User talk:Shirik/Archives/2010/August

Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo
I just listed this article for a peer review and I found your name on the list of volunteers willing to copy edit articles. I'm most concerned about the grammar in this article because I just rewrote the whole thing. Could you please help me out? I would appreciate it. //Gbern3 (talk) 15:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I may be able to get to it in a few days but I've been busy lately. If you haven't found help by then I'll be glad to take a look at it. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:26, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Waterspaces
Hi, thank you for your work yesterday on this case. Another IP address has turned up being. I'm not sure what the correct procedure is to bring back a sockpuppet investigation that has already been archived but if you could kindly assist again I would be most grateful. Many thanks. Raywil (talk) 17:39, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * You can continue the case the same way you started it before. The new case will be linked to the old one. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:27, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, will do so now. Raywil (talk) 19:28, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Email
Hi. I sent you two e-mails through Wikipedia, one on the 25th of July and another one last Friday. Could you please confirm whether you have received them? Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.1.222.155 (talk) 20:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I did get at least your most recent email. I haven't seen the older one you were referring to. Could you please re-send it? Thanks, Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 05:08, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor at 22:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC).

See
AF 294 change, if you want to unprotect. NawlinWiki (talk) 05:11, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I made a change to it as well. Thanks, Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 05:17, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note this one - I love it when the Personal Army™ is so stupid that they include "Place the following in the large text box". NawlinWiki (talk) 05:20, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

cyberchase and its voices
204.112.104.172 (talk) 08:55, 4 August 2010 (UTC) Hay man, sorry for any spelling mistakes, i have always been a horrible speller. There are times when i don't know the voices for serton charactors, so i put the possibilities based off my wide voice actor knowledge. I do not know how my edits are Invalid but, i don't mind them being edited, not removed. As for the message thing, i left the message on the list of cyberchase episodes page because people are making up episodes just for the fun of it and it is confusing me. Please find out who voices the following characters on cyberchase, and put the voice actor's name there. TW Parallini, Diamond Joe Parallini, Mother parallini. The characters are in the paralel land section of list of cyberchase characters, and the episode to look at either on pbs or youtube or any other sight is called 'the flying parallinis' The mother parallini does sound like Kerri Kenney. I need help finding out these voices, as i cannot see (yes i'm blind), and i cannot get DVS for KSPS on shaw direct. Where i put 'voice credit TBA' that's where i am counting on people like you to help me find the voices for characters. Please do not take this the wrong way, but the sitations i am getting for vandelism and the possible blocking from editing is stupid, because i not only am a big cyberchase fan, but i am also a reasonable person, and i try to make my edits as constructive as possible. If any of this is vandelism that i edit, i am sorry. I mean absolutely no harm. Please see the post at the bottom of a recent message. I describe everything i do in it. In closing, tell whoever found out that Lisette st- Louis voices ice to send me a message, and thank them. Sorry about the emily haines thing, i credited her as ice back in july because ice sounded closest to her, and i never heard of Lisette St- Louis, but now i know it is Lisette St- Louis. Thank you for caring, keep up the ausom work, and god bless.

Possible Sock
Since you're somewhat of an expert on the subject, thought I'd give you a consult. Is there a way to check whether IP matches with another current or former wikipedia account? for further info please see this discussion --Jiujitsuguy (talk) 21:05, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It is possible, but first you would have to file a case at SPI. After being approved, a checkuser would look up the IP and look for accounts on that IP. However, let me say right out that this case will not be approved. There is insufficient evidence here to suspect sockpuppetry. The case would be declined unless there is more evidence available. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 00:27, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Even if he admitted to having multiple accounts as he did here?--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 01:15, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * There is a difference between having multiple accounts and using them abusively. WP:SOCK only applies to the latter. I have another account myself. In fact, I have three others. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 01:23, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * OK thanks for clarifying--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 02:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

invitation for account possibility on my talk page
I officialy invite you to my talk page, where i have a possible account section. I cannot come up with a name, and need help. See my talk page for details. 204.112.104.172 (talk) 02:22, 7 August 2010 (UTC) PS: You can invite others to leave suggestions according to the guidelines. the more the marrier!

