User talk:Academic Challenger/Archive 9

re 1 week block of User:209.218.131.219

I assume you are aware that the above ip was reported along with User:Pdg223 by User:Thumperward aka Chis Cunningham, which resulted in these personal attacks? I have indef blocked Pdg223, and would request that you reconsider the tariff on 209.218.131.219 in light of what appears to be a continuing campaign of harrasment. Thanks. LessHeard vanU 22:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC) hey why did you delete Lil' bling bling? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dannyhere4u (talk • contribs) 01:00, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Your edits in Dinesh D'Souza

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

The above template is not what I mean to do. I looked at the wrong User name when I reverted some POV changes. Please accept my apology. --Jdcaust 03:51, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks You!

Thanks for reverting that vandalism on my talk page. I also realised someone vandalised my page in April, which I didn't revert. How embarassing. Hehe. Thank you =) ĞavinŤing 14:07, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Wow,you're the ONLY person to actually delete my page and still give me some advice at the same time.Nice work.=)MKguy42192 (talk) 03:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)MKguy42192

Why did you delete the sandbox

That I was just working on ? thanks Taprobanus 22:17, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Can you make me one and copy the content, becauyse I had done some work to it ? Thansk Taprobanus 22:20, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Gracias Taprobanus 22:25, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

NPWatcher

Hi! Can you approve my request to use NPWatcher? Please? -Gawaxay (talk • contribs • count) 17:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Admin Coachee

Hey A.C. just checking in. I've tried editing more in the mainspace and have applied to Vandalproof to contribute more to reverts etc. I'm working on an article about Frank G. Zarb that I hope to turn into a FA/GA article, since I know thats a semi-req for being an admin. Anything else I should be doing? Mbisanz 01:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Vangteh Issue

Hi. Why did you say that the page with Vangteh is irrelevant (inappropriate) for Wiki since Vangteh is an ancient city of the [Zomi], also called as Chins, and also is still existing in the northwestern part of present Burma-Myanmar. Waiting to your kind reactivation of any deleted page named Vangteh.Khumpita 10:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Who See?

You recently declined my request for the speedy deletion of this article, telling me to give the author more time. 14 hours have now passed, and the article still fails to assert the notability of the group. This article obviously meets criterion A7 of the CSD. Please delete it now. --Agüeybaná 14:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Since you've ignored me, I've taken the matter to AfD. --Agüeybaná 17:27, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Deletion

Can you please Delete the redirect page Dearborn Public Schools? I am trying to fix it because that is the correct name for Dearborn City School District. I've had it tagged for a while but it is still there and I'd like to finish that up. - Rjd0060 01:54, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I appreciate it. - Rjd0060 01:57, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey,delete my forest song page for me,will ya?I ain't gonna work on it anymore,ok?MKguy42192 (talk) 15:07, 5 January 2008 (UTC)MKguy42192

I would like to ask..

That you please restore my page called Ben Tobias. I was simply making a page about myself but forgot to state that I (skulltula) am Ben Tobias, and if you could tell me how or what I can do to make this correction I would appreciate it.

Re:

OOOH. Okay, im fine with you moving it. Sorry, and thankyou.

Okay, thankyou, and sorry again. Hahh. Well.. at least I have practice on making a page now :\.

Editor Review

I put myself up for an Editor Review to help me improve my contributions Wikipedia:Editor review/MbisanzMbisanz (talk) 04:41, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Time for Splitting

What is a good guide for how long after I propose a page be split into subpages to wait before splitting it? On some rarely eddited pages, no one will respond for several days, so there will never be a consensus. On other more trafficed pages, there may be a couple of responses the first day that indicate consensus, but then many more days later. Thanks. Mbisanz (talk) 23:09, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Classification of admins

Hi Academic Challenger. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 22:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Notifications

Hi, I'm wondering if there is a good rule for when and how many people to notify when there is a discussion going on about a topic. Sometimes I'll be called in for an opinion on a page move on a page I edited once to correct a spelling error. Sometimes I'll notify a creator for an AfD, but other times if its just an IP or a new user, I won't bother. Is there like a good range "Editors who substantially contributed to the action in question" or is it all personal choice? Mbisanz 22:19, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I keep running across these mega-lists of related topics List of Singapore-related topics and List of geography topics. They would seem to violate the WP:NOT Not a Directory and Not an indiscriminate collection of info. And they'd seem to work far better as scalable categories, but it seems many users want to keep them. Is there some major policy discussion I'm missing? Mbisanz (talk) 05:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

AC, thanks for the advice. Your right that trying to change a policy like that is far beyond any skill of persuasion I have. I guess I find some lists like List of endangered animal species and List of Singapore-related topics rather useless compared to a search box. Others like United States Congressional Delegations from New York and ‎List of Medal of Honor recipients: Civil War A-L provide enough context that it makes sense as large lists. Mbisanz (talk) 07:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

What exactly...

