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Hey J. I have another userfy request for you. A user left a message on my talkpage asking that a page he created called "the ballad of peeler the big" get restored (I assume userfied) or e-mailed to him at chiclorraine@gmail.com. I searched and couldn't find anything under that name but did find a deleted page called Peeler the Big from 2006, which was deleted under 5 different CSD criteria. The request came from User:92.63.105.66 What do you think? HarlandQPitt ( talk) 22:07, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

I'd say ask him to create an account first. Generally, IP subpages are discouraged, and in any case, IPs can't even create mainspace pages, much less move them. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:06, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

I saw someone create User talk:J.delanoy/unprotect in your user talk space... an IP reminding you that your user talk page has been protected for nearly a month straight. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 07:34, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

You'd put a range block on an ip range. This ACC user name request requires your attention as it's from the same ip range. Regards. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 18:59, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. I've had it vandalized several times over the past few days as a result of my counter-vandalism activities. What's the policy on protection of userpages? -- N419BH ( talk) 01:44, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Pretty much, if you're getting vandalized, you can get your userpage protected. Do you want me to protect yours? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:51, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, but not yet. I'm getting vandalized by about one user a day. If it gets worse I'll request protection through the normal means. -- N419BH ( talk) 02:43, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

I need you to verify a CheckUser that I performed. here is the website in case you forgot. Your CU flag is still in place. It's user Paul and Liam. Dusti ^{Insert Sly Comments} 22:37, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

...that this page has been protected for 29 days, 23 hours, 35 minutes and 25 seconds, without any kind of subpage for anon editors to contact you. I realize the problem caused by that Singapore vandal, but perhaps it's time to unprotect this? The Thing // Talk // Contribs 02:02, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I found the following users that are possible infringing the username policy.

• User:Minor Rape
• User:Rape-ist
• User:A Rape Spider
• User:Sexy_sex_sex

There are many users with the word "sex" in their name. See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&search=sex&fulltext=Search&ns3=1&title=Special%3ASearch&advanced=1&fulltext=Advanced+search

-- Tyw7  ( ☎ Contact me! •  Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 22:27, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

In general, unless names like these are actively editing, or are caught right after they are created, I don't usually bother blocking them. If you think they should be blocked, you can report them to WP:UAA. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds

This user is active User:Russ is the sex -- Tyw7  ( ☎ Contact me! •  Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 23:03, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Hey J., long time no see. Hope all is well. Got a Discussion on the possiblity of the AOL Vandal back on several Canandian IPs, right now in the 70. range via Canada Bell. Could you take a look at the linked ANI thread and maybe do a range block if possible. Thanks Dude. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 04:04, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Please see deleted contents of Wiki, The musical.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 14:10, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Haha. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:38, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

over at User talk:Digago. He is a confirmed sock of Volalo, which you blocked. He is now asking for you to tell him (any everyone else for that matter) which accounts Volalo was useing in order to justify the block that you put on that account.-- White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 18:18, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

I was adding a valuable new resource to add to the quality content of articles about Fender and all of them were deleted, why?

This is not spam or an advertisement, I added them to only the vintage Fender pages as each one of those subjects, people or guitars is referenced in this book.

Fosterwikiterry ( talk) 23:33, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

You at one point added links to Amazon, which is spamming. Also, adding links to that many articles that fast looks like spamming even if it is not intended to be. Your book came out this year. You should wait and let others add it to the articles. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:35, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Can you kill only the ones with links to Amazon and leave the reference? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fosterwikiterry ( talk • contribs) 23:36, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Why do you want to add your book as a reference to all those pages without using inline citations to explain why the source is relevant to each respective article? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:41, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Much of what has been written on those pages is slightly incorrect. I wanted to point to a well researched (10 years in the making) book with verified facts etc, so that wikipedia contributors who use the book (or Richard Smith's book) as a reference can clean up many of the inconsistencies already there. Fosterwikiterry ( talk) 23:45, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, I apologize for undoing all of your edits. I thought it was just simple spamming, but if not, I won't undo you anymore. I can't guarantee that someone else won't if you add them all again, though. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:53, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

No worries, thank you for your feedback Fosterwikiterry ( talk) 23:58, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I just want to say I think you are a FANTASTIC sysop and I appreciate your speedy blocks of my "fans." :) Tommy 2010 00:18, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome, and thank you! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:21, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

I received a message from you March 13, 2009 regarding a supposed "unconstructive" edit on a specific article.

