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Rebooting WikiProject Fictional series
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LOL
Oops! Thanks! Jus tin (Gmail?)(u) 22:05, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

AB's talk page
FYI. Ive added to you previous range block of the "Asia pres" troll, see. thanks--Hu12 (talk) 22:35, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

TRM's nom
Thanks. I'm having quite a stressful day IRL, so that was really helpful. --Dweller (talk) 14:45, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

RFB comment
Hey AO. Thanks for supporting, but just a quick note re your comment [Well, what Neil has done (oppose all reconfirmation RFAs, regardless of who is re-running) is, in a way, an equally flimsy grounded oppose.)]. If I opposed reconfirmation RFA just because I believe they are unnecessary, it would be a flimsy protest vote.  But there's a deeper meaning - the fact they are unnecessary suggests to me the only reason a user would take one is to obtain a community "pat on the back" prior to regaining the sysop bit, when all the time he/she could have just requested from a bureaucrat, anyway.  Unnecessary bureaucracy is anathema to me - my career IRL is based on eliminating it.  Additionally, I also feel admins who care "too much" about what the community thinks of them are prone to being unstable and unreliable, and need a confirmation is evidence of that mindset. I think an admin who needs an unnecessary reconfirmation before retaking the tools is too sensitive for the role. That's why they are unnecessary. Neıl ☎  16:20, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, I wasn't expecting a retraction - that's fine. I just thought a little background would be informative.  Cheers. Neıl  ☎  17:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

TRM RFB
Thanks. And thanks for your encouragement. We'll see how it goes! The Rambling Man (talk) 17:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't worry about that, every time I see your username I have an urge to leap for the block button....! The Rambling Man (talk) 17:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you, AndonicO, for your support in my RfB. I appreciate your trust. Acalamari 22:02, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

WBFAN
Hi - The reason Rise and Fall wasn't credited to you is because it was credited to user:AO. Like the comment says at WP:WBFAN, direct edits generally will have very little effect (the bot recreates it from the source lists, pretty much every day). This edit will fix it permanently. -- Rick Block (talk) 01:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Pot-de-fer
The Cannon work spurred me on. Even with 2,500,000+ articles, you still find something to write about.  bibliomaniac 1  5  22:46, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

If you liked the last one, you will love this one
So I got to thinking after a short 100 edit reverting vandalism marathon (half reverts, half warnings and a couple mistakes of mine that I fixed), what could I make to brighten the day, I think my latest conception is as great or greater then my last one. Please have a look at the 42nd Cabal its awesome! (yes the html scripting was taken from the Bathrobe Cabal)-- Pewwer42 Talk  07:38, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

MfD
Yeah, I managed to figure that out a few minutes ago. I think the problem lay in the fact that your nomination was exceedingly short and altogether too clear; my practice at XfD is to write exorbitantly long nominations that say relatively little, and surely nothing persuasive, and I am ill-suited to handle, you know, cogency. Thanks, in any case, for catching my oversight (especially since I intended later to offer at MfD some diffuse commentary on the autograph books MfD), and apologies for my failure to read more carefully. Cheers, Joe 03:36, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

MFD Userfication
Hey, I closed the discussion for Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:I'm_Proud_to_be_a_Wikipedian as essentially moot but then realized you didn't actually complete the userfication - or you undid it. This was pretty well WP:SNOW for userfication. Could you delete the projectspace page? Also, did you copy the full history to userspace? I was a little unclear as to where it went in userspace, it looked like Wizardman said he created it in userspace at User:Nothing444/contest at the same time as it was nominated, which didn't make sense. Anyway, I thought about undoing my close once I realized the issues, but I think we can just get rid of the projectspace page if the history has been moved. Thanks.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 05:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * He just moved it back again. You want to take care of this, I don't think there's any need to get an uninvolved admin.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * He just won't quit, now he's made a cross-namespace redirect from the old page to the new one. I could CSD it, but thought you might want to explain to handle it.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 01:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Philipsburg, Montana
Thanks for protecting the Philipsburg, Montana article. That was flat-out nuts. What would've been the proper way for me to have handled that? Would a RFP request on the page worked? --JaGa (talk) 10:11, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Changed to semi protection per vandalism. Zombie outbreaks hardly constitute a "dispute", Andonic0 :) Full protection is too excessive. &mdash;Dark (talk) 10:16, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Pls note....
... that Jimmy Wales is protected... (although I agree with your deletion). ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 21:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