...was this for? It doesn't have a useful edit summary other then "reverted"; reverted for what reason? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 06:28, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

So it goes; now I just have to revert and merge the edit I made after that. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 06:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Handling stuff

How would you recommend handling somthing like this [1] Is it better to ref the WP:CIVIL policy, ignore it, or something else? How would an admin handle it differently than a user? Thanks Mbisanz (talk) 01:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Figured as much, looking over arbcoms and rfcs, there have been much worse things said around here. Mbisanz (talk) 04:33, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

jbuggy

yo im back home but im taking a wikibreak due to aggravating circumstances. this is junebuggy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.35.185.66 (talk) 03:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Recovery?

Greetings A.C!

Question: Once an article is deleted, is it possible to ever recover data from that article.

I ask because a fellow quizbowler asked this question of me on my Talk Page. I'm not sure why he asked, and I would guess the answer is no, but can you confirm my suspicion?

Feel free to answer on my Talk Page, or here. Many Thanks! LonelyBeacon (talk) 03:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

A.C,

Many thanks for the information you gave. I'm not sure of you noticed on my page, but the request being made is for the recvery of the article Charlie Steinhice. I am in no way endorsing or requesting its restoration to Wikipedia. It doesn't belong here. There is a new Wiki site where it very much does belong, and the person making the request would like that article to serve as a basis for a new article over there.

Could you do this, or is it more proper to go through deletion review (I really wasn't sure deletion review was proper because I'm not really contesting the deletion of the article ... I just want the info in the article)

Again, any help would be apprecaited greatly! LonelyBeacon (talk) 14:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I am deeply appreciative for the help. I have already taken your advice. I've been trying to get my e-mail authenticated for the better part of the last 24 hours. I have my e-mail address, I had them e-mail me a confirmation, yet I never received the email to authenticate. I tried three times, but received nothing. Again, I am grateful for the help! LonelyBeacon (talk) 10:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Order of Saint Lazarus

Please stop making uninformed reverts to this article. A vandal in Poland with a rotating IP address constantly adds gross POV to the article. There is no way to block him because he constantly generates a new IP address. Let other editors do the job of reverting his vandalism. Jon Jonasson (talk) 01:02, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Any assistance you could render would be greatly appreciated. Happy holidays! Jon Jonasson (talk) 01:50, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Portuguese profanity

I ran across this article, that had once survived an AfD. However, it seems to be an almost certain violation of either NOR or CopyVio. At the very least its a random collection of information. Before I re-put it up for AfD, I wanted a second opinion on it. Watching here. Thanks. Mbisanz (talk) 05:16, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

That article definitely needs more referencing. However, I don't believe it should be put up for AFD right now. It is very informative and is on a notable topic. I would recommend trying to find a Portuguese-speaking person to look at it and find their opinion. Perhaps look for a WikiProject on Portugal, Brazil or languages, and find some people who have contributed lately? I would help with that, but I probably can't be on Wikipedia much for a couple days. Academic Challenger (talk) 06:12, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

New Pages Proposal

I'm working on a proposal for the Special:Newpages and would enjoy any changes or comments you have about it at User:Mbisanz/Filter Proposal. I know your busy and I have tons of free time over my winter break, so no rush in responding. Mbisanz (talk) 08:15, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually, you identified a technical error in the Newpages html. When you click the "Hide bots" link, it hides the bots, but if you try to view any length other than the 50 most recent new pages, it resets it to "Hide bots", and shows the bot edits. But, if you click "Hide bots" again, it resets it to the defult length of 50 most recent. The work around I've discovered it to click the number of pages you want to view, say 500, and then append this text to the end of the url "&hidebots=1". Basically your turn this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Newpages&namespace=0&hideliu=&hidepatrolled=&limit=500&offset=0 into this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Newpages&namespace=0&hideliu=&hidepatrolled=&limit=500&offset=0&hidebots=1

Confusing enough for your? Maybe I should add that as part of my proposal. Mbisanz (talk) 23:16, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Other Proposal

I've noticed issues with fair use images since I've become active in the project. I've worked up some proposals here that might address them User:Mbisanz/ImageSystemProposal, but I don't know how to code such things. So I'm shopping them around for comment and/or someone who does know how to code. No hurry, I'm still working on the proposal above and of course, general editing. Mbisanz (talk) 08:30, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Wiki Doctorate

Wiki Doctorate is a new scheme designed to recognise the people who "do all the work" on Wikipedia. It has been mainly developed for Wikipedia administrators however if you have done lots to keep Wikipedia on "the straight and narrow", including bieng members of different groups which help Wikipedia i.e "The Welcoming Committee. We have selected to email you because you can apply for the doctorate and we would be very greateful ifo you did and put the userbox on your user page to boost advertising. The following link will take you straight to ourhomepage.

