did assert notability (at least with the discography: two albums on a major independent label, per WP:MUSIC) at the time, but I may be wrong. Is there any way you could recreate the article for me to check it, maybe in my sandbox? I would very much appreciate this and thank you in advance. :) Bubba hotep 11:08, 28 February 2007 (UTC) Sorry, I should clarify that I wasn't the originator of the article, but I must have contributed to it at some point. Thanks. Bubba hotep 11:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi again. As you may remember, when we were discussing the deletion of the list of Chinese surnames, Yuan (surname) was raised as a model article. I have looked at the article and decided to challenge it on the grounds that it is based partially on original research and that the secondary source that it is based on (a book by Yuan Yida) is it not a reliable source. I also suspect that there is an amount of self-promotion involved in the article. My edits keeps getting reverted and the editors that revert my edits refuse to discuss this at the level of established policies and guidelines. I wonder if you can take a look at the discussion at Talk:Yuan (surname)?-- Niohe 19:06, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I can't believe I'm telling you this, but please remember to list any blocks under the temporary injunction in the "log of blocks and bans" on the case page. Regards, Newyorkbrad 19:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
User:Grandmaster has requested an unblock claiming to have explained his reverts and wishing to be able to present his evidence. Please see his talkpage and comment on the request. (I would probably commute to time served, but I'm well-known as a softie.) Newyorkbrad 20:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I left a note yesterday for an independent reveiw [ [26]]. My unblock request was to an independent admin. Could you please let me know what is the time limit for my voluntary ban on editing. I specifically did not make any committment to DBachmann [ [27]].
My second question is that if an admin is not respecting WP:ATT and publishing original research, what options do I have to get it corrected. I have already requested Third party reveiw [ [28]] and mediation cabal[ [29]] and I have asked other editors to get involved. Sbhushan 18:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I am tired of disruptive actions of User:Azerbaijani on the Atabeg page and elsewhere. I have warned him that will report him if he persists making his weird and unsubstantiated changes. If you look at the history of changes [30], you will see how many times did user Azerbaijani change the quote (yes, a quote!) from the Encyclopedia of World History. The quote states: "Shams al-Din Eldiguz (1137–1175), the Great Atabeg of the Seljuk sultan of Baghdad, established an independent dynastic state in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran that lasted until 1225" (The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. http://www.bartleby.com/67/302.html). User Azerbaijani for the first several weeks kept on modifying the quote "in Azerbaijan" with "in what is today Azerbaijan". Now, after perhaps realizing he cannot go on with such reverts and misquotation, he inserted "According to Amin Maalouf" to preceed the quote. The weird thing is that this Amin Maalouf has nothing to do with the quote, and in fact, is not even a historian, but some fiction writer. The quote is clearly cited and verifiable. User Azerbaijani is making similar disruptions on other pages too. Indeed, this disruption is tantamount to vandalism. -- AdilBaguirov 01:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[31] Thank you! One less Wikipedia troll. – Lantoka ( talk) 06:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
The time i got blocked for reverting was when i actually took all the information that had been added recently and added it to the sourced information that had been removed by users deleting (censoring) information due to there own POV. The article in it's current state includes all the previous information along with more sourced information. There are alot of users editing the page with an Irano-centric POV. -- - Farzinf 18:54, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Do you think it is long enaugh for 208.54.95.1 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) to be a full block? SatyrTN ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) appears to be caught at Starbucks (see User_talk:SatyrTN#Block_lift (best to look at source as the template is messed up) Agathoclea 20:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
can you tell me with which wiki law, I can not revert? I read the talk page, and reverted what I thing was wrong and in line with the previous compromise in Talk:Azerbaijan/Archive_2#Consensus_Analysis and I explained it in edit summery. I have a bad feeling that you are taking one side of dispute. take care, -- Pejman47 20:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Can you check if MarkHessen ( talk · contribs) is a sockpuppet of Jalaleddin ( talk · contribs)? I think his IP is 68.32.126.209 ( talk · contribs). Thanks, Khoi khoi 21:22, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for giving me that heads up nicely. In the future, I will refrain from commenting in ways that could be construed as inappropriate. G e o. Talk to me 08:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
If memory serves, you set a number of the Cplot rangeblocks (thank you, by the way), thought you might want to see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Time to release the Cplot blocks?. If you'd prefer off-wiki discussion, no problem by me. – Luna Santin ( talk) 23:55, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Dmcdevit, I am writing to report persistent personal attacks by User:Tajik at Talk:Safavid Dynasty. Here are the instances with diff links:
