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Would you mind semi-protecting my user page? Targeting it seems to be popular amongst IP vandals I revert on Huggle. Many thanks. Vicenarian ^{( T · C)} 02:54, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Vicenarian ^{( T · C)} 02:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

but the guy was blocked anyways. See here. Andrewrp ^Tally-ho! 16:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

And toddist1 removed my rollback. What now? Andrewrp ^Tally-ho! 16:09, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Is there any way I can appeal this removal of rollback? Andrewrp ^Tally-ho! 16:14, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey J, I hate to bother you, but would you mind dialing down the protection on my user page from full to semi? I think that the furor has passed and full protection should no longer be necessary. Thanks again, t'shael ^chat 19:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done, and you aren't bothering me! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:45, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, I really appreciate it! :) - t'shael ^chat 19:46, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

This page needs semi-protection immediately... it's reported at RPP, but the vandalism is massive and ongoing. Thanks! Vicenarian ^{( T · C)} 19:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, you're the best! Unlike T'Shael, I feel no shame in bothering you. :-) Vicenarian ^{( T · C)} 20:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

heh. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:05, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

It recently occurred to me to get the local timezones of various administrators that I've dealt with and know I can work with in the future, and to concentrate that information in one page instead of my memory. Because the relevant page is linked from my userpage, anyone will be able to find a list of the most useful admins. It so happens that you're the latest victim. If you feel like revealing your timezone (not exactly the most dangerous secret in the world), you can reply here, here or here (the latter by actually adding yourself to the table). If you object, simply reply here or here (be sure to specify if you're objecting to the concept itself, or just the timezone). Because this is shameless questionspam, thanks in advance for whatever option you choose. — Ledgend Gamer 20:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Just see my /userboxen page. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:44, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi - I know this is an inappropriate edit, but does it really classify as vandalism? Would it be appropriate to use Huggle to remove it? Shiva (Visnu) 02:04, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Technically no, but it's easier that way. However, with stuff like that you have to be very careful that you don't violate 3RR. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:10, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

User:Delicious carbuncle has started a post on ANI about User:Allstarecho. I boldly closed the post and told both users to back away from each other and find their corners of Wiki. Something that User:Tanthalas39 (an involved admin) said as well, but couldn't enforce.

Delicious carbuncle, instead of following the unenforceable advice of myself and Tanthalas39, he wants an "uninvolved admin" to tell him to back away from the dead horse and the ANI post and leave Allstarecho alone. Would you mind doing that? If you wish not to get in the middle, I will completely understand. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 02:18, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much :) - NeutralHomer • Talk • 02:30, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

That isn't an accurate summation of the situation at all, Neutralhomer. After I took the time to discuss it with you further on my talk page, I'm sure you understood what Tan39 proposed and what I was waiting for. This is disingenuous at best. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 03:12, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Good move protecting Knock-knock joke. I note that the last 3 acts of vandalism were all performed by similar IP addresses:

1. 172.131.33.111
2. 172.130.193.113
3. 172.129.43.193

And now on my user page:

• 172.129.176.41

Can some sort of range block be applied? -- Scjessey ( talk) 03:05, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, no. I hate AOL. They suck. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:07, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh damn. I might've known. In total agreement on the level of suckage there. -- Scjessey ( talk) 03:11, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for reverting vandalism to my talk page. Griffinofwales ( talk) 03:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I second that, for removing the warning from Youup on my talk page after he was blocked. Thanks :) -- Minkus ( talk) 05:10, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

This whole thing is a little absurd, but given that a handful of places that refer to it from this Metafilter piece say that the concept is only being promoted by Attack Attack!, the deleted Crabcore article might actually be a decent merge candidate. Would you mind restoring it to User:Mrzaius/sandbox/crabcore so that I can see if there's anything to be salvaged? 113.199.140.113 ( talk) 07:19, 2 July 2009 (UTC) ( User:Mrzaius - Just don't have time to log in.)

You were the first name I recognized on the list. Could you confirm that I sent three forwarded permissions for three images? I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest, but I suppose it can't hurt to ask broadly? Anyways, thanks. Lәo_{( βǃʘʘɱ)} 08:07, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, they were received. As long as you sent them to the correct address, and you don't get a notice that they were not delivered, then you can probably assume that they were received. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:22, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

::To add the {{ PermissionOTRS}} template I need either an ID or URL. Is it you that provides those? Lәo_{( βǃʘʘɱ)} 16:39, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

why vandalism? 206.240.25.254 ( talk) 15:24, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello,

I was in the process of editing this article to contest the PROD when you deleted it. Can you please either undelete or userify it for me?

Thanks, ThaddeusB ( talk) 00:16, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Done. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:18, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 00:58, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Is it still working for you? I've had problems with it not showing up lately and just wondered if this is my error or if it wasn't working for you either. Thanks, t'shael ^chat 01:49, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

I just tried it now, and it worked fine. I haven't used it in a while, because I have Huggle set to look at the newpage queue, so I don't know if it was broken before. Try bypassing your cache. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:59, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah, okay. For some reason I can't get it to work on the secure server, but now it's back on the normal one. Thanks. :) - t'shael ^chat 02:05, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi,

At the Village Pump, it has been agreed by consensus that this image should be deleted. Could you please help me delete that image? Thanks in Advance. -- George Thompson ( talk) 04:24, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

This RFC for user conduct, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Viriditas, appears to have not been listed under candidate pages. Currently 3 users have listed difs and according to my opinion appears to be otherwise correctly filed. Note that the person the RFC-User is being filed on brought up the issue of whether this RFCU is appropriate at ANI here. I would add it to the candidate pages myself, but since I became involved by replying at the ANI discussion, I thought it would be better if someone completely unrelated listed it instead. (In case you are wondering why I picked you, it's because you replied to the section above the thread at the ANI which meant you were the first person I saw. Lucky you. :P ) 05:19, 3 July 2009 (UTC) (later Edit:) You may need to do something about the clock on the page since the RFCU was created but not listed over two days ago... Sifaka ^talk 05:22, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Could you comment on this? The user is emailing me about it and I need to give him an answer. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry ( talk) 13:27, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

I have no prior experience with this user or group of users. He was reported to AIV by a bot that watches the Abuse Log. See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=PhD+Jay+D. Specifically, see what the name of Special:AbuseFilter/112 is. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:19, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Seem's I'm getting some backlash from /b/ on 4chan. I upset their little game earlier when several IPs were adding rubbish to Template:Michael Jackson. -=#  Amos E Wolfe  ^talk #=- 02:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

RE: Apartment Building. I'm bringing attention to the fact that page shows clear bias in the 40% of the page has been taken up by information on apartment living in SCOTLAND, a small country of 6million people not particularly famous for it's apartments. I will continue to edit this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bistro-sidecar ( talk • contribs) 02:33, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I've semi-protected this page for one day due to excessive vandalism. Dougweller ( talk) 07:39, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Good call, Doug. I was about to try and find an online sysop to do it. Glad that you beat me to it. :) Cheers, t'shael ^chat 07:45, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks guys ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:04, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for reverting your edit (and the last revision was silly). Must have conflicted. Happy independence day! Zoo Fari 21:08, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I've seen that happen several times. Apparently Huggle isn't recognizing reversions occasionally for some reason. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:35, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Actually you were clear, I initially went with Spaceman Spiff, but then thought I'd check the SpacemanSpiff too, and I found that the two entries by that user are no longer in an article because the page has since become a redirect, so figured that would qualify in "no significant entries". Maybe I was wrong? - SpacemanSpiff ( talk) 21:51, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. There shouldn't be any problem, but I'm not positive if those would be considered significant. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey J., is there anyway that we can use File:RuthieHenshall.jpg as the picture for the Ruthie Henshall article? I've searched all over the place but can't seem to find a photo of her with an acceptable copyright license. Thanks, t'shael ^chat 22:02, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

No, I don't think so. As long as someone is living, it is theoretically possible to get a free picture of the person, so you can't use a copyrighted image. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:09, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, bollocks. Thanks for the quick reply, as always. :) Best, t'shael ^chat 22:12, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey J., hope your 4th is going well. There is an IP editor that has vandalized several pages on two different IPs. So far they have used:

• User:68.220.107.235 (has since been blocked for 24 hours)
• User:68.220.118.106 (remains unblocked)

Would it be possible, since they are IP jumping, to do a range block? - NeutralHomer • Talk • 22:08, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Possible, yes. But it's a very, very dynamic /19 in the heart of Orlando, so I'm sort of reluctant to block it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:21, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

That's cool. As long as you are aware of it that does about the same and it is hitting sites on my watchlist so I am watching too. Thanks for looking into it :) Take Care and Happy 4th... NeutralHomer • Talk • 22:36, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Not sure what the criteria is for protecting talk pages, but could you protect this one for 12 hours? Thanks, t'shael ^chat 23:19, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Sock blocking works, too. :) Thanks again, t'shael ^chat 23:28, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Per User talk:Vianello#As for some advices ( permalink), an admin from the Vietnamese Wikipedia could use some advice about dealing with page-move vandals. Since the admin that was asked doesn't know what to do to combat this vandalism, I've contacted you to see if you can give him some advice. If you can help, please reply at User talk:Vinhtantran#Re: Mass vandalism (to keep discussion centralized since I've posted this message at the talk pages of several admins). Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 00:34, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

It appears the Azeri/Turk/Armenian edit war has progressed to this article. Would you be interested in locking down this article so univolved editors could at least read-up on the sources given? If you decide not to become involved, I completely understand. Thanks. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 17:26, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi! I thought you may like a heads up on a new WP:Vandalism-only account created today. See User talk:Scarffy736. Richard Harvey ( talk) 21:56, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

They have only one edit in two months, so I don't think a block is necessary. I'll keep an eye on them, though. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:01, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

I call them Serbo-nationalists because that is what they are: Tone, Dab, the lot of them. They are hardly Albanian nationalosts are they and they definately are not neutral. And if the arbitary comittee gets tought with me, let it get tough with them and their propaganda. Metrospex ( talk) 14:11, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, JD. It looks to me as if it's time for an admin to come along and close this requested move, which has been open since 28 June and attracted vigourous discussion (and, N.B., some canvassing) but hasn't been commented on in 3 days now. Whatchya think? — Scheinwerfermann ^T· _C15:15, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Could I still comment on the "User's who did not try to resolve" space even if I just watched? Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents!(Sign here) 15:52, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you Unblock Marco747 from Editing please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Palen647 ( talk • contribs) 18:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

lol and why? I get the feeling that these type of requests involve the use of sock puppetry. Zoo Fari 18:45, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry. I've already filed a case. Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents!(Sign here)

