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Endurance Crater
Thanks for the cleanup on Endurance with those break=clear all's. They really straightened the article out. Now to add more substance... -- Riffsyphon1024 04:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, there are way too many pictures for that little article. There's some interesting papers that are freely available over here and here, however I have not read them all yet. -- MER-C 04:39, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * There should be some expansion to the parts of the crater where the most science came out, which might warrant the creation of subarticles on the features of the crater if need be. I'm particularly interested in Burns Cliff since they seem to have traced it out as the first real geologic formation on Mars. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Though now that I think about it, theres not much in Endurance to begin with, so we will have to expand on it there to fill it out and place the images better. One way or another. :P -- Riffsyphon1024 06:07, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I tried to expand the article a bit, however there isn't much stuff over at the official MER site or at one of the better known "back seat driver" forums. Most of the content is hidden in subscription requiring journals. And I am not a geologist, so I do not understand many of the things said in such papers. -- MER-C 06:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Since you refer to the JPL's MER site, there is information in their archives that I can look up, but theres alot of stuff. -- Riffsyphon1024 08:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, none of it is of real scientific interest. Most of it goes something like "we went into the crater...saw an outcrop...drove to it...used the RAT a few times...took some color pictures...used the MI - "Ooh, look at those little round balls!"...Mini-TES...APXS...Moessbauer integration...there's another outcrop, blah blah blah. Whereas Edgett's paper on Meridiani Planum and the LPSC papers say much more, more directly, than what we can get from the JPL site. Examples: "Victoria is an exhumed crater", "Endurance is more exhumed than Victoria", "The strata encountered at the MER-B site go down for about another 150m", etc. I feel that I have adequately summarised the JPL information without having to add more pictures. -- MER-C 12:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well you can't blame a bunch of planetary geologists getting excited about hematite on Mars. ;) -- Riffsyphon1024 16:00, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

|db-unksource
Please do not stick db-unksource where the image is already marked for CSD I4 using another template, as you did with Image:Great Mighty Poo.jpg. unksource is redundant in this case, and my experience has been these tags are not usually removed by vandals, so there is no need to beat the 7-day waiting period to get these deleted. Regards, Kimchi.sg 14:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. --MER-C 04:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Good work
Well done on finding all those old images without proper licences. Stifle (talk) 09:24, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * They're at "Category:Uploader_unsure_of_copyright_status" (wikilink doesn't want to work). I'm only half done, so there are plenty to come. Thanks. --MER-C 09:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Stop reverting the Muslims by Nationality
That edit is not Vandalism he is removing old data. Aeon Insane Ward  05:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, the 1994 census data is old, however he is removing some more recent stuff with it. I'll let someone else decide. MER-C 05:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Simply ask him why he is removing it. That way you don't get into a revert war. I have removed the Test 4 fromhis page.  Unwarented.  Aeon  Insane Ward  05:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I placed that template just before you contacted me. I've asked on the IP's talk page. MER-C 05:41, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Sean Thomas
Your recent edit to Sean Thomas (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 06:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

What are you doing on the article Sean Thomas? It seems to be a valid edit. GofG undefinedundefinedundefined Contribs 06:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Only parts of it is valid. Towards the end, it reads too much like a life story and thus isn't NPOV. A sample:


 * Lately the last year I have read some awesome books including; The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight, by James Redfield, Angels and Demons, The Divinci Code, Deception Point, and Digital fortress all by Dan Brown