Please, help to address the issue. I have exhausted all available means to convince him to stop attacking me. Atabek 20:23, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Per his userpage, Dmcdevit is not active on Wikipedia at the moment. I implore both of you to please stop any comments that could even be considered as coming close to the line of incivility and personal attacks. Not only will this improve the editing environment, but it also will be in your own best interest given that you are parties to a pending arbitration case. If you are unable to resolve this yourselves, you can post to WP:ANI and seek the attention of another administrator (I apologize for the fact that I have some other wiki-tasks to attend to and can't address this tonight), but I hope that will prove not to be necessary. Newyorkbrad 02:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
There is a rather messy situation involving LionheartX ( talk · contribs) right now playing out on my talk page. I'd appreciate input on whether if you 1) think it's conclusive that LionheartX (who has admitted as being the same person as RevolverOcelotX ( talk · contribs) but claimed that he wasn't sockpuppeting, but only lost his password) is the same person as GuardianTiger ( talk · contribs) and 2) whether, if true, the user should be blocked indefinitely. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks. -- Nlu ( talk) 05:32, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
In Chacor's first RfA, you stated here that ArbCom placed no restriction on reapplication, but Cactus.Man remarked that his view was different, based on this. Chacor is running for RfA again and I think your input would be helpful. Thanks. - grubber 04:22, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Dmc... what has happened that has soured your view? What was it with Essjay? I'm sorry that I couldn't be of more support to both of you recently. You were and are good at administrating and arbitrating disputes. What a shame it is on the WP community that no one was able to turn either of you toward the light, but, maybe its the "Exit" sign that is casting the brighter light these days. I would have told you, "Don't sweat it baby, this thing is less than ephemeral, it's just electrons bouncing around, after all..." Be strong DMC, I know you to be a good egg. Just know that you have a friend here. I'll be around till the bitter end, I'm sure. I'm too mean to die... Best regards, as always Hamster Sandwich 21:23, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Apparently you're on the list of people to ask, and you are active at the moment =). Anyway, are normal users (I am not a sysop at the moment) allowed to access the channel? (In other words, I'm discreetly asking for access ;). Yuser31415 04:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
"... Eventually I managed to get most of these biographies reinstated by waiting several months and then trying again, when Louis Blair was not looking. ..." - Sam Sloan (Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:12 pm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration&oldid=68693060#Sam_Sloan
(This is posted here by Louis Blair (March 13, 2007))
Dmcdevit, I undeleted List of Korean family names and re-AFDed it. — Quarl ( talk) 2007-03-21 05:28Z
Relevant discussion at | → Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Korean family names (2nd nomination) |
I am trying to resolve the several redlinks in articles on Roman naming conventions that were caused by the deletion of List of Roman female names. On 03:42, February 16, 2007 you wrote, as the proposer, "they have been transwikied to Wiktionary and may now be deleted" [44] (somewhat confusingly timestamped "07:55, 9 February 2007"). I have thus far not been able to find it there. Could you tell me where on Wiktionary I can find the transwikied version? -- Lambiam Talk 11:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible that you could check Talk:Anthroposophy#About anthroposophical sources, please? I'm sorry that I was first unaware what "arbitration" means. Erdanion 14:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
You deleted the an image which was being used in the article racquetball. [45] It would be nice to see what this image was and according to your log comment this may be possible. You indicates that there was a duplicate. Can you please tie up the lose end by referencing and directing wikipedians towards this image. Thank you for your cooperation. -- CyclePat 23:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply. i will bring the subject up with that administrator, however it is my belief, due to his lack of response and communication on his user page that it will lead to absolutelly nothing, as reported by many users on his talk page. Thank you again. -- CyclePat 19:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
jimfbleak 09:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
RFCU please. Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 07:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey I violated my parole mind blocking me for a few days please? indef is better though. Artaxiad 01:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up! -- llywrch 18:01, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice. I can't make it this time because I need to devote some effort to working in the real world. By all means keep me posted about future opportunities. Eclecticology 19:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello! Just to let you know, I didn't do anything on the 3RR report as in at least one case it was pretty clear one of the anons was harassing AMIB by following him around and reverting him all over the place. You've certainly done this a lot longer than me, so I'd certainly respect your decision, but if you can tell me where I erred it would be much appreciated. Thanks! Seraphimblade Talk to me 09:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
