User talk:Dan100/Archive/4

deleting nietzsche pages
dan, i've deleted 2 sections of the nietzsche pages. if you read the discussion pages you should be clear on the reason. as for contributions, i've contributed to that page too. what's with the threats from blocking off wiki?

Oldseed 08:53, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

dan, frankly, you need to read the nietzsche discussion pages.

Oldseed 08:56, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK meeting
Hi Dan, there will probably be a meeting for the purpose of discussing Wikimedia UK this Sunday, which you might like to attend. You could add your name there if so. Cormaggio @ 23:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK
You have expressed an interest in Wikimedia UK. Just to let you know I've posted a draft Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association of the proposed "Wikimedia UK" charitable company on Wikimedia UK/Memorandum of Association and Wikimedia UK/Articles of Association. It is proposed that these will receive initial approval by interested parties at a meeting on 27 November. I will put together a brief agenda for the more formal aspects of that meeting soon. Memo and Arts of Association are a company's constitution, and need to be agreed before the company is formed (though they can be changed at a later date). Please feel free to comment on the relevant talk pages (I'd rather the proposed drafts are left unedited so that it is easy to see what is going on) - particularly if there is something there that you would disagree with at the meeting, details of which can be found on the Wikimedia UK page on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. Kind regards, jguk 19:11, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

RSS feed for the Signpost
I'm working on it...I'll make sure and let you know when I can get it up. Ral315 (talk) 02:11, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Template for "Blocked"
I use vblock for most of them, and test5-n for the shorter ones. Both take the duration as a parameter (which I think is important). test5-n also takes your sig as a second parameter, which is an original solution to the sig-in-template problem. For permanent bans I use vpblock. Owen&times; &#9742;  19:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Dan100 (Talk) 19:53, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you! I came up with the unblock system because I felt users deserve a way to appeal their block (or report a "collateral damage" block) without exposing their email address. It is also a way to identify legitimate registered users on demand; when I suspect an anon is masquerading as a registered user in an email request to unblock, I ask them to post this template on their Talk page. If they are who they claim to be, they should be able to do that, and even if they misspelled the name I can still quickly find it through the Category:Request_for_Unblock category.

However, keep in mind that about 95% of all requests are bogus or baseless, so I end up removing more requests than actually granting them. I think you'll run into a lot of resistance if you try to add this system to other "blocked" templates. People seem to be attached to their own favourite ones, and are reluctant to see any change. Owen&times; &#9742;  20:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, the 3RR3, attack and such may be better candidates. Keep in mind that at this point I think I'm the only one scanning Category:Request_for_Unblock. If you added it to your scan list it would take half the load off me. :) Owen&times; &#9742;  21:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Daisy Miller
You may be interested in answering a question (seemingly put to you) about anonymous reversions on Talk:Daisy Miller. --Viriditas 22:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

WP:CITE
Please do not keep undoing other people's edits without discussing them first. This is considered impolite and unproductive. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. Jkelly 08:16, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * We love boiler-plate, yes we do... Dan100 (Talk) 08:22, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * You expected a formal letter by post, perhaps? ;-) Jkelly 08:26, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I dunno, boiler-plates really do feel quite impersonal when you're on the receiving end of them, but I guess it's the only way to do the job! BTW I'm well aware I've "used up" my rvs (at least I'm not using rollback, unlike some...) Perhaps you'd like to visit the talk page and add some input? Dan100 (Talk) 08:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

OK then...
If you "can't be bothered" to find my talk page I'll find yours. Why exactly do you think VIP is obsolete and if so, what is it replaced by, I.E., where are people supposed to report vandalisms? 68.39.174.238 10:48, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Replaced by putting warning notices on the talk pages of vandals, which tracks them much more easily. There's no need to actually "report" vandalism - only fix it, then put the appropiate template on the vandal's talk page. Once they hit their final warning and they vandalise again, they get blocked (via WP:AIV for non-admins). I (and I guess most) always check the user contributions of vandals to make sure nothing has been missed. I really don't see where ViP fits in - it seems to be a waste of effort. Dan100 (Talk) 10:52, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