When you’re with a girl you go out to movies...........a lot! More and more i'm finding inspiration in books and movies as an alternative to bands. I think in the last year or so there has been a great quantity of quality movies both commercial and independent. Some of my faves have been Garden State, as funny as napoleon dynamite, as real as today, I loved napoleon but who didn’t? There was "The Station Agent" and Metalica's "some kind of monster" "Lord of the rings" and the highly anticipated "revenge of the sith" I’m a big fan of all the star wars movies.
 * MER-C 06:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Stupid "On Wheels" vandal... seems to get everywhere!!!
Glad to see you're ontop of this one... User:I ate a banana in the freezing rain! We had problems with an "On Wheels" vandal on MA (Memory-Alpha) a few months ago. Not sure if its always the same guy, or if its actually a bunch of people, or even a load of copy-cats... whatever, its good to see that they're not having too much of an impact here! Zsingaya 12:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks like it's gone now, after being blocked for the third time. I'll continue to monitor recent changes until I log off to bed in half an hour. MER-C 12:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Willy (See Willy on Wheels) is a pain in the butt, glad to see you were on top of it. Aeon  Insane Ward  12:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage! — G a ry Kirk | talk! 13:16, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Seems like the communism vandal. LOL. You're welcome. MER-C 13:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

renaming instances of "Thermal Design Power"
Please look at the discussions on german Wikipedia. There was a hint on this a long long time on the discussion-page of thermal design point. but nobody did anything. till today. i did something. 134.30.5.94 14:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, you did a cut and paste move. Registered users have a mechanism to move pages while preserving the page history. That's why I reverted it. The admins will come along and sort things out, since your antics made sure I cannot move the page myself. MER-C 02:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Request
Please do not cut and paste the Pro-life article into the Anti-choice page.-- Conrad Devonshire  Talk  04:25, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * That wasn't me. It's an IP - 24.115.41.168. I'm trying to sort it out. MER-C 04:33, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, I apologise for the mixup.-- Conrad Devonshire  Talk  04:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Reverting Paignton edits
Hi, earlier today you reverted (rightly as far as I can see) an edit in the Paignton page. I've reverted it twice since, however I've not been around enough to know what to do next? I realise it comes from an IP address used by others potentially. Help would be appreciated - cheers --Nigel 14:52, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * See WP:UTM for an appropriate warning to put on the talk page. Once you have had enough, go to the admins for a block. MER-C 09:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks - more garbage again today - I've reported it (but couldn't revert Paignton pages as I've reverted it twice already in 24 hours?). Appreciate the advice, have a good life Nigel 15:21, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Reverting (blatant) vandalism doesn't violate 3RR. I've reverted seven times in ten minutes over at Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy before the admins came and blocked that vandal. MER-C 08:32, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Again thanks, gradually building up the knowledge. I guess I'm irritated by this one for a number of reasons not least of which that I appear to be funding a uk gov department to waste time .  A three hour block was placed on the IP as it's shared but I'm sure it will come back.  Regards Nigel 08:42, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * If it continues, go over to WP:RFP and request semi-protection. I hate shared IPs too - they can't be blocked without shutting out legitimate users. AOL is the worst - you get so many vandals (like that sockpuppet further down). I just wish they blocked AOL once and for all (but still let legitimate people log in and create accounts). MER-C 08:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

(indents removed) Thanks again MER-C - the more I look the more I agree about shared IPs - why don't people register, it's not difficult! Cheers -- Nigel 14:30, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Your first Barnstar!
P.S. I'm also in UTC+8 timezone! Which country are you from, if you don't mind me asking? Kimchi.sg 05:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm from Perth, Western Australia. MER-C 07:11, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Leave my page alone
Please stop doing that to my page. You wouldn't want it to happen to you, would you? --YankeeFan2006 08:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You're a banned sockpuppet as far as I can tell. Why should I listen to you? MER-C 09:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Why should you listen to those other users that suspect me. Just because I log in through AOL doesn't nessecarily mean I'm some other banned AOL user that's on a mission to vandalized the RfA pages.  Yes, I vote from time to time, but all I'm trying to do is write an article about the Yankees in their quest to make the playoffs.  Unfortunately, because I have to connect with AOL, and I can't choose which IP address to login from, I can't hel pit.  Now, because I accidentally voted twice in an RfA my page must be bombarded and I be block?  Don't really make sense.  --YankeeFan2006 08:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes you can. Change ISPs or use a non-AOL browser, e.g. Firefox. By the way, your edit history suggests you are a sockpuppet: see User talk:Bunchofgrapes. If you aren't a sockpuppet, prove it. MER-C 10:59, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I would need to be on an independant connection. I'm just her e to contribute to Yankee pages, that's all.  I'm not here to mess uo pages, why do you think that way? Yankeefan2006.. 09:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Let's see what the admins have to say. MER-C 09:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't be here making useful edits if I was a "sock". Yankeefan2006.. 09:40, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Such as? See . MER-C 09:42, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Why can't you be patient, who do you persit in blanking my page?YankeeFan2006 10:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

