User talk:HJ Mitchell/Archive 89

Please provide specific examples of "toxicity" in my work or withdraw the accusation
I note your intervention on my talk page and object in the strongest possible terms to what I take to be an attack on my character. I am not familiar with the byzantine workings of wikipedia's system of abuse correction, so I do not know how to report you or make a formal protest to the authorities about your posting. Please do not take this as assent to your accusation. I request you immediately withdraw the hurtful comment and apologise for it. Bramble window (talk) 15:32, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Acting as uninvolved administrator, I informed you that I see problems with your conduct, specifically that by using talk pages to express your personal opinions on editors and the subject matter you have contributed to toxic atmosphere on GamerGate-related talk pages and asked you to bear that in mind going forward. I also said that I did not intend to take any action for the time being because I didn't think your conduct warranted it; if I did think your conduct warranted it in future, I could impose sanctions including a ban from editing GamerGate-related articles or block you from editing entirely, so I thought it was only fair to inform you that I saw a problem and give you chance to correct it, rather than dropping sanctions on you out of the blue. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  16:17, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Regarding the page "Sharabha"
Hi,regarding the page "Sharabha",please take into notice that the page contained very objectionable content describing maiming,desecration and mutilation of a revered Hindu deity.these are also unsupported,unverified,and links not provided for such disharmonious statements.I have removed the sections, but user Redtigerxyz keeps adding them back.could you please protect the page against such partisan vandalism? thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ankisur2 (talk • contribs) 17:31, 13 December 2014‎ (UTC)
 * Explained in Talk:Sharabha. Strangely Ankisur2's edit summary and edit was same as IP. Please take appropriate action. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:59, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * FYI, Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents.-- Redtigerxyz Talk 19:50, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

History of Israel
Any comments on ? This new but knowledgeable account has now twice reinserted material you removed because of block evasion. Thanks for your endorsement by the way. Dougweller (talk) 21:46, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's . Funny how a topic area can be quiet for months and then you suddenly get a spate of sockpuppets—he's not the only one operating in the ARBPIA area at the moment. Thanks for letting me know. And you're welcome; good luck or is getting elected bad luck?! HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  22:01, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm really not sure. I think I'd make at least a decent Arb, but if I don't get elected I certainly won't cry about it as it will leave me more time for other Wikipedia work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs) 22:12, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * That's always the dilemma. Every arb elected is one less admin in the trenches. But I think you'd do a decent job, and somebody has to do it. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  22:29, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2014
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Gamergate -Wikipedia user attack page
I asked for the Wikipedia user attack page at the Gamergate wiki to be deleted and it was. Just wanted to let you know. Kumioko 172.56.3.226 (talk) 22:24, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you. You could have emailed me instead of evading your block, but, nonetheless, thanks. Nice to know the folks at Wikia are on the ball. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  22:26, 13 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks :)--5 albert square (talk) 22:29, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Your both welcome and the reason I didn't email you is because yours is a highly watched page and I figured a lot of people would want to know. Besides, we both know my block will never be lifted so the block evasion argument is really irrelevant. Those who do not want me here will find some excuse either way. Now, back to dessert, my daughter made bacon wrapped apple doughnuts with Maple syrup. Not healthy, but damn tasty. Cheers. K. 172.56.3.226 (talk) 22:50, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, and a question
Thanks for blocking those three socks at Manuel Uribe. I had suspected all three came from the same person. Not being an admin (and not seeking to become one in the near future), how can I be more proactive in such cases? It appears I must file at WP:SPI, but aside from asking to become a CheckUser, do I have other options? Thanks again, and best wishes, Jus  da  fax   02:09, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * In cases like that, where it's that obvious and the accounts are all vandals anyway, you can just report them all to AIV and explain that they're all related. As long as you make the connection clear, and make it clear that they're vandals as well as socks—as a rule of thumb, if it takes more than a minute to analyse an AIV report, either it's too complex for AIV or the reporter hasn't provided enough information. For less obvious cases, SPI is the place to go to get the socking properly investigated. And you can always file a request at RfPP; you might get a brief protection as a stopgap or the admin might look into it and block the accounts. The trouble is that the SPI can potentially take days and RfPP is likely to take several hours, so the only thing I can suggest for attracting admin eyes is to drop a note on AN or ANI or to drop me a note here—if I'm asleep (as I should be now!), a few hundred people watch this page and many of them will be admins, so they might be willing to look into it. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  02:46, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Much obliged! Jus  da  fax   13:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Please post this message to Mr. Wales' talk page
Hello Mr. Mitchell. I have attempted to post to Mr. Wales talk page but I was unable to because I didn't have an account. I now have an account, and am still unable to. I asked on the IRC help channel and it was suggested for me to ask you post this message to Mr. Wales talk page on my behalf because you are a moderator on English Wikipedia. Could you please post the message on my behalf in the sub-section which is discussing the United Arab Emirates. Thank you very much M.al-A.UAE (talk) 04:19, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Dear Mr. Wales,

