User talk:Alison/Archive 38

PirateSmackK
Steven Pledger is a different piratesmack. I hadn't even been to EncyclopediaDramatica.com until PirateSmackK sent me a link to the article. Keep my info there if you want, just know that you guys aren't hurting PirateSmackK at all.

-The other piratesmack (talk) 11:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin
Hi Alison, I saw you're an admin on the Irish language Wikipedia. I thought it would be a great idea to start an article on Ní Shúilleabháin there since she speaks Irish fluently, helps host the Seachtain na Gaeilge this year, and worked in traditional Irish music. Can you translate perhaps the intro or direct me to someone willing to help? Thanks a lot. Best Hekerui (talk) 18:40, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Alison, should I ask someone else? Thanks. Hekerui (talk) 11:59, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi there. Sorry for the delay, but I've been really busy all week with RL stuff. I'll try to get something started this weekend, once I get the chance here - A l is o n  ❤ 20:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey, it's May, please forget it. Best wishes Hekerui (talk) 00:04, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

note
Hi, could you let me know if you got (mid-late Feb ish) my note? Hope the park was nice earlier in the week! Thanks muchly. –Whitehorse1 16:05, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

User talk:There Is No Cabal caught in autoblock of a checkuserblock you placed
Please see above-noted talk page. Thank you, – xeno talk  16:00, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Ping
Hi Alison, could you please check your email. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 16:16, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Filtered
Hi Alison, due to recent activity I've extended filter 294 to apply to you as well. Please let me know if you would prefer otherwise. Thanks! -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 22:13, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey Alison, i've sent you an email
that's all, just wanted to let you know!

thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Askkaty2write (talk • contribs) 03:40, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi there. I've replied, and have also restored your page to your userspace so you can work on it. Let me know if you need anything else! - A l is o n  ❤ 06:02, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Lesserextent
User apparently got busted in a CU rangeblock. Ja or nein on IPBE? — Jeremy (v^_^v Dittobori) 09:35, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Anonymous (film)
Will you please userfy the article to me at User:MichaelQSchmidt/workspace/Anonymous (film)? I wish to use available sources brought up at the AFD to address copyvio and clean up the article before myself moving it to WP:INCUBATE in anticipation of further expansion and sourcing before its possible return to mainspace. Thank you  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 17:19, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Michael. That's ✅ now - just please don't leave the copyvio text hanging around any longer than needs be. I'll NOINDEX it in a minute ... - A l is o n  ❤ 17:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Already it no longer resembles what was sent to AFD. :) I'll get back to it this evening to expand and source further. Might I ask you to look in before sending to incubation?  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 18:40, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

I need your assistance ASAP
I need your input on a CU related case. Please let me know when you are on. (PS It's not on en.wiki).  D u s t i SPEAK!! 19:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