(indents removed for readability) Until you disprove the evidence that strongly suggests you aren't a sockpuppet, I will continue to revert your removal of the sockpuppet templates. Why haven't you done so immediately? MER-C 11:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

EDO Corporation
Please explain why you have edited EDO Corp page of latest update. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.98.157.111 (talk • contribs)
 * Sorry about that, I saw your last edit and mistook it for a section blanking by some vandal IP (which I see very often) and just reverted blindly without checking the history. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! If you'd like to continue to make high-quality contributions, I suggest you recognise your good work under a fixed identity, not just a collection of four changing numbers between 0 and 255. MER-C 08:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
... for reverting vandalism to my userpage :-) Cheers --Srikeit (Talk 12:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. MER-C 13:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi MER-C. Thanks for reverting vandalism on my userpage by 68.45.174.91. By the way your warning on their talk page appears not to have parsed correctly. - Gimboid13 09:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Thanks for letting me know about the talk page - it was a typo. MER-C 09:16, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Indeed thank you for saving my talkpage too :) &mdash;Xyra e l 11:16, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Unfortunately, when doing vandal patrol you have to keep an eye on your user pages in case the vandals retaliate. MER-C 12:22, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

STOP!!
Stop reverting my edits. This user spammed many pages claiming that these are my sockpuppets, and I am removing the false claims. Please, just revert your reverts for these are things involving me. I am removing all the spamming that this user did to a bunch of pages after he got mad at me. Revert your edits that you made. Thank you. --69.227.174.70 09:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Removing sock puppet notices, especially as an IP, can be construed as vandalism. I've seen sockpuppets do that before, see the Yankeefan2006.. saga above. Removing sockpuppet templates makes other people think that you are a sockpuppet too. This is not the place if you want the notices removed - go to WP:ANI or the talk page of a sysop. MER-C 09:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Alliance for Aging Research
Thanks for catching that copyvio. I can't believe my spidey sense didn't go off on that one, looking back it was kind of an obvious copy and paste job. --W.marsh 13:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. The heading "who we are" gave it away. MER-C 14:02, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Damages
You have just reverted a page to its previous wrong and frankly misleading history and undone all my edits, which took a substantial part of yesterday. You left no explanation. What is your role in this organisation? Can you please take another look at it. You will see from the talk page that it is not a finished article, and has further work to do. I assume from your actions you wish me to stop editing this article, and so you think that wikipedia is best of with the previous version? I am a busy professional, who actually knows about this topic, but who can't be bothered to play games undoing all this. --BramleyBarn 08:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You removed a large amount of (misleading) content, which I mistook for vandalism. I agree that your edits were legitimate - sorry about reverting you. MER-C 11:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * No probs! I'm new here and I was confused!  Please drop back cos I'd welcome feedback.  Cheers.  --BramleyBarn 11:26, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * On further inspection, your last edit appeared to have truncated the article. (Do you use Firefox and the Google toolbar - see here?) That's why I reverted it - I've installed a script that mimicks the rollback function the admins have, which removes consecutive contributions by an editor with one click. It's great against page blank vandals who remove one section, save, remove another section, save and so on and other vandals in general but can cause collateral damage. MER-C 12:31, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah - I'd notice truncating articles happening a lot. (The damages article should be OK again now).  Let me investigate this article - Thanks for that.  --BramleyBarn 12:56, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * It's fine. MER-C 13:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

