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User:Myassisonfire
Hi - thanks for blocking them so quickly ;) I`d also consider deleting their userpage, it`s just pure vandalism and no one needs to see it. Thanks! -- Addi hockey  10 e-mail 00:48, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) -- Addi hockey  10 e-mail 00:50, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

user:Rlevse page
It's been deleted three times this week. Out of respect, and to save administrator resources, consider recreating the user page, redirecting it to the talk page (which says retired) and full protecting the user page. I know that there is a desire for the editor's name to be redlinked, but at the same time, sadly the page will be a target for vandalism for the foreseeable future. Best just protect it and move on. Just a suggestion, Sven Manguard  Talk  20:23, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I fail to see why there will be vandalism when the page is salted. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:27, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for adding the New Zealand section to Laws regarding rape, and removing the Filter.

188.25.175.226 (talk) 14:33, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports
Sorry about that - what happened was, I blocked an IP vandal, looked at his contributions to see if anything needed to be undone, and saw he had made a (false) false-positive report about an occasion when the edit filter had stopped him blanking an article. What I didn't notice is that that was two days ago. Would it have been best just to leave it?

A question I have been wanting to ask someone - when the edit filter blocks an edit, does the user get a message on the screen? Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:49, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Whether the user sees a message or not is an option that's configurable with each individual filter. The ones on this page that say "warn" have messages, and the rest of them don't, even if they are set to Disallow.  Any admin can create a new message at any time, but for the most part we just use a few standard generic-looking ones for most of the filters. As regards the false positive report, a similar answer had already been put in by someone else (though I like the wording of yours better).   —  Soap  —  23:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Fine job Soap, your version Catenanuova is quite equilibrated.
The argoument of unofficiality is rejected by providing italian Law. What especially the vandal wanted to censor is the fact that that 48.5°C is higher than the 48.0°C measured in Athens in 1977, and he went on in vandalizing the page for this trivial reason, with eliminating referenced legal evidence of the officiality of the institution and the data. Now your version should satisfy most. The officiality of the 48.5°C is acknowledged and no mention is made about european records (but the officiality of the record was not claimed: what was emphasized was the officiality of the measure, not its position in more or less official rankings of some organization. Thanks. But he has already vandalized it again: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catenanuova&oldid=396527795

Amending (talk) 16:13, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

You are right
Well, you are right, I have felt the intellectual duty to preserve the thruth and to reject those manipulations and slanders against official climate monitoring institutions stronger than the rule. You are right, I am sorry for that. The officiality of the data and of the institution managing the network of weather stations has been reported both in discussion and in references of the article, but without results, the Law has been ignored and respectability of institutions has been denigrated. By the way it seems that a convergence can be achieved now. The article is reaching reasonable forms and contents.

By the way I am investigating the provision of false references (I mean, indicating a reference for a sentence or a concept when the source in reference absolutely does not say that and the concept may not even be deducted from sparse sentences in the source). I ask you one information. Would this be a violation of rules? If I find proof (in the original text of the referenced source) of such behavios, to whom should I report it (and how?) to start an inquiry about? --Amending (talk) 08:56, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Sir George Orby Wombwell
Rayment has middle name wrong. All other sources give Orby. Orby was his grandfather's first name.

See http://humphrysfamilytree.com/Hunter/wombwell.html

See http://thepeerage.com/i2645.htm#s44086

See http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Coxwold/Coxwold90.html

See http://books.google.com/books?id=seAKAAAAYAAJ&q=wombwell#v=snippet&q=wombwell&f=false for origin of Orby name

From http://coxwold-village.co.uk/church_info.aspx

''The area enclosed by a yew hedge is the burial ground of the Wombwells. Sir George Orby Wombwell, was famous for surviving the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava when a lieutenant in the 17th Lancers and as an aide-de-camp to Lord Cardigan. He died in 1913 at the aged 81. ''

