User talk:East718/Archive 23

File:Canihavearideoctave.ogg
Please see File:Canihavearideoctave.ogg, thank you.-- Avant-garde a clue - hexa Chord 2  19:08, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I wasn't the latest admin to delete that file. Have you spoken to Hmwith about it?
 * I have. No reaction yet. The problem was a missing FUR, that User:Ritzbitz00 forgot to include when he uploaded several files for Maximum Bob (singer). I'll make a FUR as soon as the file is there again.-- Avant-garde a clue - hexa Chord 2  09:15, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Please see Deletion review/Log/2009 March 4. -- Avant-garde a clue - hexa Chord 2  22:50, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Undelete Image request
Could I get you to undelete the image File:BarackStepdad.JPG? I had uploaded it and put a fair use rationale on it back in November 2008. Someone modified the image and then used it for the article Lolo Soetoro. Apparently they didn't or weren't able to put license tags and/or rationale on this modified image sufficient to comply with Wikipedia policies. The original photo and rationale did fall within policy. If the orginal photo could be undeleted, I'd like to put it back up on the subject article. Thanks in advance. Sf46 (talk) 08:34, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Sf46 (talk) 19:15, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Sf46 (talk) 19:15, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Stopping a vicious circle of blocking and account creation
Hello East718, I noticed you're one of a chain of administrators who blocked sockpuppets of user:Melienas, in this case User:Cheares. He/she is not recreating accounts in bad faith, as is clearly evident from his/her openness about it. I would therefore like to unblock this account, based on what I wrote at WP:HD. I'll watch that account and nudge them towards becoming a normal editor. Would that be OK with you? &mdash; Sebastian 18:22, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think the problem here is the use of sockpuppuets. YellowMonkey initially indefinitely banned the user due to the nature of his edits, inclduing repeated WP:BLP violations. If you see the edit summery one of his socks used here, you can understand the type of user we are dealing with. Unless their initial block is overturned, per banning policy, they are not allowed to edit pages on this project anymore. Therefore I don't think the ban should be overturned. The orignal account's unban request was denied by Sandstein this morning . -- snowolf D4  (  talk  /  @   ) 18:42, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Let's move this discussion to WP:AN; I copied Snowolfd4's reply there. &mdash; Sebastian 18:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It looks like the discussion there's resolved. (Although I can't find any real resolution reading it??) I don't really have any opinion about the block on the original account. Let me know if you need anything else. — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 09:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate image
Hello! I just noticed that you deleted a couple months ago as a duplicate image. Do you remember where the duplicate is though? I searched for it and couldn't find it, yet the deleted one is still referenced on the Shambhala Buddhism page and I need to swap to the other one you knew of. Thanks! - Owlmonkey (talk) 19:56, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It was File:Great eastern sun.png, but that's also been deleted because it went unused for a week. I've undeleted it though, so if you need it, you can use it. (If you don't, don't worry about it - I'll delete it again in a week.) — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 09:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Shoot, I was away for a bit. Would love to use it though if you don't mind undeleting again. - Owlmonkey (talk) 00:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 02:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks. I updated the article. - Owlmonkey (talk) 20:15, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

TFA protection
Hi East. Today your bot appears to have mistakenly protected a redirect to today's FA (Hurricane Linda), but left the actual article unprotected (Hurricane Linda (1997)). I think this also happened a few months ago, but I can't remember which article it was. Is there any way to tweak it so this doesn't happen? Thanks. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:47, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Should be trivial enough to fix, I'll see if I can work it in. — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 02:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Trick/Treat card image
You deleted this image: "Trick/Treat" card as a non-free use image. I know it's been a whiel, but can you tell me anything about the image? I think it would be good to have an image of these cards in the Ambigram article and haven't been able to find one that's available. The best was a screencap I found on Flickr. The guy who took the screencap would allow it, but I think that wouldn't count as fair use. Your thoughts? RoyLeban (talk) 06:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It just looks like a stylized "Trick Treat" ambigram to me... not sure if there's much else to it. I've restored the image so you can use it somewhere if you see fit. Somebody who took a screenshot of somebody else's work cannot change anything with regards to intellectual property rights of the image BTW. — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 02:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Now that I see it, it seems like it might be less fair use than the screencap. I think the contributor of this image thought it made it fairer to modify it than to use an actual screencap, but that transformation seems to come closer to replicating the original than simply showing the use. I will ponder. RoyLeban (talk) 08:18, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Berserk Guts and Griffith images
Could you please undelete File:GutsBerserk.PNG and File:GriffithBerserk.PNG? They were deleted due to them not being free and not being used on any pages for more than seven days. At the time the pages had been merged with a general list of characters, and the images were not used. To my knowledge, this merge (deletion and redirect of the character pages) was done without warning and seemed to have no support or mention that it would happen in the talk pages of the related articles. This mistake was not fixed until well after the seven day mark. It has been undone although the images in question were deleted but are still part of the infoboxes. AndrewTJ31 (talk) 17:53, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It now appears to me that User:TTN had deleted the articles out right and had not made any mention of this on any pages other than those that had been changed to a redirect. Thus making the action unnoticeable unless someone payed careful attention to the pages being deleted. AndrewTJ31 (talk) 18:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I've restored both images. — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 02:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

