User talk:Promethean/Archives2008/June

Thanks!
Hey Prom3than, I just wanted to thank you for your participation in my RFA and dropping by my talk page with teh congrats. If you're interested, take a look at my in-depth RFA analysis, it may help you as you prepare. also, i'll talk to bugbear about having me on as an "assistant coach" especially to address 'CMR' and such. also, enjoy the templated thank spam below. xenocidic (talk) 12:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC) templated rfa thank-spam 

I would like to thank the community for placing their trust in me during my recent request for adminship, which passed 72 13 2. Rest assured, I have read each comment thoroughly and will be addressing the various concerns raised as I step cautiously into my new role as janitor. In particular, I would like to thank Balloonman for putting so much time into reviewing my contributions and writing such a thoughtful nomination statement after knowing me for only a brief period of time (and for convincing me that I was ready to take up the mop now, rather than go through admin coaching).
 * Thank you for your support

To my fellow admins - please let me know right away if I ever take any mis-steps with my new tools. Should I make a mistake, and you reverse the action, I will not consider it to be wheel-warring (but please tell me so I can understand what I did wrong).

To everyone - please feel free to slap me around a bit if I ever lose sight of the core philosophy of Wikipedia as I understand it - the advancement of knowledge through the processes of mutual understanding and respect. As always, feel free to drop by my talk page if I can be of any assistance. =)

Sincerely,

~xenocidic, 01:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Userboxes
I like the userboxes, but I would support the creation of an additional one; I want one that says "This user is an investigator and contactor at Abuse reports" instead of having to have both of them on my userpage. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (Messages) 12:55, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Try this User:Prom3th3an/ubxar Prom3th3an (talk) 17:43, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank's! GO-PCHS-NJROTC (Messages) 21:32, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Your Welcome :)  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  01:41, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Statustop template: alternate updating method
SoxBot V has been taken offline indefinitely, therefore Statustop now uses a semi-manual updating method taking the status from Special:Mypage/Status. You can use the Qui monobook script written by TheDJ to update this page at the click of a button. Please feel free to drop by my talk page with any questions or concerns. Happy editing, xenocidic ( talk ¿ listen ) 13:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 *  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  01:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC) What a pain in the but..........:)   « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  01:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

editor review
Hey, i've reviewed your edits at Editor review/Prom3th3an. Hope it's some help! Regards, Ironholds 14:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  01:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU
Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 22:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, This indeed is disappointing news and one must wonder if I make 50k useful edits will I be blocked :)  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  01:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Your advice
Thanks for the details - useful if I get seriously involved. My one edit so far was to a stub on a subject I have many years experience of and where the references were outdated.

May return to it to see if a full entry if worth a try.

Merelyme (talk) 08:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the thanks, Goodluck with the article mentioned, I'm sure with your help it can be made a Good Article  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  01:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Reply to message sent
Hi Prom3th3an, I received this message, sent on May 28th :

The recent edit you made to Lostprophets constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thanks. Prom3th3an (talk) 08:04, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to say, I've never even looked at the Lostprophets page, much less edited it. Think you may have sent this to the wrong person. Thanks, and keep up the good work lol. hattiFATALE


 * Hi, I do beleive you on some parts (that you never looked at the lostprophets page) however I have good reason to beleave that you have stumbed upon someone elses message and it was never directly assigned to you. You see that warning was issued to an IP address. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your modem when you connect to the internet, in most cases the IP address you get one day, wont be the same IP you get the next time you re-conenct. So there is a good chance that the IP address concerned was being used by a vandal not long before you were assigned it. Just disregard this warning as it is obviously not intended for you. Cheers  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  01:31, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Adoption backlog
You may want to toss this userbox somewhere to keep you up to date on adoption backlog:

cheers, xenocidic (talk) 01:52, 7 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the tip  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  01:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Something is wrong
I can't seem to be able to open the sub-page on my talk page. WillIreland (talk) 05:41, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

coaching
Hi,

''Im highly interested in admin coaching, as i would like to become an admin in the near future and also to learn about an admins roles, dutys and ethics. Following instuctions on the coaching page it was suggested that I contact an admin who hasnt got any coachees instead of waiting for things to be done for me. I was wondering if you had the time to admin coach me, I look foward to your reply, Cheers Prom3th3an (talk) 08:39, 27 May 2008 (UTC)''


 * Hi Promethean,
 * Although I can't imagine why the answer would be anything other than "yes", I hope you don't mind if I take a short while to go through your contributions before I make it official.
 * I look forward to working with you.
 * Cheers - Revolving Bugbear  15:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, but I simply don't have enough time or energy to coach you. Revolving Bugbear should make an excellent coach. Nousernamesleft copper, not wood 01:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello again Promethean,

I would be happy to coach you. If you'd be so kind, I'd like you to do a couple of things:


 * 1) Create a subpage of your talk page where we can work. This will keep your talk page from being clogged up. ✅
 * 2) When creating that page, explain what you think are your best strengths and most significant weaknesses as a Wikipedian. Form and length are up to you. ✅
 * 3) Watchlist my talk page and the talk page of a few admins whom you trust or admire. Much of what I have learned about Wikipedia I've learned just through observing other Wikipedians whose judgment I trust. ✅

