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Ludacris and protection

Crash!

While you were busy declining, I was busy semi-protecting for a week. If you have strong feelings that Ludacris should be unprotected, feel free. I won't take offense.-- Fabrictramp | talk to me 02:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

haha! It doesn't really matter to me, so I'll just leave it for now. That's pretty amusing :D J.delanoy gabs adds 02:42, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Wondering

Why you edited my ammendments without giving a valid reason? Just saying it was ammended because it was previously undone by another mod is not really a valid reason for you to undo it. Do you have as many valid reasons as I have IPa's ?

W —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.64.93 ( talk) 02:47, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

The comment gave a reason for why it was there. Also, what is an IPa? J.delanoy gabs adds 02:49, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

i wasnt done

Hey dude, wats up? i wasn't finished with the page! anywasy how do you get the stutus?

--Victor x 350 21:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Victorx350 ( talkcontribs)

Here's a barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Awarded to User:J.delanoy by User:Mikaey, because you're always beating me to the punch on reverting vandalism edits on Huggle! Matt ( talk) 20:27, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 22:57, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Log entry deletion

If a log entry contains personal information, is it possible for a developer to remove it? -- IRP 21:25, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

These days, it is even possible for oversighters to remove it. Go to WP:Requests for oversight and follow the instructions there please. NuclearWarfare ( Talk) 21:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Yes, I think even oversighters can do this now. Special:Emailuser/Oversight with the details. – xeno ( talk) 21:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I wasn't saying that any of my personal information was in a log entry. I just asked this out of curiosity. -- IRP 22:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Prices and Purity of Cocaine/Heroin

Contrary to what the DEA might say, the price and purity of street drugs has taken a "positive" turn for those who use drugs. This is to say that the purity of street drugs has increased, while price decreased. The following comes from the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Please revert my edit, as it is valid, and more factually correct than that crap that the DEA has stated.

http://www.csdp.org/edcs/image6.gif (Figure 4 Source: ONDCP. 1998 National Drug Control Strategy. Table 20.)

http://www.csdp.org/edcs/image8.gif (Figure 5 Source: ONDCP. 1998 National Drug Control Strategy. Table 20.)

"The indicators of a successful supply-reduction effort are rising drug prices and decreasing drug purity levels.5 Using data supplied by the ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy), it is clear that the price of heroin has instead dropped significantly over time, while its production has risen greatly. The price of cocaine has similarly dropped from $275.12 per gram in 1981 to $94.52 in 1996.

Despite massive investments in border patrols, overseas crop eradication efforts, Department of Defense involvement and arrests of drug smugglers and drug dealers, the drug war has not reduced the supply of drugs nor made them more costly to obtain.

The market prices for illegal drugs follow the same laws of supply and demand that apply to all commodities. The drug war creates an artificially high commodity price, and these huge profit margins have encouraged more drug producers to enter the market. Greater production has created economies of scale. Lower production costs allow drug cartels to earn the same high profit margins with lower retail prices. The cartels accommodate for interdiction efforts by over-producing their commodity to account for the losses. Since a kilogram of raw opium has been reported to sell for $90 in Pakistan, but is worth $290,000 in the United States, law enforcement seizures at our borders have very little impact on cartel operations or profitability.6 "

There is also this:

http://books.google.com/books?id=dwGpsNjv_1kC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=ONDCP+national+drug+control+strategy+1998+heroin+purity+increase&source=bl&ots=MSppZTF1L5&sig=9LBRE7EXj8cNH7NEvADPL0Nh2Mg&hl=en&ei=Cn-sSaepNYi5nQen3bG_Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA107,M1

Please revert my edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.180.61.44 ( talk) 00:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Deleting articles

If deleting an article is vandalism what is the proper way to get it done. MassivRestarter ( talk)

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:13, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

why

Why did you do this? 71.248.115.187 ( talk) 01:41, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Polygamy

Why you removed my information about Poland? Polygamy is punishable by law in Poland. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.120.120.243 ( talk) 03:33, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you - that was spot-on :) Serious unsourced/BLP issues which required oversight - Alison 07:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

No problem :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 13:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Hugglez

Zomg Huggler r back! D= (It took me another 3 edit conflicts to realize that :P) Imperat§ r( Talk) 15:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Someone apparently hates me... he even created a page about me! :) Cheers. Imperat§ r( Talk) 15:43, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Are You Paid To Edit Wikipedia Articles?

Are You Paid To Edit Wiki Articles?

More specificially, are you paid to monitor and edit Katies Courics wikipedia article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.240.5.45 ( talk) 20:44, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I doubt it, but if he's getting paid, I want a taste! – xeno ( talk) 20:43, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
The pay's lousy, but the groupies make it all worthwhile. –  iridescent 20:44, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I still haven't seen a check and the groupies must have the wrong address. Alansohn ( talk) 20:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
No, I am not paid to edit. At least, I've never gotten any checks. I wonder if that idiot down at the post office is stealing them.... J.delanoy gabs adds 20:47, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
A lot of people don't know about paid editing; you need to click the button to activate paid editing on your account. Once you've done that you're paid 1c per edit. It soon adds up. –  iridescent 20:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Ah, thank you ;-) J.delanoy gabs adds 20:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Wait, you guys haven't been getting paid? Useight ( talk) 21:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
chyeah! Just click the button, fill out the form, and submit. Simple. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
the pay's alright, but I love the company car. Who'd have thought the Wikimedia foundation could afford Aston martins-- Jac16888 Talk 21:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
inorite? And these Macbook Airs, too. I never would have believed it. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:13, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I get free cars for life thanks to my insertion of positive spin into Ford and Chrysler. My next series of edits will be to Drugs, Money and Sex. –  iridescent 21:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Hmm? Admins talking about stupid postal workers! Sounds silly, but, amazing hilarious at the same time! Thx Al and J 4 editing my obvious screw-ups I'm still learning C++, Linux and other programming codes like html and whatnot so sorry if im making your computers go nutz on ya. Dhaz wey dhanya! :) {[_-=-Tresapedario-=-_]} ( talk) 21:36, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Sebastien290194

That is my other account that I do not use anymore, so I deleted the discussion. Its not unconstructive. -- Flash flash ; 20:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

You should still log into that account to avoid confusion by other editors. Versus22 talk 20:56, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Anti-Vandalism

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I hereby award J.delanoy the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for continuously reverting vandalism JUST as I was about to do it myself :) Good job! Neu tralle 21:48, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

thank you :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 21:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

The Grudge 3 plot

Hi why did you revert the plot back to the way it was. The plot posted before told the complete story and had many errors. The full plot should bot be revealed until May 12th 2009 so it does not spoil the story for people who have not seen the movie yet.

No. Wikipedia does not remove plot details. See WP:SPOILER. J.delanoy gabs adds 22:54, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi ok thanks. But can I rewrite the full plot? The one there now is choppy and has many errors in spelling and in the actual plot itself. 173.68.184.9 ( talk) 22:57, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

A Request to Lock Tom Delonge

Hey, I noticed some people trying to be funny on Tom Delonge's page... I would like it locked... I tried locking it myself... I can't get the lock to work though... Do you think you could lock it please? March 3rd 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by MySummerJob ( talkcontribs) 23:37, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Why are you not responding 0_0!?-- MySummerJob ( talk) 01:52, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

heh, I somehow didn't see this section. Anyways, with regard to the article, there is quite a bit of vandalism, but it's pretty spread out over a couple of weeks, so I don't think it needs to be protected now. I will keep an eye on it, and if it gets worse, I will take action. If it gets worse and I'm not doing anything, you can make a request on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection if you would like to have more administrators look at your request than just me. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 02:01, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, I understand.... However, I would feel much better if random IP couldn't make changes to the page, and only people with accounts, like us are allowed to make changes to the site. -- MySummerJob ( talk) 02:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, it is possible to block IPs, and I will not hesitate to do so if they don't listen to their warnings. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:24, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I knew that would happen...

RE: Miodio. OK, I'll try to make this simple. The band's name is "Miodio", as shown by the two websites I entered into the box afterwards. I have never seen the name "Mi Odio". As the page "Miodio" was a redirect page, I simply moved everything across - for obvious reasons. Yeah, OK, the talk page thing is slightly weird, but its not as if anyone will nitpick. How else should I edit the page? I tried moving it but the page "Miodio" existed - the redirect. What is there to do? Its plainly obvious the band name is Miodio... Dave ( talk) 01:36, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know anything about the band. All I saw was that you blanked a page with no edit summary, and I thought you were a vandal attacking the page. If not, please accept my apologies. In any case, you shouldn't do cut/paste moves. See Help:Moving pages for info on how to change a page's title. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

A vandal... nice. Don't worry - I've stopped a few vandals before on other wikis. I can assure you I'm not a vandal... really! :D If that case, apparently I need to be an admin to move the page "over" a new one - the "Mi Odio" article onto the "Miodio" page (which is currently a redirect). Could you do that instead? And change the page "Mi Odio" as a redirect to "Miodio"? That would be very helpful! Thanks, Dave ( talk) 01:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, done. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:56, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

4im warning

I was just going to try to find an admin and ask if this was the type of thing that a 4im warning was used for. I had assumed that things that were a violation of NPA would fit. (perhaps outing issues too?). I see the previous warning stopped just short of the 4im, I figure while I'm typing this, you're doing your behind the scenes super-duper admin magic thing, so ... long-short ... 4im for that kind of post? — Ched ~ (yes?) 02:13, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

yes, that is exactly what level-4im is for. Actually, I just blocked him. That sort of editing is completely unacceptable. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:15, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, sorry I keep pestering you with these new questions I'm sure you've answered a hundred times, but other than Cluebot - you're the most active vandal fighter I've seen yet. Appreciate your patience ;) — Ched ~ (yes?) 02:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
You're not pestering me! Actually, the main reason I'm here is because I can help people. That's pretty much the only thing I really like doing here. I mean, vandal-fighting is cool, but it's boring for the most part. Also, thaks for the compliment :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 02:20, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Accidental Mispelling

I accidentally spelled disamiuation instead of disambiguation. Could you fix it? I marked the misspell as a CSD. Cheers. Imperat§ r (Push that button) 03:14, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, essentially, I ended up moving the page back to its original location. IIRC, unless there is a compelling reason to have a title point at a specific article (for example, Obama redirects to Barack Obama, and the latter includes a link to Obama (disambiguation)), the disambig page usually goes at the actual name. If you disagree with me, feel free to move it back. Also, I don't think you are supposed to use templates in your signature, so you may want to change it before someone attacks *looks around* J.delanoy gabs adds 03:25, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers. Imperat§ r( Talk) 13:00, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

best way to handle?

this lead me to see [1] ... should I just WP:DENY or post NPA warning (I could personally care less .. but if it nips a problem in the bud, I'm for whatever is best for the wiki)— Ched ~ (yes?) 04:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I usually revert stuff like that, but I rarely issue warnings for vandalism on someone's own talk page. But that is just my own personal preference, and I would say that warning someone for vandalizing their talk page would be valid. I just don't personally like doing so. J.delanoy gabs adds 04:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
OK - I'll just ignore, and hope the posts to my talk page stop when he gets bored. ;) thx — Ched ~ (yes?) 04:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Knob Noster High School

Please delete the page with the same title per request of school administraation, as it is a violation of copyright. As students are getting in trouble until site goes down. Thank you. Knobbie10 ( talk) 13:17, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Moved from your user page -- Closedmouth ( talk) 13:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks like another admin already got it. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:00, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk Page Vandalism

Thanks for the speedy vandalism revert on my talk page! Cheers, ponyo ( talk) 15:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 16:02, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Ted Kennedy

Hello I was not vandalising anything as you suggested, I was correcting a glaring spelling error! You've changed it back for no reason! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.140.20 ( talk) 16:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

It is not a spelling error. In American English, many words end in -or rather than -our. Please see American English and British English differences. Since Mr. Kennedy is an American citizen, his article uses American English. J.delanoy gabs adds 16:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

I've been learning a lot from you behind the scenes on your Wiki expertise. Thanks!

Thanks :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 17:53, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Block of 142.23.96.200

Hi, J.delanoy. Please consider a similar block of 142.23.96.199, who also vandalized Child Labour after an L4. Cheers. -- Rrburke( talk) 17:56, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Already done. -- Rrburke( talk) 17:58, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Range is now blocked for 72 hours. J.delanoy gabs adds 18:01, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. How would you feel about semi-protecting Joe Banner? -- Rrburke( talk) 18:27, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

why did you delete our information about dorset? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattrickleslie ( talkcontribs) 19:47, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Please be careful...

You just reverted this edit. It was just someone (successfully) clarifying their own comment on my talk page. Try to be a little more cautious with reverting edits. Thanks! - Drilnoth ( talk) 20:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

D'oh! Just saw that you reverted your own edit; I'd just seen the diff on the anon's talk page. My bad. - Drilnoth ( talk) 20:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Huh, warnings?

Just turned on my computer and opened wikipedia. On the main page there was the banner saying I had new messages. I though this was a little weird as I was not logged in at the time. Regardless, I read the messages and find that this IP address has several warnings for childish vandalism. I am on the University of York UK network and have heard that there are several IP addresses for each accomadation block. Just to clarify, if this IP address is banned from editing/account creation (as it seems it may be), will I still be able to log in and edit if I acquire this address again in the future? Sorry if the English is bad, I am a Russian studying chemistry in the UK I shall sign this from the IP address. 144.32.155.203 ( talk) 20:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Your English is fine. As far as the IP address goes, yes, you will still be able to log in and edit. It is rare for an IP block to be implemented so that not even logged-in users can edit through it. In the unlikely event that such a block is implemented, instructions on how to get the block removed will be shown when you try to edit a page. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:54, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

RE: Thought you might enjoy this

LOL, I guess I am a somebody now! It is very ... interesting that this editor would leave a block notice for Marek69 when just 15 minutes prior the newly registered user TennisPro2 ( talk · contribs) left me this message complaining about the exact same editor. -- Kralizec! ( talk) 21:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I noticed that in October 2008, you blocked an IP address which has been reblocked in January ( 128.220.159.20). This user had been deleting information on Template:Iran Ethnic Groups Labelled Map and Ethnic minorities in Iran and obviously had some strong opinion about the subject. In the edit summary for the latter article, the user consistently seemed to talk about "propaganda" and how the article is "baiased". Qartal74 has recently deleted a this same template from the article with the same type of edit summary, which leads me to sort of believe that it could be the same user. I'm not familiar with the subject, though I assume that since this other user's actions were identical and reverted I should do the same. However, I am curious as to how this should be handled--it appears to be the same user, and their block has expired but they've returned to continue their exact same actions. I'm warning him/her, but I wanted some insight about what else can be done. Thanks! DreamHaze ( talk) 21:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting issue

Hi, my vandalism-fighting often seems to intersect with yours... Would you mind looking at recent Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting edits (with relevant past discussion in Talk:Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)) and advising on a seeming POV-pushing lede issue? (New editor has been given the usual welcome/intro messages but blanked his talk page.) Thanks. — EqualRights ( talk) 05:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Reverted edits by SoxBot

Is there a problem with the recent SoxBot edits? The one you reverted on the Lennox Lewis article had fixed a broken link.-- SaskatchewanSenator ( talk) 08:35, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

The bot had malfunctioned, and the owner asked me to revert all of the edits, since it would be easier to undo all of them and then redo them than it would be to try to figure out which ones were accurate. J.delanoy gabs adds 13:55, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
OK. Thanks!-- SaskatchewanSenator ( talk) 18:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I actually tried to do it, but gave up after a few reverts. For one, it was way too hard to go through each one to determine which of them were legitimate and which ones weren't. The early ones actually made sense, until the x's and excess statics took over. Then you had other users edited the page after Soxbot, which meant you had to go and see if that was a good edit and then either use twinkle rollback or manually edit the page to remove what soxbot did. I satisfied my mass reversion quota by reverting an IP who was screwing up NFL infoboxes. Enigma msg 04:28, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

CHOW

I undid your reversion. My edits are factually correct. I am not a vandal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.185.60.226 ( talk) 16:59, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Articles on Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette et autres Bourbons de France

How do we get semi-protection for their constantly vandalized articles? (I do not have time to go thru the process. Do you? Would you?) Frania W. ( talk) 20:20, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

The Working Man's Barnstar
I award you, J.delanoy gabs adds, the Working Man's Barnstar for the tireless and exceptional work you do in the fighting of vandalism on Wikipedia.
Also for always managing to catch those who vandalise my user and talk pages. -- Marek.69 talk 21:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)


Hi J.delanoy, I just wanted to say thank you for catching the vandals who were up to no good on my talk page yesterday :-)) Marek.69 talk 21:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Not a problem :-) You do good work, and that's why you are being attacked. Thanks for the barnstar :D J.delanoy gabs adds 21:11, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Iron Curtain

All I have done is standardise the variety of English, I somehow ended up with extra text, but I have sorted it. 86.166.116.91 ( talk) 21:25, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Please see the following page, The Aviator. I have been observing some vandalism of a section of the article, but now it's advanced instead of through other means to a legal threat. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 21:33, 5 March 2009 (UTC).

Legal threat? J.delanoy gabs adds 21:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

User: IP 172.129.131.47

Hello J.,

It appears that this vandal—the one who is fond of adding the name "Montalbano" to Wikipedia articles—has used some other anonymous IP addresses as well. They are 172.129.121.143 ‎and 172.130.33.65. These other IPs are not blocked. The vandalism from them isn't all that fresh, but I think I'd let you know about it anyway. Not all of the vandalism had been repaired, so I'm checking for errant Montalbanos now.

Cheers, GentlemanGhost ( talk) 00:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

beachlands

i made a constructive add on and you deleted it and dint say why i live in beachlands its deffinatley a new development urs sincerly ice sparkle princess —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ice sparkle princess ( talkcontribs) 01:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy J.delanoy/Archive 15's Day!

User:J.delanoy/Archive 15 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as J.delanoy/Archive 15's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear J.delanoy/Archive 15!

Peace,
Rlevse
~

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it.RlevseTalk 02:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Wow. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 02:35, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Congratulations! — Jake Wartenberg 13:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Constantinople 1930

Evidence(references) have been posted to talk pages of Andrew Mango [2] and Halil İnalcık [3] indicating that the city was called Constantinople until 1930. Apparently these facts are not as qualified as Buyukresim's personal opinion [4] [5] [6]<here he violates 3RR. He has refused to engage in using the talk page. Is there anything you can do?? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 17:25, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


Hi all. Just for the record: I did not refuse to engage in using the talk page. I said "Please see the discussion of Andrew Mango entry. The same subject was discussed there." -- Buyukresim ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC).

Articles should rely on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. This means that we only publish the opinions of reliable authors, and not the opinions of Wikipedians who have read and interpreted primary source material for themselves. [7]. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 18:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
More evidence, related directly to this issue [8], Occupation of Constantinople. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:23, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


I am reporting that user as a possible sockpuppet of Rangersarecool and because the user's username is a blatant violation of the username policy.

Notice the similarities between the contributions of the suspected sockpuppet accounts:

...and the new suspected sockpuppet:

-- IRP 22:19, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I don't know. It could just be someone being annoying. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:14, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Page protection requested

 Done J.delanoy gabs adds 17:08, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Shakira's picture on the Style Section

Dear J. Delanoy,

This is Xavi and I'm a fan of Shakira. I've been watching Shakira's wikipedia page and there's a picture that a lot of fans are complaining about. The file is named File:Shakira at Dodge Arena.jpg. I uploaded the official picture that Shakira's management sent me ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shakira_MadisonSquareGarden.jpg). Is it possible to make the change?

Thank you so much!

xavi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xavimenos ( talkcontribs) 19:46, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- IRP 21:00, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

By the way, you did not reply to the above post: User:Ip:33.07.12.119↑↑ -- IRP 21:12, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for undoing my hard work and efforts make the article sound better grammatically and more relevant to the topic. Apparently you consider these things "unconstructive". Do you know what is unconstructive? Carelessly reverting the hard work of others without even making a comment or asking for clarification.

Compare my version with yours.

first change: mentioning that Hess is considered a martyr by the party. Why you don't think this is important, why it should not be mentioned so as to say why the NPD has a picture of Hess there, is beyond me.

6000 is not an exact figure, it is an estimate. The JLO says around 7. The NPD says 7 or 8. The media has said at least 6.

Nobody met the demonstrators - again, meet suggests confrontation. There was another rally in the middle of the city held by antifa. There were two demos held the previous days, too. One was anti the other was nationalist. So what? None of this is important.

the section "alleged intimidation attempts is not even about intimidation.

a concert cannot declare itself an "anti-fascist" concert, the organizer calls it that.