A small question
Hi there, If I were to hypothetically be nominated for a janitor position, would I hypothetically have your support? Thanks --Jay (Reply) 22:45, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I don't really know you well enough. I only comment on RfAs when I know the editor... sorry! Dan100 (Talk) 22:46, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Reducing the jguk block to 24 hours
I don't really object to your reducing it, but it would have been nice if you had dropped a note on my talk page letting me know about it. Thanks, Nandesuka 23:59, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I should have. Dan100 (Talk) 08:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Counter Vandalism Unit
Hello. I saw on Wikipedia talk:Counter Vandalism Unit that you added MSJapan to the CVU when he couldn't edit the Counter Vandalism Unit page directly. I'm afraid I'm having the same problem and can't put my name on the list, would be so kind as to put me on? MJSkia1 04:03, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding me! MJSkia1 04:04, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Block
Hi Dan100 - I have just unblocked user:202.180.83.6. The reason? I am in the middle of a large amount of work, and that is my IP. Next time, read the instructions on the IP talk page before blocking. It asks you to contact me first so that if I am doing admin work I can close any work I'm doing down before the block takes place. That way I don't lose work or end up half-way through a deletion process or file-moving process when a block comes in. I'll re-block in about ten minutes once I've finished what I'm doing. Grutness...wha?  11:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Easy tiger. It was only 15mins to put-off some annoying repeat vandal. If you can't change your ISP, you need to learn to live with stuff like this. Dan100 (Talk) 11:28, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't change my IP. I also can't stop whole sections of work being lost if there are sudden blocks with no warning. Given that losing that work in the middle sometimes causes problems for Wikipedia which take several hours to untangle (as happened last time I was blocked, two days ago), there is a request to warn me. Would it have caused problems to have read the page first and contacted me? Surely you check the user talk pages of other IPs you block, to make sure there aren't admins likely to be blocked by them? Ah well, whatever - the block's going back now anyway. Grutness...wha?  11:50, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

You know people don't read instructions ;-). BTW do you use Opera or Firefox browsers? I know from experience that if you go to save a page and it fails for whatever reason, clicking the back button brings back the text you entered (ie you don't lose anything).

However in future I will post to who could be affected first. Dan100 (Talk) 11:55, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


 * s'alright. Sorry I got annoyed. As to browsers, I use IE or Safari, depending on what I'm working on and where, but the main problem isn't using the back-button. The problems arise if I'm in the middle of moving pages or - worse - changing templates. I do a lot of work with stub sorting, and all the stub templates have an attached category. If the category's changed, all the articles need a null-edit for it to take place. If that's not all done in one go, it gets pretty difficult to keep track of what's been done and what hasn't, so they all need to be re-checked. Also - as happened one time recently - I was in the middle of deleting a page then found I was locked out of confirming the delete! So the page was in limbo for half an hour. There are other things like that that can cause problems too - mostly the sort of thing I can put on one side if I know a block's going in in a couple of minutes, but don't want to have to stop 'the hard way". :) Grutness...wha?  12:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * PS - I did something really stupid when I put the block back on. I accidentally blocked User:Grutness rather than User:202.180.83.6 so had to undo it then re-block properly! :) Grutness...wha?  12:42, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

User talk:194.8.54.249
I'm curious as to why you blanked the talk page of this user and just left the single message. Was it an error or was there some other reason? This editor has been a pretty persistant vandal and it's useful to be able to see all of his talk page. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 15:22, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * There was stuff there going back 18 months! Leaving old warnings is feeding the troll - it shows that he's managed to give us the run-around for 18 months. However it serves little or no purpose - we can't hard-ban IPs in case it gets re-assigned, so we have to start again with the warning stages for each vandalism spree. Knowing that he's done it however many times before doesn't really help. Dan100 (Talk) 15:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * OK no problem. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 15:27, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

oops

 * thanks for the encouragement, and yeah I have forgotten to add my sig to a few alerts. Will be sure to add it to all of them in the future. Hnandrew 18:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

and, sorry, that looked like it was in reference to the other thing, i supopse i need to watch my indents too. Hnandrew 18:46, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Nuclear power
Hi Dan,

You responded to an RfC on Nuclear Power, only to find that it had been protected as part of the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act edit-warring. I promised to keep you posted.

Well, Nuclear Power has been quiet since September 1st (except for the occassional vandal). Price-Anderson, OTOH, continues in turmoil. Two admins (who came in on RfCs) and I are taking the "problem user" to ArbComm for conduct (it's not the first time he's been in bureaucrat-level trouble).

I'll keep you posted. (New nuclear-related articles, all still very much stubs, include WASH-740, WASH-1400 and CRAC-II.)