Yours sincerely

--Dr.J.Wright MD (talk) 23:20, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

COI issue

I'm assuming this is what the WP:COI policy means when it says there are disadvantadges to declaring an interest [2], any suggestions for a response that doesn't WP:ABF?MBisanz ^talk 16:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

comment

You made some typo corrections. Good catch. But you also interpolated an interpretation into a passage you may not have realized was quoted material. In his testimony Abdul Razzak told the officers that he was illiterate, and couldn't be sure of dates. He said he helped rescue Ismail Khan about two years before the Taliban fell.

Sure enough Ismail Khan's article says he escaped from the Taliban in 1999.

Abdul Razzak said he was subjected to involuntary forced labor every year for the five years between when the Taliban took power and his escape with Ismail Khan. That would mean that he first fell under Taliban jurisdiction in 1994 or 1995 -- if he got his dates right.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 18:19, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA for coachee

So I think I've reached a point where I'm ready to go up for RfA in a week or so current coaching status page. If your back, do you think I'm ready? if not, where do I need to work more?, if yes, are you be planning to write a co-nom? How was Italy? I was there in 2004 and found it amazing. MBisanz ^talk 01:30, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Great to hear, I was hoping to get the rfA going this evening, depending on when my coaches can get around to writing noms. Would tonight or Saturday evening be better for you? MBisanz ^talk 19:01, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for participating in my RfA! It was closed as successful with 58 supporting, 0 opposing, and 2 neutral. I hope to demonstrate that your trust in me is rightly placed and am always open to critiques and suggestions. Cheers. MBisanz talk 04:33, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Best pic I've seen

I want to thank you personally for being my coach and helping me to develop the skills necessary to serve the community. Feel free to ever ask for my help. MBisanz ^talk 04:36, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Admin Coaching Re-confirmation

Hello, previously you expressed interest in participating in the Wikipedia:Admin coaching project. We are currently conducting a reconfirmation drive to give coaches the opportunity to update their information and capacity to participate in the project. Please visit Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Status to update your status. Also, please remember to update your capacity (5th table variable) in the form of a fraction (eg. 2/3 means you are currently coaching 2 students, and could accept 1 more student). Thank you. MBisanz ^talk 08:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Topless Mod, Oblivion 2007-07-11.png

I notice it has been protected for the Main Page, but it is violating FUP with it's resolution. I have downsized it, and I ask if you could upload the new image? It's at [3]. Thanks a lot. αѕєηιηє ^t/_c 17:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, apologies. αѕєηιηє ^t/_c 22:16, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews

Hello, please confirm that n:User:Academic Challenger is an impersonation account and I will have it deleted. --SVTCobra (talk) 22:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

macias

his country was known as the dachau of africa during his presidency, not auschwitz, i have a valid source. how do i get it to stay —Preceding unsigned comment added by Strang3r 08 (talk • contribs) 01:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Persistant vandalism on my talkpage

I've been spending months reverting garbage that an anonymous IP who calls himself "cuban bertram" or something like that. The page was semi-protected for a month because of this, but after the semi-protect expired, the vandalism started up again. I don't know if it's possible to permanently semi-protect my page, but it seems like the only option at this point. MVillani1985 (talk) 21:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

macias

Chapter 2, page 24 of "The Wonga Coup" by Adam Roberts (Non-fiction biography of the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea)

http://www.amazon.com/Wonga-Coup-Ruthless-Determination-Oil-Rich/dp/B000PHWDPS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204928162&sr=8-1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Strang3r 08 (talk • contribs) 22:17, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for watching article:Soy cheese due to vandalism

This article is constantly vandalized by one single user, who seems to plan its deletion or destruction (see also Talk:Soy cheese). I am watching over the article from now on, but it is better when more people interested in this subject (especially vegans, people with dairy digesting problems like lactose intolerance or Jews) are looking upon this more frequently.
Thank you :-)
Daimakaicho (talk) 09:24, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Prussian Blue (duo)

An editor has nominated Prussian Blue (duo), an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prussian Blue (duo) (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 02:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Sorry to bother you. You may remember me asking for your help to protect the article Cemal Gursel against vandals in the past. For over a month there has been a systematic attack chain to the legitimate photos with proper copyright content and fair use explanations by a gang of three users/admins Ricky81682 , Rettetast and Nv8200p . Now not only most of the pertinent and proper image files have been vandalized systematically by those three parasites, The Ricky81682 whose expertise has absolutely nothing to do with this type of content and political / biographical authorship has started vandalizing content by deleting important substance matter. Can you help protect this article and also help get fair administrative vigilance against such destructive arbitrary interventions? Thanks for your consideration. 68.236.122.52 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:23, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion?

Should this be deleted? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_SRS/Secret_Page --What does this button do? (talk) 04:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Vandalisim?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox has been repeatedly vandalized by 69.124.61.181 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Halosean (talk • contribs) 01:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

hi!

this may sound weird, but can you add gallon man day to the list of holidays tomorrow? it's for my math class, for possible extra credit.