... and so is Rachel Marsden. Care to self-revert? GRBerry 21:50, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * See here. If consensus is to keep it in, feel free to revert my edit. · AndonicO  Hail!  21:51, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Wales/Marsden
''I was a bit bold, so if consensus is to revert that, I'm okay with it (I won't be around for a few hours). · AndonicO  Hail!  21:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)''
 * Sounds good to me. After all, it's a lot more relevant to Marsden.  This way we can treat the subject with a brief mention in the Wales article and go into it in better detail on Marsden's.  --Merovingian (T, C) 21:52, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I replied to your query at user talk:EncMstr. —EncMstr 02:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Block expiry
I like your block expiration date here. Think they'll have reached maturity by then? OhNo itsJamie Talk 06:47, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I was curious also, so I asked. "I block blatant vandals for 29 years instead of indefinitely (technically a shorter period... and middle age usually fixes school vandals). This user in particular was vandalizing multiple pages (including a few that were deleted), so I blocked him for 29; if he wants to be unblocked, I have no problem with that as long as he decides to contribute constructively." :)  Enigma  msg! 07:57, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

New Message
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Huggle
I just started using Huggle. I think I understand the basics, but wow. This program is overwhelming. I read WP:Huggle. After opening the program the first time, it certainly changes how I revert vandalism. I used to just focus on the few hundred pages on my watchlist. Now I'm viewing everything anywhere that is marked as possible vandalism.  Enigma  msg! 08:51, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You mentioned something about shortcuts. Memorizing all the shortcuts for the program seems a bit much. Which specific ones do you think are most helpful? Sorry for directing all the questions to you, but you're my Huggle contact! :)  Enigma  msg! 16:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

About that IP vandal
Remember how I was talking about that vandal guy on IRC? Well, I've been doing some WHOIS searches on the latest IPs (especially the 172.x.x. ranges) and some of 's old ones, and I do believe it's the same guy. He is adding false info into film/TV-related articles with poor grammar, which is what he used to always do. So I put Ipsock on the IP pages, like you said. You can block them, if you like. Also, some of the articles he's currently targeting are Happy Feet, Winx Club, Dreamworks Animation, and others. You can scout out the history pages of these articles to help uncover more IPs, and check those IPs' contributions to help find more articles he's targeting. Please reply on my talk page. Thanks. -- AAA!  ( AAAA ) 14:28, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. Also, since he usually uses the 172.x.x. range, do you think a range-block could work against him? -- AAA!  ( AAAA ) 12:30, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Also, there's another one at WP:AIV that you can deal with. -- AAA!  ( AAAA ) 12:37, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Puncharoo is Probably a Komodo lover Sock
Hello AndonicO, I was on recent changes patrol and noticed someone posted concerns about User:Puncharoo being a Komodo lover sock. It seems fairly obvious that Puncharoo is Komodo lover, especially when this edit mentions all the topics/articles Komodo lover is notorious for adding hoax information. Do you mind if I extend the block to indefinite due to the evidence that shows his account to be a very likely sock?¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 18:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No question about it now with the edits from this IP address. I went ahead and increased it to indefinite now.  Sorry if I was a bit brash to undo your actions but it seems confirmed at this point.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk)  20:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

VP Bugs/Huggle
Thanks for the suggestion but at the moment I've only got about 400 mainspace edits so it's not possible right now. BigHairRef | Talk 04:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * BigHairRef, you actually have 663 edits (the only reason I know is because of your current rollback request). Tiptoety  talk 04:59, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

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Your block on 172.162.202.226
This guy is a roving IP vandal who seldom shows up on the same IP twice. I think a year block is not warranted - he has already moved on to another IP so this won't effect him in any way. We need to be considering range blocks. --NrDg 16:26, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Smile!


