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User talk:Efanrees
You blocked this editor in October (and quite rightly so). I'm minded to give him another chance now - his first unblock requests were poor, but it sounds like he's beginning to understand. I would keep an eye on his future edits and will quickly reblock if there's any repeat of the problem. What do you think? -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:13, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for University Club of Albany
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Recent anon block
The anon IP you just blocked (86.162.251.51 ) didn't have a chance to respond to my offer of discussion. Moreover, User:Armbrust had technically exceeded the WP:3RR rule. I had hope to handle this via discussion on the Davis talkpage. What do you reckon? The Rambling Man (talk) 17:25, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I know, I just thought that since you were in the mind to block the IP, Armburst probably deserved one too, after all the material was cited, just perhaps inappropriate. I think I'll keep an eye on the situation, Armbrust says this anon has edited from different IPs in any case so it may all come out in the wash once they reset their router... The Rambling Man (talk) 17:30, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, no worries. I'll just put it on my ever-increasing watch list.  Cheers.  The Rambling Man (talk) 17:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Problem with IP editor
Hi. I really need some administrator-to-administrator advice. Can you offer your opinions on Question 2 - 5 that I've posed at the top of this discussion?

Everyone else participating there is only focusing on Question 1, which I thought would be answered more quickly and straightforwardly, and is already being discussed at Talk:Kobe Bryant sexual assault case If you want to offer your insights on Question 1 as well, can you do so there? Thanks! Nightscream (talk) 05:15, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

User talk:99.90.197.87
Looks to me that they are both edit warring on Writing. I didn't get what the ethnic slur was, though oO. See Talk:Writing -- Luk  talk 13:32, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm not sure what the deal was, and I was considering whether to block both of them, only him on nobody when I saw the AIV update :). I've only been back for a few days and I get the impression we get a lot of "almost bad faith" vandalism reports now :(. -- Luk  talk 13:44, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This IP has done such stuff before, as can be seen from his edit history. He (or she I guess) also calls reversions due to vandalism an 'ethnic slur' presumably against Goths, Visigoths, Vandals etc (I mention this to clarify what the user's statements about ethnic slurs seem to mean)...  Dbrodbeck (talk) 20:02, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Reversing an XfD closure
I've closed an AfD and I feel my decision was not called for. It is okay to reverse my own closure? Thanks. -- Bryce  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 04:12, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I've made a decision, so I've scratched my comment out. -- Bryce  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 04:13, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your helpful and prompt response. -- Bryce  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 04:16, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Rock Me Tonite
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Rock Me Tonite
I saw this article on this song and was amazed on how expanded it was the last time I saw it. I thank you for your work on it as I'm researching Billy Squire this infamous video. GamerPro64 00:28, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Template problem
I approved your Holden article. I had A LOT of trouble getting to the DYK nom template because the slash in the article title breaks the template. Go to WT:DYK to the nom, click on "review", try to edit, and you'll see what I mean. I only managed to do it after scrolling through your co ntribs. Moral of the story: slashes are a problem with this template.... Pumpkin Sky  talk  15:57, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Rock Me Tonite
FYI, the image size was changed in Rock Me Tonite because it is too big for the section, causing the following History sub-heading to be incorrectly indented. We would appreciate it if you could find a way to have this sub-heading correctly display. Maybe we can just eliminate the sub-heading. Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 19:20, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Reconsider?
Hey DC, you blocked User:ManawatuNZ today because of user name, and I wonder if you might reconsider. Seems to me she is a keen newbie who could be encouraged, and I would guess the name she chose was simply because she is proudly from Manawatu NZ. Some of her edits so far are borderline, but some are good, and that's par for newbies. Perhaps if you unblocked, and she took note of messages left on her talk page, she would be a good acquisition to wiki. Worth a try? I see Skier Dude deleted User:ManawatuNZ earlier, so I will contact him tomorrow. Moriori (talk) 08:21, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

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Help
Help, I'm trying to create a new character template, but it won't let me change anything or add anything to a template on my "SandBox." Is there a way to do this? Musicfreak7676 (talk) 01:22, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

INY
Hi. It looks as if your e-mail isn't functional, or else I would contact you directly that way. It seems as if you might be a resident of INY, perhaps even a graduate of IHS. I grew up there, and went there, although I no longer live there (but my family is there). If you want to contact me, my email is functional. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:38, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Reporting Wingard
This member keeps removing "," from airdates and episode counts from Days of our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful, despite our attempts to tell them no. Can you do anything about this? Musicfreak7676 (talk) 18:26, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Daniel, they're already removing commas again saying they aren't needed. I think a longer block is needed! User cannot be trusted. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 17:52, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I just asked if the commas were nedded in the episode counts as well. If they are I will put them right back. Please tell me. Got no intention to war again. Pleasw contact me on my talk page ASAP.Wingard (talk) 18:58, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

They're going again, telling me not to change before it's uploaded onto a webpage, yet undid my edit then seconds later made the same edit I made. Can we block them again? Obviously their lesson has NOT be learned! Music Freak 7676 TALK! 19:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

I just asking for it to be done right. When it's been uploded on a webpage it shows it has aured. Please stop adding before that happens. What do you think? I think Days should be uploaded at soaoperafan.com and B & B at CBS before they're added to a template. Reporting MusicFreak7676 for not listening to my words. Wingard (talk) 19:33, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Soapoperafan.com is NOT a valid source. It doesn't matter if it's updated, it matters if it's AIRED. You undid my edit to DAYS, then re-did it yourself. You're showing WP:OWN and that's not allowed here. I am keeping this report to you. Your words mean NOTHING to me, since they make NO sense. Daniel, if I get blocked because of them, Wiki loses a valid member to this community because I will not be returning. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 19:36, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Wingard you shouldn't use soapoperafan as something to rely on. Its not a reliable source.  Soap  Jar   20:04, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This user is back!!! Help!!!!! They're removing their blocks!!! Music Freak 7676 TALK! 21:54, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum
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 * Hello DC, I think you might have to review and/or BLOCK this guy's account as his contribution history is quacking louding of a returning editor, repeatedly reinserting of patent nonsense and/or unhelpful edits (per WP:SYN) on several article pages despite warnings issued. Thanks heaps. -- Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 10:25, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Who's the sockmaster here? It would be helpful if I could compare the accounts. Daniel Case (talk) 17:08, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * User talk:The Bushranger
 * As discussed with The Bushranger, we both agree that this guy is an obvious sock, presumed to be but he's not 100% certain about it. -- Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 00:31, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * As discussed with The Bushranger, we both agree that this guy is an obvious sock, presumed to be but he's not 100% certain about it. -- Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 00:31, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

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99.90.197.87
Appears to be trying to set a record for non-utile use of Wikipedia. I have given him what appears to be his 17th "final warning" or thereabouts. I think you were the last admin to block him quite recently. Cheers. Collect (talk) 15:54, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Walter Merchant House
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Soapfan2013
They are continually telling me that the picture for Maxie Jones is not Kirsten Storms when in fact it is, and they are not proving otherwise. Their argument is completely false as I have promotional stills and other photographs from the photoshoot that prove it is Kirsten. They are deleted my talk on their page since they do not wish to seem wrong. But they are. Please help, they're edit-waring over it! Music Freak 7676 TALK! 21:44, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

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Anna Wintour revert
Hi Daniel, I read your justification for removal of my entry. Although I don't agree that the entry is superfluous, I will let it go this time as you feel strongly about it. (Kirovsky (talk) 19:34, 23 January 2012 (UTC))

202.138.6.105
also needs to have talk page priv revoked, and his target talk-pages need to have lengthy semi-protection reinstated. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:36, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Slakr got it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:43, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Harmanus Bleecker Library
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school
You seem to have listed a page on a secondary school for CSD as A7. . I assume it was a slip of the mouse, and you intended to put an unreferenced tag on it, so I did that.  DGG ( talk ) 17:25, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
 * all ok.  DGG ( talk ) 20:32, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

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Re: 173.64.99.252
I'm sorry. Looks like I got so busy I didn't realize it had reached that many reverts. I'll try to be more mindful of that in the future. Kevinbrogers (talk) 04:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Goodness me
Daniel, could you revisit User talk:RichardMills65? He says he's blocked. Above my pay scale :) Something about DeltaQuad, and perhaps a proxy block.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 04:40, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks-- not sure what I wandered into via a typo, but I'll keep him watchlisted. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 04:50, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

IPs back again
- he's back, and he made a brief appearence a few days ago as.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  21:46, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Redstone Coke Oven Historic District
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I have removed the auto-unblock request from my talk page.
I am sending this message to all the people who have commented on my unblock request at User Talk:12bigbrother12. I've removed the request because I have moved back out to university, where I have a different IP address and so am not affected by the block. I will be going back to my old (home) IP address in March where hopefully the situation should have resolved itself. Thank you for taking the time to deal with my request, If for whatever reason I'm not allowed to remove the unblock request I apologise and obviously feel free to revert the edit I made on my talk page. Thanks again. 12bigbrother12 (talk) 20:10, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Russian translation
Hello. I was on Translators available and notice that you were on the list for Russian to English translators and wondered if you could translate Maria Vladimirovna of Staritsa and/or Vladimir of Staritsa? Thanks.--Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 01:12, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

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In response to your questions regarding Joseph Paterno bio
Hi Daniel - thanks for responding. More specifically, I have attempted to include a direct quote from one of the Board of Trustee members in regard to the rationale for Paterno's firing given that the article, as it currently stands, has no such first-person commentary. It was initially met with a copyvio rejection, and then with a nuance rejection. I corrected both per the editor's request, yet no one has dealt with the corrections. The quote itself, from Kenneth Frazier, a key player in the Board's decison and CEO of Merck Pharmaceuticals, explains his thinking at the time, and was featured in a front page article on the New York Times. As the article currently stands, there is only an "anonymous" reference to the Board's actions. I have submitted this twice, both times correcting for whatever the "fault" may be, yet still this important historical interview is excluded. (Bagumba, an editor with priveleges to revise, had already said important quotes from the NYT article should be included).

Please let me know why Kenneth Frazier's statement continues to be excluded. Thanks. --AVR2012 (talk) 05:48, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Again
- as soon as his bock expired.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  22:14, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: Halloween article
I think there might be a lot of info missing from NCDC. I'm quite busy IRL right now, but I believe that info should be added before any further steps are taken. Also, there isn't consistency on whether it caused over $1 billion or not. Most sources I find don't include it among the billion dollar U.S. disasters in 2011 (see here or here). I tried finding a damage total, but I couldn't get anything good (just some figures from NCDC). --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 21:35, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No prob! Good luck. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 22:14, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Yea, the way I would've done the article is split all impact by area, but that tends to get rather generic. I'm not really used to (in my hurricane articles) having a separate fatalities section. I think it'd be a bit morbid to go into a lot of detail for each type of death, but I do agree that it's a bit short. In short, I'm not really sure. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 01:20, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd personally limit it to interesting deaths, for ones that I'd go into detail. I think you're on the right track though. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 03:59, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

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Fyi
User:Goodbyz's claim in both unblock requests that the threat was not a legal threat within the meaning of WP:legal does not sit easily with me. When Goodbyz appeared at the Gingrich presidential campaign article talk page to advocate for the edit-warring multiple-IP user there (who promptly vanished, and has not reappeared therafter), Goodbyz was at pains to claim that the IP user is "an attorney", and also claimed, at Goodbyz's UTP, that Goodbyz him/herself is the IP's "colleague",, i.e. someone with professional legal expertise of some kind. May or may not have a bearing. Writegeist (talk) 22:58, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

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Username concern
Hi Daniel Case, thank you for your concern about my username. Well, I wasn't think about Wikipedia's username policy at all. Sure of course, I would change a new username if it does concern you. —Fbi205agent (talk) 05:03, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi again, I already requested them to change a new username. —Fbi205agent (talk) 06:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Hey, do I have to stay logged in and waiting for someone to approve it? —Fbi205agent (talk) 08:17, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Hey, I am here now and they haven't approve it yet. —Fbi205agent (talk) 21:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

They finally changed my new username and are you happy now? :-) —Sheenmeister (talk) 01:02, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! :-) Are you going to take the warning above off the page as it's no longer relevant, right? Well, I am telling you the truth, I am still new to Wikipedia. But of course, I am still learning something new around on here. —Sheenmeister (talk) 04:26, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Daniel,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

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Re: Radovich v. National Football League assessment
I've replied to your post on my talk page.

