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NATO
Hello, we had discussion on my talk page a few days ago whether Latvia and other Eastern European countries officially join NATO on March 29 or April 2. I just checked NATO's homepage and they say it was March 29. So, I changed Latvia article to March 29 and, if you see April 2 anywhere else, that can be changed to March 29 as well. Andris 17:18, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Cthulhu & Co.
Thanks for helping out with the References to the CM page; I wasn't sure I'd get enough conent in before it got sacked by the VfD people. -Litefantastic 11:09, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Edit attribution
Hi. The edits from your IP have now been reattributed to your username. Regards  &mdash; Kate Turner | Talk 11:43, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)
 * Hi again. To confirm, the exact edits reattributed to you were:


 * 200.206.212.211 &rarr; Mackeriv
 * Old IDs: 3639886, 2908676, 2949659, 3264188, 2894321, 2846843, 2948342, 2917912, 2921007, 2968505, 2812776, 2826640, 3348503, 2807040, 2892989, 3348748, 2899038, 2908817, 2780091, 2559529, 2265385, 2013229, 1399754
 * Cur entries:
 * Mecha_Sonic 20040320200427

These were made quite some time ago (there's a large backlog for edit reattributions), so they're probably quite well hidden in your contributions list. Please drop me a note if this is not correct. Regards  &mdash; Kate Turner | Talk 03:14, 2004 Sep 5 (UTC)

re: Churro -- thanks for noticing!
Thanks for your kind words on the Churro shape -- it's one of those little things that's so easy to understand once you SEE it, but so hard to describe, LOL! I was making a similar simple image for Pipe using the auto-shape tools in Excel, and realized I could easily do a Churro as well. Create, alter, color as needed, then copy and paste into Fireworks to save as .png file. You can't copyright a shape, and the same could be done in any more complicated vector based image editor, so.... Anyway, it's just nice to have the little things you do noticed, so thank you for taking the time. Cheers! Catherine | talk 22:40, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Portuguese language
thanks for participating in the discussion!! you wrote very very nice posts, and i find the "Big, flashing, neon lights" bit particularly amusing. Vbs 09:20, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * that's the thing, Mackeriv. at the beginning, i WAS the ALONE one against PedroPVZ, really! well, some people would come and do edits, but he would simply revert them all, and people would just leave and never come back. who wants the hassle? he went on pretty undisturbed for months. i tried to show what was going on, but it seemed nobody would take me seriously (my emotional state demonstarated by my comments probably didn't help much either) and so i myself gave up for a while. then i came back, and even tried mediation which was unsuccessful because he declined. thankfully at this time, people like ray and you came to participate, so things got better and less hopeless. and i'm a brazilian for real as well!! but i always write in english because this is the english wikipedia after all, and i think it's fair that everyone should be able to see what's going on. and about the "complicatedness" of the language we speak, yeah, i agree it's real hard, but i think comparing languages adequately is probably even harder than that. valeu! Vbs 09:29, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * i'm still slightly confused about something you said. at the same time you wrote about the way people hate the old rules, i'm not sure what you really meant by "The Brazilian Portuguese is still very connected to the Portuguese from Portugal". as far as i can tell, the only connection is in books, do you not agree? also, one thing is the school curriculum, and quite another is the language we speak. or are you gonna tell me that you still remember the whole periodic table that we are supposed to have learnt? by the way, i did some small changes in the bp article, so please have a look. and if you know of a Portuguese soap opera that wasn't dubbed, please let me know. cheers. Vbs 09:28, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

one serious problem i just found out. PedroPVZ is trying to get me banned. he is inventing things, and accusing me of being everyone else (apparently you) that is posting in the talk page:
 * "He even has another nickname and starts talking with himself just to people see he is correct."
 * "Another guy, came and said, that he was not correct. He immidiatly offended him also."
 * "One comment, he even says to the Brazilians to stand off for his country."
 * "the guy is now taking is revenge, is constatly changing my password."