I am a graduate of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain, and have a BA in Mass Communications (i.e. journalism). Your acceptance of the $500,000 in Dubai is the subject of discussion among Emiratis who are not in agreeance with the current state of affairs in the UAE as it relates to human rights and freedom of speech.

The Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award which came with the $500,000 prize is named after Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the "ruler" of Dubai and Vice President of the UAE. From the positions he holds in the UAE, he is partly responsible for the current state of human rights in my country. I see that posters above are bringing to your attention the abysmal human rights record in this country. They, and you, are likely well versed in the state of labor rights in the UAE. They have not, however, brought up the situation in the UAE on freedom of speech, and therefore the ability of those in the UAE to freely disseminate knowledge, and this goes to the core in showing how absurd the award is.

Mr. Wales, please consider the following cases:


 * 1) In 2012, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation was forced to close its office in Abu Dhabi. Their mission is the promotion of “promotion of freedom and liberty, peace, and justice”. The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs also had its Dubai office closed by the authorities. No legitimate reason was given for the closure. See: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/06/world/meast/uae-organizations/
 * 2) In 2012, Assistant Professor of Communication Matt J. Duffy had his contract at Zayed University cancelled and he was deported from the country. Mr. Duffy helped to found a campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and attempted to teach students journalistic ethics and standards. Mr. Duffy wrote about this at http://mattjduffy.com/2012/08/ive-been-kicked-out-of-the-united-arab-emirates/. Mr. Duffy also offers reasons for the termination of his employment and deportation at http://mattjduffy.com/2012/08/top-18-things-that-may-have-gotten-me-booted-from-the-uae/.
 * 3) In 2014, Yasin Kakande was fired from The National and deported from the country for writing the autobiographical book The Ambitious Struggle: An African Journalist's Journey of Hope and Identity in a Land of Migrants (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ambitious-Struggle-Journalists-Identity-Migrants/dp/189035743X/ref=la_B00GU54WOO_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418300730&sr=1-1). Mr. Wales, please take the time to read this book, which is banned in the UAE (http://www.migrant-rights.org/research/uae-censors-author-of-book-criticizing-migrant-race-issues/).

There is another case you may not be familiar with. The UAE 94 is a group of 94 lawyers, judges, human rights activists and others, who have spoken out in favour of democracy in my country. The dissidents are members of Al Islah, a non-violent political group, and do have an affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. I do not agree with the politics of this group, I am myself an atheist (a capital offense in my country). However, I do agree with their non-violent stance, and I do believe in their rights to call for democracy in this country. This group has been subjected to arbitrary detention, torture and trials which have been deemed to be unfair by the international community (http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/19106). On March 17, Osama Najjar was arrested (http://twitmail.com/email/533078805/901/533078805) because he spoke out on Twitter (https://twitter.com/O_Hussain_) about these abuses. One week prior to your visit to the UAE, Osama was imprisoned for 3 years and fined 500,000 dirhams for speaking out. (http://en.rsf.org/emirats-arabes-unis-online-activist-gets-three-years-02-12-2014,47327.html)

There is no freedom in the UAE Mr. Wales.

I appreciate greatly that you have committed yourself to ensuring that the $500,000 which was awarded to you in the name of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum will go toward advancing human rights in the Arab world. I also appreciate that you have committed part of your cause to include open data access, but sincerely Mr. Wales, what good is pushing for open data in this region, when the region is not open in terms of freedom of the press and human rights. There are many groups which are fighting for basic human rights in the UAE and some of them, as noted above, do have some links to some unsavoury groups. My suggestion to you Mr. Wales is to make contact with Mr. Duffy and Mr. Kakande and ask for their advice and guidance.

