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This archive page covers approximately the dates between 2009-12-01 and 2009-12-31.

Hell in a Bucket
I actually feel this reset was preventative. Given the nature of that personal attack, I didn't think he realized why it was unacceptable. Had he been more apologetic, I'd have been more open to unblocking. He's been blocked before for incivility--that weighed pretty heavily with me. Blueboy96 20:04, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: WWW2
Hello. I apologize, this reply to your question about WWW2 is a very long time coming - I took an extended hiatus from editing Wikipedia, and just saw your message today. In case you're still interested after all this time...

I created the www2 redirect after "www2" appeared in the list of Requested Computer science articles. In any URL, the part of the domain name before the first dot is the local hostname of the website. For example, within the wikipedia.org domain:

Sometimes, an organization will have a series of sites using numbered hostnames:


 * www.mydomain.org
 * www2.mydomain.org
 * www3.mydomain.org

This is most often used when the same content is mirrored accross multiple sites, to aid in load balancing. Here is a blog post discussing this scenario: http://agentcities.com/what-is-www2-or-www1/

In hindsight, simply redirecting www2 to World Wide Web was probably not the best approach, especially since www3 redirects to subdomain, which seemsmore appropriate, but still not entirely clear. Maybe a disambiguation page is needed for both www2 and www3. I'm going to give that some more thought.

Thanks, Davnor (talk) 21:40, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

UPDATE: After thinking it over, I decided to go ahead and convert the WWW2 entry to a disambiguation page. Thanks again for your question. Davnor (talk) 15:10, 10 December 2009 (UTC)