Could you please have a looksie at Special:Contributions/Hyper Lulz Beam? Seems like our sockmaster is back for another round. -t'shaél ^chat 20:46, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

That's a load of garbage. NawlinWiki is an inspirational vandal-fighter and I have no intentions of harassing him. Hyper Lulz Beam ( talk) 20:47, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Nobody said you were going to... - Kingpin ¹³ ( talk) 20:50, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't quack because I am neither a duck or a furry. Hyper Lulz Beam ( talk) 20:51, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

You're an obvious sock of someone, who's obvious purpose it harass admins. You should stop arguing here, no one is going to believe you, and you'll just be blocked indefinitely quite soon.— Dæ dαlus ^Contribs 20:57, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Like I said earlier, complimenting an admin is not disruptive. Hyper Lulz Beam ( talk) 20:58, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Go find something constructive to do, Jeremy. -t'shaél ^chat 21:01, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

It is when the only purpose of that comment is to harass. If you were truly a constructive editor, you're contributions wouldn't be 100% user talk space.— Dæ dαlus ^Contribs 21:02, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello J.Delanoy. I do a lot of new-user patrolling and welcoming, and I've noticed a new user, just created 7/4/09 but who seems very experienced, jumping right to welcome newbies, doing good reverts and posting to User:SuggestBot/Requests. Nothing vandelous, just curiously adept. Would you care to take a glance at contributions to be sure all is well? Hope I'm just paranoid. Regards, Chuckiesdad/ Talk/ Contribs 03:16, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Hai, just dropping you a line to see if I could acquire the rollback privilege. I do alot of vandalism reversion with Twinkle, but it would probably make my job easier if I could use Huggle instead; Java is slow. I leave it to your cognizance though :). - Falcon8765 ( talk) 09:59, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. I looked at your last hundred rollbacks, and I'm not so sure. A lot of times, I see you reverting things that probably shouldn't have been rollbacked, particularly some comments on talk pages. Rollback, in any form, is only supposed to be used for vandalism or other unambiguously unconstructive edits. Are you sure you understand what that is? Huggle is extremely powerful, and it is very, very easy to get to the point where you are reverting perfectly fine edits, or to violate WP:3RR by mistake. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:23, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Understandable, the talk page reversions that I think are in question *were* vandalism though :), either someone was blanking the page or adding strings random characters or removing/refactoring someone else's comments; if I reverted something that shouldn't have been, I'd be happy to know what so I can work to correct it :D. I can understand your concern, but I don't see myself going on a wild reversion spree of anyone who disagrees with my world view of what is acceptable; if I need improvement, I'm happy to wait and welcome any constructive criticism you might have - Falcon8765 ( talk) 21:23, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to trouble you but if I may ask you a question here... if ever an admin tags a user's page with a sock template and then the user blanks it at the later timing, is it wrong for me to tag him with a template warning on blanking the page content? -- Dave1185 ( talk) 19:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm assuming this is not a hypothetical question? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:50, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Nope, it's at AIV if that's what you wish to know. Since the guy got really, really agitated and defensive; even to the extent threatening a tit for tat retaliation for my actions on his talk page along with another editor. I've chosen to disengage and let them rant, the admin chaps can strut their stuff after this, I presume. -- Dave1185 ( talk) 19:55, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I see now that it is at ANI, I'm reluctant to step in, since I had not been following the thread there. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:02, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

• For the sake of satisfying my curiosity, tell me if I was wrong or what in so tagging AO with that warning template. I stand to be corrected. -- Dave1185 ( talk) 20:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

I truly don't know. I personally would not have, since I think the only thing it could do is antagonize him, but at the same time, removing a sock tag from your own page when an admin added it is not very tactful. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:51, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

• Don't worry, we maybe adults but that doesn't make us less prone to making mistakes than children... I guess the more important thing is to be responsible enough to bear the consequences, should it fall on your shoulder (or mine for that matter). And, at least you were tactful in the way you form your answer back to me, thanks for sharing. Cheers~! -- Dave1185 ( talk) 20:59, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing up all of that. Sorry about my manic tagging, I haven't had the best experiences with AIV admins deleting pages. Thanks again :) - Kingpin ¹³ ( talk) 20:05, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

That's fine. It's probably best that you did do that. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

No please keep me blocked. I don't want anything to do with this joke called Wikipedia. I got some conflict of interest when I didn't write anything about my self and how can I vandalize something I wrote and created? Just because in your eyes it's something you're not interested in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Padder ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:10, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

...for the vandalism reversion on my talk :-) ( talk→  BWilkins  ←track) 21:09, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

If you have a moment, would you mind removing the account creator flag from my user rights? Thanks, t'shaél ^chat 03:35, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Um, sure... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:12, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Good show, old chap. Thanks. t'shaél ^chat 04:13, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Since nothing has happened, I assume that you are unable to work on my request. I have deleted it to avoid a blind alley in a search that's already too complicated. Thank you for your time in considering it. Milo 09:32, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I saw you close the Macedonian poll, but could you enlighten me where the closing time is addressed except the new banner? I think the archival is a bit early, and editors there did not draw their de capo vote to all of pages.-- Caspian blue 15:51, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Fritzpoll placed {{ closing}} on the main discussion page at 1502, which is where the specific timestamp comes from. With regard to editors not giving their opinion on all the pages, this phase of the discussion has been open for a fortnight, which is more than enough time to review the situation and give your opinion. We closed it now because there has been little activity for several days.

In any case, we have to close it by July 11, and based on the previous level of activity, the three days remaining are unlikely to produce a large impact on the final decision. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:03, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply, but I meant a "pre-notification" on the closure and the link shows "Passed 11 to 2 at 21:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)" not "July 11" by the way.-- Caspian blue 16:14, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

The link says that the discussion MUST be closed within one month of the passing of the Arbitration case. That is July 11. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:16, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, but many of them were notified of the poll on "June 26", not "June 11", so it would be a courtesy if you and other 2 admins notified the early closure on the talk page first. Anything can happen in 3 days. :) Regards. -- Caspian blue 16:26, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

The poll started on June 26, the discussion started on June 12. Arbcom didn't tell us how to organize it, just to finish completely within a month, and post our final decision within a week after that. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey moron stop fucking deleting my comments. What about free speech and the freedom to state the bleeding obvious? -- 217.203.136.221 ( talk) 19:44, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Read WP:FREE. And while you're at it, read WP:NPA. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Deleting work by stating 'vandalism' is a personal attack as it is a claim about me. Similarly you seem to have the freedom of speech in claiming that someone's work is vandalism yet don't allow others to express it.-- 217.203.136.221 ( talk) 19:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

No, that's called accusing, which in this situation is bogus. And yeah, he does have the FOS to claim vandalism, and we don't want to express it because we don't want to see junk. Good luck, Zoo Fari 20:17, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

On what basis did you conclude that this user was not edit warring? There's a difference between violating the three-revert rule (which I did not claim) and edit warring. Did you actually look at the diffs I provided? Chidel ( talk) 23:35, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

The 3RR noticeboard is only for explicit violations of the three-revert rule. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:35, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

No, it's not. "This page in a nutshell: This page is used to report violations of the three revert rule, and edit warring." Chidel ( talk) 23:41, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

When I was uploading some files today, I have noticed under the "other item" link under "Logo" the file upload window is smooshed over the right side. This was normally not the case. You would normally find the upload window centered or to the left. Is there anyway that you could fix that or let someone in Meta know and they could fix it. I am not sure if the right side smoosh problem is effecting all the upload links or just one. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 00:46, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure what you mean. I looked at the upload form, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Did a little cropping, but the bottom part of this image, where you upload the image and add the F-UR is smooshed to the right. I am using FireFox version 3.0, so I don't know if this is a FireFox issue or not. When I uploaded this image, the same problem was going on in that window as well. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 02:32, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Links to a new e-anthology of poetry were deleted by you in listings Meuse Press & Les Wicks. This is an entirely non-commercial venture featuring some of australia's top poets. It exists only on line & I believe it is appropriate to include links in this case. Thanks beachsmith —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beachsmith ( talk • contribs) 03:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Whether or not the organization is non-profit makes no difference. External links must add encyclopedic value to an article. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:47, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello some one with IP address 122.169.214.33 has emptied all sections from the article Chiranjeevi on 19th june. Could you please restore the article to previously valid 18th june version? Thanks in advance. Alexander227 ( talk) 14:10, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

If you want to, you can do it yourself. Anyone can revert pages. See Help:Reverting if you don't know how. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:12, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

But the problem is there are many changes after that. Would you allow me if I just copy and paste those sections back into the article just for this time? Thanks. Alexander227 ( talk) 20:12, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't know anything about the article, or why the content was removed. If you think it should be done, you don't have to ask someone to do it, but if there was a discussion on the article's talk page, you shouldn't contravene that without starting a new discussion and gaining consensus for your changes. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds

User talk:Davejshep1984

Hi there.

I think you have been a bit harsh in blocking this user. What he has done is create an article about his local village football team, Donington on Bain Rovers FC, using a copy of the Derby County FC page as a template. He has then been editing his article, which at first look may appear to be vandalism, but is not. The article should be speedy deleted as being non-notable, but to ban the user for good faith but misguided edits is I think an excessive response.

Regards

WhaleyTim ( talk) 15:58, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I removed it since it appears to be misguided: the person added a genuine content, only it was an unreferenced opinion. While I agree with your revert, your comment was unhelpful for a novice. - Altenmann >t 16:35, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

The Townhall of Münster Award goes to J.delanoy for helping to end the Thirty Months Macedonian naming wars. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:20, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

hehe. Thanks :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:22, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

How did you revert this IPs contribs so rapidly? I was going to go cleanup after reporting at AIV and found you had done all of it. Thanks for that, btw.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ( (⊕)) 22:34, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Just held down Ctrl and clicked each rollback link. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:36, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

(thunderstorm now over and back online) I'll give that a try next time I bump into a serial vandal. Cheers,
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ( (⊕)) 00:17, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

You keep deleting my revisions on the Pius X High School page when it is not vandalism? I am not sure why you think it is vandalism i am trying to add a sports section and make some revisions in the history section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Red8848 ( talk • contribs) 22:42, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi

I'm not vandalising pages as you have said I have merely updated them with proper information —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scorpio95 ( talk • contribs) 23:57, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I am slightly suprised that you have deleted Feefo. It is now a service that has sent emails to 1.6million UK users and has receieved feedback from over 325,000 of them. To me, this gives the people a right to know what it is in a clear and unambiguous way - ie Wikipedia.