I do have one simple request for you Mr. Wales. When you donate the $500,000 please do so openly by putting out press releases on these donations. There is no stronger message that you can send to the regime in my country, and others in Arab world, than publicly declaring that you stand with the people who do not enjoy basic human rights. This will send a strong message to governments that they can not place a price on human rights and for the silence of the West.

We, the people, of the United Arab Emirates, thank you Mr. Wales for your commitment to helping us gain basic human rights and we trust the organisations you will donate the $500,000 to will put the money to good use.

Thank you for your time. M.al-A.UAE (talk) 04:19, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I've copied it over for you. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  16:18, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Temperate language
Well said. You hereby win the admin calmness award. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 16:45, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. They didn't appreciate it, but I'm getting sick of the bickering there and it constantly spilling over into noticeboards and other areas. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  16:53, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Topic ban
I don't know how long ago that you gave me a topic ban regarding to parishes in County Clare. It never showed up in the official list so I do not have a clue when that topic ban will end. Can you enlighten me? The Banner talk 12:39, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * It was back in April (we discussed it here; I found that from your block log). So ... talk to me. You haven't had any major issues since then, have you? At least not that I've seen. I can see myself vacating the topic ban, but I'd need you to assure me that you wouldn't get back into trouble if I did... HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  17:14, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I have learned something more about parishes and civil parishes. I have also learned that I am powerless against teamwork and that it is better to make a runner in those cases. The Banner talk 17:23, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

2001:1680:101:5:0:0:0:2
Maybe oversight the edits or edit summaries? --Neil N  talk to me 15:36, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Personally, I don't think most of those edits meet a strict reading of the criteria, but another admin has already RevDel'd them all. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  16:19, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Btw, : If you want something Oversighted, you should NEVER post related information onwiki, but personally, by email to oversighters. (and see the editnotice of this page...) &mdash; Revi 16:24, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, yes, that too. Nice to know somebody reads the bright red text! HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  16:27, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I do that if the material has personally identifying information or is otherwise sensitive (e.g., a suicide threat). If it's just grossly offensive, dropping a note to an active admin usually does the trick. --Neil N  talk to me 16:31, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I see no reason for oversight either, it's exactly the sort of thing revdel was originally established for (thanks to Jeremy).  Acroterion   (talk)   16:39, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I can never keep track of which is the proper term to use so I use them interchangeably to mean, "remove the edit summary". Guess I shouldn't. --<b style="color:navy">Neil N </b> <i style="color:blue">talk to me</i> 16:52, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * RevDel (WP:REVDEL) is a revision delete, performed by sysops. It can be viewed or restored by any sysops (or Stewards). Oversight (WP:Oversight) is a complete hide from the DB, performed by Ocersighters. It can be viewed by Oversighters only. &mdash; <span style="color:green;font-family:Courier new, serif;font-variant:small-caps">Revi 01:54, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, the 'complete hide from the database' method id deprecated, as I understand it (and was nigh impossible to reverse). "Suppression" is the latest bit of newspeak, which is basically RevDel, but oversigthers have an option labelled "hide from administrators", which ... does what it says on the tin. And can be viewed or restored/downgraded to admin RevDel by any oversighter at any time. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  02:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm just going to stick with "hide the edit summary" from now on :-) --<b style="color:navy">Neil N </b> <i style="color:blue">talk to me</i> 02:29, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, yeah. Oversight extension is deprecated, and is uninstalled on all wmfwikis except enwiki. &mdash; <span style="color:green;font-family:Courier new, serif;font-variant:small-caps">Revi 02:34, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, "hide edit summary" works just fine. Any admin worth their salt will know what you mean! HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  02:47, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * To anybody without the admin bit, an edit that is REVDELled and an edit that is suppressed look identical in page history, watchlists and contribs (the middle edit of [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German&offset=20140306104000&limit=3&action=history these three] was suppressed); there is no indication as to which of the two was used. If you look at the page's deletion log, you'll find that REVDELs are logged in there, but suppressions are not; if an edit is REVDELled and then suppressed, the log shows the first action and not the second ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=German like this]).
 * To an admin, the two methods are clearly different when viewing the history, etc.: the REVDELled edit has the usual diff links (cur/prev/whatever), a suppressed edit hasn't; and in a page history, the pair of radio buttons for the "Compare selected revisions" feature are selectable for a REVDELled edit, but greyed out for a suppressed edit.
 * If you need an edit to be suppressed, there's a link in the first box at the top of WP:OVERSIGHT, it goes to Special:EmailUser/Oversight - bash off an email, there's somebody on duty around the clock; and you'll get a reply inside a couple of hours either letting you know that your wish has been granted, or explaining why it's not going to be done. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:01, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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pls
hi here there was vandalism. user lollo123 wrote vulgar words, instead I wrote to explain him do no that in an asian language. So, please can you delete permanently those contribution from history, so that only administator can see that? Thnaks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.154.1.254 (talk) 12:14, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * We don't delete edit summaries just because they contain vulgar words, and even if we did, I'm not convinced those are vulgar—lol seems more likely to refer to "laugh out loud". HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  16:25, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