MY SUGAR CAT edit
Yes, you edited my My Sugar Cat page, and even said "Stop shouting". I'd like to let you know that the name of the single was all in capital letters and it was kinda unecessary to edit it, let alone say such things. Unless it's a formatting rule and if it is, then please tell. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mad Cactuar (talk • contribs)
 * The capitalisation on the album cover is optimised for marketing. However, one should use ordinary English conventions when writing about it. I have a book on my desk right now - on the front cover it says "THE JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL BY F. SPENCER CHAPMAN" however when referring to the book I would write "The Jungle is Neutral, by F. Spencer Chapman". MER-C 11:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

No, it isn't merely on the album cover. It's released with that name, even the official website puts it as that name. It's the official name to use caps, it's a Japanese single not an English one. Some Japanese singles use capitals for their name. Anyway, as you please. One question, how do you find suitable categories for the subjects, and once you do get categories how do you remove the banner on the page that says "This article needs to be categorized" and stuff? Plus, how do ya sign names? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mad Cactuar (talk • contribs)


 * To find suitable categories, start looking at something you know that the article fits in, such as Category:Albums. Look at the subcategories and gradually select more specific categories. Once you are finished, add [[Category:X]] where X is one of the final categories you selected to the bottom of the article and remove the . Also, some templates put articles into categories. For example, Endurance (crater), as the name implies, is a crater. We go to Category:Craters and look at the subcategories and notice Category:Craters on Mars which has no subcategories. Thus we put that into the article. To sign, type ~ . MER-C 12:08, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Mad Cactuar 12:43, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar!

 * Thanks! :) MER-C 13:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Recent edits to 198.97.67.59
This is a firewall which assigns a common IP address to multiple users. Making edits anonymously is within policy. "Sock puppet" is a highly pejorative accusation which implies many things which have not been used here (such as being deceptive about the several accounts being connected and using the accounts to avoid the 3RR rule). Unless you have specific reason to believe that these multiple accounts have been used to circumvent policy (and, since they haven't, I'd be curious as to what your reasons are), please assume good faith.

Thank you.198.97.67.56 12:27, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Please whack a on your talk page so that we can tell that your IP is being used by many users. We generally assume otherwise. Removal of sockpuppet notices is a strong indication of sockpuppetry itself, see the Yankeefan2006.. saga above therefore it's one of the things I revert automatically. MER-C 12:41, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I believe you are a SysOp? Please review this matter.  Look at the discussion regarding the anon edits in Illegal Immigration in the United States.  Note that a couple of admins insist on posting a tag in the following user accounts and that according to Wiki policy, the tags "should not be added in the cases of accusations of sock puppetry which have not been proven, nor should they be added in the case of an legitimate alternate account, especially where the user may wish to maintain anonymity. Abuse of these tags will result in warning and potentially blocking."
 * I have stated that I wish to remain anon and I have made it a point to clarify that I am the same person using several IPs to connect anonymously. They have provided no commentary at all - let alone specific evidence to their claims - as to why they continue to put these statements in these useraccount pages.  And while they have stated that I have been disruptive, the only "disruption" I have provided (and the only evidence of any "disruption" they can point to) is about me insisting on remaining anonymous.
 * The user accounts in question are as follows 198.97.67.59, 198.97.67.56, 198.97.67.58, 198.97.67.59, and 198.97.67.57.


 * Thank you for addressing this at your earliest convenience.198.97.67.56 18:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

In addition to these issues, these admins have included the tags in the account for 71.74.209.82. I believe this is an attempt to force me to stop using the anon option despite the fact that using the anon option is legal and that they can't specify any actions committed by me which have been abusive of this.71.74.209.82 20:35, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I am sending this to the mediation cabal, please ignore.71.74.209.82 01:34, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

First of all, I am not a sysop but have a reversion script that gives me rollback controls. As for the cabal, you must be registered because only registered users can create non-talk pages. The shared IP tags weren't applied properly, since most of my directions were also inserted. I'll rectify this, because I did a WHOIS on you and found out exactly where you edit from. The shared account userboxes and sockpuppet notices are no longer necessary.

Creating an account will get rid of this fuss extremely easily, then you wouldn't have to worry about dynamic IPs and we can't find out who you really are or where you come from without asking someone.

