User talk:Gurch/Archive 4

Magic Cir
Please will you review the tag I just placed on this article. I'm not 100% certain I've done the most appropriate thing and would value advice. --Dweller 10:37, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Dweller 10:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

David Harris (Rugby League Player, Parade College Raiders) on deletion review
An editor has asked for a deletion review of David Harris (Rugby League Player, Parade College Raiders). Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. Gene Nygaard 14:57, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Replied in DRV discussion – Gurch 15:45, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

A World With No Boundaries
Hi, I recently cleaned up the article "A World With No Boundaries" but I can't work out how to un-tag it. I'm fairly new to all this Wikipedia business so please excuse my newbiness.

Thanks for any help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gorstrom (talk • contribs) 11:32, 26 September 2006 (UTC).


 * Thanks for your help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gorstrom (talk • contribs) 05:29, 27 September 2006 (UTC).

Barnstar
Angelbo 13:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I second that barnstar - keep up the excellent work. I semi-protected this page and your userpage following this morning's spate of vandalism. Feel free to unprotect at your leisure when you feel the threat has passed. All the best, Gwernol 14:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the quick user page revert. Keep up the good work.-- Andeh 14:11, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

IP Address 62.171.198.4
You have recently threatened to block this IP address. This is a response to that.

This IP address is one used by schools throughout the UK. As a teacher I use it at work. This IP address (and others in the range) is regularly blocked for vandalism and warnings given. This seems to be totally pointless.

I realise that wikipedia has procedures, but there are exceptional circumstances where they clearly won't work and a new resolution needs to be found.

The IfL IP range is used by thousands of people throughout the UK, most of them schoolchildren, the rest school staff. Threatening to block this address will therefore have no effect whatsoever. An IP range that can be used anonymously by thousands of children and teenagers WILL cause vandalism if completely unblocked.

If the range were blocked then myself, other teachers and pupils with the right intentions will all be blocked from editing during the day, however, if unblocked it will cause vandalism. A difficult situation.

Is there any way that the entire IfL IP range could be blocked from ANONYMOUS editing only? This would mean that specific users could then be blocked, but those wishing to genuinely contribute still can.

Being relatively new to wikipedia myself, I don't know the best place to discuss this, perhaps you could point me in the correct direction?

Thanks in advance. Fork me 15:03, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the swift reply, I will raise the matter where you suggested. Fork me 15:25, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Dang!
Slow down buddy, and give other users chance to fight vandalism. :P &mdash; Nearly Headless Nick  {L} 16:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Jet engine changes by User:82.33.106.83
You reverted some changes to the Jet engine article and added a warning on the users talk page.

I looked over the changes, they didn't seem to me to be obvious vandalism, although I may have missed it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jet_engine&diff=78129862&oldid=78117848

I was planning to undo the revert and remove the warning on this anonymous users page, but I thought I should check with you first. Is there some specific concern here?WolfKeeper 17:15, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

158.165.103.198 vandalism
Hi Gurch - this unregistered user once again vandalized the Bill of Rights page. --DavidShankBone 19:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Comment from User:MassRefuge
why do you keep deleting khomenis picture? (in the iran section) keep it on and stick to the facts! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MassRefuge (talk • contribs) 18:50, 27 September 2006 (UTC).

When i looked who removed the picture from the Iran section it said you via anti vandal bot. Someone doesnt like khomenis picture in the article and keeps removing it, do you have any idea how to make sure this wont happen again ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MassRefuge (talk • contribs) 19:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC).

iam sorry to bother you again but Arad deleted the picture again for the fourth time since i started counting and since iam quiet new i cant find a way to message him about it.

Can you refer him to some admins because he keeps trying to shape Irans history as he likes it by deleting khomenis picture. Without a doubt one of the most important leaders in irans history and he just delets it everytime. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MassRefuge (talk • contribs) 21:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC).

Thank You
I wish I was able to understand why different users vandalize. Anyway, THANK YOU so very much for catching the vandalism to the article Langston Hughes. Thank you. Thank you.TonyCrew 03:22, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

vandalism?
Please explain how my edit to the montreal page was vandalism. many of those cities were not sister cities of Montreal. I was trying to simplify things. Jerk. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.93.46.180 (talk • contribs) 21:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC). – Gurch 10:37, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

OOPS
I'M SOO SOORY <3 MY FRIEND CLIKED IT, WON'T HAPPEN EGAIN

<3 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.228.91.76 (talk • contribs) 20:16, 28 September 2006 (UTC).