What's happening with Transnistria? It's been blocked and de-blocked for second time. WJScribe blocked it second time after the edit warring had resumed. Do you co-ordinate your actions? Alaexis 07:21, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm new to IRC and would like to get on #wikipedia-en-admins but can't. I'm on #wikipedia now. How to? -- Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:12, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Eh, did you use the checkuser tool to identify them? The edit and behavior patterns are so different... -- Illythr 01:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you unblock me? I'm William Mauco ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), I am now indefinitely blocked. Because I promise I don't use any socks and I will not be disruptive again? Why am I blocked for indefinitely? -- 194.160.177.3 10:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
please look at this edit of mine, and please read m:CheckUser_policy. please be careful publicly revealing ip's, it is imho not according to this policy. grtz, oscar 10:48, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Future Perfect at Sunrise suggested I contact you regarding a wordlist that I created yesterday. It can be found at List of Portuguese words of Arabic origin. He has suggested that it be moved to the Wikitonary. As much as I appreciate the feedback, I am quite stumped as to why the Portuguese wordlist should be moved and the Spanish, English and French lists are to remain as articles. Would it be helpful for me to mark these lists as well for transfer to Wikitonary? Wachowich 21:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Dmcdevit, in the Kosovo arbitration case, you voted to put Osli73 on revert parole. I wish to bring to your attention that he has been violating his parole with impunity for some time now. On February 24, this behavior was brought to the attention of the arb enforcement board (see link below), but there has not been any action or comment since. Meanwhile, edit warring is heating up again at the Srebrenica article. If those who have been put on parole can violate the limits put upon them with little or no consequence, it puts us at risk of the article falling back into a free-for-all. Could you either respond to this or contact the appropriate administrator? Thank you. Fairview360 01:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Arbitration_enforcement#.5B.5BUser:Osli73.5D.5D
Dcmdevit,
I just posted this message on Jay's talk page.
Since Osli's block ended March 14, he has resumed reverting the same sentence in the intro.
Fairview360 18:14, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I see you deleted File:Vampire watermellon.jpg because it was on Commons. But the image didn't fulfil all the criteria for deletion (see Wikipedia:CSD#Images.2FMedia, #8). Specifically: All information on the image description page is present on the Commons image description page. That includes the complete upload history with links to the uploader's local user pages. So, the image was in danger of getting deleted on Commons and on en, creating general mess. So, in future, please look this up before deleting :) Nikola 09:58, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you have been involved in resolving certain dispute related to page Savafid dynasty. I am professional historian - there is a lot of controversy around issues related to this page. It is sometimes too hard to sort out various theories. Certain users propose their version as only truth. You have blocked Atabek and Tajik. Please be more discrete - I believe there were other people who were involved and who continue to freely edit. Instead of blocking users it is better to mediate the dispute and have appropriate wording. That's my opinion - might differ from others. But in dispute like this mediation and arbitration is a much better tool. It is from my experience and colloboration with various admins -- Dacy69 16:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dmc. You've got mail. Please reply as soon as you can. Regards, - Aksi_great ( talk) 13:32, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
It does seem unfair to punish User:Bjbear71 for vandals operating under the IP address that she uses, when she logs into her account to contribute to Wikipedia. She has much to contribute to Wikipedia, as her vast website [1] will attest to. I know that you are aware of the extreme caution to be exercised when blocking users who use this IP address, and I also apologise if I am a bit blunt, as my knowledge of the community portal and wikietiquette is slight. Yours, Gareth E Kegg 14:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dmcdevit. I was going to review the unblock request of Waialeale ( talk · contribs) and noticed you had blocked with the reason Kimberly Ashton [3]. Could you clarify whether you believe the editor is a sock of Kimberly Ashton ( talk · contribs) - and if so why - or if you are blocking per the same reasoning as Ashton's block (cf. here). Thanks. Rockpocke t 08:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dmcdevit. I would like to inquire why you are proposing to move the List of most popular given names article to Wiktionary. Whilst the etymologies and meanings for the individual given names would belong to Wiktionary, I believe that the compiled list itself does not. The article serves a valid encyclopedic function by giving light to the naming diversity across different national and cultural contexts. Kindly also refer to the earlier vote for deletion for the same article. CounterFX 11:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
I see you have tagged dozens of "List of XXX names" with this template. I know it's good to be bold, but before modifying so many articles with this proposal did you discuss it anywhere? Since these lists are not definitions but indexes into Wikipedia, not Wiktionary articles, I'm not sure transwikiing them would be ideal. Several of these articles have already survived AfDs so I would suggest you tread lightly and seek input before making major changes. — Dgies t c 21:40, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
We got an unblock-en-l complaint from a user in this netspace who appears to be a school teacher. The block is listed as a checkuser block; can you tell us what this was referring to and whether it's safe to work with this guy to get him an account set up?
Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert 22:30, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
You just commented: [4]
I would like to ask you to reconsider. It appears you are making two arguments here. 1) It's useful and shouldn't be deleted, and 2) it is technical jargon, not "simple dictionary definition". As for 1, please read WP:USEFUL: this argument is a fallacy because topics that are not encyclopedic, like dictionary definitions, are often useful. Also, the article is no less useful at its current home in Wiktionary. To reply to your second point, defining jargon is still a dictionary definition. Please read Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary, the first sentence of which reads "Wikipedia is not a dictionary, or a jargon or usage guide." Also it appears, considering these two points, that you haven't offered an actual argument as to why the article is encyclopedic, since it isn't. Thanks. Dmcdevit· t 22:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you blocked this user for supposedly being a sockpuppet of User:Kimberly Ashton. He emailed me to emphatically state that he is not. CheckUser might have confirmed it's the same IP address, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything -- for example, they might go to the same school and all the computers in a lab have the same external-facing IP address. Anyway, I am here just to attest that User:Waialeale to my knowledge (and as confirmed in his contributions list) has never engaged in any vandalism or any other inappropriate editing. I would unblock him myself but I prefer not to engage in any wheel warring, so I respectfully request an unblocking by you. Thanks, howcheng { chat} 17:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
This user is using multiply accounts, believe me he has been warned he's previous sock was banned and he continues, he causes edit wars and trouble please help. Nareklm 04:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Best regards. Nareklm 04:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
It is worth to study Nareklm activity as well. Long list of violations, groundless accusations, removal of references, edit war, etc. -- Dacy69 04:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
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Please look at user User:Fadix and his language. It is not first report about him [7] He is cursing and threatening with war of edits. I have never heard such language. this is because he and like-minded users went unpunished previously-- Dacy69 19:55, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
People can count - let's count my edits. And you, actually, is one who is like-minded people with Fadix.-- Dacy69 20:07, 13 February 2007 (UTC) It is worth to look at this as well [8] Look at his contribution - he is continously reverting many pages - that is it.-- Dacy69 20:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC) another example of activity - this [9] isn'it canvassing
please protect page Urartu in the current version. TigranTheGreat constantly removes well-referenced text. Plus he broke 3RR.Despite the fact the topic in question was discussed numerous times, with third party assistance as well. (See Talk Page)-- Dacy69 03:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC) Nareklm continues his destructive activity as well. He just reverted again and removed refrenced info.
I just saw the note on your usepage. Thank you for the time you spent serving on the committee. I didn't always agree with your proposals, which comes with the territory, but I agreed far more often than I disagreed, and I appreciate the time and attention you gave to the cases. I hope to keep seeing you elsewhere around the project. Newyorkbrad 18:39, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to thank you for your work on the arbcom as well. Even if NYB beat me to it and made it look like a copycat. In particular your talking me round when I was really down after my block was very much appreciated. -- Spartaz 18:48, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Your biggest flaw is that you fail to admit your mistakes -- I'm surprised with your explanation of your previous decision here, you have clearly overstepped your "jurisdiction" and are abusing your arbitrator role and not trying to hear all sides of the dispute and trying to understand what everyone's motivations and goals really are before making a decision. If you actually tried to look into the reality of what's happening, you will maybe see that you are alienating and discouraging editors who are trying very hard to uphold the principles of Wikipedia, but instead you focus on some bullshit, and are hurting Wikipedia in the long run. You can learn a lot from very simple and straight forward WP:IAR. Thank goodness you resigned, it's for the good of Wikipedia, hopefully whoever replaces you will try to look at the bigger picture for what we are really trying to do here with our Encyclopedia. // Laughing Man 05:59, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Looks like you checkuserblock'd the IP -- any chance you could advise/review? – Luna Santin ( talk) 06:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I have students of your age and I know what a good felling for them to have and use power. Power vested to admins is for the resoution of disputes amd making Wiki better. And now about my blocking. Cooling down is sometimes good remedy. I don't argue about that. But I have nothing to do with Nareklm. It is he who is following me and reverting pages. My initial appeal to you was because of Fadix insults. I hope you've seen this [11] Now some other admin took care of this incident. May I advise you to study a case and then to adopt a desicion. You can see that usually I have participated extensively on pages which I edited. And my opponents just removes referenced information.