I am not the writer of it as you will see, but have been a user and feel it does deserve a place on Wikipedia.

If your issue was that it was too 'advertising' in its style, fine, then force them to rewrite, but to just delete it seems a little harsh.

Would you in your capacity have any suggestions about what they need to do next?

Thanks in advance

John

ps, sorry should have logged in so you could see who I am. Have done now.

I deleted it because it was written like an advertisement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a directory or a free advertising service. Articles must be written from a neutral point of view, and an advertisement is NEVER neutral. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:26, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem

Thanks for letting me know. Cheers,. John —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johndesmond ( talk • contribs) 14:30, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, JD. We've got an editor with a long history of ownership and other bad behaviour ( ANI #1, very ugly ANI #2) still/again at it. Will you please take a look here and here and please advise? Thanks. — Scheinwerfermann ^T· _C14:24, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

		The Golden Wiki Award
		For your exceptional contributions in dispute resolution, specifically, handling the centralized discussion that was a result of the arbitration case ARBMAC2, I award you this Golden Wiki Award. Outstanding job! Rlevse 22:03, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I am relatively new to Wikipedia, and am starting to get a feel for the way things run. I would like to get more involved in counteracting the high level of vandalism on this website. Currently, I am using Twinkle to help me get that job done. However, there has to be a more efficient way to detect and revert vandalism than staring at the recent changes list for hours on end. Do you have any tips on how to improve the speed and efficiency of my reverts? Saforcer ( talk) 22:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

JD, see this thread before composing a sincere response to this...you've already blocked his IP; this is now block evasion.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ( (⊕)) 22:41, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Umm... You can use Huggle if you have rollback... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:46, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks — you'll see from the history that I seem to be dealing with a rather persistent IP editor here, rotating through various addresses. It started with a series of reversions that I did earlier today at the Wilson Goode article, where a series of IP edits were inserting a photo of Bozo the Clown, and then moved to this post of mine on User:Zyxw's talk page. Mlaffs ( talk) 23:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

lee dee do da de do... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:36, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Cool. So, as a recently-minted admin with no experience with issuing blocks (let alone range blocks), how does this work? The various edits had come from 206.53.153.37, 206.53.157.88, 206.53.153.82, and 206.53.153.78, and you blocked 206.53.144.0/20. Does that mean that everything from 206.53.144.01 through 206.53.163.99 is blocked, or am I completely misunderstanding that? Mlaffs ( talk) 23:44, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

It's a [[CIDR] range. In this case, 206.53.144.0/20 == 206.53.144.0 - 206.53.159.255. You can usually tell what range you have to block by looking at a WHOIS report for the IP address. Alternatively, you can use this tool to tell you what range you would need to nuke. I would not recommend using range blocks unless you are sure you know what you are doing. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, no worries. It wasn't exactly a campaign promise, but I was pretty clear in my RfA that I wouldn't be looking to get involved in certain tasks anytime soon, and blocking was one of them. I have a lot more to learn, hence the question — just sponging up some knowledge :>). Thanks for the edumecation! Mlaffs ( talk) 00:30, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi J.D., could you do me a quick favor and indef block the following vote stacking accounts?

• Rocket Launcher 2009 ( talk)

• Cream Superman ( talk)

• Freezing Pete Fox ( talk)

• Circulation Of The Dream ( talk)

• TV Dinners ( talk)

• Post Office Baggage ( talk)

I know they're just throwaway accounts, but I don't like leaving a job unfinished. Thanks! a little insignificant 02:10, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I asked a checkuser to take a look at it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:17, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

 Confirmed, indef'd. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:45, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

This afternoon, we were supposed to be researching on the internet. It was then that a few of my classmates discovered that you can actually edit Wikipedia (!) To my dismay, some of them embarked upon a vandalism spree. This afternoon, you blocked Iamgoingtobeurfriend after various edits made to Chesterfield, see here for instance, plus one edit to Alien vs. Predator (film). They were actually sat two places away from me, and though I tried to stop them by returning to my place and attempting to revert their edits, I always got caught up in an edit conflict with further vandalism. I warned them that they would get blocked if they continued, but still they carried on and you blocked them. Another rogue editor in the room chose to use the school IP, which has been used to vandalise many times before. You blocked them for one year. Without blocking, these people would still be at large, for they ignored the warnings that were sent to them and ignored the 'you have new messages' bar. Though I did yell at them to stop, they did not. I warn that they may start again. I said that if they were to create other accounts for vandalism, they would just get blocked again and maybe get accused of sockpuppetry. They laughed at the term and went to tell everyone that I am an editor of Wikipedia. I wonder if incidents with editors and vandals in the same room happen often. So, I say thank you for blocking them, for they may have continued vandalising otherwise. Wikiert ^{T S C} 18:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

(somehow missed this) Thanks for telling me, and for trying to get them to stop. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:36, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi J,

Thank you to give me opportunity to request you restore my deleted article [1]. I certainly appreciate you taking pains in maintaining world's largest encyclopedia nonsense free. Unfortunately, my article became a victim of the deletion policy. Kindly consider restoring it.

The article is about our Alumni Association (BITOSA Bangalore - Birla Institute of Technology Old Students Association, Bangalore). The association is more than two decades old and it got established formally four years back. Like many existing alumni associations, ours is one such association of ex-students of India's prominent engineering college Birla Institute of Technology.

It is neither a company nor an organization for making profits. Its member alumni can be found around the globe. And hence the article, which I wrote about it. The small article is just to introduce it to the world. You can verify by visiting its website [2].

I hope I don't need to give you any example from many alumni associations already existing in Wikipedia. I also hope that this article will get restored soon.

Thank you in advance!

Thanks Amitabh 122.167.85.44 ( talk) 11:15, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I deleted it because it didn't say why it was notable. You should provide some citations to reliable sources. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:23, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you please slow down? Three times today I've tried to revert vandalism, and hit the "save" button only to find out you've done it already. This is not fair :( Please slow down. -- Mpdelbuono ( talk) 19:28, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm using an automatic tool to revert vandalism, so I have an advantage right there. If you want, I can get off for a little. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:29, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

It was just a joke, keep doing what you're doing :) -- Mpdelbuono ( talk) 19:30, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, okay :D J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:32, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

all i did is to remove the fake and provocative word indo-european!ancient macedonian language was a greek dialect,so the distinct categorizing is not excused!Greek is also an indoeuropean language,i don t make sense —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.64.200.5 ( talk) 20:35, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Greek is not a recognized language family. Indo-European is. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:37, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

but ancient Macedonian is a dialect of the ancient Greek language,by putting it under the generally word"indo-european language"shows that it is not Greek,something that is scientifically wrong! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.64.200.5 ( talk) 20:42, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi there

I edited the Jon Paul site. I just wanted to say that what I said was factual. I saw the movie and everything was exact. Please refer to this link for proof: http://www.slate.com/id/2213882/

or here: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Watch-Bruno-Shock-Ron-Paul-13489.html

or any here: http://www.google.com/search?q=ron+paul+bruno&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBS_en

If you want to protect a homophobic, nasty old man, then congrats. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.217.100.211 ( talk) 22:10, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I just reverted some "Soviet Russia" joke vandalism by Special:Contributions/202.150.120.123 and was going to post a message at User talk:202.150.120.123. However, I decided not to when I noticed that it has a joke message mentioning your name. You may want to look. If you choose not to rise to the bait and would like me to remove it and post a bland warning, please reply here. Johnuniq ( talk) 04:43, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I deleted the page. Thanks for letting me know. I rangeblocked him, and I suppose he is none too happy about it. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

You may want to undelete the article B.B. Lyngdoh. The article subject is clearly notable (Chief Minister of a state), and a google search could produce immediate refs to the claims in the article, such as http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/28/stories/2003102808571200.htm . -- Soman ( talk) 07:53, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I stumbled across this while working on my latest USMA list and it's in pretty good shape. I've started fixing it up and listed it at Good Article Noms. Any help would be appreciated. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:19, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

To my (mostly) inexperienced eye, it seems to be well-written, but I don't have much article-writing under my belt, so I don't know how accurate my assessment is. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:36, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi - can you please semi-protect my userpage? As I'm an active RC patroller, its been attacked often. Shiva (Visnu) 22:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Shiva (Visnu) 23:01, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

you're welcome :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:36, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for removing the recent vandalism on my talk page. -- Zyxw ( talk) 23:10, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

you're welcome :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:36, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello, could you please warn the editor Victor9876 against making edits such as this? He won't heed any warnings otherwise. As far as I have been told, users are not allowed to do what this user was doing.— Dæ dαlus ^Contribs 23:42, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

He's not allowed to remove his own comments? I don't get it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:44, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Not if the page isn't his. He isn't allowed to remove his own comments from the user talk pages of other users.— Dæ dαlus ^Contribs 23:45, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

( WP:TPS) per what policy? —  Aitias //  discussion 23:47, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

( edit conflict) If that's a rule, it should be burned with fire. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:49, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:USER. Users are allowed to organize their talk page how they see fit. In this case, Carrt81 ( talk · contribs) wishes to keep his talk page as a record of everything that has happened. Victor inappropriately threatened to have his own comments removed, except for the fact that there is no policy where he can force such to happen.— Dæ dαlus ^Contribs 23:52, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Secondly, awhile back I was by another admin that I was not allowed to remove my messages from another's talk page if they didn't wish it to happen.— Dæ dαlus ^Contribs 23:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