Here's an Elephant for you! Elephants somehow promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others! Happy editing! Acalamari 17:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, not spam. :) Just giving some (bizarre) smiles to a few people. :) How do you like your elephant? Acalamari 18:12, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, the tripling elephant populations. :) Acalamari 18:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Email
Checked. Not sure what you mean. I'm on IRC, but all I see is discussions on Georgian legislature. Jus tin (Gmail?)(u) 18:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Britannica
Hi, you severely overestimate reach of Britannica. It does not have an article about Tsar Cannon (or howitzer for that matter) and its article on cannons is 291 words long... :) I was trying to look up the cannon in all other databases that I have access to but it yielded only short news stories how Russian President gave a tour in Kremlin to some foreign diplomat.Renata (talk) 22:58, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Re.Great Bombard
I got the info off of the Turkish Great Bombard article here. Is there a problem?

--70.48.103.115 (talk) 23:12, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

My user talk page
Thanks for reverting the vandal. Much appreciated ;)--Hu12 (talk) 16:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

29 years' block?
Would you mind explaining what the deal was with blocking User:Nininvch for 29 years? -- ChrisO (talk) 18:10, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Bill Haley
Thanks for dealing with recent vandalism to Bill Haley. Just so you know I have locked the page down to only registered editors for the time being. 23skidoo (talk) 01:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comment, but it'll be just a temporary block for a day or so because of the 2 vandals doing so many edits in just 24 hours. Blocking IPs is supposed to be a last resort since they're shared and I find vandalism warnings are useless for IPs because I've yet to encounter one that actually acknowledged reading the talk page. I feel there has been a level of vandalism to this article that warrants a block. But I will only keep it on for a couple of days and the block is only for unregistered and new users, so anybody else will be able to edit as usual in the meantime. 23skidoo (talk) 01:34, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'll take the block off at the end of today. Quite often these IP vandals are just people at work or at school who get bored and decide to cause trouble. 23skidoo (talk) 17:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

My RfB
I wanted to personally thank you, Andonico, for your support in my recent RfB. I am thankful and appreciative that you feel that I am worthy of the trust the community requires of its bureaucrats, and that you have only seen good things from my "corner", and I hope to continue to behave in a way that maintains your trust in me and my actions. I have heard the community's voice that they require more of a presence at RfA's of prospective bureaucrats, and I will do my best over the near future to demonstrate such a presence and allow the community to see my philosophy and practices in action. I hope I can continue to count on your support when I decide to once again undergo an RfB. If you have any suggestions, comments, or constructive criticisms, please let me know via talkpage or e-mail. Thank you again. -- Avi (talk) 15:24, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

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Category:Rouge admins and your userpage
Hi. Just a reminder that Category:Rouge admins is currently deleted. Also why is your userpage template display as red links? I did not remove the template because your template was protected. Thanks. ~ A H  1 (TCU) 02:51, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Cannon.
Hello Gabbe, I was wondering if you could cite a source for this edit that you made a couple of years ago? We're getting Cannon ready for an FAC, and that looks like an interesting fact (that was recently removed, as OR). I've looked through the 2001 Guinness book, but can't find any info on the largest howitzer. Did you take that from a different edition? Sorry for inquiring about such an old edit, but thanks, regardless of whether or not you remember. · AndonicO  Hail!  02:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * That info I found in my Swedish Guinness Rekordbok 1996 (ISBN 91-37-10723-2). More specifically, on the bottom of the right column of page 204 the book says:
 * My personal translation of the above is:
 * I don't know of any English-language citation for the Tsar Cannon being the largest, but I don't think it would be too hard to find. I hope this is of some help to you! &mdash;Gabbe (talk) 13:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know of any English-language citation for the Tsar Cannon being the largest, but I don't think it would be too hard to find. I hope this is of some help to you! &mdash;Gabbe (talk) 13:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know of any English-language citation for the Tsar Cannon being the largest, but I don't think it would be too hard to find. I hope this is of some help to you! &mdash;Gabbe (talk) 13:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