What does it mean to "exert party influence"? That sentence is very awkward. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.73.196.41 ( talk) 21:33, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for your help in removing the vandalism from my talk page. CardinalDan ( talk) 22:57, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


Coal

Your removal of my edit to the page on Coal prompts me to write:

1. The edit was a recommendation for consistency. The table at the top of the page is not consistent with the content further down where I made the recommendation.

2. The edit was a recommendation for clarity, with examples. Regardless of how much the calculation of carbon dioxide production seems to match some reference, the process shown was incorrect. The math was fine, the assumptions were "jiggered" to get a result that matched some reference. That's not good science and it's misleading. I showed correct values for CO2 vs C that need no external reference, unless from a basic chemistry text. Any basic chemistry text.

3. The edit was a recommendation for someone else to do some work. If this is wrong, I'm guilty, but the recommendation should remain for a while, and not be dismissed with a reference to something else that does not address the methodology being criticized.

4. To restate the simplest issue, if the table near the top of the article on Coal does not show a single example of coal with carbon <60%, the equation using 50% is simply inapplicable and either the table or the equation needs work. Since most coals in the table are >60%C, that equation is misleading and your reversion continues that error.

WAH —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.54.36.117 ( talk) 23:50, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Blunk revert

Hello, On Mar 6, you reverted an article on Blunk. I have since reverted it to a much earlier version because it looked like it had been slowly vandalized by 76.251.108.243 on Mar 5. Please review this change and make sure you agree with my reversion. J appleseed2 ( talk) 00:35, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I think that was good. I probably should pay closer attention to make sure I get everything. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 00:41, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Jennifer Lopez: Greatist Hits

Ah, whatever if you feel whatever you see on the Greatist Hits page is appropiate and valid that's not problem I still believe you should take another look and if you do you will notice the page is a mess! I was simply trying to clean it up because those paragraphs truly did not belong there... and I would think you being a Wikipedia Editor you would undertstand why I deleted the the paragraph.

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring request

Hi, you've blocked User:70.229.32.97, but he's now editing under User:69.214.11.178 doing the same reverts. A 3R request has been lodged. Would it be possible to also block User:69.214.11.178 as well? Thanks. A-Kartoffel ( talk) 02:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

douglas texter

how is this guy notable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.249.1.190 ( talk) 04:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Admin coaching?

Hi J.delanoy,

Yours is a name I've seen around quite a bit, usually at the same times of the day/night as me. I'm interested in becoming an admin at some point (I've got an active RfA, but it looks as though it's going to fail). What I'm curious about is whether or not you'd be interested in doing some admin coaching. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Matt ( talk) 08:45, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Matt, sorry I didn't see this post earlier.
I don't think I would be a very good admin coach. For one thing, I passed RFA on credentials that should not have allowed me to pass. For another, I think I tend to be "too nice" when it comes to RFA. Sorry :/ J.delanoy gabs adds 23:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
No problem. Can I at least bug you for advice when I need it? Matt ( talk) 02:49, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Of course :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 02:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Ooh, I'm gonna smack him...

Grumblegrumblegrumble Half Shadow 23:08, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, then, give your server a clip behind the ear and send it to bed without supper. Damn uppity hardware... Or is it software? Half Shadow 23:18, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

You're The Man Now Dog

I don't know how you do it, but you seem to be all over this project removing nonsense. Perhaps one day you shall train me in your ways, and I will one day be able to revert so much vandalism without going insane. Anyway, I would award you a barnstar, but I don't do that. But I'll tell you what I will do. I will award you this incredibly lovely[citation needed] bold, italicized, and underlined asterisk:

*

Use it well, my friend, use it well. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 02:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Um, thank you... J.delanoy gabs adds 02:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Removal of a link

Hey J.delanoy, I was using HG to remove the link, not add it. Just wanted to make sure there was no confusion about it. Thanks AeonicOmega ( talk) 04:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Wind down

You know telling me I suck in a rollover was pretty low even for a Wikipedia administrator last minute cheap shot. Every time I ask myself, how low can Wikipedia administrators go, somebody else comes along to show me my eyes are still way too high on the horizon.

Now that people had finally got to discussing substantive issues, you had to come along for a wiki-admin-cheap-shot. You suck more than I ever could. The most important thing editors could ever do to improve the atmosphere on Wikipedia is discuss issues. This includes administrators. -- KP Botany ( talk) 08:57, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Was just wondering why it was reverted, I simply provided the translation of the red-underlined text, which provided a rather startling insight on "WHY" they were well-fed that day and what the red ribbons were in the drawing. Let me know what I did wrong. - Halyna —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.121.140.31 ( talk) 20:43, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

The above comment is mine, I now created an account on this wiki. RoseOfKali ( talk) 20:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Don't remember, so I self-reverted. Sorry. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I made a few more translations for that article since, if you or someone else would like to revise them for proper formatting. Thanks. RoseOfKali ( talk) 03:55, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Concering My Edit

How was that a violation?

I SIMPLY made it easy to read without the extra bullshit people add which is utter useless >_> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.226.212.190 ( talk) 01:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

If you are talking about the edit in the article " 1" then you should read the disambiguation at the top and realize that the article was about the YEAR 1, 2008 years ago, not the number, and the link to the NUMBER 1 article was right there in the same sentence. Also, your edit was unconstructive and looked more like a comment on a talkpage than an encyclopedia entry. What is useless to you may be useful to someone else. RoseOfKali ( talk) 16:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

War on Vandalism

This user, J.delanoy, is hereby recognized by User:Dromioofephesus as an Ally in his War on Vandalism. ( Ally list)

You have earned my trust and I look forward to working with you in the future.
Dromioofephesus ( talk) 11:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thanks.. J.delanoy gabs adds 16:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Apology

I accept your apology. You know, I suspect you've now looked at what the rollover looked like by your tone on my talk page--it was absolutely stunning. I believe you that it was a link; but I won't go check it.

Please consider, though, as many people as were going at me at that point, no additional offense was needed, particularly as it appears from Headbomb's user page that this sort of offensive is something he's used before, and is proud of--at least enough to include it on his user page. As an administrator butting in you have a number of options, and I hope that your number one choice in the future is to ruthlessly stick to the substantive issues, rather than discussing personalities or applying your own standards to what another editor should be offended or insulted by. Once you start discussing someone personally you forfeit your right to decide how they will respond to your comments about them. If I had not been the topic of conversation no debate about whether or not I should be insulted could have arisen--it's that simple: don't talk about the person and there is no question of standards of insult.

-- KP Botany ( talk) 20:33, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for accepting it. Again, I had no clue you would interpret it that way. I will take your advice to heart. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:36, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Actually, if you mouse over the link it says "U suck," and nothing else whatsoever. So, what came across was the message, "This" is a personal attack, and I roll over "this," and you're telling me, "U suck." I didn't bother to go deeper into what I thought was a Wikipedia essay along the lines of "Don't be a dick," a dickish way to tell someone you think they're a being what you're acting like (not you, as in you J, but whoever is passing on the essay, the generic you). We're cool as far as I am concerned. Thanks. -- KP Botany ( talk) 07:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Ham

Why is my edit unconstructive? I can't see pictures so small as they are. I have really bad vision and I cant afford glasses. Please let me make the picture as big as my screen so I can see it and get more knowledge from it. Don't be prejudiced towards handicapped people. You non-handicaps don't understand what it is like to be us. 74.214.50.116 ( talk) 21:01, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Making the picture 30000px is disruptive. Every browser in existance, and most operating systems, allow you to magnify pages. Use that. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Banned user Nangparbat

I saw you reverted an edit from Special:Contributions/86.158.234.39. i suspect he is banned user nangparbat who has a long history of disruptive edits on wikipedia especially with India elated articles. User:Hersfold/Vandal_watch#Nangparbat thought you might be interested -- Wikireader41 ( talk) 21:13, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

That annoying guy one last time before he falls asleep after 48 straight hours of spamming your talk page with ridiculously long section names

I know you are probably busy reverting hundreds of cases of vandalism, tagging dozens of articles for speedy deletion, spreading your knowledge of foreign soft drinks at the reference desk, rescuing a neglected article from almost certain deletion and bringing it to GA status within minutes, copyediting thousands of articles for cohesion and grammar, re-categorizing scores of pages, arguing your points at Wikipedia:AnythingForDebate, wikifying the Wikipedia's newest articles, interrogating Wikipedia's Most Wanted, creating self-referencing templates, and, occasionally, even doing something that won't get reverted by Jimbo Wales, so feel free to take all day in the epic chess match. It's not like the whole world is waiting for you to move your man or anything. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 02:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

All Cape Welding

I do not get why you find it cool to vandalize All Cape Welding. Stop doing it.-- RobbieG2448 ( talk) 04:35, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

J.Delanoy is not responsible for the vandalism on that article. In fact, he helped revert vandalism caused by Aidepikiw8047 ( talk · contribs). Next time, please check the diffs before you accuse administrators of vandalism. Thanks.
Dromioofephesus ( talk) 13:51, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Please Help

Hi, I am not sure if this is the correct way to go about it but, is all I know at the moment. Some of us have been trying to go forward with a change in an article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Medical_cannabis#First_Picture_is_not_Recent . If you could offer any suggestions on what I should do, if I am wrong, or if there is some way I should go about this, it would be enormously appreciated. Thanks -- Agent Agent ( talk) 05:06, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Topaz

Quick question..are you a gemologist? -- 24.21.148.212 ( talk) 06:24, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Um... no.... J.delanoy gabs adds 06:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Exactly. -- 24.21.148.155 ( talk) 23:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
...... and I have to be a gemologist to know that calling someone "gay" and adding random commentary about your friends is not constructive? Riiiight. What exactly are you trying to prove here? J.delanoy gabs adds 00:03, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

delition of mu article about the Faculty of Security Studies

Dear Wiki editors,

I am a new user and do not understand well why you delete my article about the Faculty of Security Studies. It was well supported and you can find out relevant information at official web page of the Faculty of Security Studies of the University of Belgrade www.fb.bg.ac.rs and furthemore at English version http://www.fb.bg.ac.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=249&Itemid=1259

Hope you will return the article since it is a case of an educational institution with high reputation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spasioc ( talkcontribs) 12:44, March 8, 2009 (UTC)

See the messages left on your talk page. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 13:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
When I deleted that article, I make no judgment as to the notability of the subject. I deleted it as a copyright violation. Wikipedia cannot accept text that is owned by other people/organizations. When you use a source to make an article, try to write it in your own words. J.delanoy gabs adds 16:28, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
FYI, this editor appears to be Darko Trifunović or someone associated with him; check out the article. There have been problems with anonymous/pseudonymous editors on that article for a long time, and I strongly suspect this new user to be another sockpuppet. -- ChrisO ( talk) 23:48, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Rotherham and the Chuckle Brothers

I object to the removal of the reference to the Chuckle Brothers from the Rotherham United page. This reference has been on the site for many weeks and gives due credit to the club's honorary presidents. I propose that this reference is re-instated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.170.53 ( talk) 22:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Move request

Hi per a consensus formed at WT:PW#Speaking of ECW, we need to move Extreme Championship Wrestling (WWE) to ECW on Sci Fi, but the target page needs to be deleted (requiring an admin). So may you please delete the target page so we can move it or you may move it? Thanks.-- RU CӨ 23:03, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done. I also left a note on WT:PW to say that I have done so. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:12, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks so much! You're great!-- RU CӨ 23:26, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

The work of deleting IP vandalism on chem element pages

Since you're involved, I wonder if you'd like to comment on this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements Thanks! S B H arris 23:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

83.233.30.215

Hi J.delanoy. 83.233.30.215 ( talk · contribs · block log) FYI see [9] -- zzuuzz (talk) 00:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh. Heh, oops. headdesk J.delanoy gabs adds 00:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

 Question: Is there a way to format those rectangular prisms rectangles (Edit 03/10/09 around 17:42) that have text and images in them such that the images/text isn't loaded and/or/ displayed until someone presses some sort of button (ideally, something like "Show")? If so, what characters do I need to insert onto the page for that to happen?
Dromioofephesus ( talk) 22:20, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean. Can you point me at a page that has what you are looking for? J.delanoy gabs adds 01:36, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Something like this would be fine. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 02:07, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
It's just a table with some formatting. If you look at the source code for that page and copy/tweak it, you should be able to do what you want to. J.delanoy gabs adds 14:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
All right, I'll try that. Thanks. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 19:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Is there a way to do that within infoboxes as well? — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 17:52, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

{SPAM}

SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM good job helping wikipedia sir —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.244.121.150 ( talk) 17:56, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

uh, thanks. I think... J.delanoy gabs adds 18:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Justin Solondz

Kindly read the edit I made. i was reverting well-sourced material, edied to overcome objection by adding "alleged" The man is a wanted suspect in a major crime, for heavens sake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.39.35.50 ( talk) 20:05, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I finally found one you missed

I knew you were human - finally proved that J. is not a bot ... lol ;) — Ched ~ (yes?) 20:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

heh. {{fact}} J.delanoy gabs adds 20:53, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
LOL ... hey - on the page Anne Hathaway (poem) I noticed User talk:Lomas80 and User talk:Connormorrison - not being real familiar with socks, how to tell, and what to do - well..... what should I do? — Ched ~ (yes?) 21:03, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
In general, if the vandalism is simple, childish stuff, I just let them go, because if I block one, the other will be autoblocked anyways. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

A little help would be nice.

Could you please block Bambifan's newest sock (68.220.190.156), he admitted he's sock on his talk page. The Cool Kat ( talk) 20:59, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Recent March 10 edit

In regard to your recent edit of the March 10 page:

I myself am heterosexual. Completely. I know what I like. I am not a "gay basher." My own personal belief is that preference is a thing of nature, not 100% conscious choice. My own inhibitions keep me from delving too deeply into the subject, but given that the event seems to be true and is apparently a stepping stone toward social barriers being broken, I'm not 100% convinced that the event does not belong. I'm not 100% convinced that it does. I do find that there are few (if any at all) references within the DOY pages that cover this slow change of social opinion on the matter and therefore, may be notable.

P.S. - My mention of "gay-basher" is no insinuation that I feel your removing the entry is part of that mentallity but to demonstrate my neutral opinion of the matter. Kentholke ( talk) 21:37, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Good day to you(;

gaesseki:D jiral hajima^^ ddong muck uh please(: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.110.134.87 ( talk) 22:49, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

hmm? J.delanoy gabs adds 22:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

im trying to say that this is a really nice website you are so michutsu(: byungshin michinsekki;D LOL i hope you had a really nice day(: anyways thanks for replying jotsekki^^

Not a problem. J.delanoy gabs adds 04:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello!

Hi J. Delanoy, this is user Pudge2, I'd really appreciate it if you unblocked me. I honestly did not vandalize anything, I swear to God. Thank You! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.86.38.119 ( talk) 00:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Untitled post

Why delete so much? We're all in this to help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.54.75.64 ( talk) 18:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

What do you mean? J.delanoy gabs adds 18:35, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Edits that do not comply with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are deleted or reverted, they are not deleted or reverted for no reason. -- IRP 20:15, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Falsely accused of edit warring

How come an experienced user accused me of being in an edit war? I have never been in an edit war. Please see this link. -- IRP 20:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. I would say that it seems unlikely to lead to anything further, but the person to ask about this is probably the person who accused you of warring. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I think this might be vandalism

These edits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/217.86.188.252 Bus stop ( talk) 21:02, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

The user was already blocked. See block log for 217.86.188.252. -- IRP 21:30, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Bus stop ( talk) 21:35, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Y'know, in a situation like this...

...you should consider giving Baseball Bugs the mop just to piss the trolls off. Half Shadow 02:29, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

lol, yeah. :D Someone should :P J.delanoy gabs adds 02:31, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Header added

what i put on carlos tevez's page is actually true, his mother was 14 when she had him and she WAS a prostitute. he came from a poor region of argentina and such was the case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.109.208 ( talk) 02:34, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Please include a citation to a reliable source. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:36, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Reply- ZooFari

Thanks for clarifying the conflict at Jimbo's talk page. I did not realize the IP was a disturbance earlier before. As to this, it is considered vandalism, and I hope you accept my apology. Zoo Fari 03:13, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I just thought I'd give you a heads up that Jbbmonster7 ( talk · contribs · logs) can't seem to stop removing content from Tada theater without any explanation. I've given him three warnings thus far. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 03:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

My talk page

Would you consider looking over my report at ANI regarding my talk page. Cheers. Nja 247 09:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I think this may be another candidate for blocking

I'm referring to this: [10], the edit made by 208.233.36.250. Thank you. Bus stop ( talk) 12:51, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

??

Have you even seen this? Ranked #5, man! I don't like you! I hope this ends soon!

Have you ever seen a show called Whose Line Is It Anyway? The points don't matter, and neither does you.
What is with you? J.delanoy gabs adds 21:27, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm like a scarecrow right now. Don't have much of a brain, I'm jealous, and tired. I even saw a video on this that was removed! You'll probably find out what's really happening later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.28.69.62 ( talk) at 21:39, March 8, 2009
So whatcha going to do over spring break? Constantly and boringly press a key on the keyboard? Go on a vacation? Pressing a key almost every hour would be just BORING. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.28.69.62 ( talk) 22:05, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Yes it would. Of course, you just pressed at least 171 keys to make your message, so..... ;-) J.delanoy gabs adds 22:08, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
An hour ago, I checked your edits that you made back in January, and out of the days in Jan that you used HG: 29/31. Unbelievable, just unbelievable. You really are a robot. This should calm down later this year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.28.69.62 ( talk) 22:58, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
And oh yeah, you should check this out! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.28.69.62 ( talk) 23:22, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Still a lot of espn links that were messed up by Soxbot

this, for example. That's why it was such a problem. Soxbot often wasn't the last editor when you reverted. In this case, the bot messed up a ton of references. I guess it would be too time-consuming to manually look now, but perhaps a search can be done for links with "expn" in them and those can be fixed, because I don't think any legitimate link would have expn in it. Enigma msg 02:56, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah. I'll see what I can do. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:58, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Update? I asked X! about it, but he didn't really respond. thanks, Enigma msg 07:56, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Doing with AWB will probably be impossible. There are too many variations to what it did, and I don't know how to account for all of them. Sorry. J.delanoy gabs adds 14:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

anti vandle cookie

nom nom nom

 rdunn PLIB  15:59, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Popups

Hi,

I have a question. Can one revert several edits at once using "popup" tool? If so, how is it possible? For example, reverting 3 edits, to a specific edit that was done 3 days ago (in cases that unknown IP users edit pages with mistakes and you want to revert them all at once, rather than one by one). Is there a tool for that? and also, I would appreciate if you tell me what are the uses of popups in editing as a whole.Thanks alot, Parvazbato59 ( talk) 16:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

To revert more to a particular revision, there are two ways that I know of. If you are in the page's history tab, you can hover the link to the last good revision, and under actions, click revert. You can also hover the "cur" or "last" links in the history to revert to that revision. If you bring up a page's history using popups, you can do the same thing by hovering the links that it brings up in there.
Twinkle, among other things, provides a "restore this version" link on the left hand side when you view a diff (see screen grab). I find using installing Twinkle and popups simultaneously to be very useful, as popups are easier to revert with if you are looking at a page's history, and Twinkle is easier to use if you are looking at a diff. Keep in mind, though, that running a lot of javascript can significantly slow your browser down (if you have an older computer), and also Twinkle does not work in Internet Explorer.
As far as the uses of popups, the only thing I can think of off hand that you may not have known is that you can hover links in popups to open further popups. For example, when someone reports a vandal to WP:AIV, most of the time, it includes a link to the vandal's contribs in the edit summary. When I see the summary in my watchlist, I hover the link, which brings up their contribs. I then hover the diffs to make sure the edits are vandalism, then I open the "user" menu and hover the link to the vandal's talk page, and look at the page history to see if they were recently given warnings. Essentially, without ever leaving my watchlist, I can check everything I need to decide whether or not to block someone. So basically, IMO, the real power of popups is the ability to "chain them together" to get more information without having to leave the page you are on. J.delanoy gabs adds 16:36, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much!! you saved me, :) Parvazbato59 ( talk) 17:01, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Blahblah670

Would you mind blocking this user? It's a vandalism only account, see here , vandalised twice after final warning. Cheers! cf38 talk 21:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Just a note to tell you that after reviewing the case with NishKid, I decided to amend the CheckUser results and I (temporarily?) unblocked Abbatai ( talk · contribs) since the account is no longer confirmed to be Azturkk ( talk · contribs). There is a geographical relationship, but the technical evidence and editing times suggest they may be 2 different people. I hope you don't mind :). -- lucasbfr talk 00:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Nope. I only blocked based on the checkuser results. J.delanoy gabs adds 00:32, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Stealing my huggle edits =p

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
This is for beating me to all the huggle edits §hawn poo 00:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! J.delanoy gabs adds 00:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

i just wanted to make blood burgers in caps. because it is very bad that she went on hells kitchen and didn't know how to do that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.192.116.63 ( talk) 02:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Help!