Simesa 19:24, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the update, it's appreciated (and I'm impressed with your memory!) Dan100 (Talk) 19:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Stop reverting pages
You should disscuss before reverting or else you will be seen as a vandal thank you!
 * Who? What? Where? When? A good start would be to use edit summaries to explain your edits. Dan100 (Talk) 21:01, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

RCP template
Hey, thanks for adding that, of course I don't mind. Nor, hopefully, would you mind that I'm a 'Tab', graduated eight years ago, at least I know which type of Blue is the right type of Blue! Budgiekiller 21:03, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I claim neutrality as my sister went to Cambridge :-) Dan100 (Talk) 21:05, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Ooh, la-de-dah intelligent family warning! Fair play...!  Look forward to bumping into you again... Budgiekiller 21:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

152.163.100.70
Thanks. Well done.Gator (talk) 22:23, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

User page thanks
Thanks for reverting my user page. I had expected it but not quite that much. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:50, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Semi-protection
I saw you just reverted vandalism on George W. Bush, and wondered what you thought about the proposals to curb what's going on there. If you have time, check out Semi-protection policy, and weigh in (there's something of a large discussion page, so be prepared. For a quick run-through of what's been said and done, see #rehashing) Hope to see you there. - Mys  e  kurity ( have you seen this? ) 02:39, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

RSS feed
Yeah, I do plan to make it public. But until I get some time to code what I've been planning, the RSS feed is just created locally, and FTPed weekly :) Ral315 (talk) 08:29, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
I really appreciate the barnstar. It makes me feel a little bit better about staying up past my bedtime (1:22 A.M in California). Cheers, Jasmol 09:22, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Also a thank you from me, also for a barnstar. Cool! --Krich 15:39, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Computer2 has stopped
It's still responding to commands, but has stopped posting alerts :-(. Dan100 (Talk) 13:46, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The bot should fix itself. There is nothing I can do about it until I get to the bot on Friday. I will investigate why this happened (on Friday) and devise a way to fix it so it doesnt ever happen again. The bot should return to service on its own by that time though.
 * Do you see the bot on irc.wikimedia.org in #en.wikipedia ? (I also have no access to IRC dutring weekdays) -- Cool CatTalk 14:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It came back up after about 50mins (I've only just checked). It's in #en.wikipedia but not posting (I assume it's not supposed to). Thanks for getting back to me! Dan100 (Talk) 14:59, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Carlow Crab
Show me the contents of the revision of "The Carlow Crab" claiming it is a TV show about a beer store.Sausage! 17:19, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * There were 47 revisions; I had a look at a few but none mentioned a beer store. Dan100 (Talk) 18:31, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Well it was about some store, also look at every revision. It was the one where it was vandalized because what the "show" was about was changed.63.19.155.158 19:50, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Dan100, please ban this account from doing Anonymous editing, it belongs to a school district, I got the message as a fellow Wikipedia contributor, and saw that. Feel free to block. :)
 * I could ban that IP address, but it would also prevent potentially worthwhile edits from the same network. We don't need to do that - we detect and remove vandalism very quickly, so we don't need to block pre-emptively (although we will block persistent vandals). Dan100 (Talk) 18:31, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

User talk - 216.20.1.214
Hi Dan, im writing to you about Anon User 216.20.1.214's talk page. You recently blanked this user talk page and replaced it with a warning about vandalism and copyrights. While I appreciate that your blanking was obviously so that your message would stand out from many, many older comments on this multi-user IP, your blank got a very recent comment from me as well, so I've re-added that, since i feel it is still pertinent. Just letting you know. -Lanoitarus (talk) .:. 19:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

barnstar
Thank you very much for the barnstar! That made me feel very good today. - Trysha (talk) 22:07, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Isaac Newton
Looks like I made the wrong call. I did stay around and blocked the worst offender. I was operating under the premise that todays featured article should stay open. I guess with such severe vandalism I should have kept the page protected. Thanks for pointing out the consequences of the unblock.--File Éireann 08:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, I didn't know it was the FA of the day, I thought some kids had been told to do a school project on it! I can see why that was grounds for unprotecting it. Dan100 (Talk) 08:46, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you very much for the barnstar! I really appreciate it. I had completely forgotten it was my Wikibirthday: what a pleasant surprise! Mushroom 09:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

SoLando's RFA
Hi Dan, thank you for voting in support of my RFA; the result was (28-0-0 ). I hope that I am able to fulfil the expectations of an admin. If you see me mess up anywhere, have any concerns, please don't hesitate to tell me! Take care. SoLando (Talk) 10:58, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

PS: Hope Wikinews is going well.