Spockezri (talk) 20:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

• Feel free to ignore this guy. He's been soundly slapped down by others for making the same request. 23skidoo (talk) 18:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Keep up the great work

Hi, just want to say thanks for all the great work that you do here on wikipedia. Given your unfortunate uniqueness you really deserve a pat on the back for all of your efforts on here we greatly appreciate it. I also love your username, i have seen you around and its one i can never forget. I got a pretty lame one but i didn't really think about it that much when i first started:)

Just want to ask have you ever had any interactions with another user in your position, an admin like yourself Graham87? He's a really nice person on here, i will never know how you people do it with all the small problems that people seem have in the world and what we take for granted like the 5 senses, you put us in our place. You dont really know what you have till its gone i guess. Take Care. Roadrunnerz45 ^{(talk 2 me)} 13:30, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey!

Hello, my friend! It's great to hear from you, I hope you're doing well. I'm keeping busy, both in real life and fighting the never-ending-war on vandalism! It's fantastic to have crossed paths with you again, we'll have to do it again soon! And here, I think you deserve one of these:

		The Mighty Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		In recognition & thanks for your heroic efforts in fighting vandals, improving all Wikipedia articles and adding to our sum of knowledge! Dreadstar † 16:14, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Request help deleting previous entries When you have time, I would appreciate your assistance deleting all but my most current entry on the talk page for Ken Alibek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ken_Alibek. After I read my entries, I determined I could use even more neutral language than I had previously. Thanks very much for your help. Next Generation Next Generation (talk) 06:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

User: Chesea

The troll made an account just to vandalize my talk page with filth (and a few other pages on Wikipedia, too). You can look through his history to see what he does to people's pages. Since he is a troll with no intent to reform, I'd reccomend an indefinate block of his account. MVillani1985 (talk) 11:00, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

User 212.219.57.59

Hi there, i'm not really familiar with wikis blocking policy but I taked a look at 212.219.57.59 (talk · contribs) and in the list of contributions there's at least 30 edits that i can clearly identify as vandalism. I now ask you, shouldn't this earn the user a indefinite block? MakE (talk) 18:43, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Account deletion

Hello,

I would like to have my account deleted. Could you help me do this, or direct me to someone who can? Also, if my account is deleted, will my name still show up in the histories of pages I have edited?

Thank you very much. --Nick, 12:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Jews of Byzantium

I haven't read the entire article, but it seems like you did a great job. Although I mainly contribute about modern history and politics, I have done some contributions to our articles on Byzantine emperors, and am very interested in that period of history, so let me know if you need any help with anything. The one change I made was to add categories. In order for your article to get read a lot, it is important for it to have categories, as well as to be linked in other articles. The categories I added were "Religion in the Byzantine Empire" and "Judaism." Finding other places to fit this subject in other articles will be more challenging. Academic Challenger (talk) 04:32, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, and for the compliment. I do have a question for you: how can I redirect other names to this article? Saepe Fidelis (talk) 04:34, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

It's a bit hard to explain. If you tell me what titles you want redirects for, I can make the redirects, and hopefully you can see from that how it's done. It took me a long time to get too, but basically you type in the word #Redirect, and the link it to the article you want to redirect to. Academic Challenger (talk) 04:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Could you redirect "Byzantine Jewry" to the article? I'll try to imitate that for other titles next time I'm on wikipedia (although right now I gtg). Saepe Fidelis (talk) 04:39, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Done. I also added a link to the article on the Byzantine Empire page, in the religion section. I hadn't looked at it before, but it seemed to say previously that Christianity was the only religion in the empire, which is a distortion in my opinion. Academic Challenger (talk) 04:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your continued help.

To get the word out on the article, do you think it would be a good idea to try to get it on the "Did you know?" on the main page? How do we do that? Saepe Fidelis (talk) 15:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Go to WP:DYK. I've not been active in this area, but it seems fairly simple. Go to section 1.2, and it should explain. Academic Challenger (talk) 19:43, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Done and done. Thanks. Saepe Fidelis (talk) 16:29, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Interest in Arock, OR

Source for interest in Arock Ry Jones (talk) 06:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Is Traveller a sock of Runcorn?

User:Traveller here has the same name as User:Traveller on Wikinfo. On Wikinfo Traveller is developing similar interests to User:Taxwoman. It could be worth using Checkuser to see if Traveller is yet another sockpuppet of banned User:Runcorn here. I have 2 accounts. I am not using them deceptively. I’ve studied Wikipedia:Sock puppetry so I know what I can and can’t do. Where do I report this? Proxima Centauri 2 (talk) 12:46, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

AC isn't super active AFAIK, so I'm jumping in; since the Runcorn sockpuppetry issue remains a very sensitive matter to the community, I recommend emailing your evidence to arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org MBisanz ^talk 16:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I put my evidence in the links above. I'm an administrator at Wikinfo. To me they look like the same person. Proxima Centauri 2 (talk) 11:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Legend of Legends