DYK for Hastings Prototype House
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DYK for Albany Institute of History & Art
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Difiicult
changed cited text at Peopling of India and is making unsourced and so far as I can see incorrect edits pushing the idea that the Dravidians settled Mehrgarh. Not sure what to do about this. Dougweller (talk) 09:59, 11 February 2012 (UTC) I am sorry if it seems like i am pushing this idea.. the dravidians came from mesopotamia..a very highly civilized culture whereas the aryans came form a not so civilized culture (that is thousands of years ago)..I am actually deeply concerned as to why this group of people are not mentioned...Tamil is the most refined ancient language in the world..it has contributed to most of the words in sanskrit..most in fact all historians attribute the three major oldest civilizations in india..to the dravidians..not pushing it..apologies if i seem to do that..also dravidians are not just found in the south of india..they are found all over...but of course esp..in the south..as daniel pointed out..i need references..so i will do that... its like the western number system..which is being taught of as having originated in the middle east..but actually the indians in india invented the numbers...no big deal beacause they are similar people anyway..algebra..pie formula..sine cosine ..all come from India..bbc documentaries.. but i agree with Daniel..need to get references..otherwise it would be tragic..if we can only mention these three civilizations without mentioning the originators of them..Angkoe wat and other temples in thailand..built by dravidians... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Difiicult (talk • contribs) 12:05, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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FYI
Hello. Yesterday you blocked for which many thanks. Sadly they have returned to the exact same editing pattern. I thought I would let you know that this looks to be yet another IP used by the long term vandal that we have been keeping tabs on here User:Doc9871/Voice Cast Vandal. I don't know when you will get to see this so there may not be any need for new action but I thought I'd make you aware of these things. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 00:49, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your note and the block. I know that, like so many other editors, I wish that we could just wave a magic wand and Pixie dust.png the damage to articles would stop. That, of course, will never happen so, like Sisyphus, we just have to keep working uphill and doing what we can. Thanks for adding your shoulder to the boulder. MarnetteD | Talk 03:55, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, thank you again, Daniel - and thank you MarnetteD! I was going to tag that one after I saw you on the trail a couple of days ago, and I got as far as making some reverts, but I got... distracted by other things. Long story ;> Nothing is ever going to get through to this vandal, and the efforts by you, Daniel and many others to revert and block this joker only reinforce to me that there are some damned good editors here who care enough about the accuracy of WP to never let garbage like the VCV tries to pull off get through. Thank you both again! Doc   talk  06:21, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi again. Block is over and, sadly, same disruptive editing has resumed. At least they aren't IP hopping at the moment. As ever thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 00:18, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi again, DC. Block ended and same disruptive editing resumed. I do appreciate you taking care of this and I hope you have a good weekend. MarnetteD | Talk 15:44, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick action and, of course, I meant good not gooey :-) MarnetteD | Talk 15:57, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Jennifer Grey article: Sock puppetry and edit warring
Hi, Daniel. After I reverted what I thought was a bad edit to the Jennifer Grey article by an anonymous IP editor, the article was reverted by that and three other IPs, all of which are traced to the same area in Ireland, and all of which made the identical revert to the article. When I blocked the most recent of those IPs, an editor with a username account, whom I believe to the one and the same, again made the same edit, and I decided not to revert the article to the version I thought was appropriate, and tried to try engage him in discussion, since he has a username, and might have a valid point of view. But aside from one brief message, he did not engage me in discussion, and after weeks of not hearing from him, I reverted the article. He has now reverted it again. I have left one final message on his talk page asking if he will continue the discussion. If he does not respond within a reasonable amount of time, I will revert the article, and if he reverts it yet again I believe he will need to be blocked from an uninvolved admin. Will you step in if you contact you at that point? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 08:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * My understanding is that 3RR refers to edits made within a 24-hour period. He certainly did this on January 25 from his IPs, but not recently. Putting aside the fact that I don't know if someone will block an editor for violating 3RR if the edits were made from different accounts or IPs, I don't know if they'll do so so long after the fact, since they'll just argue that he hasn't done it since then.


 * I know this, because (in answer to your other question), I did open up an SPI case. And the editor who responded decided to take no action because, as he clueless noted, "The nonblocked IPs are quiet now." Apparently the fact that they went silent because the guy signed in to his username account, and because I stopped reverting in an attempt to engage him in discussion, either didn't dawn on him, or he doesn't care. And thus, yet another troublemaker who thinks he owns Wikipedia is allowed through the revolving door of Wikipedia's administrative incompetence. Nightscream (talk) 21:40, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Sigh. Daniel the whole reason I contacted you was that if blocking became necessary, I would've needed an uninvolved admin to do so, something difficult to do, since I don't always know who will respond or be willing to intervene. Now, between offering your own opinion on the matter, and reverting, doesn't that mean you're no longer uninvolved? Nightscream (talk) 00:19, 15 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Alright, if you insist that that's kosher, that's cool. Thanks for your help, Daniel. Nightscream (talk) 03:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

He reverted the article again. Please block him. Nightscream (talk) 23:40, 17 February 2012 (UTC)


 * It is customary, when applicable, for the opening sentence of BLP articles, especially those of entertainers, to begin with some version of "(Person) (born dob) is an American actress best known for her roles in...." The fact of the matter is, Cerenok is still revering the opening sentence of the Lead, and is still doing so without engaging in discussion. His reverts may be partially different, but isn't it a bit overly technical, and possibly hair-splitting, to argue that just because he has slightly changed the content of his reverts, that his behavior is not being intentionally disruptive? If he has a genuine belief that there's something wrong with the the wording, why not engage in discussion, as a good faith, if only to say something along the lines of "Um, okay, I won't put in Reckless any more, but can we talk about the precise wording of the opening sentence?" Look at his edit waring. Look at his sock puppetry. Does this come across as someone whose genuine intent is one collaboration and improvement? He's already engaged in sock puppetry, edit-warring and WP:OWN-type behavior, and the slight change in his most recent reverts hardly suggests that he has turned over a new leaf. If we have to regard each variance in reverts as a distinct, separate discussion, does that mean I have to leave yet another message on his talk page that he will ignore, and then wait another couple of weeks before I conclude that "Hey, maybe he's not going to respond to me." C'mon. Let's stop bending over backwards for people like this. Nightscream (talk) 01:49, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Urban blight
Made me think of the request for a photo of urban blight in the Clinton Historic District a while ago. Not sure what the question (answer?) was yet:. In my defense, I didn't really venture very far off of Clinton Ave, for somewhat obvious reasons...  upstate NYer  22:57, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Completely separate topic: what's your opinion of this?  upstate NYer  22:35, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Reporting Recently Unblocked IP
User talk:71.250.134.58 was unblocked today after a one month block, and immediately went back to making such edits without sourcing, and those that should not be made. Mainly for the cast list of General Hospital. They have not learned their lesson and a further block should be placed. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 00:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Nevermind! It was sorted out! Music Freak 7676 TALK! 00:46, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Unblock request being given WP:SECONDCHANCE
I've put it on hold while he formulates his improvements to an article ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 10:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Chip123456
See my post just now at User_talk:Bwilkins. I think it is a positive suggestion on a way forward for this troublesome child. --Bob Re-born (talk) 19:00, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

User 121.217.15.206
Thank you for blocking that user. Their block ended quite recently, and unfortunately they have gone straight back to including nonsense in articles again. And once again, I am positive it is the same person, especially when you compare their edits. CBFan (talk) 08:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Nightscream
I've been reading your comments with Nightscream concerning events at Jennifer Grey.

Please also see my talk page.

I would please like your thoughts on this.

Thank you. - jc37 22:05, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Redstone Inn
Hello! Your submission of Redstone Inn at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Mgrē@sŏn 00:41, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I have one more question for you. Mgrē@sŏn  20:28, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Ramathibodi Hospital
Could you do me a favor? On 14 February, you blocked User: Ramathibodi15 for a username violation and borderline promotional activiities. An IP has popped up at Ramathibodi Hospital and Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University making the same edits (the biggest problem being the addition of excessive links in violation of WP:EL. Could you take a look at the edits, and, if you think I'm right, semi-protect the pages?  Qwyrxian (talk) 00:50, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

PRProgRock evaded the block
I know you blocked PRProgRock recently, but he evaded the block and he is using an IP right now. Superghost987 (talk) 03:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Hook and Ladder No. 4
The DYK project (nominate) 15:16, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

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IP Report + Page Protection
I am requesting that Special:Contributions/174.114.86.242 be warned for continuing to make edits to the General Hospital cast list, adding and removing people that shouldn't be added/removed. And also requesting the page be protected to autoconfirmed users only. With the incoming of OLTL cast members, the list is going wonky with people adding random dates and people as they so choose. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 18:24, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Redstone Inn
Materialscientist (talk) 08:01, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Redstone Inn picture
Hey, Daniel:

I don't understand what's going on with the deltion request for my picture of the Redstone Inn. See: Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Pitkin County, Colorado. Do you understand what's going on?

Thanks and best regards,

Jeffrey Beall (talk) 03:43, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

PS: Do not hesitate to replace one of my pictures with one of yours if you have a better one.
 * Thanks, Daniel. --Jeffrey

Response to comment
I have responded to your comments here. Pinetalk 08:17, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Charlie wilkes
Reading your reason for rejecting the block appeal at User talk:Charlie wilkes in light of the Arbitration/Requests/Case/TimidGuy_ban_appeal case, it sounds to me like he's playing User:TimidGuy and you're playing User:Will Beback. I do not agree with the severity of that verdict against Will Beback, but in the light of its unbanning of TimidGuy, do you think it's possible you should cut Charlie wilkes a break? Wnt (talk) 17:17, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Stephen and Harriet Myers House
The DYK project (nominate) 02:24, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

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Username block
On 28 February, you unblocked to allow them to request a username change. However, as of 1 March, the user is still editing Tabula Association, the association with which the username is associated and for which he was blocked. Since the user did not use the unblock opportunity to request a new username, perhaps a more stringent permanent block is in order? WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:52, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Redstone Historic District (Colorado)
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DYK nomination
I noticed that you have reviewed my self-nomination of Gilles (stock character) (February 21), for which I thank you very much. Unfortunately, I've also noticed an error in my hook ("two centuries" should read "three centuries"). I have tried to figure out how to fix this, but with no success. Is there a way it can be corrected before it's "published" (assuming it will be)? Sorry for the bother; I'm grateful for whatever help you can suggest. Beebuk 10:30, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Need Some Assistance
Hi, perhaps you can help. I am having a problem with a user, User:Tvtonightokc, who is adding unverified, unencyclopedic, and unsourced content to numerous television station pages. The content in question is what newscasts called themselves over the years. For example, "NewsChannel 4", Channel 4 Eyewitness News" and so on. The content as been deemed unverified, unencyclopedic, and unsourced by a discussion and consensus, yet the user continues to add the information.  I have asked, via his talk page and mine, to stop, but he literally posted to my talk page and the content in question.  I have issued a manual final warning, but need an admin to step in before I go to AIV for vandalism. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 19:00, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: The last edit of this kind was on 2/29, but this is an ongoing cycle of edits from this user, it isn't likely to stop after a couple days "break". -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 19:00, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks from Gilles (stock character)
Yes, you're right: I had no idea how to (or if I could) edit the template itself. Merci mille fois. And, thanks, too, for adding the article to the other projects. I'll look into the Belgium connection; it sounds as if it's a go. Beebuk 23:21, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage engagement strategy released
Hey guys!