Weebl's Cartoon: 72.224.114.205
The Weebl's Cartoon edit made by 72.224.114.205(I have an account now) on 9/28/06 is infact legitimate. The edit was made in regards to the cartoon "Aaaaaaahhhhhh", which can be found on Weebls-stuff.com. This link to the cartoon was also included in the edit which links to the Weebls-stuff.com website which is what the article is about.

It is clear how one can suppose something which contains such a phrase as "Aaaaaaaahhhhah" is vandalism. However, it is disappointing that no one checked the links nor attempted to alter the section before reverting the changes.

If there is any way in which I can prevent future confusion of such matter, please let me know. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nevakee11 (talk • contribs) 23:56, 28 September 2006 (UTC).

Anon user 201.224.34.195
This user is back and vandalising The Lottery again. I just thought you might like to know. Thanks. Perodicticus 14:51, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

David Harris
Hi,

Your speedy of this guy was endorsed at DRV basically per Wikipedia:SNOW, but I'd like to mention that counting "speedy deletes" in an AfD and applying IAR if they are in the majority (as you claim did) is really a terrible thing to do. Newbies/some AfD regulars like to scream "speedy delete" at everything -- an admin should decide whether a CSD sticks based on the CSD, not based on AfD commenters telling him to. Next time, if any established editor objects, just let the AfD run: many fewer headaches that way! :) Best wishes, Xoloz 15:35, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

My entry to Wikipedia
What an absurd message. Knee jerk reaction to something before you are aware of the facts. I have not edited the article since I was (politely, which is more than can be said of you) asked to remove it to the Wikibooks section, as I was unaware at the time that recipes were not allowed on Wikipedia itself. I suggest you be a little more friendly to people who have no interest whatsoever in vandalism, rather only to further the spirit of Wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Peterkirchem (talk • contribs).

Thank you
Thank you for the prompt reversion of my user page. Keep up the good work!-- Andeh 23:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * One revert is better than no revert, and two "thank you's" is better than one! I believe so anyway. :) -- Andeh 19:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Good job!
Keep up the good work! Don't forget to relax! :D --CableModem 11:07, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Your warning to User talk:64.12.117.14
You noticed that's an AOL IP? He's definitely made two idiotic edits this morning...but all of the other edits for that IP are probably not the same guy. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs)  17:20, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Total agreement, he's clearly acting like an idiot. But the 'despite previous warnings' part might not make sense to him if this is a new idiot.  (Ongoing problem with AOL IPs.) -- Jim Douglas (talk)  (contribs)  17:26, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yup, looks like you got his attention. Look further up that talk page to the warnings about Weis Markets -- I had to request semi-protection for that page because it was constantly attacked from various AOL IPs...and we can't indef block an AOL IP. -- Jim Douglas (talk)  (contribs)  17:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on Kappa Epsilon! RedRollerskate 22:01, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Could you explain why
You deleted an article about 15 seconds into my starting to add content to it?--BozMo talk 09:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hmm. Given I'd put a on it and am a pretty well established contributer I think that you might have waited (especially as WP is running pretty unreliably at the moment and you lose info if you hang around for long).--BozMo talk 09:36, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment from Silas ang
what is the problem with my text..?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Silas ang (talk • contribs) 14:29, 13 October 2006.

Thanks
Thanks for the speedy fix to the afd template at Boxrec.com (Gnevin 16:36, 13 October 2006 (UTC))