please have a look at his "comments". sorry to get you involved in this silly war. Vbs 12:31, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * hi there. i NEVER said that EP was similar to latin, NOBODY did. what i said was that having to learn some of the things we do in school is like having to learn latin. that "vbs said EP=latin" thing is plain bull. if you pay a little attention you will notice that many of my arguments are often distorted in an attempt to invalidate them. here is what i said exactly: "we are taught many verb forms, conjugations, etc, that sound extremely archaic to us, but i guess it's a bit like learning latin". unless these people have a really poor english, i think it's pretty clear what i tried to say. and i didn't say that EP was hard either. i DID say EP is hard TO UNDERSTAND, and that EP is very different from BP. but even if they were officially two separate languages that still wouldn't necessarilly make EP hard for brazilians, just like spanish isn't. Vbs 09:52, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hellsing Alucard/Dracula?
Thanks for cleaning up the rest of the article... i had to run so i didn't have the time to even spellcheck my own revision. I'm not in favour of saying Alucard IS Dracula, but i'd like to hear someone on that... so i'd appreciate if you dropped in Talk:Hellsing and dropped a line or two... thanks again for the cleanup... --Asmodai 22:05, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

Alucard (Castlevania)/Dracula
Thanks a lot for your support about that one. He's (DreamGuy) been annoying me a lot for quite some time in several other articles as well (Cerberus, over the exact same issues as in Succubus you experienced with him). Could you possibly fix the redirect links he's made chaos of? I can't move it to the proper Alucard name anymore. Thanks again! EliasAlucard|Talk 13:03, 09 Aug, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Castlevania infobox logos
I responded to you at User_talk:Thunderbrand. Andre ( talk )A| 17:46, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism by Ziegenpeter
I have left a warning on his page. I will warn twice more, then if he continues I will find out how to block him for a lengthy period of time. Thank you for listing him on Vandalism in progress and bringing this to our attention. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:29, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Anime and Manga
You may be interested in joining WikiProject Anime and Manga. -Pyrop 00:11, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

External links vs External link
It's policy to call "fixed name sections" by a ehm.. well, fixed name. So even if there's only one external link, it's still called external links. It's in the Wikipedia: policy documents somewhere, I can look it up for you if you want me to. --fvw *  01:55, 2004 Dec 17 (UTC)

Ho, ho, ho! Congratulations!
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 05:33, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Blocks are not expiring
I'm posting this message on every admin who has made a block in the last few days. The title says it all really: because of a bug in the new software blocks are not expiring when their time is up. Until this is fixed can you get in the habit of manually unblocking a few everytime you block one. If everyone does this we'll be able to keep on top of things until the bug is sorted out. Note also that another bug is displaying indefinite blocks as expiring at the current time and date. obviously you don't want to unblock those. If you want to reply please do so here Theresa Knott  (The snott rake) 10:10, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Chimarrão
Gotcha! you're right!!

There are both articles! Chimarão & Chimarrão

Let's merge them! Tks (que vergonha pro gaúcho aqui!)

Jic 18:05, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Valeu :) Tenho trabalhado mais na pt:WikiPedia e passo por aqui para referência e acertar links entre as versões internacionais.

Esta Chimarão não sei como criei... foi nos primeiros testes

Wiesenthaler
On my talk page, you wrote:

Since there is a bug in the IP blocking system that prevents blocks for expiring, I was browsing through the blocked IPs list to see if there were any addresses expiring, for me to manually unblock (since that's what many admins are doing). I found User:Wiesenthaler there, expiring at 21:16, 22 Dec 2004. That's why I unblocked him. However, only then I thought of taking a look at his talk page, where I found a message by you left there (who was also the one who blocked said user), saying he got banned for life. Now I know I don't have anything to do with this, so I can't really know what's being going on with that user but all I want to know is, did I do anything wrong? He was indeed expiring just now, so how could he have gotten a permanent block?

Either ways, I apologize if I did something wrong there. I'll wait for a response.--Kaonashi 17:14, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Indefinite blocks, like the one I placed on Wiesenthaler, incorrectly show the current time and date as the date of expiration. Unblocking him was a (perfectly understandable) mistake, but I don't think it matters: he told me in private correspondence that he will no longer be using that account. &#8212;Charles P. (Mirv) 18:51, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sadly, yes, it's true. You can find the details here: User:Viriditas/wikipuppets Jayjg |  (Talk)  19:41, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re: Kraftwerk and Nico Demonte action
In regards to your comment, the reason why I protected the pages, rather than banning the IP/User was that he was only making vandalism edits on those two articles. Additionally, I do not know if the IP in question is a host for proxy or NAT which is for many clients. My suggestion is to give him a 3 day ban or you may choose to put back the vandalism protection if that is the only two articles he's vandalizing. It's just my opinion that if the vandal is vandalizing many pages, a ban should be placed, but if he or she is only targeting a specific article (especially one that doesn't appear to have any major changes) then those articles should be protected. If you are going to do anything, or you're unsure, try Administrators' noticeboard. If you do any action against the vandal, please make sure to list it at Wikipedia:Vandalism in Progress. -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:00, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Changed scanlation-site name
Wasn´t on Wikipedia for a few weeks, so I didn´t get your message until much later. Hopefully it works now. :) VT-16 09:43, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Cropping vs Scaling
Heya, in response to your edit desc on Homosexuality: Cropping is when you remove edges from an image leaving the parts of the image that are visible at the same size. You probably mean scaling down? Hope that helps. --fvw *  02:13, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)