i did not say that. I am not talking about "lol". I am talking about the contributions, where he wrote vulgar words like here "murshed k. p", which means son of the b.... Please delete them for ever. None, except admins can click in cur or prev, something called "delete the revision text". I think you understood.

Hi <font color="Teal" face="Tahoma">@HJ Mitchell , I believe that the Ip is talking about WP:REVDEL. Those stuffs are really considered as swear words and all of them should be deleted. Best regards. -- <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:gold">115ash <i style="color:red">→(☏)</i> 12:37, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

User:MusikAnimal/requestHelper
Thanks for the email, very informative, and inspirational! I laughed out loud to "Azerbaijani Wikibooks". Maybe stewardship isn't so desirable! Anyway, I wanted to say this on-wiki: I have made a rewrite of the protection.js that excludes the tagging, which Twinkle offers for us. The script also adds similar functionality for WP:AIV and WP:PERM/R, where administrator notation templates are used. Meanwhile it is less than half the size of protection.js! Thought I'd let you know :) Cheers &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 23:00, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ooh, that is handy! I miss the sidebar link to RfPP (but that's a minor quibble; I'm sure you or somebody else could write a bit of javascript or CSS to replace that. In fact, a sidebar link to AIV would be lovely while I'm thinking about it). More seriously, though, it's not actually doing anything—I've tried it on AIV, RfPP, and PERM/R. The options all appear in the sidebar, so I click the one I want and it fills in the edit summary, but it doesn't actually add the notation template. :(  HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  23:40, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Btw, I should probably apologise to any stewards who are watching for implying that they spent all their dealing with spam on the Azerbaijani Wikibooks (and to anybody from the Azerbaijani Wikibooks for suggesting that that's not a worthy place for stewards to spend their time!)! HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  23:39, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Uh oh! I tested this out on Vector and MonoBook using Chrome and Firefox. What browser are you using? The script is pretty straightforward, I'm trying to think what wouldn't work in older browsers. Just so you know, on AIV it inserts the template where your cursor is, but you probably figured that much. Putting it at the end would not be very useful. I can add links to RFPP, AIV and PERM if you'd like, very easy. Also I made the order of the links match that of the list of templates in the show/hide thing on each page. I thought about sorting alphabetically, maybe that would be better? Thanks &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 00:56, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Another anomaly: I did not receive that ping you made above. Not in my notifications. Weird! &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 01:03, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm in Chrome; just updated to make sure I'm using the latest version (39.0.2171.95). Also tried it in Firefox (30.0, a bit out of date but I don't use it much) and I'm getting the same problem. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  01:20, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I just tried monobook, using Windows 7 / Chrome 39, importing User:HJ Mitchell/monobook.js in my JS and everything worked as expected. I don't see anything in your metawiki global.js, so I don't think it's a conflict with another script. The operating system shouldn't matter, but I assume you're using either Windows or Mac?I just changed the selector for the wikieditor to be the same as protection.js, maybe you have a gadget enabled that changes the markup or something. Does it work now? &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 01:54, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Fantastic! It works now! Great work! :) HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  02:06, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Glad we got that figured out, now I know to use that selector in other scripts. Cheers &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 02:19, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not weird; you did not receive that ping because HJ didn't get it right first time and - corrections don't retrigger a failed notification. The notification feature is delicate, and easily broken: they are not sent when links or sigs are amended, only when new valid links and sigs are added simultaneously. Various threads at WT:Echo cover this. -- Red rose64 (talk) 11:30, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Good to know! &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 15:45, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