"Asia Fan Club President"

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More range blocks, he's back at it--Hu12 (talk) 23:39, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

My RfB
Hey you cheeky monkey, you forced me down this route.... the old experimental RfB passed successfully with (133/4/3). And you were right. Happy?! Thanks for your support and your encouragement. I'll do my utmost to repay your faith in me. All the best. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:38, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

My request for bureaucratship
<div style="float:center;border-style:double;border-color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#00A693;border-width:2px;text-align:left;font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 95%; padding:8px; -moz-border-radius: 1em;" class="plainlinks"> Dear AndonicO, thank you for taking part in my RfB. As you may know, it was not passed by bureaucrats. I would, however, like to thank you for taking the time to voice your support, despite concerns cited by the opposition. Although RfA/B isn't really about a person, but more about the community, I was deeply touched and honoured by the outpouring of support and interest in the discussion. I can only hope that you don't feel your opinion was not considered enough - bureaucrats have to give everyone's thoughts weight. I also hope that the results of this RfB lead to some change in the way we approach RfBs, and some thought about whether long-entrenched standards are a good thing in our growing and increasingly heterogenous community. I was a little miserable after the results came out, so I'm going to spread the love via dancing hippos. As you do. :) I remain eager to serve you as an administrator and as an editor. If at any point you see something problematic in my actions, please do not hesitate to call me out. ~ Riana ⁂ 13:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Wikibreak enforcer
Tell me about it! I've cut it two days short thanks to the help of Dweller. :) Rudget . 20:50, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Cannon
Hi, what do you think about a cannon FAC in the near future? Edits have slowed way down, and it looks good to my untrained eye. Are there any lingering issues before we nominate? Keilana | Parlez ici 04:21, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll try to do a copyedit there as soon as I can, I'll try to help this weekend if possible. Keilana | Parlez ici 12:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I've done some copyedits on the history stuff; hopefully I didn't screw anything up too badly. What else needs to be done? Keilana | Parlez ici 01:56, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * IMO we're ready now, any little things can be fixed during the FAC. I'll do a good c/e again on the modern stuff (20th-21st) as well, though. Keilana | Parlez ici 15:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Blacklisted link
Huh? One of the sources was blacklisted? I'm confused... Keilana | Parlez ici 18:56, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hm. Thanks for the explanation, I'm not all that sure that it should be blacklisted. Keilana | Parlez ici 18:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Aah, it's not a RS. That explains it. Thanks! Keilana | Parlez ici 19:06, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Re:Secret Page
The reason that I have so many links is that you can just highlight the picture and see all the links. I may consider your idea. By the way:

Cannon
I am ready to FAC Cannon, i just want to know if you think i should.  Sunder  land  06   20:42, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Just give me a bell, when you're ready.  Sunder  land  06   20:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

AndonicO, as the significantly principle editor, if the article isn't ready, you can request that I withdraw (rather than fail) the FAC. Pls leave me a note. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 13:55, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll temporarily take it off of FAC, but leave the FAC page so you can add it back soon. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 14:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Please have Keilana re-sign when it's resubmitted, so the datestamp will be correct. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 14:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No, that's fine :) I just felt that I did enough (quality wise, not by count) to be included. Jus tin (Gmail?)(u) 16:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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Thank your for helping me out.
I appreciate your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WorldInCrysis (talk • contribs) 00:47, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Maynard James Keenan Peer review
It's not in the genre of articles you're into, so if you don't want to review it, I totally understand. Trust. Just dropping a request, as I'm going for FA. I figure you give me so much shit elsewhere, you may be interested in giving me shit here. ;) Thanks for your consideration. Regards,  Lara  ❤  Love  05:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Cannon
Could you check ref #14? I think it was a journal article, not a book. See. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not love) 17:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)