User talk:Bdentremont

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! --Merovingian (T, C, E) 00:09, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Li Hongzhi
Would you happen to have a picture of Li Hongzhi you could release under GFDL? ;-) Actually, maybe I put the picture up before discovering that Falun Gong released their images for free distribution, so perhaps we could use it under 'public domain'... Ohconfucius (talk) 01:29, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

FG an "important phenomenon"?
Hey there, could you please take a look at this discussion? Martin Rundkvist (talk) 15:08, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

What the Deuce
In response to your comment here, since you seem to be pretty expert, can I ask you to make any contributions you can on here & here? These can use all the defenders they can get (note the remarks here, in particular), & any expert attention can only help.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura 15:31, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Completely new abortion proposal and mediation
In light of the seemingly endless disputes over their respective titles, a neutral mediator has crafted a proposal to rename the two major abortion articles (pro-life/anti-abortion movement, and pro-choice/abortion rights movement) to completely new names. The idea, which is located here, is currently open for opinions. As you have been a contributor in the past to at least one of the articles, your thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

The hope is that, if a consensus can be reached on the article titles, the energy that has been spent debating the titles of the articles here and here can be better spent giving both articles some much needed improvement to their content. Please take some time to read the proposal and weigh in on the matter. Even if your opinion is simple indifference, that opinion would be valuable to have posted.

To avoid accusations that this posting violates WP:CANVASS, this posting is being made to every non-anon editor who has edited either page since 1 July 2010, irrespective of possible previous participation at the mediation page. HuskyHuskie (talk) 20:10, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Web Host IP Block

 * We can change your user rights so that your account could edit from this IP. Will this suit you?
 * Alas, we don't have a technical ability to remove individual IP addressed from a blocked range, and, as you mentioned, this range indeed contains open proxies and has a high chance of hosting new proxies in the future.
 * If you wish to unblock not just your account, but the IP itself, please post a request on WP:OP so that other users who deal with proxies on wikipedia could weigh in. Materialscientist (talk) 15:09, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Personally I don't see any reason for Materialscientist to undo his three-year proxy block of 108.174.48.0/21. It seems that this range, at least in the past, was associated with proxyforusa.com. The site at www.dentremont.us is hosted from that range, though I can't tell by what ISP. We usually block web hosting ranges regardless of whether they are providing a home for proxies, sometimes using the tag webhostblock. IP editing from that range is shut down unless it stops being a hosting range. I agree that Bdentremont might consider asking for IP block exemption which would allow him to edit through this hardblock using his registered account. EdJohnston (talk) 16:24, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I was unaware of webhostblock since it doesn't appear to be mentioned on Open_proxies or Blocking_IP_addresses. I brought this up largely because it appeared that a couple of thousand IP addresses were blocked in error and contravention of policy.  However, you guys obviously put a lot of effort and thought into this, and if this is how it's done in practice, I'm not going to argue with that.  I've got alternative means of getting to the internet, including somewhat less convenient tunnel through my office when necessary. If user:Materialscientist wishes to amend the block notice to the more accurate webhostblock, that might clarify things, but my situation is satisfactory.  Thank you both for your time.  Bdentremont (talk) 21:54, 14 April 2013 (UTC)