I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox -.

It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 01:59, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Compound en dashes
The en dash section of the MOS was changed sometime in mid-2011, requiring all en dashes that are part of compounds (like "New York–Pennsylvania") to be unspaced. (For what it's worth, this change happened during my hiatus last year, so I didn't know about it until very recently.) –  T M F 04:58, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, spacing en dashes if one or more of the components had a space was the standard until the aforementioned change last year. –  T M F 05:03, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I skimmed through all of the discussion, but it got twisted and tiring after a while, so I ultimately just skipped to the final summaries to see exactly what happened. As for when to use spacing now, I believe it's now limited to cases where the en dash is connecting dates, numerical figures, or other things along those lines, and even that has some different criteria which the MOS page does a decent job of breaking down. Things like "New York–New Jersey" are still unspaced according to the MOS, though (see "En dashes: other uses" section 2, bullet 1, example 3). –  T M F 05:15, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Indef block on DobbsheadVenerator
First off, thanks for the prompt block! That being said, you cite him as a potential sock of User talk:BeneficialApartheidAdvocate, and I think that might be misplaced - instead, I wonder if they're both socks of SuperblySpiffingPerson, an indefatigable sockpuppeteer who's had several socks, to date, vandalize or otherwise disrupt the List of surviving veterans of World War I article and its talk page, many of them with equally bizarre usernames. Do you have any recommendations as to how I should further proceed, especially how one amends or reopens a sock investigation?  Ravenswing  07:56, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for W. B. Thompson Mansion
Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:48, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Delete application for DYK
Hi, would you be kind enough to delete my half-completed application for Angela of the Cross to be in DYK. I can't make head or tail of the Bot request to complete section 3. Apologies that you have to deal with an idiot. Best. Richard Avery (talk) 11:03, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK application
David, Thank you that would be very helpful. I did have a tiny problem with an image(from the Spanish commons) for which I had made a reference in the text. I'd be happy to scrub the image and delete the reference in the text if that makes life easier for you. You're a diamond. thanks Richard Avery (talk) 19:37, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much, you are exceedingly kind. best wishes Richard Avery (talk) 20:57, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Article
Hello! Your submission of Article at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Ishtar456 (talk) 23:54, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I feel like a rat abandoning the ship, but since I started this review a couple of things have happened that have indicated to me that I should not be reviewing. I left a note to that affect on the template and hopefully someone else will take it from here.  Take Care--Ishtar456 (talk) 03:13, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Block question
Hello, I do not believe the block that you placed on to be fair at all. His initial addition of unsourced content was correctly reverted by as an addition of unsourced content. However, Jmsager then re-added the information with a source four more times, only to have his edit reverted as vandalism each time by. I do not think that it is fair to block the less aggregious violator of WP:3RR, particularly when the other person was repeatedly mischaracterizing an edit as vandalism and misusing rollback. Would you mind making things fairer (either block nobody or block both)? Thanks. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:24, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello Reaper, please see also my reaction on my talkpage. Hereby I also want to apologize to the user Jmsager which was blocked by my fault. I agree with Reaper above, that the user should be unblocked. Also, I admit, which I already said on my talkpage, that I made some bad reverts resulting in a unnecessary block. --Wiki13 (talk) 18:40, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Per WP:3RRNO I do not think this qualifies as an exemption. The addition of unsourced material is exempt from 3RR only when it involves controversial information about a living person. Although this does involve a living person I don't think it's controversial. Also, I note no attempt to discuss the edits outside of edit summaries was made by either user. Ideally it should have been reported to WP:ANEW instead of WP:AIV. Since it was reported to the latter, I evaluated it through that lens. All I can say to Wiki13 is to consider that distinction next time. I will not unblock but neither will I object to another administrator choosing to lift this block. Daniel Case (talk) 18:48, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I do agree that Jmsager's edits are not exempt from WP:3RR. My complaint was that I don't think that it is fair to block somebody when somebody else has been even worse and yet to do nothing to him. I am not unblocking since I reinstated Jmsager's edit (and hence could be considered involved), but I did hope that you would consider unblocking him with an admonishment to try WP:EAR,, or even WP:HD in the future rather than edit warring. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:59, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, OK, given that Wiki13 has been appropriately penitent above, I will, as they say, reduce to time served. Daniel Case (talk) 19:06, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:08, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

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Happy birthday
It may be another day away, but I thought I'd say it now. SwisterTwister  talk  07:54, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Back again
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DYK for Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd
Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:41, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon
Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:41, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Great work on these. Savidan 05:16, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Unblock request at User talk:Arealprize
With reference to this edit, immediately under the unblock request it is made clear that the relevant block is on the range 69.171.160.0/24. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:42, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I see; I wasn't paying close enough attention (in any event we would have told him to request unblock under the other template). I have asked Circeus if Arealprize is the user the rangeblock's meant for. Daniel Case (talk) 15:55, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

The rangeblock was linked to, a long time problem user. For the background on this specific block renewal, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants and Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive741. I'll admit a lack of experience with both rangeblocks and Jeff Merkey's typical stomping ground. However, I'll still be extremely suspicious of an edit that goes "His story can be read at: www.JOPattersonMinistry.Com ." with the summary " added information included in several books written by Benjamin Jimerson-Phillips & www.JOPattersonMinistry.Com", but which is nonetheless still not properly sourced on a page where 90% of the prose is from a blocked sockpuppet... Circéus (talk) 22:02, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, and, having looked back at this case, I see other reasons for being a little doubtful about this account. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:35, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

League of California Cities
Yes, i am planning to create the article shortly. My modus operandi is to redlink an article prior to creation, or if a subject is obviously worthy of an article.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:39, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I have never heard of such a practice. I was not aware it was WP policy to disallow redlinks. how else can people be alerted to the need for new articles? Mind you, i have myself removed redlinks, but usually for, say the 5th alternate drummer for an indie pop band with one album released.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:44, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Assistance
I figured the best way to address this issue is to contact an administrator. User:Arjoccolenty is repeatedly adding unsourced speculation to the articles Hope Brady and John Black (Days of our Lives). Now, I was informed (rudely) by an IP that storyline sections of articles don't need references because the show acts as a source. Now, I can appreciate that, if the project page says so, but here's the catch....Arjoccolentry is adding WRONG information to the articles, and has already been warned about doing so. After I reverted the speculation over and over, he/she went to another user to "report" me, and has since gone to the IP to report me again. I haven't done anything wrong. According to the rules of wikipedia, "Unsourced controversial material can be promptly challenged and removed". I did what I was supposed to do by making my point on the talk page of Hope Brady. If the community decides to keep Arjo's wrong edits, then I won't argue. But I feel as though I'm being attacked based on trying to make things as verifiable and correct as possible. I understand this may fall under the heading of content dispute, but I just wanted your thoughts. Thanks for your time. Rm994 (talk) 03:21, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Alvin!

 * this is the Alvin and the Chipmunks vandal - and he's a sock of the blocked IP 198.209.225.230.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  00:17, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

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Sock Puppet Account!
I have found a user, who's been blocked, returning under a new name making the same exact edits they once made. And they aren't even trying to hide it. 97.88.38.179 and User:As1278 match exactly the blocked user User:As15878. Obviously, they have an issue with the idea that Lisa Niles is not returning to General Hospital at all. I don't know how to open an investigation to possibly block them, but I figured I'd bring it to your attention. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 01:41, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Daniel, that IP is still making those edits, despite my warning to them. Can we just ban them for a month or so? Music Freak 7676 TALK! 16:37, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I think that IP got a proxy because they're doing it again under Special:Contributions/97.88.1.212. They're doing the same thing, removing Kodi Kitchen and replacing her with Brianna Brown. It's getting tedious. Can we protect the page from IPs for a standing amount of time? Please? It's getting ridiculous to have to do this every day! Music Freak 7676 TALK! 22:14, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * They're still doing it, plus another user on the cast members page is adding random linking that makes no sense. I've warned them and I know they won't stop!
 * Special:Contributions/97.88.1.212 is back and already making the same edits as before. And I'm fed up with it. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 21:26, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Much Appreciated
Thankyou for your assistance with the school blocking issue, I have completed the edit that I was trying to make when the issue arose. Thankyou again... NotinREALITY 03:46, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

User_talk:71.250.134.58
I warned User_talk:71.250.134.58 about editing List of General Hospital cast members and after I warned them, they went ahead and added unsourced material. Can we re-protect the page or just get this person a longer block than their last? Please? And they're now doing it to List of Days of our Lives cast members Music Freak 7676 TALK! 03:58, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Lloyd L. Gaines
I have reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Lloyd L. Gaines, so you may want to ask some one to try to add it to the cue by your date desired. Also, if you have any other DYKs you ever want reviewed, just give me a poke. --LauraHale (talk) 05:50, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries on the changes. Let me know when your nomination is up.  I'm trying to stockpile around 60 reviews as I have about 20 softball players and 40 field hockey players I want to nominate.  (Hence my grumpiness over QPQ.  I could get some one to nominate all 60 articles for DYK and no one would have to QPQ if that was done for me.)  So yeah, happy to do DYK reviews. If I'm awake, at a computer and not working on my dissertation, I can probably review quickly. (Though it took about 20 minutes of reading the Gaines article because of the neutrality check.) --LauraHale (talk) 06:27, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Lloyd L. Gaines
Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:02, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Request
Hi. I fear I need yer help. Some ominous User "Iry-Hor" has started to change articles such as Raneb without giving any sources. Could you please keep an eye on that guy and the articles and eventually interfere? I don´t want any trouble. Cheers;--Nephiliskos (talk) 10:35, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam
Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam has been reviewed. Let me know if you need more. --LauraHale (talk) 20:19, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Chipmunks sock

 * it's the Alvin and the Chipmunks vandal again.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  01:07, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam
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List of common misconceptions: Reagan in Casablanca
Hi there, appreciate your effort in adding the information about Ronald Reagan being considered for Casablanca to the List of common misconceptions. However, over on that page we have introduced a rather strict set of inclusion criteria as the only way to keep all sorts of "common misconceptions" that aren't really all that common from clogging up the page. The Reagan entry you added is sourced to a book, so it is difficult to check if all criteria are fulfilled for those of us who do not own the book. I am sure people would accept a quote from the book. I have encouraged you to provide such a quote on Talk:List of common misconceptions. The relevant criteria for this particular item would be the second half of criterion two:
 * "2-The item is reliably sourced, both with respect to the factual contents of the item and the fact that it is a common misconception".

And perhaps also criterion four may come in to play:
 * "4-The common misconception is current, as opposed to ancient or obsolete."