(outdent) Just for the record, Daedalus969 warned Victor9876 about this here, at 01:14 (my time), 12 July 2009. At this time, Victor9876 has made no further edits to User talk:Carrt81, although discussion between Daedalus969 and Victor9876 continued regarding it and escalated. The warning was given. No further edits were made by Victor9876 to that talk page, although WP:AN/I has occurred since then. Daedalus969 then pasted a notice regarding the WP:AN/I thread here, indicating he knew it was being addressed. Regardless, Daedalus969 repeated a warning here, saying "if you do it again, I will report you for vandalism". Again here, "In fact, such acts are that of vandalism, as it falls under the category of section blanking. Do so again and I will report you." Then here, "I am informed of all I need to know. You are not allowed to do the edit noted above, period. I am currently seeking admin assistance regarding this behavior of yours." The back and forth continued and deteriorated. Then Daedalus969 posted a vandalism template warning about the same one instance of removing the talk page posting here, followed by a WP:NPA warning template regarding the intermediate dispute. Victor9876 removed the warnings from his talk page, and Daedalus969 then posted here, saying Victor9876 could remove his warnings from the page, "but just so you know, a warning of a regular user holds just as much power as an admin. If you fail to heed it, you will get blocked." After a couple more posts, Victor9876 removed all the posting from his talk page. Yet again, Daedalus969 came back and made a posting here, saying "Don't blank sections from Cart's talk page anymore, and we should be fine. You've had plenty warning, so if you do it again, I'm reporting you for vandalism." Another editor intervened, noting on Daedalus' talk page that things were on the edge of getting out of control and wanting to stop it before it did. Victor9876 replied on the same page here, saying "Let's move on. Please don't contact me anymore. Thank you!" and made no more posts to User talk:Daedalus969. Daedalus969 came back to User talk:Victor9876 once more, to say "You don't understand policy better than I do. If that were the case, you wouldn't have vandalized that user's talk page by removing that section against policy. Secondly, you have no right to kick me off this page..." No further posts were made on either user talk page, but Daedalus969 then came to this talk page and made the above postings. Essentially, Victor9876 received no less than eight warnings for the one incident, which he did not repeat at all following the first warning, responded to increasingly assertive posts regarding it, was taken to WP:AN/I about it, and then the request by Daedalus969 came here, again requesting intervention, despite the fact that Victor9876 did not repeat the action. This to me is a blatant case of beating a dead horse and borderline contentious WP:POINT violations. I hope this will now stop and everyone go back to business as usual. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 05:45, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Thx for the usurp alert, I'm now the original. -SpacemanSpiff { ^Calvin _Hobbes 01:12, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Awesome :D J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:13, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I am sorry for the quick undetailed(?) reversion at Lisle High School. I'll be the first to admit it looked fishy, but I found a few sources that confirmed the edit. I wish for all of our sakes more editors would include the refs with their edits, but what can you do? Happy editing! LonelyBeacon ( talk) 01:25, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

It seems that while I was busy figuring out how to warn this person (it was my first time on WP, so it took a while), you went straight ahead with blocking him. If you want to speedy-delete or take other admin action on his talk page, by all means please do so. I'm not sure what's appropriate in this situation on WP. Neat trick with the banner-on-edit, btw. Never seen that before! Wonder if we have that at UESPWiki...I'll have to check. :) -- RobinHood70 ( talk) 02:12, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Probably {{ uw-npa}} or one of its other iterations would be good. Or you can install WP:TW, which has some menus that are much easier to use. I'll just leave his talk page for now, it's not hurting anything. With regard to the edit banner, I don't know exactly what version that was added in, or if it's just a hack, but you can create one for your own talk page by putting whatever you want on Special:MyTalk/Editnotice. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:15, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I just checked at UESPWiki and sadly, we don't seem to have it there. I'm a Patroller over there (sort of like an RC/NP patroller here, but more official and voted-in), so there it would've been appropriate...for my account here, it'd just be a "toy" that would serve no real purpose. Oh and as for the user warning, I put a uw-npa4im simply because it seems almost certain that it's a previously-blocked account ( User:63.246.174.4‎) by any other name. -- RobinHood70 ( talk) 02:22, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

That was probably the correct thing to do, but I wasn't in the mood to warn him... :P J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:29, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you take a look at Premature ejaculation, before you ask, not a recommendation, just that the same spam link keeps getting added on, I've been reverting it very often, but today there's been too many SPAs adding it back in, and I don't want to cross 3RR and also a page was created for the spam link Promescent. It's one page I could do without on my watchlist! -SpacemanSpiff { ^Calvin _Hobbes 05:56, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

hahahahaaa @ your first sentence! I needed that laugh :D Anyways, I removed the link again. With obvious spam like that, 3RR is not an issue. External links must add encyclopedic value to an article, and a press release is about as far from encyclopedic as you can get. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:08, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Heh, I've removed the whole section added by the seeming SPA. Poorly cited and spammy, definitely worthy of removal. Vicenarian ^{( T · C)} 06:11, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, thanks. I'm just about to hit the sack, and I'm tired, so I didn't see that. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:14, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I spend way too much time at that page! I accidentally stumbled across it once during RCP and had to spend a good half hour cleaning up and with one edit Twinkle added it to my watchlist; and there're about 10 SPAs that come back and add these links back in. I was going to put the links up on the SPAM board for delisting, but don't know if these would qualify. -SpacemanSpiff { ^Calvin _Hobbes 06:16, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi J,

Please consider undelete the page BITOSA_Bangalore. As you asked me to provide some reliable source for the association to be notable, here are some links: [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] and [9]. Hope this should be sufficient to mention whay our association is notable. Kindle consider the case.

Thanks Amitabh

Those aren't really good sources. They seem to be either blogs, or else first-party sources, or notices of upcoming meetings. These are not enough to establish notability. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:33, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Dear Delanoy,

I cannot understand why you deleted the wikipedia entry of DD Pugh.

Late DD Pugh was a politician from Northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya. He belongs to Meghalaya state. He was the second Chief Minister of Meghalaya.

For more information on him, you can check in google.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rivatphil ( talk • contribs) 11:21, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Log&page=DD_Pugh, the page never existed... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:28, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:47, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Wow! You really deserve it! Abce2| Aww nuts! Wribbit!(Sign here) 14:07, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Second that motion, and thanks for undoing the damage to my talk page! Favonian ( talk) 14:54, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Thirded Until It Sleeps ^{Wake me} 16:26, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I marked Friends_seated ( talk · contribs) as a sockpuppet of Beganlocal ( talk · contribs) and blocked him for violating 3RR. -  CobaltBlueTony™  _talk 19:29, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

k J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:33, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi! Can you please have an eye on User:Sarandioti, to whom you had previously enforced ARBMAC1. He/she is back and he/she is once again edit-warring all around. Thanks in advance.-- Yannismarou ( talk) 21:39, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

How was I edit warring?? Please elaborate on that, since my edits were 70% accepted. Your problem is that I changed the passage "greek tribe of chaonians" to "greek-speaking tribe of chaonians". The article's source said those exact words "greek-speaking", and curiously you interpreted that as greek-speaking=greek.-- Sarandioti ( talk) 10:08, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

....for taking care of minor trouble on my talk page. It's been a couple of days since I logged on or I would've been more prompt with my gratitude. See ya 'round Tide rolls 00:33, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Heh. Looks like the user is on a roll and we EC'd on the warnings? tedder ( talk) 03:01, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. That's odd. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:03, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Has there ever been any conclusive evidence linking G---p to the people who run 4chan? caknuck _° needs to be running more often 04:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Other than him using them to mass-vandalize, I don't know. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:10, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

It shouldn't be an AfD, the page needs protection/semi-protection to prevent soapboxing and political propoganda, and I think the AfD needs to be speedy closed, as it's a worthy enough subject (it's a notable place!) I've removed most of the junk text from the page, and given that all the absurd contribs are from IPs, a semi-protection should be fine. --SpacemanSpiff ^{Calvin‡ Hobbes} 20:39, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, so # of WP edits is not a great thing to measure, but still... WOW! 275K!?!?! Yikes. :) I see you doing a lot of vandal-fighting, and I appreciate it. Best Wishes and Thank You. :) - sinneed ( talk) 21:48, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

hehehe. :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:00, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I've made a mess-up and need it undoing. I moved East Runton Windmill to New Mill, East Runton because I got it mixed up with East Ruston. Can you move the page back and delete the "New Mill, East Runton" page. Let me know when you've done and I'll then expand the article. Mjroots ( talk) 05:49, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Looks like I caught you just after you logged off. I'll ask at WP:RM. Mjroots ( talk) 08:04, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I guess they are just slow :P  Done J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC

Thank you for indefinitely blocking the user I requested

You are a tribute to all those Wikipedians out there!
Limideen 13:49, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome, and thank you! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:53, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Just a heads up - appears to be requesting an unblock with a pointless reason. Might be best to lock the talk page? Thanks for the swift block by the way! M♠ssing Ace 14:12, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

My apologies J.delanoy. I was unaware what I was doing was spam since there are links to myspaces as well as other user pages for artists. I personally don't see how those are different, but maybe you could clarify? If external links to media sites are not allowed, then shouldn't all of them be deleted?

Not trying to be a pain, I just think the rule should be a definite yes or no, instead of some sites being allowed, and others not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrmike110 ( talk • contribs) 15:05, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Links to bands' profiles on MySpace have long been allowed, because many, many bands actively update their MySpace profiles, and some even communicate information to their fans via MySpace before they do so even on their own official websites. They certainly do not do the same thing on the website you were linking to. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:00, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

So what about Purevolume or allmusic? Those have work off of Band label and management contributions, which is the same as the site I was posting. -- Mrmike110 ( talk) 16:22, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

They are professional, reputable, notable sites. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:23, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

So it comes down to personal opinion then? That site I was posting is very professinal, reputable, and notable among the bands and fans that I was posting it on. It's done a lot of work with and for them.

Check out these bands. Take a look at their external links for instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saliva_(band)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(band) (especially this one)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Black_Stare

All of these sites have links that (by going off my deletions) would not be notable, reputable, and/or professional. As for me, I think those sites are great and wiki shouldn't delete them. Wiki has nofollow tags which don't affect a sites search engine rankings, so why would it be an issue? These sites and the one I posted are sites that offer interviews and other media with the band. They should be welcome to an encylopedia article that is trying to give fans of the music every possible resource. -- Mrmike110 ( talk) 16:56, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

If your links are not spam, why do you care that other articles have links to other sites? Wikipedia is not a web directory or a collection of external links. Mass-adding links to articles like you did is spamming. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:58, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

If I just add the links slower than, like once a day or week then its ok? It doesnt matter to me that those links are on there, I was just going off of your words saying that the site was not professional, reputable, or notable when those sites posted have the same general purpose. If my links are allowed, just not all in the same day of posting then I'm fine with that. -- Mrmike110 ( talk) 17:57, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey JD, So if the adding links is ok, but just at a slower rate, can I get those other links reactivated? Then I will be more mindful when I start posting the other links to band pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrmike110 ( talk • contribs) 16:43, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Any hope at all?-- Mrmike110 ( talk) 16:22, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Could you join the discussion [10]?-- Sarandioti ( talk) 15:33, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I didn't even know a block could be set for this long... UntilItSleeps ^{Public PC} 15:45, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

[11] J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:51, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Heh. Obviously that's not gonna last, since that's a test account. UntilItSleeps ^{Public PC} 15:56, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Please explain exactly why you are blanking the Scott Russo talk page. Artw ( talk) 18:02, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:BLP. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:03, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I don’t see how [WP:BLP]] justifies removing fairly neutral statements from talk pages. Unless you are saying that describing someone as a gay rights activist is a slur? I’ll try not to take that at face value, but it seems somewhat homophobic.