DungeonSiegeAddict510
I support your indefinite block of this user, but now I note that he's promising to quietly edit other articles and is asking to be banned from the arbitration case. In view of his record, this seems to me like a workable solution. Would you consider that? --TS 04:11, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm a little sceptical, but I'm not dismissing the idea out of hand; I've left a query on his talk page. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  16:30, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Man Haron Monis
Any chance you could attend to this edit request to record the death of the gunman in the Sydney siege, as no other admins are responding. It's a high profile article so being out of date makes Wikipedia look woeful. Thanks! —sroc &#x1F4AC; 20:15, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll do you one better. I've lowered it to semi, put an editnotice up, and watchlisted it. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  20:29, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! finishes heart attack  —sroc &#x1F4AC; 20:38, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Torga's block
Since Torga's behavior was brought up in WP:GGE I added your block under the Gamergate general sanctions admin log at WP:GS/GrG. I also included Salvadrim! who was listed on Torga's block log. Feel free to modify/delete as necessary. Cheers. Muscat Hoe (talk) 01:47, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that's really necessary. The block wasn't made under the provisions of the community sanctions, and I didn't follow any of those procedures—I blocked them for socking; that they were socking to disrupt the GamerGate topic are was incidental. I suppose it was an aggravating factor that they were socking in a controversial topic area, but I'd have taken the same action if they'd behaved like that in any topic area. I'd rather it wasn't logged there because then it would be out of process—blocks under the community sanctions can only be for up to a year, whereas this is likely to be permanent; I didn't use the relevant template or inform them that the block was in accordance with the community sanctions; and I didn't intend for the block to appealable via the community sanctions process as they have a lot more to answer for than just disrupting the GamerGate area. I see the community sanctions as being useful when dealing with misconduct that might not otherwise be sanctionable or when you're dealing with an established editor who might be unblocked on whim were it not for the stricter appeals process, but SPAs who create sockfarms and impersonation accounts can just be indef'd and forgotten about. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  02:26, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Editor blocked on two IPs for a year is now editing using an account
Hello!

I want to draw your attention to the case of.

This account is controlled by the same person who edited anonymously from the IPs and, recently re-blocked by you for disruptive editing, so we can talk about block evasion.

This editor has a long history of disruption (195.89.201.254 is now serving his 5th block, 92.238.171.3 is now serving his 4th block, while Magyarcsaba was twice blocked in the past (the second block lasted for 1 year and was instated because he "continued lame edit-warring on same issues as before, right after coming back from 6-months topic ban")

The evidence that Magyarcsaba = 195.89.201.254 = 92.238.171.3, are clear:


 * Magyarcsaba restored today a disruptive edit of 92.238.171.3 from 3 days ago.
 * In November 2014 92.238.171.3 restored a diruptive edit made by Magyarcsaba, which had bveen reverted by User:No such user
 * Magyarcsaba and 92.238.171.3 reverted alternatively during the January 2013 edit war from the article Cluj-Napoca railway station
 * 92.238.171.3 and a made the same edit at Cluj-Napoca:
 * 92.238.171.3 and Magyarcsaba made the same edit at Štúrovo