Resident Evil 4
Yeah I'd noticed it and seen you'd fixed it, I'll keep an eye on it too.

Sorry if you didn't like the clean up, I felt the discussion was now complete - I should have moved it to an archive, I'll find out how to do that for the future. The discussion itself is of course still available in the page history.

DamienG 19:59, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)


 * I won't be able to get online for the next week, so keep an eye on it. I've put something about it on it's talk page but whether the slightly tounge-in-cheek comment there will diffuse the situation I've no idea.  DamienG 21:53, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

Bozo
A Brazilian Bozo the Clown - cool! Can you add something to the page about it? As a USAian, I had thought Bozo was only inside our borders! - DavidWBrooks 17:57, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

3RR
Thanks. I am aware. I agree, this particular case is not vandalism. I am not going to use any "heavy artillery" here. Mikkalai 17:53, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Falun Gong
I've protected both the main and talk pages for now. I'd propose protection for 24 hours or so. We can always re-protect. Cheers, Fire Star 01:39, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Afghan People
You voted against it on Vfd. I've rewritten the article. (still needs work and additions). Could you look at it.Falphin 21:36, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Slot machine spam
Hm, I haven't really been paying attention. Looking at the edit history now it seems fairly sporadic. No good range block there outside of a couple of /16's which are too wide. If it was a problem with the guy coming back every hour I'd set a range block, but with this I'd just say revert when you see it. I'll also put a hidden notice in the external links section to try to prevent people from adding sites. Cheers. CryptoDerk 16:50, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Cyberpunk Hero
I agree that Lain would be better described as a protagonist than a hero, but the "Hacker as Hero" concept (exact phrase from academic literature on cyberpunk, I'll try to find the reference...) is important to cyberpunk as a genre. Perhaps a different example and image could be used to illustrate the concept? --Bryant.cutler 17:09, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"Hero" in the sense I'm thinking doesn't necessarily mean someone who is especially good or especially successful in "saving the world." Cyberpunk casts hackers in the mold of the socratic hero - skilled but flawed, often fatally. In addition, the corny-type hero character appears in a lot of cyberpunk, i.e. Hiro Protagonist in Snow Crash who *does* save the world or at least cyberspace. --Bryant.cutler 17:09, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Saint Seiya
I saw "June" with the accent in Jump. WhisperToMe 21:41, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

United Stated
I liked the term "United Stated" you coined and it was very brillant of you to do it. I write an article about it. However the term is in trouble and Firebug plans on distorting it and deleting the article of it. You and I must stop him before it's too late. Heegoop, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Your talk page
Ok man, I think I got it now. I'll read about you now...oh my god..you and me are opposed on the united stated thing...oh well...its a democracy. Hows Brazil? Im in Australia. The only brazilian dude I knew, sadly, had AIDS. Seriously. He was a terrible man and went to jail for having sex with girls and not telling them he was HIV positive...but I don't hold it against your country. You are avid Indycar supporters yes? --0001 03:27, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ringu and J-Horror
I transferred the J-Horror link you included on the Ringu article to the "See also" section, as it means people won't have to go to another page just to see what "J-Horror" is. Extraordinary Machine 18:06, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Alternative terms for American
I need your help again. Firebug is going to place a WP:RFC on me to prevent me from using alternative terms for American referring to the United States. Please help me. Heegoop, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dear "friend"
Sorry I forgot to speak in English: It seems you have a personal matter with me. It seems that you are using you administrator powers to get what you want. it seems so. It is a pitty that wikipedia EN puts anyone as admin. Someone that added very few to wikipedia mostly minor edits and missinforming in some subjects that we both know it is just because of nationalism. I'm very shocked that you are an Admin. Abstain to make again your banning menaces based on a word, you are being very un-neutral as always. -Pedro 20:23, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC) Requests for adminship/Mackeriv <- a self-nom and a very "Valuable" election from people that don't know you. Considering that you have few edits and mostly minor, un-neutral and unreliable view on some subjects, you shouldnt be admin. I'm sad I didnt knew you were being elected. -Pedro 21:02, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Never got a warning after years of wikipedia. You are an admin because you dont do nothing here, besides minor edits, so anyone has nothing against you. Except when you use your puppet named VBS... -Pedro 20:57, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I never self-nominated for nothing in wikipedia my friend. While you were nominated just because you do nothing. If i create an account do some minor edits and do a self-nom it will probably be the same. --Pedro 21:08, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My Bannishment
Please, doesn't make me to pass for constaint ackward again. Look to my list of contributions. I'm here Wikipedia to Expand and provide information, making Wikipedia more complete and not to vandalize. I'm never gave reason to been banned here.