WHOIS tells me that the two distinct IPs above are unrelated - one from Ohio and one from Virginia. I'll get rid of the notices MER-C 02:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you and I am strongly considering getting an account. Its just that I didn't feel like submitting to someone threatening or pushing me into it and I didn't really, and still don't, see a reason for it71.74.209.82 03:37, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello, MER-C I noticed that you have concluded that 71.74.209.82 and 198.97.67.?? are different people. I would like to point out the United Pentecostal Church International page, where the edit history and the discussion page make it clear that they are in fact the same person. A good many this individuals edits revolve around the use of Acts 2:38 in the Overview section. For example as 198.97.67.57 Revision as of 07:01, 27 May 2006 (restoring NPOV)  and as 71.74.209.82  Current revision (18:34, 6 August 2006) (Unsourced). There are multiple similar examples.

From the discussion page it would also appear that they are one and the same:

Exhibit A)

''Seems that someone needs a lesson on what Wiki considers vandalism. "Wiki vandalism is generally defined as editing a wiki in a way that is intentionally disruptive or destructive. There are four generally acknowledged types of vandalism: deletion of legitimate information, insertion of nonsense or irrelevant content, addition of unwanted commercial links (spam), and policy violations specific to that wiki." As all articles on Wiki should be written with NPOV, deliberate persistant efforts to remove NPOV (and thus violate the NPOV policy) are an act of vandalism. Please stop.198.97.67.59 18:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)''

Exhibit B)

''I believe DCMGOV intended to post this here instead of in my personal talk space "Do NOT remove Acts 2:38 from the repentance section of the UPCI page again. If you don't agree with the UPCI doctrine, discuss it in the discussion page, but you cannot remove fundamental portions of the organization's doctrine simply because you do not like it." 71.74.217.83 00:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC) Here's my reply 1.) The philosophy of Wikipedia is against one person controlling the contents of an article by telling others what they can or can't or should or shouldn't post in it - only Wiki policy can do that 2.) My version of the article does not remove Acts 2:38 from the article''

Notice the similarities in tone. (71.74.217.83 leads to the same address in VA as 71.74.209.82)

Further 71.74.209.82 appears to acknowledge ownership of the other IP addresses in his/her Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-08-04 Admins attempting to force end of anon option

''I want to point out that these admins have provided no commentary with these tags providing specific verifiable evidence of abuse by myself in using these multiple IPs. The IPs disputed are 198.97.67.59, 198.97.67.56, 198.97.67.57, 198.97.67.58, and 71.74.209.82 The admins are Will Beback and Jossi. Sources 71.74.209.82 01:42, 5 August 2006 (UTC)''

At no time has he/she denied ownership of the other offending addresses. But appeared happy to allow you to reach that conclusion on your own, and failed to correct the misunderstanding.

In sum, there is clear evidence outside of the Illegal immigration to the United States page that these are in fact the same person.

Thanks Brimba 06:52, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Ahh, looks like the IPs weren't as unrelated as I thought. On further inspection (using the City link at the bottom of an IP's talk page) are about 60km away from each other. The Virginia IP was registered to an Time Warner subsidary in Virginia. (compare  and  ). Therefore it is possible that they are the same person and given the evidence above it is likely. I think the correct conclusion to be reached is:

One of the employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base also edits Wikipedia at home with an IP of 71.74.209.82.

Not enough to put back the sockpuppet templates, but enough to place a notice somewhere on 71.74.209.82's user (talk) page about this issue. MER-C 11:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry to confuse you on that. I do post from the different IPs.  I have not tried to mislead anyone on that fact.  However, the Wright-Patterson IPs are shared by many other users as well.