RC patrolling response
What I've been doing the past few days actually is monitoring the new articles page. I only found out about the RC IRC dump tonight, so yes, that's what I've been doing. :-) Lancer Sykera 11:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Then again, how'd you notice? Lancer Sykera 11:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, this IP (194.154.22.51) is registered to Tiffin Boys' School and I got the message despite not having vandalised, but I'll "have a word" with the people in the IT rooms who may have done it. Sorry, but pls don't block, as it's used by at least 20ppl. Thanks, JS

209.175.175.11
Could you block them, please? More vandalism to Sarcou...I don't know how to spell it:-) I emailed the abuse email address.--TheDoctor10 (talk|email) 18:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem.--TheDoctor10 (talk|email) 18:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you watching my back (reverts on my user and talk pages). --Jcw69 20:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Naconkantari
Hi, I use the IRC RC dump for vandalism monitoring

Vandalism
Hey, your talk page was vandalized twice. I reverted it. Just thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to do something about it. CanDo 00:13, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

In response to your comment about dynamic IP's on user talk:CanDo: Is there any way that Wikipedia could employ a program which traks IP Addresses, such as that used by www.no-ip.com? (That could serve several purposes) Also, do you happen to know about what percent of vandals have dynamic Ip's? Is there any way to tell whether a vandal has a static or dynamic IP? Thanks! CanDo 00:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Elyssa Rundle
Why did you remove the copyvio tag from the Elyssa Rundle article? User:Zoe|(talk) 03:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, doing a bit of late-night RC patrolling and made a mistake. Dan100 (Talk) 08:34, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
Thanks for reverting the recently vandalised Arncliffe article. I noticed that you hadn't quite gone back far enough in the page history so I just fixed that up. Cheers and keep up the great work! --Alexxx1 06:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, me bad. I'll make a point of checking the page history more carefully in future... Dan100 (Talk) 08:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

CVU Bot
I did some more tweaks to colours, so it might work better for you now. If you take a look at User_talk:Adam1213 Cool_Cat says he can't get to the bot running computer until the weekend.... Thanks --pgk( talk ) 22:59, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks pgk! Dan100 (Talk) 23:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Poppers page links
Dan, would you explain your position on the links section on the poppers page? I think we may disagree over at least the Duesberg link, and I wanted to add some links as well. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.251.158.126 (talk • contribs)
 * the above user has recently reverted alkyl nitrites 5 times within a 24 hour period. due to his pattern of editing he is suspected to be a sock of allabout2006(talk) contribs/209.248.254.66(talk) contribs; he failed to cite any sources in his previous incarnation either while trying to rewrite the article and link to his own website, and also repeatedly made false allegations against me.  (excuse me if i'm not assuming good faith here, but it is suspicious.)  --Heah talk 01:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

The guy you send the message to did not vandalize the page that person is only telling the truth you know stuff that actually happened. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.1.97.22 (talk • contribs)

Good god, you wiped out my post just now. You can't even speak in coherent sentences. Bascially, you've been busted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.248.254.66 (talk • contribs)


 *  I have no idea what the IP is talking about (or to whom). Dan100 (Talk) 11:18, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

The India books
I think they are speedy candidates since they are literally book excerpts and I can't see a way to possibly make them into articles. Anyway. Thanks for the heads up. :) --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 14:09, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

213.2.48.70
Hi. Just to let you know that User:213.2.48.70, whom you blocked earlier in the week, vandalized Sunday Times Rich List 2005 once he was back. --Whouk (talk) 15:48, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

CVU Bot again
More people were unhappy with the colours last night (after I'd left), so I'd like to work to get mine better in case we lose Cool_Cat again (Drini is also interested in running a copy so we have multiple backups, it can be told to be quiet so multi copies can run concurrently and if one stops just tell another to speak), so It'd be good to work on the colours some, to try and get a good balance for both the Dark and light background users. I'll do some experimenting and get it running in another channel over the weekend, when I'm there any chance you can run a critical eye over it?

Thanks --pgk( talk ) 17:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

from 207.157.65.70
Sorry for the vandalization buddy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.157.65.70 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 16 December 2005

Bag mediation request
Hi, the problem is not dead, I'm just respecting the mediation process and not editing while it (was) listed up on mediation. If you read the entry as it currently stands, the anonymous user has changed his definition to even say that bags are "those bags keep eliminating the usage of bag as a derogatory term." Please relist it under mediation.

Thanks. Janet13 19:21, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Unprotecting
Hi, that must have been Seigenthaler, right? I remember unprotecting a while after you had protected one of the recent news articles. Sorry about that; I've got used to pages not being put on WP:PP in the first place! Will be more thorough in future. -Splash talk 23:33, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh, did you have to do that?
I'd prefer to deal with the vandalism than block editing.--SarekOfVulcan 23:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Go on, give me a clue... to what are you referring? Dan100 (Talk) 23:36, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the catch
Thanks for the speedy reversion of 's vandalism to my user page. I wouldn't have noticed it until today otherwise. I've tried and failed to explain wikiquette to this person (and it looks like other people have similarly failed). --Christopher Thomas 23:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks for the thanks! Dan100 (Talk) 23:47, 16 December 2005 (UTC)