bad speedy deletion
Why did you delete this page instead of making it a redirect? The version you deleted was clearly a misguided attempt to create a redirect. It would have taken just as long to fix it as it would have to delete it. The fallout from this is that Vanderbilt University just sent out a press release about Muhammad Yunus winning the Nobel Peace Prize, except they misspelled it "Muhammed Yunus". Muhammed Yunus is the malformed redirect that you deleted instead of fixing. So all of the people who have been trying to pull up the article get a page saying that Wikipedia doesn't have an article on Muhammed Yunus. Perhaps you just didn't realize they were trying to create a redirect. Regardless, you may want to be more circumspect about speedy deletions in the future. Kaldari 19:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Deleting User pages
Although I have no problem with your deleting these pages, the deletion log is filling up with pages and pages of these deletes. Any chance you can do it in smaller batches? User:Zoe|(talk) 19:36, 14 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I appreciate it. :)  User:Zoe|(talk) 19:39, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Request for protection on Minotaur and Labyrinth
Hi, for some reason certain anon users keep editing Minotaur and Labyrinth to state that the Minotaur was half chicken, instead of half man. This has been going on for a long time from what I see (I myself have reverted it over 5 times). Can this article be protected so only registered users can edit? Thanks. | | | antiuser (talk) (contribs) 09:23, 15 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you for being so quick. I hope the block works, though the way AOL uses proxies might have them sliding back in through the cracks. I have both pages on my watchlist so I'll let you know if this keeps going. | | | antiuser (talk) (contribs) 09:30, 15 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, they're doing it again. | | | antiuser (talk) (contribs) 01:27, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Just so you know
The users you've been blocking are or were pranks, probably by the infamous User:Willy on Wheels. Just so you know. --66.218.14.32 22:18, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Odd talk page
Hi Gurch. Wondered if you'd cast an experienced eye over User talk:Crystal place? Seems to be being used for free advertising. I've removed contact details, but don't know if my warning message was totally out of line... or perhaps understated! --Dweller 07:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It'd take an age to go through and remove all the spam urls. I'll take your advice and try the process (1st time!) later today. Thanks again. --Dweller 07:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * See the redlink? Someone beat me to it and speedied it :-) --Dweller 11:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Is there a policy on deleting blocked userpages?
I'm asking this because you deleted a bunch of userpages of users I blocked and now I need the blocking rationales which I wrote on the talk pages. Luckily for me, I'm an admin so I can retrieve those, so it's not that big deal, but anyway, I'd like to see the policy according to which you're deleting the userpages. Thanks, Dijxtra 08:40, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Just to reply on my block summaries part: the talk pages you deleted contained the full list of sockpuppets of blocked user, and you must agree that such info is not appropriate for block summary. --Dijxtra 11:22, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment from PaxEquilibrium
Your reply to Dijxtra is alone worthy of a barnstar. ;) --PaxEquilibrium 11:48, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, frankly - I've been following you around for some time and your knowledge is indeed impressive; however I can't really bring to my mind anything percisely I liked, nor can I see your contributions (again), as currently, all three edit-counters are not usable. Cheers. ;) --PaxEquilibrium 22:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Werdnabot rollback?
I considered it, but I don't think so. One problem is that pages that were edited correctly by Werdnabot, recently, may have those changes rolled back too. I think it's better just to let people handle fixing their own talk pages as they see fit. -- SCZenz 15:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Userpage deletions
Please stop deleting Userpages of blocked vandals who have created many different sockpuppets; the categories associated with them exist on the User: pages, and there is no way of easily tracking them otherwise. Jayjg (talk) 20:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

PI ETA Consulting Company
Just an FYI: After 3 attempts this user was finally blocked, however, shortly thereafter tried again as User:PI ETA Consulting Company which I had already blocked for their username before I saw the above. They're now back again as User:PE Con Co, however, I have taken these measures already. Gl e n 13:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

removal
I would like to know why my bio was removed? Could you please provide an explanation as others in my situation still have postings available.

Thank you in advance for your time,

Matthew Vezina —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.48.154.213 (talk • contribs) 22:09, 19 October 2006 (UTC).

favor
Hello - I admire the look and feel of your user page, and I'd like to use it as a starting point for my own. Would that be okay with you? If not, just let me know and I'll do something else. Thanks much - Krakatoa  Katie  20:18, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I'll let you know when it's finished. (Now if I can just get that status switcher script to work...grrr... ;-) - Krakatoa  Katie  07:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

onlyinclude
We do have onlyinclude tag. Inside the tag acts as is bounded by includeonly, and outside is noinclude'd. We should have onlyinclude here because interwiki links should be noinclude'd. --Puzzlet Chung 05:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I feel stupid
Hey, thanks for editing my article with GurchBot. I feel pretty damn stupid because I'm constantly correcting people who make similar errors. What can I say though? I've been living in France for 3 years now, I tend to make a few silly mistakes 'cause I'm not constantly writing English.Thanks again!  ViperBlade   Talk!! 17:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment from Eiriksin
This is fake article about me(Eirik Lundestad) made by some friends of mine, and it's involving my name. Could you please delete it for me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Eiriksin (talk • contribs) 23:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC).