You don't agree with my editions in the article Orkut article, that's ok, but that's not wrong with my last revisions. My intention is to focus what it happened in orkut in the Brazilian Internet Phenomenon because this is a phenomenon that is happening in other services as MSN Messenger, this isn't exclusive of orkut.

I ask you, when you disagree about my revisions, open a topic in the Talk:Orkut. You just started a nonsense edit war, Not me. And I was banned for this. --Mateusc 22:47, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I can't understand what's happened today. First, your very authoritarian act, then after you go to cesarb and say about POVs and the ban feelings (this nonsense vanity for me). After this, you call me in my talk page "Cynicism". And after write "Peace".


 * I don't want to nominate anyone to anyhting. But since 2004, when I'm arrive here, this is the first Administrator nonsense act, curiously, an Brazilian Administrator nominated by himself.


 * It's really disappointing what the people of my country makes in the Internet, what demonstrates of vanity, pride.


 * Sim meu amigo, porque eu agora vou falar em português bem claro: o que eu presenciei no orkut e hoje na Wikipedia são atos que fazem ter vergonha do país em que vivo, de pessoas que simplesmente ignoram conceitos básicos de democracia e respeito a regras em nome da vaidade e do orgulho.


 * Não titubeie. Você sabe muito bem o que houve com o Orkut. E você tenta esconder isso até as ultimas consequencias, como no ato que cometeu hoje.


 * Sim sou Brasileiro. Mas ao contrário de você eu não escondo o que eu país é, não escondo o que as pessoas do meu país fazem e nem levo isso como ofensa.


 * Ainda vou expandir aquele seção, ainda não está completa. Não será mais com tantas referências "Trolls" como antes, mais trará cada realidade do que acontece no Brasil-Orkut nem que eu tenha que passar o resto da minha vida tirando screenshots para provar o que eu falo é fato e não POV (Ponto de Vista).


 * Sem mais, e Obrigado.

--Mateusc 02:48, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Gente, vamos evitar fazer uma tempestade em um copo d'água. Errar é humano. --cesarb 02:52, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Blocking or not
First of all, you are correct on that fact that I did not warn user:Mateusc on his talk page. However, did you actually take your time you understand what we are talking about? Did you check that article's talk page? Tried to understand what he's been doing for a long, long time, and the amount of people who went against his ideas? I might be wrong for not warning, but I guess that's far more than a reason for anyone to be banned with no warnings on his talk page. Also, he didn't accept the block, and used an anonymous IP to keep on posting and reverting and using the arguments that were judged to be POV-oriented and unsuitable for Wikipedia, by a consensus achieved through a long time discussion. User's unhappy with their blocked status should wait until the blocking period is over to try anything else. You might think "That's right, I'll unblock him, and he won't do this again". Of course, because he now knows how it feels to be blocked. What he did do as soon as you unblocked him was to delete what was put on his talk page, in order to erase it from the eyes of anyone that would happen to cross it.

