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Should I create that template? Do you recommend creating it or do you think I shouldn't? My plan is that it will be placed on userpages of apparent throwaway accounts. -- IRP ☎ 23:48, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Please, please don't. Unless the account themselves has said so, it's a total breach of WP:AGF. My account regularly goes for months at a time without editing and so do many others. –  iridescent 00:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Iridescent, I said "apparent throwaway accounts". You have the following cues to figure out if an account is a throwaway account:

1. The account has made only a few edits (you have made many edits, so we can immediately tell that your account is not a throwaway account)
2. The the last edit was made 4 months ago (possible for your account, but see statement #1 that I made about throwaway accounts)

When an account is NOT a throwaway account:

1. If the account has made a significant amount of edits (which you have made many edits)
2. If the last edit was only, let's say, a week ago (that would be too early to tag an account as a throwaway account)

Remember that you can always remove the tag if the user resumes editing. -- IRP ☎ 01:28, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Will someone reply? -- IRP ☎ 16:50, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I'd have to agree with Iridescent. I myself did not contribute for some months leading up to December of 2007, and I don't know what I would have done if I had come back and seen a tag like that on my userpage. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:51, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

What problem is this proposed template solving? Tan | 39 16:54, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I am asking before I create this template. It is for apparent throwaway accounts. This will be used on accounts that have only made a few edits AND have not edited in 4 months. -- IRP ☎ 17:00, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I think that's too difficult to say for sure. Many, many admins I have seen created an account, made a few edits, and then didn't make any for 6 months to a year, or even longer. Then they became more active, started getting involved in more and more areas, and eventually stood for RFA and passed. And that's just admins. In all honesty, I think the only times you could be assured that using that sort of template would be correct would also be times you could just use {{ indefblocked}}. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:10, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

It could always be removed if the user resumes editing. It would say "This appears to be a throwaway account", it wouldn't say "This is a throwaway account". -- IRP ☎ 17:29, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

If there is no current problem, why are we creating the template? Just for the hell of it? Unless an existing problem can be described, and shown how it can be solved (or ameliorated) by creation of this template, it should not be created. Tan | 39 17:27, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

It would alert users not to post messages on the talkpage of that account. If the user is unlikely to respond, then we should alert editors not to waste their time. -- IRP ☎ 17:32, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Unnecessary. In all good-natured honesty, it sounds like you're reaching for a reason to create this template simply to be able to create a template. There is no problem with users wasting their time waiting for talk page responses that are not forthcoming. Tan | 39 17:34, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

If you want a concrete example of one of the newbies you'd be biting, look at my earliest contributions. I always edited as an IP (which, back in the days when "anyone can edit" actually meant something, didn't have the stigma or the associated problems it does now), only using my account when the IP was autoblocked or the page was semiprotected, and you can see the results – lengthy gaps of months at a time between very occasional contributions. If I'd come back to find something most people would read as a "suspected vandal" template plastered on my talkpage, I guarantee my reaction would be no different than that to NawlinWiki's recent outburst of "Assume Bad Faith". I agree with Tan; having seen your history here (I haven't been following your contributions elsewhere) you seem desparate to create a template for the sake of saying "I made a template", with no particular consideration as to the usability of said template. Remember, this project has been running for eight years and has 8,601,077 users; most of the potential problem situations have already happened and the responses to them formulated. –  iridescent 20:28, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Sigh. I'm trying to get Miszabot up and running at Wikipedia talk:Notability (music). Fortunately, it didn't work the first day, as I forgot to change its archival point. :) (I copied the template from the albums project, where you helped me before.) I fixed that. It didn't work last night, either. Can you possibly help me out with this again, or would you prefer that I drop this on somebody else? :) -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:43, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't know why it's not working, by all accounts, it seems to be fine. The only thing I could come up with was that it wanted the parameters in a particular order (?) so I changed them around to the order it shows on MiszaBot's howto page. Beyond that, I can't figure out what's going on. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:55, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

All right, and thank you very much. If it doesn't work tomorrow, I'll run and whine to User:Misza13. It helps that it's not obvious to you. :D -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:58, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

(P.S. I like you, too)

LOL! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:03, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

←Whoot! It worked! You have saved me again! Danke! -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:49, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year!		Happy New Year!
		MISTER ALCOHOL T C wishes you a Happy New Year! Hopefully this one has made your New Year better. Spread the harmony by offering this greeting to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing! -- MISTER ALCOHOL T C 04:29, 1 January 2009 (UTC) (Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{ subst: User:Mister Alcohol/HappyNewYear}} to their talk page with a friendly message.)

Best To Reply At My Talk Page. Thanks.

Just Stopping by. Yours Truly, M.H. ^{True Romance iS Dead} 15:03, 1 January 2009 (UTC) .

Wish you a happy new year. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 16:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

I meant to undo the vandal IP's edit, but I hadn't realized he'd made more than one. I would have gone back into the history and restored the last edit myself, because I can't use the tool you have that can undo multiple edits. Alas, I'll just do it the long way, if you don't beat me to it. Also, I've responded to your message on my talk page. Thanks. -- Readopedia ( talk) 19:48, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Please see this link -- IRP ☎ 20:08, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't think he wanted it deleted, but I guess another admin will probably look at it, so... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:11, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

hi, i received a message saying i edited an article on Crosby mersyside but i didn't, i live there but i definitely didn't make a change.

happy new year still :D -- 90.201.250.181 ( talk) 21:04, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

That was quite a while ago, so it is likely that your IP used to belong to someone else. Just don't worry about it, it's not a problem, and I apologize for the confusion. Happy New Year! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:18, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

oh i see thanks. strange how the article is on the area were i live ^^ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.201.250.181 ( talk) 03:27, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Dear J.delanoy,

Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

Majorly talk 21:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Do you know the status of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Erik the Red 2 2. It has been sitting in the RFA space for a couple months without edits to and it I wanted to know if I should delete it or categorize it as unsuccessful. Thanks. MBisanz ^talk 09:27, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I forgot about it. I deleted it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:48, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Please replace the existing code in {{ Uw-hangon}} with the following code:

{{{icon|[[Image:Information.svg|25px]] }}}Hello, and welcome to [[Wikipedia]]! I noticed that you recently added a {{tl|hangon}} template to an article{{{{{subst|}}}#if:{{{1|}}}|, [[:{{{1}}}]]}}. In order for an [[WP:ADMIN|administrator]] to evaluate whether the article should be [[WP:SPEEDY|speedy deleted]] or not, we request that you provide reasoning, on the [[Talk: {{{1}}}|article's talk page]], for why it should remain. {{{{{subst|}}}#if:{{{2|}}}|{{{2}}}|Thank you.}}<!-- Template:uw-hangon --><noinclude><!-- Template:Uw-hangon--> {{singlenotice}}</noinclude>

You will see what will be changed by using the "Show changes" button and see what it will look like by using the "Show preview" button. -- IRP ☎ 17:39, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

The only problem is, if the page in question is not in the article space, it would not work. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:50, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

For a second, I thought 24.137.75.93 was possibly the same guy as 24.218.217.71 because of his edit summary, but the whois queries are different ...and, why would User talk:24.137.75.93/monobook.js exist in the first place? ~ Troy ( talk) 19:01, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea. You can't use a custom js page unless you are logged in, so I deleted it. If you see something like that again, you can probably just tag it with {{ db-g6}}. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:54, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for re-re-reunblocking Lightbot's IP. Much appreciated. My question...when one clicks on the "edit this page" tab to post a message, they see the green box above with talk page rules, etc. How would one create something like that to be posted only on the "edit this page" tab of the talk page? Take Care... NeutralHomer • Talk • January 3, 2009 @ 16:41

It's called an edit notice. What it does is displays whatever text is contained in Special:MyTalk/Editnotice. Hope that helps. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:43, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

You keep beating mt to the vandals (as usual)! Andy ( talk) 21:40, 3 January 2009 (UTC) PS: What is with the userpage? :D

150,000? You should start using powers of 10 to express your edits. If you are trolling for compliments, here's a big THANK YOU for your work. 8) Regards, Chuckiesdad 23:12, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Your user page change was vandalism with a name spoof? Didn't know it was possible. My apologies for falling for that, it did seem out of character. Anyway, I really do appreciate your work. Chuckiesdad 23:44, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

No it wasn't vandalism, it was a childish rant on my part. It is, as far as I know, impossible to spoof someone's name on here. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:45, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, I feel less paranoid now. ;) Hey, we are all entitled to act out from time to time, it's good therapy. Chuckiesdad 23:52, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

I reverted to IP's edit on that page assuming your revert (that removed the prod) was mistaken. If you did wanted to contest the prod please revert my edit. -- Unpopular Opinion ( talk) 19:50, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the intervention on the Tolkien page. I was getting a bit overwhelmed. Could you tell me what is the best way to obtain Rollback rights?-- Sulfis ( talk) 20:14, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

The best way is to show you know what vandalism is. In the meantime, a tool that you can use to mimic the Rollback feature is Twinkle. Twinkle also automates issuing warnings, WP:AIV reports, and it can tag pages for deletion. If you aren't using Internet Explorer, you should install it. It is very useful. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:18, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks-- Sulfis ( talk) 20:50, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

I noticed in the history that you have been editing Battle of Red Cliffs‎. I added a new source and was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing it: [1]. Thank you in advance.-- L.H.Summers 77 ( talk) 22:16, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

You blocked but User talk:209.6.144.130‎, but he is already back at [ [2]]. sinneed ( talk) 22:45, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

True to his word, the IP troll is indeed an IP hopper [3]. I also noticed that he vandalised the featured article today. I guess he intends to be the next "penis bandit"! Thought i'd give you the heads up :-) - Cheers! John Sloan ( view / chat) 22:45, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

LOL - Snap with sinneed :D John Sloan ( view / chat) 22:46, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

We are quick. He is bragging about it here. [ [4]] sinneed ( talk) 22:48, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Other IP blocked for evasion. I can play this game all night. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:56, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Per this, you're right! Maybe semi-protecting the page might be in order? Since he's already said he has no plans to make an unblock request and he could resort to making silly ones once he realised we arn't responding to him anymore. As you said, he likes wasting peoples time! Cheers John Sloan ( view / chat) 00:10, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Nah. He wants attention. You were giving it to him, and if I protected the page, it would make him happy. As long as he is not being abusive, just let him go. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:13, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough :-) - Also:

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		Your "funny list" is hillarius. Because it gave me as many laughs as an episode of Harry Hill's TV Burp, I award you this Barnstar of good humour! John Sloan ( view / chat) 00:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy editing! John Sloan ( view / chat) 00:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

...for fixing my Rfa thanks page. It looks a lot nice now! :) -- Cameron * 11:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:22, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

As a regular patroller of recent changes on Wikipedia, please could you add Dnepropetrovsk maniacs to your watchlist. A serious issue arose over this article during the last few days, see Talk:Dnepropetrovsk maniacs. The link involved here is currently the subject of a XLinkBot revert, see User:XLinkBot/RevertList. Thanks, -- ♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:54, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Your rollbacks and reverts for vandals are inspiring! Each time I try to correct something, I see you've already done it! How do you work so fast?

I've only been on wikipedia for a fortnight, but immediately I think my real interests are in reverting and rollbacks. So I wanted to ask you if you were involved in the Adopt-a-user programm? I think a user such as yourself would be good at teaching me the basics of wikipedia, including how to easily spot vandalism, which is something I'm not very good at!

Thankyou for taking the time to read this,

²wenty³ ( talk) 19:10, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey TwentyThree!

I go so fast because I am using a software tool called Huggle to help me.