Thanks, Dr bab (talk) 07:41, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Do you think you could have a look at this?
— M. Mario  (T/C) 10:06, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

IP return
Hi again. The IP came off its block and went right back to its same editing pattern. Please feel free to move this and merge it with my earlier posts if you want. MarnetteD | Talk 02:40, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Done
Hello, Daniel Case. I have fulfilled your request at Template:Did you know nominations/Throne of Maximian and I was wondering if you can approve of the article now. Thanks in advance. Secret Saturdays  ( talk to me )what's new? 19:36, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposed merge
Please see Talk:2002 New_Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 03:18, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Aja
Hello. I noticed you asked why Donald Fagen pronounces "Aja" the way he does on the Steely Dan album. I saw part of a documentary on the making of the album - Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja, released 2000, in which Fagen states the name comes from a Korean woman who married the brother of a high-school friend of his...I assume she pronounces her name the same way he sings it, though he may be toying/punning with the name, just as Steely Dan so often plays with lyrics.Minusminority (talk) 11:29, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting out the sockpuppet thing, but.....
I think I have found the sockpuppeter. []. I've attempted to report the user. CBFan (talk) 18:35, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins
The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Familiar with seeing you writing DYKs on historic sites, but I was quite surprised to see you active in maritime law. Do you have any clue why the shark fins were named as a party rather than the owners of the fishing vessel?  If any of the sources explained why, I missed it.  Nyttend (talk) 03:16, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. Don't know how, but I completely missed the bit you quoted when I looked through the article.  I can't remember ever encountering the name of an in rem case before, so this was quite the surprise.  Nyttend (talk) 12:28, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

TB
 S ven M anguard  Wha?  18:55, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

'Hello' and 'Thanks for noticing'!
Thanks very much for the my first Barnstar for creating the Shark Finning Prohibition Act page. Yes, its absence was glaring, and it was right up my alley, being a fan of both the law and of environment/conservation issues. Also, I see that you live/lived in the Hudson Valley... I was born and raised in Wappingers Falls, and, having grown up travelling all along U.S. Route 9 in New York, was thrilled to see the quality of that page! Kudos! Grolltech (talk) 18:47, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

User:Carlohotmail
This user keeps stealing/editing people's sandbox pages and moving them to actual pages without permission. They've been warned repeatedly by myself and they keep ignoring them. Please stop them. And I believe there is an IP that is the same user!! Music Freak 7676 TALK! 18:37, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, they were indefinitely blocked, which is good. Thanks anyway! Music Freak 7676 TALK! 18:47, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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Reasons for perp walk
Hi, Daniel! German Wikipedia states that one of the reasons for doing perp walks is to break the suspect's pride and to facilitate getting confessions, and that these reasons would have been acknowledged by authorities. I can't find such statements in the English article. Is German Wikipedia correct? --Eike sauer (talk) 12:35, 5 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your fast and helpful response! --Eike sauer (talk) 18:56, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

207.28.45.254
It was only autoblocked, probably due to User:Jahasnen. I've taken it out for another year. -- zzuuzz (talk) 15:51, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Dominique Strauss-Kahn perp walk.jpg


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DYK for Osgood Castle
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

RE: Java Scriptus
continued to disruptively edit articles after receiving four escalating warnings. Those warnings do not appear on the user's talk page because it was deleted in March 2009. Given the nature of this person's edits (complete with false edit summaries) I am disinclined to believe his or her claims of ignorance, especially since the editor proceeded to do the exact same changes via 76.109.120.66 once the Java scriptus account was blocked (compare Java scriptus versus 76.109.120.66). — Kralizec! (talk) 21:02, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

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Special:Contributions/97.88.42.87
This IP is a socketpuppet and is continuing to make edits that defy WP:YEAR and WP:V on several cast pages for General Hospital. They've ignored their warning and I'm tired of dealing with them. I'm trying not to edit war, but it's hard with this user's edits. Please take care of it. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 00:57, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Unblock Exempt
Thank you for handling this quickly and efficiently. I assure you I will only use it for quality, rule abiding editing. Opakapaka (talk) 17:35, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Kleparów
I saw your name listed in Translators_available. The above article has a good counterpart in the Russian Wikipedia, but I can't read the language. Could you develop the article a bit? -- Supernova Explosion   Talk  09:14, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Nice work with the article! -- Supernova Explosion   Talk  23:08, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Mitsubishi
I'm just being a friendly neighborhood stalker gnome. I'll be happy to help with any minutiae if you decide to write up that Act's article. Circéus (talk) 22:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

User:118.137.73.76
Thanks for stopping this user. I can't believe that the Indonesia NBC/anime misinformation vandal had flown under the radar and struck again. I hope you know his MO by now.

But can you expand the block to either or ? The Indonesian misinformation vandal has a history of using addresses from the 118.137.*.* range to do his vandalism. Thanks in advance - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 21:01, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

I don't know.... The vandal last struck in January, according to my list, using 180.243.229.15. At the very least, 118.137.0.0/17 can be blocked for another 4 to 6 months because of the long record in its block log alone, although I'm not sure which range 118.137.73.76 belongs. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 21:15, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Just check the block log for. This is why I'm using the IP Vandal template here. BTW, I have a list of addresses that the vandal had ever. I can't give it to you now because I have to go in a few minutes. Thanks! - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 21:41, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

This is a vandal who has been hitting Wikipedia repeatedly for several years now (adding shows to NBC's lineup for no known reason, not responding to talk page messages, etc.). Could you please extend the block you made?— Ryulong (竜龙 ) 00:24, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Oh, I see Nanami has already mentioned this to you. Merging sections.— Ryulong (竜龙 ) 00:26, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Re: IP block exemption: thanks!
Thanks for the IP block exemption, it's useful to me since I use remote desktop to my server to surf the web at fast speeds! -- 15:38, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Cute cat theory of digital activism
Sry bt tht :> and thanks for the 'star. If you have any idea how to expand this article further, please go ahead, I couldn't find much beyond what I wrote that would fit the article. And now, I am curious what will you choose for your 500-ed dyk? :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 16:54, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.
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Photo credit
Your image appears at http://espn.go.com/nfl/draft2012/story/_/id/7846997/tmq-takes-rightful-turn-mocking-mock-drafts. Nyttend backup (talk) 20:22, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

A Journey peer review
Hi Daniel. Thanks for your review of the article. I must confess I thought it had a few issues, but it looks like it still needs quite a lot of work. I'll make a start over the weekend with the things you've mentioned, but if you can do a more in-depth edit that would be fantastic. As regards the Washington Post, I think that would be very useful, and I've found an interesting review here which I'll factor into the text. I also like the idea of separating the British and American reviewers as that could provide a better structure for the section. Thanks once again for the comments. Paul MacDermott (talk) 15:02, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi again. I've been offline for a couple of days so apologies for the delayed reply. That sounds great. I look forward to reading your thoughts. Cheers Paul MacDermott (talk) 22:09, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

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User:Lowjoe89
Hi, you recently blocked User:Joker j1993 for adding in member "positions" to K-pop articles, and I believe that Lowjoe89 might be a reincarnation (based on only one edit, but still... same format and everything). I left a note on his talk page, but I wanted to bring it to your attention in case the account needs to be blocked. Thanks,  Clay  Clay  Clay  06:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, nevermind.  Clay  Clay  Clay  06:41, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Spring 2012

 * —  Imzadi 1979  →   00:07, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Unblock on hold
Hello, Daniel. Back in March you put an unblock on hold at User talk:Hbah427, and posted to the blocking admin's talk page. The blocking admin never responded, and allowed your post to be archived. Perhaps you would like to go back to the unblock request. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:28, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I also asked about User:Notshane a couple of months ago ... I put his unblock on hold while you reviewed. Have you had a chance to look?  ( talk→   BWilkins   ←track ) 14:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Oversight process question
A thread at WP:AN made me wonder — is there an oversight log that oversighters can see? Nyttend (talk) 17:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks; the thread in question was "A bit confused here", in which someone was unaware that there was any sort of log at all. Nyttend (talk) 20:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

IP Back
71.250.119.133 is back. They've already done the same exact edits again. Can we re-block them for a longer block? I cba to warn them again, they'll just ignore it. And can we protect List of The Young and the Restless cast members too? Music Freak 7676 TALK! 23:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * They're back again. Another block for them? Music Freak 7676 TALK! 02:50, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * They're once again back under a new IP, Special:Contributions/71.250.109.51. Re-block for longer time I guess. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 22:47, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Once again, like clock work, 71.250.109.51 is back making the same edits, multiple times. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 16:37, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Broadway–Livingston Avenue Historic District
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 16:05, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Persistent
is a new sock of our old friend , whose block just recently expired.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  23:08, 2 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I've send you another email. -- Supernova Explosion   Talk  13:33, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

???
Speedy deletion?? JamesBWatson (talk) 13:24, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Not sure that you didn't miss the point. I've responded to your response on my talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 18:33, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

i request that you put orange boxes around bolck messages
why don't you put orange boxes around block notices? since it is common practice now to do so. why didn't you do that in User talk:70.133.157.30? - just asking.

also - this talk page is long. how about an archive? Jawadreventon (talk) 19:56, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Return after block expired
- resuming his Moody Blues vandalism which he hasn't done in a while.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  23:02, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Atsushi Shimono
Would you help me fix the image? I've been attempting to fix the image, but my changes won't appear when I click "show preview". Thanks, SwisterTwister   talk  02:29, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Page protection
Can you please protect List of The Young and the Restless cast members until mid-to-late June? People keep removing Brett Butler for no apparent reason; it's a clear attack on the actress. And 62.113.163.80 is a repeat offender, so I believe they should be blocked for a short time. People ignore what I say and don't seem to understand how things work around here. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 21:43, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

He thought he sneaked through again
This is the Beatles/Moody Blues vandal again: This might need a range block if he has moved house or changed jobs since he started vandalising about two years ago since the IPs resolve to a different place in California now.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  21:39, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Re:A Journey
Hi Daniel. Thanks for all the work you've done on this. I've just read through it and think it is excellent. I'll check through it again in the next couple of days then put it forward for FAC and see how it goes. Thanks again. Paul MacDermott (talk) 12:11, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Regarding 64.228.156.246
I'm pretty sure 64.228.156.103 is the same person with the vandalism of the same page and close location. A Personಠ_ಠ 02:23, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Could you extend for a few weeks the block of ? This person has been trolling Wikipedia for years, and considering this, this user shouldn't edit. Even his/her talkpage access, in most of his/her IPs, has been removed. Thank you. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it!  See terms and conditions.  04:01, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Glenview Mansion
Carabinieri (talk) 08:03, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Wilko v. Swan
Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc.
Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:04, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

64.228.156.103
Would you consider extending your block of to his talk page? He keeps editing the warning comment to change its meaning. TJRC (talk) 16:26, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Recent IP block
Hi Daniel! You recently blocked the account Nemrs (which is fine by the way), at the same time you blocked his IP address. Unfortunately it is the address for ATT 3G wireless for the Capital square area in downtown Madson, WI. I and several people I know use IPads to edit and are unable to easily log on. I am now huddling at Starbucks. Is there anything that can be done? Capitalismojo (talk) 17:31, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! Capitalismojo (talk) 17:43, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Recent Block
Just to advise: you recently (15:19) blocked but I've just reverted an edit they made at 15:55. Regards Denisarona (talk) 16:01, 22 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, the delay is now down to 130+ seconds, but the IP is still editing. Sorry to bother you. Denisarona (talk) 16:16, 22 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Apologies, I should have looked at the Date!! Regards Denisarona (talk) 16:28, 22 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I understand the big pink box! - I thought the problem was the long server lag. Denisarona (talk) 16:52, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

IP Issues
204.48.1.190 and its matching IP 204.48.1.5 continues to make vandalistic edits concerning soap pages, despite continuous warning. Their obsession with beginning airdates and having consensus made, then going over such consensus, knowing it, is getting tiresome. They're disrupting articles and should both be stopped. They're the same person given their continous same posts, continuing conversations with me. They need to be stopped. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 21:59, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * These two IPs are STILL removing sources with no valid reason, and continuing to change things without sourcing and I'm tired of warning them. Can you block them again for a longer time? Music Freak 7676 TALK! 21:31, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Reporting a [new] member.
69.158.24.118 reverted an edit I made because Guardian (song) failed per WP:SONGS since it has no charts and lacked sources. And they reverted it saying "Fuck you" to me. That violates WP:PERSONAL and they should be punished with a block. Thank you for always being the best!! Music Freak 7676 TALK! 05:05, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I debated coming to you as I'm viewed as using you as my "daddy" but I want my talk page protected from IPs coming on it to post on it. I have an IP, who keeps changing, re-adding their opinion and judging me without even knowing me. And I find it completely offensive and really deters me from even using Wikipedia in future use. It's obvious someone attacking me for no apparent reason whatsoever. Music Freak 7676 TALK! 22:37, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Guess who
 R ad io pa th y  •talk•  00:37, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

...and once again...
 R ad io pa th y  •talk•  01:25, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

ANI
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Daniel Case disrupting Wikipedia to prove a point. Thank you. Acps110 (talk • contribs) 18:48, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

ABBYY Compreno
Hello. I'm addressing you based on the listing in Translators_available. May I kindly request you to confirm that Russian references for this material do include multiple independent secondary sources (in particular, articles in wide-spread IT-news publications). Thank you in advance. -- Nazar (talk) 01:42, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Gavin Smith (film studio executive)
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

90.195.244.182
I thought you might like to know that this user, who you blocked for 24 hours yesterday, has returned and is making exactly the same edits that got him blocked the first time. ---  RepublicanJacobite  TheFortyFive 16:29, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

MoS vandal
Insists on capitalising second and subsequent genres in infoboxes and changing dates in non-US articles to US format, among other things. He's has numerous warnings posted on his talk page, but he persists. Can you, uh, talk to him or something? Thanks.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  03:54, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Similarities...
I just noticed some interesting similarities between the following IP addresses:

User:90.195.244.182 (Recently blocked by ‎User:Daniel Case)

User:90.195.244.166 (Currently blocked by User:KrakatoaKatie)

Both are interest in the same two movies and the same two wrestlers:

Kane (wrestler)

Jack Swagger

Full Metal Jacket ‎

Crime Story (film)

Also, both post from Sky Broadband and both geolocate to St. Helens. United Kingdom.