Once you have done these things, let me know. ✅ Cheers - Revolving Bugbear  20:41, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Prom3th3an, since it seems you've secured yourself an admin coach, which is really just like a higher-level and focused form of adoption, would it make sense to consider you at this time, a "graduate" of WP:AAU, and archive your adoption subpage? I've no problem continuing as your adopter if you so desire, but I'm not sure if it would make sense. My door would of course remain open for any future queries you may have. xenocidic (talk) 21:00, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * All of the above has been done :) you can find the coaching page on my adoption page (see the nav bar) Prom3th3an (talk) 04:00, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Left some thoughts and a couple of questions for you. We'll start this off sort of conversationally and move to specific technical topics after that, I think.

Cheers - Revolving Bugbear  22:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Ping - more questions - Revolving Bugbear  18:50, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Concerning 217.87.x.x
Hi,

Excuse me writing here. I'm quite new to wikipedia and registered only for the purpose of communicating with you. I hope this is the right place. I've just been surfing around on wp and got the new message warning leading me to this link. And then I got there. I am in the 217.87.*.*-range, too. It's one of the huge ranges of the biggest German isp - tcom fka. Deutsche Telekom. The 217.237.150.11* range is the range of a public proxy any tcom customer may use (www-proxy.t-online.de). I often use this proxy for speed reasons, and that's basically the reason I got the new message warning and now write here.. The last digit of the ip usually varies, depending on where the abuser lives. Every larger node usually has 3 different possible last digits afaik. The ip can even vary on every refresh. In my area the ip varies from 217.237.150.116 - 217.237.150.118.

To make a long story short: the proxy is transparent, so why not look up and log the abusers real ip? Blocking the whole range would not be a good solution - please only punish those who deserve to be punished. I often have to use this proxy and people like this guy annoy me, as they abuse two systems that are intended to have a good purpose - what a scumbag :(

Once you have this guy's real ip in your logs, you might consider contacting the tcom security team directly with hard evidence at: phone:       +49 180 5334332 fax-no:      +49 180 5334252 e-mail:      abuse@t-ipnet.de They are usually very friendly and they help unbureaucratically and fast if you provide hard evidence (timestamped logs).

Kind regards & keep me posted,

--Testomaximo (talk) 21:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Response to message of 8 june, re: Adoption

 * Hi Prom3th3an, thanks for contacting me regarding this issue. I have renamed my account in the past, changing from the account User:Urbane User to the one that I have now. When the edits that are listed under that name are combined with the edits from this account, I have more than 500 edits. Furthermore I am an adminstrator on the english wikibooks, and have a more than proficient knowledge of wikipedia policy. Thank you for following up this issue, it is good to have someone checking that the adoption guidelines are being followed. I hope that this answers your questions.
 * Regards, Reece   (Talk)   (Contributions)  11:41, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Adoption
With pleasure. (PS, do you know how to fix the UBX section of my user page?)<font color="Red"> Sexy <font color="Green">Sea  <font color="Red">Bassist  17:02, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

actually, I meant fix it so it stretches with addition of new userboxes <font color="Red"> Sexy <font color="Green">Sea  <font color="Red">Bassist  17:11, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Just a note, be careful not to fall into a trap and adopt too many adoptees. I'm going to sleep now, just thought I should let you know :) Steve Crossin   (talk)  (email)  17:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Steve, I have 2 adoptees. I hardly call that "Too many". Also please observe the notice at the top of my page. Ive seen users with 8 adoptees. Thanks  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  17:23, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yea, I didn't say you had too many :). I was just letting you know, as I've seen it happen before. You're doing well. Steve Crossin   (talk)  (email)  17:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * LOL, it's funny you say that cause I informed an editor for the exact same thing today.  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  00:06, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:Userpage
I dont get it. What do you want? To copy my user page?  <font color="DarkBlue">Alex  T / C    Guest Book    01:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Umm... sure. knock yourself out :-D  <font color="DarkBlue">Alex  T / C    Guest Book    01:13, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Nope. Did it myself. Why?  <font color="DarkBlue">Alex  T / C    Guest Book    01:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

"Wikiterrorism"
Regarding this post to WP:AIV, can I request you use less dramatic language in future. This was a very ordinary case of page blanking vandalism, and inflammatory language like this just boosts vandals' egos. I see you made the AIV report using Huggle; in cases of simple vandalism like this, it's easiest for all concerned if you allow Huggle to use its default summary ("vandalism"). Thanks!<font face="Trebuchet MS"> – <font color="#E45E05">iride <font color="#C1118C">scent 19:56, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh please, lighten up a little. I used the term wikiterrorism because this IP user obviously hated wikipedia. (as seen in his posts)I think that if half the vandals checked WP:AIV for comments like that it would be protected cause the vandals would have removed reports. But never the less I'll take you comments into consideration :-)  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  00:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Personal Info
Just to let you know, its best not to have your real life name on Wikipedia. Some people do, (personally I don't, contrary to popular belief). Anyway, just letting you know. Steve Crossin  (talk)  (email)  05:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Who said it was my real name? :-)  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  05:21, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Touche. :P Steve Crossin   (talk)  (email)  05:48, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