Plucas58 (talk) 09:58, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I have contacted Leigh Rayment and he apologises for the error (Grey instead of Orby) and says: Hello Peter ''You are perfectly correct and I've now fixed this error. My aging eyes appear to have let me down again. Thanks for pointing this out.'' Best wishes Leigh Plucas58 (talk) 09:41, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Edit filters
Hi there - normally I wouldn't do this, but my request for the AbuseFilter right has been up for 9 days and hasn't been commented or acted on. Would you like to comment on whether you feel it would be beneficial for me to get the tools? Thanks! -- Addi hockey  10 e-mail 03:20, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Dozen lived
Do you think we can have a filter on this guy? He's been around for awhile. Elockid  ( Talk ) 19:32, 24 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Never mind. Just saw the discussion for it. Elockid  ( Talk ) 20:05, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Non-Roman Re-directs and DABs
Ever since you were involved in the preliminary discussion on Non-Roman characters in article titles, there has been a separate proposal regarding the usage of Non-Roman characters in re-directs and DABs, and you may be interested in joining the discussions on this page. Your input will be appreciated. --HXL's Roundtable, and Record 23:33, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Tebson
Hello, Soap! The creator has started a thread at WP:AN/ICracked acorns (talk) 23:20, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Your input would be appreciated
Could you please comment at Editor review/Dylan620 (4)? Thanks! --Dylan620 (t • c • r) 01:33, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

User:Neutralhomer/WWMAD‎
I see you have found my "Why Was My Article Deleted?" page. Please feel free to use it by using the following code: ~ Take Care... Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 23:48, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Gallaecian Language
Hi, Soap. The point with the gallery is that the corpus of Gallecian or NW Hispano-Celtic is composed only of small sentences and names inside Latin inscriptions. So, let's see, AMBIMOGIDUS is not a Latin word, althought here it is used inside a Latin incription. Even more, a dedication like LOCOUBU AQUIEN(obo), using Celtic endings of plural dative -BO, is only exclusively Latin at the end: EX VOTO.

I think it is better to show than to hide.--Froaringus (talk) 14:54, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

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Listening to your advice, I added a caption to the gallery. Cheers. --Froaringus (talk) 16:37, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

268
Thanks, and sorry. Maybe you can figure out how this could be better modified to catch things like this. NawlinWiki (talk) 03:57, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Re: sig
Ok, I wasn't aware of that policy. Thanks for informing me of it. ~Darth Starbo 17:54, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

"apparent coordinated attack from off-site"
Could you give me the details about this? --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 17:16, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

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FYI, the "codespill" filter missed some QuickiWiki cruft, details here: Edit_filter/Requested. Thanks... -Colfer2 (talk) 00:11, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

re: edit filter message
Hi - sorry about the vagueness. Guess I was more tired than I thought. I was actually referring to the details in the report to which the AIV message is linked, but the AIV message itself is a problem too. It took a good five minutes for me to figure out what actually happened, and another couple of minutes for my Wikibrain to process that the filter didn't catch the actual vandalism but _did_ catch the attempt to fix it. What can we do to make the bot reports to AIV, and even the details themselves, more user friendly to admins (like me) who don't code bots or edit filters? And Happy New Year! May a superfilter be written in 2011 to ban the fluoride vandals and paint them pink! :-)  K rakatoa    K atie   20:57, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The "details" pages, like this one, cannot be edited by anyone except the MediaWiki developers as far as I know. User:Mr.Z-man is probably the only one who has write access to the bot that reports them to AIV.  I can work on editing the filters, but this particular one (Special:AbuseFilter/139) is probably going to have to stay as is, because it prevents an important kind of vandalism of the sort that had a lot of people panicking earlier this year.  That said, we survived without it until April 2009 so we could probably do it again if it became a recurring problem.  I don't really think that occasional misflips like this are enough to disable the whole filter, though, however frustrating it may be for those users who get caught by it.  (But that's what the false positives page is for, after all.)  —  Soap  —  23:19, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
For the page protection on Talk:Church of Satan. It is a disappointment that it's come to that, and that blocks wouldn't work. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:54, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

2011 Brisbane Floods
Hi Soap, I AGF but reminds me a lot of this editor here  - 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 16:30, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Seems I missed you, but DMacks heard the quacking. ;-) 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\
 * To be honest I don't really know what's best to do here. I believe that he probably is a sock but the original block seems to have been intended to be temporary and the indefinite block was just for block evasion.   Normally I'd block but I want to at least see his side of the story first.   —  Soap  —  17:15, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

IRC
Hey, how do I get into the admins channel? HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   15:30, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * One of the channel operators will have to add you to the access list. "Ordinary" admins can't invite other admins. The operators are listed at meta:IRC/wikipedia-en-admins/User_list. Also you'll need an IRC cloak ... see meta:IRC/Cloaks.  Officially the cloak request is done on-wiki, but I've heard it's faster to get help live over IRC, but only if the right people are online at the time (and I may be wrong about that).  Lastly, since the name "HJ" is already taken on Freenode you'll have to choose another one before you do any of those other things.   —  Soap  —  15:37, 14 January 2011 (UTC)