BTW, I’m juyst going to flat out ask this: is User:Grizzlefuz your puppet? Artw ( talk) 18:14, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Almost every time someone is described as "gay" or a supporter of gays, it is used as a slur. Good, bad, or ugly, this is a sad fact of life. Hence, any implications of this must be backed up.

With regard to Grizzlefuz, I am an administrator here on Wikipedia. This is a position of trust more than anything else. I will assure you that I do not operate any undeclared sockpuppets. If you do not believe me, you are more than welcome to open a sockpuppet case on me. Be aware, however, that if you do, it may be viewed as disruptive by other users; such allegations against administrators are not taken lightly. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:21, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello, I have recently become involved in a dispute with these two users at Epirotes. Because the topic is contentious, I have opened a discussion on the talkpage. I thought the matter settled when I brought a couple of sources to back what I'm saying, but then, an IP editor popped out of nowhere and promptly undid my edit [12]. This IP has popped up just at the right time in the past [13], whenever I happened to be involved in a dispute with I Pakapshem [14], specifically, on June 8 at Sarande, Gjirokaster and Paramythia. Since he has been warned that he is one step away from an indef block because of his disruptive behavior, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it were him. Do you think this is sufficient to request a checkuser? What should I do? Since this article is contentious, I was wondering if you would be willing to semi-protect the article from IP editors until such disputes have been settled. There is nothing more frustrating than starting a discussion only to be swiftly reverted by an IP. Regards, -- Athenean ( talk) 18:06, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Athenean's sources were totally unreliable. Check for yourself, before intervening. And now as usual whenever he cant prove his claims he is asking help from admins. Use checkuser, but when Athenean's accusations are proved wrong then block him, since this is the 5-6 time he accuses me without any proof.-- Sarandioti ( talk) 18:20, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

This is the sixth section titled Sarandioti opened by Athenean accusing me or someone else , and asking checkuser, so please use checkuser on me, i pakapshem and anyone else -- Sarandioti ( talk) 18:25, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

@ Athenean - I am talking to a checkuser on IRC. He said that the IP is not I Pakapshem or Sarandioti, but that it looks familiar. He's running more checks.

@ Sarandioti - Why would I block someone for voicing a concern? Considering that both you and the IP have had a tendency of following him around, why would he not think that it's you? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:29, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

@J. delanoy - Thank you for taking the time to look into this. Here's another one by the the way: [15]. See what I mean? -- Athenean ( talk) 18:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Again false accusations by you Athenean. And you still havent managed to prove why should the additions be removed. Just 2 completely unreliable sources, of which 1 was greek while the other started by saying that there are 280,000 greeks in albania. Ironically, in the 2009 elections in Albania, the greek minority party was voted by ~30,000 people. While, the definition of the Epirote clarifies the issue "every native inhabitant of EPirus, is an Epirote", you want to identify Epirote with Greek Epirote. JDelanoy you are welcome to run as many checkuser tests as you want. -- Sarandioti ( talk) 19:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Where was the second accusation? I don't get it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:42, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

About this ip editor. -- Sarandioti ( talk) 19:50, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Whatever. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:55, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Agreed.-- Sarandioti ( talk) 20:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

@J. delanoy - Would you be open to semi-protecting the article so as to prevent IP disruption? The discussion is now over as far as I'm concerned, but there is no point in editing the article while there is such disruption from IPs. Thanks, -- Athenean ( talk) 20:28, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it has risen to that yet, but I'll keep an eye on it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:30, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

The discussion is over and you failed to prove ANYTHING athenean, so stop trying to give that impression. If you don't like the current state of the article, start a new one Greek Epirotes, and there you can add only greek epirotes. But in an article regarding all Epirotes:Albanians, Greeks, Vlachs, you have no right to add only greek epirotes.-- Sarandioti ( talk) 20:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Pardon me, gentlemen, but I'm sure Mr. Delanoy would appreciate you taking this off his talk page at this time. Thanks, Vicenarian ^{( T · C)} 20:38, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I would, but Athenean here cant stop accusing other users, and giving false impressions. I have to clarify issues every time, he does that. -- Sarandioti ( talk) 20:42, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Sarandioti: Do not continue this argument on my talk page. Athenean has a right to ask me whatever he wants to, and that frankly, what he does here is none of your business. He is not accusing you of anything. I already said that the checkuser returned negative. And even if he was doing something wrong, I think that I am capable of dealing with it by myself. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:48, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

@ J. Delanoy, to me here it seems that Athenean is not voicing concerns but making false accusations and assuming bad faith when he can't back up his claims or get his way, by complaining to admins and stirring up trouble for no good reason. -- I Pakapshem ( talk) 20:54, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

If Athenean had not thought he was correct, he would not have asked me to look at it. If I hadd not thought that there was a possibility that Athenean was correct, I would not have asked a checkuser to look at it. If the checkuser had not thought there was a possibilty that Athenean was correct, he would not have run the check. So right there, we have three people, including two totally uninvolved people, who think there is something fishy going on. And I still think something fishy is going on, even though the checkuser came back inconclusive. So to say that he is stirring up trouble for no good reason is flat-out wrong. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:18, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Care to semi while you're there? (Requested at RfPP.) Thanks, 76.230.10.71 ( talk) 18:15, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

N/m; done. 76.230.10.71 ( talk) 18:26, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

that page on christian violence is racist, I agree that should be deleted, plz dont delete my coment I could not create an account —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.140.178.26 ( talk) 20:26, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I hope I am not interrupting some very productive Huggling by posting this. I appreciate your reversion (diff} of my User page. Thank you. Newportm ( talk) 00:20, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:22, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, this is actually an inappropriate edit - the external link referred to was published this week by an independent magazine and gives additional information on the site. Please review, and undo your "undo" for Suite101.com -- http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:199.60.221.253&redirect=no —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.60.221.253 ( talk) 01:20, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I've been a newbie vandalism for a few days now and would like you opinion on how to handle a case like Tamil people. I originally reverted because the same IP kept removing large sections and making potentially contentious changes with no references and no edit summary. The changes s/he is making could very well be good faith by someone not familiar with Wikipedia policies. Am I justified in continuing to revert s/his reverts (which sounds perverted) and then report s/him when he reaches stage 4? Or should I ask for semi-protection for the page? Or just let them stand until for now? The main contentious claim s/he is inserting is referring to Tamils as terrorists without any references which if I understand the policy correctly is a POV no-no. Thanks for any help you can give. -- Sophitessa ( talk) 02:10, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Since he's removing sourced content, and isn't leaving a reason, even though he clearly knows how (having found the undo button), I'd say just treat him as a normal vandal. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:44, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but the IP disruption in that article shows no signs of stopping [16]. -- Athenean ( talk) 21:55, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't usually agree with ip editors, but this time athenean is the one responsible. What Athenean refers to as disruption, is the following: He added that all Epirotes are greeks, when he saw that he had no reliable sources for the removal of famous Albanian Epirotes. Athenean continues his edit-warring, AND has made 3 reverts, and numerous edits that contain edit-warring. Check it here. [17] -- Sarandioti ( talk) 22:02, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

The bad faith of this individual is staggering. I have NOT edit-warred, nor have I made 3 reverts. That is nonsense. He follows me around and is wikiharassing me. And now he is defending the IP editor. This needs to stop. -- Athenean ( talk) 22:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

So you have NOT edit-warred or reverted? Let's see [18], [19], [20], [21], [22] . And no I am not wikiharrassing you.-- Sarandioti ( talk) 22:17, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh I see, any edit of mine is a revert and constitutes edit-warring according to you. Now that makes a lot of sense.

@ J.delanoy - Now that I remember, a while back a number of Albanian editors organized off-wiki, on MSN, as can be seen here [ [23]] (Goole translation here: [24]). Then we have Sarandioti asking Aigest to send in his msn [25] (translation: [26]). Then yesterday, we have User:Aigest adding material on an individual named Cerciz Topulli in Gjirokaster [27] [28], and today, presto, we have Sarandioti posting an image of the same individual in the same article [29]. Aigest has also been following me around, editing articles that he seldom does, such as Epirotes and Gjirokaster (after Sarandioti started edit-warring there). This creates the suspicion that these two, and possibly more, are coordinating off-wiki. The IP, which appears unrelated, could be an anonymous member of this group that only interevenes when summoned on MSN. Then, we also have User:Taulant23 saying here [30] "The IP understands English" (translation: [31]). When asked by Future Perfect to translate what he just wrote [32], Taulant disingenuously refused [33]. The above, and the fact the the IP appears only when I am involved in a dispute with Sarandioti or I Pakapshem is very suspicious indeed. You might want to consult Future Perfect on this, he knows what I'm referring to. We could be dealing with an off-wiki coordinated tag team here. -- Athenean ( talk) 23:18, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I have no idea what is going on here, so I'll do one thing at a time.

Sarandioti: If you make one more post here about Athenean, I will block you for disruption. He is talking about the damn IPs, not you, so why do you even care? unless you are in league with them? You have not once made a useful comment here, and I do not have to put up with your **** on my own talk page.