This user http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JustSomeRandomGuy32 has been vandalizing my talk page all day and has been leaving personal attacks for me in the edit summary, I have warned him about this, but he keeps reverting my edits. He has previously already been blocked for edit warring. Please help me.( Planecrash111 ( talk) 04:08, 13 March 2009 (UTC))

Reported to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. -- IRP 04:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Please note the users edit history. He is attacking me and trying to play victim. JustSomeRandomGuy32 ( talk) 04:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Drop the act....you have been reported to AIV for vandalism on several pages RandomGuy32. You are the attacker here. - NeutralHomerTalk • March 13, 2009 @ 04:29

::: JustSomeRandomGuy32 was blocked for 24 hours. - NeutralHomerTalk • March 13, 2009 @ 04:36

I'm going to respectfully ask to do a bit of checking of my edit history (and maybe check out all of the legit warnings that Planecrash has reverting out of his own talk page over time) before coming to a conclusion like that. JustSomeRandomGuy32 ( talk) 04:37, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
...and I going to respectfully ask you to leave him alone. You should be blocked right now and I thought you were. If you having an issue, walk away, just walk away. Also, when someone removes a warning from there talk page that doesn't give you the right to replace it again. The deletion means they have seen and acknowledged it. Don't put it back. - NeutralHomerTalk • March 13, 2009 @ 04:45

Vandalism warning for Tiramisoo over editing New World Order (conspiracy theory)

You gave a "last warning" to Tiramisoo for this edit to New World Order (conspiracy theory). The edit was adding links to David Icke and Alex Jones. Why do you think this was vandalism? Superficially it looks to me like a perfectly good faith attempt to add links to articles relevant to the topic of the article. The attempt was not very good, for a couple of reasons, and the link to Alex Jones is to a disambiguation page, while it is presumably intended to be to Alex Jones (radio host). However, careless editing is not the same as vandalism. You may well have a very good reason for regarding this as vandalism: if so I should be interested in knowing. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:26, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Jackal4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jackal4. This is a particularly annoying vandal who just loves to edit war. He has left some foul language in the edit summaries and continues to edit war. He has been blocked already, but he has since continued.( Planecrash111 ( talk) 14:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC))

Template feedback?

Hi. :) I've created a template for cleaning copyright infringement, Template:Cclean. It requires substitution. I just fixed one that was transcluded. Can you tell me if you think that the directions are clear enough or if there's something different I should do with it? I don't know if it was transcluded because the user is not familiar with substituting templates or if there's no sane reason that one should be substituted. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey :-)
I added some code to the template that will produce an error message if the template is not subst-ed. See the history of User:J.delanoy/3 if you want to see what it does. Do you think that will work? J.delanoy gabs adds 15:49, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Absolutely! Thank you so much. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:02, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Rebecca Harper page (brothers and sisters)

there is a comment about Rebecca Harper "Rebcca dies becuase she is evil cow bitch" that I tried to remove but couldn't. I just read Wiki and don't know it well enough to do much more than this. helina_y@yahoo.com

It looks like someone else already got it, but thanks for letting me know :-) If you want to learn how to undo vandalism, Help:Reverting has some good advice on it. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 16:05, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Juan Joseph

Hi! Could you send me a copy of what Juan Joseph was before it was deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Juan Joseph? He was recently signed by the Edmonton Eskimos as a quarterback prospect and I'd like to see if there was anything of notable interest in the previous article. User:DoubleBlue/Juan Joseph would be a suitable destination. Cheers! DoubleBlue ( talk) 19:10, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done J.delanoy gabs adds 19:57, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, looks like there's nothing too interesting anyway. I'd hoped by the divided AfD discussion that there was a reasonable start but it looks easier to just begin again. Cheers! DoubleBlue ( talk) 20:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Question

I'm very flattered, but I think I can probably help the encyclopaedia more through writing and maintaining content. I'm pretty sure I could do the job - it seems to mostly call for common sense and calmness, but others are just as well qualified and would probably have more time. I'm therefore hesitant to take on responsibilities that I couldn't give my full attention to. (In a word, "no") Tim Vickers ( talk) 16:04, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I think I've found a vandal for admins to know about

Hi there.

I'm NOT an admin or anything but I couldn't help but notice the amount of vandalism that a particular account appears to be causing. I noticed you left a message on the talk page User talk:Mcevapouration and just thought I'd inform an administrator that the account has been making several unwanted edits. I'm new to Wikipedia but I am willing to notify administrators if I believe something needs attention. Do you think its worth watching this account? -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 06:00, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind my eavesdropping - that user has been blocked indefinitely, something you can check by clicking on 'block log' on his user contributions page. Hadrian89 ( talk) 19:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Would you consider recommending a sockpuppet investigation for this article? It is pretty obvious that all of the image switching is the work of the same person (see User talk:Ves Seer). Only admins can launch a SPI, and the situation with single purpose accounts at Virgin Killer is becoming tiresome.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:40, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

I purged some of the sock drawer, things should be a bit calmer now. -- lucasbfr talk 13:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Rollback

Would you consider giving me roll back status? I've been a pretty diligent editor rolling back vandalism on the pages I have on my watchlist. Thanks.

jheiv ( talk) 01:42, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Protection

I've semi-protected your talk page, even though you unprotected it, as the vandalism is continuing. Only semi-protection is required as the socks are not autoconfirmed. I recommend you leave the protection in place for a day or so as Star Mississippi suggested, although before the protection was full (I've put a one week limit on the semi-protection though, so you may want to change that). Hope it doesn't cause inconvenience, Nev1 ( talk) 02:00, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

And I just unprotected it without seeing this. Hmm. I guess I'll protect it for now. It's not often I have multiple admins doing this. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:03, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
We've all got your back :) I was too slow on Tan's this morning, not sure who either of you pissed off today. Eek. StarM 02:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you :-) I don't know about Tan, but they guy attacking me is either Grawp in a different persona, or more likely some n00b who wants to become as notorious as Grawp. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:49, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
People need a hobby. I really don't get the OMG!Vandalism is teh kewl!!!!!! school of thought. Remember once trying to log on from uni -- IP blocks all over the place because of twits. StarM 03:39, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Closed-minded user

Hello, J.delanoy. I attempted to communicate with the user who has erroneously accused me of edit warring ( see above↑↑). It seems that I cannot communicate with the user. The user is treating me like a vandal, which may give some users the impression that I'm editing in bad faith, which is not true at all. Every edit that I have ever made to Wikipedia was done in good faith. See this link. I don't know if it is a misunderstanding or an intentional bad faith edit on on Roux's part. -- IRP 03:30, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Also, I have removed the post from Roux's talk page so nobody would receive the false impression that I am a vandal. -- IRP 03:33, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Also, see this link. It is becoming more blatant that the user is attempting to spoil my reputation on Wikipedia. -- IRP 04:06, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Please note that I moved this section to the bottom of this page because it appears that you missed it. -- IRP 20:15, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm not certain I know what you want me to do. I don't really think there is anything I can do. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I was asking if I really did something terribly wrong. The user has accused me of edit warring (on Ultraviolet Sound) and may make the false impression that I am a vandal or something similar. There is clear evidence that I have not made one bad faith edit to Wikipedia, as you can see from my block log that I have never been blocked. If you look at the block log for Roux, you can see that user has been blocked in the past for doing exactly what he or she accused me of doing. That makes me think that there is no doubt that the user has made another bad faith edit. I don't know if I should report for abuse. -- IRP 20:32, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I don't think anyone will decide you are a vandal on the basis of someone accusing you of edit-warring. As you said, you were not blocked, and if you tried to contact Roux and got no response, there is not much else you can do. My advice is just ignore the whole thing. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
The edit warring was only part of the problem. I was concerned that one of Roux's comments would make me seem like a vandal. The user posted "further messages you post here will be removed on sight" ( diff). The only time that I have ever seen talk page messages or edits removed on sight is if it is made by a sockpuppet of User:Grawp, and I feel that my edits should not be treated in such a manner, as they are done entirely in good faith. The user then restored the post (possibly maliciously) ( click for diff) after I removed it because first of all, I was the one who posted it, second of all, I felt that any other editor who sees that would think I am a vandal. -- IRP 20:59, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

IRP, let it go. Roux was certainly being snarky here, but (regardless of what you say) you were edit-warring here; see the history of the article:

And users remove messages from their talkpages immediately all the time; both myself and J.delanoy, otherwise we'd have talkpages that look like chatroom logs. –  iridescent 21:11, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't believe what I was doing constituted edit warring because I didn't revert repeatedly. Please look carefully and you will see that I only reverted once. I restored the {{ AfD}} tag, however, I still left Roux's {{ db}} tag in place. Besides, I believe that it does not constitute Wikipedia: Edit war unless you revert legitimate edits more than thrice (please correct me if I'm wrong). -- IRP 21:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC), modified 18:44, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Besides, if I was edit warring, why wasn't I blocked? -- IRP 21:28, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I guess if I'm not going to get any help here, I'll post somewhere else. -- IRP 04:01, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. IRP asked my opinion on the matter. I've responded on my talk page, but I just wanted to wander by and say that I think there may have been a misunderstanding. As IRP notes, he didn't revert, but only restored the AfD tag that Roux removed, which was appropriate, since there was an open AfD. Even if the article is G4'ed, it's handy to the deleting admin to know that there's an open AfD, and it gives other contributors an opportunity to respond. Evidently, it's important to him that others realize that he didn't do anything wrong, and I believe that he was acting in good faith there and working within process. While I'm here, though, I do have to agree with User:Iridescent and User:J.delanoy that there's not much to be done about it. And to point out to IRP that, actually, edit warring doesn't require three reverts. As WP:EW notes, the 3RR rules is just a ballpark indicator; "Edit warring is a behavior, not a simple measure of the number of reverts on a single page in a specific period of time." While I don't believe IRP did edit war in this instance, I think it's important to clear that one up, since such a misunderstanding could lead to trouble. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmm?

Hi. :) If I haven't worn out my welcome yet, is there any chance you can tell me why only one subcat is showing up in Category:Possible copyright violations? It should also be including Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections and Category:Articles with close paraphrasing and probably a few others. I have no clue why it isn't. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Considering how much I pestered you with questions about CSD when I was a n00b in that area, I don't think you can possibly ever bug me as much as I bugged you, so don't worry about that ;-)
Okay, don't ask me why on earth it would do this, but the subcategories are sorted the exact same way as the pages in the category. So, the first page in Category:Possible copyright violations ranges from A through C. Thus, the first page includes all the subcategories whose titles start with A, B, or C. This continues on through the category, so if you click on "next 200" a few times or on one of the letters on the index, you will find the other subcategories. For example, here there are 5 more subcategories. I hope that makes sense. It is pretty simple in reality (although it seems illogical to me), but it is difficult to describe without actually showing you. J.delanoy gabs adds 19:43, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Well, let me know if you ever think you've done enough. :D I see what you mean--how bizarre. And unhelpful. Well, once we get all of those mollusc articles cleared out, it'll be fully functional again. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:22, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: vandalism warning

My edit was not vandalism. I was removing a redundant sentence. The criterion gave two examples in two different places, so I removed one of them.

It may appear that every edit I make is vandalism. Actually I am editing from a shared school IP where thousands of students have access. I know my way around Wikipedia but am currently not using an account.

Maybe I'll take you up on the chess challenge. 129.49.7.125 ( talk) 23:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh come on - you semi-protected your chess game??? I want to play! LOL. 129.49.7.125 ( talk) 23:17, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Header added 33

PLEASE DON'T BAN ME!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.232.26.31 ( talk) 01:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Umm... If you want to play around, you can do almost anything you want to in the sandbox. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Question

Hello. I hope that you can help me. Can I place a CSD template on a user page if it appears to be an attack page or to infringe WP:BLP? The page that I am concerned with is User:Skatergirl32797? It claims to be written by the person it prima facie disparages, but I don't really imagine that what it says is not total nonsense, and I can imagine that it could be written by an 'impersonator'. James500 ( talk) 17:01, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. I would say ask the person on their talk page to take it down, or just blank it. User pages are not indexed by search engines, IIRC, so it shouldn't be a problem from that standpoint. J.delanoy gabs adds 17:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I have put a message on the user's talk page asking the user to remove that content. James500 ( talk) 18:29, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Actually, this one is a problem per BLP. G:10 does apply to user spaces, and userpages are indexed by google. Even if this individual were for some reason making up stories about herself (maybe she really dislikes her brother?), it contains identifying information about an individual who would be 11 years old. I've deleted it under BLP and left a note for the contributor. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:49, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Remark deleted. James500 ( talk) 21:10, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

If you think it's likely to lead to privacy violations, feel free. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:09, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. James500 ( talk) 20:32, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Ello'.

I was just wondering, is there any way that I can add a personalized welcome message to twinkle? Thanks. :) Papercutbiology♫ ( talk) 17:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I think you'd have to modify the javascript, and then you wouldn't get any updates for that module of Twinkle. Not sure though. You might try asking at WT:TWINKLE. J.delanoy gabs adds 17:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, okay thank you! As I am no good with JavaScript, I'll leave as is before I destroy something. :) Papercutbiology♫ ( talk) 19:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

AIV backlog

Hi, I noticed that AIV has a huge backlog. Unless someone else is already on it, would you mind to have a look? De728631 ( talk) 00:03, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Special Barnstar
Your name flashes across my screen a lot and I wanted to acknowledge the good work you do in many different areas of WP. Johnfos ( talk) 00:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Can you please decline the unblock request at User talk:AGentleUser? -- IRP 03:00, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Dozens of unused socks

Greetings. Take a look at this. These seem to be numerous user pages belonging to a single individual (self-identified as a teenage girl in Alaska) who has made numerous accounts for no apparent reason. Thanks. -- Boston ( talk) 05:26, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

IP Vandal

Hi. Could you please take a look at 217.206.25.213 this IP has just completed a six month block for persistant vandalism and immediately started vandalising again. See his Contributions page. Richard Harvey ( talk) 09:04, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Heather Cave

Could you have a look at the page Farhan I'm on to you! Heather Cave’s page has been redirected to it. I don’t know how to fix it. The page is being vandalized by a couple of users and will need cleaning up as well. Jackfork ( talk) 14:08, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Mario article

Just wanted to let you know that I've accidentally reverted your edit on the Mario article as I thought you've added "non-" before "fictional character" when you've actually done the opposite. There have been so much vandalism on this article for the past few days that I've hit "rollback vandal" a bit too quickly. Sorry about that! Laurent ( talk) 20:39, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. Stuff like that happens, and it is pretty obvious it was not intentional. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:17, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Filter 8

SoxBot seems to have been caught in your filter here. — Nn123645 ( talk) 00:38, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I deleted the filter, thanks for letting me know. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:18, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello

Hi can ypu please check the edit made from User_talk:131.111.229.18 this user was issued a warning from you as well as my self and i do believe this could be a false positive i am using huggle please let me know thanks.

Regards Staffwaterboy Critique Me Guestbook Hate Comments 18:30, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

216.114.150.13

Hello again, J.delanoy ... FYI, 216.114.150.13 ( talk · contribs) is back and vandalizing again after your last block ... Happy Editing! — 138.88.32.143 ( talk · contribs) 18:49, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks like Edgar181 already got him, thanks. J.delanoy gabs adds 18:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

explanation required

Could you please explain to me how you seem to crop up on Wikispecies within 60seconds of certain vandalism by anon. IP and undo their vandalism??? It looks to me like the vandals could be your sockpuppets...
stho002 (over on Wikispecies)

replied on species:User talk:Stho002. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Ok, thanks for clearing that up! It just looked a bit odd to me, but I guess you can swoop down in the blink of an eye!


stho002

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. I was about to ARV him, actually... Cheers, ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 21:21, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

AIV

Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism needs administrator attention. -- IRP 21:35, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, it was not that bad. In the future, you don't need to ping me unless there are like 15 reports there. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:39, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
The reason why I posted a notice here was because I have made two reports to AIV more than an hour ago and apparently no administrator noticed them. -- IRP 21:51, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Possible Sock?

Hi,

Just been looking through the recent changes page and came across a of edits by User talk:24.44.90.82 on this userpage User:Come clean wake up, who was blocked indefinitely due to evading a block by creating a new account. I've never tagged anyone as a sockpuppet anyone before so i was just wondering if you could have a look to see if what i've done is correct? Thanks Uksam88 ( talk) 21:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Episodes Table

Follow this link and you'll see the table of episodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jon_%26_Kate_Plus_8_episodes 70.24.233.37 ( talk) 23:56, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Please do not revert good faith removals of speedy deletion notices, reverts of the kind you performed should only be used for vandalism edits. Forward planning failure ( talk) 00:20, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

My AGF meter got a crack in it when you showed up out of nowhere and proceeded to do nothing but remove CSD tags and field complaints about your actions. J.delanoy gabs adds 00:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Gangland (video game)

Can you delete this page. It is a duplicate copy of Gangland. I do not want to redirect to that article. After deleting the article. The gangland need to be moved to Gangland (video game) after that the article "Gangland" needs to be redirected to Gangland (disambiguation). Thanks. -- SkyWalker ( talk) 03:09, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. -- SkyWalker ( talk) 03:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
No problem :-) I hope I sorted it correctly. J.delanoy gabs adds 03:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
You have done a wonderful job. Thank you.-- SkyWalker ( talk) 04:06, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Gosselin Epsiodes

There's already a table that is shown above the episodes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jon_%26_Kate_Plus_8_episodes 70.24.233.37 ( talk) 09:34, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikidove

α§ʈάt̪íňέ -210 discovered elementswhat am I? 16:33, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Move problem

Hi. I need your help with something. Somehow User:Tau Phi Sigma Fraternity Inc. has moved his user talk page to Talk:Tau Phi Sigma and moved his userpage to Tau Phi Sigma. I tried undoing the talk page move, but I accidently moved Talk:Tau Phi Sigma to User talk:Tau Phi Sigma instead of Talk:Tau Phi Sigma to User talk:Tau Phi Sigma Fraternity Inc.. Could you please fix it? Thanks, Reliable Forever talk 18:25, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Chess game!

Please continue the game. You've made only one move in the last three months.

Also please unprotect the page. It's not you versus "the world" if the world can't play. Soberknight ( talk) 19:36, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Rushton Article Revert

Hey, you reverted my edit to the Rushton article. I considered it to be quite constructive and included an edit summary. I plan on reverting it back, please provide a reason as to why you don't think it was a constructive addition. 99.255.5.248 ( talk) 22:25, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced negative additions to biographical articles are reverted on sight. J.delanoy gabs adds 22:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello

I have found some time to finally come back to the wubbolous world of wikipedia, and the first "vandalism" I saw was a user trying to post a comment on another's talk page. The user's comment was a little rude, but not vandal's work. I agree with the user 24.208.19.195 that it is Until it sleep's choice to delete it. No proper warnings were given, so I believe that the block should be lightened or lifted. I will personally warn the user without an automatic script, for friendliness, about the situation. Cheers! Wiki Zorro sign 23:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry For Editing. It Wasn't Intentional

I wasn't even aware that I had edited the page you notified me about (Frederick Banting). Can you tell me how I edited it? What my edit was about? Have I edited any more pages unawares?