The Message reads as follows:

'Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Hen. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. J.delanoygabsadds 00:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)'

I would like to know the specifics on this, as these accusations are false, being that this is a password-protected network with few machines running on it; all monitored by myself.

If, indeed, there has been a breach in our network, then it is of the utmost importance that I know as much information as I can gather on this situation.

Thank you for your cooperation —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.235.4.171 ( talk) 08:47, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Here is a link to the edit in question. Considering the length of time that has passed since that edit was made, I think it is likely that your ISP has reassigned your IP address to you from another person, who is probably the one who made that edit. I don't know how useful it will be to you, but the exact timestamp of the edit is 2009-03-13T00:51:21, and the time is UTC. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:35, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I've been reverting vandalism and such for a good while with Twinkle (believe I've seen you ban a number of people I've reported in the past, actually). For some reason, it didn't occur to me to ask before, but a bit of rollbackery would be helpful, no? ベリット  ^話せます 16:45, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Done. PeterSymonds ( talk) 16:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 99 supports, 9 opposes, and 2 neutrals. Your support was much appreciated.

Regards -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) ( talk) 19:28, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

I've emailed you two emails I've received from ellie herring and my responses. Harmonia is still denying having sockpuppets. Marcus Aurelius ( talk) 20:10, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Those are the correct emails. I'll stop playing detective now. Marcus Aurelius ( talk) 14:31, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi J Delanoy

I and one of the other admins have a gut instinct that User:Chryed might be a sockpuppet of User:The Twelfth Doctor aka User:The Queen Victoria aka User:Archie Mitchell. The trouble is that we don't really have enough evidence to say for certain, I would be dubious about raising an SPI for it in case it is seen as bad faith. I thought I'd ask your opinion on this because I notice that you were, I think, one of the checkusers involved in one of The Twelfth Doctor's SPIs. Do you reckon that this could be the same editor? -- 5 albert square ( talk) 21:55, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Are there any specific edits/patterns that are striking you as significant? Or is it more of an overall impression? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:12, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

It's more of an overall impression -- 5 albert square ( talk) 23:18, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Harmonia1 was my first sock report. I appreciate the speed of your actions. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 19:36, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Some of my favorite Harmonia1 quotes from a couple talk pages:

"On rubber bullets: Attended a conference with Andrew Hughes, APM, Police Adviser, Director, Police Division, Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN a few months ago ..."

"I know some, if not all, the people you blocked. They live all over the country. Most of them are former military officers who served together in Somalia when non-lethals were first used." -- Timeshifter ( talk) 15:41, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I came across your checkuser block of 76.114.33.30 ( talk · contribs). However, you didn't note who the checkuser turned up. The reason I'm asking is I've encountered a somewhat disruptive user that may be this person's sock. Toddst1 ( talk) 03:56, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

As I am currently attempting to avoid confrontation, and situations that might lead to confrontation, I am hoping you will take a look at this talk page comment and perhaps help defuse this situation before it gets out of control. Apparently, I had a disagreement with this editor in the past---I had no recollection of it whatsoever, and it was not, in any way, a motivating factor in reverting this editor's changes, nor was it on my mind when I left the message on the talk page---involving the Michael Collins article (I had to search back through the history to find it since it was last September), and since that time, I have had no further contact with this editor. This talk page comment seems designed to elicit a response from me, and I am not going to rise to the provocation. Would you mind stepping in, please? Thanks. --- RepublicanJacobite _{The'FortyFive'} 05:19, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