Athenean, I will look into it, but at this point I am extremely annoyed at something in real life, so I may wind up not doing it today, since I don't want to do something I will seriously regret. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:32, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

That's fine, no WP:DEADLINE. Better to take your time and do things right, like you say. And thanks again for looking into this. -- Athenean ( talk) 23:36, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I don't know enough about the background of this to really be useful. I'm sorry, but I think you'll need to take this to ANI or something. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:24, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

That's fine too, and I understand. If the IP disruption continues, however, would you be willing to semi-protect the page? Best, -- Athenean ( talk) 00:32, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

It's happening again [34]. One of yesterday's IPs that just so happens to restore all of Sarandioti's (undiscussed) changes. Then Sarandioti magnanimously tells "us" not to edit-war [35] (but does not undo the IP). -- Athenean ( talk) 21:55, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Yesterday, Sarandioti reverts my edits [36], I restore them [37], then the IP undoes me again [38]. Today, I undo Sarandioti, and the IP resotres Sarandioti. This is uncanny, it's like they're on the same wavelength. There has also been disruption from yet another IP on that article today [39]. Incidentally, it also seems sarandioti has performed at least 3 different reverts on that page today [40] [41] [42], to this version [43]. -- Athenean ( talk) 22:09, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

How exactly did I revert? I have ADDED text(which was accepted by Facturious eventually as I accepted part of his additions)It is called CONSENSUS. The rest is the usual conspiracy theories. I am getting used to checkuser, so feel free to ask for checkuser AGAIN. -- Sarandioti ( talk) 22:14, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I will stop commenting here, ask checkuser again if you want Athenean or anything else. AGAIN and AGAIN you will be proved WRONG. -- Sarandioti ( talk) 22:22, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I've asked them to check everyone, and as far as they can tell, no one is socking. I don't think I can be of any help here at all. Just talk it out on the talk page, or take it to ANI if you can't reach a resolution. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:44, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't think there's socking going on either, but possibly an off-wiki coordinated tag team (which may well be impossible to prove). However, isn't it standard practice to semi-protect articles that are disrupted by IPs? 12 edits by IPs today on Epirotes, all disruptive [44]. I understand that you can't help with the tag-teaming, but semi-protecting the article would go a long way towards reducing most of the current disruption. -- Athenean ( talk) 22:53, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey J., I created the above titled page today in my sandbox and moved it to the current page. Problem is, it took the entire history (with all my sandbox messing around) with it. Is there some way to delete the history of my messing around and have just the history from today that really makes a difference? - NeutralHomer • Talk • 14:26, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I think I split it in the right place. Can you check to make sure? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:32, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I was watching as you did it. Looks perfect, everything is right where it should be and the history is a mess anymore. Thanks so much :) - NeutralHomer • Talk • 14:34, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Please don't forget to set an expiry when semi-protecting user talk pages. Some of these folks may not notice you've protected their page and then they remain protected long after the disruption has ended. – xeno ^talk 15:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:08, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

It's no problem. With as many admin actions as you make, I'm sure its just a slip of the mouse or the mind. =) Just FYI this is tangentially mentioned offsite. – xeno ^talk 15:10, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know :) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:34, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

An IP editor [45] is removing our previous consensus on the terms and the merge tag by Andreas. I suspect he is this Spis Ikke Gul Snø. Could you run a checkuser?-- Sarandioti ( talk) 16:53, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't have checkuser permissions, sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:55, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, but could you please rv and warn him, he is massively destroying the article. He has already removed twice the merge tag by Andreas.-- Sarandioti ( talk) 16:56, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I warned him about WP:3RR. If he reverts again, I will block him. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I guess the warning did not work [46]. This [47] was the last stable version where Andreas added the merge tag, if you can revert to that. -- Sarandioti ( talk) 17:06, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

At last that user is gone(for good). I just hope he does not return.-- Sarandioti ( talk) 22:06, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your editations on Czech wikipedia. The cs administrator -- Misbeliever ( talk) 00:55, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

The article reappeared five minutes after you deleted it for copyvio. What's the correct and polite way of telling the author to cease and desist? Favonian ( talk) 01:24, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

See [48]. It looks like we both just issued a range block for different ranges and times over the same issue. For the record, it looks like he's exclusively editing from the 165.154.46.0/24 range, but if you have evidence of the /16 also being a problem, then perhaps we should leave yours and get rid of mine. What's your feeling? -- Jayron32. talk. say no to drama 01:40, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

If you have the rangecontribs gadget enabled in your prefs, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=165.154.0.0%2F16&namespace=3 J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:43, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I just did. All of the /16 contribs outside of the 165.154.46.0/24 range are either obviously not related to this guy (constructive contribs) or are very outdated (a year old or more) or both. It looks like this recent disruption is confined to the /24 range noted above. -- Jayron32. talk. say no to drama 02:05, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. I didn't notice that. If you want to remove mine and see what happens, feel free. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:08, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I will then. If problems start showing up outside the /24 I or you can always reinstate it. -- Jayron32. talk. say no to drama 02:12, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

..could you please delete Metal messiah and/or block me for violating 3RR? Thanks, Javért | ^Talk 05:33, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I demand that he be banned for a period of 0.5 seconds. Thank you for your time. -- Mpdelbuono ( talk) 05:35, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 05:36, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Haha, thanks, J. :) Best, Javért | ^Talk 05:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I would like to know if you could grant me rollback rights? I'd like to help out in the fight against vandalism, I just realized by coming accross these 2 valdalisms (1) (2), this feature would be useful. Thanks. -- TitanOne ( talk) 07:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Generally, I like to see more vandal-fighting before I give people rollback. Why don't you do a little with the undo feature or Twinkle, and ask again in a few days? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:08, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I'm just on a short vacation, will be back on Monday, will get on top of things.-- TitanOne ( talk) 00:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I stole your chessboard, and converted it into a checkers game :) UntilItSleeps ^{Public PC} 16:18, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Gold. :D javért | ^talk 18:15, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I reverted your recent edit edit, haberstr is a known pov pusher over this project, and if you read the talk page archive you'd be aware of this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.239.38.135 ( talk) 18:45, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

i have a plan to delete the page Godzilla vs. Frankenstein but how do i do it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cloverbeatme!! ( talk • contribs) 03:38, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

See WP:DELETE. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:43, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Do you know if you can host a website from a Dial-Up connection on a server? Also how does the chess thing on your page work? 66.202.88.214 ( talk) 08:44, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you can, but it would probably run intolerably slow by most people's standards. Go to User:J.delanoy/chess and click "edit this page" to see the code that was used. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:39, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much! :-)). - Jeffrey Mall | Talk2Me | BNosey - 16:01, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello! I am curious as to two quick reverts you did, the second one here. The first action you took was great and restored the article as factual and relevant. Why did you revert yourself a minute later? Cordially, SergeWoodzing ( talk) 17:31, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I wasn't sure if it was vandalism after I reverted the first time, so I undid myself. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:34, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

You actually are on to something, and that's what I hoped you had seen. Bordeline vandalism, in any case disruptive.

A couple of Swedish editors are collaborating to remove a well ref'd explanation about the lack of sources for this life, info that I think the reader in English needs, to understand that lack. If you agree, will you please put the sentence about the castle fire back in and protect the article from the war these two have started?

They also collaborate on Swedish Wikipedia in a similar way to dominate Swedish history and quash any and all educated opposition to their POV - neither is an expert on history, both are very opinionated. One of them (Kuiper) is almost always uncivil, basically a near-professional edit warrior, and needs to be blocked for a while. A Commons administrator (Abigor) just yesterday protected a category page from his warring and warned him as (quote) "before".

Do I need to supply a quote and translation from the Åberg book about the effects of the fire or will the page # that's there do? No problem to do that if needed.

The rest of the little article is OK except in the lead sentence where it now looks like his historicity has been questioned as having existed at all. Both editors have conceded (as all 21st century scholars report) that the doubt only concerns the guy's royalty.

I will respect your judgement whatever you feel is appropriate. Sorry about this harang. Sincerely, SergeWoodzing ( talk) 18:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Question about the results of the naming policy. This article was originally named Macedonian cuisine (currently a dab page) and was paired with Macedonian cuisine (Greek). Should it be returned to the original name, its second name Macedonian cuisine (Slavic) or left alone? Food and Drink guidelines state it should be named Macedonian cuisine, but I am having trouble understanding the result of the discussion.

-- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 20:53, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

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I thank you for unblocking me. I promise to make improvements to this project to the best of my ability. Happy editing! Accuweather123 ( talk) 22:51, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

A pi pie. I like that :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:52, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for catching the vandals at my user page twice in the past couple of days. Cheers! Geoff ^{T C} 23:12, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Is this username in violation of policy? Griffinofwales ( talk) 04:06, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

yes. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:07, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Can I remove it in Chameria article [49]? His proposal wasn't supported by anyone. Also users he invited to the discussion remained neutral and did not take part. So, can I remove it? -- Sarandioti ( talk) 10:03, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you get me an unblock id because when i logged on my LexusIS300, MC10 pushed me away and he started vandalising my account. He also is going to start vandalis the account he created yesterday so when every time i log on i get blocked on the other computer. He made his account ULKFKINPEPL (You love ****** people). I need a Unblock id. Thanks for your cooperation! Please report as soon as possible! When ULKFKINPEPL logs on on this computer, he vandalises and then when i log on, i get blocked and when MC10 logs on, he doesn't get blocked. Alasto Light ( talk) 12:00, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

There isn't such thing as an Unblock ID (at least in the sense you mean it). Seriously, WTF? — M C 10| Sign here! 21:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and you admit to being LexusIS300. Guess this is a sockpuppet... — M C 10| Sign here! 21:57, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

You liar! AlastoLight —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alasto Light ( talk • contribs) 20:43, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

... Okay, what the heck is going on? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:52, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey J.delanoy! I've read the instructions of how to have a block id but i don't know how to do it? Can you show me the steps? Sorry about it. I feel ashamed. i just want my brother blocked because my parents said not to go on to wikipedia so i started vandalising so he couldn't go on anymore but my parents said i was okay if i go on. Alasto Light

What do you mean by "block id"? And how are you editing if you are blocked? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:11, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

[combining sections for convinence] Alasto Light is my brother. His sock LexusIS300 was blocked for personal attacks and vandalism. I have no idea what a(n) (un)block ID is or what he means by one or where he read about it. He's wrongly accusing me for making him vandalize. Read this in particular:

“	i just want my brother blocked...	”
—  Alasto Light, User talk:J.delanoy (diff)

See the diff. Note the change from "my" to "his" (which I changed back). I think he should be blocked just for socking. — M C 10| Sign here! 22:06, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and now he impersonates me with MC10 HA. — M C 10| Sign here! 04:22, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Engology ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is adding [[Engineer]] to multiple BLPs, mainly Astronauts and US military figures. Is this good faith editing or is he just vandalising, I cannot tell myself. Martin451 ( talk) 22:16, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. Why don't you ask him? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:19, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm reverting the article since the information added appears to be rather racial, "Half Bavarian/Half French", and states the Bourbon/Borbon dynasty as "so called". So you might take a look at that information and see what you think. Thanks. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 22:58, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