After looking into the matter a bit more, I have to say that you're completely mistaken. I've never even attempted to access/read the page on Frederick Banting, let alone attempt to edit it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.163.27.75 ( talk) 00:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

You are probably correct. You have a dynamic IP address, so it is likely that someone else vandalized, and then you got the warning that was intended for them. Just don't worry about it, and if you get warnings like this a lot, you can avoid them by creating an account and logging in. Cheers, and sorry for the confusion. J.delanoy gabs adds 14:44, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Please check this new anon

Hi could you please check this new anon that has suddenly appeared 207.67.17.45. He is currently active and had just reversed a suspect vandalism edit from an anon editor that I suspect is also vandalising another article with a different IP in his same block unit. I haven't even finished warning the first user and tying the two IP's together when he reversed my edit. He also appears to be reversing other editors work? NB: It seems odd that a 'New' editor would know to place this link here Talk:Conservapedia. Richard Harvey ( talk) 15:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, he hasn't really done anything, so I'd say just keep an eye on him. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:29, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Coolsprings

I'm Coolsprings and thank you for getting my page under protection. I am deeply appreciating it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolsprings ( talkcontribs) 17:58, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

HG

Hi. I saw all the 'undoing own edit' summaries on Tubular battery etc., and, just for a second, I thought HG had gone temporarily nuts.  ;) Taroaldo ( talk) 20:48, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

LOL! No, Huggle didn't go crazy, I did (runs around room waving hands and yelling) ;-) J.delanoy gabs adds 20:53, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Also LOL. That's understandable. It happens to us all at one time or another! Taroaldo ( talk) 21:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring

Ibrahim4048 has continued edit warring on the Mehmed Talat article [11], [12], [13]. Stating that he deserves a platform for HIS opinion! This has been to mediation, and the mediator was subsequently verbally attacked by Ibrahim4048. Do you have any suggestions? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 20:41, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I gave him {{ uw-3rr}}, so I guess we will see if he violates it. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 20:56, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
I have provided two references, both from the IAGS, which removes the possibility of this genocide being "alleged". -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 02:04, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Denying to give me a platform to discuss whether the armenian genocide committed by the ottoman government is a fact or that it is disputed (thus allegedly would be in its place) is alright by you? I mean it IS seriously disputed among scholars and countries, it's not just my personal opinion. All the arguments and pieces of text I gave on the talk and mediation pages were from academic sources. Unlike the holocaust there was no racist/religious doctrine (armenians, greeks etc co-founded the young turks, young turks were secular) in the young turk government and there are no documents that prove anyone from the government ordered armenian civilians to be killed. In contrast thousands of documents and physical proof (gaschambers, furnaces) exist to prove the holocaust and neither do the germans deny it. Putting alleged in front of holocaust or in some other way expressing doubt about the factualness of the holocaust would be wrong for these reasons. In the case of the armenian genocide there is simply no proof that the ottoman government ordered armenian civilians to be killed. Even if you believe the ottomans did commit genocide, you should accept the fact that there is no conclusive proof and accept the existence and expression of other views. These users have been reverting my contribution and just don't want to discuss it. They even warned each other that discussing it with me on the mediation page would give my arguments legitimacy. This has been the tactic they used in all the other armenia-turkey related topics thus far. They simply revert contributions made by genocide deniers/doubters and even delete comments made on the talk page. They created a sort of POV_fork by not allowing genocide denial/doubt material on the genocide page and banishing everything to the genocide denial page (which also is critical about the denial and doesn't mention a lot of the arguments given by genocide deniers/doubters). This is a violation of wikipedia rules. Wikipedia is a encyclopedia and should give both sides of an argument/subject in an article and shouldn't be written to represent a certain view about a subject. It would be ok to have a separate denial page of course but only to expand on the denial section (that should be) in the genocide article itself.

A POV fork is an attempt to evade NPOV policy by creating a new article about a certain subject that is already treated in an article, often to avoid or highlight negative or positive viewpoints or facts. This is generally considered unacceptable. The generally accepted policy is that all facts and major Points of View on a certain subject are treated in one article.


Unless you can show me that the armenian genocide is considered fact by wikipedia, I should have the right for a platform to discuss it at least. Ibrahim4048 ( talk) 10:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a battleground, and Wikipedia is not a forum. Wikipedia is also not a publisher of original thought. Do not use Wikipedia for pushing a point of view. Edit warring and POV pushing is unacceptable under any circumstances, and if you continue to do so, you will quickly find yourself banned from editing. J.delanoygabsadds 12:59, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

None of the the contributions/arguments I made are original thought. They are all from academics, published by established publishing houses and universities. I am not the one who is pushing POV here. Kansas Bear and the others are pushing POV by not allowing even the expression of doubt about the genocide and their desire to represent it as an established fact. Since you deny me the right to discuss my contributions about the armenian genocide and appear to agree with pro-recognition views, I can assume wikipedia has taken a stand in the dispute on the side of armenian genocide recognizers? At least that way we can establish wikipedia's position on the genocide and perhaps something could be done against it. Or is it just your POV and abusing your administrator rights to push your POV? How can you deny me the right to defend my contributions when they are all properly referenced by legitimate sources? Ibrahim4048 ( talk) 14:04, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


Wikipedia is not a battleground, and Wikipedia is not a forum. Wikipedia is also not a publisher of original thought. Do not use Wikipedia for pushing a point of view. Edit warring and POV pushing is unacceptable under any circumstances, and if you continue to do so, you will quickly find yourself banned from editing.

Ok, so the above message was just a standard message? I am sorry if I misunderstood but I think you can understand why I thought that you took sides when you know that the user who reported me to you and the other uses involved in the mediation (except the mediator) refused to give me a platform to explain my academically sourced contributions. They seem to think that by refusing to discuss it with me and just use their superior numbers in reverting they can just push their view that the armenian genocide is an undisputed genocide. It is far from undisputed because firstly turkey refuses recognition and secondly there are many (western and turkish) scholars who dispute the armenian genocide recognition and the vast majority of countries don't recognize the genocide. Six countries have actively refused bills to recognize the armenian genocide among whom the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden. I think you can understand why I thought you were also refusing me to defend my contribution when you read the mediation talk page, and how the users have been sabotaging the mediation by warning each other to not discuss things with me [14] but simply use their numbers to win an edit war.

What do you think about my claim that they violate POV_fork by not allowing genocide denial/doubt material on the armenian genocide page and banishing everything to the armenian genocide denial page. It is almost the same thing as creating a fork because they either created the denial article themselves so they could push their POV on the armenian genocide article or they basically forced others to create it by not allowing denial/doubt views on the armenian genocide article.

A POV fork is an attempt to evade NPOV policy by creating a new article about a certain subject that is already treated in an article, often to avoid or highlight negative or positive viewpoints or facts. This is generally considered unacceptable. The generally accepted policy is that all facts and major Points of View on a certain subject are treated in one article.

It is clear I think that the armenian genocide article doesn't represent all facts and major Points of View on the genocide and should be drastically rewritten. Ibrahim4048 ( talk) 14:58, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Ibrahim4048 continues to be disruptive, by adding the word "alleged" to describe the Armenian Genocide. The sentence in question has 4 references that are from reliable 3rd party sources(International Association of Genocide Scholars). Can you assist in this matter? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 02:07, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Huggle

Is that what HG stands for? well, Stop fuckin using that script to send messages to ips. it's soooooo annoying. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.127.172 ( talk) 15:30, 21 March 2009

I would contend that the vandalism itself is much more annoying than the reversion of such. -- Closedmouth ( talk) 15:45, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

You're invited!

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ANI thread

Please see this thread. It's not personal. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 14:03, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, no. Given the circumstances back then, I would have supported the measure, so there is no ill will or feelings. I just hope that it doesn't continue (I've been in contact with RHMED for a while). What a horrible outcome to something that could have been prevented. seicer | talk | contribs 17:25, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
(Replying here so that that ANI thread isn't kept alive unnecessarily) Based on my reception at ANI, it's pretty clear how a proposal to codify ISP contacts would end up, so I probably won't be bothering to follow up this on. I haven't changed my opinion, but I see that it's not a concern shared by many so I'm dropping it. I'm sorry if you felt I was singling you out, but the circumstances were an ideal illustration of why I feel there needs to be more attention given to these actions. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 21:42, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Help re-protect the Escalator page!

Hello. I noticed that you recently granted semi-protection to the Thomas Edison page, so I hope I'm not presuming too much to ask for your help. The Escalator page was semi-protected, but either it has expired or it was removed accidentally (being optimistic here). We've had our fair share of vandalism, and a new round just popped up on March 19-20. Could you help us and please re-protect the page? Thanks!-- BFDhD ( talk) 18:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

The cheapo

Something really needs to be done about him. He keeps creating accounts, to attack the editors that he had contact with, and he keeps giving death threats. Is there anything that you can do about it? See this category for all the sockpuppets The cheapo used: [15] Reliable Forever talk 22:12, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything I can do, other than block the accounts if I see them. Sorry. J.delanoy gabs adds 22:42, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Agreed. Revert, block, and comprehensively ignore. I have your page watchlisted, and any active admin will block on sight based on the abusive nature of the edits. Acroterion (talk) 22:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Twinkle help

Do you know how I can set Twinkle to where it does not watchlist every page I revert and won't watchlist the user talk pages of the users I revert? This didn't seem to work. -- IRP 19:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Note: I have moved this post to the bottom of this page due to no reply. -- IRP 23:18, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. Ask on WT:TW. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:21, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk header

I noticed your talk header trick, and shamelessly copied it for my own talk page. How do you prevent SineBot from automatically signing the page every time you change something on it? I temporarily fixed it by opting out of auto-signing, but it's a little dangerous. Ledgend Gamer 23:18, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I think there's a way to make a page be ignored by SineBot. Look at its userpage for a link to information, iirc. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:21, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
If you put !nosine! in the edit summary, the bot won't sign that particular edit. -- Closedmouth ( talk) 01:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Stuwell3

J.Delanoy, I'm not sure if you'd noticed, but the Stuwell3/Grawp sock you banned has a counterpart. Within one minute of the creation of the Stuwell3 account, an account for User:Stuwell2 was created.-- LWF ( talk) 23:54, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok, nevermind, while I was informing you of this Stuwell2 made his move and has been banned.-- LWF ( talk) 23:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I didn't even notice the other account right away. It was only two days ago when I had requested removing the semi-prot. of my talk page :/ ~ Troy ( talk) 00:37, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Turns out, there's also another account user:Stuwell, which was created at the same time as the others, same day and time and all that, but so far it's edits have not been vandalistic in nature, but I find it to be too much to be a coincidence.-- LWF ( talk) 00:40, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


My Bad

That was not my intention there had been some vandalism a few seconds before I made that edit. I will be more carful next time. Best, otisjimmy ( talk) 02:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

That's fine. Actually, I missed some of the vandalism myself, so I guess I can't really yell at you for doing the same ;) J.delanoy gabs adds 02:09, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

bongwarrior edit

i did not vandalise a page, i simply stated a fact, which is the purpose of this website —Preceding unsigned comment added by Woodworthguy ( talkcontribs) 02:59, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


good work!

The Barnstar of Diligence
Awarded for tirelessly working on articles, and for you exceptionally talented edits. South Bay ( talk) 03:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, my article work is pretty much all vandal-fighting, but thank you! J.delanoy gabs adds 03:48, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Another user Biggiemagic ( talk · contribs) has popped up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Redshaw (2nd nomination) with another similar comment made by all the other socks (all of which you indefed) noted at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ETH.P...4eva!/Archive. I don't know if another SPI or even CheckUser is really necessary at this point. MuZemike 18:22, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

I asked a checkuser, and he said that it is possible that it could be the same person, but not likely. However, they are most likely connected in some way to the person who was socking. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:18, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

New Award

Just a notice that I added an award. Cheers, Zoo Fari 23:45, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist

I would like to add givemeknol.com to the blacklist, but I don't know how. It is a website posting in entirety copyrighted books. My investigation suggests that it issues from Vietnam, which is likely to make it challenging for publishers to take it down. So far, it's being added by a single run of IP editors (you can see my talk for a list), but I think this one is a doozy per WP:ELNEVER. Since any admin can edit, I presume it's okay if I edit. But since I am the particular admin I am, I think it's better if I don't. ("Please do not do this unless you are familiar with regex — the disruption that can be caused is substantial." Check.) :) Would you mind doing this on my behalf? I'd be fine with you directing any questions about it to me. If you aren't comfortable doing that, no problem, I'll make a request at the talkpage. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:33, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey :-)
I'd love to help, but my regex skills are... pretty much non-existent, and I have already messed up a couple of bots on IRC antivandalism channels. I would probably destroy it worse than you would. Sorry. J.delanoy gabs adds 13:01, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
If you would, it's because you know enough to be afraid. :D I'll ask at the talkpage. Thanks. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:09, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

your crazy

you just wrote on my talk page claiming that i vandalized a discussion, how on earth is it even possible to vandalized a talk page?!?! 207.246.181.26 ( talk) 15:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, it is possible, but I made a mistake. If you look at the page history of your talk page and the talk page where you posted, I almost immediately undid my revert and my warning. Sorry for the confusion. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

A revert

Hi why did you revert this ?? isn't this a personal attack?? Maen. K. A. ( talk) 15:56, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

The way that the IP (207.246.181.26) commented, I don't think that is really an attack. Versus22 talk 17:52, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Seicer recent edits

Hi there. Seeing as you seem to know user:Seicer in some form or other, can I ask you to comment on his recent edits? He has been removing unreferenced material from BLP articles quoting that "questionable material must be removed". However, I strongly believe that much of the material that has been removed does not qualify for removal under these circumstances, it is generally very basic information that a citation can quickly and easily be found for. Restoring material wouldn't take too long but the rate of removal would require perhaps three more editors to follow Seicer round and restore the removed material with sources. I have advised him to give a cursory check of the subject before removing material. Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 21:03, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

There's not really a lot I can do here. I don't do a lot of writing, so I'm not really in a good position to talk to another administrator about what he is doing. And in any case, he is correct. Anyone can remove unsourced material from a BLP without discussion, if not only per WP:BLP, but per WP:V. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:18, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Fair enough then. Policies aside, I didn't really think that some of his edits were improving articles. There are no better reasons than that. Anyway, I'll try discussing it with Seicer. Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 22:37, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Three Questions

  1. Are you watching my talk page? If so, thanks. It's nice to know people are ready to block my stalkers.
  2. Do you know who that person was a sock of?— dαlus Contribs 05:49, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
  3. Want to play some chess? What is this live server you speak of?— dαlus Contribs 05:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Also

Figured out our sock master, see Redsred ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · logs · block log · arb · rfc · lta · SPI · cuwiki).— dαlus Contribs 06:07, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Alright then

Have a good sleep, maybe we can do so later.— dαlus Contribs 06:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Filter 102

Seemed to be blocking most new accounts from being created, so I turned it off -- you may want to look at it further. NawlinWiki ( talk) 15:43, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Notice

A discussion about Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account has been started at Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Vandalism-only_account. -- IRP 23:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Retired

Hello, JD. I already e-mailed you about my semi-retirement, didn't I? Well, now's the time for me to "officially" retire. Somehow, it has been a little better for me to live life when I'm not on Wikipedia. Feel free to add your signature on my talk page. Good luck to you and your Huggling! SF3 (talk!) 01:13, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Unblock request of Wickidpedia

Hello J.delanoy. Wickidpedia ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards,  Sandstein  09:05, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism from IP 209.254.252.186

Hello, I am a teacher at the school that uses IP Address 209.254.252.186. Thanks for recently catching and warning our students about vandalism. I highly doubt any of them saw your warning. Please block our IP address using a school / soft block. We have had such a block before and it worked very well.-- 209.254.252.186 ( talk) 19:05, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Aaaargh. I had extraordinarily bad timing. Hours after making the above request, our IT contractors switched us over to a new ISP and a new IP address. I know there has been no vandalism from this IP address, but could you please block this new IP address in the same manner? I'd rather not wait until our students start vandalizing again. -- 173.10.39.153 ( talk) 12:49, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
  • If you prefer, you can contact me at this User ID, too. Yes, all three edits in this section have come from the same person. -- EtonTeacher ( talk) 12:51, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Faster than a speeding bullet

Or perhaps I should say, Wow, you are lightening fast on the AIV. I'm going to start checking to see if you're active when I'm online first, and if you are, I will probably ignore AIV. I keep getting "already blocked" notices when I try to be a Helpful Admin and block vandals when you are around. (If this is obscure or unclear, its a compliment.) KillerChihuahua ?!? 21:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

hehe. Thanks :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 21:26, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

On a similar note, you nailed this vandal with a block so fast it caused an edit conflict with my Final Warning (which he'd received several of anyway). Awesome work, thanks J. Doc Tropics 14:54, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

lol J.delanoy gabs adds 14:55, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism only acount I think. Kittybrewster 16:23, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

IP 85.93.228.249

Saw your friendlily worded note to this IP and thought I might inform you that each and every one of that IP's contributions look to me to have been disruptive. A clearer warning in order? 217.209.96.233 ( talk) 17:20, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Request for redirect

hello - I wanted to request that "gramscimelodic" and "Gramscimelodic" redirect to Gramsci_Melodic if possible. Thank you for your time Abtmcm ( talk) 23:43, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

I apologize for the problem due to the code upgrade of the bot. I have narrowed it down and fixed the bug that caused it. Please release the block so that the bot can continue to function properly. Thanks! -- Jutiphan | Talk - 11:56, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting that vandalism to my user talk page. Much appreciated. P.S. I joke-hate you because you're faster than me. :P DanielDeibler ( talk) 03:24, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

lol! You're welcome :-) Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 03:25, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Organisms

So my addition that "All organisms die" is not relevant. Surely this is the most important difference between organisms and non-organisms. Perhaps the academics here disagree. -- 86.143.242.21 ( talk) 09:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

sorry

Hi, J.delanoy! I'm really sorry about the pages I edited earlier. I didn't know what I was thinking, so I WILL NOT DO IT AGAIN! I promise. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pop princess 1 ( talkcontribs) 19:41, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Davidx5

We both interacted with vandalism from Davidx5 on Lil Wayne last night: [16] [17]. I'll leave it to you to decide whether his response to me is enough of a personal attack to take action on or not.— Kww( talk) 20:24, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk Page protection

I requested my talk page be protected at WP:RPP but the admin there thought it was already protected. But my log says it was protected on March 28, last year. Would you be able to protect my talk page for at least 3 days? Momusufan ( talk) 23:06, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Is This Image Acceptable?

Hi

I want to upload an image for the article Don't Hang Up but I do not know much about uploading images to Wikipedia at all. I also don't know how you check for copyright. User:Jac16888 gave me some information to look at, but I'm still unsure what to do. The image is on the internet and is located at http://www.vintagegroove.co.uk/graphics/covers/small/253.jpg . Can you help? -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 04:39, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Haha, just noticed something

User talk:Stezie3...did you hack them or something? I found that quite funny. Inferno, Lord of Penguins 15:59, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

hehe. I was just using Huggle, and I see this. So I opened IE and tried logging in, and it worked :D J.delanoy gabs adds 21:09, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism from IP 209.254.252.186

Hello.  :-) I posted a request above to also put a school block our new IP address 173.10.39.153, but I think you may have missed it. Please see above for details. Or maybe I didn't provide enough details? -- 173.10.39.153 ( talk) 16:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the block! You rock!  :-) -- EtonTeacher ( talk) 21:52, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Wiki Edit deleted

Sir,

You have deleted and edit I made to the Trinity Pawling School on the grounds that it was 'unconstructive'. Please clarify your reasoning here. I am an alumnus of this school and my edit is both factual and verifiable--based on my experience as well as past and recent conversations with both fellow alumni and the current headmaster. In fact, I would be happy to arrange a conference call.

Or do you have some agenda to suppress accurate information intended to help past and current victims of child sexual abuse. If I do not hear from you by the end of the business day, I will escalate this forthwith.

Joseph P. Kennedy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpkwiki ( talkcontribs) 22:55, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Blogspot is not a reliable source. If you continue to re-add that section, I will block you. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:00, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Question

Is this rollback abuse? -- IRP 23:08, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll ask somewhere else. Looks like you don't appreciate my help at your talk page so I no longer need to help at this talk page. -- IRP 02:48, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

By the way, this was only to be helpful, not harmful. If you don't appreciate my help then I won't help anymore. -- IRP 23:51, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Block review

Hi J
Since you just looked at 61962sa‎ ( talk · contribs), could you also review Volvo B9TL ( talk · contribs) who was autoblocked by that block (IP 24.219.124.240 ( talk · contribs)) and is a pretty obvious sock, and handle it accordingly? I'd prefer not to handle it myself since I had a (albeit minor) run-in with the user before.
Thanks & Cheers, Amalthea 00:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done. I just got done talking to a checkuser, so Volvo is now directly blocked for sockpuppetry. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 00:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. :)
Cheers, Amalthea 00:18, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Could you also blank that user and user talk page except for your unblock? They have obviously been copied from another user's userspace.— dαlus Contribs 00:54, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Nomura's jellyfish

Odd things are going on at the Nomura's jellyfish article and I don't have the time or the energy to fix them. Noticed that you did the last revert, so perhaps you'll have the evnergy to fix this.

I used to be a high-edit count editor and left when I started getting too angry. So excuse me for keeping anon. I can't afford to get sucked into this again. 64.65.79.218 ( talk) 05:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I think it's fixed now. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 13:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Probably not a friend...

I just saw this new account D.Jelanoy ( talk · contribs) registered, which you may want to keep an eye on. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 13:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Blocked. Thanks  :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 13:08, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi... I don't know if you saw that you'd been reverted. The user is now blocked (again), but I've decided not to revert in case the editor's removals might be interpreted as a content dispute rather that simple vandalism -- in which case my further reversion might be seen as edit-warring. -- Rrburke( talk) 20:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Might want to take a look at this

I don't know what you would want to do in this situation, but this user is starting to threaten admins, and as you are the person who blocked him, I thought that you should know.-- Iner22 ( talk) 21:03, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I saw. I don't usually take stuff like that seriously, and if it gets worse, I will disable his talk page access. Thanks for letting me know. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 21:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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Ludacris and protection

Crash!