-- Dacy69 19:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Insults and threats are continued [12] Fadix threatens with edit revenge ("Anyway, you've got interested me in contributing on Heider Aliev article. Which I will be doing as soon as possible. Fad (ix) 05:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)") Another user Fedayee also embarked on assaults - his language is also self-explanatory. They accuse me of lack of knowledge ("Read the history Fadix showed you and stop playing dumb") (before they called me stupid, now it seems they refined the language). Fadix was reported several times by other users - no action taken against him. How I can discuss anything with such users and resort to mediation. -- Dacy69 22:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I think its highly unlikely he's a sock of Primetime. Is there an RFCU I can look at? Cardreader speaks fairly proficient Hindi and only edited india related pages. JzG referred me to you after I asked him. Baka man 00:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
This user is still going, [13] Nareklm 03:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I’m really concerned that no action was taken against Nareklm, who was proven to use sockpuppets (See Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Nareklm) and who is edit warring again. Just now he reverted all of my edits to the articles about Caucasian Albania and History of Nagorno-Karabakh without giving any reasons back to the versions of the banned sock User:Tutmoses8 and banned anon sock. I suspect that this disruptive activity is coordinated outside of Wikipedia, because a few users, including Nareklm follow my edits and undo them without any explanation. Anon IPs and socks are also used for this purpose. Those users are not known as contributors to the pages they are reverting and most probably are not even well familiar with the topics of the articles they revert. I would appreciate if you looked again into this issue. Grandmaster 21:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Julian Caballero ( talk · contribs) Khoi khoi 22:06, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Dear Dmcdevit.
When you enforce the rules selectively, you inadvertantly encourage edit warring by some users. User:Grandmaster, who was blocked by you for edit warring before, has been engaging in precisely the kind of edit warring that you have accusing me of. Please take a look on his hostile behavior in these articles: Caucasian_Albania, History_of_Nagorno-Karabakh, Nakhichevan, and Utik. He has been on a reverting rampage on these articles, restoring his prior preferred versions, clearly encouraged by your selective blocks.-- TigranTheGreat 02:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes this time i did not revert what so ever, but i monitored the situation. Nareklm 05:52, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I have renominated the article on Chinese surnames for deletion, I think that the arguments in favor of keeping the article are specious to say the least. I also think we should resist the tendency to create special policies for China-related articles.-- Niohe 22:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Apparently you're on the list of people to ask, and you are active at the moment =). Anyway, are normal users (I am not a sysop at the moment) allowed to access the channel? (In other words, I'm discreetly asking for access ;). Yuser31415 04:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I didn't know you resigned! :( =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC).
Sad to see you go from the bench — you always were my favorite arbitrator... :( All the best! Kyle Barbour 23:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the prompt response. Newyorkbrad 04:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
I trust Jimbo will choose as level-headed an Arbitrator to replace you; and I hope that this means no worse news than that you have burnt out as Arbitrator. Congratulations on being free of it. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 14:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, i gave my perspective in Tigranes page, i will discuss further but Adil does not like to listen he always reverts but i will do my best. Artaxiad 21:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I am contacting you in regards to a situation with Sarvagnya. On October 17, 2006 a usercheck was requested on users Sarvagnya, Gnanapiti, and two others by Bakasuprman here. The final verdict was made by you here confirming that both Sarvagnya and Gnanapiti are the same person. On November 12, 2006, Gnanapiti was unblocked here on the condition that he/she would not edit the same articles as Sarvagnya. You then assumed good faith and told the user to stay out of trouble. Blnguyen, on November 2, 2006, stated that two different users (if they are) using the same computer could count as meat puppetry here. Blnguyen further stated that Gnanapiti was subsequently unblocked and free to edit - under the condition that they did not double vote or use 6RR on linguistic topics here.
Both Sarvagnya and Gnanapiti user accounts have failed to abide to what you have told them. On February 9, 2007, both Sarvagnya and Gnanapiti were involved in a vote fraud here on a motion to ban Sarvabhaum which had an effect on the vote outcome resulting in Sarvabhaum being blocked. Both of these accounts have been found editing the same topics here. Apart from all this going on Sarvagnya has been engaging in bad conduct, trolling, and incivility towards myself and other users. I recall his rude statement towards you here in regards to your confirmation of him and Gnanapiti being the same person.