He has started edit-warring again [50] [51] [52], in conjunction with his teammate I pakapshem: [53] [54] [55]. Rather than discussing, he is resorting to taunts on the relevant article talkpage: [56], which he has left on my talkpage previously: [57]. -- Athenean ( talk) 23:06, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Why are you accusing again without any real reason?? 1 of my edits is an actual revert, for which Alexikoua accepted that he was mistaken since he didnt udnerstand that it referred to the area district and not the city district. Again pure lies by you. Btw If I remember correctly an admin re-warned you for edit-warring AND there is an open report of edit-warring on you. -- Sarandioti ( talk) 23:10, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

...for your quick handling of both the vandalism on my page, and the vandal. I'm always willing to give 'em one hit for free, but your summary judgement of "vandalism only" seems 100% accurate. Thanks again, Doc Tropics 23:14, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Yikes. Semi-protect? Vicenarian ^{( T · C)} 02:19, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I bad-image-listed the picture he was vandalizing with, and I'm trying to raise a checkuser on IRC. I'll keep an eye on it, and protect if necessary. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Roger. I'll keep an eye on, too. Vicenarian ^{( T · C)} 02:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

A projector is likely, at least.-- Pharos ( talk) 02:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I think that edit was before I restored it because of Vandalism, well, thanks for letting me know, and I'll be more careful. Darren 23 ( Contribs) 21:49, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

A note on your revert on Japan

There must have been some confusion as you reverted this edit by Darren23 which was reverting vandalism. When you reverted it, you restored the vandalism by Ibugcutie ( talk · contribs). ··· 日本穣 ^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:10, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Looks like Apparition11 noted the same mistake below while I was typing my note. ··· 日本穣 ^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:12, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

hmm. Not sure what happened. I restarted Huggle, and it looks like it's okay now. Sorry for the confusion. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:16, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello. It looks like you were beat by a couple of seconds on this revert. I'm not trying to rub it in, I know it happens, but I had to use rollback to revert it, and I hate to rollback an admin without explaining :) When I tried to use undo, it said that I triggered the spam filter. The link was to moneyweek and was a source. I didn't feel right removing a source to please the filter, so I used rollback. Cheers! Apparition^{11 Complaints}/ Mistakes 22:07, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Not a problem. If I make an obvious mistake like that, don't hesitate to rollback me if that is easiest. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:17, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea what the conversation above means but, given that MC10 HA ( talk · contribs) triggered an autoblock on Alasto Light ( talk · contribs), I blocked him indef for sockpuppetry. Given your recent interactions I thought you should know. Regards, Woody ( talk) 22:45, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:55, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, could you do me a favor, and get me a copy of the recently deleted page Gitorious? I don't know enough to know if it should be un-deleted in place, so unless you feel like looking into that, I'd appreciate a copy of it in my userspace. Thanks! - JasonWoof ( talk) 21:36, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

see User:JasonWoof/Gitorious. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:41, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

P.S. My intention is to add notability info as I find it, and as it becomes available, and eventually get this article back into WP. I will ask for help in deciding if/when it's ready. - JasonWoof ( talk) 21:59, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Awesome. Thank you! - JasonWoof ( talk) 22:09, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, since JasonWoof has apparently not done much with his page, may I ask that my revised version at User:Tuxcantfly/Gitorious (I also copied it to User:JasonWoof/Gitorious), emphasizing more on the notability of the open-source server-side software and external deployments (Sugar), be reviewed for re-inclusion? —Preceding undated comment added 16:55, 12 July 2009 (UTC).

Texcantfly: Great work! And thanks for integrating your changes into User:JasonWoof/Gitorious. What is the reason for having User:Tuxcantfly/Gitorious also? Please feel free to edit User:JasonWoof/Gitorious - JasonWoof ( talk) 05:45, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

J.delanoy and Texcantfly: I think we'd better shoot for having User:JasonWoof/Gitorious be reinstated, since it has the full history (including before the deletion). What is the procedure for getting reinstated? J.delanoy: can you offer an opinion of whether the page is ready? - JasonWoof ( talk) 05:45, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

After asking the admin who deleted it, he didn't have any particular objections to the references and responded: "Hello again. If you feel that the article can survive online, feel free to repost it. Thanks. Pastor Theo ( talk) 19:49, 22 July 2009 (UTC)", and hence I've restored the page to Gitorious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tuxcantfly ( talk • contribs)

hi you recently deleted my article M.T.E before it was finished and now i have to start all over again. could you please check before you delte peoples articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pdotk ( talk • contribs) 16:32, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm sure that he did. Have you read the general notability guidelines or YFA? If not, it may help to do so before creating another article. Cheers, Javert ^{( T · C)} 16:39, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

I understand you are just trying to help. I apologize for getting upset when you reverted my user page, even though I tried to explain to you, and the several editors before you, that I was indeed the user eganjt. One of your editors has threated to contact my ISP because he so adamantly belives I should sign in to edit my own page, even though that is not required. I don't wish to take it this far, I don't need the drama. I'm sorry I didn't AGF with you. Eganjt ( talk) 18:56, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm not sure how I managed to rollback your previous edit to my talk page. I certainly didn't mean to. As far as the other editor threatening to contact your ISP, that is completely inappropriate, and I would hope that if he does, the ISP ignores him. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:47, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

In my defense (as the editor in question), all I did in re the ISP was add the {{ whois}} tag to the top of the IP's talk page, which is now removed. Vicenarian ^{( T · C)} 19:49, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, well that is perfectly fine, and people aren't supposed to remove them. I'll re-add it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:47, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

"Mexico Top 100"article was a very really important tool in our station, and in some more here in our country, in that, we can check what was the top since 2002 to 2009, why did you delete that article, the people here are angry but why did you delete that? jus tell me mjmonge@live.com.mx please, are you the boss in wikipedia to delete usuable articles na-ah! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.174.185.211 ( talk) 06:55, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Log&page=M%C3%A9xico_Top_100, you will find that the page was deleted as a result of Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/México_Top_100. When I deleted it, it had been re-created by someone else. The article's text at that point was essentially the user complaining that we had deleted it (and including a few obscenities). Since the article was deleted via a discussion, there is not much that can be done. You could try going to deletion review, but that is generally only for cases in which you believe that the admin closing the deletion discussion made a gross error in assessing consensus. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:49, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Would you please take a look at this article. Over the past two days a single editor has more or less re-written the article, dumping some of the text and all of the images, (including, it has to be said, one of my own) without any reference or explanation and replacing them with their own. While accepting the fact that there is a lot of good new material the new text contains sentences (and headings) such as :'Our Company and brands', 'This pioneering spirit had led us to look always further', 'And, most of all, New Holland is the innovative, dynamic and smart partner, people who cultivate a new idea of agriculture can always rely on.'

Isn't all this a bit POV? ♦ Jongleur¹⁰⁰ ♦ ^talk 16:02, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Reverted. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:06, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. ♦ Jongleur¹⁰⁰ ♦ ^talk 16:26, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Someone vandalized my Userspace! But a little angel came along and fixed it! Thank you! You can thank others by using {{ subst:Vangel}}! Darren 23 ( Contribs) 20:36, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert on my user page. - Zhang He ( talk) 23:43, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey. I manually copy and paste usernames all the time and I think I accidently copied and pasted yours thinking I had copied and pasted my own. If you get an email about a password change, I went to "Log In" and pasted "my" username and then my password and accidently hit "E-mail new password" instead of "Log In". If no harm was done, thank goodness. If inconvenience has been caused, I didn't mean for it to happen. Silly accident. Thank you.-- ^{The Legendary} _{Sky Attacker} 09:45, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 12:32, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Would you care to block 72.35.4.220 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS)? Thanks. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 02:43, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

So, that's a no? Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 01:06, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I somehow missed this section. I don't think it would be worth it now. Again, sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:15, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't think there would be any collateral damage, based on the IP's contributions, but I don't know about logged in accounts. On a related note, take a look at this - there is another dynamic Tbaytel range (or two) that remains unblocked. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 01:33, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

The film was brought to my attention, but was gone before I could look in. However, I was informed that the entire deleted article consisted of just one sentence: "Black Noon is an American television movie directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and broadcast in 1971 by ABC as a segment of its Movie of the Week series." I thought it best to contact you and invite you to visit User:MichaelQSchmidt/sandbox/Black_Noon. The new version is in its formative stages. I already sourced that it was a CBS product, and not one from ABC... and can show it being commercally aired over an 8-year period. More is in the works. With my own attempt being something different from the one deleted, I wish to ask is it prefered procedure to request undelete of the former and then overwrite with my content (when ready), or if it would serve to simply move mine to article space when ready. MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 03:01, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

You want me to do a history merge? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:18, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

WIth you being the one who wisely deleted the one-liner, I want to make sure ny bases are covered before recreating deleted content. So yes, if the history can be brought over to my sandbox, that'd be great. And I'll let you know when it goes live. MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 16:42, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Nicely done. Thank you. MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 23:10, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

I have gone without hassling you for far too long. :) Any chance you can tell me what I'm doing wrong at User:Moonriddengirl/SCV to keep the signature from automatically expanding? I'd like it to. Instead, I get (from {{User:Moonriddengirl/SCV|d}}):

• Copyright concerns remain. Article deleted or tagged for speedy deletion. -- J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:10, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm getting ready to create a template for SCV and CP work. It's not very elegant at this point. Can you help, or is this out of your neighborhood? Since you did so much with me with templates before, you were the first to come to mind. :D -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:27, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, wait! I bet the problem is that I'm intending it for transclusion. If its substituted, it would work. Hmm. Is there any way to automatically include the signature when a page is transcluded? Maybe not? Substitution doesn't work unless I create different templates for each icon, I think. -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:03, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, when I subst-ed it above, it produced that, so I think you may be right. I'll see if I can clean the code a bit. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:10, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Or maybe it just makes a disgusting mass of code if I do that :P hmm... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:11, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, now the code works, is this what you were looking for? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:20, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Yay! You continue to rock! :D Thank you. -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:24, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

^Just wanted to make sure you were aware of the above page. :-) Tiptoety ^talk 02:33, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:06, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Two questions, if you don't mind. :) A). When does voting start, and B). May anyone vote? Thanks, Javert ^{I knit sweaters, yo!} 01:13, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