And the list can continue. Please take action against the disruptive editor UseR:Magyarcsaba, who is resuming the behaviour of the blocked IPs. Thanks in advance. 188.254.219.113 (talk) 07:55, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for bringing that to my attention . I've indef'd Magyarcsaba; I'd have done it earlier had I known they were the operator of the IPs. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  11:36, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Thomas W
Hi, Kumioko/Reguyla has raised a concern (which is probably valid) that you're perhaps getting too involved taking administrative action regarding Thomas.W and his departure. I understand (and share) your frustration at the way he has been treated by the community and the way he has been baited since his departure, but please don't get yourself into trouble dealing with people who are only out to stir up shit and cause trouble. There's plenty of uninvolved admins who would be more than happy to deal with users like User:Adamfinmo. I say this out of concern for you, rather than in any administrative capacity, btw. Nick (talk) 20:58, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the concern, and I can see the line of thought, but I think this falls under the "any reasonable admin" exception even if we disregard common sense, and I was confident that the block would sand up to scrutiny, as indeed it did. Best, HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  21:15, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree. I was clearly being a dick there. You were certainly in the right.--Adam in MO Talk 13:04, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks
for your support. Dougweller (talk) 17:08, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, Doug. Best of luck for the coming years; from what I've seen of ArbCom, especially its less public-facing roles, a little luck won't do you (or the other incoming arbs) any harm. But I'm sure you'll do a good job. Best, HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  17:23, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

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Many thanks
… for your quick and thorough help against the trolls in the last half hour! I’m not used to such dangerous topics, so seeing that someone has my back means a lot. :)

One more thing, though: Could you delete the page created by one of the impostors? I really don’t think there’s any use for that. NacowY (talk) 15:10, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, you're welcome. I'm sick of these nutters. It wasn't such a problem when it was confined to one or two articles, but the scope seems to get wider by the day. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  15:15, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, and that redirect is arguably useful. I'm inclined to leave it, even though my instinct is to deny recognition. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  15:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 10:30, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Done. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  19:24, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

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Special:Contributions/Cal 505
Patterns seem like Special:Contributions/Jimi Lewis, and he's back with new account. 183.171.181.211 (talk) 19:58, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * And blocked. Thanks, HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  20:46, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