It wasn't purely disruptive.
Don't treat my comment that way. I accept its removal because of the personal information. But there is a deep truth in what I said and that is about the origin of all those problems of which many are to blame. It is funny how it is the style in Wikipedia of using categorical adjectives. "purely", "highly". It is like people don't know how to make sense of themselves. I understand that she didn't like being exposed, but she also need to learn what are the things that she is doing wrong, and is still doing wrong. I have seen the effects occurring over and over again, and are still happening. Abisharan (talk) 22:46, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I absolutely will treat it that way, actually, even though it's just boilerplate text. In fact your comment came close to being oversighted. What you said was immensely cruel and completely uncalled-for and at the very least, comes under WP:NPA. Seriously, even your comment above smacks of retribution and 'punishment'. It was completely over the top and, frankly, you owe her an apology - A l is o n  ❤ 23:16, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It doesn't make any difference sweetie. It is not me who is having problems constantly. And as you can research, it is a problem that she is choosing to ignore or even worst, to try playing the heroine/martyr. If she really cares she still need to ask me what have she and is she doing wrong if she haven't discover it yet. I just said a plain truth, maybe cryptic if you don't know all the aspects of it but still immensely true. I don't mind apologizing, I don't loose anything that way (let me do it right now) but will it solve anything? The one who has a problem to solve is she. Abisharan (talk) 23:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 'scuse me - "sweetie"? Are you trying to be deliberately offensive here or do patronizing terms like this just trip off your tongue? :( Either way, it's not part of your remit to somehow make her see the error of her ways, or whatever, and especially not with gratuitously offensive, personal attacks. Just don't do that stuff - A l is o n  ❤ 23:50, 25 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Alison, thank you for your help. I added two and two together and now I know who the user is. The user has retired as Dr. Jekyll, and came back few days later as Mr. Hyde. with the sole purpose "to help" me to get out of the loop. And although my discovery made me sick to my stomach, at the same time I feel so much better now, when I know who the user is. You said what the user has done to me was cruel. At first I also thought that it is the case, but now I know, the user is not cruel, the user simply needs some help, and I feel sorry for the user. I wish I were able to help, but I am not sure how. Best wishes. --Mbz1 (talk) 03:17, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Sole purpose? Just look my at my user contributions. Sorry, but you are prizing yourself too much thinking that the my sole purpose is to "help you". It is the other way around. Just by chance, I noticed that your problems had not stopped (since they even came to disrupt FPC). You are being a bit paranoid as you were when I reviewed one of your pictures in the most impersonal and objective way, as I always try to do. I just happens that among the things that I see, I support those that I think are right. No matter what. When I saw people doing wrong to you I condemned it. If I see you doing wrong I tell you. But not more than once. You say that I need some help. Go ahead, tell me the symptoms that you see. (In my talk page, since Alison should be annoyed with all these posts.) Abisharan (talk) 03:34, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * People have been offended so many times that just want to be offended. Sweetie means just that. I use language in the plainest possible way, since I don't have the skills to bend it ingeniously. It I want to offend I would use again plain and clear offenses. Take it as an edulcorantion of the dialogue to counterbalance your emphasized (will). About my remit, it is mine, my own. If it there is something that we own, that is the choice of what to do with the time that it is given to us. About my remit, only me is to know what it is, and it was to point those error. I did it in and improper way? My bad. But it certainly was not an attack. More like a hurtful surgical healing procedure that opened a wound to purge a tumor. Abisharan (talk) 00:31, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, as clearly your comments have hurt others, maybe you would consider changing the way they are phrased (and therefore not hurting others) or stopping it. They aren't helping. — Air plane  man — 02:27, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * And so I did. My only other comment was an apology as I was asked to do. The root and real purpose of all the story will not change. As I believe it and is quite evident. Mbz1 needs help to come out of a loop of mistakes in which got involved and even worst people with the aim of helping and with good will are, involuntarily, helping her to stay in it. Now, it can not be done without her will to do it. That's why it doesn't make sense for me to continue until then. Maybe you can try. For me once is enough and twice is too much. Abisharan (talk) 02:55, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

SPI
Hi Alison, could you take a look at this SPI report? You reviewed the prior complaint and I was wondering if this matches what you found so interesting in that one. Thanks,  nableezy  - 01:27, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
~  Dwayne Flanders   was here! talk 17:15, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Email
Hi Alison, did you get the email that I sent to you yesterday? Graham 87 06:15, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Page move: Intersexuality -> Intersex
because you expressed interest in this, I am notifying you of the formal request here:

Talk:Intersexuality

Mish (talk) 14:41, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
~  Dwayne Flanders   was here! talk 19:06, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Advice about a possible block
As per Sockpuppet investigations/Tony winward, I feel that although a CU has been declined, the IP certainly is making quacking noises.

Would I be justified in blocking for 1 month?

I've never dealt with a case like this before (I've only been an admin for 2 months!) and would appreciate any advice on how to deal with it.