I humbly urge you to look into this matter in confirming that both Sarvagnya and Gnanapiti are sockpuppets and that both accounts be blocked. Thank you. Wiki Raja 06:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Could I get in on this? I've mediated these guys a lot in the past and would like to make a statement. - Francis Tyers · 10:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I don't think it is a good move to include Armenian Genocide Denial, it is not a Azer-Armenian issue, it is a Turkish-Armenian issue, and Armenian and Turkish editors have better relations with eachothers than Azeri and Armenians. Fad (ix) 17:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey -- there's an unblock request here: collateral damage of a checkuser block that you apparently did (possibly a rangeblock, doesn't show up in the log). Could you check it out, please? Thanks. Mango juice talk 13:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand. Puzzled!!!! -- SahirShah 11:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Why do you say this is an open proxy ? -- SahirShah 06:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not involved in this, but I have been watching it over the past several months. This user has been confirmed as not a sockpuppet of This user, but this user remains blocked long after the second checkuser proved the first one false. Is there a reason for this? Should that user be unblocked (not a sockpuppet) now that it has expired? Thanks. A stroHur ricane 00 1( Talk+ Contribs+ Ubx) 20:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 18:19, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to notify you that User:E104421 has - once again - violated the 1RR on Xionites. He is not allowed to have more than 1 rv in 24h, yet he has reverted 2x in the past 24h. Besides that, he is ignoring the talk-page. His last edits in general were reverting to old POV, for example in Nasreddin or in Hephthalites. Tājik 20:20, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Could you oversite some edits on Skyline Chili and Wales? An anon user on a dynamic IP has been saying not-too nice things about me in the edit description windows. Cheers. youngamerican ( ahoy hoy) 21:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi,I was accussed of sockpuppetry by Rama's Arow for editing from my IP adress and over one comment I had made out of anger.According to user:Bakaman you verified that I'm a puppet master or somebody's sockpuppet.
Can you please confirm if this is true.I'd also like some evidence.Please make a statement here to verify.Thanks alot.-- Nadirali نادرالی
Hi Dominic, would a List of Portuguese words of Arabic origin be candidate to be moved to Wiktionary? I seem to remember you were active with such things and I've no experience with Wiktionary myself. Could you perhaps give some advice to a newcomer who's been working on that one: User talk:Wachowich. Thanks, Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
You said that Cardreader is me??? He later asked to be unblocked but was declined because they said that you check-usered him. Jzg then protected his talk page. This makes me sick. Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Primetime#Primetime4: User:Fundelu, User:Balthazarduju, User:Joycedula, User:Mikesamras. Where do you get this crap? I doubt that you even did a check. You should not checkuser.-- Primetime 11:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Am I misunderstanding a policy here. I thought people were allowed to make comments on a vote? McKay 18:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello Dmcdevit. I wanted to check in with you on something. The user noted above is requesting for an unblock. According to the block log he was blocked for being the Kate McAuliffe vandal. I do not see anything in the contribution history to indicate that so I was wondering if you could tell me what might have caused you to believe that the account is related to the recreation of that article. If its a case of mistaken identity, I may consider unblocking his account. Hope to hear from you soon, thanks. ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 18:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I've double checked the finding and confirm that Dmcdevit's identification is correct. Essjay (Talk) 23:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Is Truehindu ( talk · contribs) related to WP:RFCU#Pens_withdrawn ? He has similar editing patterns. Baka man 23:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Can you please tell Adil to stop stalking me? the guy is reading every message on my page, or contributions its really annoying, thanks. Artaxiad 10:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if you could shed some light on this deletion. To be honest, it's a while since I checked the article (I wrote the band's album articles back in August). I was sure it did assert notability (at least with the discography: two albums on a major independent label, per WP:MUSIC) at the time, but I may be wrong. Is there any way you could recreate the article for me to check it, maybe in my sandbox? I would very much appreciate this and thank you in advance. :) Bubba hotep 11:08, 28 February 2007 (UTC) Sorry, I should clarify that I wasn't the originator of the article, but I must have contributed to it at some point. Thanks. Bubba hotep 11:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi again. As you may remember, when we were discussing the deletion of the list of Chinese surnames, Yuan (surname) was raised as a model article. I have looked at the article and decided to challenge it on the grounds that it is based partially on original research and that the secondary source that it is based on (a book by Yuan Yida) is it not a reliable source. I also suspect that there is an amount of self-promotion involved in the article. My edits keeps getting reverted and the editors that revert my edits refuse to discuss this at the level of established policies and guidelines. I wonder if you can take a look at the discussion at Talk:Yuan (surname)?-- Niohe 19:06, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I can't believe I'm telling you this, but please remember to list any blocks under the temporary injunction in the "log of blocks and bans" on the case page. Regards, Newyorkbrad 19:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
User:Grandmaster has requested an unblock claiming to have explained his reverts and wishing to be able to present his evidence. Please see his talkpage and comment on the request. (I would probably commute to time served, but I'm well-known as a softie.) Newyorkbrad 20:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I left a note yesterday for an independent reveiw [ [26]]. My unblock request was to an independent admin. Could you please let me know what is the time limit for my voluntary ban on editing. I specifically did not make any committment to DBachmann [ [27]].