The page Legend of Legends has been recreated yet again after you deleted it (twice?). I'm not sure exactly how to tag articles for speedy deletion, but you probably want to delete this one again. -Phoenixrod (talk) 06:56, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Your block of 203.158.58.75 (talk · contribs)

This IP's last edit was constructive, and therefore there was no vandalism after final warning. Could you unblock them (I don't want to wheel war :))? Malinaccier (talk) 05:35, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! :) Malinaccier (talk) 05:45, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

About the recent block of User:SlimeyJJonz

His previous account remains unblocked. [4] ^{--UnquestionableTruth--} 04:31, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

No worries. Cheers. ^{--UnquestionableTruth--} 04:36, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protection for the Grand Theft Auto (series) article

Can you please semi-protect the Grand Theft Auto (series) article indefinitely from only editing because there is constant vandalism by IP addresses and accounts which are younger than 4 days old. - Australiaaz (talk) 22:26, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Jacques Lusseyran

May I suggest that Jacques Lusseyran (with a "c") is by far the more common spelling and usage. His published books list this spelling as his name, including his books published in French. I would guess that "Jaques" is a misspelling. Perhaps a better solution would be to have the primary article under the "Jacques" spelling with a redirect to it from the "Jaques" spelling. Would that be OK with you? --EPadmirateur (talk) 01:36, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Another open MascotGuy sock

I've just left word on AIV about User:Running Scared Guy and two other admins don't seem to be familiar with this guy and his naming conventions. Could I impose on you to block him and perhaps fill in those other admins as to the severity of this problem? Thanks.  :) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 21:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

• You bet. I've filled one of the admins in and I'll likely fill in the other before long. FWIW, he's up to 831 socks and counting. I've actually informed Jimbo about this. I am at a loss as to why a formal complaint hasn't been lodged against this IP. Anyway, he's predictible as all get-out, so if I see him on the new user log, I'll blow the whistle. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 22:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

why was my article deleted?

can u please tell me why my article was deleted i am confused i thought i did everything right i really want to make one but it keeps gettin deleted please get back to me and tell me why. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MrPlayGamez (talk • contribs) 21:44, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

User:ItsJustSomeRandomGuyBiggestFan

I was curious if you could point out which of this user's edits were vandalism as it's defined here? Unless there's some sort of history/sockpuppet issues/something...it looks like a bad attempt to start a new article by cutting and pasting information from an existing one. --Onorem♠Dil 18:03, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Maybe the person who originally warned them picked up on some minor vandal changes in the cut/paste job that made them go straight to vandal4. If so, I didn't see them. Unless that's the case, I don't see any way that this deserved a block. (and since when is 55 hours to start considered a short block?) One friendly note on cut/paste moves, and one warning about not removing speedy tags would have seemed more appropriate. --Onorem♠Dil 18:27, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

seeking advice of how to create a wiki project

I would like to create a wiki project about Philanthropists? I do I create a new project? thanksIt is me i think (talk) 15:58, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

thanks for the advice, It is me i think (talk) 13:14, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Wow

I was just looking at the Genocides in History page, and when I looked at the history, I couldn't help but notice that your name was there. I decided to click on your username, and I found it remarkable how similar we are! I think this may be the beginning of a beutiful friendship. ;) Scholastic Opponent (talk) 18:06, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

The Mysterious Stranger

I'm a little bit curious about this edit you made. I was going to just remove it, but thought I would ask you to explain first. Viriditas (talk) 11:59, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

After thinking about it, I just removed it as OR. Viriditas (talk) 12:02, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Could you help solve an edit war problem on the article "Fascism" by semi-protecting it?

Hi, I am just asking any random administrator to help stop an edit war on the article Fascism being caused by am anonymous user. Referenced material posted by me and others on the article have been deleted on a false claim by the anonymous that it is original research. First the user posted an NPOV template and the original research template. Though the OR claim was false, NPOV was acceptable to raise an issue of. But then according to the edit log, two minutes later the editor unilaterally decided to remove the entire section which he questioned from the article completely. This person appears to have removed the material simply because they disagreed with it, and I see the action by the anonymous user as malicious to the efforts made by me and to another user who add material to the article. I think the article should have semi-protection for a period of time to prevent such malicious behaviour from continuing. If this can't be done, I can give you the anoymous user name so that you can give a warning to the editor not to behave maliciously. The user name is User:69.110.223.66, which you can access to talk at User_talk:69.110.223.66. Thank you for reading this.--R-41 (talk) 02:14, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Award

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I am awarding this because you are an administrator. Thank you for all that you do. LAAFansign review 23:26, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for MilkyTracker

An editor has asked for a deletion review of MilkyTracker. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Ysangkok (talk) 21:39, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Block of User:Wellohgoshno

Hi, can this block please be extended to indef the same as all of the other socks of this person? -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 20:54, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

User:PiboManitoba 16 - Fartman's Revenge

Could you delete their User page? Lots of fair use violations there. Corvus cornix_talk 23:03, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see it's red. Never mind.  :) Corvus cornix_talk 23:03, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

72.140.46.227

I am unsure as to why NuclearWarfare reported 72.140.46.227 to AIV. As new "market" templates (please see WT:TVS for the full discussion on this) were being made to comply with the OTRS ticket, the anon user was reverting changes by Cydebot so we wouldn't have to go to each page and readd the templates. This wasn't vandalism, if anything it was helpful.