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Thank You
Thank you for your comment on my RFA. It really means a lot to me. I am not sure about admin coaching yet and may consider it. Thanks :)  &lt;3  Tinkleheimer   TALK!!  19:26, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Reply
I have replied to your previou comment. WillIreland (talk) 08:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

MfD userbox "imagfriend"
From your strike-through of your comment do i take it that you've withdrawn your position, or at least participation? <b style="color:#D3D3D3">Ir</b><b style="color:#A9A9A9">on</b><b style="color:#808080">ho</b><b style="color:#696969">ld</b><b style="color:#000">s</b> 15:03, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. <b style="color:#D3D3D3">Ir</b><b style="color:#A9A9A9">on</b><b style="color:#808080">ho</b><b style="color:#696969">ld</b><b style="color:#000">s</b> 03:26, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

MIA
Hi Promethean,

I promise I have not forgotten about you. The LSATs are on Tuesday here, so I will be pretty much gone until then (studying and a little forced relaxation). Hope you are well.

Cheers - Revolving Bugbear  16:02, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thats okey, Ive got exams this week som im going to be very innactive  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »   (talk) 08:51, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

G'day from Princess Rebel
Hi! I'm a twelve year old Australian up for Wikiadoption. You and Bella Swan are my top candidates because Bella Swan is centralized in Twilight, my personal favourite book series, and you are Aussie, like me! More details on my userpage (click ). Princess Rebel (talk) 13:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Userpage
Not bad, but you should probably attribute to whom you pilfered it from. Also, note that one fairly common concern raised at RFA is time spent editing one's userpage - keep that in mind. xenocidic (talk) 14:35, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah well I think thats absolute crap to be honest, I've seen to many RFA's where the opposers are to busy frolicking over things like that and not the persons ability, trust etc. Besides my userpage needed a revamp as it was hard to navigate and the colour scheme was awful, the new design not only looks better but is also easyer to use, especialy for my adoptee's. If Adminship comes down to "How many times have you revamped your userpage" (twice) then i dont want anything to do with adminship.  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »  14:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * True enough. As for your sig, you should add a link directly to your talk page. Perhaps the "™" could link there. xenocidic (talk) 15:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't mind me, Its been a long day and it just frustrates me how some admins treat adminship as a high rollers club (not you).  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »   (talk) 15:11, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * RfA opposers also won't like the "I'm looking forward to becoming an administrator" bit either - a combination of not an entitlement and anti-career administrator hopeful attitude. Daniel (talk) 18:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiHelp?
Hi,

I noticed you comment on Steve's talk page. I'd be happy to help you. You may be interested in http://test.transportcentre.co.uk, which is my test wiki (soon to move to a better URL). It tries to mirror Wikipedia in the way that the wiki is set up, but with less stringent rules.

Please let me know,

<font face="Gill Sans MT"> B G  7even   19:55, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Your wiki? I was the one who founded that you know. Anyway, I got your message. Can I have a link to this "Training wiki"? Thanks, <font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">RyRy5 (<font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">talk ) 07:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, it's hosted on my servers. ;). You know what I mean Ry!
 * REplied on your wiki.
 * <font face="Gill Sans MT"> B G  7even   09:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

No Thanks!
Sorry but no thanks! I am not a wikiholaic so I don't need adoption! I barely go on so no thanks. :(

5dsddddd (talk) 19:46, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikirights
Yes I am User:Chemistrygeek on the wiki. Chemistrygeek (talk) 08:35, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Today's block of User:WillIreland (an adoptee of yours)
Hi! I happened to notice this strange AN/I thread earlier today while passing through. It looks to me like User:WillIreland's account might have been compromised, the behaviour is very strange compared to what I can see of his usual demeanour. I'm about to comment on the AN/I thread to that effect, thought I should give you a heads-up about it since I see you've adopted him. -- tiny plastic Grey Knight  &#x2296;  14:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, that was bizarre. I suppose in a way it's a good thing that "user is unstable" didn't cross my mind!  -- tiny plastic Grey Knight   &#x2296;  13:01, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

RfA/Mark t young
Hello. I have admired your excellent vandal-fighting ability in the past, but for me, this comment was quite saddening coming from you. This diff explains the point I'm making - see the green bits on the left. Please keep things like this civilised, so Wikipedia is a nice place to work on. (Good luck with your exams btw). <span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS,sans-serif"> Lra drama 18:05, 20 June 2008 (UTC)


 * That's OK. But please, next time, if you oppose, just explain to the candidate nicely why you have voted as you have, rather than shooting them in flames, as it can be very demoralising to the candidate. Thanks, <span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS,sans-serif"> Lra drama 10:56, 22 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, thank you for your message. When I read your comments on my RfA, I have to admit I wasn't quite sure what to make of it! Your apology is accepted without predjudice and I hope we can simply forget it ever happened. My RfA is coming to an end, and which ever way it turns out I hope I can rely on constructive criticism from yourself and if I ever have any queries, that I can call on you. All the best, Mark t young (talk) 18:21, 22 June 2008 (UTC)