At this SPI case you came back with a "likely" result instead of a "confirmed" result on User:Sally Jefferson. If it's not invading privacy could you go into why you didn't say "confirmed"? The user is requesting an unblock and I would have declined it outright if it weren't that this was the only account you didn't say "confirmed" on. -- Shirik ( Questions or Comments?) 16:31, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Um, I just realized it was Risker that said this, not you... I fail. Sorry! -- Shirik ( Questions or Comments?) 16:56, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi, can I ask you to take a second look through this? Since the IPs edited on the same range isn't that proof enough that they are likely sockpuppets, through the elance connection? The same elance user has responded to edit requests on different articles, and their editors now are found to use the same IP range... how is that anything other than sockpuppetry? Also, can you check the range against the IP addresses used by Desiphral in the SPI page archive to see if they are from the same range as well? If they are I'd say its a pretty clean connection back to Desiphral, since all the users would share the same modus operandi (editing through paid-requests on elance) and IP range. There are only a handful of people who take up these elance jobs and only one so far has been from Romania. Them From Space 18:36, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

To answer your first question, there are a LOT of accounts editing from that range. I've seen some where almost an entire country edits from like two /16s. I also did check it against what older accounts, but that still does not help me because there are so many people editing from the range. Also,  Inconclusive only means that the data is ambiguous from a checkuser standpoint, and does not necessarily mean that the accounts are unrelated or related. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:22, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for doing the CU on the above. I just happened to check out one of the IPs I reported and noticed that they had previously been blocked under Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Smfhs photographer. It seems pretty clear that this is the same sockpuppeteer so the pages should probably be combined. Cheers. Quantpole ( talk) 07:44, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, I thought that at first when I saw it, but the IP is registered to the Ohio Public Library Information Network, so I am by no means certain. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:52, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Hey J, could you take a look at the WABC-AM page and also here, here and here (all somehow related though TV stations) and let me know exactly what I should do in this situation. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 20:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Um, what exactly is going on? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:56, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, there was some vandalism (I thought) on the WABC-AM page by an anon and User:Necrat removing information about the HD2 signal to the station. They claimed there wasn't an HD2 signal (and claimed AM radio didn't have HD radio subchannels) and backed their claim up with a claim of "13 years in radio engineering". User:AGK essentially told both of us to knock it off and that policy was on my side, but neither of us were sourced (which I admit).

Later, (and I thought at first unrelated) User:Drmies was removing on-air staff sections from television station pages ( Example). I reverted and told him that it would need to go to talk. Drmies claimed he been looking in on the Necrat situation and I was being unreasonable. It turned into a pissing match, which ended with alot of sarcasm and some ganging up from Piano non troppo, who also supports removing the on-air staff sections. Neither of them will take it to WP:TVS or WP:RFC, they just want to delete. They also think I need to be controlled and my ANI abilities removed or something (see my talk page for that one). It is alot of pissing and moaning from all sides (I am even throwing myself in there too) and I just want it all to end and obviously an admin is needed. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 21:08, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Also, see here from ImperfectlyInformed. They jumped in on this as well. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 21:10, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Darryl0173 has made an unblock request on his/her talk page. Apparently, (s)he is blocked by your block of 68.220.160.0/19. Should this user be given an IPBE? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:20, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I was wondering why you decided to indef block this vandal after one edit two edits? Cheers Fæ ( talk) 18:08, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm not really sure... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:16, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Ah right, I remember now. Look at the history of Paul Watson. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:41, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I hadn't put Kings and Queens together, missed the sock angle and was only looking at the particular jokey edit. Need better glasses. Cheers Fæ ( talk) 18:49, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Need a checkuser on the user associated with this ANI thread. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 06:44, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello, J.Delanoy. I think I found some socks related to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gardezz

The following ten here, at least, appear to be related. [1] I noticed that three of them edited Dow Jones industrial average, and that at least one of the ranges was similar to Gardezz (and several of Gardezz's socks edited the same article). I would like you to do a thorough check and block any others you may find, as appropriate. I'm not convinced that these are all of them. Cool Hand Luke 16:30, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I found quite a few. Listed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Gardezz/Archive#More_found_on_30_May_2010. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:10, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Wanted to bring this to your attention. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 03:16, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

When you have a sec, can you pop by ACC and take a peep at Request number 48405 for me please? Thanks -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) ( talk) 18:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

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