cheers
thanks for passing by at Excavation Boris 07:38, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Setting edits to minor?
Shouldn't the edits GurchBot makes be set to minor by default?--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Oops yes, my mistake they were marked minor correctly... Thanks for the corrections and the reply.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 13:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Elonka
Thank you for expressing an interest in my recent RfA. As a followup, I wanted to let you know that unfortunately consensus was not reached, and the nomination was not successful. However, I do appreciate that you took the time to monitor the discussion, and I paid close attention to your thoughts, as I find it a valuable thing to understand how I am perceived by others in the Wikipedia community. My current plans are to continue contributing in a positive manner to Wikipedia. If there is anything that I can do in the future to help further address your concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. --Elonka 10:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Banned user talk pages
Fon, are you Gurch? I was wondering about the wisdom of deleting talk pages of banned users. It can be quite helpful to read talk page posts of sockpuppets if they turn up again in another guise. SlimVirgin (talk) 21:31, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I just came here to point out the same thing. Please desist from deleting users whom I tag as sockpuppets. Raul654 00:55, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your note. I don't see how we can easily reverse the deletions given there are so many; and we may not necessarily remember all the names and know which ones to restore anyway. The thing is that, in order to spot sockpuppet patterns, we do need to keep track of all the accounts that have been used. That's why they're tagged. This applies to blocked and banned users alike. Apparently some Zephram Stark sockpuppet pages have been deleted and now have been lost track of. I don't know what a temporary user page category is, or who would have tagged them as such. Are you deleting user and talk pages? SlimVirgin (talk) 05:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Gurch, did you not see my comment before from the 18th? You continue to delete user pages of users tagged as sockpuppets; in fact, one user page you've deleted twice already: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:Sappho_of_the_Far_Hemisphere Tracking sockpuppets is an important way Wikipedia deals with problem editors; please do not delete any more pages listed as sockpuppets, and please restore any others you have already deleted. Thanks. Jayjg (talk) 05:09, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your note. How it works is this: when a sockpuppet account is identified, it is tagged as "suspected or confirmed sockpuppet of X". That user/talk page is then placed in the X sockpuppet category. Any editor who suspects X is editing with a sockpuppet in future can go to the category page, look through all the sockpuppet accounts, check out the editing style, compare for similarities, go to the sockpuppet's talk page, see which other editors have posted there and about what issues, and so on. All of this helps with identification. Therefore, please don't delete any user or talk pages that are tagged as sockpuppets, whether or not they have offensive user names. We need to keep all the pages tagged as sockpuppets. It is not the separate accounts that are important in themselves, but their link to the sockpuppeteer. SlimVirgin (talk) 07:17, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry for thinking you were Fon, by the way; I don't know why I thought that. SlimVirgin (talk) 07:21, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Gurch, that's very helpful. SlimVirgin (talk) 07:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Request a move help
Hi Gurch. I was wondering if you could perform a move for me. It's located at Economy (activity) needing to be moved to Economy. I was closing a less than active discussion on the issue and when I went to move it, I was unable to. Could you please move this for me? Thanks! semper fi — Moe  04:55, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you! :) semper fi — Moe  05:09, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Re:Userpage
Thanks! You gave me a good framework on which to build. I'm going to twiddle with it some more, but I want to spend some time with this style for a while first. Neat, clean lines are very soothing, and I need a lot of soothing. ;-)

I'm still having trouble with the status switcher script but it's got to be either a browser or a OS incompatibility. I'm on a Mac and I've debugged it in Safari, Camino (my favorite), and in Firefox versions 1.5 and 2.0 – no dice. I knew Firefox 2.0 for Mac was imminent so I waited for its release, but it didn't make a difference.

I'm not seeing the litle buttons on top like I (apparently) should, _but_ I can change /Status manually to in/out/busy and that triggers /StatusTemplate to change the box on my user page, so it sort of works. After considering it for a while I decided that it's not a big deal because I use cookies to stay logged in anyway. If I leave for more than a couple of days I'll just change it manually.

Well, back to killing linkspam... thanks again, and let me know if I can help _you_ with anything! Krakatoa Katie  06:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

About my "vandalism"
There's a difference between something going wrong (in this case, my browser messing up), and vandalism. Don't be too quick accusing other editors of vandalism. 82.73.144.85 19:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

thanks for references
Thanks for showing me how to do references. Petermr 19:59, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply (how do I quote it here if I want to - as you quoted mine?). Yes, A blog has many of the aspects that are useful for a communal discussion on a new topic when coupled with a WP aricle. I actually run the Open Data mailing list and am trying to activate it by using WP as a catalyst to define our term. (There is no shortage of usage of "Open Data" now, so it's not a research project but an exercise in communal scholarship. I need additional input from the community. Petermr 08:25, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Comment from 70.20.29.42
how do you guys know when a page has been vandalised? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.20.29.42 (talk • contribs) 20:04, 31 October 2006 (UTC).

Just wanted to say hi
And it's an honor to have you aboard!Gurch! I Loved You On The Addams Family! 20:24, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: MediaWiki:Missingsummary
If I'm having the problem, it seems quite utterly reasonable to assume that others will, as well. You'll have to forgive me for being bold -- I'm no enemy to consensus, as you might know if you'd seen the brief IRC discussion, but I assumed it would be a fix few or none would object to. More to the point, no one's reverted me that I can see, and if you're the only editor objecting to the change, you're likewise free to edit your css. Regards, Luna Santin 21:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)