User talk:ClockworkSoul/Archive7

Jimbo's Page
Hi ClockworkSoul. I supported the conversion of Jimbo's page on the WP:TS page, and I support it here. I say go ahead and convert it. It looks nice and clean, and I think he'll be happy with it. If not, he can always revert it. --Zeerus (ETCWFD) 16:47, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

New award
Hi ClockworkSoul, I've awarded you something. Check your Barnstarium for it. 8) Talrias (t | e | c) 18:34, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Reply
I've thought about it. I've been making stuff for a while now (I made the IUP stub, and maybe a few others). I'll go ahead and register. 67.103.122.2 aka DoomBringer 03:32, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Vote on WP:TS
Seeing as there seems to be some contention about it, I've gone through and tallied all the votes properly (using the correct method of calculating approval voting). It's at Wikipedia talk:Template_standardisation. Talrias (t | e | c) 14:11, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Good work!
Hi - nothing specific, but you do good work in general, so I wanted to thank you for it. -- BD 24 12 thimk 22:27, 2005 May 3 (UTC)

Problem
Hey. I notice this posting: User_talk:Phil_Boswell. Can the user who posted that can be blocked for it, and if so, please do. This posting was uncalled for and the poster, User:Spastika, has been warned about his username and his major POV pushing. Thanks. Zscout370 (talk) 22:51, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Hey. Can the user who posted the above message and his mentor User:Jayjg be blocked for tag team POV pushing, and if so, please do. This editor is a POV pusher and the editor, User:ZScout370, has been warned about his major POV pushing and attitude problems. Thanks. --Tagteam213 22:54, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Imposter
It has been brought to my attention that there is a person who is impersonating you: User:ClockworkSouI. This user has not been blocked, yet. Zscout370 (talk) 15:09, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I have blocked ClockworkSoui indefinitely. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 15:28, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * I just noticed on RC another user: User:CIockworkSouI. This time, the "I" is on the second and last letters. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:44, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


 * How long before we get Cl0ckw0rkS0ul and C10ckw0rkS0u1? -- WCFrancis 17:25, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * No idea, but we need to watch out for the various variations. Zscout370 (talk) 17:50, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Can't be too long. I seem to be oddly popular recently for some reason. – ClockworkSoul 18:18, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


 * It seems our "L" to "I" imposter is at it again. I just saw on RC User:OIiver Chettle who is impersonating legitimate user User:Oliver Chettle. The "I" is on the second letter. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:49, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I saw you block him right after I saved my last message to you. If he keeps up, he might need to be put on the long term alerts on WP:VIP. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:52, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * You really have the guts to put me on lon-term alerts? Really... How sad. JMBell° 21:18, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Note: This user is impersonating legit user JMBell. A vandal has also done to the same thing to legit user Chanting Fox (the vandal's name was ChantingFox.

Our imposter is back. He created another impersonation of JMBell. --Chanting Fox 21:32, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, well, that's not very nice. At least I know how to get up when I fall down. And that wsa a pretty good lookout, dont' you think? Very fast relay. JMBell° 21:34, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The above note was writen by User:JMBelI, the new imposter of JMBell.

Thank You!
Hello ClockworkSoul! Thank you for welcoming me! It seems that I'm a new user, but this is not the case, because I'm editing in the German wikipedia since about a year. Now I'm trying to connect some articles with the "interwiki"-link. It's a nice thing recognicing that all over the world there are working a lot of people together on the same idea! Greetings from Germany, --Mounir 21:13, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, but it appears that Vandalfox's name is accurate...
Just checked one of the images he just uploaded. It's a picture of the male genitals. I don't even want look at the others. --Chanting Fox 21:20, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I think you can place the images for speedy deletion, and man, I hope all of this mess ends quickly and painlessly. Zscout370 (talk) 21:36, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I deleted them 15 minutes ago, entirely withour prejudice. – ClockworkSoul 21:38, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Impersonation
You seem to be blocking a lot of impersonators lately. Any tips on tracking them down? Mgm|(talk) 22:00, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

Robo_Donut artical
It has come to my attention that someone has created me a wikipedia page. He is not me, but an individual who happens to be very bored at a LAN party. I am sorry that he has wasted your time and created a completely useless topic on this great site.
 * It's not a problem: I'm on "recent changes" duty, so at the moment, this is pretty much what I do. – ClockworkSoul 03:03, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Template:Mountain
Hi. This template is a part of WikiProject Mountains. While there may be a new process for standardizing templates, I think projects should be given a chance to voice their opinions on a change to one of their templates before it's changed unilaterally by someone not actively involved in the project. RedWolf 08:00, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