A) July 28 at midnight UTC/ B) Any editor who has made at least 150 mainspace edits prior to 15 June 2009 may vote. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:23, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Guess that included me. ;) Good show, thanks. Best, Javert ^{I knit sweaters, yo!} 01:25, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I've replaced the warning with a censorship template here. Zoo Fari 02:09, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Ok. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:09, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey there. Kafziel here. When I log into my account, it's saying I'm on a forced Wikibreak. My account still appears to be secure - nobody is using my account for vandalism or anything - but I can't get in. I didn't do that to myself, so I'm wondering if you know how to bypass it (or if you can point me in the right direction). Do you know what might have happened? Thanks in advance! 76.172.118.225 ( talk) 02:25, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. You had some old code in your monobook, so I removed that. The only thing I can come up with is that somehow it's screwing up. Try bypassing your cache and logging in again. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:30, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your effort. I think what happened is that my PC's clock and calendar were way off, so it was messing with my cookies. As soon as I fixed it I was able to log in. Anyway, it's working now. Much appreciated! Kafziel ^{Complaint Department} 02:34, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello, I recently submitted an extremely helpful external link to two pages on wiki and had them instantly deleted with a nondescript warning message. The two pages I posted the external link to were for the Salton Sea and the Algodones Dunes. No content was changed, only an external link was added and based on the sparseness of the Salton Sea and the Algodones Dunes pages the link is extremely helpful. The link is http://www.bigboytravel.com/northamerica/usa/california/saltonsea What would need to be changed in how it was posted in order to share this helpful external link with wiki readers? Thanks Jon Jonathanleighmiller ( talk) 22:41, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello J.delanoy, I'm Airplaneman. I'm here to ask you if I could use your newpage control script or something similar. Patrolling new pages is quite tedious, although I know it needs to be done. May you please tell me how it works or tell me where to read up on it? Thanks! Airplaneman ^talk 03:30, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Just add importScript('User:J.delanoy/newpage.js'); to your monobook, and then bypass your cache. On the left side of the page, just above the toolbox, there will be a box that is labeled "new pages". Click "enable this box", and it will produce an automatically-updated list of new pages, and it will highlight the ones that are not patrolled, just like Special:NewPages does. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:30, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Will try :). Airplaneman ^talk 16:06, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, it's very useful. Now I don't have to type in Special:NewPages every time I want to patrol! Thanks again. Airplaneman ^talk 20:19, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I can't take much credit, since I didn't write it, but you're welcome :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:21, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

One question: If pages are tagged for CSD, can I (should I?) mak them as patrolled? I see a lot of unpatrolled pages that are tagged for CSD. Thanks, Airplaneman ^talk 03:10, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

TWINKLE marks them patrolled, although I hate that function IMO. Careless CSD taggers sometimes use the wrong CSD and other times AFD/PROD should be used instead. An article can be improved even when there is a deletion tag, thus I wish it didn't mark them patrolled. Just my opinion. Zoo Fari 04:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

If you see a tag that you agree with, then I'd say go ahead and mark the page patrolled. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:09, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, I see- there's no rule, it's just judgement. Thanks guys! Airplaneman ^talk 14:13, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

I warned this IP for the same edit, however the edit is legit this edit shows that the Infobox displays the format as in fact hot adult contemporary. - Jeffrey Mall | Talk2Me | BNosey - 00:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi J.delanoy, I wonder if I could ask you to cast your eyes over a confused situation. I've received Speedy deletion notifications about three articles, which I didn't create. However, before they were deleted, the edit history showed me as the only author(?) Marek.69 ^talk 01:32, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. Cheers. Marek.69 ^talk

Mr. Delanoy,

I found you on the discussion page about paid editors because we seek help from/for a skeptic like me :) ... your comment about notabilty suggests you're the best person to ask!

I've worked for ~20 years at what has /got to be/ a notable software company in the US (founded in 1978), with infrastructural (data processing) software used by the world's largest companies in conjunction with databases, data warehousing, mainframe and COBOL migrations, flat files, etc. IRI released the first commercial sorting software off the mainframe, and is the only company with flat-file and data-model based test data generation, handling bulk XML and LDIF file conversions, encrypting files at the field level, and so on. There are plenty of third-party product reviews and industry references, but I'm getting speedy deletions despite neutral tone and content, while competitors and lesser-known ISVs with weaker postings remain.

Bottom line is that we believe it's past time a Wikipedia article was done on CoSort and/or the company behind it, and thus the desire for Wikipedia insider help. We would like to hire someone like you (or someone you'd refer) who will comply with Wikipedia policies and carry the clout that seems to be needed.

Apologies if what I've said comes across the wrong way, but I've gotten a bit frustrated and need help. We're not looking for a puff piece, just an appropriately encyclopedic entry in Wikipedia for a notable software company. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jtree09 ( talk • contribs) 21:40, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, the article was delete by a deletion discussion, so unless something has majorly changed since then, I doubt any new article would stick (see WP:CSD#G4). I'm not really the best person to ask this though, as most of my work involves removing vandalism, not writing articles. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:20, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

As an admin, shouldn't you have access to that anyway?

Nope. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:37, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the assistance. -- Drr-darkomen ( talk) 01:34, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

I have a message that I did a unconstructive edit to the Latin Kings page, how so? It is obvious that New York based Latin Kings are writing lies all over that page. Latin King started in Chicago and they're the ones with the say so not New York. Please explain how it was unconstructive when I have the source of most of the history from chicagogangs.org a website ran by an ex-gang member who then became a gang unit officer and is now running the website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.91.74 ( talk) 06:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. Well, from one of the answers to the questions: "In that case, I think that quietly running a checkuser and/or contacting the user privately if necessary would be the best way to handle it. " Under what circumstances would you quietly run a checkuser without letting the sockpuppet user know? It is my bad for not asking this before voting... I shall consider changing my vote after you reply. BrianY ( talk) 05:03, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Ok. On a different question - If the check returns positive, would you bother to notify the user (maybe by email), about any socks that were not caught (if he/she would give up more information now that some have been caught) or to confirm the socks before assuming it was them? Is there some sort of way to know the accuracy of checkuser? (I only know a little bit about the tool, not a whole lot) BrianY ( talk) 16:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Very well. Hope you make it. BrianY ( talk) 21:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi.

I guess it is very important to write the exact speech MJ daugther did in the Service. WIKIPEDIA is considered the most accurate source all over the world.

So, I do insist: Paris Jackson said: The Best father you CAN ever imagine. It will remain for the history.

See: www.thebestfatheryoucaneverimagine.com

Thanks J. Delanoy.

Yours JC. jcgr@live.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.186.23.163 ( talk) 00:13, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

See WP:RELIABLE and WP:FRINGE. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:24, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

umm i'm confused why did i get banned?

Who are you? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

If you don't mind, could you please delete Thundergroup? I've reverted the removal of the speedy template at least 6 times. Thanks. :) -- javért ^stargaze 18:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you take a look at this page? One user was blocked for continuously adding junk (pictures of a chimp etc) and being reverted by a few of us. Now another with a very similar name is making some possible BLP vios and adding possibly copyrighted images. -SpacemanSpiff ^{Calvin‡ Hobbes} 18:41, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

I noticed that you reverted a vandalism edit on the Brimstone page. I have been trying to keep up with these constant vandals but can not be watching at all times. They seem to be having a field day writing blatant vandalism, I correct one and then there are three more. I'm not sure how exactly to do warnings, although I am not an admin either and have no power. Is there any way you could help out in protecting this page? If you look through the edit history you will see what I mean. Here's hoping you can help out. RingWars2007 ( talk) 00:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, to give warnings, you can just install Twinkle if you have Firefox. Otherwise, look at WP:UTM for a list of warnings.

I don't think the article has risen to the level of semiprotection yet, but I'll keep an eye on it, and if it gets worse, I will protect it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:11, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. I just reverted a bunch of vandalism that I did not even realize was on the talk page. I actually don't run off Firefox, but thanks for the suggestion. RingWars2007 ( talk) 00:20, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Please take a look at User:MichaelQSchmidt/sandbox/Black Noon. The original unsourced one-sentence stub that was prodded and deleted has gone through some major changes... including showing it being commercially aired over at least an eleven-year period and the film now being properly attributed to CBS... not ABC. Because of the errors and lack of sourcing in the original article, I have no disagreement with the original prod nor with the deletion, but I'd like to return it to main space and wanted your input. Thank you, MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 00:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I really don't know. I rarely deal with films, and I'm not positive it meets the notability guidelines for films. You may want to ask someone else. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:46, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem, and thanks. The admin who first brought it to my attention feels it's 11+ years of airings meets WP:NF through commercial re-release more than 5 years after original release. Best regards, MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 02:03, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Twilight sucks ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and The-turd-monster ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) are accounts of the same person. Fred Talk 01:40, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:TVS has been having ALOT of vandalism from sockpuppets of indef blocked User:Dingbat2007. Luna Santin did a checkuser and found several other socks (all blocked by Enigmaman), but also found the range the socks and IP edits are coming from....65.49.128.0/17. With edits like these that are coming fresh off a 31 hour block, would it be possible to do a range block? It would help out alot and probably wouldn't cause much collateral damage. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 02:10, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I think you should probably ask a checkuser, or someone who is more familiar with the case. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:38, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I can ask Luna, but he said to ask another admin, I guess since he did the checkuser. Either way works, as long as the range block is in place and the vandalism edits stop, it is fine by me. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 03:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert on my talk page just now! I was going to award you this months ago, but forgot.

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For defending my talk page from vandals!--   Dspradau → talk  16:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

i though the filter wouldn't allow swear words in names. Half Shadow 18:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Apparently not :/ J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:14, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey I was not vandilizing the Tuke Rule Page I was just correcting the name. 24.250.26.95 ( talk) 21:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Since I voluntarily gave up my account creator flag due to the increasing amount of drama IRL and thus my decreased time to work with ACC, and since I am now getting re involved in the account creation process ( logs here), I would like to request my flag back. :) Thanks either way, →javért ^stargaze 23:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done. I wouldn't recommend removing it again. Some people get annoyed when people keep requesting that their rights be changed. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:04, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

( edit conflict) I was about to bring that very point up. I appreciate you being so considerate either way. Best, →javért ^stargaze 23:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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