Now, NuclearWarfare has reverted all those changes without contacting the anon user or WP:TVS and we have to revert them. I have asked NuclearWarfare his reasoning, but am waiting (at his request) for that reason.

I ask that the anon user be unblocked as his edits were not vandalism. Thank You...NeutralHomer • Talk 03:44, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank You :) I appericate that. It appears that NuclearWarfare wasn't aware (I don't think) of the rebuilding of the "market" templates (can't call them "markets" anymore...no real name for them) so we are working that out :) Thanks again for unblocking the anon user, I appericate it. Take Care...NeutralHomer • Talk 03:56, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

76.248.146.114 (talk · contribs)

Hi - could you explain why this editor was blocked? Looks like a bad AIV report to me - see [5] Black Kite 23:14, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect summary on article deletion for Nasser Fahd Al Dosri

Hello! I want to state that you made an incorrect statement in your deletion summary from a few minutes ago:

"02:25, 29 September 2008 Academic Challenger (Talk | contribs) deleted "ناصر فهد الدوسري" ‎ (content was: '#REDIRECT Nasser Fahd Al Dosri' and the only contributor was Ecoleetage)"

For the record, I contributed nothing to the article -- I only moved the article from an Arabic title to an English title and kept putting the Speedy Delete tag back on the article after its creator, User:NasSser, kept removing the tag. NasSser's talk page clearly shows he received three warnings from me for removing Speedy Delete tags from the article he created. I know you cannot fix summaries once they are entered, which is why I am stating the correct history of the article here. Thank you. Ecoleetage (talk) 02:32, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for acknowledging the error. If there is any way of restoring and re-deleting the article manually so the article's author is correctly identified, I would appreciate it. I thought it would look peculiar if I was being fingered for something I obviously did not create (since I don't speak Arabic). Thanks. Ecoleetage (talk) 02:38, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Block of 195.131.172.123

Hi, Academic Challenger. I was looking over the edits of 195.131.172.123 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) when you blocked him. I can read a little Russian, and so I could tell that the pages to which the IP was linking seemed relevant and informative about the Russian and Polish cars in question. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#Non-English-language sites gives pretty restricted cases in which linking to sites not in English is appropriate. I don't know enough about these Russian and Polish cars to know whether the information being linked there is available on any English-language websites, but it seems at least possible that these links were OK. (If they are, they should be tagged with {{Ru icon}}, but that's a minor issue.)

I think it would have been better for someone to try to engage this editor in discussion, to explain the policy on non-English links in more specific terms than the templates, which are a bit generic. Would you be willing to reconsider the block? —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:21, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I also know nothing about Russian and Polish cars — I've just got enough command of Russian to see that the links were relevant to the subject. I'll be happy to talk to the user. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:33, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Dynamic IP block evader

I think 122.54.248.75 (talk) is picking up where 122.54.240.158 (talk) left off. Wronkiew (talk) 03:12, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Fashion Consulting returns

Thanks for the block on Fashion Consulting. He has now returned as 70.193.169.98‎ (talk · contribs), making the same edits (and personal information) to those articles. Thanks! Dayewalker (talk) 07:01, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Yep, you were right. Now he's back as 12.110.86.10 (talk · contribs). Would you mind semi-protecting the page, or should I make a request at WP:RFPP? Thanks! Dayewalker (talk) 07:23, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, quick-draw. You beat me to it. Thanks! Dayewalker (talk) 07:24, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

El Sombrero Award

		El Sombrero Barnstar Award
		You deserve this award for contributing to content of interest to the Latinos WikiProject. Outstanding contributions are generally about articles pertaining to Latinos and/or Hispanics in the United States as well as articles about Latin America. LatinoMuslim 02:13, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi

I just happened to randomly come across your userpage and I wanted to say from one college student to another that I was very impressed by your bio that you have written there. You've been around here for a long time, and I love your outlook on Wikipedia, most especially how you said you are "a strong believer in the truly revolutionary impact that Wikipedia has had on the world." I like that, because I agree wholeheartedly. Also, I was further impressed by teh last little factoid that you mentioned you are blind. I am glad you don't let it get in your way :) Cheers, and have a great day!! ~Pip2andahalf 12:30, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

New Messages

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Block

Huh? Where's the evidence of any relation aside from the one word in the name? Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :D} 06:16, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