To salt or not to salt, that is the question
Salting a repeatedly recreated article (by sockpuppets) stops recreation, but then might not a sockpuppet recreate it with a slightly different title that would be harder to spot? Dougweller (talk) 18:29, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * WP:BEANS :). You could probably say that about most salted pages, but we've gotten pretty good at finding them. Sarey Savy is a good example. However, if there's any particular page you're looking to unsalt feel free. I won't hold it against you (or probably even notice). -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 18:32, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but it was the other way around, I just salted a Moutray page, the 2nd one with week. Dougweller (talk) 05:10, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, I thought it was directed at something I salted. I'd say go for it, sure. If it persists if you can give me a list of pages you had to salt I could probably come up with an expression for the blacklist. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 08:52, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks, we'll see what happens. Dougweller (talk) 12:07, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Moutray socks
That's one persistent editor. See also this edit to my talk page which he reverted shortly after adding. Dougweller (talk) 15:38, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hm, Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Moutray2010. Also in London, but a different mobile network. Dougweller (talk) 17:07, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * And another account not in the SPI, saying theere will be more. Dougweller (talk) 20:48, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Could you help to recover my page?
Hi Shirik, Sorry to bother you, I'm new to Wiki, and not so familiar with the rules. I've received your message, will follow your suggestion in the future. But all of a sudden, I found my page was deleted. I will read guidelines and write it carefully in the future. But I didn't mean to delete my own page. Could you please help me to recover my page soon? Thank you a lot!

Best regards, Silena —Preceding unsigned comment added by Silena (talk • contribs) 13:25, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Silena, Sorry it is standard practice to delete pages that are blanked by their authors. I saw you blanked the page so I went ahead and deleted it for you. I have now restored it, however I have placed it at User:Silena/Eonon instead so that I could still keep your current user page too. Please let me know if you have any questions. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 14:31, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

--Hi Shirik, thanks a lot for your help! It's just a draft, haha, I will revise it, and will also take care of it even it's a draft :P —Preceding unsigned comment added by Silena (talk • contribs) 03:38, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

My draft article
Hi Shirik, good day! Could you please help to check my draft article here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Silena/Eonon Is it eligible enough to post in wiki? Any of your advice would be appreciated? Sure I will have some revision tomorrow. Look forward to hearing from you soon. Many thanks in advance.

Best regards, Silena —Preceding unsigned comment added by Silena (talk • contribs) 16:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Request for copy-editing
Hello, I wonder if you would mind taking a look at this page, PlayStation, and copy-edit it? Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Kiasu Kiasi Man 16:19, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Editprotected request for editnotice on hangon
The reason I submitted the edit request was the eliminate that big space between the explanation and the header and to add the word "itself" after the template. Could you please do that? &mdash; Train2104 (talk· contribs· count· email) 18:13, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Sorry, I didn't see the second half. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:18, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

School for Creative and Performing Arts at FAC
School for Creative and Performing Arts is currently a Featured Article Candidate. Since you have commented on this article in the past, the review may be of interest to you. --Nasty Housecat (talk) 00:43, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Megafauna vandal
Hi Shirik, Our persistent friend seems to have found a loophole in the filter, which he seems eager to exploit. A look at today's IP,, gives some good examples of what he's been doing lately. A common example is changing Category:Extinct animals of Africa to Category:Extinct mammals of Africa. Is it possible to stop him from changing a category name on any article with a taxobox? Or perhaps introducing the word mammal or ? On another note, I've been wondering just what message a user sees when an edit gets filtered. Is it possible to customize the message for the filter? The reason I ask is that based on some of his edits, I don't think this user really understands much English. If we can put a custom message in Indonesian language to try and educate him, perhaps that would help. If that is possible, I would try and find someone here who knows the language and give them a short message to translate. Thanks! First Light (talk) 02:51, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * As for the loophole, it's a little more complex than that. Actually the IP range is prevented from adding categories at all. However I see the loophole and will work to close it. As for the custom message, yes we can always set it to whatever message we want (though if we set it on "disallow" it will alternate back and forth between the custom message and the generic disallow message. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 06:42, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Letting you know
Hey, Shirik, as the blocking admin, you may want to see this. Swarm Talk 19:24, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