I'm just saying. --Guy Macon (talk) 07:29, 3 June 2012 (UTC)


 * At it again, right out of last block


 * (I filed a report at WP:AIAV and notified the other admin who had recently blocked this user) --Guy Macon (talk) 23:21, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

ANI thread on User:SonoraEnergyGroup
Hello Daniel Case, just came to inform you that i have posted a thread at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding sockpuppet and block evasion by User:SonoraEnergyGroup. Thanks. TheGeneralUser (talk) 18:17, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/4 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners
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Khufu
Hi. I have re-written that article with good literature and I hope you enjoy reading. Greetz;--Nephiliskos (talk) 17:55, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Sphere before Sept 11.jpg
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T:TDYK
Hi. I've currently got 13 articles on DYK at the moment that are unreviewed. Any chance you could help clear my personal backlog and review one or two of them? :) Would be happy to return the favour if you have any unreviewed DYKs you want reviewed. --LauraHale (talk) 12:52, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

IP has gone right back to its disruptive editing
Hello DC. On June 3rd you blocked Unfortunately they have gone right back to the same editing including adding flags to infoboxes - breaking templates - etc. They never respond to messages on their talk page so I don't know how we can get them to change. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 17:49, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

The MoS vandal again
Back at it:  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  21:31, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

It's Alvin and the Chipmunks again
 R ad io pa th y  •talk•  00:59, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

AN/I
Hi, the thread at Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents has drifted sufficiently in your direction that IMHO the participants should have informed you about it.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  09:12, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Possible Queue 6 late substitution or addition
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DYK Arbor Hill Historic District–Ten Broeck Triangle
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 * Please go back and look. There's still two paragraphs need referencing.  Thanks. Maile66 (talk) 00:58, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Your name
This is probably not the first time you've heard this, but I'm known for old stuff anyway: it occurred to me that anytime you perform an administrative action that involves putting an end to some discussion, you could truthfully say, "Case closed!" :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:31, 11 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I concur. But, the nagging thing for me right now is that some anon IP and registered users (probably the same person but who is to know, right?) keeps posting rubbish on my talk page as well as stalking/trolling my edits. Bugs, all of a sudden it reminds me of that horsegnat guy we put away a few years back... can we really say that it is a case closed then? -- Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 13:39, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Some of these characters take awhile to fully fade away. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:29, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Fade away?? What about them nagging aspect(s)??? *lol* -- Dave</i> ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 00:51, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

WP:THE OFFICE
I have proposed a conversion of this Project into a task force. Join in discussion. --George Ho (talk) 01:25, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

User:97.86.5.61
The IP is continuing to edit after the block expired. A longer block may be required. Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 13:55, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * This IP has returned with identical behavior for which he/she was blocked for previously. Thank you. -- Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 01:45, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Arbor Hill Historic District–Ten Broeck Triangle
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

He has returned
This is the California Beatles/Moody Blues vandal; he made a couple of familiar "test edits" today.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  01:22, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

List of Croatian counties by GDP DYK review
Hi! Thanks for taking time to review the Template:Did you know nominations/List of Croatian counties by GDP. I noticed the review as the template is on my watchlist, but I also noticed that you placed the review above the uppermost line of code available for reviews causing the review not to appear actually in the template. I'd move it down myself, but then it would appear as if I did the review, so could you please fix that? Thanks.--Tomobe03 (talk) 22:35, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Stale spammer report on User:Magingax
I used a vandalism-fighting tool to report the user (can't remember which one; Twinkle?); it has the option "promotion-only account". It automatically created the entry, so I was not able to read it. I will be more careful next time. What is the policy on such obvious spam-only accounts that have no intention of ever editing productively? Do they just stay in the user database? Does anybody ever clean them up? Where should I report them (assuming that I should)? Thanks. Nczempin (talk) 16:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Apology accepted. There is a separate noticeboard for spam accounts, WP:WPSPAM. And don't worry; you're hardly the only person to have been tripped up by Twinkle or Huggle that way. Daniel Case (talk) 16:50, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Action Park got a little famouser yesterday!
Just thought you should know that longform.org selected the article Action Park (one of your babies) as its editors' pick of the day on Tuesday. And here's a Metafilter thread where people are talking about the park, the article, and longform's selection of it. Congratulations! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 01:16, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * As I said to IvoShandor yesterday, "Wow". This sort of high praise from outside for an article is always the best compliment I get ... even better than a barnstar. I am flattered by some of the compliments on the MF thread: "the crafting of the Wikipedia article really is rather outstanding. It balances citations with readability very well, and doesn't venture too far into either dryness or minutiae." That's exactly what was trying to do, and it's beyond nice when someone picks up on it. Granted, the Weird NJ'' article gave me a lot to work with, but it still had to be worked with.

I guess because I grew up with this (actually, I didn't realize how dangerous the place had been until I read the article, years later, even though I had been there once and didn't see anyone get hurt (although I stayed off some of the rides because it was obvious to me that there was some potential for serious injury), it's hard to realize just how unbelievable this sounds to people who've never heard of it, particularly from outside the tri-state area. For a lot of them, their first point of contact has been this article ... and because of the way it's written, it has almost become part of the Action Park lore itself. Daniel Case (talk) 03:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you
The barnstar was unexpected, and very much appreciated. Coming from an editor with such an impressive resume of awards and recognized contributions makes it even more of an honor. Thanks again for noticing. – Lionel (talk) 22:08, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
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I am sorry for what my brother said about user:Koumz
I am very very sorry for what my younger brother Evan said about Koumz. He is passionate about fish and does not like being corrected. He has bi-polar disorder and asperger's syndrome. I hope you can forgive him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KyotoMiyazaki (talk • contribs) 02:23, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Perry Mason moment
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DYK for Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:02, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Did you know ...
Attention, talk page stalkers: Did you know that "Did you know ... that 'Did you know that Big 5 stopped selling handguns in March 1986?', regarded as the Perry Mason moment of the first Menendez brothers trial, resulted from a tip phoned in by a Court TV viewer?" will be Daniel Case's 500th DYK? Congratulations, Daniel, and thanks for your tireless work putting quality items on the Main Page! M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  22:51, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Congrats on getting to 500. :D

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Wallkill River
Eventually, I'd like to bring the Wallkill River article up to comparison with the work that was done on Paulins Kill which was made a featured article in 2007. It is odd that one river has been given thorough treatment while most of the other river's in Sussex County, NJ are mere stubs. I'm familiar with the New Jersey section of the river and admit that I know little of it north of the border. My current project is Sussex County, New Jersey which is about 75%-80% revised. Perhaps we can make a project out of it. --ColonelHenry (talk) 15:53, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
<small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 16:29, 9 July 2012 (UTC) 16:29, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

IP
Yesterday you blocked for vandalism IP user 212.178.237.253. Today he returned as 109.106.246.8 (WHOIS: same address, same geolocation etc.)-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 11:49, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The latest 109. IPs are him. Would you consider blocking the whole range as he seems to be the only who's using it?-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 13:36, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Credo Reference Update & Survey (your opinion requested)
Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:


 * Link to Survey (should take between 5-10 minutes): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N8FQ6MM

It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.

At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).

Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.

If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasit &#124; c 17:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Riverkeeper logo.jpg)
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Snuff film
Could you do a quick rev delete. BLP has only been charged, not convicted.--Canoe1967 (talk) 04:57, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. One more I did back in June still shows before my edit, if you don't mind?--Canoe1967 (talk) 05:06, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Ooops. I just noticed the last entry of the talk page as well. Sorry to be such a bother.--Canoe1967 (talk) 05:31, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

User:Aseanmotor
I should have stated more about this user. This user has only one edits, which is used to contest deletion of Appktm, created by the user of the same name User:Appktm. So I think it's a sockpuppet and should be blocked. You can request help from a checkuser if needed. Thank in advance. (btw, could you please semi-protect my user page indefinitely with sysop only move protection) --Morning Sunshine (talk) 16:51, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Perry Mason moment
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:02, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

500!

 * Wow! Congratulations!  That is quite an accomplishment! dm (talk) 06:12, 15 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Congratulations! That is impressive. - Mailer Diablo 18:50, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome - thanks for the kind words on the TFA too. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 04:05, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

You've been mentioned in an article on Slate.com
Check this out -- your User page is linked to in the article. Search for the text "one guy advocating", and have a good chuckle. <font color=#AAAAFF>ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡ bomb  00:23, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Bureaucratship
Hi Daniel, have you thought about running for bureaucratship? Callanecc (talk • contribs) talkback (etc) template appreciated. 03:35, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It might help have have a look at WT:RFA for some background info. Regards, Callanecc (talk • contribs) talkback (etc) template appreciated. 07:07, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

User:Demothewaldo and timing for the win
Well Done. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 15:44, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Absolutely - that's why I left it. The sequence and the timing is what made me laugh. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 17:01, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Smuggler Mine
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:02, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Newsroom
This is the section I've started for USRD at WM12. Mitch 32 (There is a destiny that makes us... family.) 18:32, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Sarah (talk) 18:05, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

User:Oj-vision
The WP:CSD criterion specifically excludes user pages from deletion. Should pages such as this just be blanked (not as nonsense, but as excessive unrelated content), or should they be nominated at WP:Miscellany for deletion? Peter&#160;E.&#160;James (talk) 18:25, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Antonipieter
He blatantly disregarded the warning. --Niemti (talk) 10:09, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania
I had a great time in D.C. and seeing you was part of it. I hope you had a good time as well. --<font color="336699" size="2" face="comic sans ms">David <font color="336699" size="2" face="comic sans ms">Shankbone  16:01, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Talkback RE: Feminism in Russia
Ping :) Accedie <font face="courier" color="black">talk to me  01:13, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Newburgh history reply
Message received. The Newburgh Free Library's "Local History Room" is supposed to be quite good by reputation, though I've never been there. (I don't live in Newburgh, but I know people who do.)

". . .or rewrite it entirely with the help of the materials there. If you have the time to do so, go ahead." Since I read that you're an administrator and I have a chance to catch your ear, I have a some comments:

About adding to articles, I've don't do more than the occasional typo corrections and maybe add a sentence now and then. I'm just not smart enough to do more nor do I have the time to try to figure out how to do more. The one time I did a little more, I completely screwed the page up, though I still don't understand how it happened. It was extremely embarrassing.

WP on the editor side is so very difficult to navigate. I wanted to upload a photo once, but after searching the site for over an hour to find out how, I gave up. The how-to instructions are tough to find if you don't already know what the pages are called or can successfully leap-frog from one topic to another until you land on the information you're looking for. I frequently am not lucky enough to find that method fruitful. Amazingly, the search function doesn't find the info on a page, only the title! If you really want to do something to improve WP, start an initiative to streamline and clean up the learning curve on the site. Make searching easier. Strip away what seems like infinite layers of minutia. (Even if I eventually find the correct topic page I'm looking for, there are never-ending and self-referential links to read through. It's a mind-spinning labyrinth.) WP is definitely not new-user-friendly.

What adds to the confusion is the LIBERAL use of acronyms and jargon. Stopping to follow links to definitions really bogs one down. All terms should be defined when first used, then subsequent references can be jargonized. That is the expected norm in any "real" article.

In the area of inter-editor relationships, encourage people to avoid those snarky comments that so-called editors love to give each other. One example is the type of talk page reply in the bitter spirit of, "Why didn't you look at this long-ago filed away tiny bit of archived spouting from 9-3/4 years ago so you'd know the answer to your pathetic question, huh?". The site has that "be bold" policy, but I read over and over on articles' talk pages where people get extremely upset when their articles are altered in the least without exhaustive consensus discussions first. It sounds wearying; who would anyone want to get involved with that?

The "Kate Middleton's Dress" momentum will become another failed attempt to get more women to contribute without changing fundamentally the way the site works in order to align more closely with how women think. And I don't mean just increasing the range of article topics that appeal to women. I bet women approach searching differently than men; I'm sure that I do. I know that many computer programs and websites just don't work the way I think and I'm not alone in that. In the sphere of working with others, women generally prefer a warm spirit of cooperation rather than the rancor that occurs on so many article talk pages.

Last of all, I don't have the background in grammar, spelling, writing, vocabulary, logic, etc, that editors need. It's a personal shortcoming, I know.

Hey, you asked!

Addendum 1: I just realized that I never actually posted my comment on the history of Newburgh since I was distracted by the "mail" banner and got involved with replying to you. I just posted it.

Addendum 2: I have the sinking feeling that I've just wasted a lot of time with all this typing. I fear that I'm talking about my Wikipedia gender problems to someone predisposed to depreciate them.

I looked up "WP:Kate Middleton's Dress" and see that you were very involved on the -delete- side of the debate for the article. It seems to me that what you all failed to realize was that, beyond interest in the design/needle arts/textile/wedding/fashion design/fashion industry/fashion trends/royal watching/self expression aspects, there is an emblematic aspect that transcends. I don't particularly care about frothy wedding dresses on their own one way or another. (I didn't wear one when I got married.) But this is not just a wedding dress that will hung in the back of Kate's closet until it rots off the hanger like the usual dress. It's an emblem of so much more in our culture. That includes the self-image and confidence of a woman that was thrust into the limelight and bore it well (compare and contrast that to the insecurity and fear of Diana Spencer, tragically thrust into history). Like every wedding dress to one extent or another, it is representative of the hopes and dreams of the couple. In this case, that extends beyond that to those of a nation, a continent, a globe hungry for positives. Diana's mess of a dress was representative foreshadowing of how that marriage would end. You brought up the wedding cake several times as though that were a reason to deny the symbolism of a wedding gown. Do you seriously think that, as beautiful and as delicious as a cake can be, after it's consumed and washed from the plates, that it rises to the symbolism of a wedding gown, let alone one with the import of this one?

To bring this topic down to a much more pedestrian level, have you any idea just how much money the wedding magazine industry generates all by itself? There can be little debate that this is a topic of great interest to many people, a good percentage of them women.

If editors now accept more gender differences in WP topics, there should be an article on the Kate Middleton's Dress debate itself, if it isn't already there. Here's a Slate blogpost to get you started, though since you're quoted in it, it might make you too close to the subject --- "How Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem": http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/13/kate_middleton_s_wedding_gown_and_wikipedia_s_gender_gap_.html

Carry on, Wordreader (talk) 07:46, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Daniel!
Pfew, your talkpage is huge! Maybe it is time for a new archive. Anyways, I was looking at Trichuris trichiura's talkpage, and I wanted to point out that Trichuris is not following WP:CLEANSTART. That page says: "A genuine clean start is not considered improper. However, if an editor uses their new account to resume editing articles or topics in the same manner that resulted in harassment or a negative reputation in the first place (becoming involved in disputes, edit warring or other forms of disruptive editing), the editor will probably be recognized and connected to the old account". The editing by this account is disruptive and the account has been editwarring and it has been involved in disputes (most likely a continuation of older disputes with his old account). Arcandam (talk) 15:12, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

In re: block comment
In re: Meduban (talk) 01:24, 23 July 2012 (UTC) | decline=Amazing that such a request, bordering on TLDR territory, is so easy to review and write such a short response too. Tide rolls has it right and I need not add any more to this classic example of a justified block for edit warring. — Daniel Case (talk) 03:14, 23 July 2012 (UTC)}}

I find this wiki editorial (and block) process confusing and disconcerting. Your involvement, tone, and dismissiveness adds to this all the more. Did you really take the time to consider the substance of the matter at hand? The facts seem to make clear that a small group of contributors sits in control over a body of content that regards a living person, and that it is not disposed to change that content even in response to constructive argument (initial proposed changes on 14 July, first reversion being by others to maintain status quo, no discussion of actual proposed content change until at/after the block on the 22nd, deletions of any proposed changes without discussion, etc.). Bottom line, I think current content is inaccurate and has a negative slant; reverting to this short form without any flexibility and engagement regarding points made for the proposed changes suggests bias on the past of the contributors controlling the text. In such a case, what is the best recourse within the rules of the system? Meduban (talk) 13:14, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Smith ISBN in Feminism in Russia
Hi. The ISBN added there is invalid; Special:BookSources/0345255216250. Any chance you can fix it? I looked and there are a lot of editions ;/ Br&#39;er Rabbit (talk) 09:41, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * It's the ISBN of the original paperback. I may have incorrectly substituted the "978" prefix for such an old one (basically, it's old enough that you can only find it on the inside). If not, I think we can use the ISBN of the current paperback run. Daniel Case (talk) 14:23, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - Did you try www.worldcat.org? That usually works. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:29, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Nine pages of editions in worldcat; 23 versions in gbooks. And none of them match. And this is on the wrong fucking page. Br&#39;er Rabbit (talk) 14:51, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Please keep discussion in one place. I've added "original paperback". As I said on my page to Crisco, there are a lot of editions of this book, and I'm not going to blindly pick an edition; the various editions have different pagination and that would corrupt the page references you used. I've got more tabs open than fit and I'm not seeing any editions that seem a plausible typo. I'm not seeing any "978" in what you added, either. Maybe check you copy, again? I know that typos get printed, but not that often. Br&#39;er Rabbit (talk) 14:58, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Adrienne Bolland
Orlady (talk) 16:02, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

SUL creation
Hello, Daniel. If your username isn't in conflict on other project, I think it's better to join them into a global account. Go to Preference -> Manage your global account. Thank you--Morning Sunshine (talk) 15:15, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Center Square/Hudson–Park Historic District
Hello! Your submission of Center Square/Hudson–Park Historic District at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! LauraHale (talk) 03:42, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thankyou for exemting me from the school block, I really appreaciate it. Thanks Danjel101 (talk) 23:57, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Message alert
--Skol fir (talk) 17:34, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

You've got mail!
Chip123456 19:54, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Callanecc (talk • contribs) talkback (etc) template appreciated. 08:10, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

User:Dieyu
Hi Daniel. I'm considering unblocking this guy per WP:ROPE; his unblock request and guarantee to "contribute according to the rules here, especially content with source" seem acceptable to me. However, I wanted to run it by you first, in case you're genuiniely opposed to letting hm loose again. Any opinion either way? Cheers, Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 06:59, 1 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Daniel, I see that this editor is blocked by you as a spamusername; his transgression appears to be edit warring, which was possibly due to ignorance; certainly his edits, while not wikipedic, were not offensive. His name, while it carries religious overtones, is not IMHO forbidden. I would support unblock unless there is something which there is something I am not seing?--<b style="color:red;">Anthony Bradbury</b><sup style="color:black;">"talk" 10:00, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The editor was blocked for edit warring and plans to continue editing in the same area. Maybe a restrictive unblock where he can't edit religious articles for a month or so would be appropriate.  That way, he can learn Wikipedia's policies in an area where he doesn't have a strong bias.  2nd chance might be a solution as well. Ryan Vesey 13:10, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I've declined the unblock for now and offered a 2nd chance, we'll see what he does with it. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 13:21, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment on my talk page from Daniel noted; support for unblock retraced. --<b style="color:red;">Anthony Bradbury</b><sup style="color:black;">"talk" 16:32, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

please finish processing unblock
User_talk:Trichuris_trichiura Nobody Ent 21:01, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The unblock request that is. Arcandam (talk) 22:58, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I have no problem with the block nor the declined unblock, but it's unclear to me what TT is blocked for.  If T. Canens has verified sockedness based on privileged technical data, than that's that. If it's for disruptive editing I'm inclined to engage in a dialog with the editor, because despite their past behavior I'm hopeful that, if properly engaged, it's possible they could become a productive editor. Nobody Ent 01:49, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for response. Nobody Ent 02:03, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

e-mail
Smallbones (talk) 15:25, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Your name was forged
User:WigglesWorld forged your name to a nonsense post in Talk:Christmas (since rolled back). He/she was a self-proclaimed sockpuppet (they didn't say of whom), and has been blocked as a vandalism-only account. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  21:31, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Personally I think it's one crackpot pushing something they made up one day. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  17:48, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

User:Aliyamustafina
FWIW she may have been editing for a year, but do make note of the fact that she has never communicated on wiki either on a user talk or article talk page. Nor does she respond to requests she actually use sources or edit summaries. And you may AGF, but right now the real Mustafina is competing in the Olympics and I promise she is not wasting time making sure the templates are right on English Wikipedia. As this is a BLP matter, I do hope you don't wait too terribly long for a response. Ultra Venia (talk) 05:27, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Unblock request
Thoughts on the request at User talk:Vpwrestling? I could go either way.--Chaser (talk) 17:10, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Center Square/Hudson–Park Historic District
Yngvadottir (talk) 00:02, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Issue at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
Could you comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National_Register of Historic Places?

This is regarding a key part of the upcoming WLM-US photo contest. Smallbones (talk) 12:24, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

recent action at AIV
Hi, and thanks for your work at AIV. You might want to look at this diff in regard to your recent action to warn IP user 188.10.99.4. Apparently, the reporter is none too clear on what is vandalism, along with not knowing what to do about it. Thanks. Gtwfan52 (talk) 15:15, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

IP again
This is our friend from Santa Ana, California, a.k.a. the Beatles/Moody Blues vandal.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  15:44, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

IP again
This is our friend from Santa Ana, California, a.k.a. the Beatles/Moody Blues vandal.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  15:44, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Just so you know..........
This user has been active again. I've blocked him again but thought I'd let you know as you left a message on the IP talk page about suspected sockpuppetry--5 albert square (talk) 21:56, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

GAN - Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
FYI, I was assessing SCOTUS articles and came across Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. which you have been involved with. The article is well written, etc. so I nominated it for GAN. I thought you might be interested. GregJackP  Boomer!   00:28, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

User:Party Booths
You're the blocking admin; I'm feeling inclined to unblock the fellow. Any objection? See the exchange on User talk:Party Booths. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:44, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for cognitive vulnerability
Greetings. I found you from the DYK main page. I was wondering if you can add your two cents to this nomination. Your help is greatly appreciated.Khyati Gupta (talk) 18:13, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination
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Artist usernames
Hi, Daniel. What's your take on usernames like this, in which the name matches the nom de plume of an individual artist? A promotional violation? Or is it sufficiently tied to an individual? "Lady Gaga" might be another example. <font face="Tahoma">NTox · talk 04:51, 18 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for chiming in. Funny how intellectual an issue like usernames can be. <font face="Tahoma">NTox · talk 15:34, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Filter-caught or deleted edits
Coincidentally, I also noticed your recent comments at the noticeboard. I have no serious issues with them, but a question: it was my understanding that the notion of requiring promotional activity on a promo-name as a requisite to blocks are a way of assessing the editor's intentions / patterned behavior so as to determine whether a warning or a block is the best course of action on that promotional name. i.e., if the editor has been constructive, a warning to change the name is the tactful / ideal option, whereas if they have been promotional / disruptive a block (soft or hard) is advised. I had thought that whether an edit has been deleted or caught by a computer filter would be irrelevant in this respect; i.e., in assessing the user's patterned behavior. After all, reversions that show up as public edits have too been caught by a 'filter' of sorts (a human filter). Am I misguided? Thanks for reading. <font face="Tahoma">NTox · talk 15:57, 18 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Here are the comments in question: . <font face="Tahoma">NTox · talk 16:10, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

No worries about the timeliness of your reply. Thanks for getting back to me. I suppose it is, then, a personal judgement. I had asked because I have seen other administrators look at the issue differently (they have blocked with filter entries alone). I find it best to learn the varied perspectives and adapt accordingly. It seems to hinge on the idea of whether or not the administrator / editor believes that warnings / filters / etc. will sufficiently solve the problem. If one believes that they will, he or she will be less likely to block if those means have been used. If one doesn't think that they will, he or she will be more apt to block. I think you're right that most don't return, although some of course do (Lexecute did try to recreate the article from two years ago, today ), but there are good reasons on both sides. <font face="Tahoma">NTox · talk 03:49, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Image - DYK on Delavan Terrace
Need your help at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know. There is a discrepancy in the labeling of the house. Please reply at the WP talk:DYK page. Thanks. Maile66 (talk) 23:46, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Have another look at the talk page on this. I'm confused, now. Maile66 (talk) 01:47, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Semachrysa jade
Orlady (talk) 00:02, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Delavan Terrace Historic District
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:02, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

omg
So I can block editors based on their poorly chosen COI usernames? LEARNING NEW THINGS ALL THE TIME. :) SarahStierch (talk) 04:22, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Lucky you didn't say that in your RfA Sarah :). WP:SPAMNAME's very helpful, huh? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:52, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Relevant discussion
Hi. As you are a regular of WP:UAA, you are invited to participate in this RfC, which may influence the noticeboard. Have a good one. <font face="Tahoma">NTox · talk 08:57, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

71.250.123.23
I noticed you blocked this IP prior, and they're back making the same exact edits as they were before. I reported them to WP:AIV and thought I'd let you know as well!  Musicfreak7676  my talk page! 02:24, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Melvins
Hi,

This page has currently got an editprotected request on it. it appears that you fully-protected it indefinitely at the start of April (!) and this is still active. Care to have a look and see if unprotection is viable at this point? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 10:43, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Knox Street Historic District
Yngvadottir (talk) 08:03, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK review for Template:Did you know nominations/Ivica Dačić
Daniel, will you be finishing this review? It does need further attention. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:47, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

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IP
The IP you've blocked several times( etc.) is causing again disruption. Like I suggested the last time you blocked him consider dealing with the whole 212.178.240.0 - 212.178.247.255 as he/she seems to be the only ones who's using it.-- — ZjarriRrethues — talk 21:02, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Narmer
Hi. Could you please keep an eye on tis article? Some guys are keeping removin´ the new pharaoh´s boxes... Regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 22:27, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

That's what it was meant to do
See WT:NRHP - it does make things simpler for newbies, but maybe the look is a bit worse. BTW,did you have any agreement with Richard M. ? Smallbones( smalltalk ) 04:32, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Indoor and Built Environment
Could you please have a look at this and earlier edits? This new editor keeps removing a sourced criticism section and despite warnings does not provide an explanation for their actions. As I have reverted twice, I don't want to revert again as that would violate 3RR. As there has not been a level 4 warning, the vandalism noticeboard is perhaps not yet appropriate. I know that 3RR does not cover vandalism fighting, but perhaps here the case for vandalism is not completely 100%. I'd appreciate your advice. Thanks. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 17:50, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Independence Pass (Colorado)
I just wanted to thank you for all the great work you have done on the above named article. It is a very interesting and informative article. Gtwfan52 (talk) 18:05, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

USRD Summer 2012 Newsletter

 * —  Imzadi 1979  →   22:54, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Independence Pass (Colorado)
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Independence Pass (Colorado)
You might want to reconsider one of your recent edits to Independence Pass (Colorado). In the article Tree line, every occurrence of the singular term "tree line" is preceded by the definite article the. Truthanado (talk) 02:30, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Email
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All that work we went through
in November. Guess we got there at the best time we could. Mitch 32 (Victim of public education, 17 years and counting) 16:52, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I seriously doubt it. The flames were reported at 3:49 AM. Even Anderson Street has yet to be determined for the fire. Remember, a propane company was also nearby. It's been a hot summer. Could be many reasons. Mitch 32 (Victim of public education, 17 years and counting) 22:39, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * You remember the area, that's an awfully rural portion of Sparta for kids to go hang out. But, we'll have to find out. This is still an unfortunate situation, but I have a hard time believing this was arson or unintended arson. Mitch 32 (Victim of public education, 17 years and counting) 02:01, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Meh right now, we're just arguing stuff that has no relevancy to the site. Eventually I will write the article, but this is unfortunate. Mitch 32 (Victim of public education, 17 years and counting) 02:20, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Electrical is the speculation, which was also the speculation on Anderson Street. Mitch 32 (Victim of public education, 17 years and counting) 22:28, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Unblock
Regarding this decline, your rationale is that "user may be Vintagekits sock". This seems to be based on nothing more than Kittybrewster's comment "Please check whether User is Vintagekits." Is this really enough these days? Someone makes an informal checkuser request to no one in particular with no evidence whatsoever and it is enough to justify a 72-hour block? Really? I would ask you to reconsider. If you do, I would ask you to take into consideration the following: -Rrius (talk) 20:16, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * IP's edits were correct
 * IP's explanation of opening multiple tabs, then sequentially deleting the word "Sir" and saving takes virtually no time at all
 * Given that, IP's ability to produce 100+ edits in an hour is easily understood
 * IP was at no time before the block challenged on his edits or given any chance to defend himself
 * The user is always free to request unblock again and provide more information (at least unless the talk page is revoked), with a different admin reviewing.
 * Addendum: PBS did exactly that. Daniel Case (talk) 20:44, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Kittybrewster does not seem to be the only user with suspicions.
 * As, unlike a registered account, an IP cannot be blocked indefinitely unless it's proven to be an open proxy, the bar for me for declining such an unblock without some sort of formal process is lower, especially with a comparatively short block length. If an SPI is opened, and the IP wishes to defend themselves, I would see no problem with an unblock for that purpose. Daniel Case (talk) 20:39, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * When you reviewed, the only allegation of puppetry was the vague one I quoted above. As for lower bars, it would seem the bar is so low as not to exist. IP was blocked for 72 hours for editing too fast, full stop. Basically, the ability to use tabbed browsing spurred the attack, and now the self-same ability and the ability to read is used to justify the SPI that's been opened. It's a shame that the bar against IPs is so low that they are subject to arbitrary buffoonery. The worst part is seeing this from three admins, including one I really respected (Kittybrewster), all in one incident. Not one of you thought, "Hmm, IP should probably be (or have been) talked to first." Not one of you thought, "Gee, 72 hours might be a bit excessive here." And particularly worrying, all it took was one editor suggesting that IP be checked against Vintagekits, with no evidence whatsoever, to sustain a 72-hour block that was baseless to begin with. -Rrius (talk) 21:17, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * When I reviewed, PBS had also expressed his concerns. Yes, I agree that, in retrospect someone should have talked to the IP first rather than just presume sockpuppetry. But by the time I reviewed two other admins were interacting with the IP on the talk page and had expressed their concerns. I generally tend to assume that other admins will be acting in good faith, so I deferred to them (especially since I'm not personally familiar with the Vintagekits situation). Had there been no comments or discussion on the talk page I might have done the investigation over and perhaps come to a conclusion where I might have put the unblock on hold while querying the other admin, as I've done in the past (my experience is that there's more to a possible sock situation than meets the eye, so you're better off asking before you go unblocking and perhaps starting a wheel war).  OK, I understand if you think an injustice was done. But we have a process to follow, and I think that by following it here we ended it about as well as we could have ... the IP was unblocked after a mere 4 hours, PBS undid his own block after finding that the edits were good from the appropriate WikiProject, but because he still has suspicions started an SPI at which the IP has ample opportunity to defend himself, moreso than he would have if he was still blocked (and unless there's behavioral evidence Kitty or PBS can provide to support this, I doubt the SPI will go anywhere as I think Checkuser requests are usually declined in this situation, and indeed the evidence may not be fresh as it's been a long time since Vintagekits edited). And the IP has handled this quite gracefully too, I might add. It doesn't look like anyone's ego got too much of a bruising.  I will say it once again ... I do wish people, when they see a sock of someone they're on the lookout for, would provide some more evidence because sometimes these blocks get challenged and reviewed by admins unfamiliar with the situation. But I've gotten criticism for the reverse of this situation sometimes—I decline an AIV saying I'd like to see more of a link, or who the suspected sockmaster of the "obvious sock" is, and the original reporter says "Are you crazy? It's so clearly X ..."  There is undoubtedly an opportunity for improvement here, for all concerned, but I think that primary responsibility rests with or on the admin who made the original block. Daniel Case (talk) 22:31, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It's all well and good to assume the good faith of the blocking admin, but aren't you supposed to look at their reasons? PBS in good faith fucked up (not that he or she will admit it). At base, PBS couldn't imagine that an IP editor could be anything other than a newbie or a bad guy. So on seeing an IP rapidly editing, PBS ignored the fact that each edit was gnomish and had an edit summary explaining why it was being made. And when IP explained that he or she was simply acting according to WP:PEER, PBS took that as a further sign of being a bad guy, rather than of being a good-faith editor because obviously if an IP knows about WikiProjects, it must be some form of block evasion. Because, again, an IP just can't be a bona fide editor with some experience under his belt. He also ignored that IP's reaction to the block read like someone who hasn't experienced a block, at either first- or secondhand.
 * "It's all well and good to assume the good faith of the blocking admin, but aren't you supposed to look at their reasons?" I admit I didn't see the block message in the log, just what was on the user talk page at that point, which was the "blocked for suspected sockpuppetry" notice. "PBS in good faith fucked up (not that he or she will admit it)" Agreed, and I know because I've been there once or twice. I agree that, had I been the first admin reviewing the user's behavior, I wouldn't have blocked without warning or discussing. But ... all the same, I've seen how it becomes counterproductive, and creates new levels of drama, to just overturn another admin's block that casually (I know because I did it once early in my adminship). It's better to let the other admin see that the block was unfounded and reverse it themselves; which is what happened ultimately. Daniel Case (talk) 03:56, 11 September 2012 (UTC)


 * PBS was so caught up in the IPs-as-troublemaker mindset that he or she blew the call. That was okay at first (though less so later), people make mistakes, but you either did the same thing or failed to look at PBS's reasons. At the time of your edit, IP had answered PBS's questions, twice in one case, and PBS was at the barmy stage of asking IP what other IP addresses he or she had edited from, as though anyone would know that. There was simply no justification for the sock allegation or the block. As a member of the community, I would expect admins reviewing unblock requests to actually read what's been written and use their own discretion in looking at the blocking admin's justification. If an admin is just going to take the blocking admin's conclusions at face value without at least asking for more where, as here, the justification is lacking, I think I'd rather that admin leave the unblock requests to someone else. There is an attitude out there that admins and such generally stick together, which is not wholly justified, but finds support in incidents like this.
 * Well, what's wrong with admins having each other's back, at least to a point? You want all the people with the tools to be on the same page, at least initially. I generally do look over the record if there's time; in this case it was rather longish. Since the IP did not dispute any of the facts either of the other admins were raising (i.e., the discussions were not bristling with linked diffs, which is basically classic TLDR, I'll-let-another-admin-consider-this material, I stuck with the conversation on the talk page. I felt that given time, if it was meant to work out it would work out. So my experience has been. Daniel Case (talk) 03:56, 11 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm sure you're curious as to why I find this particular injustice so noxious that I keep harping on it. All I can say is that if I, as a logged-in user, had done the same, at worst I would have been ignored. At best I would have gotten a note of appreciation or a barnstar. But because this was an IP, there was a block that should not have happened. As for it being a "mere four hours", three of those were just IP being ignored mid-conversation. And now there is a specious SPI. Because IP has been treated this way, it is hard to imagine IP will take on this sort of tedious grunt work in the future. We have a population problem, and overreactions like we've seen today don't help. This cowboy, shoot-from-the-hip approach to deploying the tools does no one any good. Adminship is a great responsibility because, forasmuch as the admin pages downplay the significance, use of the tools (good or poor) has a meaningful impact on how or whether people edit. Admins should be mindful of that when considering if, when and how to use the tools. Actions have consequences, even if we don't see them ourselves. -Rrius (talk) 02:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * "All I can say is that if I, as a logged-in user, had done the same, at worst I would have been ignored." Well, I think that would have happened to a new account as well. As a long time user, you have earned a good deal of trust from the community that you would know what you were doing. "This cowboy, shoot-from-the-hip approach to deploying the tools does no one any good." Indeed, and unblocking without letting consensus take hold would have been as shoot-from-the-hip as the original block. Two wrongs would not have made a right there. Daniel Case (talk) 03:56, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. Check user has been declined, so you may wish to revert you edit here -- PBS (talk) 07:28, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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User talk:Hummingbirdhk
Daniel, I've been in touch with this user via email. Thanks for stepping in, though I don't want to bombard this user with too much confusing information, and would prefer to handle this case myself except for bureaucrat intervention (because username changes are obviously needed). Deryck C. 13:19, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh no, I don't mean removing it - it'll just make them even more confused! Deryck C. 14:19, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

DYK for United States Post Office (Yonkers, New York)
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Taparchives
Hello. Would you mind explaining in greater detail (at User talk:Taparchives) why you blocked User:Taparchives for an inappropriate username? I am trying to understand what the problem is. Thanks &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:59, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

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Please take a look
Please take a look at this: John Ridge Fernando. It appears the creator created it with the CSD template already on it, which was handy because it needs it. I was wondering if that somehow obscured the listing of it wherever you admin types find speedys listed. Gtwfan52 (talk) 05:02, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Translate from Bulgarian
I understand that you know some Bulugarian and can translate. Would you be willing to translate this for me please? It's very short.

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IP User 98.81.14.72
you stated:

" Insufficient recent activity to warrant a block. Refactoring as alleged is a serious allegation, but I don't see it in the recent edits. The user hasn't been warned for it in six days, and even yesterday's warning wasn't final. Daniel Case (talk) 02:35, 17 September 2012 (UTC)"

I'm not big on the admin parts of WP, I usually just do minor copyedits. (Don't even remember how I came across this…)

What does refactoring mean?

The IP was warned about changing other's comments on Talk Pages on 6, 10, 15 & 16 September. Or does it need to be the special one with the blue circle with "i" in it? How and who can do a final warning?

I'm sure there is a better way to do this but: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area&diff=next&oldid=513021919

the IP User removed someones comment totally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Chaco_War&diff=next&oldid=511955614

editing someone else's comment

(Are these examples I should have put in the original request?)

I can't find one now, but I remember there were several that I came across where the user made small change in someone's comment (puncuation/capitalization which seems to be one of their main issues) and then put their own comment below. I've not reverted when I come across that. Should I?

Thanks!

--VikÞor |  Talk 11:29, 17 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply.--VikÞor |  Talk 02:11, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

DYK South End–Groesbeckville Historic District
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Downtown Albany Historic District and photo request
I see you are the most active editor at Downtown Albany Historic District and was hoping you would perhaps be able to point me to a photograph of the Albany Masonic Temple for this article since it is a part of that district. Thank you.Worldjustice (talk) 20:36, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

GA review
I'm sorry, but you had to notify the nominators during a GA review. When you had opted to review Dasavathaaram, as nom, I had not received a single message saying so. Furthermore, most of your review only consisted of statements like "some sections are problematic" and "the article's prose is fully redundant" without even going into further detail, which is necessary in a GA review. Also, many of your points were unrelated to the GA criteria, i.e. the usage of US, USA and United States of America. The statement "this article can get away with using more fair-use images" also follows the same trail and further adds up to the insufficient justifications. If the image's size had to be reduced, that should have been a proper comment in a review. However, how on earth are all of these put together sufficient enough to quickfail an article without even informing the nominator? Please go through the instructions to review an article, the GA criteria and what the good article criteria are not before reviewing another article. I'm sorry to say, I'm utterly disappointed with your method of reviewing and inability to treat a GA review properly. If you wish, you can list out all the problems you find in the talk page before it is nominated next time. Hope to see a reply from you. Regards, Secret of success (talk) 07:09, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the late response. I guess I wasn't clear enough. Quick-failing an article is a much more serious concern when compared to holding a long-time review (putting it on hold after listing issues). It is not mandatory to inform the reviewers, but when the review is quick-failed, the possibility of a nominator finding it on their watchlist and simultaneously responding is zero, because even before they can think, the article is failed. That requires a notification in order to try for a response by the nominator. Moving on to your review in specific, lets talk about the first point, prose. You have made a statement "there are large sections circled in red where I just stopped giving specifics as there were so many places where the language could be smoothed out." The prose is required to be "clear and concise", which means "smoothing out" is NOT under the criteria. If there are any grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, wrong English, etc, present in significant amounts in the article which cannot be fixed in a small period of time, that would validate quick-failing. But that is not the case here, and even if it is (I do not think so), you have not justified it sufficiently. As I had pointed out, the consistency in terms does not fall under GA criteria, no matter what, and comes under the "smoothing out" business, which is not related to WP:WIAGA. "some sections have a tone and usage which sounds more like a news story than an encylopedia article." A few examples wouldn't hurt, I think? There are no copyright concerns, I had used the duplication detector before in the article, and you had assumed that there would be a problem here. Coming to images, the idol image could have simply been removed, if the license was uncertain, isn't it? "This leads into the problem...Surely there are publicity stills available?" Whether images are available or not is out of question, a GA article does not require any images, and now you are setting limit to 3, 4 images based on casual opinion? An article can be quick-failed only if it meets the given criteria and till now, I don't see a single reason from you with examples, as to how your review connected with that. I strongly believe the review has to be re-opened and a third opinion given, so that it could be improved wherever necessary, and brought to GA level. Secret of success (talk) 15:16, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, an uncertainty still looms over me, but making this an issue would be construed as an attempt to waste a user's time, so I'll let go of this (my apologies if I seemed too picky, or went to an extreme end for no reason). Since you have no problem in copy-editing the article, I would be happy if you do so. Unless I'm mistaken, after copy-editing, the article will not have any more major problems, and all it requires is a re-nomination. I'm retiring quite soon, and won't be able to do that, so I have to check in and see if anyone else would be interested to do so. In this situation, good luck, thanks and my apologies. Secret of success (talk) 15:14, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Ameri Ichinose
Hello. I was the last admin to delete this article and a neutral editor pointed out to me that the article was deleted under CSD#A7 in error (which is true as I completely overlooked a claim to significance before I deleted it). Anyway, as you protected the article from being re-created, I was wondering if you'd have a problem with me undeleting said article considering it was deleted in error on my part. Many thanks AngelOfSadness  talk  17:31, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

The Jacksons Victory tour
Hello!

Please add some sources, where is mentioned that The Jacksons planned to visit European countries during their 1984 tour, or I am forced to revert your last edit.

Thank you! Lassoboy (talk) 18:13, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the additions (edits)! This article is now more comprehensive than it was before.

With regard to the claim, English is not my native language, so I thought that this article is an example, which shows us that Victory tour was supposed to end in Los Angeles anyway, regardess of what was the initial plans for Europe. I did not read myself that the group is going to dispand but only the tour itself. This was the idea of the article for me.

I would also add the exact date for the press conference, because it is an interesting fact for the fans and it is proved by the source. Lassoboy (talk) 05:34, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanations! In spite of everything, right now I am proud that Victory tour article is now better than ever! Thank you! Lassoboy (talk) 18:13, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi!

I made some modifications, if you do not agree with them, then let`s meet at the talk page and discuss it there. Lassoboy (talk) 09:56, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi!

I wrote the answer for you in the talk page and added back this Don King statement and Michael`s reaction to this. I think that this proves the readers the general atmosphere Michael had to be in then and how it affected him.

And by the way, can you recommend me some sources you mentioned in the talk page? It seems to me that you are quite aware of Michael Jackson and the Jacksons affairs. Are you a fan? And as a fan of Michael Jackson I would be really pleased to get to know about these sources you know. Thank you! Lassoboy (talk) 17:51, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Abang Community
Abang Community appears to be writing an article in good faith at his User page. Can you help him? Please do not respond to me as I am just trying to get some help for a new editor. Thank you. Respectfully,  Tiyang (talk) 02:06, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Cobra - UAA
Hi. Simply for the sake of future accuracy, can you explain why 'Cobra206' is not close enough to 'Cobra', the radio station ? In general, do you believe numbers after the username like this invalidate the match? <font face="Tahoma">NTox · talk 16:24, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

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IP Disruption
Here. I am not sure if I could restore everything in the page correctly. Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 15:13, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I replied on my TP. I take the opportunity to ask you a favour, if possible: A user is somehow obliging me to an edit-war on Genocides in history imposing a source which is WP:SPS because he thinks the author is notable or reliable. I know that sometimes we are even susceptible on the quality of publishers. How can we accept a self-published text as reliable? Could you intervene and say your opinion on the article. Also the user has removed a "citation required" I added, without any explanation. If I go over and insist on this I will have added another edition of mine to the said article, which I do not wish. Could you warn the user on removing tags/templates arbitrarily and perhaps restore it? I would be very thankful if you may. All the best. --E4024 (talk) 15:36, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Blocked
I noticed you declined the automatic AIV report of. However, I have blocked the user anyway as a sockpuppet of trying to be obvious. Thanks. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:27, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

re: Trail Blazing
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trail_blazing&oldid=12749939 is the original version of the article that uses the "colour" spelling. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Landis.blackwell (talk • contribs) 22:48, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Change of a block
Hello, Daniel. I thought I should let you know that I have changed a block of yours, as you can see at User talk:Clicksnm123. I know from experience that you very often tend to give username blocks or softer blocks where I would have given spamusername blocks. Usually, I accept the decision that you have made, even if I would have done differently in your palce. On this occasion, though, the account is such an unambiguous advertising-only account that I really felt that I could not agree with "your username is the only reason for this block". Please let me know if you think I was wrong. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:06, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Cowfers
Since you blocked the user a couple of days ago, this SPI (stumblingly opened in the wrong space by me but happily rescued by someone more experienced) may be of interest: Sockpuppet investigations/Cowfers. Best, --Arxiloxos (talk) 15:31, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Help request
I don't know how to report a user to the UAA. Could you look at the case of the user whose username means "Fuck Turkey". You can find it in the users reported to admins for vandalism. Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 20:22, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Done already. I will use my credit in another occasion. Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 20:31, 4 October 2012 (UTC)