DungeonSiegeAddict510 and General sanctions on Gamergate
Hello, HJ Mitchell. Sorry for the awkward title, but it was all I could easily come up with. To get to the point, you have Blocked and then Unblocked DungeonSiegeAddict510 in addition to telling DSA to not edit any GamerGate articles. The issue I have is that none of this was added to the Log of Admin actions on General sanctions/Gamergate. My question is was it not considered to be a sanction due to GamerGate for reasons or was it just something that got overlooked and it needs to be added? I figured I would ask you since that way it would clear things up. Sorry for the trouble, --Super Goku V (talk) 06:06, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Neither action is logged there because neither action was made under the general sanctions. General sanctions are a supplement to, not a substitute for, ordinary admin discretion. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  19:17, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I think I see. I had assumed that since it was due to the issue over GamerGate and the topic ban that I believe it was an action similar to those.  Thank you for the clarification.  --Super Goku V (talk) 06:27, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry New Year
Whatever beliefs you have, merry New Year! We all mark that with new calendars, whether we like it or not! Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 14:41, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania shootings
I wonder if the consensus has already been reached. You can consider withdrawing deletion nomination. --George Ho (talk) 10:06, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Salmazanaty ANI
Hey m'man, may I trouble you to take a look at my open ANI report on Salmazanaty? I reported this person several days ago, but the report was archived for lack of admin response. This seems like a pretty easy-peasy case--the user is a hoaxster and adds garbage to articles. I normally would go through AIV for this sort of thing, but sometimes admins get weird and lazy and make me go to ANI with these more detailed cases, and then the reports sit around and go stale. (Vent vent vent). Anyhow, if you could take a look at it, or have someone you know and love look at it, I would be appreciative. I've re-reported it at ANI with a link to the archive. Thank you, sir! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:08, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Merry
To you and yours FWiW  Bzuk (talk) 16:18, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Talk page access
You recently blocked for trolling. They are continuing their trolling on their talk page. Please remove the talk page access. Thanks! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  16:54, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I've increased the block to a fortnight and revoked talk page access. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  17:01, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * You seem to have not noticed but he posted doxxing material on his talk page before he blanked it (already sent the email to oversight). You should really extend this to a permanent ban.Bosstopher (talk) 17:19, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * We can't permaban IPs. It's against policy because IP addresses are re-allocated periodically and there's risk that this one could end up being assigned to somebody else. I've RevDel'd the doxxing until the oversighters get to it. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  17:36, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Protecting List of programs broadcast by Nick Jr.
Thanks for protecting the page as I requested, but don't you think 1001 days is a bit extreme?
 * It was semi-protected for a year up to July and the problems resumed, so I think a long-term protection is appropriate. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  18:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Rangeblock
Thanks for dealing with that one (whether it's directly related to me or not) - the ranges for IPs around both 216.177.129.19 and 216.172.142.151 probably want looking into as well, given that they've done exactly the same sort of thing. Luke no 94 (tell Luke off here) 22:17, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's related to you. I was jsut looking into the other range. It's too big to block completely, but splitting it into smaller ranges makes it blockable. Where did you find such a charming admirer? HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  22:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I can't say for certain, because I've been taking out a few socks recently. My hunch was that it was somehow related to one of the Jetix vandals, but they report back as a BSkyB IP and not the American ones that seem to be infatuated with me. Nor is it JaraxleArtemis as far as I can tell, because there isn't a single anti-semitism accusation anywhere. How bizarre. Luke no 94  (tell Luke off here) 22:47, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm ... familiar with JA, and that doesn't look like him (he's much less subtle for one thing). Anyway, I've blocked 216.172.142.151/32, 216.177.129.0/24, and 23.27.192.0/18, which might go some way to giving you a little peace over Christmas. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  22:53, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's not JA at all in my opinion (considering the initial SPs to my talk page were due to them). Thanks for that, it was all "fun and games" until it began to spill into article space as well. Luke no 94  (tell Luke off here) 22:56, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CV, December 2014
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Request
"On the first day of Christmas, my favourite admin gave to me; One page move complete with intact history." Could you please move User:JuneGloom07/Daniel to Daniel Robinson (Neighbours) and forgive me for my terrible rhyme? - <font color="Maroon" face="Arial">JuneGloom07  <font color="Green" face="Times New Roman">Talk  19:18, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * And a partridge in a pear tree! ;) Done. And of course Merry Christmas. :) HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  19:24, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh that rhymes with it too, how wonderful! Tempted to create a Twelve Days of Wikipedia now. Thank you kindly and Merry Christmas! - <font color="Maroon" face="Arial">JuneGloom07  <font color="Green" face="Times New Roman">Talk  19:38, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho
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Template:Rangeblock protection
Hi HJ, could you please drop the protection down to template editor, that seems to be the standard for block templates (eg Anonblock & CheckUser block). Regards, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:35, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I thought full was standard for templates used in the interface? Anyway it could be tonight or it could be boxing day before I have my computer up and I can log in to my admin account so feel free to drop it without waiting for me. Best, <font color="Teal" face="Tahoma">Whisky drinker &#124; <font color="Navy" face= "Times New Roman">HJ's sock  12:41, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Generally only for templates used in MediaWiki pages rather than the dropdown lists (though there would probably be an argument for the very highly used ones such as anonblock or blocked proxy, but that's another discussion). I've dropped it down to template editor. Merry Christmas! Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:28, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. There aren't many template editors so I don't suppose it's likely to be an issue. Merry Christmas to you as well, my friend. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  17:17, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

WP:DEADLINKSPAM
''I'm contacting you because you blocked WT:WPSPAM related accounts. ''

WP:DEADLINKSPAM is up and is now a centralized deadlink-replacing report. When blocking these types of accounts, please log the spammer's username and spamming domain to the report, so others can see if link is worth blacklisting or not. Thanks, &mdash; <span style="color:green;font-family:Courier new, serif;font-variant:small-caps">Revi 14:30, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll have a look at that alter in the week. Merry Christmas, HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  17:18, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Need PP advice for today's FA
Today's FA is American paddlefish which has been experiencing a tad of vandalism. Is there a fast way to get PP while it's the FA today? Thx in advance... <font style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.1em 0.1em 0.4em,#F2CEF2 -0.4em -0.4em 0.6em,#90EE90 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#E6FFFF">Atsme &#9775;  Consult  18:12, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!
A bit of a form letter from me to you (don't go poking around in my edit history or it'll get even more obvious how much of a form letter it is!) to wish you happy holidays, a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, a Happy December, Happy Snow, Happy Sunshine, and an otherwise generally happy end to 2014. Thanks for all the constructive editing, support and civil discourse. Here's to another year of assuming good faith of one another. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:39, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
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