Another imposter!
I just saw another imposter on RC: User:JmoIiver. The "I" is on the fourth letter. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:11, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Got him. Thanks. – ClockworkSoul 16:14, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * You are welcome. Yesterday, I changed my skin to display everything in Verdana. Not only it is more comfortable for me to read personally, it is easier to spot I's. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:17, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Your block template isn't very smart. You should leave the redirect in there like what Quadell did. Really stupid, I must say. Requesting block and acct. deletion. Also, you're not as smart as you think. I've got three impersonations stashed away there and you even failed to see them. See you aound. TempoAcct. 16:27, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Barnstars
We need to start clearing off some of the proposials we have. We have so much that needs voted on, and the voting to end. I can see if the other guys want to help vote on a few things. Zscout370 (talk) 17:19, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

DYK
We seem to have collided in updating DYK. You didn't even see my inuse notice. I'm not using the Railway article because it's much more stubby than the others. Hope you don't mind. Mgm|(talk) 19:13, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * I've put up protection notices. If you can inform people of the update, please do so. I'm planning on some other edits. Mgm|(talk) 19:18, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Is that so? Thanks for the welcome and the tip. Jim BeIl 19:40, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Jim BeIl
Hi. I don't know whether you know of User:JMBell, but this user seems to be a pretty clear impersonation or similar. Added to that, his user name is JIM BEIL, with an I (i), which is a trait of an impersonation vandal I blocked last night. Just so you know, cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 19:48, 7 May 2005 (UTC) Nice one! Jim Bell 20:35, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I now... I just wan't paying attention that time. Thanks. – ClockworkSoul 19:48, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I would also be careful, since I think the vandal is trying to taunt us with some of his messages on here. Zscout370 (talk) 19:51, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * So they did notice the sarcasm. Interesting.... JimBeII 20:27, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, that's funny. Isn't it, clock boy? Jim Bell 20:31, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Then again, that's ridiculous.
 * Whoa, clock boy, calm down there, mate. Jim Bell 20:35, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not gonna stop till I say stop, you got that? I'm not sayin stop! Jim Bell 20:37, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Block block block. Jim Bell 20:38, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Really these blocks get me goat Jim Bell 20:38, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Template:Impostor
This template is really useful (congratulations on the design, btw), but I have one concern. Does impersonation really get someone banned? I thought it got them blocked... Could you verify this for me? I know its semantics, but it is important in this case. Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 20:41, 7 May 2005 (UTC) (edit conflict count: 4)
 * Ah, yes - you're right. I've updated appropriately. I'm glad you like the design. :) – ClockworkSoul 20:43, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Good work on the continuing fight. I'm curious whether you're detecting any pattern in the usernames this person chooses (besides the obvious, that they have ells), but it's probably best not to tip your hand by answering me! :-) FreplySpang (talk) 12:38, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Protection
I've removed the protection from your talk page, as other users do want to contact you, as I've heard from IRC, and it's not good form to stop others from contacting you. You also didn't provide reason why you protected both your talk and user pages. Dysprosia 07:27, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, I thought I had removed it. Sorry about that. – ClockworkSoul 14:14, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

User:SPUl
Thanks for going about the impostor blocking. However, User:SPUl was not an impostor; I created it as a preemptive measure, and there's no reason to block it (not like it would be useful as a sockpuppet, being meant to be confused with me). --SPUI (talk) 07:28, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, not a problem. --SPUI (talk) 19:41, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

AMA
Hi. I recently added myself to the AMA list and, as I am happy to be actively involved at the moment, wondered if I should add myself to the list on AMA_Advocates_accepting_inquiries (or whether some other process had to take place before I went on that list). Also, I left a note on Adam756's talk page but it looks like he is not currently contributing. Do you know if the AMA is still active and if Adam756 is still active as the coordinator? Cheers. TigerShark 15:01, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

RfC Trey Stone
Hello, according to a message you left on his talk page, you blocked user Trey Stone for 24 hours on March 19 for "user page vandalism, making personal attacks, and violating the three revert rule". I have just opened an RfC on him Requests for comment/Trey Stone and it would be most helpful if you could add information about those problems to that page; I couldn't find an entry for the block on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR. If you'd care to add anything else to that RfC it would be most helpful. Thanks, -- Viajero 12:50, 9 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your help. Naturally I have my doubts about the effectiveness of the RfC process, but I suppose we have to work the mechanisms that we have to resolve disputes. All the best, -- Viajero 19:40, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Mom
Thanks :-) I think it will be in 2-3 weeks in France Anthere