I dunno, going on a bit too little information for my liking here. I don't like the block but I won't contest it, as the waters need to be cleared of suspicion and that requires the talk page only, so there's no need yet. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :D} 06:27, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Would you be ok with letting me unblock him (I'd keep a watch on him of course)? Further discussion on user's talk page. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :D} 06:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Sigh. Well, sorry for causing you the hassle. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :D} 08:12, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Blocks without sufficient warnings

Hi. I am just wondering why did you block the IP although it wasn't warned sufficiently? The talk page is even blank. I'm a newbie admin so an explanation/guide would be great. Thanks. --Efe (talk) 06:18, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I have noticed those IPs, too, and have blocked at least one of them. I am just worried about Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Education_and_warnings that's why I have done this, and worried about that 1 week block. Anyway, I have notified the IP for formality. Thanks for the immediate response. --Efe (talk) 06:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

User:162.115.108.120

You may want to make that 24 hour block longer, the IP is a repeat offender - see their block log. Inferno, Lord of Penguins 01:40, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

User:68.52.173.35

Hi, can you review that please? It looks like you shortened the block I gave. Was that your intention? --John (talk) 01:40, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

No, it was not my intension to shorten your block. I did not see your block, as it was about a minute before mine and I forgot to look as I was taking care of something else. Also, apparently there is a new feature in which a new block automatically overrides the old block. I have re-set the block for your 1 week time period, and will be more careful in the future. Thanks. Academic Challenger (talk) 01:46, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I thought it must be something glitchy like that. I wasn't aware of that new feature myself and will keep an eye out for it. Thanks and good work, --John (talk) 02:54, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Help Please

Hey I could use a little help on two things. Just to let you know ahead of time, I spent over 2-3 hours working on this myself so I wouldn't have to ask.
1).My sig:

1.1). For some reason next to "SawBucks" there is a blue link arrow. I do have this going to Lostpedia, but I also have the "Talk" and "Theories" links go there as well and they do not have this problem.

1.2). There is a gap in space between "Talk" and "Contribs" that I can't seem to shake. I have tried go threw and delete space's in the code but nothing I have done has seemed to help it at all, which is wierd because it doesn't happen with the last two.

2). I can't figure out how to redirect my User and Talk page to my Lostpedia pages. I can do it to another page inside wikipedia, but I can't for the life of me find out how to make it go to an outside site.

If you could please send me a talk to the link that "Talk" in my sig goes to I would really appreciate it because I may not be able to get back to this page so easily. My sig right now goes to LP so just in case you need any of my pages, my Wikipedia User Page can be found HERE, my Wikipedia Sig Page can be found HERE and my Wikipedia Talk Page can be found HERE just to make it easier on you. I understand you may be very busy or not even be able to help, however anything you could help with would be perfect (even if you need to refer me to someone else).-- SawBucks  Talk  Tom Clancy  Lostpedia  11:24, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah that makes sense, clicking on an "false" link that has spyware/malware could be a pretty big problem. As for my sig I got it taken care of for the most part but still needs some work I can take care off (nothing that just doesn't make sense at all). Sorry to bug ya and Thanks.-- SawBucks  Talk  Tom Clancy  Lostpedia  02:21, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Block on User:Curseof13

Please reconsider. The last edits looked like good faith attempts to merge articles. He didn't do it properly but I believe it was done in good faith. --NrDg 02:55, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Ignore above - obvious sock of 207.59.168.1 immediately blocked before last set of edits. --NrDg 02:58, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Project Congress

As a participant of WikiProject U.S. Congress, please consider placing {{Project Congress to do}} at the top of your User_talk page. Thank you. —Markles 15:15, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Pyrena

Ok, I understand that you have gained many awards from Wikipedia, but why would you choose to delete the article "Celtic town Pyrena" ? Now obvisiously I didn't write the article, but if there was something wrong about it you should have corrected it; cause now it is just that much harder to find out anymore information about the place the article was referring to. Thanks Alot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.196.215.148 (talk • contribs) 01:13, 12 January 2009

Request for opinion

Hi, I and my fellow editors are facing a deadlock on a issue of removing/toning down few lines on 'Allegations of Human Rights violation against the Indian Army' under 'criticism of the operation' section in Operation Blue Star article, concerns include WP:NPOV, WP:SOAP & WP:V, the summary of dispute can be found at [6]. I would request you to kindly go through the article and please let us know your views/opinion at the talk page of the article so that npov, balance and undue weight concerns may be looked into and a consensual solution may be found. Thanks LegalEagle (talk) 05:46, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Aleman

Hello Academic Challenger. I remember you from editing Nicaragua related articles. I have been trying to find someone who might help me in an editing gridlock. If you see the history on Arnoldo Aleman you will notice that I have been going back and forth with another user. I dont think this person will be open to dialogue with me (prior experience) but I do believe that his edits are a bit biased. I have opened a thread at the talk page (most recent thread there) to no avail. I believe that my edit abides to WP:BLP without failing to mention the controversy that followed Aleman's release. Can you please take a look? Thanks a lot! Brusegadi (talk) 09:37, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