I'm not in the adopt-a-user program, mostly because, frankly, I stink at trying to teach people stuff. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:18, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Time to ban 209.189.130.83 as they cant seem to leave Lance Armstrong alone...

I've started patrolling RC and I'm a good friend of User:Jake Wartenberg who I'm sure you know —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aarondoucett ( talk • contribs) 20:18, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Already done, thanks. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		You seem to be one of the most active and diligent RC patrollers on Wikipedia today. Nine times out of ten, when I revert vandalism, it goes to a revision where you reverted vandalism! Te vides omnis! Pumeleon T 22:28, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Heh, yeah. Huggle is pretty awesome :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I noticed you reverted vandalism on both Michael Vick and Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Is it just a coincidence that we both watch these pages? -- Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 01:31, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Ahh, huggle. I see. Never mind. I'm new and thus curious.-- Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 01:36, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Today is indeed a very weird day...was just about to award you this:

		All Around Amazing Barnstar
		For your excellent abilities in combatting vandalism, nonsense pages, and all-around WikiImprovement, I hereby award you this barnstar. Enjoy! Cheers, — Mizu onna sango15 Hello! 02:30, 6 January 2009 (UTC).

...when I saw that you gave me a barnstar. Very odd, though this isn't the first time something like this happened. :-) Thanks for the award, enjoy yours! Cheers, — Mizu onna sango15 ^Hello! 02:30, 6 January 2009 (UTC).

lol! That's awesome! Thanks! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:34, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem! Thanks again for the shiny. :-) — Mizu onna sango15 ^Hello! 02:45, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

		The "Chin-up" barnstar
		Yes, you are being repeatedly abused and attacked, but chin-up old bean, we're behind you all the way Jac16888 ( talk) 03:09, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

This is for clogging up my watchlist with all that grawp crap-- Jac16888 ( talk) 03:09, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:10, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Maybe you should consider move-protecting this page J.delanoy? I'm surprised you haven't done it already TBH. Happy editing :-) John Sloan ( view / chat) 04:02, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I was hoping he would focus on this page instead of the mainspace. I guess not. Protected now. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:21, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

'( You could have let me at least have given him an ARV! :P JK. (Psst: I see why you use Huggle now; I used it yesterday at the local Starbucks, and I got sooo many rvv!) Sincerely, Imperat§ r^{( Talk)} 15:14, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

hehe. Cluebot reported him, and ping !admin in #cvn-wp-en, so I blocked. Good work with your vandal-fighting. I see you around all the time (How do you beat me with Twinkle when I'm using Huggle?) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, evils of Special:RecentChanges! Besides, I refresh it every few seconds. :P BTW, mind giving me a WP:ER? No-one's responded for (around) a week! Cheers. Imperat§ r^{( Talk)} 15:18, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Wondering if we could add a page protection to epilepsy as high volume of vandalism.-- Doc James ( talk) 17:34, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

It was pretty much all the same user, so I don't think the page needs to be protected. Thanks, though. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I am using the Huggle software and wondered as you are an admin if it is recommended or if it is frowned upon when you are applying to become a sysop. I am not looking to become one yet but was wondering if it puts you on a downhill slope or not? Corruptcopper ( talk) 18:00, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, assuming you are doing a good job with it, not making mistakes and so forth, Huggle really doesn't have much effect. What really matters is, what are you doing other than using Huggle? Someone else asked me a similar question a while ago, so I'll copy my reply to them:

Based on my observations, people at RFA do not generally take into account the raw percentage of edits made with automated tools, because tools (especially Huggle) skew everything so radically. You can make thousands upon thousands of edits in a very short time using Huggle. I once made 3452 edits in one day - a calender day to boot, not merely a 24-hour period (some have been deleted in the interval, but you get the idea). At the same time, it is not impossible to write a featured article from scratch with less than 150 edits, including the FAC.

The thing people tend to look at with vandal-fighters is not so much "OMGZ!!!1!! 86% of his edits were made with Huggle.", but "OK, he uses Huggle. Cool. Does this guy also know how to write? Does he do anything other than fight vandalism?" If you had 50000 edits, and ~43000 of them were with Huggle, but your other 7000 edits included a GA and/or an FA, and maybe a couple of DYKs, you would sail through RFA. (assuming the rest - behavior, clue, interaction - pans out OK) In that case, your automated tools would likely propel you towards success, since by writing FAs and fighting vandalism, you demonstrate interest in an unusually wide spectrum of the project. Most people (myself included) find this nearly impossible to do, so when someone who can do it stands at RFA, the result is generally not difficult to foresee.

Hope that helps. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:08, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes this does help thanks very much for taking the time out to explain it to me. I will remember what you have said and take it into account. Also could you maybe if you have time go over the edits that I am making with huggle to make sure that I am not doing any wrong. What I am doing is looking at it reading it and reverting if it is vandalism or doesnt make any sence. Corruptcopper ( talk) 18:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Another thing I could do with is IP block exemption on my account as I keep getting caught up in hardblocks and also global blocks through college IP. Corruptcopper ( talk) 19:41, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, I don't mean to be rude, but without seeing you requesting unblock from one of these blocks on your talk page, I am hesitant to grant it to you. If it has been happening, and you just didn't bother to request unblock, you should ask a checkuser for help, since checkusers can see the IP address or addresses that you have edited from. A few of checkusers I have asked for help from in the past are Rlevse, Luna Santin, Jayvdb, and Lar. Or you can look at Special:ListUsers/checkuser for a full list, but keep in mind that some of the people there rarely, if ever, edit. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok thanks for the information and also thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage and talk. I will request it when I am in college tommorow if I have the time. I understand why you are hesitant to hand it out as it is a very powerful tool. Corruptcopper ( talk) 19:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi J.delanoy, could you please handle the report against Special:Contributions/66.142.195.205 at WP:AIV? He is in the middle of a massive vandalism spree! Thanks John Sloan ( view / chat) 18:38, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, it has been dealt with! Thanks anyway. :-) John Sloan ( view / chat) 18:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

To J.Delanoy! Please stop accusing me of vandalism when the real culprit is User:Readin, he has a history of edit warring and POV-pushing. Check his history if you're in doubt. A word of caution, if you continue to support User:Readin and treat me unequally I will consider that to be a hypocritical double standard by which you, yourself, will be held accountable with full responsibility. Note: your administrator status is not perpetual nor is it permanent, but rather is contingently based on your continued UNBIASED regulatory efforts for the promotion and augmented maximization of accurate and POV-free encyclopedic articles. Thank you!

I accused you of vandalism because you removed my comments declining your request on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. If you disagree with me, you are free to request that another administrator reviews your case, but you should not remove my comments. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:22, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, removing someone's administrator rights is not impossible, but it is extremely difficult. I do not imagine that your implied threat holds much force. In any case, I can guarantee you that those pages will not be unprotected, because there is simply too much vandalism on them when they are unprotected. If you want to edit them, you can do so very easily. Any registered user account that is at least four days old and has made at least ten edits can edit through semi-protection. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:31, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

The next time you wish to make a reversion, I suggest you check the discussion page. You reverted my edit which was intended to remove OR, was in consensus, and was sourced (as opposed to the part removed). I asked that you either revert your reversion or make an argument for keeping OR and a blatantly inaccurate description of the novel. 68.73.80.211 ( talk) 19:28, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I saw "rape" on the page and I wasn't paying attention. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:31, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I apologized on his talk page and struck out the Level two warning I've given him. Willking1979 ( talk) 19:39, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

An IP user claims that his/her edits regarding the article were not vandalism, citing the talk page. Both of us used Huggle. Your thoughts? Willking1979 ( talk) 19:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I see that the user has a response above. Willking1979 ( talk) 19:30, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Why do you simply delete stuff when at the very most you probably should have stuck a "citation needed" or "original research?" tag? That's just being lazy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.231.64.36 ( talk) 20:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi -- If I'm understanding correctly, your bot reverted an edit I made to Blue_(programming_language), apparently because its automated criteria made my edit seem like vandalism. I reverted the bot's edit and posted on the article's talk page.-- 76.167.77.165 ( talk) 21:13, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

It wasn't a bot, it is a fully-controlled automated tool. I told it to undo that revert, but apparently, it didn't. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Looks like I made a friend. Thanks for blocking this latest attempt to ruffle my feathers.  :) I gotta run; could you please keep an eye on the new user log? Children like this invariably have dynamic IPs. Thanks, bro. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 02:59, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Already doing. I blocked another one earlier when a bot on IRC pinged it. If it gets out of hand, I'll ask a checkuser if a rangeblock is feasible. Keep up the good work! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:00, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

You betcha. Thanks for everything. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 04:16, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Prod tag added. You had edited (actually fought vandals, I suspect) on this article, and I thought it a nice thing to notify you. The article still has no RS, reads like an ad, and I am not inclined to call him "notable." Thanks! Collect ( talk) 12:10, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

you know the person with the IP Adress User talk:209.191.217.148?Well, If you are an administer, please delete his account because i caught him vandalism on the article Battle of Iwo Jima on the background info. i have posted a message on his talk page ( User talk:209.191.217.148) and i don't think he is going to reply back. i have put his page on my watchlist so i can montior him. No i am NOT an amdminister but i you are. Please reply either on your Talk Page or On my talk Page ( User talk:Morefight). Thanks! Morefight ( talk) 16:43, 7 January 2009 (UTC)Morefight

Hi there,

I hope that I am adding this in the correct place - apologies if I am not.

I received a "Vandalising" warning, but I consider what I have added as being valuable. I do not want to be blocked from editing pages in the future, so would like to know why my external links are not acceptable. Thank you, I will appreciate your input.

~A —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.140.228.133 ( talk) 17:00, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

For a link to an external website to be included in a Wikipedia article, it has to add something that mere text could not. From what I could tell, you were only adding a link to try to advertise. You should know that all (read: 100%) external links on Wikipedia articles have nofollow tags, so search engine will ignore them. Thus having links on Wikipedia will not increase a page's rank in search engine results. More information can be found in Wikipedia's external link policy. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:05, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. For the record, I could not care less about google rankings. I added two things that I believe would be public interest 1) a unique patented machine and 2) trademark law FAQ page - which I know many find to be extremely useful. Can you tell me which one of these was inappropriate and more clearly why? Thanks again, A —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.140.228.133 ( talk) 18:34, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

I have not yet received your response, but have now noticed that my link to a Canadian Trademark Law FAQ page has been removed from 1) Trademarks 2) Canadian Trademark Law. How does that make sense? This is extremely useful information - if you visit the FAQ page ( http://www.crollco.com/FAQs.php HERE) you will see that it is highly relevant - it summarizes the information that people seek under these search terms on wikipedia - I have simply chosen to list a link rather than re-type all of the information into the body of the wiki page. I feel that I deserve further explanation as to why I have gone to the trouble of adding this information for other people's benefit only to have it removed. I apologize for the tone, but I am not pleased. ~A —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.140.228.133 ( talk) 05:58, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

The previous edit of that page was an unclear, confusing explanation of how the michelson morley experiment could prove the existence of SPACETIME, not a fucking LUMINOUS AETHER that some dummy invented to dumb down the huge importance of experiments like the michelson morley inferometer experiment. You could have read it more than once and tried to think a little objectively and do your research dude. PLease respond to me, i plan to send an email to wikipedia's staff to make sure idiots cant cause problems for people who are trying to make a difference in our world today. TRY AND GIVE SOME CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM MR OBJECTIVE THINKER. If you can prove that the edit that was on before was at all educational or at all productive compared to mine i'll give you 100 bucks.

By the way i'm willing to have a more personal, more constructive discussion if you wanna get in contact on the phone instead of trying to make constructive criticisms on a message board.

- [personal info redacted by User:Iridescent] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cabfare123 ( talk • contribs)

This is an encyclopedia, not a message board. There is no possible way "I am a first year university student at the university of guelph in ontario, canada. Get in contact with me if you have any questions or if you know anything interesting that you want to discuss with someone who will listen to you and take you seriously. Join in with me on my 'quest for knowledge'. email [redacted] and we'll get in contact. I'm trying to start a movement towards educating the people in the western world about the world they live in, and stressing the capabilities of human ingenuity(science) instead of being distracted by the world of Apple, Microsoft, News Media and political strategies." was an appropriate addition to one of our articles. –  iridescent 17:22, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

( edit conflict) The edit you made that I undid removed a large portion of well-written content, which explained what it meant to "measure aether". You replaced it with a frankly ridiculous, and extremely poorly written, passage rambling on at length to state that the theory of "luminous aether" (What is "luminous aether" anyways? The word you are looking for is "luminiferous". "Luminous" aether would mean that the aether itself was emitting light.) is incorrect and was supplanted largely by Einstein's theory of the space-time continuum outline in his general theory of relativity. (Which, by the way, the general theory of relativity has not been "proven" either. It merely provides the best known explanation for observed phenomena.) The fact that general relativity is the accepted explanation for the behaviour of light is already noted at the end of the article. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:34, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Havent you read that this experiment has nothing to do with a luminous aether anymore. People realise now, with eitstein's incredibly interesting and reasonable quantum and relativity theories that this experiment is not being used to disprove/prove the existence of a luminous aether, but to prove the existence of gravitational waves in spacetime and to give our most credible, respectable scientific theory(quantum) even more credibility and in doing so, take another step towards the enlightenment of humanity. Have you ever looked up all of massive scale inferometers being built all over the world?. We(Scientists) now know that the only reason that michelson and morley's experiment did not work is because they never had a hypothesis(besides this luminous aether theory mentioned in the introduction to the wikipedia site) as to what could be causing the inexplicable behavior(periodic fluctuations) in the 'flow of aether'(now recognized as the fluctuation of spacetime, or gravitational waves. The reason it hasnt been totaly proven yet is because we havent built an inferometer of the necessary accuracy and size to convince people that the behavior of light explored by this experiment is actually another step forward in quantum theory, and another step away from superstition and ignorance and towards science and knowledge and understanding and enlightenment of the whole of humanity. Religion ancd blind faith is not the way to enlightenment and salvation after a life of sins anymore. Dont worry about it. Science is the path to enlightenment and salvation and all i was trying to do by editing the michelson morley experiment page was to do my fucking part.

We gotta help eachother do our parts. Youre an administrator. Talk to some people, spread the desire for knowledge, instead of the desire to edit any wiki edit that seems the slightest bit absure/contradictory to the norm. Einstein was absurd/contradictory to the norm.....

-David O'Clereigh. University of guelph - E-mail removed

I DID NOT DO ANY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU LISTED AS POSSIBLE REASONS FOR YOU TO DELETE MY PAGE!!!!\

- WHO DO YOU THINK!!! duh - david oclereigh

Um, yes you did. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:32, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Also note, as per Wikipedia:Verifiability, that Wikipedia is about verifiability, not truth. Even if what you are writing happens to be true, it needs verification from an independent, reliable source. Useight ( talk) 18:34, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

i am sorry sir but i do not believe it is not constructive to add that relish is in fact, "condiment-tastic" i agree that my first edit was stupid but my second one just added a crucial fact. anyway thank you for reading my letter, and i hope you can see that this misunderstanding-tastic can be ended in a fun-tastic way please reply Tmh48 ( talk) 18:51, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

How is putting a comedians name on wikipedia vandalism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.175.88.247 ( talk) 18:51, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

• J. appears to be busy, I can field this one. The name would have to be notable. John Q. Comedian wouldn't be listed, but George Carlin would. If the person is notable (ie: well-known, has albums, etc.), then they are added to Wikipedia. Hope this helps. - NeutralHomer • Talk • January 7, 2009 @ 18:59

I hope that I'm doing this right/

The Guidance Barnstar

		The Guidance Barnstar
		Thank you very much for helping me understand the culture of Wikipedia and how to proceed during a very difficult time. Your help was invaluable. Kallimina ( talk) 23:01, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm sorry it ended up happening like it did. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:31, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

thanks for deleting the page,. I dont have andy idea how to delet blank pages... thx again —Preceding unsigned comment added by Khazert ( talk • contribs) 02:43, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem :-) You have to be an administrator to delete pages. If you need to get a page deleted in the future that you created, you can just put {{ db-author}} on it rather than removing all the text. The db-author with the curly braces will attract the attention of administrators, who will delete it for you. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:46, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello! I was just wondering if you had a suggestion as where I can go to get some of my Angel questions answered, as it appears that they are not allowed on wikipedia for it is not a forum. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.75.192 ( talk) 02:52, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

You might try asking on the reference desk. You can ask pretty much anything there. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:55, 8 January 2009 (UTC)w

Am I nuts, or is this just about the strangest placement of spam ever? Did he actually read the topic of article? :) Kuru ^talk 03:28, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

lol! "Must...insert...links...EVERYWAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!" J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:30, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

First apologies for dropping this in your lap! But having noted you have put a 12 month block on an Anon IP that has come up in a pattern of vandalism I have been following through I arrived at your User Page, read it and thought it reasonably safe to do so! ;o) So here it is:-

You have blocked 221.117.125.156 as an open proxy used for vandalism. If you take a look at the contributions of the anons listed below you will note a pattern is emerging on the style used by the one you blocked and I suspect these may all be the same person.

There is far too much coincidence from the edit summaries and the same articles targeted, with the wording "Hi. Good site." by them, with other articles added, probably to help create confusion. This is backed up by a quick look at the article histories I have enboldened.

I did notice a pattern of odd edits after spotting vandalism to a minor article on my local watchlist and commented on it on the article talk page Talk:Paddock, Huddersfield. As User:219.53.101.12 has also done an identical edit to the Paddock, Huddersfield article today the trail eventually led to your block of 221.117.125.156, via Ladder from 219.53.101.12. I have gone a bit 'Geeky' and placed the anons spotted so far on the left and their vandalism contributions to the right to show the pattern. It could go on further, but enough is enough!

69.246.44.22 - Comment, User:Nirajrm/Signhere

82.98.84.240 - Gero-Informatics, Template:Pagelist/doc, Addition-chain exponentiation, Template:Earth Labelled Map

60.216.45.10 - User:Tompw/bookshelf, Vanity (performer), Books & Co., Addition-chain exponentiation, User:Sj/Newpages, Template:Pagelist/doc

203.110.240.22 - Wikipedia:Peer review/Board of directors/archive1, Comment, Fashion show, Vanity (performer), Reply, Addon, Guestbook, Add-drop multiplexer

125.46.33.175 - Reply

201.47.187.245 - Reply, Formal, MSG, NY, Formal

66.186.237.190 - MSG, NY

221.233.197.140 - MPS (format), Subpage, PAGES, User:Nirajrm/Signhere, Supergrass (informer), Fashion show, Strut (fashion show), Reply, Ladder theory, Formal

222.180.17.45 - Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, Ladder theory, First Message, Buch (surname), Formal, Scrapbooking

78.107.16.68 - Dashboard Confessional, MPS (format)

202.44.4.85 - Supergrass (informer), MediaWiki talk:Fancycaptcha-addurl, Ladder (Go), Val Guest

58.4.70.106 - Ladder (Go)

84.103.63.130 - Val Guest

116.118.198.131 - Saddam Hussein - United States relations, Supergrass (informer)

192.82.0.204 - Paddock, Huddersfield, Saddle-billed Stork, User:Nirajrm/Signhere

221.13.32.99 - User:Tompw/bookshelf, Saddle-billed Stork

87.111.11.251 - User:Tompw/bookshelf

80.73.85.27 - Ladder

61.91.165.99 - Addition-chain exponentiation

219.53.101.12 - Paddock, Huddersfield, Paddock, Message-passing method, Ladder, Comment

221.117.125.156 - Saddam Hussein - United States relations, wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football Clubs/page name, Ladder, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Page, Addition-chain exponentiation, Template talk:Usercomment

To me they (all the IP's) appear to cross reference to each other via the histories and no doubt others will come up in the next few hours. Please tell me I'm right and not turning into a conspiracy theorist! Richard Harvey ( talk) 20:52, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I'll check them to see if they're proxies. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:57, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Quite a few of these were proxies, but most were already blocked by User:Slakr by the time I got to them. Thanks for going through the trouble to gather all that information. That must have taken a while. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:02, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

No Problem! My eyes have almost fully shrunk back into their sockets. ;o) Richard Harvey ( talk) 08:41, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Here is another one I missed from the 3rd:- 83.137.228.66 Add-in Express. Richard Harvey ( talk) 15:26, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Have you just stopped using Huggle? 0_0 o_0 The end of the world is coming! D= :P Nice losing your addiction....Cheers. Imperat§ r^{( Talk)} 14:57, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

What do you mean? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:10, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

09:41, 8 January 2009 (hist) (diff) m White separatism ‎ (Reverted edits by Witticism (talk) to last version by Will Beback) (top) [rollback] [rollback] [vandalism] and et cetera. BTW, how did you manage to get the message when you edit? You know, the green banner... Cheers. Imperat§ r^{( Talk)} 19:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, all those rollbacks. That was someone with a lot of vandalism, so I just opened their contribs and Ctrl-clicked all the rollback links. To get a notice like that when someone edits your talk page, go to Special:MyTalk/Editnotice. To get one for your userpage, go to Special:MyPage/Editnotice. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:12, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Ahh...thanks! Cheers. Imperat§ r^{( Talk)} 19:23, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello, person who knows cool things I don't! Is it possible to do something to a template like Template:Copyvio so that it will let people know when it is being substituted onto a "file" that it should not be? If you do not know, do you have any suggestions on who might? If you do, do you have any suggestions on how to go about getting that done? Images that are potential infringement should be listed at WP:PUI (presuming they don't meet WP:CSD reasoning). -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it is possible. I'll see if I can get it to work. So far, I've had some success, but I can't figure out one thing. I'll show you what it looks like when I'm done. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:46, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I really appreciate your help, and I'm so sorry for dropping it on your lap. :) If I ever ask for help with something, and you don't have time, please feel free to say, "Yes, it's possible, but I'm busy. Why not ask this guy?" -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

P.S. On second thought, I'd better not ask him. Evidently, he has history. -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:50, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

hahahahahahaha! Oh, man! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:51, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

What a coincidence, huh? Anyway, as I said (in more words) at my talk page: genius! Seems perfect. -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello, I saw that you just blocked User:70.164.48.6, someone I had just given a first offense warning to. I am a little confused. How much leeway are we supposed to give IP editors when warning for vandalism? Put another way: since IP addresses can be dynamic, how much time should we allow to elapse before starting with a level one warning instead of escalating to the next level. Thank you, 20:44, 8 January 2009 (UTC) Loves Macs (talk) 20:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. Huggle, which is a very popular vandalism reverting tool, considers warnings stale after 48 hours, so usually I go with that. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:50, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry my friend but I really think you should learn about the issues involved before blindly reverting. Mark Anderson's book ia a propagandist Oxfordian book and has no place in the Baconian theory article. It does not appear there by consensus and was put there unilaterally by the Oxfordian Smatprt. JeffersonT02 ( talk) 21:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I make a lot of reverts, so I am not sure what you are talking about. Can you give me a link? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:51, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Jefferson was probably referring to this edit. Glass Cobra 22:41, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

For some of your recent reverts. Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 22:11, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:12, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

		The Writer's Barnstar
		I wish to acknowledge your tireless work in reverting vandalism on Wikipedia. South Bay ( talk) 00:22, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I try to do my best ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:23, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I intend to add a flickr photo to an article (this one: http://flickr.com/photos/smailtronic/2261149227/) and asked the creator to change the license to 3.0 so I can add it. He says he can't see a way to convert the license from 2.0 to 3.0 and has even tried deleting the license and re-adding it, with no success. I saw your flickr subpage and thought perhaps you could help me, because I'm not a flickr user, and tell me what steps that takes. Thank you very much. Hekerui ( talk) 03:22, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Tell him to select "Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons". J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:27, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I would like to request abritration/protection of the article from user User_talk:J._M., whose arbitrary deletes of content, based of broken logic, are also accompanied by blocking of my IP addresses as a method of discussion. Note that the content he is repeatedly removing is not even mine, it's just that I'm afraid his reasoning has nothing to do with Wikipedia, rather than personal ego. And again, Mr. J.M. is not particularly very polite in his responses. I don't have a whole day to deal with his deletes, I'm just concerned that these actions destroy Wikipedia as a useful tool. Thanks in advance. 208.86.143.84 ( talk) 00:47, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Please note that 208.86.143.84 is a spammer who

1. Keeps adding spam to the Xvid article ( [5], [6]), after being repeatedly warned on his/her talk page.
2. Does not participate in any discussion whatsoever, which was confirmed by an independent editor who deleted his/her spam, too ( [7]).
3. Never explains why he/she is reverting the edits, violating the good faith guideline.
4. Keeps adding nonsese to the article, under anonymous IP addresses, and after being repeatedly explained that his edits are completely wrong and confused on the article talk page in great detail, again declined to make any comment. Instead, he/she keeps reverting the edits without any explanation whatsoever. Then, he/she is accusing me of broken logic and bad faith, again, as always, without explaining why (again, I have explained everything, both the spam reverts and the nonsense reverts). This is unreasonable, I consider it vandalism and therefore ask you to block this user from editing, or even (in the worst case, if the vandalism goes on) semi-protect the article.— J. M. ( talk) 05:26, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Regardless of his actions, the IP appears to be a proxy. Blocking... Hersfold ^{( t/ a/ c)} 20:16, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I see you've been involved in the Toussaint Louverture article and was wondering if you could help out at Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Peer review/Vincent Ogé? Thanks. Ohconfucius ( talk) 05:37, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry, the only reason I edited that page was to remove some vandalism. I don't do a lot of writing. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:55, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Are you using an automated bot to give out Level 2 warnings? 198.161.2.241 ( talk) 15:56, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

What? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:56, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Self explanatory. 198.161.2.241 ( talk) 16:00, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

OK.... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:01, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmm...ever since I've posted a request for a Editor Review, I've been thinking. Am I ready to be Coached by an admin? If so, could you do the honours? Thanks! Cheers. Imperat§ r^{( Talk)} 17:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

FYI, so that you don't run up against the three revert rule, I would be most happy to help revert some of this recurrent vandalism. I just didn't happen to be on line when it occurred. 7&6=thirteen ( talk) 17:58, 9 January 2009 (UTC) Stan

Actually, the 3RR has an exception if you undoing vandalism, so you don't have to worry about it at all if you are certain that the edits you are reverting are vandalism (as those clearly were ;-). But I really appreciate your offer! There are not many people who would have been willing to do that, and I thank you! :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:06, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. If you ever need assistance, you can count on me. Keep up the good work. 7&6=thirteen ( talk) 18:43, 9 January 2009 (UTC) Stan

Hello, JD! I'm sorry if this comment will sort of bother you, but it seems like you have been using the software for about 5 days in a row now. Do you think you'll continue using it every day for a while? SchfiftyThree ^(talk!) 18:02, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. Probably I will. I think I've been using it nearly every day for a lot longer than just 5 days. How much I use really depends on my work/school/stuff-I-need-to-do schedules. Right now, I'm off from school, there isn't much work to do, and I don't have a lot of pressing projects at home either. So, I guess a short answer would be yes, most likely. If I have free time and fighting vandalism strikes my fancy, I'll be using it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:06, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Who are you to say my information is unconstructive??? It is a little known fact that Windows 7 was codenamed "Vienna Sausage" originally because of Bill Gates' love for vienna sausages. Also during his visit to the Caribbean a number of years ago a promise was made to include "Trinidadian" as a language in future versions of the Windows Operating System because of it's unique broken English style. Maybe you should try to confirm this with someone who is in the know when it comes to Microsoft codenames. Please revert my comments to what they were originally!!! Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimedium7 ( talk • contribs) 19:41, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

You will have to find a citation to back that up. The citation used in the article, http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/windows_7.asp, states that it's codename was simply "Vienna". J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:43, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Hence the reason I said it is a "Little Known" fact!!! You won't get that on the web. Maybe you should do some real research instead of depending on software to do all your work for you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimedium7 ( talk • contribs) 19:58, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

You should read one of Wikipedia's most important policies. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:00, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok Mr. Delanoy "Take Win" (Trinidadian language by the way)

After all, I can't let you have all the fun of blocking Grawp and Co.  :) Thanks for the nice message and for pointing out that I'd forgotten to remove the rollback notice (blush!). See you over at the AIV page! -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 20:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Please see Talk:David_Letterman#Removal_of_section_on_Letterman_and_John_McCain. Springnuts ( talk) 10:42, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

You have some. Sam ^Blab 14:28, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

A probably sockpuppet, see [8].

Using Chrome, your contents box and Signpost are on top of one another. dougweller ( talk) 19:22, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

OK.

Get a real browser :P J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:23, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Shows up that way for me in Firefox too. Gwen Gale ( talk) 01:01, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

It does? Hrm. Can you take a screen grab and show it to me? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:50, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Send me an email and I'll answer back with an attached png. Gwen Gale ( talk) 01:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Sent. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:55, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

You've got mail :) Gwen Gale ( talk) 02:07, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

←I can't figure out what's causing that. I looked, and all my divs and spans seem fine. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:38, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I did something which fixes it for me. Since you're floating the TOC on the right with the signpost and archive thingy, I guess on non-MS browser it needs a canny hint to start below those two and not to overlap them. Gwen Gale ( talk) 03:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm using FF3, so I have no idea. I guess if it works now, that's cool. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:55, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I'd say it's very likely owing to updates in the Gecko (layout engine) (or call them bugs in earlier versions :). Also, the wiki software does all kinds of witchy php stuff on the fly which you don't see as it spits out Wikipedia pages, so it can be hard to foresee some outcomes. Gwen Gale ( talk) 04:05, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I understand your decision and will keep my eyes on the page. I had not noticed that edits did stop 3 or 4 days ago and may mean that kids are back in school with less time on their hands. LOL!-- Amadscientist ( talk) 04:23, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. I do stuff like that all the time, only it's more embarrassing when I do things. For example, a couple of weeks ago I deleted Today's Featured Article :O J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:28, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh man, I missed that story. That's epic. :D. You better not delete Michael Jackson if it becomes "Today's Featured Article". Although, I think you would be the least of the worries. :-/ — Realist ² 04:46, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, in my defense, I did have a (slightly) good reason for doing so. I was trying to remove a revision that included a user's personal revision. Still, it wasn't that bright, and hence, funny. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:59, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and Realist: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Michael_Jackson&action=delete

Delete "Michael Jackson"

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page has a large edit history, over 5,000 revisions.

Deletion of such pages has been restricted to prevent accidental disruption of Wikipedia.

:P J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 05:03, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Haha, that's great. :D — Realist ² 05:08, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

As you can see from this history, this article has been a real pain tonight. The AFD was clear about why it was deleted: it hasn't charted, so it doesn't meet WP:NSONGS. I've been waiting for the CSD and RFPP requests to process so I can stop watching it and go to bed. I saw you skip over it at RFPP. Can I get you to take care of it?— Kww( talk) 05:12, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Good night.— Kww( talk) 05:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

NP. Good night :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 05:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Particularly_Desperate_Housewife?diff=263263917>

I fixed the name of the main character `Stan' from `Stans'.

I fixed the misleading pronoun to not imply Stan was mauling Roger.

I removed extra, incorrect punctuation.

I changed a sentence THAT WAS NEEDLESSLY IN ALL-CAPS.

And you decided these changes were not constructive, and should be removed?!

I don't know why I did that, so I self reverted. I'm sorry for not paying attention. (that sounds sarcastic, but it is not intended to be). J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for making it right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.149.193.191 ( talk) 17:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Would you mind taking a look at this, cheers J.D. — Realist ² 17:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Notice Anything? — Realist ² 18:07, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

heh. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:15, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

"e-peen". I smell socking. — Realist ² 18:18, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I say let them. They can't edit the article, if they harrass the subject on his talk page or the article's talk page, I'll block them, and the more of them complain on the BLP noticeboard, the greater the likelihood of them drawing the (unwanted) attention of a checkuser. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I will resume you whats happening:

Rafael Nadal was fine until the user TennisExpert came and made some changes, like spamming his natal city Key Biscayne on the place of Miami, and changing the links of the master series to sponsored tournaments, which are REDIRECTS to the others, and we got consensus on not using them.

But the fun part is that, when I try to revert him, I am the vandal and I get banned, reverted by some admins, blocked.. what's happening? can Tennisexpert come, vandalize and spam his city, and admins protect him? Because this is the impression you're making to us.

The only vandalism happening it's we reverting the Miami->Key Biscayne spam from the user Tennisexpert. So consider it.. 62.57.239.89 ( talk) 18:24, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

There is a very miniscule chance I would consider except for two things:

1. Tennis expert was not the only person reverting you
2. You have been taking advantage of your dynamic IP to evade your blocks.

J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:59, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

If I'm evading my blocks, it's cause since the first day, all my problems on wikipedia have been with that user, if you do not trust me, we had a CONSENSUS to not use sponsored names not Key Biscayne (here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tennis#Tournament_names), on those maybe 50 pages of comments, you may count everyone voting for NO and only TennisExpert and maybe someone else voting YES. We had a consensus, but he doesn't care and keeps reverting and changing, and admins supports him blindly.

We try to make consensus, we make it, he ignores it, he changes it all, when we revert we get banned, and then we are the vandals? I though talking was the way on wikipedia, but this user never accepts anything and actually hes full-supported by admins to do what he wants. 62.57.239.89 ( talk) 19:19, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

PD: Moreover, I contacted someone which was on the non-sponsored side (posted a lot on the link I paste here), and he is SCARED to take part in the question. Why would it be?... < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rst20xx#about_the_war_on_tennis_.28TE_spamming_Key_Biscayne.29> . 62.57.239.89 ( talk) 19:21, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

did you do something a page and deleted it? im just wonderin' —Preceding unsigned comment added by Victorx350 ( talk • contribs) 19:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure I follow you. What are you talking about? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:35, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I think s/he means Special:Undelete/King_Evilandnice. – Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:05, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Why edit my user page inappropriately and disrupt a conversation? -- 86.45.204.34 ( talk) 00:46, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. How was this a vandal edit? The IP was answering (perfectly politely) a comment from me, and can be somewhat forgiven for being snarky given that it had just been on the receiving end of this spectacular piece of ABF. –  iridescent 00:58, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

That edit was a mistake. I was looking at his contribs trying to figure out wtf he was doing, and trying to decide whether to revert or not. When I saw the edits I noted on his talk page, I went through and reverted, and apparently I accidentally clicked the wrong link. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:02, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to do the research. -- Uncle Milty ( talk) 01:31, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi there. Could I ask you to reconsider your deletion of Miss Pooja? I had put a hang-on (which seems to have been removed by an IP) and a note on the talk page but stopped short of declining the speedy myself as I have been involved in its latest incarnation. I don't think that "my" version was substantially identical to the version which was deleted at AFD, indeed I am very familiar with the original as I have deleted some of the later ones as G4 myself!! So please, if you have a second could you take another look. Much appreciated, Nancy ^talk 19:47, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Oooh, it's been recreated. Still needs looking at though - either it goes completely or the latest set of revisions need to be restored for GFDL. Cheers, Nancy ^talk 19:49, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

( edit conflict) Sure, I apologize for doing that. It looks like it has been recreated and tagged as G4 again, and I don't know which one is the correct version. If you want to undelete it, please do, and again, I apologize. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :) You're a star. Nancy ^talk 19:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

May I get a copy of the Ralph Tribuani page I erased? 69.141.202.50 ( talk) 20:39, 12 January 2009 (UTC)DSPORTS

...Holy freaking hell...

I was on here editing my userpage at about 12:30 today, and when I saved it, I noticed a glaring red level 1 Wikidefcon userbox that says 25 RPM and up. Since I am unable to acquire a wireless signal in here on my laptop, I downloaded Huggle onto this class computer. I tried it, and netframework wasn't installed. I took a look at the recent changes page, and I couldn't get anything quick enough. So I installed netframework, and against the very purpose of my own alternate account, login using my primary.

That there in the last 45 minutes was the most insane Huggling session that I have ever done. My heart rate is actually elevated from it. I just got over 400 edits in the past 45 minutes. As of this very message, I just set a current record of 698 edits today. That's not even counting what I'm gonna do at home. I've gotta Huggle during electronics more often.

Hehe, now if you'll excuse me, I've actually got to do some work in here. Cya when I get home. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 20:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Heh. I figured you must be at school. No offense, but you are usually pretty slow. Today, you were right on top of me the whole day. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Heh, yeah their internet is so fast it's unbelievable. Downloaded .Net Framework at about 1 MB/s (Note the difference, not 1 Megabit/s but one MegaByte/s). I just hit the space bar, and it pops up as if it were even before I touched the keyboard. Same thing with reverting, unless Huggle gets a little backlogged, then everything slows down until it's cleared. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 20:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Pretty much, 8 Mbits/sec is real time, because it's not practical for the connections in between us and Wikipedia's servers to be much faster. I know because the internet at my school varies between 7 and 12 Mbits/sec, and it never seems any faster once you pass 8 Mb/sec/ J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:53, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

To UIS: Even I've seen you in Huggle today, pounding that 'Q' key and all that stuff. I have to admit, you were pretty fast! SchfiftyThree ^(talk!) 20:55, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay, so that explains why I always get beat unless I Huggle late at night. I just used internetfrog.com to find my connection speed and it pegged me at 3.06 Mbps download and 974 kbps upload. Useight ( talk) 21:09, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I have responded to your post. 203.214.39.195 ( talk) 00:10, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

ass whole —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oblivious360 ( talk • contribs) 01:29, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I simply cannot bring myself to revert this one.  :) Kuru ^talk 01:32, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

lol :D J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:33, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I have seen 2 different accounts post hate speech on the sandbox tonight. One was the n-word, and the other was talking about his teacher and how fat she is. Should I warn for this even though it's on the sandbox? RainbowOfLight ^Talk 03:13, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes. You can use {{ uw-sandbox}}. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:19, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Based on the number of warnings he was given, I think you might have blocked him a bit too early. However, I do know that based on his edits he was vandalising persistently. What are we to do in this case? Optakeover ^(Talk) 15:32, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

To add, he also vandalised his own talk page.

Well, giving someone four warnings is not an absolute requirement. I sometimes treat a level 3 warning as the last warning, since it does say that the vandal will be blocked if they continue. I generally won't block a "normal" vandal who has not received a warning that mentions that they will be blocked, but if they have, I sometimes do block before they receive an "official" last warning. With regard to his edit to his talk page, I don't think he was vandalizing, I think he wanted to see if he was really still able to edit his talk page. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:39, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

That is a load of rubbish. If you actually did your research, you'd find out that what i added to the 2+2 page was completley true. I want it re-instated now! If you refuse to do so, i will take further action against you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Speaker1994 ( talk • contribs) 16:32, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

See this page too Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Mike-Jones-at-dc. DuncanHill ( talk) 16:51, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Already blocked by someone else. Thanks, though. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Unless I'm wrong, enforcing CSD A7 isn't exactly a bad thing, but I still feel bad doing so. I just don't know.

Ruskin, Minnesota Moland, Minnesota

What should I do? Elm-39 ( talk) 16:58, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you are asking. Sorry. Can you try wording it a different way? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:03, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Certainly. I feel that I'm being a bit rash toward what seems to qualify for A7 in its current form. I'm not sure whether I should enforce A7 in such a case as this. Elm-39 ( talk) 17:05, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, those articles probably don't meet A7. If you think they should be deleted, you could try AfD-ing them. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:08, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure what to do with the recent string of edits to UCLA Electrical Engineering. It's going to take me some time to go through to see if the changes have merit or are simply removing referenced information in favor of a more adlike page. There's clearly a conflict of interest with the user's edits. What do you think? -- smurdah ^{citation needed} 18:55, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

The reason I ask is that I'm a bit new at this, and in cases of questionable (or complex) vandalism, I'd prefer to defer to more experienced users until I'm better acclimated. :) -- smurdah ^{citation needed} 18:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

In this case, all the material he was adding is a copyright violation, so there is really no difficult choice. Even if it wasn't a copyright violation, I would still remove it, since it is blatant advertising. There's no hard-fast rule, just use your judgment. Usually, you'll be right if you use common sense. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:03, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey J.delanoy, I'm not in #Wikipedia-van am I? If I'm in there, my computer speaker will beep every time I beat Cluebot, and that might rouse the curiosity of my mom, thinking that I'm editing during class. Until It Sleeps 19:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

You are there as "UIS|away". J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:51, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

>.> It won't die! Until It Sleeps 20:02, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

My computer's probably beeped like 50 times now... I don't even want to know what my mom's thinking... UntilItSleeps PublicPC 20:37, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

lol J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Stop Huggling then... :P – Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 20:44, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

*Thinks*... Nah. Class is too boring. At least with this, I'm doing something constructive, unlike this one kid that sits next to me every day and plays online games the whole period >.>. Until It Sleeps 20:47, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Who you kiddin'? Huggle is a computer game. Instead of zapping the aliens, you're zapping the vandals. – Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 21:00, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

But at least it's something constructive... I'm actually helping something out, and doing... some sort of work. Until It Sleeps 21:02, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For protecting my talk page from vandalism by an anonymous vandal.

Bearian ( talk) 22:11, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, you deleted my addition to the page Timbuktu, and marke it as vandalism. I do not think this was fair, and you just jumped to conclusions instead of actually reading it. I think you should change it back, right now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.243.169.182 ( talk) 23:10, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Can you please copy this deleted revision to my sandbox? -- IRP ☎ 23:15, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

That link does not make any sense. I don't know what you mean, sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:24, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

You can't find the deleted revision using that link? If you can't, then is it possible for you to import all of the edits made to the Widen Enterprises, Inc. page to my sandbox? -- IRP ☎ 23:34, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, I copied it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:41, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

That's not exactly what I wanted, I wanted this edit and the previous edit that was made to the Widen Enterprises, Inc. page so I can compare the revisions. If you look at the user warning posted at User talk:Jathey, you will see that it says the edit was vandalism, and I don't believe that it was. That's why I wanted to see what the edit was. -- IRP ☎ 23:47, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Will you reply? -- IRP ☎ 23:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Be patient. Delanoy is not your personal admin, let him reply when he wants to-- Jac16888 ( talk) 23:58, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/3194736267_0319abac24_o.png there's the diff. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. -- IRP ☎ 00:02, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi. I indeed found my edit summary to be informative, and do not believe there should be four bullet points from the past month which selectively report positive information.-- 76.214.153.120 ( talk) 00:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

It's not the first time I see it done, but usually not to me. Although I'm not upset or anything, I just wanted to congratulate you for taking me out of those thin clouds where I thought Wikipedia actually works.

Have a nice day. -- Anime Addict AA ( talk) 01:06, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

You deserve barnstar for being everywhere at the same time. I can't seem to get away from your username!! :) OlEnglish ( talk) 04:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. I try to do my best. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:53, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

There's an unblock request on User talk:Citrusmangler that you might wish to weigh in on. The block message stated 12 hours, but the actual block was for 24. Because of this, the user would like to be unblocked a few hours early. Best, - auburnpilot  talk 15:13, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Holy hell that was fast! So how is the vandalism anyways? I really can't use Huggle atm. because I'm connected to a very weak wireless network. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 15:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

About 18 RPM. If you do get on, report, on first offense, anyone who attempts to add a text-based rickroll. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:38, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Lmao. What is that, that "Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down" thing? UntilItSleeps PublicPC 15:42, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

You got it. I'm trying to get someone to write a bot to bot-block them, but it's harder to parse diffs than it is to parse edit summaries, so I don't know if they can write one that fast. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I can't get onto Huggle. When I try to log in, I get one of those "Huggle has experienced a problem and..." errors. So I guess I'll try during my last period. Meanwhile, I'll just be doing misc. stuff in my userspace. Cheers. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 16:07, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I just enabled it for you. That may help. ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:09, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I remember, I need to get a unified login! That's why it's not working! Now if only I could unify this one with my current SUL account instead of making the SUL tool have to create a whole bunch of new accounts that I'll never use... UntilItSleeps PublicPC 16:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I wouldn't worry about it. I can't imagine any (sane) person other than you wanting a username that even approaches "UntilItSleeps_PublicPC". ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:40, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, there we go! I'm... actually very surprised at the considerable lack of 4chan vandalism right now. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 16:42, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

(outdent) I know. I suppose many are in school, and while I can easily imagine schools not blocking Wikipedia, I cannot imagine them allowing access to /b/. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:48, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, same here, although they could have easily just took a quick look at /b/ when they were leaving their house, to see if they were planning anything. Speaking of which, are they planning any sort of attack at a certain time? UntilItSleeps PublicPC 16:57, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Not that I know of. It usually takes more than 48 hours to get /b/ organized. I would start looking for it to pick up at around 3:00pm EST, since that's pretty much the earliest that any of them would be out of school. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:59, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, it's been... disappointing so far. I'm actually surprised at 4chan, given all of the hype that I've seen there. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 20:47, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah :S J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:48, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

could you plese block this ip 75.148.9.37, thanks they have 2 current lvl 4 warnings. Hda3ku ( talk) 19:02, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done. In the future, if you see someone with a level-four warning, you will get more eyes if you make a report on WP:AIV. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:07, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, Thanks. Hda3ku ( talk) 19:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Looks like you got some fans! :D. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 19:18, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

He's requested an unblock ... I personally think it was a bit too harsh to block without warning based on his edits, but wanted you to weigh in at his talk page before unblocking. Blueboy 96 21:21, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my talk page by Chester91. -- MrShamrock ( talk) 00:03, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

np :) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi!

I have a question: Why did you undo the changes (President / Colors) at Northern State University? Thx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.176.21.253 ( talk) 00:35, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

um, what? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:37, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Did you not reverse the changes to the article "Northern State University" (President and Colors?) If yes, why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.176.21.253 ( talk) 00:40, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Probably, but I don't remember. That was over a month ago. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:42, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Mh? Am I mistaken? - I saw your name in a change to the article made today (14 January 2009)? Or was that made automatically? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.176.21.253 ( talk) 00:46, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I misunderstood. I don't know why I did that, so I undid myself. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:52, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi J.delanoy,

Yesterday, I made some changes to the entry for La Salle College, a boys high school in Hong Kong, but then I found that the contents were not posted.

First it might help to state that I am an old boy of the school, and I am also the author, Mark Huang, of the school's recently published book on the same school's history called "Sons of La Salle Everyone, A History of La Salle College and Primary School 1932 - 2007". See [9]

Therefore what I write on the school could be considered quite authortative.

The information currently on the subject is not correct in many ways, and I have re-written or moved the information around to improve it. All of the information that I wrote yesterday was original, and can be supported and refereced to the book I wrote on the same subject.

Kindly advise :
1. How can I have the material I wrote restored?
2. How can I make further additions and changes to the topic in question - without having it deleted or me having to go through this motion again?
3. If I write or re-write the history of the school, and basically the whole history can be referenced to the book I wrote, how am I supposed to reference that?
4. As I am the author of the original material, can I directly cut and paste parts of my material onto Wikipedia? That probably means, can I grant Wikipedia the right to post some of my original writings - with me fully realising that someone might mercilessly copy or edit it?

Thanks for the help.

Best regards Mghome ( talk) 06:56, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, I was just wondering why you protected Twilight. ChaosMaster16 ( talk) 23:43, 13 January 2009 (UTC)ChaosMaster16

There was quite a bit of vandalism. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:46, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I saw that there was an "experation date". Does this mean it will ever get unprotected? ChaosMaster16 ( talk) 23:56, 15 January 2009 (UTC)ChaosMaster16

I would like to apologize for the edits made to the articles listed. Unfortunately this is a school network, and as such, there isn't much I can do. Please do not ban this IP from the website, but you are more than welcome to block us from editing articles.

In Regards, A Student —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.235.167.254 ( talk) 14:30, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, if you're worried about me blocking your ability to read the site, don't. I couldn't do that if I wanted to, and I don't know why I would want to if I could. A block is only used to prevent damage to the site, and merely reading the site cannot cause problems, at least not not without a lot of effort. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:51, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi could you delete the above user talk page please? It's of an indef blocked(Aug 2008) vandal who has written something obscene there. Many thanks DFS454 ( talk) 16:40, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

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( Littlesqb ( talk) 05:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC))USER LITTLESQB

Thank you sincerely for blocking 24.46.117.40. This anonymous user is the bane of several article, as you're already aware. His vandalism is pure fabrication dressed with facts, and almost insignificant enough for people not to notice. It's the most brutal kind of misuse of an open-project encyclopedia. Blue Danube ( talk) 09:47, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I noticed that you undid some vandalism from[ guy] on the ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year entry, and I just did the same thing on the same page. Looking at his history, vanadalism seems to be all he does. He's been warned several times, was wondering what the process is for blocking that IP from making edits? I'm pretty new and haven't run into this before. Thanks! Rikster2 ( talk) 15:00, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

In general, if he has made several vandalisms and has at three or four recent warnings on his talk page, you can make a report on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism to get them blocked. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:11, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Curious about your justification for reverting out my edits to Sherbet. Why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.171.15.99 ( talk) 17:48, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my talk page. I've been noticing for a long time how incredibly fast you are at reverting huge amounts of vandalism, and this is as good a time as any to tell you how much your work is appreciated. Thanks again, mandarax •  xɐɹɐpuɐɯ 20:37, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem. And thank you :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:49, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

someone keeps changing their marital status in the info box to divorced. That is incorrect, can you please find out who is doing this and end this charade! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.95.85.219 ( talk) 21:15, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Just so you know that their martial status is correect. IP adress needs to be block. Thanks.-- M42380 ( talk) 01:47, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea what is going on here, sorry. If someone keeps vandalizing, you can report them to WP:AIV. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:48, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi,

I was working on the page "Richard & Judy's New Position" if you look at the history you will see I spent alot of time re-doing the whole article, it has been changed back to the way it was before - I assume this has been done because I have changed everything, I can't report the issue because the link is not working but if I can explain what I did to you - I changed everything because the way it is know does not tell you anything about the show expect from the ratings, my article tells you about that as well but also tells you about other features of the show such as the book club and what has been the best moments so far. I find my article 10times better and will provide people with more infomation that the one that is up now - I request premission to change it back, if you want me to explain anything else please do ask.

Thanks,

A. —Preceding unsigned comment added by R&J Fan ( talk • contribs) 23:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I undid your edit for one reason, because you replaced an entire article with a sentence. I know nothing whatsoever about the background, and as such I am not really in a position to help you. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply - I don't quite understand that I replaced an entire article with a sentence, I had 9 sections. Anyway, once again thank you for the reply and hopefully I can find someone that may be able to help me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by R&J Fan ( talk • contribs) 00:02, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

FWIW, this is the edit I undid. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:17, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

69.116.93.28 ( talk · contribs) blanked his user talk after being banned by you for repeated vandalism. Please intervene. Optakeover ^(Talk) 02:04, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, users are allowed to remove warnings, but not declined unblock requests or ISP headers. If there were any of those, I'll restore them. Otherwise, it's not a problem. Regards, J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:08, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, he vandalized it. In that case, feel free to revert. If he keeps vandalizing, I'll remove his talk page access. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:09, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! Optakeover ^(Talk) 02:11, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

J.delanoy, you would really "go around and block/delete/protect/vandalize everything [you] could think of"? I am surprised to hear that. Someone who puts a lot of work and time into improving Wikipedia, like you or me, I don't know why you'd want to wreak havoc on what you had been trying to fix in the first place. Especially when you know that whatever you delete/protect and be undeleted/unprotected in a matter of minutes. However, I do agree with you that if something like EVula's idea for desysopping were to be implemented, there had better be some stringent rules as to who may participate. For example, every !voter would have to have a minimum of 500 edits and there would have to be a really high consensus to desysop, like 90%. I agree that if it was too easy to desysop, admins would indeed fear blocking and deleting and it would hamper our work here. There are relatively few times that an admin needs to be desysopped, so there is no point in making it too easy. I think we do a pretty good job weeding during the RFA process. Useight ( talk) 17:44, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you J.delanoy for voting in my successfully closed RfA! I'm glad that you trust me. Ping me if you need anything! Best regards, -- Kanonkas :  Talk  18:19, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi! I think you should take a little more time with your use of Huggle. Not only did you revert something you subsequently realised was a good idea, but in doing so you warned the user who made the edit and never corrected yourself. Thanks, Bigbluefish ( talk) 01:38, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

It's really easy to make an honest mistake on Huggle, but J.delanoy realized his mistake quickly, so no harm done. – Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 06:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

On the contrary, this is why I left the message. The article was fixed but the warning remained. Bigbluefish ( talk) 10:04, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I've made a request at WP:RFPP regarding long term problems with this article, in issues happen to be an immediate problem now, with one IP removing large sums of sourced info without real reason. Was hoping you could take a look since your online, the protection desk is quite quiet. Best. — Realist ² 03:32, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

HEY! Why did you delete my changes on the pronouns page? It wasn't vandalism I was just make that page better by involving Dinosaurs Because dinosaurs are better than random names so GRRRRR!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dinosaur Obsessive ( talk • contribs) 18:03, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

In J.delanoy's defence, Edward is a close friend of mine and I can vouch that neither he nor Alice would be pleased to be described as "random names". It was mighty nice of him to give her his coat, so let's stick with honouring that. Also, it's possible that your dinosaur alternatives are TOO awesome and would distract from the subject of pronouns. Bigbluefish ( talk) 18:09, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I was going to say pretty much what Bigbluefish did, but the way he said it sounds better :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:21, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I do Agree that Dinosaurs are to awsome for many peoples smallish brains —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dinosaur Obsessive ( talk • contribs) 20:27, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

This just has to go in there, man. Jonathan321 (talk) 22:26, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

J.delanoy has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as J.delanoy's day! For your extreme bot-like skills at vandal smashing, enjoy being the Star of the day, J.delanoy! Cheers, bibliomaniac 1 5 00:31, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

:O wow. Thanks! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:46, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi,

I wanted to know your opinion on starting a MFD on User:JarlaxleArtemis's userpage. I am concerned it is a shrine. From other Wikis where they have also vandalised links to the page including Uncyclopedia and Wikibooks along with numerous others. There's even a definition at urban dictionary about them. If the page stays do you think it may inspire copycats? Regards-- DFS454 ( talk) 13:20, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I have rereverted your edit. This category should be deleted. It is now an empty category. HBOS is no longer useful as a category. Charvest ( talk) 18:08, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

President Barack is actually biracial or mulatto. He should acknowledge that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.94.235.46 ( talk) 20:54, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

My deletion of the redirect on Bussard Collector wasn't willful vandalizm. I did it to see if doing so would gain accress to the edit history of the article from before the redirect. Unfortunately, it didn't. :(

Is there some other way I don't know about to access the history of the article?

75.8.36.225 ( talk) 23:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

That's the first thing I tried. Sadly, the history wouldn't show, which is why I deleted the redirect to see if that would bring the edit history back.

75.8.36.225 ( talk) 00:17, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

J, I broke down and wrote up an article for Bussard Collector - if you get a chance can you look at it and give me a critioque? Thanks.

75.8.36.225 ( talk) 00:52, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Why are you blocking ANY critical comments about RBS? For a bank whiose shares are now trading at 11p this just looks loke you are living in some parallel universe, or you are working for RBS PR to block neg comments.... ;-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben D Busse ( talk • contribs) 00:28, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

J.delanoy, you may also want to look at this diff. » \ / ( ⁂ | ※) 00:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Ben. What the hell are you talking about? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:43, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I fixed the name of the RfB because I realized it wasn't the correct name, you had fixed it before I got back to RfB to do so myself!--- Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon CSD Survey Results 06:11, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

heh. I saw you transclude the other one, and I wasn't sure if I should move it or not. Finally, I decided to move it, and I opened WP:RFA in another tab so I could update it without causing any errors. I clicked "go" on both, and I move-conflicted with you.

I don't know if I'll end up contributing to your RFB or not yet. Either way, I wish you luck. Also, I mean no offense, but your nom statement looks like it was written by someone on death row. Seriously, you need to calm down. An RFB is a big deal, but not that big of a deal. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:22, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

That's because I feel like a man on death row... ;-) --- Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon CSD Survey Results 06:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I was right... I was a man on death row...--- Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon CSD Survey Results 20:29, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I just made an edit on the Niue page, and you told me it was not constructive. But according to the book, "Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horowitz, the natives smeared red bananas over their mouths to look menacing to Captain Cook and his crew. Please change it back. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.165.228.4 ( talk) 15:51, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

um, i am not sure if this is how to talk to you, J.delanoy, but I believe that the edit I made is completely accurate. I am probably not going to read long articles and junk, I don't care enough about the edit to do that and I may as well create an account if I'm going to go thorugh that much effort, but in the article the second example says it is a variation of the top example, but the top example basically means "absolutely" while the bottom one says "who cares?". if it says it is a variation then it should be, or at least worded differently so that it doesn't appear that wikipedia is wrong again. Jeez, people say its easy to edit wikipedia, but not if people keep unediting correct edits for post counts or whatever. not trying to insult, i just don't care. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.179.135.89 ( talk) 16:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica is an Ice Stream. I should know I've spent more time there than anyone else alive or dead. Julian Scott (British Antarctic Survey) There is a real problem on these pages in categorising glaciers and ice streams by their names (Which are often very old) and not by what they actually are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polargeo ( talk • contribs) 16:14, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I guess it detects big page clears? cool stuff. Headlikeawhole ( talk) 19:39, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Um, are you talking about J.delanoy, who by the way is not a bot, or another user? Like User:ClueBot for example, which is pretty much designed to revert page blankings/replacings. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 19:57, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

He's talking about me. I reverted him replacing an IP's talk page with "OBAMA IS WHITE!!!!!! HAH!!" or something. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:59, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Would you please semi-protect Ted Kennedy for a day or so? Without further information on what happened, there is a flurry of IPs editing, reporting he died, etc etc, and also Robert Byrd, as that too is being targeted. Thanks! Ariel ♥ Gold 20:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Ted Kennedy  Done and Robert Byrd  Done by Prodego. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:15, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you dear! <3 Ariel ♥ Gold 20:21, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, have you noticed that within the past 5-10 minutes that Wikipedia has become... sluggish? Sure seems like it to me. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 20:24, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, you just undid vandalism on two completely unrelated pages on my watchlist (admittedly quite a big one) in less than an hour. Respect King of the North East 23:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm using a software tool to find vandalism, so I can't take all the credit. But thanks! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:39, 20 January 2009 (UTC)r

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Here. Ottava Rima ( talk) 01:17, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Why do you keep deleting my addition about Obama's speech containing an error in regard to the number of people who have taken the oath of office? Only 43 people have been the President. Count them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.228.140.179 ( talk) 03:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I was restoring talk content that someone got rid of from earlier. it was germane to the topic of recent edits today. perhaps you saw chief justice rainman today? Cogido 'll aka Huh? 03:36, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

How did you revert my edit that quickly and have the time to send me a message?

Also I got rid of the two sections because they were mindless trivia as the indication said. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.80.185 ( talk) 00:57, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for reverting vandalism on my talk page. People tend to get pissed off and come vandalize there... GLaDOS ( talk) 03:15, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:16, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

About the revert to the Frank Patterson article? Why exactly do you think several paragraphs about a subject only tangentally-related to Frank Patterson that occurred after his death (when Frank's actual bio barely amounts to a full paragraph) and oddly placed under "External Links" deserves to stay? I'm very interested in your answer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.145.206.201 ( talk) 03:35, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Fireworks (film) appears to be a redirect to Hana-bi, but the film was released in the US under the title "Fireworks" (and per the Manual of Style (Japan-related articles) the official English title is used over the Japanese one). moocowsrule ^{talk to moo} 07:22, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, it's known as "Hana-bi" in the UK (which is an English speaking country) moocowsrule ^{talk to moo} 07:28, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Jake_W pointed out this edit to your talk in IRC: [10]. Just though you might like to see. Must have taken the guy 20, maybe 30 minutes or more to concoct this thing up. Until It Sleeps 13:40, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Probably just copypasta. Still awesome, though. — Jake Wartenberg 13:51, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, also thought you might like to see this. Until It Sleeps 13:58, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

On 2009 January 14, you blocked this troll from editing. He has immediately restarted his abuse of the wiki, however. He has again posted nonsense on this page a minimum of six times with verifiable falsehoods, and has done this same kind of disruption to many other pages as his history indicates. (If you're interested, one of his lies is that the actor Tom So played a gunman in the movie, whereas he actually portrayed a poker player.) He learned absolutely nothing from his prior two blocks and is only interested in making up names for fictional characters. Another block is desperately in order, and for what it's worth, a longer and more serious one as well. I'm growing extremely tired of reverting this troll's absurd edits over and over again, and I'm losing faith in the project's ability to deal with trolls, who are worse and more insidious than vandals. Blue Danube ( talk) 22:32, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi. I'm sure you're keeping an eye on this AfD, but I just wanted to let you know that your instincts were right. :) Compare for example this and the relevant section in the article, here. I found others, too. -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:07, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I am very very sorry about the Susianna Kentikan incident i got confused and i thought i was undoing vandalism and i didnt intentionaly do it i would never intentionaly vandalize a page it was a total accident please forgive me! Saturn star ( talk) 17:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

:'( Even though I now use Huggle, you still beat me! Not fair! /me pouts. Good job! Cheers. Imperat§ r^{( Talk)} 17:37, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Heh, thanks. I think... ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:38, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

You may want to comment here (then again, you might not). –  iridescent 21:35, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

You should nominate yourself as a steward nominee. You seem fit for the job, you know. -- Readopedia ( talk) 23:35, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Good idea. You'd have my strong support. :) — Aitias //  discussion 23:36, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thank you both! That is immensely flattering. However, if I were to run, I am nearly certain that I would not be elected. My focus is almost exclusively on en.wp; I have practically no experience dealing with other wikis. Most of what stewards do involves wikis whose communities are too small to have a need for local "officials", if you will. Besides, I am only en-N and es-2. It would be far more beneficial to Wikimedia as a whole to elevate someone with a good grasp of many languages, rather than someone who just speaks English and a bit of Spanish.

Again, I really appreciate your trust and the confidence you have shown in my judgment. I cannot tell you how much that means to me. Unfortunately, as I said, I don't think there is any way that I would be elected, and even if I thought that there was, I still don't know if I would run, due to the small number of languages I know. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:55, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I would probably have opposed you J, simply because of the lack of cross-wiki experience. But, should you get active cross-wiki vandal fighting, you'll almost certainly have a better chance next year - stewards are, for the most part, an elevated form of vandal fighter (with ability to grant rights to others as well). I don't think languages are overly important in the grand scheme of things, though of course they do help. Majorly talk 23:58, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I know that would happen. In any case, while being a steward would be nice, I don't think I have a need for it, as I do very little outside of enwiki. Should I become interested in fighting vandalism on smaller wikis at some point, I may think about applying. Right now, though, I don't see that happening in the near future. Thanks for the feedback, though. I appreciate it! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:04, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Once you finish demolishing all vandals here like Chuck Norris, I'll support you. :)   jj137 (talk) 03:54, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

hahaha!! Will do ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:58, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi there. Should I be paranoid, or does the personal information you've removed from my talkpage relate to somebody else? — mholland (talk) 00:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know if the info really was you, but the person who added the info claimed it was. Regardless, I got the edits oversighted, so you don't have to worry about them. But if the person is telling the truth, at least one person knows who you are in real life, and is apparently not afraid to post that info here. If they do it again and I see it, I will block them, but I cannot guarantee anything. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:22, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

That's quite all right. Thank you for arranging for oversight. Without knowing what was posted, I can't really say whether I'm bothered or not; thank you all the same. Was an IP, I assume, not an established editor? — mholland (talk) 00:35, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Correct. If you enable email in your preferences, I can give you more information, if you so desire. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:41, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay, then. I have enabled e-mail in my prefs. Thank you. — mholland (talk) 00:46, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

You might want to take a look. I'm not sure if you meant to make the block indefinite. It's not a voa. – xeno ( talk) 04:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for your comment. In general, I think we should avoid long protection periods on front page articles because these are usually the first pages that potential new editors will click on. To find them protected might discourage people from editing, or give them the false impression that Wikipedia is difficult to edit.

IIRC, the policy of not protecting the front page featured article started with a userfied essay by User:Raul654 that eventually evolved into the Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection guideline. I agree with the spirit of that guideline, and I believe that while "In the News" articles are maybe not as visible as the featured article of the day, the same rationale should apply to them. Specifically,

Pages which are already indefinitely semi-protected because of vandalism are generally left protected while on the Main Page. For other articles, semi-protection can be introduced for a limited amount of time under certain circumstances, for example - when a range of dynamic IP addresses are being used to vandalise the featured article page in quick succession; where personal information or potentially distressing content is being repeatedly placed onto the article; or where a few minutes of protection are needed to remove harmful vandalism from a page.

Admins may prefer to try other methods of dealing with vandalism first, such as blocking problematic accounts and IPs.

If my shortening of the page protection was distressing to you then I apologise. I think it is important, though, to view page protection (especially of articles linked on the front page) as a last resort if we want to maintain the "anyone can edit" atmosphere of Wikipedia that makes it so great.

Cheers, -- Ryan Delaney ^talk 01:55, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Do you have any idea the amount of work it would take to keep that article clean by blocking people? Approximately everyone in the United States, and a good number of people in the rest of the English-speaking world, are interested in politics right now. And an extremely high number of those will visit that article. Even though an incredibly low percentage of those vandalize the page, there is still no way that we could possibly keep up with it unless we had a bot automatically block anyone who is not autoconfirmed. In the time it took me to fill out and submit the protection form (~20 seconds), the article was vandalized twice. At what point do you draw the line between following process for process' sake and facing the reality of absolute necessity? And even past all that, why on earth did you remove my move-protection? Do you want Grawp to smear his glory in front of hundreds, perhaps thousands of people? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:29, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure about move protection- it probably expired along with the edit protection. That was unintentional. As it happens, I don't think I would say that my reason for reducing the protection duration was to follow process for the sake of process. Rather, my reasoning was as I explained it above. If you think the vandalism of this article is severe enough to warrant lengthy protection, that is a discussion I am willing to have in a civil way. I don't think it is helpful to make it into a heated issue. -- Ryan Delaney ^talk 02:36, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

• Now that this article is no longer linked from the front page, would you be willing to consider letting the page protection on this article expire to see if the vandalism is still high? -- Ryan Delaney ^talk 00:28, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, go ahead. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:19, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

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Please check your e-mail. Thanks!-- Pharos ( talk) 19:31, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi you just flagged an edit i did to humanity as vandalism. I admit it was but i was trying to highlight the vandalism already present on the page. Check the page realted to Humanity —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.197.118.6 ( talk) 15:31, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

I removed the warning I gave you. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:34, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

hi im trying to expand the half moon series. there is a book and a tv show as well as comics. instead of going straight to the novel page, would it be possible to have a disambiguation page so that all three links come up.

i dont know if im going about it the right way, but i created an identical article to half moon investigations called half moon investigations (novel) and i will be constructing one on the comics. could it be possible to rename the article half moon investigations (disambiguation)?

thanks, halfmoonfan —Preceding unsigned comment added by HalfMoonFan ( talk • contribs) 16:14, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Don't upgrade to it... It's HORRIBLE. Freezing while loading a diff on a computer with a 2.4 GHZ pentium 4 should explain why... Until It Sleeps 21:44, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

I've always had Huggle problems, usually when I click to go to the next diff, it just sits there. Usually I have to click next many, many times before it displays a different edit. When I go to revert, it reverts quickly, but there is usually a long delay between diffs that I can actually see. Sure, they're listed along the left column, but I can't see them in the main screen. I'm guessing it's due to my Internet connection, rather than my computer; I'm running a 2.6GHz FX-60. That's why I don't Huggle often. Useight ( talk) 21:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

What are your speeds? If it's anything above 2-3 mb/s, then you should be fine. Try 0.7.12, that version works great for me. It actually responds. Until It Sleeps 22:03, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Using internetfrog.com's speed test, it told me that I have 389kbps download and 296 kbps upload. Useight ( talk) 04:57, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey JD. I'm gonna have you post that little code in my main userpage again so that it's visible. Those guys at that one site mentioned in my talk page are gonna be able to see it in Google's cache anyways, so I believe it's pointless to keep it deleted.

Now, just put the code back on, don't restore everything. And re-protect it while you are at it. Thank you. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 16:03, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:09, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Just came across this, User:J.d's temp accout. Are you aware that its not actually registered?, meaning someone could register it-- Jac16888 ^Talk 03:58, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I created that account solely to usurp another account. I forgot to delete the redirects. I really don't care if someone creates it now, since it doesn't have any edits. Doing so would be the same as creating any other account intended to attack me. Thanks for telling me, though. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

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		I concur with Razorflame. You've done a damn good job keeping vandalism out, especially during that nasty little 4chan raid. More than half the time during that raid, you'd reverted it before Huggle had even started to load the diff. Mind you, that is with 0.7.12 on my laptop's wired connection, which is faster than my wireless. If it weren't for you, and Cluebot(Yes, I'm mentioning him it too), we would have been totally swamped by them, and it would have taken a long time to recover. You deserve every barnstar that you have ever recieved, and have proven yourself to be one of the greatest vandal-fighting administrators that Wikipedia has ever seen. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 17:18, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Uh, um..... Thanks....... wow. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

If you can, the Simple English Wikipedia could use an infusion of good editors from here, so if you have the time, feel free to pop in there and edit for a while :). Also, I will be editing here more frequently than before, especially when I use Huggle to revert vandalism (like I have done for the past few nights. Keep an eye out :). Razor flame 18:37, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, you haven't been an admin very long, so you'd get opposes for that. At this time I wouldn't see you passing, though you could in the future if you work in the right areas. Wizardman 05:50, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Some shared IPs are obvious. They say things like "University of Really Smart People" in their whois results. Some shared IPs don't seem so obvious to me, particularly when the organization they resolve to seems to be an organization that hands out IP addresses. Looking specifically at User talk:69.183.161.226, it indicates that it "may be shared by multiple users." Is there something in the Whois that tells us that? Contribution history is pretty consistent, and it doesn't look likely to be an employee of AT&T...maybe an employee's 10 year old daughter. :) (As usual, please let me know if you'd like me to pester somebody else. :)) -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:54, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Whoot! You're so awesome. :D -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:03, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

That just looks like a standard dynamic IP assigned by AT&T's internet services. – xeno ( talk) 14:07, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Xeno. So would that mean that we should remove the shared ip notice and treat the contributor, as based on edit history, as a single individual? (Forgive me if the question is naive; I can read Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, but I have no idea what it means. :) Is that because it's written in jargon, because I lack the essential vocabulary, or a combination of both? I dunno. I think I'm following you, but I want to be sure.) -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:32, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

I changed the notice to a dynamic IP notice. Looking at the contrib history, I would say it's safe to say it's been held by the same person for the whole month, so, yes. DHCP means that the ISP (AT&T) assigns an IP to someone (our user) and they'll probably keep that IP for as long as their cable/DSL modem stays on. However it's still a "dynamic" IP and could be re-assigned at some point. Definitely not a shared IP in the sense of "an IP at an office building". Hope I haven't confused things =) – xeno ( talk) 14:41, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Not for me, you haven't. You've clarified completely. :) Now that I know I'm not talking to an office pool, I will address as an individual. Thanks! -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:51, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Ha! I just typed up a long reply, then edit-conflicted with you and Xeno. Then, I realized my reply had more to do with "Rangeblocks 101" than with what you asked ;-) Do you want me to post it anyways? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Sure! If you've got the text, I'm always interested in learning more. :) -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:06, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Better than all that work go to waste! – xeno ( talk) 15:07, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

OK :-) Here you go. Be aware that some of the phrasing will seem a bit strange, because I was (at least originally) trying to answer your question. (Honest! :P ) Also, all the /16s, /14s, etc. I'm talking about are just CIDR ranges. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:18, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Some ISPs are nice, in that they will tell you (in the WHOIS info) what the range is doing. Most American and British ISPs will, and while I have little experience with Australian ISPs, due to the relatively small amount of vandalism they generate, I would assume that they do as well.

For example, in the report you linked to, there is a line that says CustName: PPPoX Pool - bras11.mrdnct 050405-1245.920089. In general, if a report mentions a "pool", it means that the particular range you are looking at is a dynamic range that is randomly assigned around to various customers, usually residential. The IP range is registered to AT&T, in that they own it, but the company itself is not using it. They are just porting the IP addresses to various people who are their customers.

Also, at the top of the page, it says that the net range is 69.182.0.0/15, which is pretty big (over 130000 IP addresses). If someone was taking advantage of DHCP in such a large range, you would likely be hesitant to block it. Admins can only do a /16 at a time, but a /15 is just two /16s, and if the vandal was very persistent, a short block (1-3 hours) just to show them that we can stop them, is usually enough to get most vandals to stop. But imagine that they kept going. If you scroll down the WHOIS report, it says that although that entire massive range is registered to AT&T, they only allow that particular customer to access a much smaller range, 69.183.160.0/23. A /23 is just 512 IP addresses; much more manageable.

This also holds true for static IP ranges. Large colleges, such as the University of Maryland, often reserve a range (usually a /16) themselves, in absence of any third party. Smaller colleges usually purchase a static IP range from an ISP, rather than directly registering one themselves. A good example would be the WHOIS report for 66.194.51.34. At the top of the report, it says that the range is 66.192.0.0/14, registered to Time Warner Telecom. A /14 is something like 260000 IP addresses. It is out of the question to implement a rangeblock over that, except in the case of an extreme emergency. However, scrolling down, the real range is just 66.194.51.32/28, registered to a small college. A /28 is 16 IP addresses, easily blockable. Also, (although it is usually not this easy) at the top of the report, it tells what the IP address actually is named. For 66.194.51.34, it says 66.194.51.34 = [ 66-194-51-34.static.twtelecom.net ]. This immediately tells you that you are looking at a static IP address. Sometimes, it will be something like 127.0.0.1 = [ 127-0-0-1.pool.stva.rr.com ], which would tell you that it is a dynamic IP, and likely not registered to any particular organization. In the one you linked to, it says "69.183.161.226 = [ 69-183-161-226.ded.snet.net ]", which is not very helpful, but as I said, most of the time, it is not that easy to find out what the IP range is doing.

... I suppose I rambled a lot about how to make rangeblocks, which is not what you asked, and Xeno pretty much answered your actual question while I was typing :S I guess I don't think rangeblocks are that complicated, and I would like more people to be comfortable implementing them, as they are very useful. In many cases, I see a vandal taking advantage of a dynamic IP to repeatedly vandalize a single article, or a small number of related articles. Rangeblocks can stop a vandal in his tracks without having to semi-protect an article.

Basically, when looking at a WHOIS, try to see if there is a place that says what the range is being used for. If it mentions a pool, then you are almost definitely looking at a residential range. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:18, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow. Thanks. That's extremely informative. I don't wind up having to block much at all, since I do little with vandalism (huggle users seeming to have that nailed down just fine; I occasionally get nameblocks, copyvio blocks and the very rare vandalism block). But occasionally I have semi'ed an article and never considered whether the ip was within a range. So that's something I should be aware of. I'll try to remember this, but I hope you won't mind if I have to come back with a specific question about it at some point. :) -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Can you take a look at [11] from a good intention perspective? The IP is NAT'd for a few hundred PCs. While on the heals of a couple of inappropriate edits, it may not be the same editor. Thanks -- NERIC-Security ( talk) 16:02, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, the level of warning issued is generally determined by the level of previous recent warnings, which is why I left the warning that I did. I undid my warning but that will almost definitely be blocked if it continues, regardless of whether I did what I did. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:06, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

I understand and appreciate the change. My hope is that the last edit was made by a student who was honestly trying to participate, and did not want to discourage them. Thanks. -- NERIC-Security ( talk) 16:09, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

i'd just like to say wilson palacios is a spurs player now. He was watching the game with pascal chimbonda versus stoke on monday. please change this as soon as possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.234.105 ( talk) 23:53, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

If this is within your scope, please consider enabling Semi-Protection for St. Joseph's Preparatory School. This page is currently subject to frequent vandalism due to an ongoing cyber attack against an individual. Any help would be most appreciated. 2 weeks may be sufficient. If you need any further details please let me know. Thank you. Bmurphy ( talk) 00:07, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi. When I went to check out a page on wikipedia, I was notified of a new message. You sent me an anti-vandalism message concerning an edit made by this IP. I don't edit wikipedia, and after looking at the revision history of the vandalized page, I know that the comment was placed by someone else. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but if you catch any other vandalism coming from this IP, please let me know on this IP's talk page. As far as I know my IP is unique, and there shouldn't be anyone editing wikipedia with it. Not knowing a great deal about dynamic vs. static IPs and the possibility of "crossed lines," so to speak, this is a cause of concern to me. I'm not sure what happened, but do know, again, that I don't edit wikipedia, and certainly don't vandalize it. 74.75.233.205 ( talk) 04:00, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Obviously I'm new to Wikipedia. I'm trying to add an article on the musicologist Simon Morrison, who has just written an important new book on composer Sergey Prokofiev and who reconstructed the composer's ballet Romeo and Juliet, having discovered that the initial conception featured a happy ending(!) and 20 minutes of previously unknown and unheard music. I don't know why the article keeps getting flagged for speedy deletion: there's an entire category of "American musicologists," and Morrison is more important than a bunch of people on that list. He's one of the biggest names in the field, which is admittedly small, but again, there's that whole category.... Especially given the publicity surrounding the ballet -- articles in the New Yorker, the New York Times -- and the upcoming NYC premiere -- which promises more publicity -- people will be "googling" Morrsion, and it seems only right that a Wikipedia article should appear.

I'd appreciate your help in ensuring the article meets the standards and is not deleted. Zora Ulanova ( talk) 15:32, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I'm relieved! Thanks so much. Any comments you have on the article, of course I'd welcome. When and how do all of the warning messages at top go away? Zora Ulanova ( talk) 15:52, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

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		I hereby award you this barnstar for tirelessly reverting vandalism (and usually beating me to it lol) :P Keep up the good work! astatine -210 discovered elements, what am I? (16:35, 30 January 2009 (UTC)) P.S. Any vandal talk page I go, I see your sig somewhere. XD.

heh, thanks! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:36, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

the apple page has been vandalized:

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- big tummy eaters 10.39 g - Dietary fiber 2.4 g Fat 0.17 g Protein 0.26 g moo moocow 3 μg 0% Thiamin (Vit. B1) 0.017 mg 1% Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.026 mg 2% Niacin (Vit. B3) 0.091 mg 1% Pantothenic acid (B5) 0.061 mg 1% Vitamin B6 0.041 mg 3% hummer (Vit. B9) 3 μg 1% old guy 4

65.198.31.98 ( talk) 17:56, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Looks like it has already been fixed. Thanks for letting me know :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:47, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your work and extreme patience — beyond the call of duty — to control the WP:LIVE problems in the Nestor Aparicio article. -- Mtd2006 ( talk) 21:26, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. After the Ted Kennedy mess, I'm trying to do whatever I can to prevent a repeat. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:45, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the Alestorm Page. i have noticed that you have changed the Alestorm page and cited vandalism on my part. i would like to point out that i was not vandalising the page i was making a legal change. the alestorm page says that they are Power/Folk metal. as a fan of the Band i know that they are not Power/Folk metal. i had changed thier gnre to Pirate Metal because that is what they are. i am not going to change it back tonight (30-01-09 at 10:31 GMT). please reply back to this post as i beleive that you have made a genuine mistake in regards to the Alestorm Page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Julian Dugard ( talk • contribs) 22:32, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

There's a user requesting Speedy deletion on Abraham Jocube-Chowdhury. I have given the user warnings before, but I'm afraid that those warning might be wrong. Could you give me a second opinion? Thanks. Techman224 ^Talk 00:07, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

It involves 79.66.190.44 ( talk · contribs). Techman224 ^Talk 00:09, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for semi-protecting Valentine's Day, an annual chore, it would seem. I am always reassured when I see your name in my over-long Watchlist. Thank you for all you do. -- Wetman ( talk) 02:04, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi ! I saw you blocked this user, but he's now editing as 81.64.4.97 (see __Aniosgel.2C_82.65.178.183__-_11_d.C3.A9cembre_2008 CU on wk:fr). This ip is also blocked on wk:fr for one year. Sardur ( talk) 15:59, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, another admin just blocked him, sorry for disturbing you. Sardur ( talk) 16:48, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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