My second question is that if an admin is not respecting WP:ATT and publishing original research, what options do I have to get it corrected. I have already requested Third party reveiw [ [28]] and mediation cabal[ [29]] and I have asked other editors to get involved. Sbhushan 18:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I am tired of disruptive actions of User:Azerbaijani on the Atabeg page and elsewhere. I have warned him that will report him if he persists making his weird and unsubstantiated changes. If you look at the history of changes [30], you will see how many times did user Azerbaijani change the quote (yes, a quote!) from the Encyclopedia of World History. The quote states: "Shams al-Din Eldiguz (1137–1175), the Great Atabeg of the Seljuk sultan of Baghdad, established an independent dynastic state in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran that lasted until 1225" (The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. http://www.bartleby.com/67/302.html). User Azerbaijani for the first several weeks kept on modifying the quote "in Azerbaijan" with "in what is today Azerbaijan". Now, after perhaps realizing he cannot go on with such reverts and misquotation, he inserted "According to Amin Maalouf" to preceed the quote. The weird thing is that this Amin Maalouf has nothing to do with the quote, and in fact, is not even a historian, but some fiction writer. The quote is clearly cited and verifiable. User Azerbaijani is making similar disruptions on other pages too. Indeed, this disruption is tantamount to vandalism. -- AdilBaguirov 01:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[31] Thank you! One less Wikipedia troll. – Lantoka ( talk) 06:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
The time i got blocked for reverting was when i actually took all the information that had been added recently and added it to the sourced information that had been removed by users deleting (censoring) information due to there own POV. The article in it's current state includes all the previous information along with more sourced information. There are alot of users editing the page with an Irano-centric POV. -- - Farzinf 18:54, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Do you think it is long enaugh for 208.54.95.1 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) to be a full block? SatyrTN ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) appears to be caught at Starbucks (see User_talk:SatyrTN#Block_lift (best to look at source as the template is messed up) Agathoclea 20:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
can you tell me with which wiki law, I can not revert? I read the talk page, and reverted what I thing was wrong and in line with the previous compromise in Talk:Azerbaijan/Archive_2#Consensus_Analysis and I explained it in edit summery. I have a bad feeling that you are taking one side of dispute. take care, -- Pejman47 20:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Can you check if MarkHessen ( talk · contribs) is a sockpuppet of Jalaleddin ( talk · contribs)? I think his IP is 68.32.126.209 ( talk · contribs). Thanks, Khoi khoi 21:22, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for giving me that heads up nicely. In the future, I will refrain from commenting in ways that could be construed as inappropriate. G e o. Talk to me 08:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
If memory serves, you set a number of the Cplot rangeblocks (thank you, by the way), thought you might want to see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Time to release the Cplot blocks?. If you'd prefer off-wiki discussion, no problem by me. – Luna Santin ( talk) 23:55, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Dmcdevit, I am writing to report persistent personal attacks by User:Tajik at Talk:Safavid Dynasty. Here are the instances with diff links:
Please, help to address the issue. I have exhausted all available means to convince him to stop attacking me. Atabek 20:23, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Per his userpage, Dmcdevit is not active on Wikipedia at the moment. I implore both of you to please stop any comments that could even be considered as coming close to the line of incivility and personal attacks. Not only will this improve the editing environment, but it also will be in your own best interest given that you are parties to a pending arbitration case. If you are unable to resolve this yourselves, you can post to WP:ANI and seek the attention of another administrator (I apologize for the fact that I have some other wiki-tasks to attend to and can't address this tonight), but I hope that will prove not to be necessary. Newyorkbrad 02:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
There is a rather messy situation involving LionheartX ( talk · contribs) right now playing out on my talk page. I'd appreciate input on whether if you 1) think it's conclusive that LionheartX (who has admitted as being the same person as RevolverOcelotX ( talk · contribs) but claimed that he wasn't sockpuppeting, but only lost his password) is the same person as GuardianTiger ( talk · contribs) and 2) whether, if true, the user should be blocked indefinitely. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks. -- Nlu ( talk) 05:32, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