While you were busy declining, I was busy semi-protecting for a week. If you have strong feelings that Ludacris should be unprotected, feel free. I won't take offense.-- Fabrictramp | talk to me 02:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

haha! It doesn't really matter to me, so I'll just leave it for now. That's pretty amusing :D J.delanoy gabs adds 02:42, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Wondering

Why you edited my ammendments without giving a valid reason? Just saying it was ammended because it was previously undone by another mod is not really a valid reason for you to undo it. Do you have as many valid reasons as I have IPa's ?

W —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.64.93 ( talk) 02:47, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

The comment gave a reason for why it was there. Also, what is an IPa? J.delanoy gabs adds 02:49, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

i wasnt done

Hey dude, wats up? i wasn't finished with the page! anywasy how do you get the stutus?

--Victor x 350 21:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Victorx350 ( talkcontribs)

Here's a barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Awarded to User:J.delanoy by User:Mikaey, because you're always beating me to the punch on reverting vandalism edits on Huggle! Matt ( talk) 20:27, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 22:57, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Log entry deletion

If a log entry contains personal information, is it possible for a developer to remove it? -- IRP 21:25, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

These days, it is even possible for oversighters to remove it. Go to WP:Requests for oversight and follow the instructions there please. NuclearWarfare ( Talk) 21:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Yes, I think even oversighters can do this now. Special:Emailuser/Oversight with the details. – xeno ( talk) 21:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I wasn't saying that any of my personal information was in a log entry. I just asked this out of curiosity. -- IRP 22:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Prices and Purity of Cocaine/Heroin

Contrary to what the DEA might say, the price and purity of street drugs has taken a "positive" turn for those who use drugs. This is to say that the purity of street drugs has increased, while price decreased. The following comes from the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Please revert my edit, as it is valid, and more factually correct than that crap that the DEA has stated.

http://www.csdp.org/edcs/image6.gif (Figure 4 Source: ONDCP. 1998 National Drug Control Strategy. Table 20.)

http://www.csdp.org/edcs/image8.gif (Figure 5 Source: ONDCP. 1998 National Drug Control Strategy. Table 20.)

"The indicators of a successful supply-reduction effort are rising drug prices and decreasing drug purity levels.5 Using data supplied by the ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy), it is clear that the price of heroin has instead dropped significantly over time, while its production has risen greatly. The price of cocaine has similarly dropped from $275.12 per gram in 1981 to $94.52 in 1996.

Despite massive investments in border patrols, overseas crop eradication efforts, Department of Defense involvement and arrests of drug smugglers and drug dealers, the drug war has not reduced the supply of drugs nor made them more costly to obtain.

The market prices for illegal drugs follow the same laws of supply and demand that apply to all commodities. The drug war creates an artificially high commodity price, and these huge profit margins have encouraged more drug producers to enter the market. Greater production has created economies of scale. Lower production costs allow drug cartels to earn the same high profit margins with lower retail prices. The cartels accommodate for interdiction efforts by over-producing their commodity to account for the losses. Since a kilogram of raw opium has been reported to sell for $90 in Pakistan, but is worth $290,000 in the United States, law enforcement seizures at our borders have very little impact on cartel operations or profitability.6 "

There is also this:

http://books.google.com/books?id=dwGpsNjv_1kC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=ONDCP+national+drug+control+strategy+1998+heroin+purity+increase&source=bl&ots=MSppZTF1L5&sig=9LBRE7EXj8cNH7NEvADPL0Nh2Mg&hl=en&ei=Cn-sSaepNYi5nQen3bG_Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA107,M1

Please revert my edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.180.61.44 ( talk) 00:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Deleting articles

If deleting an article is vandalism what is the proper way to get it done. MassivRestarter ( talk)

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:13, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

why

Why did you do this? 71.248.115.187 ( talk) 01:41, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Polygamy

Why you removed my information about Poland? Polygamy is punishable by law in Poland. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.120.120.243 ( talk) 03:33, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you - that was spot-on :) Serious unsourced/BLP issues which required oversight - Alison 07:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

No problem :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 13:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Hugglez

Zomg Huggler r back! D= (It took me another 3 edit conflicts to realize that :P) Imperat§ r( Talk) 15:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Someone apparently hates me... he even created a page about me! :) Cheers. Imperat§ r( Talk) 15:43, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Are You Paid To Edit Wikipedia Articles?

Are You Paid To Edit Wiki Articles?

More specificially, are you paid to monitor and edit Katies Courics wikipedia article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.240.5.45 ( talk) 20:44, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I doubt it, but if he's getting paid, I want a taste! – xeno ( talk) 20:43, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
The pay's lousy, but the groupies make it all worthwhile. –  iridescent 20:44, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I still haven't seen a check and the groupies must have the wrong address. Alansohn ( talk) 20:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
No, I am not paid to edit. At least, I've never gotten any checks. I wonder if that idiot down at the post office is stealing them.... J.delanoy gabs adds 20:47, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
A lot of people don't know about paid editing; you need to click the button to activate paid editing on your account. Once you've done that you're paid 1c per edit. It soon adds up. –  iridescent 20:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Ah, thank you ;-) J.delanoy gabs adds 20:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Wait, you guys haven't been getting paid? Useight ( talk) 21:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
chyeah! Just click the button, fill out the form, and submit. Simple. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
the pay's alright, but I love the company car. Who'd have thought the Wikimedia foundation could afford Aston martins-- Jac16888 Talk 21:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
inorite? And these Macbook Airs, too. I never would have believed it. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:13, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I get free cars for life thanks to my insertion of positive spin into Ford and Chrysler. My next series of edits will be to Drugs, Money and Sex. –  iridescent 21:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Hmm? Admins talking about stupid postal workers! Sounds silly, but, amazing hilarious at the same time! Thx Al and J 4 editing my obvious screw-ups I'm still learning C++, Linux and other programming codes like html and whatnot so sorry if im making your computers go nutz on ya. Dhaz wey dhanya! :) {[_-=-Tresapedario-=-_]} ( talk) 21:36, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Sebastien290194

That is my other account that I do not use anymore, so I deleted the discussion. Its not unconstructive. -- Flash flash ; 20:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

You should still log into that account to avoid confusion by other editors. Versus22 talk 20:56, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Anti-Vandalism

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I hereby award J.delanoy the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for continuously reverting vandalism JUST as I was about to do it myself :) Good job! Neu tralle 21:48, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

thank you :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 21:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

The Grudge 3 plot

Hi why did you revert the plot back to the way it was. The plot posted before told the complete story and had many errors. The full plot should bot be revealed until May 12th 2009 so it does not spoil the story for people who have not seen the movie yet.

No. Wikipedia does not remove plot details. See WP:SPOILER. J.delanoy gabs adds 22:54, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi ok thanks. But can I rewrite the full plot? The one there now is choppy and has many errors in spelling and in the actual plot itself. 173.68.184.9 ( talk) 22:57, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

A Request to Lock Tom Delonge

Hey, I noticed some people trying to be funny on Tom Delonge's page... I would like it locked... I tried locking it myself... I can't get the lock to work though... Do you think you could lock it please? March 3rd 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by MySummerJob ( talkcontribs) 23:37, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Why are you not responding 0_0!?-- MySummerJob ( talk) 01:52, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

heh, I somehow didn't see this section. Anyways, with regard to the article, there is quite a bit of vandalism, but it's pretty spread out over a couple of weeks, so I don't think it needs to be protected now. I will keep an eye on it, and if it gets worse, I will take action. If it gets worse and I'm not doing anything, you can make a request on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection if you would like to have more administrators look at your request than just me. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 02:01, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, I understand.... However, I would feel much better if random IP couldn't make changes to the page, and only people with accounts, like us are allowed to make changes to the site. -- MySummerJob ( talk) 02:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, it is possible to block IPs, and I will not hesitate to do so if they don't listen to their warnings. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:24, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I knew that would happen...

RE: Miodio. OK, I'll try to make this simple. The band's name is "Miodio", as shown by the two websites I entered into the box afterwards. I have never seen the name "Mi Odio". As the page "Miodio" was a redirect page, I simply moved everything across - for obvious reasons. Yeah, OK, the talk page thing is slightly weird, but its not as if anyone will nitpick. How else should I edit the page? I tried moving it but the page "Miodio" existed - the redirect. What is there to do? Its plainly obvious the band name is Miodio... Dave ( talk) 01:36, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know anything about the band. All I saw was that you blanked a page with no edit summary, and I thought you were a vandal attacking the page. If not, please accept my apologies. In any case, you shouldn't do cut/paste moves. See Help:Moving pages for info on how to change a page's title. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

A vandal... nice. Don't worry - I've stopped a few vandals before on other wikis. I can assure you I'm not a vandal... really! :D If that case, apparently I need to be an admin to move the page "over" a new one - the "Mi Odio" article onto the "Miodio" page (which is currently a redirect). Could you do that instead? And change the page "Mi Odio" as a redirect to "Miodio"? That would be very helpful! Thanks, Dave ( talk) 01:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, done. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:56, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

4im warning

I was just going to try to find an admin and ask if this was the type of thing that a 4im warning was used for. I had assumed that things that were a violation of NPA would fit. (perhaps outing issues too?). I see the previous warning stopped just short of the 4im, I figure while I'm typing this, you're doing your behind the scenes super-duper admin magic thing, so ... long-short ... 4im for that kind of post? — Ched ~ (yes?) 02:13, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

yes, that is exactly what level-4im is for. Actually, I just blocked him. That sort of editing is completely unacceptable. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:15, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, sorry I keep pestering you with these new questions I'm sure you've answered a hundred times, but other than Cluebot - you're the most active vandal fighter I've seen yet. Appreciate your patience ;) — Ched ~ (yes?) 02:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
You're not pestering me! Actually, the main reason I'm here is because I can help people. That's pretty much the only thing I really like doing here. I mean, vandal-fighting is cool, but it's boring for the most part. Also, thaks for the compliment :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 02:20, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Accidental Mispelling

I accidentally spelled disamiuation instead of disambiguation. Could you fix it? I marked the misspell as a CSD. Cheers. Imperat§ r (Push that button) 03:14, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, essentially, I ended up moving the page back to its original location. IIRC, unless there is a compelling reason to have a title point at a specific article (for example, Obama redirects to Barack Obama, and the latter includes a link to Obama (disambiguation)), the disambig page usually goes at the actual name. If you disagree with me, feel free to move it back. Also, I don't think you are supposed to use templates in your signature, so you may want to change it before someone attacks *looks around* J.delanoy gabs adds 03:25, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers. Imperat§ r( Talk) 13:00, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

best way to handle?

this lead me to see [1] ... should I just WP:DENY or post NPA warning (I could personally care less .. but if it nips a problem in the bud, I'm for whatever is best for the wiki)— Ched ~ (yes?) 04:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I usually revert stuff like that, but I rarely issue warnings for vandalism on someone's own talk page. But that is just my own personal preference, and I would say that warning someone for vandalizing their talk page would be valid. I just don't personally like doing so. J.delanoy gabs adds 04:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
OK - I'll just ignore, and hope the posts to my talk page stop when he gets bored. ;) thx — Ched ~ (yes?) 04:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Knob Noster High School

Please delete the page with the same title per request of school administraation, as it is a violation of copyright. As students are getting in trouble until site goes down. Thank you. Knobbie10 ( talk) 13:17, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Moved from your user page -- Closedmouth ( talk) 13:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks like another admin already got it. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:00, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk Page Vandalism

Thanks for the speedy vandalism revert on my talk page! Cheers, ponyo ( talk) 15:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 16:02, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Ted Kennedy

Hello I was not vandalising anything as you suggested, I was correcting a glaring spelling error! You've changed it back for no reason! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.140.20 ( talk) 16:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

It is not a spelling error. In American English, many words end in -or rather than -our. Please see American English and British English differences. Since Mr. Kennedy is an American citizen, his article uses American English. J.delanoy gabs adds 16:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

I've been learning a lot from you behind the scenes on your Wiki expertise. Thanks!

Thanks :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 17:53, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Block of 142.23.96.200

Hi, J.delanoy. Please consider a similar block of 142.23.96.199, who also vandalized Child Labour after an L4. Cheers. -- Rrburke( talk) 17:56, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Already done. -- Rrburke( talk) 17:58, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Range is now blocked for 72 hours. J.delanoy gabs adds 18:01, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. How would you feel about semi-protecting Joe Banner? -- Rrburke( talk) 18:27, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

why did you delete our information about dorset? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattrickleslie ( talkcontribs) 19:47, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Please be careful...

You just reverted this edit. It was just someone (successfully) clarifying their own comment on my talk page. Try to be a little more cautious with reverting edits. Thanks! - Drilnoth ( talk) 20:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

D'oh! Just saw that you reverted your own edit; I'd just seen the diff on the anon's talk page. My bad. - Drilnoth ( talk) 20:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Huh, warnings?

Just turned on my computer and opened wikipedia. On the main page there was the banner saying I had new messages. I though this was a little weird as I was not logged in at the time. Regardless, I read the messages and find that this IP address has several warnings for childish vandalism. I am on the University of York UK network and have heard that there are several IP addresses for each accomadation block. Just to clarify, if this IP address is banned from editing/account creation (as it seems it may be), will I still be able to log in and edit if I acquire this address again in the future? Sorry if the English is bad, I am a Russian studying chemistry in the UK I shall sign this from the IP address. 144.32.155.203 ( talk) 20:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Your English is fine. As far as the IP address goes, yes, you will still be able to log in and edit. It is rare for an IP block to be implemented so that not even logged-in users can edit through it. In the unlikely event that such a block is implemented, instructions on how to get the block removed will be shown when you try to edit a page. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:54, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

RE: Thought you might enjoy this

LOL, I guess I am a somebody now! It is very ... interesting that this editor would leave a block notice for Marek69 when just 15 minutes prior the newly registered user TennisPro2 ( talk · contribs) left me this message complaining about the exact same editor. -- Kralizec! ( talk) 21:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I noticed that in October 2008, you blocked an IP address which has been reblocked in January ( 128.220.159.20). This user had been deleting information on Template:Iran Ethnic Groups Labelled Map and Ethnic minorities in Iran and obviously had some strong opinion about the subject. In the edit summary for the latter article, the user consistently seemed to talk about "propaganda" and how the article is "baiased". Qartal74 has recently deleted a this same template from the article with the same type of edit summary, which leads me to sort of believe that it could be the same user. I'm not familiar with the subject, though I assume that since this other user's actions were identical and reverted I should do the same. However, I am curious as to how this should be handled--it appears to be the same user, and their block has expired but they've returned to continue their exact same actions. I'm warning him/her, but I wanted some insight about what else can be done. Thanks! DreamHaze ( talk) 21:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting issue

Hi, my vandalism-fighting often seems to intersect with yours... Would you mind looking at recent Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting edits (with relevant past discussion in Talk:Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)) and advising on a seeming POV-pushing lede issue? (New editor has been given the usual welcome/intro messages but blanked his talk page.) Thanks. — EqualRights ( talk) 05:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Reverted edits by SoxBot

Is there a problem with the recent SoxBot edits? The one you reverted on the Lennox Lewis article had fixed a broken link.-- SaskatchewanSenator ( talk) 08:35, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

The bot had malfunctioned, and the owner asked me to revert all of the edits, since it would be easier to undo all of them and then redo them than it would be to try to figure out which ones were accurate. J.delanoy gabs adds 13:55, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
OK. Thanks!-- SaskatchewanSenator ( talk) 18:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I actually tried to do it, but gave up after a few reverts. For one, it was way too hard to go through each one to determine which of them were legitimate and which ones weren't. The early ones actually made sense, until the x's and excess statics took over. Then you had other users edited the page after Soxbot, which meant you had to go and see if that was a good edit and then either use twinkle rollback or manually edit the page to remove what soxbot did. I satisfied my mass reversion quota by reverting an IP who was screwing up NFL infoboxes. Enigma msg 04:28, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

CHOW

I undid your reversion. My edits are factually correct. I am not a vandal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.185.60.226 ( talk) 16:59, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Articles on Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette et autres Bourbons de France

How do we get semi-protection for their constantly vandalized articles? (I do not have time to go thru the process. Do you? Would you?) Frania W. ( talk) 20:20, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

The Working Man's Barnstar
I award you, J.delanoy gabs adds, the Working Man's Barnstar for the tireless and exceptional work you do in the fighting of vandalism on Wikipedia.
Also for always managing to catch those who vandalise my user and talk pages. -- Marek.69 talk 21:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)


Hi J.delanoy, I just wanted to say thank you for catching the vandals who were up to no good on my talk page yesterday :-)) Marek.69 talk 21:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Not a problem :-) You do good work, and that's why you are being attacked. Thanks for the barnstar :D J.delanoy gabs adds 21:11, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Iron Curtain

All I have done is standardise the variety of English, I somehow ended up with extra text, but I have sorted it. 86.166.116.91 ( talk) 21:25, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Please see the following page, The Aviator. I have been observing some vandalism of a section of the article, but now it's advanced instead of through other means to a legal threat. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 21:33, 5 March 2009 (UTC).

Legal threat? J.delanoy gabs adds 21:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

User: IP 172.129.131.47

Hello J.,

It appears that this vandal—the one who is fond of adding the name "Montalbano" to Wikipedia articles—has used some other anonymous IP addresses as well. They are 172.129.121.143 ‎and 172.130.33.65. These other IPs are not blocked. The vandalism from them isn't all that fresh, but I think I'd let you know about it anyway. Not all of the vandalism had been repaired, so I'm checking for errant Montalbanos now.

Cheers, GentlemanGhost ( talk) 00:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

beachlands

i made a constructive add on and you deleted it and dint say why i live in beachlands its deffinatley a new development urs sincerly ice sparkle princess —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ice sparkle princess ( talkcontribs) 01:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy J.delanoy/Archive 15's Day!

User:J.delanoy/Archive 15 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as J.delanoy/Archive 15's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear J.delanoy/Archive 15!

Peace,
Rlevse
~

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it.RlevseTalk 02:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Wow. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 02:35, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Congratulations! — Jake Wartenberg 13:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Constantinople 1930

Evidence(references) have been posted to talk pages of Andrew Mango [2] and Halil İnalcık [3] indicating that the city was called Constantinople until 1930. Apparently these facts are not as qualified as Buyukresim's personal opinion [4] [5] [6]<here he violates 3RR. He has refused to engage in using the talk page. Is there anything you can do?? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 17:25, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


Hi all. Just for the record: I did not refuse to engage in using the talk page. I said "Please see the discussion of Andrew Mango entry. The same subject was discussed there." -- Buyukresim ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC).

Articles should rely on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. This means that we only publish the opinions of reliable authors, and not the opinions of Wikipedians who have read and interpreted primary source material for themselves. [7]. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 18:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
More evidence, related directly to this issue [8], Occupation of Constantinople. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:23, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


I am reporting that user as a possible sockpuppet of Rangersarecool and because the user's username is a blatant violation of the username policy.

Notice the similarities between the contributions of the suspected sockpuppet accounts:

...and the new suspected sockpuppet:

-- IRP 22:19, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I don't know. It could just be someone being annoying. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:14, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Page protection requested

 Done J.delanoy gabs adds 17:08, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Shakira's picture on the Style Section

Dear J. Delanoy,

This is Xavi and I'm a fan of Shakira. I've been watching Shakira's wikipedia page and there's a picture that a lot of fans are complaining about. The file is named File:Shakira at Dodge Arena.jpg. I uploaded the official picture that Shakira's management sent me ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shakira_MadisonSquareGarden.jpg). Is it possible to make the change?

Thank you so much!

xavi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xavimenos ( talkcontribs) 19:46, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- IRP 21:00, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

By the way, you did not reply to the above post: User:Ip:33.07.12.119↑↑ -- IRP 21:12, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for undoing my hard work and efforts make the article sound better grammatically and more relevant to the topic. Apparently you consider these things "unconstructive". Do you know what is unconstructive? Carelessly reverting the hard work of others without even making a comment or asking for clarification.

Compare my version with yours.

first change: mentioning that Hess is considered a martyr by the party. Why you don't think this is important, why it should not be mentioned so as to say why the NPD has a picture of Hess there, is beyond me.

6000 is not an exact figure, it is an estimate. The JLO says around 7. The NPD says 7 or 8. The media has said at least 6.

Nobody met the demonstrators - again, meet suggests confrontation. There was another rally in the middle of the city held by antifa. There were two demos held the previous days, too. One was anti the other was nationalist. So what? None of this is important.

the section "alleged intimidation attempts is not even about intimidation.

a concert cannot declare itself an "anti-fascist" concert, the organizer calls it that.

What does it mean to "exert party influence"? That sentence is very awkward. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.73.196.41 ( talk) 21:33, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for your help in removing the vandalism from my talk page. CardinalDan ( talk) 22:57, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


Coal

Your removal of my edit to the page on Coal prompts me to write:

1. The edit was a recommendation for consistency. The table at the top of the page is not consistent with the content further down where I made the recommendation.

