User talk:EVula/Apr-Jun 2010

This archive contains comments posted between April 2010 and June 2010.

The Wikipedia Signpost: 5 April 2010
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well excuse me
for misinterpreting the number of episodes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.117.24.100 (talk) 12:48, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * You went from just under 200 episodes to over a thousand. That's one hell of a misinterpretation. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 15:43, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 12 April 2010
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 19 April 2010
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Couldn't resist...

 * Kick ass, many thanks. :) (though I don't actually remember saying that) EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 18:25, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 26 April 2010
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WP: No self attacks
well done, lol, it made my day —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.61.111.53 (talk) 30 April 2010 03:21
 * Haha, thanks. :) I'm really, really happy with that page... I've been wanting to make another fake policy page for a while, I just haven't had the time. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 14:10, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you have in mind? I may be able to kick-start something. I think "fake" will make all the PC wikipdramapedians wet themselves; try the word "parody" instead.  bahamut0013  words deeds 17:03, 30 April 2010 (UTC) PS: Bow-chicka-bow-wow
 * Actually, I think the next one should have a hatnote of "holy shit this is totally a policy!" just to alleviate any confusion. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 18:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Significant use of File:Stop hand nuvola.svg will emphasize that!  bahamut0013  words deeds 00:27, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * If I didn't have to go to rehearsal, I'd be sorely tempted to modify that to be flipping the bird... EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 14:19, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Make a spoken wikipedia page of the article, take a listen :) --Sghfdhdfghdfgfd (talk) 21:07, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Totally excellent. :D  bahamut0013  words deeds 21:42, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

In case anyone hears about the Nashville flooding...
I'm fine.

Actually, I'd love it if anyone heard about the flooding; there's been a pathetic amount of word about it on the national news. Apparently a dud of a bomb is more important than Nashville getting 15 inches of rain and 11 people ending up dead. Watching a building float down the interstate was pretty interesting. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 06:27, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It actually briefly made the news all the way over here in the UK . I saw that on the TV this morning though I have to say I didn't make the connection that that was where you lived! Glad to hear you're alright. ~ mazca  talk 12:17, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Heh, now if it could just make the news on this side of the pond, that'd be lovely. ;) Check the B&B; I posted a topic that actually has links and whatnot (including footage of a mobile classroom floating down the interstate, which became a river of abandoned cars) EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 15:32, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Good to knw you're OK. I'd heard there was some flooding, but I didn't realize that they were quite so severe. The news mentioned it more or less off-handed; the focus of the broadcast was the oil spill in the Gulf. Though, on a positive note, you can now proudly display User:UBX/Swimmer 2 on your userpage!  bahamut0013  words deeds 19:45, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's pretty severe. The Cumberland River is going to crest at 52 feet; the "flood level" for it is 40. All sorts of major areas around town are getting flooded, including LP Field and the Grand Ole Opry. 1,500 people had to be evacuated from the Opryland Hotel, and it's currently flooded too. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 20:50, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 3 May 2010
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FYI
Hey, just though I'd let you know the pic you took of the flooding is on the Main Page. Best, HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   15:52, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Whoa, sweet. Thanks. :) EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 15:54, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 10 May 2010
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 17 May 2010
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The individual named "Bunns"
I was hoping to get a second opinion regarding this. I decided to ask you, not only as a person I know I can trust, but as a respected cough admin, 'crat, and oversighter.

The story, as I tell it, starts last year (13 October 2009):, whose contribs show a record of incivillity, begins aggressively blanking my userpages, claiming a rationale of opsec due to my Iraq deployement that was completely without merit (both on wiki and with the Marine Corps opsec policies). When the heat was on him for his actions, he claimed to be a third person who compromised the account, and after being blocked, the "real owner" showed up minutes later (and probably from the same IP address).

A couple of weeks ago (4 May 2010), left some insults on my talk page, and was promptly blocked for harassment. I guessed that he was a Marine due to the "1775", which is a Marine thing. I'm not sure this individual is related or not.