File:Mixtape messiah3.jpg
Hey there East718, could you restore File:Mixtape messiah3.jpg? The cover was removed when Mixtape Messiah 3 was vandalized in this edit and went unnoticed. Diverse Mentality  22:34, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Done! — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 02:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, much appreciated. Diverse Mentality  02:44, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

IRC
Your bot logs on and off of IRC for every message? Isn't that a bit... inefficient? --Random832 (contribs) 00:01, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Which bot is this? I have a couple that hang out on IRC, but none that speak as far as I can recall. (Maybe they've become sentient during my absence. SMirC-goggle.svg) — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 02:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello, a question
I was looking over the Crowded House site and saw the elimination of a photo of Mike Hart from the Wikimedia Commons-- where I am quite new, and your name was there. I was wondering why you deleted the image? Copyvio or bad image? Thanks. --leahtwosaints (talk) 12:38, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Could you please give me a link to the image? I looked around in the histories of both articles, but didn't find any recently removed images whose deletions I was responsible for. Also, I cannot delete images on the Commons, because I'm not an administrator there - although it's possible that I deleted enwiki's copy of a file that was moved there. — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 02:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Featured article review/Witold Pilecki
There is still an ongoing discussion; if you could help replace the remaining citation requested tags and those the website, it would be very much appreciated.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:04, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The books I requested (Foot, Garlinski and Wysocki) are still on backorder at the library. Sorry. — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 19:11, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

AbuseFilter
Is there some limit on who can add to the AbuseFilter? I've formulated and checked a filter to stop new users from removing AFD comments, but there is no obvious way to add it. P.S. I have en.wikipedia admin access. - Mgm|(talk) 13:43, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * You just need the "abuse filter" permission, which you can grant yourself through special:userrights (I've already done it for you [[image:SMirC-smile.svg|22px]]). — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 13:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Does this mean I can see "private" filters now too? - Mgm|(talk) 13:49, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I created filter 43. It's still crude, which is why I haven't made it into a disallowable action yet. Feel free to tweak it. - Mgm|(talk) 13:50, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Your new filter looks OK to me. If you're trying to match straight up votes and not comments, it might be worth it to also detect the bolded Keeps instead of the normal one. — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 14:16, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

"Replacing page with obscenities" filter
While the filter that looks for pages being replaced with obscenities has had a few false positives, those were fixed when Werdna added "& old_size >= 1000" to the filter. Since then, there have been no false positives. Would you mind if I were to enable the "disallow" action on the filter again? { { Nihiltres | talk | log } } 13:59, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't have that piece of info, so I just reverted myself. — east718  &#124;  talk  &#124; 14:16, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

A friendly reminder...
Please check the history of a file before deleting it for lacking a license. This file has a proper license which had been removed by a vandal. I know that was a long time ago, I just noticed it now and restored it. Peace. Chillum 00:58, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Erwin James article
Hi, I'm not sure who deleted the problematic edits on the Erwin James article, but his alleged real name has been posted again to the article's talk page (diff). The talk page may need to be oversighted and protected as well. --Muchness (talk) 11:56, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

You're invited!
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 19:13, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Adam Stenavich
Recently, I have cited an article regarding Stenavich's college career. An IP address user has continually removed the content because he/she feels that it is in error. I have proper citations, and I have warned the user. Could you please take a look at it? Thanks!Keystoneridin (talk) 05:20, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Filter 42
Could you point at an example of the vandalism you are targeting with filter 42? Right now it benchmarks as our second slowest filter, probably because it using the expensive rcount function against every edit. I'd like to see if there is a faster way to do what you want, but I'm not sure what the vandalism in this case looks like and there has never been a hit. Dragons flight (talk) 22:00, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk page of an indefinitely blocked user
18:00, 21 March 2009 East718 (talk | contribs) deleted "User talk:Posturewriter" ‎ (Talk page of an indefinitely blocked user)

East718, your deletion of the talk page was the wrong thing to do. That talk page contains in its history a lot of material relevent to the development (and misdevelopment) of mainspace articles. It also contains records relevent to the development of WP:MEDRES and wikipedia mediation issues. I think the page should be blanked, possibly protected, but with the full history available. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:49, 26 March 2009 (UTC)