2. The edit was a recommendation for clarity, with examples. Regardless of how much the calculation of carbon dioxide production seems to match some reference, the process shown was incorrect. The math was fine, the assumptions were "jiggered" to get a result that matched some reference. That's not good science and it's misleading. I showed correct values for CO2 vs C that need no external reference, unless from a basic chemistry text. Any basic chemistry text.

3. The edit was a recommendation for someone else to do some work. If this is wrong, I'm guilty, but the recommendation should remain for a while, and not be dismissed with a reference to something else that does not address the methodology being criticized.

4. To restate the simplest issue, if the table near the top of the article on Coal does not show a single example of coal with carbon <60%, the equation using 50% is simply inapplicable and either the table or the equation needs work. Since most coals in the table are >60%C, that equation is misleading and your reversion continues that error.

WAH —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.54.36.117 ( talk) 23:50, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Blunk revert

Hello, On Mar 6, you reverted an article on Blunk. I have since reverted it to a much earlier version because it looked like it had been slowly vandalized by 76.251.108.243 on Mar 5. Please review this change and make sure you agree with my reversion. J appleseed2 ( talk) 00:35, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I think that was good. I probably should pay closer attention to make sure I get everything. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 00:41, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Jennifer Lopez: Greatist Hits

Ah, whatever if you feel whatever you see on the Greatist Hits page is appropiate and valid that's not problem I still believe you should take another look and if you do you will notice the page is a mess! I was simply trying to clean it up because those paragraphs truly did not belong there... and I would think you being a Wikipedia Editor you would undertstand why I deleted the the paragraph.

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring request

Hi, you've blocked User:70.229.32.97, but he's now editing under User:69.214.11.178 doing the same reverts. A 3R request has been lodged. Would it be possible to also block User:69.214.11.178 as well? Thanks. A-Kartoffel ( talk) 02:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

douglas texter

how is this guy notable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.249.1.190 ( talk) 04:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Admin coaching?

Hi J.delanoy,

Yours is a name I've seen around quite a bit, usually at the same times of the day/night as me. I'm interested in becoming an admin at some point (I've got an active RfA, but it looks as though it's going to fail). What I'm curious about is whether or not you'd be interested in doing some admin coaching. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Matt ( talk) 08:45, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Matt, sorry I didn't see this post earlier.
I don't think I would be a very good admin coach. For one thing, I passed RFA on credentials that should not have allowed me to pass. For another, I think I tend to be "too nice" when it comes to RFA. Sorry :/ J.delanoy gabs adds 23:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
No problem. Can I at least bug you for advice when I need it? Matt ( talk) 02:49, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Of course :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 02:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Ooh, I'm gonna smack him...

Grumblegrumblegrumble Half Shadow 23:08, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, then, give your server a clip behind the ear and send it to bed without supper. Damn uppity hardware... Or is it software? Half Shadow 23:18, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

You're The Man Now Dog

I don't know how you do it, but you seem to be all over this project removing nonsense. Perhaps one day you shall train me in your ways, and I will one day be able to revert so much vandalism without going insane. Anyway, I would award you a barnstar, but I don't do that. But I'll tell you what I will do. I will award you this incredibly lovely[citation needed] bold, italicized, and underlined asterisk:

*

Use it well, my friend, use it well. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 02:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Um, thank you... J.delanoy gabs adds 02:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Removal of a link

Hey J.delanoy, I was using HG to remove the link, not add it. Just wanted to make sure there was no confusion about it. Thanks AeonicOmega ( talk) 04:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Wind down

You know telling me I suck in a rollover was pretty low even for a Wikipedia administrator last minute cheap shot. Every time I ask myself, how low can Wikipedia administrators go, somebody else comes along to show me my eyes are still way too high on the horizon.

Now that people had finally got to discussing substantive issues, you had to come along for a wiki-admin-cheap-shot. You suck more than I ever could. The most important thing editors could ever do to improve the atmosphere on Wikipedia is discuss issues. This includes administrators. -- KP Botany ( talk) 08:57, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Was just wondering why it was reverted, I simply provided the translation of the red-underlined text, which provided a rather startling insight on "WHY" they were well-fed that day and what the red ribbons were in the drawing. Let me know what I did wrong. - Halyna —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.121.140.31 ( talk) 20:43, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

The above comment is mine, I now created an account on this wiki. RoseOfKali ( talk) 20:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Don't remember, so I self-reverted. Sorry. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I made a few more translations for that article since, if you or someone else would like to revise them for proper formatting. Thanks. RoseOfKali ( talk) 03:55, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Concering My Edit

How was that a violation?

I SIMPLY made it easy to read without the extra bullshit people add which is utter useless >_> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.226.212.190 ( talk) 01:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

If you are talking about the edit in the article " 1" then you should read the disambiguation at the top and realize that the article was about the YEAR 1, 2008 years ago, not the number, and the link to the NUMBER 1 article was right there in the same sentence. Also, your edit was unconstructive and looked more like a comment on a talkpage than an encyclopedia entry. What is useless to you may be useful to someone else. RoseOfKali ( talk) 16:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

War on Vandalism

This user, J.delanoy, is hereby recognized by User:Dromioofephesus as an Ally in his War on Vandalism. ( Ally list)

You have earned my trust and I look forward to working with you in the future.
Dromioofephesus ( talk) 11:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thanks.. J.delanoy gabs adds 16:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Apology

I accept your apology. You know, I suspect you've now looked at what the rollover looked like by your tone on my talk page--it was absolutely stunning. I believe you that it was a link; but I won't go check it.

Please consider, though, as many people as were going at me at that point, no additional offense was needed, particularly as it appears from Headbomb's user page that this sort of offensive is something he's used before, and is proud of--at least enough to include it on his user page. As an administrator butting in you have a number of options, and I hope that your number one choice in the future is to ruthlessly stick to the substantive issues, rather than discussing personalities or applying your own standards to what another editor should be offended or insulted by. Once you start discussing someone personally you forfeit your right to decide how they will respond to your comments about them. If I had not been the topic of conversation no debate about whether or not I should be insulted could have arisen--it's that simple: don't talk about the person and there is no question of standards of insult.

-- KP Botany ( talk) 20:33, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for accepting it. Again, I had no clue you would interpret it that way. I will take your advice to heart. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:36, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Actually, if you mouse over the link it says "U suck," and nothing else whatsoever. So, what came across was the message, "This" is a personal attack, and I roll over "this," and you're telling me, "U suck." I didn't bother to go deeper into what I thought was a Wikipedia essay along the lines of "Don't be a dick," a dickish way to tell someone you think they're a being what you're acting like (not you, as in you J, but whoever is passing on the essay, the generic you). We're cool as far as I am concerned. Thanks. -- KP Botany ( talk) 07:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Ham

Why is my edit unconstructive? I can't see pictures so small as they are. I have really bad vision and I cant afford glasses. Please let me make the picture as big as my screen so I can see it and get more knowledge from it. Don't be prejudiced towards handicapped people. You non-handicaps don't understand what it is like to be us. 74.214.50.116 ( talk) 21:01, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Making the picture 30000px is disruptive. Every browser in existance, and most operating systems, allow you to magnify pages. Use that. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Banned user Nangparbat

I saw you reverted an edit from Special:Contributions/86.158.234.39. i suspect he is banned user nangparbat who has a long history of disruptive edits on wikipedia especially with India elated articles. User:Hersfold/Vandal_watch#Nangparbat thought you might be interested -- Wikireader41 ( talk) 21:13, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

That annoying guy one last time before he falls asleep after 48 straight hours of spamming your talk page with ridiculously long section names

I know you are probably busy reverting hundreds of cases of vandalism, tagging dozens of articles for speedy deletion, spreading your knowledge of foreign soft drinks at the reference desk, rescuing a neglected article from almost certain deletion and bringing it to GA status within minutes, copyediting thousands of articles for cohesion and grammar, re-categorizing scores of pages, arguing your points at Wikipedia:AnythingForDebate, wikifying the Wikipedia's newest articles, interrogating Wikipedia's Most Wanted, creating self-referencing templates, and, occasionally, even doing something that won't get reverted by Jimbo Wales, so feel free to take all day in the epic chess match. It's not like the whole world is waiting for you to move your man or anything. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 02:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

All Cape Welding

I do not get why you find it cool to vandalize All Cape Welding. Stop doing it.-- RobbieG2448 ( talk) 04:35, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

J.Delanoy is not responsible for the vandalism on that article. In fact, he helped revert vandalism caused by Aidepikiw8047 ( talk · contribs). Next time, please check the diffs before you accuse administrators of vandalism. Thanks.
Dromioofephesus ( talk) 13:51, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Please Help

Hi, I am not sure if this is the correct way to go about it but, is all I know at the moment. Some of us have been trying to go forward with a change in an article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Medical_cannabis#First_Picture_is_not_Recent . If you could offer any suggestions on what I should do, if I am wrong, or if there is some way I should go about this, it would be enormously appreciated. Thanks -- Agent Agent ( talk) 05:06, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Topaz

Quick question..are you a gemologist? -- 24.21.148.212 ( talk) 06:24, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Um... no.... J.delanoy gabs adds 06:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Exactly. -- 24.21.148.155 ( talk) 23:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
...... and I have to be a gemologist to know that calling someone "gay" and adding random commentary about your friends is not constructive? Riiiight. What exactly are you trying to prove here? J.delanoy gabs adds 00:03, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

delition of mu article about the Faculty of Security Studies

Dear Wiki editors,

I am a new user and do not understand well why you delete my article about the Faculty of Security Studies. It was well supported and you can find out relevant information at official web page of the Faculty of Security Studies of the University of Belgrade www.fb.bg.ac.rs and furthemore at English version http://www.fb.bg.ac.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=249&Itemid=1259

Hope you will return the article since it is a case of an educational institution with high reputation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spasioc ( talkcontribs) 12:44, March 8, 2009 (UTC)

See the messages left on your talk page. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 13:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
When I deleted that article, I make no judgment as to the notability of the subject. I deleted it as a copyright violation. Wikipedia cannot accept text that is owned by other people/organizations. When you use a source to make an article, try to write it in your own words. J.delanoy gabs adds 16:28, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
FYI, this editor appears to be Darko Trifunović or someone associated with him; check out the article. There have been problems with anonymous/pseudonymous editors on that article for a long time, and I strongly suspect this new user to be another sockpuppet. -- ChrisO ( talk) 23:48, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Rotherham and the Chuckle Brothers

I object to the removal of the reference to the Chuckle Brothers from the Rotherham United page. This reference has been on the site for many weeks and gives due credit to the club's honorary presidents. I propose that this reference is re-instated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.170.53 ( talk) 22:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Move request

Hi per a consensus formed at WT:PW#Speaking of ECW, we need to move Extreme Championship Wrestling (WWE) to ECW on Sci Fi, but the target page needs to be deleted (requiring an admin). So may you please delete the target page so we can move it or you may move it? Thanks.-- RU CӨ 23:03, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done. I also left a note on WT:PW to say that I have done so. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:12, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks so much! You're great!-- RU CӨ 23:26, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

The work of deleting IP vandalism on chem element pages

Since you're involved, I wonder if you'd like to comment on this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements Thanks! S B H arris 23:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

83.233.30.215

Hi J.delanoy. 83.233.30.215 ( talk · contribs · block log) FYI see [9] -- zzuuzz (talk) 00:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh. Heh, oops. headdesk J.delanoy gabs adds 00:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

 Question: Is there a way to format those rectangular prisms rectangles (Edit 03/10/09 around 17:42) that have text and images in them such that the images/text isn't loaded and/or/ displayed until someone presses some sort of button (ideally, something like "Show")? If so, what characters do I need to insert onto the page for that to happen?
Dromioofephesus ( talk) 22:20, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean. Can you point me at a page that has what you are looking for? J.delanoy gabs adds 01:36, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Something like this would be fine. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 02:07, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
It's just a table with some formatting. If you look at the source code for that page and copy/tweak it, you should be able to do what you want to. J.delanoy gabs adds 14:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
All right, I'll try that. Thanks. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 19:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Is there a way to do that within infoboxes as well? — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 17:52, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

{SPAM}

SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM good job helping wikipedia sir —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.244.121.150 ( talk) 17:56, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

uh, thanks. I think... J.delanoy gabs adds 18:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Justin Solondz

Kindly read the edit I made. i was reverting well-sourced material, edied to overcome objection by adding "alleged" The man is a wanted suspect in a major crime, for heavens sake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.39.35.50 ( talk) 20:05, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I finally found one you missed

I knew you were human - finally proved that J. is not a bot ... lol ;) — Ched ~ (yes?) 20:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

heh. {{fact}} J.delanoy gabs adds 20:53, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
LOL ... hey - on the page Anne Hathaway (poem) I noticed User talk:Lomas80 and User talk:Connormorrison - not being real familiar with socks, how to tell, and what to do - well..... what should I do? — Ched ~ (yes?) 21:03, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
In general, if the vandalism is simple, childish stuff, I just let them go, because if I block one, the other will be autoblocked anyways. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

A little help would be nice.

Could you please block Bambifan's newest sock (68.220.190.156), he admitted he's sock on his talk page. The Cool Kat ( talk) 20:59, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Recent March 10 edit

In regard to your recent edit of the March 10 page:

I myself am heterosexual. Completely. I know what I like. I am not a "gay basher." My own personal belief is that preference is a thing of nature, not 100% conscious choice. My own inhibitions keep me from delving too deeply into the subject, but given that the event seems to be true and is apparently a stepping stone toward social barriers being broken, I'm not 100% convinced that the event does not belong. I'm not 100% convinced that it does. I do find that there are few (if any at all) references within the DOY pages that cover this slow change of social opinion on the matter and therefore, may be notable.

P.S. - My mention of "gay-basher" is no insinuation that I feel your removing the entry is part of that mentallity but to demonstrate my neutral opinion of the matter. Kentholke ( talk) 21:37, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Good day to you(;

gaesseki:D jiral hajima^^ ddong muck uh please(: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.110.134.87 ( talk) 22:49, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

hmm? J.delanoy gabs adds 22:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

im trying to say that this is a really nice website you are so michutsu(: byungshin michinsekki;D LOL i hope you had a really nice day(: anyways thanks for replying jotsekki^^

Not a problem. J.delanoy gabs adds 04:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello!

Hi J. Delanoy, this is user Pudge2, I'd really appreciate it if you unblocked me. I honestly did not vandalize anything, I swear to God. Thank You! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.86.38.119 ( talk) 00:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Untitled post

Why delete so much? We're all in this to help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.54.75.64 ( talk) 18:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

What do you mean? J.delanoy gabs adds 18:35, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Edits that do not comply with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are deleted or reverted, they are not deleted or reverted for no reason. -- IRP 20:15, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Falsely accused of edit warring

How come an experienced user accused me of being in an edit war? I have never been in an edit war. Please see this link. -- IRP 20:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. I would say that it seems unlikely to lead to anything further, but the person to ask about this is probably the person who accused you of warring. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I think this might be vandalism

These edits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/217.86.188.252 Bus stop ( talk) 21:02, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

The user was already blocked. See block log for 217.86.188.252. -- IRP 21:30, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Bus stop ( talk) 21:35, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Y'know, in a situation like this...

...you should consider giving Baseball Bugs the mop just to piss the trolls off. Half Shadow 02:29, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

lol, yeah. :D Someone should :P J.delanoy gabs adds 02:31, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Header added

what i put on carlos tevez's page is actually true, his mother was 14 when she had him and she WAS a prostitute. he came from a poor region of argentina and such was the case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.109.208 ( talk) 02:34, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Please include a citation to a reliable source. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:36, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Reply- ZooFari

Thanks for clarifying the conflict at Jimbo's talk page. I did not realize the IP was a disturbance earlier before. As to this, it is considered vandalism, and I hope you accept my apology. Zoo Fari 03:13, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I just thought I'd give you a heads up that Jbbmonster7 ( talk · contribs · logs) can't seem to stop removing content from Tada theater without any explanation. I've given him three warnings thus far. — Dromioofephesus ( talk) 03:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

My talk page

Would you consider looking over my report at ANI regarding my talk page. Cheers. Nja 247 09:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I think this may be another candidate for blocking

I'm referring to this: [10], the edit made by 208.233.36.250. Thank you. Bus stop ( talk) 12:51, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

??

Have you even seen this? Ranked #5, man! I don't like you! I hope this ends soon!

Have you ever seen a show called Whose Line Is It Anyway? The points don't matter, and neither does you.
What is with you? J.delanoy gabs adds 21:27, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm like a scarecrow right now. Don't have much of a brain, I'm jealous, and tired. I even saw a video on this that was removed! You'll probably find out what's really happening later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.28.69.62 ( talk) at 21:39, March 8, 2009
So whatcha going to do over spring break? Constantly and boringly press a key on the keyboard? Go on a vacation? Pressing a key almost every hour would be just BORING. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.28.69.62 ( talk) 22:05, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Yes it would. Of course, you just pressed at least 171 keys to make your message, so..... ;-) J.delanoy gabs adds 22:08, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
An hour ago, I checked your edits that you made back in January, and out of the days in Jan that you used HG: 29/31. Unbelievable, just unbelievable. You really are a robot. This should calm down later this year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.28.69.62 ( talk) 22:58, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
And oh yeah, you should check this out! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.28.69.62 ( talk) 23:22, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Still a lot of espn links that were messed up by Soxbot

this, for example. That's why it was such a problem. Soxbot often wasn't the last editor when you reverted. In this case, the bot messed up a ton of references. I guess it would be too time-consuming to manually look now, but perhaps a search can be done for links with "expn" in them and those can be fixed, because I don't think any legitimate link would have expn in it. Enigma msg 02:56, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah. I'll see what I can do. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:58, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Update? I asked X! about it, but he didn't really respond. thanks, Enigma msg 07:56, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Doing with AWB will probably be impossible. There are too many variations to what it did, and I don't know how to account for all of them. Sorry. J.delanoy gabs adds 14:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

anti vandle cookie

nom nom nom

 rdunn PLIB  15:59, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Popups

Hi,

I have a question. Can one revert several edits at once using "popup" tool? If so, how is it possible? For example, reverting 3 edits, to a specific edit that was done 3 days ago (in cases that unknown IP users edit pages with mistakes and you want to revert them all at once, rather than one by one). Is there a tool for that? and also, I would appreciate if you tell me what are the uses of popups in editing as a whole.Thanks alot, Parvazbato59 ( talk) 16:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

To revert more to a particular revision, there are two ways that I know of. If you are in the page's history tab, you can hover the link to the last good revision, and under actions, click revert. You can also hover the "cur" or "last" links in the history to revert to that revision. If you bring up a page's history using popups, you can do the same thing by hovering the links that it brings up in there.
Twinkle, among other things, provides a "restore this version" link on the left hand side when you view a diff (see screen grab). I find using installing Twinkle and popups simultaneously to be very useful, as popups are easier to revert with if you are looking at a page's history, and Twinkle is easier to use if you are looking at a diff. Keep in mind, though, that running a lot of javascript can significantly slow your browser down (if you have an older computer), and also Twinkle does not work in Internet Explorer.
As far as the uses of popups, the only thing I can think of off hand that you may not have known is that you can hover links in popups to open further popups. For example, when someone reports a vandal to WP:AIV, most of the time, it includes a link to the vandal's contribs in the edit summary. When I see the summary in my watchlist, I hover the link, which brings up their contribs. I then hover the diffs to make sure the edits are vandalism, then I open the "user" menu and hover the link to the vandal's talk page, and look at the page history to see if they were recently given warnings. Essentially, without ever leaving my watchlist, I can check everything I need to decide whether or not to block someone. So basically, IMO, the real power of popups is the ability to "chain them together" to get more information without having to leave the page you are on. J.delanoy gabs adds 16:36, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much!! you saved me, :) Parvazbato59 ( talk) 17:01, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Blahblah670

Would you mind blocking this user? It's a vandalism only account, see here , vandalised twice after final warning. Cheers! cf38 talk 21:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Just a note to tell you that after reviewing the case with NishKid, I decided to amend the CheckUser results and I (temporarily?) unblocked Abbatai ( talk · contribs) since the account is no longer confirmed to be Azturkk ( talk · contribs). There is a geographical relationship, but the technical evidence and editing times suggest they may be 2 different people. I hope you don't mind :). -- lucasbfr talk 00:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Nope. I only blocked based on the checkuser results. J.delanoy gabs adds 00:32, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Stealing my huggle edits =p

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
This is for beating me to all the huggle edits §hawn poo 00:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! J.delanoy gabs adds 00:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

i just wanted to make blood burgers in caps. because it is very bad that she went on hells kitchen and didn't know how to do that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.192.116.63 ( talk) 02:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Help!