E-mails
Hi, I'm the one who left a message two weeks ago. You asked me to resend my letter since you had not received it. ... Have you received the two mails I sent you after that? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.1.222.16 (talk) 15:20, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Appeal
Hi Shirik! Do you remember me? I am on 1rr restriction right now, but I believe its time to appeal this restriction: I am always away from trouble as possible and this will continue forever, I have created and I plan to create dozen of articles. Can you please lift this restriction, it's from 10 June?CrazyMartini (talk) 23:21, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delayed response; I have been quite busy. Anyway, I have no objections to lifting the sanction, however this is a matter for community discussion. I suggest you request that this sanction be lifted at WP:ANI for community input. If you can gain consensus there to lift the restriction, consider it done. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 01:27, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Nambla
Hello, tricky reading the blacklist, but it appears you blacklisted nambla.org? I'm having difficulty saving the ref for the goals on the NAMBLA article (www.nambla.org/welcome). Any idea why it was blacklisted? Lionel (talk) 00:45, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It was actually User:A. B. who added it, along with two other pedophile-oriented websites. Im guessing they were added because pedophile-oriented websites in general are problematic.  The diff is .  You may want to contact A. B.  —  Soap  —  00:52, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

The Judd School
This article is a current featured article candidate; I see you have reviewed school articles at FAC before, so I was hoping (if you have the time), you might look at this one? Many thanks in advance, and kind regards, Tom (talk) 01:23, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I will try to when I can. Regards, Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 01:28, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Great! Cheers. Tom (talk) 02:13, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Shirik. Thanks for your comments on the FAC page. I think you were right about the semi-colons (I admit, I love them!), so I've taken a look and revised a lot of their usage. I hope you feel you can support now. Regards, Tom (talk) 20:27, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi again Shirik. Do you feel that your concerns have been sufficiently resolved in the above article? Tom (talk) 15:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It's much better. Can you explain this segment? I'm having trouble understanding it. "By 1952, the number of volunteer cadets had fallen to 90. During the 1970s, numbers averaged about 150 cadets; parade takes place on a Friday, following a full school day." What is "parade" and how is it linked to the number of cadets? -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 15:58, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well from what I can gather, its when they get together in full uniform and get inspected by the commanders. I'm not sure if they actually parade anywhere, but from what I can gather the only meeting takes place on Friday, so I've clarified. Its not linked to the number of cadets, so I've removed the semicolon too. Tom (talk) 16:15, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

What's your problem???
You removed the tag requesting a photo to be added to the talk page of three articles on my watch list: Carma Developers, Nu-West‎, and Ralph Thomas Scurfield. None of these articles have photos, and each would be improved if a photo would be included. I have reversed your edits, and I want to know why you removed these tags. Why do you have a problem with requesting photos for these articles???? 18:15, 26 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayblue42 (talk • contribs)
 * Hi, please see the relevant thread at WP:ANI, which goes over this in detail. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 23:33, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Megafauna vandal filter mod
Hello, Shirik;

Could you add a condition to the megafauna vandal filter to prevent it from changing categories on dinosaur articles? Thank you! J. Spencer (talk) 13:16, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Detecting "changes" is actually quite difficult, because of the way the edit filter works. Could you give me an example of what got through? There's probably a better way to detect it. Thanks, Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 15:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Here's an example; all 90+ edits from this batch were about the same. The "Dinosaurs of Asia" category is changed to "Dinosaurs of China" (or Japan, depending on the article). J. Spencer (talk) 17:43, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Bumping the old discussion
…which has been archived. Is there any news about the possible solution? Thanks. —WiJG? 15:41, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry I forgot about that. I haven't thought of a better solution. Would you still like me to create that template for you? -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:26, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this will be very nice. —WiJG? 08:50, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Another bump. —WiJG? 14:47, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

So can I have the template I've asked for? —WiJG? 11:48, 31 August 2010 (UTC)