I'm just upset with the fact that it took you so little time to try to understand this. If any at all.--Kaonashi 22:45, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * As both Michael Snow and me said on WP:AN/I, you should avoid blocking an user when you are involved in a content dispute with him, unless it's an obvious case (3RR with no partial reverts, simple vandalism, etc). That was the sole reason I unblocked him. As Michael Snow said, he had reverted once. --cesarb 22:58, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Orkut
Sim, eu estou por dentro da controvérsia (apesar de não usar mais o Orkut; toda vez que eu tento voltar a usar, desisto por causa da quantidade absurda de mensagens de erro que redirecionam para outro endereço, tornando difícil simplesmente fazer um Reload). --cesarb 03:27, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RFC
Looks like people forgot to warn you. Requests for comment/Mackeriv. --cesarb 28 June 2005 19:48 (UTC)

The third way
Hi Mackeriv,

I've read your (detailed!) comments on the Mateusc/Orkut/Mackeriv RfC. I know how frustrating it can be when it seems another editor isn't listening. I agree that we should never need to "[cross our] arms and let everything go to rubble". On the other hand, it's also undesirable to use our admin tools (blocking and page protection) in aid of our own side in a dispute. To editors without those tools it can seem arbitrary and unfair; besides, it's expressly forbidden in the blocking policy (see When blocking may not be used.)

I'd like to encourage you to remember that there is a third option when confronted with an article content dispute. If you're an active participant in the discussion, then it's a good idea to bring in a neutral admin. Probably the most effective way is through a posting at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Generally responses to concerns raised at WP:AN/I are very rapid, and other admins are glad to provide a 'sanity check' and a cool head. --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 29 June 2005 00:03 (UTC)

Dvirgueza
You banned this user yesterday, but he keeps reverting pages back to versions that include lots of his uploaded images. (Not that *all* of his edits are bad, but he likes to just throw them in en masse into pages and not really format.) He's thus far come back as 200.119.57.4 and 200.119.40.242. I'm sure that we should value his right to collaborate here, but Wikipedia is not a photo gallery and he's not expressed a willingness to talk about formatting either on the page Talk or his own user talk. I just don't want to get caught in a 3RR here and banned, so I'd better explain myself first. JRP 00:25, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Is there anything more we can do about this user? I'm getting really tired of reverting his edits over and over and over and over again. (How come non-admins don't have the revert button? Didn't that used to exist? Or am I thinking of some other Wiki? Obviously, we can just go into history and do it that way... but was that changed in the recent Wiki update?) Is there a process for doing a more long-term ban on a user? Otherwise, we can just keep reverting. But it's a pain and the scope of pages which he has his "favorite" version of seems to be expanding, if you look at his contributions. JRP 05:08, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Salad Fingers
I have you know me, Kyle Michelson and BillPG have literally spent hours brainstorming Salad Finger theories, and although Kyle Michelson's edit may have been slightly first-person it didn't require a removal content but a change of writing. (For example, removal of the 'who wrote it' line, or remove the 'i think' sentence etc) I am going to email Kyle explaining what should be included and not included in the article but please don't throw away hours of brainstorming just because you don't agree with the content. I have you know these theories are very popular and aren't as one sided as you may believe. thankyou. --Raddicks 08:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Consensus is not a majority vote. Merge is considered to be a delete vote by some, but I tend to consider it as a separate vote. Am I wrong? It's a judgement call. You can always put it back up for deletion if you'd like. --Woohookitty 05:18, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Gmail Inbox screenshot
Hi there. Could you do me a favour and delete the older versions of this picture? They're just taking up redundant space on Wikimedia's storage. Thanks EliasAlucard|Talk 07:22, 14 Sept, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, don't revert, delete :) All of the old versions, they're not needed. EliasAlucard|Talk 07:42, 14 Sept, 2005 (UTC)
 * Now it disappeared again in the article. You think this could be some problem within Wikipedia? EliasAlucard|Talk 08:54, 14 Sept, 2005 (UTC)

Ryu
Thanks for your help with the Ryu (Street Fighter) page. I seriously hope that troll gets blocked for good soon. James26 05:10, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

IP Block
I am getting the following msg whenever I try to edit User:DESiegel/Nothanks-sd although i can edit other pages without problem. I am currently accessign via Aol dial-up. note that AOL seems to assign shared IPs based on the page URL. Note also that had I been on a static IP, it eould be highly frustrating for me to draw your attention to this, as you have no email on file. DES (talk) 14:51, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

''You have attempted to edit a page, either by clicking the "edit this page" tab or by following a red link.

Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Mackeriv.

The reason given is this: Vandal that attacks from different IPs. Been warned several times (and was blocked for at least 2 times already)

You can email Mackeriv or one of the other administrators to discuss the block. You may also edit your user talk page if you wish. If you believe that our blocking policy was violated, you may discuss the block publicly on the WikiEN-l mailing list. Note that you may not use the "email this user" feature unless you have a Wikipedia account and a valid email address registered in your user preferences.