In Chacor's first RfA, you stated here that ArbCom placed no restriction on reapplication, but Cactus.Man remarked that his view was different, based on this. Chacor is running for RfA again and I think your input would be helpful. Thanks. - grubber 04:22, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Dmc... what has happened that has soured your view? What was it with Essjay? I'm sorry that I couldn't be of more support to both of you recently. You were and are good at administrating and arbitrating disputes. What a shame it is on the WP community that no one was able to turn either of you toward the light, but, maybe its the "Exit" sign that is casting the brighter light these days. I would have told you, "Don't sweat it baby, this thing is less than ephemeral, it's just electrons bouncing around, after all..." Be strong DMC, I know you to be a good egg. Just know that you have a friend here. I'll be around till the bitter end, I'm sure. I'm too mean to die... Best regards, as always Hamster Sandwich 21:23, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Apparently you're on the list of people to ask, and you are active at the moment =). Anyway, are normal users (I am not a sysop at the moment) allowed to access the channel? (In other words, I'm discreetly asking for access ;). Yuser31415 04:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
"... Eventually I managed to get most of these biographies reinstated by waiting several months and then trying again, when Louis Blair was not looking. ..." - Sam Sloan (Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:12 pm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration&oldid=68693060#Sam_Sloan
(This is posted here by Louis Blair (March 13, 2007))
Dmcdevit, I undeleted List of Korean family names and re-AFDed it. — Quarl ( talk) 2007-03-21 05:28Z
Relevant discussion at | → Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Korean family names (2nd nomination) |
I am trying to resolve the several redlinks in articles on Roman naming conventions that were caused by the deletion of List of Roman female names. On 03:42, February 16, 2007 you wrote, as the proposer, "they have been transwikied to Wiktionary and may now be deleted" [44] (somewhat confusingly timestamped "07:55, 9 February 2007"). I have thus far not been able to find it there. Could you tell me where on Wiktionary I can find the transwikied version? -- Lambiam Talk 11:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible that you could check Talk:Anthroposophy#About anthroposophical sources, please? I'm sorry that I was first unaware what "arbitration" means. Erdanion 14:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
You deleted the an image which was being used in the article racquetball. [45] It would be nice to see what this image was and according to your log comment this may be possible. You indicates that there was a duplicate. Can you please tie up the lose end by referencing and directing wikipedians towards this image. Thank you for your cooperation. -- CyclePat 23:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply. i will bring the subject up with that administrator, however it is my belief, due to his lack of response and communication on his user page that it will lead to absolutelly nothing, as reported by many users on his talk page. Thank you again. -- CyclePat 19:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
jimfbleak 09:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
RFCU please. Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 07:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey I violated my parole mind blocking me for a few days please? indef is better though. Artaxiad 01:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up! -- llywrch 18:01, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice. I can't make it this time because I need to devote some effort to working in the real world. By all means keep me posted about future opportunities. Eclecticology 19:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello! Just to let you know, I didn't do anything on the 3RR report as in at least one case it was pretty clear one of the anons was harassing AMIB by following him around and reverting him all over the place. You've certainly done this a lot longer than me, so I'd certainly respect your decision, but if you can tell me where I erred it would be much appreciated. Thanks! Seraphimblade Talk to me 09:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
What's happening with Transnistria? It's been blocked and de-blocked for second time. WJScribe blocked it second time after the edit warring had resumed. Do you co-ordinate your actions? Alaexis 07:21, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm new to IRC and would like to get on #wikipedia-en-admins but can't. I'm on #wikipedia now. How to? -- Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:12, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Eh, did you use the checkuser tool to identify them? The edit and behavior patterns are so different... -- Illythr 01:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you unblock me? I'm William Mauco ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), I am now indefinitely blocked. Because I promise I don't use any socks and I will not be disruptive again? Why am I blocked for indefinitely? -- 194.160.177.3 10:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
please look at this edit of mine, and please read m:CheckUser_policy. please be careful publicly revealing ip's, it is imho not according to this policy. grtz, oscar 10:48, 1 April 2007 (UTC)