Regards, --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 18:04, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Swami Nithyananda (Dhyanapeetam)
I've just protected the page (and the talk page), but there are some edits that would need oversight. Can you take a look please? &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  17:16, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I've just deleted the relevant revisions, which may be sufficient. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:21, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Email
Ping. I hope you check email more frequently than your current editing pace, but thought I'd leave a note here too.  fetch  comms  ☛ 04:06, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Curious about the block of GeneralCheese
Hi. I see you blocked GeneralCheese for sockpuppetry. I was wondering if you could tell me what you found on him. He was a user I had been keeping an eye on... I'm honestly not surprised by this, but am curious about the circumstances. Thanks in advance, Auntie E. (talk) 04:53, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello again. I am still curious about this case. Is there a reason that the puppeteer of this account has not been named? This puppet was a major timesink in addition to being an "admin hopeful". Admin hopefuls socking is a major concern to many of us here. Auntie E. (talk) 00:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

User talk:92.40.31.27
This user is saying there is some massive collateral resulting from a rangeblock you imposed--can you look into it? Blueboy96 07:09, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but unblocking that range right now would be highly inappropriate. See this and this for examples from just today, as well as stuff like this - A l is o n  ❤ 22:55, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!
 Thank you for helping out my userpage Dear Allie, thank you for centering things on my userpage and semi-protecting it so people cannot vandalize my userpage. Your help is very much appreciated Love, ~  Dwayne   was here! talk

Talkback
Hi Alison, im requesting that you delete one of the photo's in the file history, more information is located on my talk page under the Image history section. Thank you! Dwayne  was here! talk 02:47, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

LPTF
Hey Alison, I'd like to get in touch with you tomorrow (Monday) afternoon at some point if I can. Thanks! Keegan (talk) 05:26, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Let me know what times - I'm actually on vacation next week. If it's Skype or IRC, I should be able to do it. RL isn't giving me much internets time right now :/ - A l is o n  ❤ 05:47, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that answered my email query. :-) Bielle (talk) 02:30, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Aye!
As usual, me is here to tickle you again with a little CU request... is remotely related to ? <3 Thanks again! :) -- Dave ♠♣♥♦1185♪♫™ 10:55, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Afatatlot
I think that User:Afatatlot, User:Uberfuzzy the big fat poo, and User:82.11.177.252 are the same person. This is WP:DUCK, right? I think that it's pretty obvious considering their contributions to Talk:Allah, The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, Talk:The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, and User talk:82.11.177.252. Do I still have to start a suckpuppetry investigation, or can they be blocked now? --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 02:16, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It should also be noted that Wikia staff member User:Uberfuzzy blocked 82.11.177.252 at the Kingdom Under Fire Wikia. I believe that this is why User:82.11.177.252 created the User:Uberfuzzy the big fat poo sockpuppet. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 02:24, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
 * User:Heretodeliveramessage is another of his sockpuppets. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 13:12, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Please also check my YouTube profile. Afatatlot is obviously TheElderscrolls5 and Suarezfamilykilled. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 13:43, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Afatatlot – I decided to start a sockpuppetry investigation instead. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 17:02, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello
Durova's 'dead tree' criteria, I'm curious ;), can u tell me more? --Chris.urs-o (talk) 16:00, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

how to revert earlier version in case of vandalism
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i am kinda new to wiki. i am mostly interested in reverting vandalistic edits. i would like to have your help in understanding in how to revert earlier versions in scenario like this.

a page gets valid edits at 2pm.it gets vandalised at 3 pm.the same page also gets vandalised at 4pm .now if i am to "undo" the changes, then i can revert only to the 3pm version from the 4pm version.

how ppl are doing the reverts directly to 2pm version from 4pm ?

thx,

Cosmos 17:24, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


 * As Alison is not currently available, I'm attempting a response here.  Cosmos, if you haven't been around long enough to have access to specific tools, like Rollback for example, you start with the earliest vandalism and keep undoing, moving forward in time until you have them all. Well, that's what I used to do. If there are a lot of vandal edits, ask a friendly admin or other user with the rights to help out. It would also be helful if you were to sign your name to your posts using the 4 tildes ~ so that we can look at the problem and perhaps provide better assistance. :-) Bielle  (talk) 17:39, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Another way to go about this is to click on the earlier revision in the history (simply click on the timestamp) and then edit it, enter an edit summary ("rv to old version due to vandalism") and then click save. Be sure you don't roll over any good edits in between. – xeno talk  17:43, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Brexx
Lil-unique1 decided to take the Brexx problem to a wider community at WP:ANI. I'm not sure it was necessary, but not sure it's a bad idea either. You may wish to participate.&mdash;Kww(talk) 20:19, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

piracy of copyrighted work or potential copyright violation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Puffer_Fish_DSC01257.JPG

Please have a look at the link above.

I sense a potential copyright violation.

I do not know whom to send this too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cosmoskramer (talk • contribs) 09:38, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * de-lurk (I'm away right now and have limited access). The original file is the Commons one by User:Mbz1, who's rather known for her excellent image work. The Commons pic has full EXIF embedded information while the other website image does not. The Commons pic is a full-resolution image whereas the other site is not and is thus not a derivative of the other site's image. The EXIF original date shows 2004:09:07 10:47:18 which is what Mbz1 states in her original upload message, though she uploaded it in June 2007. The third-party website is, of course, free to use it for whatever purpose, per the license, but they should really have provided attribution as 1) it's in the CC-BY-SA license, 2) It's only polite and proper and 3) it prevents confusion such as this. In short, there are no real copyright problem with the image, from either site's perspective - A l is o n  ❤ 12:22, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

RE: Sockpuppetry of GeneralCheese
Hi. I asked about this above, but maybe you missed it. I am concerned that this sock was blocked without a note of who the puppeteer is. As this sock was actively trying to work his way into adminship, I am concerned that the master account has not been identified. I see no extraordinary reason that this case has been dealt with secretly. If you do have reasons for this, please e-mail me and let me know. Auntie E. (talk) 17:50, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Delete page
Hello. I am a sysop from sk.wikipedia and I made a request for usurpation my nickname few days ago (I wanted to create global account). This request was accepted and my account was renamed. But my "old" talk page is false redirected. This is my user page: User:Amonet and this is my talk page: User talk:Amonet which redirect to false talk page (on User talk:Amonet (usurped)). And my old (a true) talk page is this: User talk:Amonet sk, but it is not redirected. Can you delete talk page with false redirecting (User talk:Amonet), please? And then I can redirect my true talk page (User talk:Amonet sk). Thank you for your time. --Amonet (talk) 07:40, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Oversight Request
Greetings Alison, while i was on Wikipedia today, i stumbled across a minor editors userpage and he seems to be giving out quite too much about himself and i think his userpage should be oversighted. He also has an image of himself & his best friend on his userpage. its right here. If i dont get a response from you within 2 days, i wil e-mail you. Thx :)    Dwayne   was here!  ♫  06:42, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination)
Hi, Alison. Because you participated in Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (2nd nomination), you may be interested in Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination). Cunard (talk) 02:28, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

User:Alpha Quadrant
A recently created account partaking in AfDs, where the comments are universally of the "keep and expand" variety, regardless of the (non-)existence of sources. One of the first few things he did was to add himself to WP:ARS. Clearly not a new user. Pcap ping  05:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Your block of 4meter4
I think this block should be reversed. See User_talk:4meter4, which links to Sockpuppet investigations/Nrswanson/Archive, where he previously admitted to being a sockpuppet and it was decided that he should be given another chance. Raul654 (talk) 05:52, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Middlesex (novel)
Hi, Alison. I noticed that you edited Middlesex (novel) in December of last year and are probably familiar with the novel. I've done some expansion and sourcing since you last edited the article and plan to bring it to FAC at the end of May. Would you read the article and see if there are any grammar or factual mistakes, awkward prose, or anything else? Thank you, Cunard (talk) 06:16, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Will do, soon as I get a minute. IRL stuff is killing me right now :) - A l is o n  ❤ 07:10, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! When you have the time, please post any concerns/comments to the talk page. Best, Cunard (talk) 06:31, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Intersex page
your eyes may be needed Mish (talk) 00:57, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Dia dhuit!
Hello, there! I was just wondering if you would mind if I copied your userpage format? Thanks :) --It's me...Sallicio!$\color{Red} \oplus$ 03:56, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

hi im just wondering if you could email me my page that you deleted