To correct this confusion, I will no longer be posting from the WPAFB IPs.71.74.209.82 22:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'm going to go ahead and create a user name.71.74.209.82 22:43, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I guess that's the end of that. Issue closed. MER-C 08:18, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Please look at the Admin noticeboard. Your words are being used and I think they should be used with your knowledge and support.Psychohistorian 03:55, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

the thumbs up
award goes to you for reverting an "opinion" that someone had added to mine. Thanks for keeping an eye on me and about a million others. Carptrash 16:06, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. MER-C 03:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Alliance for Aging Research/Temp
You identified Alliance for Aging Research as a copyvio. I just created a non-copyvio version at Talk:Alliance for Aging Research/Temp. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 06:49, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I see you have recycled some of the old text, but that should be fine due to the small amount of it. Thanks. MER-C 08:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Aussie pingu trivia
From User talk:Aussie pingu you've quickly flagged up vandalism by this editor, who's now been indefinitely blocked for the account only being used for vandalism. AP contributed an article on St Francis of Assisi Primary School which appeared innocuous but not notable, so I've flagged it for Wikipedia:Proposed deletion accordingly. Thanks for your good word, ..dave souza, talk 09:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. MER-C 09:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Hellsing (Miilenium)
I don't know why, but for some reason you reverted my change and called it vandalism. I feel offended by this acussation because I was only doing my best to improve the article in question. Walter C. Dornez has an article elsewhere, so I didn't feel the need to repeat it elsewhere, hence why I linked to that page (hopefully I did it right). I would like to know why my edit was reverted, and if possible revert the edit you made so that I can continue with my contributions to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.8.54 (talk • contribs)


 * Oops, my bad. Just reverted myself. MER-C 09:59, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.8.54 (talk • contribs)

BOGUS REVERSION - MISTAKE?
Hi, you've just reverted some very important sentiments that I have made regarding a vabdal that is trying to become admin. Can you please tell me why you have done this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.29.114.156 (talk • contribs)
 * Woah, woah, woah. Calm down. Take a deep breath and stop shouting. If you've got problems, approach the admins or the reverting user civilly or you'll get blocked for being offensive. And anyway, Ryulong is a vandal fighter, just like I am. If you attack him just like you did, it says a lot about you and your intentions. MER-C 09:59, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * And now you are vandalising my talk page. Just as I thought. Go away sockpuppet! MER-C 10:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
For reverting the vandalism to my userpage. Viridae Talk 10:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Grr, I wish that vandal would go away. He's been here as well. MER-C 10:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

CSD G8
Users need not have user pages in order to have talk pages. That said, I'm speedying User talk:Ger-Jan as an attack page (I did a translation and it says "You are stupid" in Dutch). Punkmorten 13:48, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thought there was no such user, with no talk page nor welcome message. (Turns out the user had made 2 edits in 2 months.) MER-C 13:51, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Scissett Middle School
Thank you for nominating this school for deletion. Schools are not covered by this notice for speedy deletion so I have removed it. In general, articles on schools are considered notable and are not to be deleted.--Fil e  Éireann 13:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought it was a vanity page, since the creator's only contributions have been on that page, etc. Oops. MER-C 02:39, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Thanks
No Problem dude :)  °≈§→  Robom  æ  yhem:   T / ←§≈°  06:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Your change to my user page
Hello. You recently reverted edits made by an IP address to my user page. I assume you thought it was vandalism. Actually it was just me tweaking a couple sections but forgetting to sign in. Thanks for watching out, though. - square_pear | talk 17:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:Stubs
Hello,

Thank you for your stub submission. You may wish to note that it is preferable to use a stub template from WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types instead of using simply, if you can.

Thanks! Woodshed 09:56, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm on RC patrol and unfortunately I do not have enough time to look up the stub table and locate the correct stub type before I move on to the next article. I try to guess what the stub types are but if I spend more than a short amount of time on each article, I quickly fall behind. MER-C 10:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