Impostor hunting
Thanks! That Cstar isn't me. --CSTAR 03:21, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! How do you find them, if they haven't made any edits? Jayjg (talk) 05:10, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I would appreciate that, if you don't mind. You've definitely aroused my curiosity. Jayjg (talk)  05:26, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

That actually is me. Since my IRC nick has no space, I set User:DanteAlighieri (no space) as a redirect to my actual name (with space). Thanks for the heads-up though! --Dante Alighieri | Talk 06:43, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip off. Deb 11:54, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Never mind. I know how you find me, anyway. You troll RC and then zap all suspicious new user pages, dontcha? And then you find other variations and block them. I know how you do this stuff so you don't have to hide it from me. PIek 12:00, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! All of those accounts you pointed out are ones I created some time age to prevent them from being taken by trolls, vandals, or impostors. -- Seth Ilys 12:05, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Another thanks, and mine too were created by me to avoid someone else getting hold of them first. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:30, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Deleted talk page
Somebody with username User:Plek just erased my my talk page replacing its contents with an impostor banner.--CSTAR 13:05, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


 * As far as I could tell, the URL of the phony User:Plek and real one were identical. Am I mistaken? If this is so, it's a real security bug.--CSTAR 13:52, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Re: Imposter Hunting
Thank you for your message. After I was impersonated on another wikipedia site I went to all of the others and created my username there as a redirect to this one. The one you have located was a deliberate ploy of mine to take the username and keep it as a dummy, before anyone else tried to.

-- Francs2000 | Talk 00:20, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Accusation of vandalizing
Hello, ClockworkSoul. At last I know an administrator. First, I want to say that SqueakBox is vandalizing my talk page. He includes a dialogue that has nothing to do with me and text that belongs to the talk page of a former nick of mine I use no more because I discover too late that the name did not comply with the Wikipedia rules. I have reported it. I hope you will be a fair behavior and you will not make distinctions.

Besides, I am not vandalizing anybody. The user SqueakBox in his user page includes a badge saying that he has gone beyond the call of duty and I do not know what things more. He is a very difficult user who has had a lot of problems with many users because he makes kind of erratic edits. Simply take a look at his talk page. For example a user complain for the following: "Any reason to keep editing my Fidel Castro remarks? You a Castro accolyte? Tell me how Forbes saying he has 500 million dollars is not factual information worthy of being on the guy's bio?"

I do not like him including anything that looks like official when as far as I know he has never made any useful contribution. He only wants to project an image of being a "Wiki hero" to humilliate those who are attacked and insulted by him. I believe that is not the Wikipedia way.

He also has the photograph of a cat and he uses offensive language to refer to him. I am unable to tolarate that attitute towards animals.

Besides, SqueakBox has made something I consider pure vandalism. He went to the article José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. It was very long, so a month ago it was broken into several parts. He went to the extended articles, Zapatero's years as an opposition leader, Zapatero and the Local and Regional Elections of 2003, Zapatero and the 2004 General Election, Zapatero's domestic policy and Zapatero's foreign policy and substituted its text by a REDIRECT statement to the main article José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to hamper its recovery and has removed from the it the links to them to avoid honest users accessing them.

Besides, he has a very unpleasent apporach towards me. For example, he says that the article "I made" of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is very bad, that I have no idea of what an Encyclopedia has to be and a lot of other things. If you go to the article you will find it was edited by a lot of people and I do not understand why it is my article and not that of other person.

Thank you for your attention. Zapatancas 09:16, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Did you know?
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Brooklyn Brewery, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

Userpage
I hope you don't mind but I stole the code for the layout of your user page - it's quite clever and neat. I was just wondering if you're ok with it, then could you tell me how to space the columns out better? Thanks. &#9834; Craigy &#9835; 06:39, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism_in_progress
Can you come here and not only see if you can solve the situation but also to see if I am doing anything illegal here. I was listed as a vandal for reasons that to me, are probably out of spite or disagreement. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:13, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Brazillian Wandering Spider
Hi,

I see that you negotiated with the owner of the copyrighted Brazillian Wandering Spider image for permission to put in in the English Wikipedia. Would you mind trying to get the same permission for the Wikipedia Commons so that I could use the image in the Chinese language version without lots of work-arounds? Thanks. &#37329; (Kim) 08:19, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick reply. Actually, there are two or more different ways of giving permission on the Commons. Part of the reason is that European restrictions may be more strict. I think you could probably find some way of letting people use his picture for non-commercial and/or educational purposes only. If you have a feeling for what he wants to protect himself from you might have a look at the Commons upload area where they give links to the various kinds of permissions templates and see whether there appears to be anything there that might fit his needs. &#37329; (Kim) 07:17, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

A suitable copyright tag that the photographer might use may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ That license, among other, is found about half way down at the following URL http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags &#37329; (Kim) 21:41, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Mediation
Hiya.... I see you are still on the list of "request to be mediator". That is long enough and time to really do it :-)

Here is the deal : Aesthetic Realism. We had a formal request for help on the board list... it seems a good nest for a mediator. Would you jump in it ? (please, say yes)

Cheers.

Anthere 08:47, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

FAC
Hey, I was wondering what should I do on this. I am trying to get an article to become Featured, called Hero_of_Belarus. The Hero of Belarus is a title that is awarded by the Republic of Belarus to those who perform great deeds in the name of the State. It is the Belarussian version of the Hero of the Soviet Union. After I am done with the article, I want to invite people to come in, comment on it, and then put it up on WP:FAC. I was wondering if you can help. Regards, Zscout370 (Sound Off) 04:02, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Cascading coffee roll
There's been some talk about rolling the standard template design into the local Mediawiki stylesheets. One issue that came up is to what extent the CSS implementation of your design conforms to your intentions. The discussion is taking place on Wikipedia talk:Template standardisation. Cheers, --MarkSweep 09:57, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Excellent: thanks for letting me know. – ClockworkSoul 15:27, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

My sig
Thank you for your kind remark! &#08492; astique&#09660; talk 03:53, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Please help mediate the Aesthetic Realism dispute
Not sure why my post here yesterday didn't show up, perhaps I forgot to hit Save Page after Preview. In any event, Yes, for the love of god please help us mediate the Aesthetic realism dispute!

Aesthetic realism is a philosophy encompassing art, psychology, and personal therapy. I don't dispute the philosophy itself, but I contend that the group that promotes its study (the Aesthetic Realism Foundation) operates as a cult. I was born into the group, as was my mother, since her parents were involved. I had a "lesson" with the founder/leader Eli Siegel at the advanced age of two.

My concern about the article is that the AR people censor any criticism from the article or otherwise whitewash it. My first contribution to the article was adding a single sentence, something like "Some complain that the group that promotes its study operates as a cult." The AR people removed that sentence. I added it back, they removed it, etc.

Eventually other Wikipedians decried the bias in the article, so the AR people finally allowed the link to stand, but they kept excising other points that appeared in the article. I added a note that Eli Siegel killed himself, they removed it, I added it back, they removed it, etc. They also filled the article with cheerleading so it read more like an advertisement than an encyclopaedic entry.

As I write this I feel the article is actually in pretty good shape. I do have a few specific objections, but the article is still much, much better than it used to be. I have no problem with the AR people telling their side of the story but I feel that criticism should be fairly represented.

What I'd like to get out of mediation, besides some kind of agreement about the article content, is some kind of negotiated truce that neither side will edit the article any further except pursuant to some other condition, such as the edits first being floated on the Talk page, receiving support from established Wikipedians (e.g., ten articles edited prior to August 2004), and such Wikipedians making the changes themselves, not me or the AR people. I'm flexible on the details of course, I just don't want your effort to be wasted with brand-new edit wars starting right after we reach a hard-won agreement.

Thank you very much for your help, Michaelbluejay 05:46, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Can I get a newcomer barnstar?
I've been a fervent contributor to wikipedia also have my signature on other forums with wikipedia and love wiki. just check out some of my original contributions. one has already been featured in the "india portal" Wikiportal/India titled "Biryani" under "Cuisine" which was a painstaking original contribution. I've added many other such titles and there has been a gap in contribution due to personal reasons, else I think I deserve the newcomer award. Heh, maybe i'm just boasting myself and i don't have a sense of humility, but hey what the i'm giving it a shot. maybe i'll get some medal.

btw, i'm also currently undertaking a project to tabulate and add photos to all the boxers. please check out boxers like Jack Johnson and Sugar Ray Leonard to see what i'm talking about. i hope someone also can help with this. i hope if u r not the person who awards the barnstars please tell me to whom i should approach to get one.

thanks. a very eager eyed wikipedian. Idleguy 12:19, May 16, 2005 (UTC)