Today, I noticed. Looking at his page history (and comparing it to the blocked account), this account was created created years ago with an identical userpage to Bunns USMC (including the same real name), but it lay dormant until a few days ago. He was blocked as a sock of Pops1775, due to having the same IP (likely behind the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet firewall, which groups thousands of east coast military networks together, including the one I myself edit from at work) and the "1775", and 4 unlock requests declined until apparently saw an email from him on unblock-en-l and was satisfied enough to unblock. I'm guessing that the email to unblock-en-l proved his identity via the standard firstname.lastname@usmc.mil format, which positively identifies him to both accounts.

The reason I ask is just a sanity check: should we AGF in the light of some previous sins and let him start fresh (I'll concede that he has not made any major sins on this account was unblocked)? Or should we block him for violations of the sockpuppety policy, and do a checkuser to see if there are any more domrant socks?  bahamut0013  words <sub style="color:#000;margin-left:-16px">deeds 00:53, 19 May 2010 (UTC) No guarantee that the above makes sense, since I just got in from the show and am dog-ass tired. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 05:32, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Personally, I have very little patience with editors that are only here to harass other editors. I think it's kinda bullshitty that he got unblocked, but if he's behaving himself, c'est la vie. I wouldn't hesitate to CU him and block any other socks that are found, however.

StackJones
Geezus KKKrist you people really need to get a life. May I suggest the board game Monotony? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stackjones (talk • contribs) 12:51, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * You're indefinitely blocked. I really have no patience for trolls this morning. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 13:53, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Good morning to you too, sunshine! :D Check out the two rants I linked to in the AfD; highly entertaining. I'm tickled by how he confused the dead Marines from the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing with a plane crash and wove Oliver North and the Iran–Contra affair in with this musician's dead girlfriend, not to mention railing against those who voted to delete as "vandals" and whining about how he, as a newbie, got bitten. This guy is a nutjob, and I'm starting to think the whole thing is a hoax and possibly a breaching experiment. If I were an admin, I'd have blocked him just for using dead Marines to justify keeping that crap on Wikipedia.  bahamut0013  <sup style="color:#000;margin-left:-1px">words <sub style="color:#000;margin-left:-16px">deeds 16:14, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm only grumpy these days because I've got too much going on. Come June, I'll have a lot of different pressures being alleviated (some related to the show, some related to other stuff that I don't care to get into right now). I'll be back to my regular happy-go-lucky (or at least, "amusingly cranky-go-lucky") self in no time! :) EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 18:42, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 24 May 2010
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 31 May 2010
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 7 June 2010
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SPI Assistance
HI EVula, Would you mind checking out the SPI case here, specifically the oversighted edits made by Chloe81375? The checkuser data appears to be inconclusive, so we have to base it off of behavioral information when comparing to Getfit1980, but since all of Chloe's edits have been oversighted, there's a slight dilemma. Any assistance would be great! Icestorm815 •  Talk  17:49, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll reply on the SPI page with a summation of the oversighted material. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 19:25, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Icestorm815  •  Talk  20:10, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Li Mei in MK9
http://www.mksecrets.net/images/newsarchive/2010/june/image33.jpg

She's there very briefly but she's in the video, however I agree she won't be playable because we didn't see any gameplay. Sincerely Subzerosmokerain (talk) 19:46, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, sure enough. Thanks for the link. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 22:34, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 June 2010
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Strange
Hi there. Well, Firefox is angry at your site, http://www.evula.com/, for some reason – calling it a "<tt>Reported Attack Site!</tt>", yet the information it provides is about the seemingly-unrelated "<tt>awm-magazine.ru</tt>". Maybe a DNS problem on my part? If not, you may want to look into it. Thanks. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  23:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Fucking windows... I gave Windows (via VMware Fusion) access via to an HTML document I used as my "home" page, which included automatically-formatted links to my websites' control panels; evidently, those passwords got harvested by someone. Pardon me while I go hug my Mac, which never gives me such trouble... EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 00:25, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * That's exactly why I don't (and never have) used Windows. Good luck with that; also nice to see a fellow EV enthusiast. Cheers! &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  00:40, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Eh, I only use it so that I can test sites in Windows browsers. The few times I use it for anything else, I use VMware to deactivate the ethernet port under Windows (the Mac side stays online, but the virtual machine thinks it isn't online anymore). evula.com is fixed now (and the password updated; using 1Password for those control panel links is really easy), but it looks like .org got hit as well, and the login information that I've got for that isn't on this computer anymore. Pain in the ass... EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 01:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 June 2010
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 June 2010
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