Your IP address is 152.163.100.70. Please include this address, along with your username, in any queries you make.''

User vs User talk
Ehm, wrong page, I presume? --fvw *  00:23, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

152.163.100.70
The problem with IP blocking for AOL dial-up users is that AOL assigns a different IP address to a user each time that user changes URL. It seems based on my experience, that if a user returns to the same URL (i.e. the same wikipedia page) in the same session, that user gets the same IP addr again. But logging out and logging back in seems to change this. I suspect UPs are assigned based on soem session base plus some hash of the URL, but that is jsut a guess. In anyn case, the same IP can apply to very different users in a short time span, while it will not always apply to a given user even within a session.

I will look into what this user is doing later today, and help in any way i can. In the mantime i suggest postign a notice at WP:VIP and at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents where more experienced admins than i am might offer an idea. Sorry not to have a better suggestion. DES (talk) 14:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

vandalism by Dvirgueza
By all means, permanently block any sockpuppets of this user. This is not a clueless newbie but a malicious vandal. -- Curps 06:33, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Kim Jong Il
there is now a poll at Talk:Kim Jong-il on "leader"/"ruler" for the Kim Jong Il article. maybe this will finally put the silly, protracted debate to rest. thanks in advance for taking the time. whatever your view, i think the article just needs a bit more attention of outside parties.Appleby 21:10, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Admin powers needed
Hey, I wanted to move Everlasting Gobstoppers to Everlasting Gobstopper in accordance with the naming conventions, but there's a slight history trail that prevents direct renaming over the redirect. It looks like the article was written in the Gobstopper space, saved once, then moved to plural. Could you fix that? Thanks. -- Rynne 00:53, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, man! --  Rynne 14:09, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Needed Assistance
I don't like to drag you into this, but user Locke Cole has constantly vandalized the Ryu (Street Fighter) page by removing trivia -- based strictly on his own personal desires and not on policy. He's attempted to label the trivia with several names to justify this, such as fancruft, fanfiction, and original research; I have clearly disproven all of these claims on the discussion page. The user has simply ignored that and continued to edit. In the absense of having any reason related to policy on his side, he's attempted to claim having a consensus (of exactly two people), when this too isn't true. It was for the original entry he was disputing, but I have since changed the entry to something he does not have a consensus on. Still, he will not yield, despite having nothing to support his stance.

This user is simply being stubborn and immature, refusing to relent or acknowledge the inaccuracy of his claims and simply continuing to edit when proven wrong. I would greatly appreciate intervention in the form of a warning or other such message to this user. Thank you. -- James26 04:42, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, if you look on Talk:Chun-Li you'll see there's three people who don't want this obvious fancruft in. James26 is routinely ignoring the consensus and attempting to push his POV over that of the other three. He doesn't seem to be able to accept that we're all peers, and that it's not up to him to decide if one users interpretation of the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia is "correct". No user gets to be judge, jury and executioner, that's why consensus matters so much. Maybe you can explain that to him, since I've so far failed to. --Locke Cole 09:54, 12 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I was referring to the Ryu page, not the Chun-Li one (Locke is not as clever as he thinks at dodging), in which no consensus exists for this edit:


 * Some officially created works, such as the 1993 Malibu Comics' Street Fighter series, and Masaomi Kanzaki's Street Fighter II manga, suggest that he and Chun-Li would make a good couple&mdash;a concept that has been a point of contention among fans.


 * ...Which of course, Locke never wants to admit, along with the fact that his fancruft claim has been disproven. As for ignoring things, perhaps it could be explained to him that he's ignoring policy by removing the edit without presenting valid, explained reason. I'm taking this to one of your suggestions, but I know I'm right on that last part at least and would still appreciate him getting a reminder about it; his motivation in this is purely personal, and he's yet to prove otherwise when asked to. It's all on the Talk Page. -- James26 11:41, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Controvery Section of Orkut
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I suppose I removed the links because the leakage discussion seemed to reflect that the links were not appropriate for the talk page, either. I also neglected an edit summary on purpose because I didn't want to delete and have the edit summary say, "Deleting links to Venom footage in copyright violation" so someone can just click the previous revision to my edit and find the links there. What would you suggest doing in the future? --Erik ( talk/contrib ) @ 04:18, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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