This user http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JustSomeRandomGuy32 has been vandalizing my talk page all day and has been leaving personal attacks for me in the edit summary, I have warned him about this, but he keeps reverting my edits. He has previously already been blocked for edit warring. Please help me.( Planecrash111 ( talk) 04:08, 13 March 2009 (UTC))

Reported to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. -- IRP 04:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Please note the users edit history. He is attacking me and trying to play victim. JustSomeRandomGuy32 ( talk) 04:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Drop the act....you have been reported to AIV for vandalism on several pages RandomGuy32. You are the attacker here. - NeutralHomerTalk • March 13, 2009 @ 04:29

::: JustSomeRandomGuy32 was blocked for 24 hours. - NeutralHomerTalk • March 13, 2009 @ 04:36

I'm going to respectfully ask to do a bit of checking of my edit history (and maybe check out all of the legit warnings that Planecrash has reverting out of his own talk page over time) before coming to a conclusion like that. JustSomeRandomGuy32 ( talk) 04:37, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
...and I going to respectfully ask you to leave him alone. You should be blocked right now and I thought you were. If you having an issue, walk away, just walk away. Also, when someone removes a warning from there talk page that doesn't give you the right to replace it again. The deletion means they have seen and acknowledged it. Don't put it back. - NeutralHomerTalk • March 13, 2009 @ 04:45

Vandalism warning for Tiramisoo over editing New World Order (conspiracy theory)

You gave a "last warning" to Tiramisoo for this edit to New World Order (conspiracy theory). The edit was adding links to David Icke and Alex Jones. Why do you think this was vandalism? Superficially it looks to me like a perfectly good faith attempt to add links to articles relevant to the topic of the article. The attempt was not very good, for a couple of reasons, and the link to Alex Jones is to a disambiguation page, while it is presumably intended to be to Alex Jones (radio host). However, careless editing is not the same as vandalism. You may well have a very good reason for regarding this as vandalism: if so I should be interested in knowing. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:26, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Jackal4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jackal4. This is a particularly annoying vandal who just loves to edit war. He has left some foul language in the edit summaries and continues to edit war. He has been blocked already, but he has since continued.( Planecrash111 ( talk) 14:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC))

Template feedback?

Hi. :) I've created a template for cleaning copyright infringement, Template:Cclean. It requires substitution. I just fixed one that was transcluded. Can you tell me if you think that the directions are clear enough or if there's something different I should do with it? I don't know if it was transcluded because the user is not familiar with substituting templates or if there's no sane reason that one should be substituted. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey :-)
I added some code to the template that will produce an error message if the template is not subst-ed. See the history of User:J.delanoy/3 if you want to see what it does. Do you think that will work? J.delanoy gabs adds 15:49, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Absolutely! Thank you so much. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:02, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Rebecca Harper page (brothers and sisters)

there is a comment about Rebecca Harper "Rebcca dies becuase she is evil cow bitch" that I tried to remove but couldn't. I just read Wiki and don't know it well enough to do much more than this. helina_y@yahoo.com

It looks like someone else already got it, but thanks for letting me know :-) If you want to learn how to undo vandalism, Help:Reverting has some good advice on it. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 16:05, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Juan Joseph

Hi! Could you send me a copy of what Juan Joseph was before it was deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Juan Joseph? He was recently signed by the Edmonton Eskimos as a quarterback prospect and I'd like to see if there was anything of notable interest in the previous article. User:DoubleBlue/Juan Joseph would be a suitable destination. Cheers! DoubleBlue ( talk) 19:10, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done J.delanoy gabs adds 19:57, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, looks like there's nothing too interesting anyway. I'd hoped by the divided AfD discussion that there was a reasonable start but it looks easier to just begin again. Cheers! DoubleBlue ( talk) 20:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Question

I'm very flattered, but I think I can probably help the encyclopaedia more through writing and maintaining content. I'm pretty sure I could do the job - it seems to mostly call for common sense and calmness, but others are just as well qualified and would probably have more time. I'm therefore hesitant to take on responsibilities that I couldn't give my full attention to. (In a word, "no") Tim Vickers ( talk) 16:04, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I think I've found a vandal for admins to know about

Hi there.

I'm NOT an admin or anything but I couldn't help but notice the amount of vandalism that a particular account appears to be causing. I noticed you left a message on the talk page User talk:Mcevapouration and just thought I'd inform an administrator that the account has been making several unwanted edits. I'm new to Wikipedia but I am willing to notify administrators if I believe something needs attention. Do you think its worth watching this account? -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 06:00, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind my eavesdropping - that user has been blocked indefinitely, something you can check by clicking on 'block log' on his user contributions page. Hadrian89 ( talk) 19:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Would you consider recommending a sockpuppet investigation for this article? It is pretty obvious that all of the image switching is the work of the same person (see User talk:Ves Seer). Only admins can launch a SPI, and the situation with single purpose accounts at Virgin Killer is becoming tiresome.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:40, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

I purged some of the sock drawer, things should be a bit calmer now. -- lucasbfr talk 13:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Rollback

Would you consider giving me roll back status? I've been a pretty diligent editor rolling back vandalism on the pages I have on my watchlist. Thanks.

jheiv ( talk) 01:42, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Protection

I've semi-protected your talk page, even though you unprotected it, as the vandalism is continuing. Only semi-protection is required as the socks are not autoconfirmed. I recommend you leave the protection in place for a day or so as Star Mississippi suggested, although before the protection was full (I've put a one week limit on the semi-protection though, so you may want to change that). Hope it doesn't cause inconvenience, Nev1 ( talk) 02:00, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

And I just unprotected it without seeing this. Hmm. I guess I'll protect it for now. It's not often I have multiple admins doing this. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:03, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
We've all got your back :) I was too slow on Tan's this morning, not sure who either of you pissed off today. Eek. StarM 02:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you :-) I don't know about Tan, but they guy attacking me is either Grawp in a different persona, or more likely some n00b who wants to become as notorious as Grawp. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:49, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
People need a hobby. I really don't get the OMG!Vandalism is teh kewl!!!!!! school of thought. Remember once trying to log on from uni -- IP blocks all over the place because of twits. StarM 03:39, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Closed-minded user

Hello, J.delanoy. I attempted to communicate with the user who has erroneously accused me of edit warring ( see above↑↑). It seems that I cannot communicate with the user. The user is treating me like a vandal, which may give some users the impression that I'm editing in bad faith, which is not true at all. Every edit that I have ever made to Wikipedia was done in good faith. See this link. I don't know if it is a misunderstanding or an intentional bad faith edit on on Roux's part. -- IRP 03:30, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Also, I have removed the post from Roux's talk page so nobody would receive the false impression that I am a vandal. -- IRP 03:33, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Also, see this link. It is becoming more blatant that the user is attempting to spoil my reputation on Wikipedia. -- IRP 04:06, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Please note that I moved this section to the bottom of this page because it appears that you missed it. -- IRP 20:15, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm not certain I know what you want me to do. I don't really think there is anything I can do. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I was asking if I really did something terribly wrong. The user has accused me of edit warring (on Ultraviolet Sound) and may make the false impression that I am a vandal or something similar. There is clear evidence that I have not made one bad faith edit to Wikipedia, as you can see from my block log that I have never been blocked. If you look at the block log for Roux, you can see that user has been blocked in the past for doing exactly what he or she accused me of doing. That makes me think that there is no doubt that the user has made another bad faith edit. I don't know if I should report for abuse. -- IRP 20:32, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I don't think anyone will decide you are a vandal on the basis of someone accusing you of edit-warring. As you said, you were not blocked, and if you tried to contact Roux and got no response, there is not much else you can do. My advice is just ignore the whole thing. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
The edit warring was only part of the problem. I was concerned that one of Roux's comments would make me seem like a vandal. The user posted "further messages you post here will be removed on sight" ( diff). The only time that I have ever seen talk page messages or edits removed on sight is if it is made by a sockpuppet of User:Grawp, and I feel that my edits should not be treated in such a manner, as they are done entirely in good faith. The user then restored the post (possibly maliciously) ( click for diff) after I removed it because first of all, I was the one who posted it, second of all, I felt that any other editor who sees that would think I am a vandal. -- IRP 20:59, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

IRP, let it go. Roux was certainly being snarky here, but (regardless of what you say) you were edit-warring here; see the history of the article:

And users remove messages from their talkpages immediately all the time; both myself and J.delanoy, otherwise we'd have talkpages that look like chatroom logs. –  iridescent 21:11, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't believe what I was doing constituted edit warring because I didn't revert repeatedly. Please look carefully and you will see that I only reverted once. I restored the {{ AfD}} tag, however, I still left Roux's {{ db}} tag in place. Besides, I believe that it does not constitute Wikipedia: Edit war unless you revert legitimate edits more than thrice (please correct me if I'm wrong). -- IRP 21:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC), modified 18:44, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Besides, if I was edit warring, why wasn't I blocked? -- IRP 21:28, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I guess if I'm not going to get any help here, I'll post somewhere else. -- IRP 04:01, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. IRP asked my opinion on the matter. I've responded on my talk page, but I just wanted to wander by and say that I think there may have been a misunderstanding. As IRP notes, he didn't revert, but only restored the AfD tag that Roux removed, which was appropriate, since there was an open AfD. Even if the article is G4'ed, it's handy to the deleting admin to know that there's an open AfD, and it gives other contributors an opportunity to respond. Evidently, it's important to him that others realize that he didn't do anything wrong, and I believe that he was acting in good faith there and working within process. While I'm here, though, I do have to agree with User:Iridescent and User:J.delanoy that there's not much to be done about it. And to point out to IRP that, actually, edit warring doesn't require three reverts. As WP:EW notes, the 3RR rules is just a ballpark indicator; "Edit warring is a behavior, not a simple measure of the number of reverts on a single page in a specific period of time." While I don't believe IRP did edit war in this instance, I think it's important to clear that one up, since such a misunderstanding could lead to trouble. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmm?

Hi. :) If I haven't worn out my welcome yet, is there any chance you can tell me why only one subcat is showing up in Category:Possible copyright violations? It should also be including Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections and Category:Articles with close paraphrasing and probably a few others. I have no clue why it isn't. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Considering how much I pestered you with questions about CSD when I was a n00b in that area, I don't think you can possibly ever bug me as much as I bugged you, so don't worry about that ;-)
Okay, don't ask me why on earth it would do this, but the subcategories are sorted the exact same way as the pages in the category. So, the first page in Category:Possible copyright violations ranges from A through C. Thus, the first page includes all the subcategories whose titles start with A, B, or C. This continues on through the category, so if you click on "next 200" a few times or on one of the letters on the index, you will find the other subcategories. For example, here there are 5 more subcategories. I hope that makes sense. It is pretty simple in reality (although it seems illogical to me), but it is difficult to describe without actually showing you. J.delanoy gabs adds 19:43, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Well, let me know if you ever think you've done enough. :D I see what you mean--how bizarre. And unhelpful. Well, once we get all of those mollusc articles cleared out, it'll be fully functional again. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:22, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: vandalism warning

My edit was not vandalism. I was removing a redundant sentence. The criterion gave two examples in two different places, so I removed one of them.

It may appear that every edit I make is vandalism. Actually I am editing from a shared school IP where thousands of students have access. I know my way around Wikipedia but am currently not using an account.

Maybe I'll take you up on the chess challenge. 129.49.7.125 ( talk) 23:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh come on - you semi-protected your chess game??? I want to play! LOL. 129.49.7.125 ( talk) 23:17, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Header added 33

PLEASE DON'T BAN ME!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.232.26.31 ( talk) 01:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Umm... If you want to play around, you can do almost anything you want to in the sandbox. J.delanoy gabs adds 01:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Question

Hello. I hope that you can help me. Can I place a CSD template on a user page if it appears to be an attack page or to infringe WP:BLP? The page that I am concerned with is User:Skatergirl32797? It claims to be written by the person it prima facie disparages, but I don't really imagine that what it says is not total nonsense, and I can imagine that it could be written by an 'impersonator'. James500 ( talk) 17:01, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. I would say ask the person on their talk page to take it down, or just blank it. User pages are not indexed by search engines, IIRC, so it shouldn't be a problem from that standpoint. J.delanoy gabs adds 17:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I have put a message on the user's talk page asking the user to remove that content. James500 ( talk) 18:29, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Actually, this one is a problem per BLP. G:10 does apply to user spaces, and userpages are indexed by google. Even if this individual were for some reason making up stories about herself (maybe she really dislikes her brother?), it contains identifying information about an individual who would be 11 years old. I've deleted it under BLP and left a note for the contributor. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:49, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Remark deleted. James500 ( talk) 21:10, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

If you think it's likely to lead to privacy violations, feel free. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:09, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. James500 ( talk) 20:32, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Ello'.

I was just wondering, is there any way that I can add a personalized welcome message to twinkle? Thanks. :) Papercutbiology♫ ( talk) 17:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I think you'd have to modify the javascript, and then you wouldn't get any updates for that module of Twinkle. Not sure though. You might try asking at WT:TWINKLE. J.delanoy gabs adds 17:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, okay thank you! As I am no good with JavaScript, I'll leave as is before I destroy something. :) Papercutbiology♫ ( talk) 19:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

AIV backlog

Hi, I noticed that AIV has a huge backlog. Unless someone else is already on it, would you mind to have a look? De728631 ( talk) 00:03, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Special Barnstar
Your name flashes across my screen a lot and I wanted to acknowledge the good work you do in many different areas of WP. Johnfos ( talk) 00:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Can you please decline the unblock request at User talk:AGentleUser? -- IRP 03:00, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Dozens of unused socks

Greetings. Take a look at this. These seem to be numerous user pages belonging to a single individual (self-identified as a teenage girl in Alaska) who has made numerous accounts for no apparent reason. Thanks. -- Boston ( talk) 05:26, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

IP Vandal

Hi. Could you please take a look at 217.206.25.213 this IP has just completed a six month block for persistant vandalism and immediately started vandalising again. See his Contributions page. Richard Harvey ( talk) 09:04, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Heather Cave

Could you have a look at the page Farhan I'm on to you! Heather Cave’s page has been redirected to it. I don’t know how to fix it. The page is being vandalized by a couple of users and will need cleaning up as well. Jackfork ( talk) 14:08, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Mario article

Just wanted to let you know that I've accidentally reverted your edit on the Mario article as I thought you've added "non-" before "fictional character" when you've actually done the opposite. There have been so much vandalism on this article for the past few days that I've hit "rollback vandal" a bit too quickly. Sorry about that! Laurent ( talk) 20:39, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. Stuff like that happens, and it is pretty obvious it was not intentional. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:17, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Filter 8

SoxBot seems to have been caught in your filter here. — Nn123645 ( talk) 00:38, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I deleted the filter, thanks for letting me know. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:18, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello

Hi can ypu please check the edit made from User_talk:131.111.229.18 this user was issued a warning from you as well as my self and i do believe this could be a false positive i am using huggle please let me know thanks.

Regards Staffwaterboy Critique Me Guestbook Hate Comments 18:30, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

216.114.150.13

Hello again, J.delanoy ... FYI, 216.114.150.13 ( talk · contribs) is back and vandalizing again after your last block ... Happy Editing! — 138.88.32.143 ( talk · contribs) 18:49, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks like Edgar181 already got him, thanks. J.delanoy gabs adds 18:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

explanation required

Could you please explain to me how you seem to crop up on Wikispecies within 60seconds of certain vandalism by anon. IP and undo their vandalism??? It looks to me like the vandals could be your sockpuppets...
stho002 (over on Wikispecies)

replied on species:User talk:Stho002. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Ok, thanks for clearing that up! It just looked a bit odd to me, but I guess you can swoop down in the blink of an eye!


stho002

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. I was about to ARV him, actually... Cheers, ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 21:21, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

AIV

Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism needs administrator attention. -- IRP 21:35, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, it was not that bad. In the future, you don't need to ping me unless there are like 15 reports there. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:39, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
The reason why I posted a notice here was because I have made two reports to AIV more than an hour ago and apparently no administrator noticed them. -- IRP 21:51, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Possible Sock?

Hi,

Just been looking through the recent changes page and came across a of edits by User talk:24.44.90.82 on this userpage User:Come clean wake up, who was blocked indefinitely due to evading a block by creating a new account. I've never tagged anyone as a sockpuppet anyone before so i was just wondering if you could have a look to see if what i've done is correct? Thanks Uksam88 ( talk) 21:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Episodes Table

Follow this link and you'll see the table of episodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jon_%26_Kate_Plus_8_episodes 70.24.233.37 ( talk) 23:56, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Please do not revert good faith removals of speedy deletion notices, reverts of the kind you performed should only be used for vandalism edits. Forward planning failure ( talk) 00:20, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

My AGF meter got a crack in it when you showed up out of nowhere and proceeded to do nothing but remove CSD tags and field complaints about your actions. J.delanoy gabs adds 00:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Gangland (video game)

Can you delete this page. It is a duplicate copy of Gangland. I do not want to redirect to that article. After deleting the article. The gangland need to be moved to Gangland (video game) after that the article "Gangland" needs to be redirected to Gangland (disambiguation). Thanks. -- SkyWalker ( talk) 03:09, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. -- SkyWalker ( talk) 03:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
No problem :-) I hope I sorted it correctly. J.delanoy gabs adds 03:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
You have done a wonderful job. Thank you.-- SkyWalker ( talk) 04:06, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Gosselin Epsiodes

There's already a table that is shown above the episodes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jon_%26_Kate_Plus_8_episodes 70.24.233.37 ( talk) 09:34, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikidove

α§ʈάt̪íňέ -210 discovered elementswhat am I? 16:33, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Move problem

Hi. I need your help with something. Somehow User:Tau Phi Sigma Fraternity Inc. has moved his user talk page to Talk:Tau Phi Sigma and moved his userpage to Tau Phi Sigma. I tried undoing the talk page move, but I accidently moved Talk:Tau Phi Sigma to User talk:Tau Phi Sigma instead of Talk:Tau Phi Sigma to User talk:Tau Phi Sigma Fraternity Inc.. Could you please fix it? Thanks, Reliable Forever talk 18:25, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Chess game!

Please continue the game. You've made only one move in the last three months.

Also please unprotect the page. It's not you versus "the world" if the world can't play. Soberknight ( talk) 19:36, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Rushton Article Revert

Hey, you reverted my edit to the Rushton article. I considered it to be quite constructive and included an edit summary. I plan on reverting it back, please provide a reason as to why you don't think it was a constructive addition. 99.255.5.248 ( talk) 22:25, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced negative additions to biographical articles are reverted on sight. J.delanoy gabs adds 22:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello

I have found some time to finally come back to the wubbolous world of wikipedia, and the first "vandalism" I saw was a user trying to post a comment on another's talk page. The user's comment was a little rude, but not vandal's work. I agree with the user 24.208.19.195 that it is Until it sleep's choice to delete it. No proper warnings were given, so I believe that the block should be lightened or lifted. I will personally warn the user without an automatic script, for friendliness, about the situation. Cheers! Wiki Zorro sign 23:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry For Editing. It Wasn't Intentional

I wasn't even aware that I had edited the page you notified me about (Frederick Banting). Can you tell me how I edited it? What my edit was about? Have I edited any more pages unawares?

After looking into the matter a bit more, I have to say that you're completely mistaken. I've never even attempted to access/read the page on Frederick Banting, let alone attempt to edit it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.163.27.75 ( talk) 00:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

You are probably correct. You have a dynamic IP address, so it is likely that someone else vandalized, and then you got the warning that was intended for them. Just don't worry about it, and if you get warnings like this a lot, you can avoid them by creating an account and logging in. Cheers, and sorry for the confusion. J.delanoy gabs adds 14:44, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Please check this new anon

Hi could you please check this new anon that has suddenly appeared 207.67.17.45. He is currently active and had just reversed a suspect vandalism edit from an anon editor that I suspect is also vandalising another article with a different IP in his same block unit. I haven't even finished warning the first user and tying the two IP's together when he reversed my edit. He also appears to be reversing other editors work? NB: It seems odd that a 'New' editor would know to place this link here Talk:Conservapedia. Richard Harvey ( talk) 15:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, he hasn't really done anything, so I'd say just keep an eye on him. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:29, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Coolsprings

I'm Coolsprings and thank you for getting my page under protection. I am deeply appreciating it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolsprings ( talkcontribs) 17:58, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

HG

Hi. I saw all the 'undoing own edit' summaries on Tubular battery etc., and, just for a second, I thought HG had gone temporarily nuts.  ;) Taroaldo ( talk) 20:48, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

LOL! No, Huggle didn't go crazy, I did (runs around room waving hands and yelling) ;-) J.delanoy gabs adds 20:53, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Also LOL. That's understandable. It happens to us all at one time or another! Taroaldo ( talk) 21:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring

Ibrahim4048 has continued edit warring on the Mehmed Talat article [11], [12], [13]. Stating that he deserves a platform for HIS opinion! This has been to mediation, and the mediator was subsequently verbally attacked by Ibrahim4048. Do you have any suggestions? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 20:41, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I gave him {{ uw-3rr}}, so I guess we will see if he violates it. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 20:56, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
I have provided two references, both from the IAGS, which removes the possibility of this genocide being "alleged". -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 02:04, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Denying to give me a platform to discuss whether the armenian genocide committed by the ottoman government is a fact or that it is disputed (thus allegedly would be in its place) is alright by you? I mean it IS seriously disputed among scholars and countries, it's not just my personal opinion. All the arguments and pieces of text I gave on the talk and mediation pages were from academic sources. Unlike the holocaust there was no racist/religious doctrine (armenians, greeks etc co-founded the young turks, young turks were secular) in the young turk government and there are no documents that prove anyone from the government ordered armenian civilians to be killed. In contrast thousands of documents and physical proof (gaschambers, furnaces) exist to prove the holocaust and neither do the germans deny it. Putting alleged in front of holocaust or in some other way expressing doubt about the factualness of the holocaust would be wrong for these reasons. In the case of the armenian genocide there is simply no proof that the ottoman government ordered armenian civilians to be killed. Even if you believe the ottomans did commit genocide, you should accept the fact that there is no conclusive proof and accept the existence and expression of other views. These users have been reverting my contribution and just don't want to discuss it. They even warned each other that discussing it with me on the mediation page would give my arguments legitimacy. This has been the tactic they used in all the other armenia-turkey related topics thus far. They simply revert contributions made by genocide deniers/doubters and even delete comments made on the talk page. They created a sort of POV_fork by not allowing genocide denial/doubt material on the genocide page and banishing everything to the genocide denial page (which also is critical about the denial and doesn't mention a lot of the arguments given by genocide deniers/doubters). This is a violation of wikipedia rules. Wikipedia is a encyclopedia and should give both sides of an argument/subject in an article and shouldn't be written to represent a certain view about a subject. It would be ok to have a separate denial page of course but only to expand on the denial section (that should be) in the genocide article itself.

A POV fork is an attempt to evade NPOV policy by creating a new article about a certain subject that is already treated in an article, often to avoid or highlight negative or positive viewpoints or facts. This is generally considered unacceptable. The generally accepted policy is that all facts and major Points of View on a certain subject are treated in one article.


Unless you can show me that the armenian genocide is considered fact by wikipedia, I should have the right for a platform to discuss it at least. Ibrahim4048 ( talk) 10:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a battleground, and Wikipedia is not a forum. Wikipedia is also not a publisher of original thought. Do not use Wikipedia for pushing a point of view. Edit warring and POV pushing is unacceptable under any circumstances, and if you continue to do so, you will quickly find yourself banned from editing. J.delanoygabsadds 12:59, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

None of the the contributions/arguments I made are original thought. They are all from academics, published by established publishing houses and universities. I am not the one who is pushing POV here. Kansas Bear and the others are pushing POV by not allowing even the expression of doubt about the genocide and their desire to represent it as an established fact. Since you deny me the right to discuss my contributions about the armenian genocide and appear to agree with pro-recognition views, I can assume wikipedia has taken a stand in the dispute on the side of armenian genocide recognizers? At least that way we can establish wikipedia's position on the genocide and perhaps something could be done against it. Or is it just your POV and abusing your administrator rights to push your POV? How can you deny me the right to defend my contributions when they are all properly referenced by legitimate sources? Ibrahim4048 ( talk) 14:04, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


Wikipedia is not a battleground, and Wikipedia is not a forum. Wikipedia is also not a publisher of original thought. Do not use Wikipedia for pushing a point of view. Edit warring and POV pushing is unacceptable under any circumstances, and if you continue to do so, you will quickly find yourself banned from editing.

Ok, so the above message was just a standard message? I am sorry if I misunderstood but I think you can understand why I thought that you took sides when you know that the user who reported me to you and the other uses involved in the mediation (except the mediator) refused to give me a platform to explain my academically sourced contributions. They seem to think that by refusing to discuss it with me and just use their superior numbers in reverting they can just push their view that the armenian genocide is an undisputed genocide. It is far from undisputed because firstly turkey refuses recognition and secondly there are many (western and turkish) scholars who dispute the armenian genocide recognition and the vast majority of countries don't recognize the genocide. Six countries have actively refused bills to recognize the armenian genocide among whom the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden. I think you can understand why I thought you were also refusing me to defend my contribution when you read the mediation talk page, and how the users have been sabotaging the mediation by warning each other to not discuss things with me [14] but simply use their numbers to win an edit war.

What do you think about my claim that they violate POV_fork by not allowing genocide denial/doubt material on the armenian genocide page and banishing everything to the armenian genocide denial page. It is almost the same thing as creating a fork because they either created the denial article themselves so they could push their POV on the armenian genocide article or they basically forced others to create it by not allowing denial/doubt views on the armenian genocide article.

A POV fork is an attempt to evade NPOV policy by creating a new article about a certain subject that is already treated in an article, often to avoid or highlight negative or positive viewpoints or facts. This is generally considered unacceptable. The generally accepted policy is that all facts and major Points of View on a certain subject are treated in one article.

It is clear I think that the armenian genocide article doesn't represent all facts and major Points of View on the genocide and should be drastically rewritten. Ibrahim4048 ( talk) 14:58, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Ibrahim4048 continues to be disruptive, by adding the word "alleged" to describe the Armenian Genocide. The sentence in question has 4 references that are from reliable 3rd party sources(International Association of Genocide Scholars). Can you assist in this matter? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 02:07, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Huggle

Is that what HG stands for? well, Stop fuckin using that script to send messages to ips. it's soooooo annoying. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.127.172 ( talk) 15:30, 21 March 2009

I would contend that the vandalism itself is much more annoying than the reversion of such. -- Closedmouth ( talk) 15:45, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

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ANI thread

Please see this thread. It's not personal. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 14:03, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, no. Given the circumstances back then, I would have supported the measure, so there is no ill will or feelings. I just hope that it doesn't continue (I've been in contact with RHMED for a while). What a horrible outcome to something that could have been prevented. seicer | talk | contribs 17:25, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
(Replying here so that that ANI thread isn't kept alive unnecessarily) Based on my reception at ANI, it's pretty clear how a proposal to codify ISP contacts would end up, so I probably won't be bothering to follow up this on. I haven't changed my opinion, but I see that it's not a concern shared by many so I'm dropping it. I'm sorry if you felt I was singling you out, but the circumstances were an ideal illustration of why I feel there needs to be more attention given to these actions. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 21:42, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Help re-protect the Escalator page!

Hello. I noticed that you recently granted semi-protection to the Thomas Edison page, so I hope I'm not presuming too much to ask for your help. The Escalator page was semi-protected, but either it has expired or it was removed accidentally (being optimistic here). We've had our fair share of vandalism, and a new round just popped up on March 19-20. Could you help us and please re-protect the page? Thanks!-- BFDhD ( talk) 18:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

The cheapo

Something really needs to be done about him. He keeps creating accounts, to attack the editors that he had contact with, and he keeps giving death threats. Is there anything that you can do about it? See this category for all the sockpuppets The cheapo used: [15] Reliable Forever talk 22:12, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything I can do, other than block the accounts if I see them. Sorry. J.delanoy gabs adds 22:42, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Agreed. Revert, block, and comprehensively ignore. I have your page watchlisted, and any active admin will block on sight based on the abusive nature of the edits. Acroterion (talk) 22:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Twinkle help

Do you know how I can set Twinkle to where it does not watchlist every page I revert and won't watchlist the user talk pages of the users I revert? This didn't seem to work. -- IRP 19:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Note: I have moved this post to the bottom of this page due to no reply. -- IRP 23:18, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. Ask on WT:TW. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:21, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk header

I noticed your talk header trick, and shamelessly copied it for my own talk page. How do you prevent SineBot from automatically signing the page every time you change something on it? I temporarily fixed it by opting out of auto-signing, but it's a little dangerous. Ledgend Gamer 23:18, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I think there's a way to make a page be ignored by SineBot. Look at its userpage for a link to information, iirc. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:21, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
If you put !nosine! in the edit summary, the bot won't sign that particular edit. -- Closedmouth ( talk) 01:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Stuwell3

J.Delanoy, I'm not sure if you'd noticed, but the Stuwell3/Grawp sock you banned has a counterpart. Within one minute of the creation of the Stuwell3 account, an account for User:Stuwell2 was created.-- LWF ( talk) 23:54, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok, nevermind, while I was informing you of this Stuwell2 made his move and has been banned.-- LWF ( talk) 23:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I didn't even notice the other account right away. It was only two days ago when I had requested removing the semi-prot. of my talk page :/ ~ Troy ( talk) 00:37, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Turns out, there's also another account user:Stuwell, which was created at the same time as the others, same day and time and all that, but so far it's edits have not been vandalistic in nature, but I find it to be too much to be a coincidence.-- LWF ( talk) 00:40, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


My Bad

That was not my intention there had been some vandalism a few seconds before I made that edit. I will be more carful next time. Best, otisjimmy ( talk) 02:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

That's fine. Actually, I missed some of the vandalism myself, so I guess I can't really yell at you for doing the same ;) J.delanoy gabs adds 02:09, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

bongwarrior edit

i did not vandalise a page, i simply stated a fact, which is the purpose of this website —Preceding unsigned comment added by Woodworthguy ( talkcontribs) 02:59, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


good work!

The Barnstar of Diligence
Awarded for tirelessly working on articles, and for you exceptionally talented edits. South Bay ( talk) 03:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, my article work is pretty much all vandal-fighting, but thank you! J.delanoy gabs adds 03:48, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Another user Biggiemagic ( talk · contribs) has popped up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Redshaw (2nd nomination) with another similar comment made by all the other socks (all of which you indefed) noted at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ETH.P...4eva!/Archive. I don't know if another SPI or even CheckUser is really necessary at this point. MuZemike 18:22, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

I asked a checkuser, and he said that it is possible that it could be the same person, but not likely. However, they are most likely connected in some way to the person who was socking. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:18, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

New Award

Just a notice that I added an award. Cheers, Zoo Fari 23:45, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist

I would like to add givemeknol.com to the blacklist, but I don't know how. It is a website posting in entirety copyrighted books. My investigation suggests that it issues from Vietnam, which is likely to make it challenging for publishers to take it down. So far, it's being added by a single run of IP editors (you can see my talk for a list), but I think this one is a doozy per WP:ELNEVER. Since any admin can edit, I presume it's okay if I edit. But since I am the particular admin I am, I think it's better if I don't. ("Please do not do this unless you are familiar with regex — the disruption that can be caused is substantial." Check.) :) Would you mind doing this on my behalf? I'd be fine with you directing any questions about it to me. If you aren't comfortable doing that, no problem, I'll make a request at the talkpage. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:33, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey :-)
I'd love to help, but my regex skills are... pretty much non-existent, and I have already messed up a couple of bots on IRC antivandalism channels. I would probably destroy it worse than you would. Sorry. J.delanoy gabs adds 13:01, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
If you would, it's because you know enough to be afraid. :D I'll ask at the talkpage. Thanks. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:09, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

your crazy

you just wrote on my talk page claiming that i vandalized a discussion, how on earth is it even possible to vandalized a talk page?!?! 207.246.181.26 ( talk) 15:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, it is possible, but I made a mistake. If you look at the page history of your talk page and the talk page where you posted, I almost immediately undid my revert and my warning. Sorry for the confusion. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

A revert

Hi why did you revert this ?? isn't this a personal attack?? Maen. K. A. ( talk) 15:56, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

The way that the IP (207.246.181.26) commented, I don't think that is really an attack. Versus22 talk 17:52, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Seicer recent edits

Hi there. Seeing as you seem to know user:Seicer in some form or other, can I ask you to comment on his recent edits? He has been removing unreferenced material from BLP articles quoting that "questionable material must be removed". However, I strongly believe that much of the material that has been removed does not qualify for removal under these circumstances, it is generally very basic information that a citation can quickly and easily be found for. Restoring material wouldn't take too long but the rate of removal would require perhaps three more editors to follow Seicer round and restore the removed material with sources. I have advised him to give a cursory check of the subject before removing material. Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 21:03, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

There's not really a lot I can do here. I don't do a lot of writing, so I'm not really in a good position to talk to another administrator about what he is doing. And in any case, he is correct. Anyone can remove unsourced material from a BLP without discussion, if not only per WP:BLP, but per WP:V. J.delanoy gabs adds 21:18, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Fair enough then. Policies aside, I didn't really think that some of his edits were improving articles. There are no better reasons than that. Anyway, I'll try discussing it with Seicer. Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 22:37, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Three Questions

  1. Are you watching my talk page? If so, thanks. It's nice to know people are ready to block my stalkers.
  2. Do you know who that person was a sock of?— dαlus Contribs 05:49, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
  3. Want to play some chess? What is this live server you speak of?— dαlus Contribs 05:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Also

Figured out our sock master, see Redsred ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · logs · block log · arb · rfc · lta · SPI · cuwiki).— dαlus Contribs 06:07, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Alright then

Have a good sleep, maybe we can do so later.— dαlus Contribs 06:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Filter 102

Seemed to be blocking most new accounts from being created, so I turned it off -- you may want to look at it further. NawlinWiki ( talk) 15:43, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. J.delanoy gabs adds 15:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Notice

A discussion about Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account has been started at Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Vandalism-only_account. -- IRP 23:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Retired

Hello, JD. I already e-mailed you about my semi-retirement, didn't I? Well, now's the time for me to "officially" retire. Somehow, it has been a little better for me to live life when I'm not on Wikipedia. Feel free to add your signature on my talk page. Good luck to you and your Huggling! SF3 (talk!) 01:13, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Unblock request of Wickidpedia

Hello J.delanoy. Wickidpedia ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards,  Sandstein  09:05, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism from IP 209.254.252.186

Hello, I am a teacher at the school that uses IP Address 209.254.252.186. Thanks for recently catching and warning our students about vandalism. I highly doubt any of them saw your warning. Please block our IP address using a school / soft block. We have had such a block before and it worked very well.-- 209.254.252.186 ( talk) 19:05, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Aaaargh. I had extraordinarily bad timing. Hours after making the above request, our IT contractors switched us over to a new ISP and a new IP address. I know there has been no vandalism from this IP address, but could you please block this new IP address in the same manner? I'd rather not wait until our students start vandalizing again. -- 173.10.39.153 ( talk) 12:49, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
  • If you prefer, you can contact me at this User ID, too. Yes, all three edits in this section have come from the same person. -- EtonTeacher ( talk) 12:51, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Faster than a speeding bullet

Or perhaps I should say, Wow, you are lightening fast on the AIV. I'm going to start checking to see if you're active when I'm online first, and if you are, I will probably ignore AIV. I keep getting "already blocked" notices when I try to be a Helpful Admin and block vandals when you are around. (If this is obscure or unclear, its a compliment.) KillerChihuahua ?!? 21:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

hehe. Thanks :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 21:26, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

On a similar note, you nailed this vandal with a block so fast it caused an edit conflict with my Final Warning (which he'd received several of anyway). Awesome work, thanks J. Doc Tropics 14:54, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

lol J.delanoy gabs adds 14:55, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism only acount I think. Kittybrewster 16:23, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

IP 85.93.228.249

Saw your friendlily worded note to this IP and thought I might inform you that each and every one of that IP's contributions look to me to have been disruptive. A clearer warning in order? 217.209.96.233 ( talk) 17:20, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Request for redirect

hello - I wanted to request that "gramscimelodic" and "Gramscimelodic" redirect to Gramsci_Melodic if possible. Thank you for your time Abtmcm ( talk) 23:43, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

I apologize for the problem due to the code upgrade of the bot. I have narrowed it down and fixed the bug that caused it. Please release the block so that the bot can continue to function properly. Thanks! -- Jutiphan | Talk - 11:56, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting that vandalism to my user talk page. Much appreciated. P.S. I joke-hate you because you're faster than me. :P DanielDeibler ( talk) 03:24, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

lol! You're welcome :-) Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 03:25, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Organisms

So my addition that "All organisms die" is not relevant. Surely this is the most important difference between organisms and non-organisms. Perhaps the academics here disagree. -- 86.143.242.21 ( talk) 09:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

sorry

Hi, J.delanoy! I'm really sorry about the pages I edited earlier. I didn't know what I was thinking, so I WILL NOT DO IT AGAIN! I promise. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pop princess 1 ( talkcontribs) 19:41, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Davidx5

We both interacted with vandalism from Davidx5 on Lil Wayne last night: [16] [17]. I'll leave it to you to decide whether his response to me is enough of a personal attack to take action on or not.— Kww( talk) 20:24, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk Page protection

I requested my talk page be protected at WP:RPP but the admin there thought it was already protected. But my log says it was protected on March 28, last year. Would you be able to protect my talk page for at least 3 days? Momusufan ( talk) 23:06, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Is This Image Acceptable?

Hi

I want to upload an image for the article Don't Hang Up but I do not know much about uploading images to Wikipedia at all. I also don't know how you check for copyright. User:Jac16888 gave me some information to look at, but I'm still unsure what to do. The image is on the internet and is located at http://www.vintagegroove.co.uk/graphics/covers/small/253.jpg . Can you help? -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 04:39, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Haha, just noticed something

User talk:Stezie3...did you hack them or something? I found that quite funny. Inferno, Lord of Penguins 15:59, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

hehe. I was just using Huggle, and I see this. So I opened IE and tried logging in, and it worked :D J.delanoy gabs adds 21:09, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism from IP 209.254.252.186

Hello.  :-) I posted a request above to also put a school block our new IP address 173.10.39.153, but I think you may have missed it. Please see above for details. Or maybe I didn't provide enough details? -- 173.10.39.153 ( talk) 16:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the block! You rock!  :-) -- EtonTeacher ( talk) 21:52, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Wiki Edit deleted

Sir,

You have deleted and edit I made to the Trinity Pawling School on the grounds that it was 'unconstructive'. Please clarify your reasoning here. I am an alumnus of this school and my edit is both factual and verifiable--based on my experience as well as past and recent conversations with both fellow alumni and the current headmaster. In fact, I would be happy to arrange a conference call.

Or do you have some agenda to suppress accurate information intended to help past and current victims of child sexual abuse. If I do not hear from you by the end of the business day, I will escalate this forthwith.

Joseph P. Kennedy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpkwiki ( talkcontribs) 22:55, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Blogspot is not a reliable source. If you continue to re-add that section, I will block you. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:00, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Question

Is this rollback abuse? -- IRP 23:08, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll ask somewhere else. Looks like you don't appreciate my help at your talk page so I no longer need to help at this talk page. -- IRP 02:48, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

By the way, this was only to be helpful, not harmful. If you don't appreciate my help then I won't help anymore. -- IRP 23:51, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Block review

Hi J
Since you just looked at 61962sa‎ ( talk · contribs), could you also review Volvo B9TL ( talk · contribs) who was autoblocked by that block (IP 24.219.124.240 ( talk · contribs)) and is a pretty obvious sock, and handle it accordingly? I'd prefer not to handle it myself since I had a (albeit minor) run-in with the user before.
Thanks & Cheers, Amalthea 00:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done. I just got done talking to a checkuser, so Volvo is now directly blocked for sockpuppetry. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 00:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. :)
Cheers, Amalthea 00:18, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Could you also blank that user and user talk page except for your unblock? They have obviously been copied from another user's userspace.— dαlus Contribs 00:54, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Nomura's jellyfish

Odd things are going on at the Nomura's jellyfish article and I don't have the time or the energy to fix them. Noticed that you did the last revert, so perhaps you'll have the evnergy to fix this.

I used to be a high-edit count editor and left when I started getting too angry. So excuse me for keeping anon. I can't afford to get sucked into this again. 64.65.79.218 ( talk) 05:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I think it's fixed now. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 13:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Probably not a friend...

I just saw this new account D.Jelanoy ( talk · contribs) registered, which you may want to keep an eye on. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 13:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Blocked. Thanks  :-) J.delanoy gabs adds 13:08, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi... I don't know if you saw that you'd been reverted. The user is now blocked (again), but I've decided not to revert in case the editor's removals might be interpreted as a content dispute rather that simple vandalism -- in which case my further reversion might be seen as edit-warring. -- Rrburke( talk) 20:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Might want to take a look at this

I don't know what you would want to do in this situation, but this user is starting to threaten admins, and as you are the person who blocked him, I thought that you should know.-- Iner22 ( talk) 21:03, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I saw. I don't usually take stuff like that seriously, and if it gets worse, I will disable his talk page access. Thanks for letting me know. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 21:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

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