I Brought You My Bullets

You deleted the following page:I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love. It is actually the name of a My Chemical Romance album, though it is more commonly given a comma after the word "Bullets." I propose that it be restored as a redirect to the common spelling instead of deleted, since it is completely plausible and probable to accidentally use this less uncommon titling, though it being used as a blatant, ridiculous advertisement is indeed unacceptable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by American kohaku (talk • contribs) 19:14, 3 February 2009 (UTC) EDIT: Sorry. I entered the redirect myself. I was under the impression it didn't work. It does now. Please disregard the above message. American kohaku (talk) 19:18, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Sockpuppet cases

Thanks for your review of the ARV case i submitted; could you let me know what standard practice should be in cases like this - in which there was a group of account under a sock puppetry case, in which that case was closed and archived, and after which a new account starts performing actions that should be grouped in the original case? I'll watch this page for changes - thanks for any pointers. Quaeler (talk) 06:36, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

(I don't know if you're watching my page - and frankly this is now silly because i was watching this page, but you responded on my page; I decided to respond on my page too trying to keep some semblance of a thread, and you've not since responded there... at any rate, i've responded to your response on my talk page with a request for clarification. If we have conversations in the future, i think it would be best if the thread would be continued in one location. Thanks again. Quaeler (talk) 07:29, 4 February 2009 (UTC))

Nathan Gamble

User:Camboy8 repeatedly vandalizes this page but it appears you blocked the editor who keeps reverting his destructive edits instead of him. He keeps adding a filmography table which is unnecessary because all the films already are listed within the article. Why should this information be given twice? Also, it is customary to refer to the article's subject by his or her last name and he keeps changing it to Nathan with the excuse "he's only 11". If an editor is trying to keep an article within Wikipedia guidelines why are you blocking him instead of the guilty party? 67.79.157.50 (talk) 15:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Please look at User talk:Camboy8. Three different people warned him about his edits so why did you block one of the people trying to protect the article instead of Camboy8? Did you research the situation first? 67.79.157.50 (talk) 15:08, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello! I am a regular contributor to film articles and film project discussions, and I'm not sure why you appear to have sided with Camboy8. Rather than reiterate what 67.79.157.50 said above in his first post, allow me to simply say his or her statements are accurate. Rather than familiarize himself with film project guidelines, as I suggested a few days ago, Camboy8 seems to be intent on ignoring them. What I found odd was that this article is basically the only one to which he has contributed. He is not editing articles on a regular basis; his only motive in coming to Wikipedia is to monitor this particular article. I asked him why, and he responded, "To answer your personal question on why this is the only article I edit, I am not a very involved editor, but Nathan Gamble is my favorite actor, So when someone is taking out what takes me a long time to edit, It bothers me. So please just leave the table in the article it's not hurting anyone. So since it is the only article I edit, please leave my edits alone." [7]

Clearly this is a very young person. I responded to him at User talk:Camboy8 in what I hope you will agree was a sensitive and compassionate manner. While I applaud and encourage his desire to write for Wikipedia, I also think it's important for him to understand the whys and wherefores before doing so.

With all due respect, I believe your decision to honor his request to block 209.247.22.164 was hasty, given 209.247.22.164's edits were in keeping with film article guidelines, and Camboy8's are not. Your quick response seems to have emboldened him to believe he is right to continue to revert the article to the way he wants it. It would be unfortunate if he started editing other articles in a similar fashion. Thank you. LiteraryMaven (talk) 19:33, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello again! Thank you for your response. I appreciate your interceding in this matter. Re: filmographies, they are common in articles about actors, directors, screenwriters, and the like who have so many credits it's impossible to mention them all within the article, thus the necessity of a list. In the case of a child actor with a handful of credits, it's easy to list all of them within the text, making a filmography table redundant. Again, many thanks for your assistance! LiteraryMaven (talk) 18:47, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

190.174.x.x

Was that a range block? I'm not sure where to check that. A block of that single IP won't help, he's checked in with 4 different IPs from that range in the last 2 days.--Crossmr (talk) 08:38, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Confused re response at WP:AIV

Hiya,

Just curious, what did I do wrong here? That was the IP that was vandalizing Mike Bibby. [8]. Did someone else get blocked instead?

Thanks for your time, Zagalejo^^^ 05:34, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, it seems that 68.5.244.84 was eventually blocked anyway. [9] Zagalejo^^^ 06:21, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

No worries! Thanks for the reply. Zagalejo^^^ 19:36, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Star sign articles

Hi there. Although it's a single-purpose account, I think part of the removal of those articles was correct, so I'm going to partial rv some of those articles. See my edit summaries for details. Black Kite 22:38, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

• Yeah, he shouldn't have removed everything he did, but I've been meaning to get round to removing those "traits" sections for ages, so now seems like a good time. Black Kite 22:42, 9 February 2009 (UTC)