warhammer online: Age of reckoning
Hey, You recently did a revert on a revert i did to the Warhammer Online:Age of Reckoning page. I help run a fansite for the game and a few months ago someone (one of our regular forum goers actually.. sigh) came and wholesale copied every single bit of the information that we had written up about the game into the wikipedia article for this game. It took us a while to tweak to this, but as the author and copywrite owner of the information we're really keen for it not to be on the page. The user who originally copied the data over has apologised to us, and i read as much as i could about the wikipedia copywrite grievance policies and took what i thought was the appropriate action (reverted to a version of the site that did not contain the copywrited material, and posted a "please don't do that" in the talk page of the ip). People then happily worked on the page, until someone came back and did a reversion back to our content.. again, overwriting what people had been working on and simply reverting back to the flat out stolen text. So, i went through, reverted it, added a discussion article, tagged the reversion with some info, and added info to the users talk page. And now it happened again, so, obviously miffed, i went back and did the same thing, because i don't really know what else i can do. only this time i think you've picked it up as vandalism and quickly reverted my reversion (while i was editing the discussion).... So. no, its not vandalism, but id LOVE your suggestions as to what i can do to ensure that our copywrited material isnt included on the page! Culain
 * Watchlist the page, revert when necessary and put the appropriate warning template on the user page. If it is a blatant copyright violation, blank the page (Yay! Sanctioned vandalism!) and insert a copyvio tag. It helps us vandal fighters if you leave an appropriate edit summary so that large deletions aren't mistaken for vandalism. Also, large deletions by IPs are treated rather seriously, since at least 80% of them turn out to be vandalism of some sorts. MER-C 09:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Not doing this
I contrib very well to site. You put deletion. I do nothing bad. U bad stuff about Uzbek proverbb why?? --Uzerbaaji 11:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * When I added the speedy tag, I didn't feel that it had enough context (see CSD A1). Also half the article wasn't in English and was poorly formatted. I feel that the speedy tag unintentially bought some attention to the article and was quickly fixed up. It's not an attack on you, it's a constructive criticism of the article. MER-C 12:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Deletion query
Hi - seeing all the deletion ones passing by that you've done - how about this one Emma Read - I guess I know it should be deleted (?) just not sure what the reason should be (& whether it's a "speedy one") - happy hunting! Regards -- Nigel (Talk) 12:43, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It's a vanity page, so it falls under CSD A7 - non notable people, bands, companies, etc. You should familiarize yourself with the criteria for speedy deletion, or at least the more used ones - A1 (no context), A3 (little content), A7 (not notable), G1 (no content), G2 (test page), G3 (article creation/move vandalism), G4 (recreation of deleted material) and U1 (user subpage by user request). P.S. if you want to tag pages for speedy deletion en masse and/or fight vandals, I recommend you have a look at my my monobook.js and Voice of All's RC patrol script. MER-C 13:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks again for some useful info MER-C. I'll take you up on the scripts offer as soon as I have a minute - regards -- Nigel  (Talk) 13:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Usertalk space spamming
I see you've dealt with User:LEBANON. There seems to be a bunch of lookalikes (I'd suspect sockpuppets) such as User:Exclusive Trade, User:BERNE, and User:Dallas Jeweler. Is it OK for me to blank a user's talkpage? Pseudomonas 13:08, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The admins are on their way. All three users have been reported on WP:AIV and are blocked indefinitely. Removing spam is one of the only legitimate reasons for blanking a user's talk page. And yes, they are sockpuppets. MER-C 13:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying that. [The user-talk space] seems to be very spamful at the moment :( Pseudomonas 13:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep - there's also an indef blocked vandal thrown in there for good. Unfortunately, I'm logging off for sleep soon. Damn. MER-C 13:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for your timely revert to my user page. --Alf melmac 13:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. MER-C 13:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Revert?
- what was your rationale for this? JBKramer 12:02, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Your revert uncategorized the article. A two-year revert also aroused my suspicions. Now that I have read the talk page (which I don't usually do) I have realised why you did that and have reverted myself. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. (You'll need to categorize the article.) MER-C 12:08, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

stub
thanks, that was pretty fast

I was looking for how I should name my stub

I don't know if it's rather biochem or organic chemistry —Preceding unsigned comment added by FelixP (talk • contribs)
 * I've tagged it with both. And for my speed, I'm a recent changes patroller. MER-C 13:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC)