User talk:10metreh/Archive 1

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Cooter Brown - Reverts
Hello 10metreh, I noticed your work at Cooter Brown reverting vandals, I also noticed that you warned the vandal using a custom message, in future it is a good idea to use on of the messages on this table: WARN, down the side you can find the template that you think applies, then copy it onto the vandals talkpage, and add your signature, as a general rule you should always make the first warning a level one, the next a level two, etc. Also if you wish you can put the article name into the template, so lets pretend you were warning that vandal at Cooter Brown again, you would write this: Cooter Brown ~ If that doesn't make sense to you, just ask me on my talk page, thanks SpitfireTally-ho! 07:43, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Of course, you can carry on writing out the custom messages, if you like, you may find that easier, SpitfireTally-ho! 07:45, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, looks like you've got the hang of it, all the best SpitfireTally-ho! 08:14, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! (And I am amazed how silly some people are.) 10metreh (talk) 08:15, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Trust me, I've seen more of that then I care to remember :D SpitfireTally-ho! 08:23, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Would you like me to tell you how to report a vandal to an administrator? If not and you're fine just say, thanks SpitfireTally-ho! 08:38, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'd like to know, although the furthest I've been so far is level 3 with the vandal on Dennis Hopper. 10metreh (talk) 08:39, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, great, it's pretty easy, all you have to do is copy the user name or the user IP address, the go to the page WP:AIV, edit the section User-reported on the AIV page. Then:
 * For an IP address fill in this:
 * * brief reason for listing (keep it short) ~
 * Or for a Registered User (someone with a username):
 * * optional brief reason for listing (keep it short) ~
 * Then place your report at the bottom of the page, so for instance if you were reporting the vandal at Dennis Hooper your report would look like this: * Vandalism to the Dennis Hooper article ~ Follow? You will often run into an edit conflict on the AIV page, just follow the on screen instructions if that happens. Please say if I'm not making sense, most importantly, you should only report a user who has received a level 4 warning, and then vandalised after receiving the warning, again just say if I'm not making sense, all the best SpitfireTally-ho! 08:48, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I know it all sounds a bit technical and confusing, you don't have to report users if you don't want to, in must cases an experienced editor will be able to help, if you spend some time on wikipedia (please do) then it shouldn't be too long until this stuff is as natural as breathing, cheers SpitfireTally-ho! 09:19, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Time to apply for rollback?
Hey 10metreh, Firstly, from one vandal fighter to another, well done indeed. You, sir, are doing an excellent job. I applaud you. Now onto my suggestion. I see you've been undoing for a lot of your edits. Now, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It gets the job done just fine, in fact, does the job smashingly. If that's a word. May I suggest, however, that you apply for rollback permissions? It is (at least, in my opinion) a lot faster, and more efficient, when dealing with vandalisim. On top of that, with rollback permissions you: I'm not sure how strict they are being these days regarding applications, and I think they were a bit more lenient back when I recieved my permissions, but you should be fine, should you apply. Good luck, whatever path you choose. James.Denholm&reg;Talk to me... 09:01, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Can use one very, very good anti-vandalisim tool.
 * Look better than everyone else, as well as having moral superiority.
 * Avoid CTS and RSI, which could cause your vandal-fighting career to come to a sudden, painful halt.
 * Gain an infated ego.

Rollback
I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see New admin school/Rollback and Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 17:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that was quick! 10metreh (talk) 17:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, all the best SpitfireTally-ho! 18:07, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

jimmy swaggart edit
i noticed you reverted the text i inserted for jimmy swaggart. i wrote those words actually to bring to attention a very opinionated section. if you see where i inserted those words then you'll know what i'm talking about. i don't know how to insert those official looking boxes highlighting a controversial section. perhaps you could do that for me.
 * Sorry, I don't know either. Maybe it is controversial; if so, don't mention it in that way, do so on the article's talk page. Thanks! 10metreh (talk) 11:27, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank-you for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. :)

ChrischTalk 06:46, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Quick Note
I noticed you warned User:76.193.142.43 for a comment they left on your talkpage. As a fellow vandal fighter I just wanted to remind you that rollback should only be used in clear cases of vandalism, and though they have prior vandalistic edits their comment to you does not fall under that criteria. We always need to WP:AGF when dealing with fellow editors, and also remember that ip's can be assigned to multiple computers at once.  Ic sea tur tles  ★ 07:18, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I realised shortly after the level 4 warning. I put a message on his talk page suggesting creating an account to distinguish him from the vandal. I have seen "this is a shared address" used as an excuse for vandalism, so I could not fully trust the IP. 10metreh (talk) 07:21, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I would suggest removing the level four warning, since the edit wasn't actually vandalism. Although most of their edits are vandalism, they shouldn't be warned for an edit that isn't. Keep up the great work. Cheers,  Ic sea tur tles  ★ 07:29, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism warnings
Please look at what you are reverting rather than blindly reverting. Do you really think the page is supposed to look like this?. No of course it's not, that's someone messing up their listing which I fixed and you are repeatedly undoing. Please read up on what vandalism is --82.7.40.7 (talk) 10:07, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I know very well enough what vandalism is. I was using Huggle, which is an anti-vandalism program. However, on Huggle, you have no idea what the page actually looks like. You can only see the code. I thought those were instructions on what to do that only appeared when you were editing the article, and deletion of those is vandalism. I have removed the warnings from your talk page. Sorry. 10metreh (talk) 10:11, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank You!
I do want to thank you for being so diligent and reverting the edits on my user page! Just so you're aware, that particular IP address is my own, as explained on my IP Talk page. It was an honest mistake, so don't worry about it. Thank you again for your helpful and mindful stance against vandalism in Wikipedia! &mdash;  .`^) Paine Ellsworthdiss`cuss (^`.   17:44, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * You're lucky, I could have warned you for that, but I didn't, because I wan't sure what the page looked like before or after the edit (I was using Huggle) and I couldn't be sure it was vandalism, although I thought it probably was. I was wrong ;) 10metreh (talk) 19:00, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry!
In case you are wondering what has been going on, why you have got a warning from me when you shouldn't have done, it's my fault. I made a couple of mistakes on Huggle that may have messed up a couple of pages (eg. White-faced Heron which I removed a revert on). If you would like a warning removed, post here and I'll remove it. (Removing your own warnings may look suspicious.) 10metreh (talk) 15:15, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Happy Christmas


Spitfire would like to wish you a very happy Christmas. Whether Christmas be spent with family or friends, or quietly by yourself, I hope that you find peace and contentment. SpitfireTally-ho! 16:57, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! 10metreh (talk) 08:21, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * A belated thanks! 10metreh (talk) 09:20, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Kampong Cham Province
Hi - regarding this revert, I don't think the anon IP's edits are what one can call vandalism. What the IP editor has put in is simple information in poor English, with one questionable-but-likely-good-intentioned mention of the govt. tourism department. I'd remove the govt. department mention, but I don't think the use of anti-vandalism measures is right for this one. Just 2 cents from a fellow Huggler. Thanks! Shiva  (Visnu)  14:43, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry. The first one looked a bit like vandalism, then I reverted the second quickly, then I realised but forgot to undo the edit for some reason. Probably another piece of vandalism distracted me. Anyway, must get back to huggling now... 10metreh (talk) 14:47, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Great anti-vandal work
Bravo for your continued efforts countering & reverting vandalism.

I wondered about your red account name: did you know about:
 * User and
 * User ?

Just a thought. Trafford09 (talk) 15:19, 18 August 2010 (UTC)


 * It's just that editors' first reaction on seeing a red a/c name like User:10metreh is to suspect that you are at best a newbie, and at worst a problematic editor. Whereas obviously you're neither, so even if you just put anything on your User page (User:10metreh), then you'd have a normal (blue) a/c name on all edit Histories & whenever you sign a comment. How's about adding an anti-vandal wp:userbox, say, from Counter-Vandalism_Unit. Fancy any of those? Best, Trafford09 (talk) 18:52, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I've created a user page now. 10metreh (talk) 10:19, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Excellent! It looks good. Next thought: have you seen UserTalkArchive ? (Not urgent yet.) Trafford09 (talk) 10:31, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I think I'll archive it when it gets to 20 sections. Personally I think 10 sections (which is what the guidelines suggest) is too few to need archiving. 10metreh (talk) 10:42, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Fair point - I think I can see 20 on my screen, at my resolution, so only beyond that would they disappear off the TOC. Trafford09 (talk) 10:45, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh - one other thing - have you seen wp:ES - even on posts to Talk pages :) Trafford09 (talk) 10:51, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, of course. I sometimes don't feel a need to use them. I saw your reference to Chelsea (at least that's what I interpreted it as) in one of your edit summaries in this discussion - as an Arsenal fan, I can only agree :) 10metreh (talk) 11:18, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Wrong red for me - mine's in my name!
 * PS: re your contributions it does say this :) Trafford09 (talk) 11:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Nice work

 * Thanks! 10metreh (talk) 09:20, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Meerkat Manor talk page
Please don't delete perfectly valid content from talk pages. Another editor had mentioned that the name of the meerkat was not notable - probably because he or she is not aware of Suggs the singer. 86.134.92.124 (talk) 15:54, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, dunno why I did that. 10metreh (talk) 15:56, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Sorry
Sorry, trying out Huggle - quite inexperienced. Big  top  みんな空の下 (トーク) 16:31, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It's fine. If you thought my edits on BTTR Ventures were vandalism, I just messed up a bit - first I accidentally clicked the revert button, then I undid the edit, then I saw that the edit had removed some content and put it back. That sort of thing happens sometimes with Huggle, but you get used to it. 10metreh (talk) 16:36, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * Thanks! 10metreh (talk) 17:23, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Jules Desplaces
Hi! I've declined the speedy deletion of Jules Desplaces as it looks like he might be a notable sports person (from Google searches) although I have not found anythying definite on an English website. I would rather this be reviewed for deletion at AFD than speedily deleted. Stephen! Coming... 11:21, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * OK. I've also revomed the informal sentence. I hadn't found the pages about him (just looked on page 1 *grrr*), but now having seen them, I think that this article should be kept but only if it is improved. I'm surprised there isn't anything about him in English; we need someone who speaks more French than me to improve the article. 10metreh (talk) 11:27, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

A Serbian Film
Since when does making a valid edit in the name of accuracy constitute "vandalism"? Inquiring minds want to know.MRDA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.221.130.20 (talk) 18:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Making edits which put "rape", "porn" etc on an article looks very much like vandalism, especially on Huggle. I hadn't heard of the film before. I've removed the warnings from your talk page. It would have been more helpful to post this message on my talk page earlier. 10metreh (talk) 18:57, 25 August 2010 (UTC)