User talk:Stwalkerster/Archive March 2013

Creating accounts for students at blocked IP
Hi, stwalkerster. You've been a huge help in past years on my Wikipedia project for ninth grade English. Last year and the year before we changed the block on the school's IP so that I could create accounts for students while remaining logged in under my account (here's what we said). I'm working at a different school now, with a different IP, and was wondering if we can alter the block there so I can create accounts for this new batch of students. Here's the IP: 38.127.205.3 Help? Thank you for your continued support. --Roseclearfield (talk) 22:16, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I've removed the restriction on account creation - anonymous editing is still blocked on that IP, but your students should be able to create accounts. :)  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  01:01, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Beautiful. Thanks! --Roseclearfield (talk) 16:04, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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Speciation (chemistry)
I am considering writing an article on this subject. I have some expertise in the area, see, for example, equilibrium chemistry which I wrote. I am wondering if there is anything in the deleted article speciation (chemistry) that is worth bringing back to life. Petergans (talk) 07:56, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * As can be seen from the deletion log, I undeleted that article to userspace a while back, and is located at User:GetLinkPrimitiveParams/Speciation_(chemistry).  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  21:24, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I did not know about deletion logs! I shall write the article in my sandbox.I'll let you know when I post it to WP, which won't be for some time yet. Petergans (talk) 05:26, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

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Jesmion
I just blocked 2 other accounts he created - he seems pretty confused. One of the accounts had made one edit (another inappropriate one), the other none. Thanks for your post to his talk page, I don't think he will last long. Dougweller (talk) 16:59, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Neither do I, but it was worth a shot.  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  17:03, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, I saw those accounts the other day, Jjjireh and Jezuah, right? I assumed they were meat, since all the details on ACC are different. I'm gonna ask a CU for advice, cos my instinct is that these aren't actually the same person.  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  17:12, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Maybe, but he's posted since I told him about the accounts being blocked without commenting on my blocks, and today says "Hello, with appreciative motivational derives, from the inner most conscience has granted me the optimistic gratitude for your endeavour   iam  jjjireh". Dougweller (talk) 11:16, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I saw that. Given that's happened, I'm curious as to what other accounts he may/may not have. I've got a stalk bot set up to watch all three accounts if anything happens.  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  16:10, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * What's a stalk bot? Dougweller (talk) 06:26, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * It's just a program that runs in the background monitoring the recent changes feed, and emails me whenever an edit or log item which matches it's patterns appears. Think of it as a massively more configurable watchlist.  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  16:52, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:01, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

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...is being added without timestamp as here. Is there anything wrong in my preferences? --Tito Dutta (contact) 19:55, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * While we're at it, mine isn't signing properly.— cyberpower ChatOnline 19:57, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Titodutta, nope, that's a bot bug, which I'm fixing now.
 * Cyberpower678, the bot doesn't think you have a valid-enough signature in your tool preferences. We've had issues in the past where people with slightly broken signature code has ended up dumping a ton of random markup on newbies pages, so we added a check to make sure that you at least have a working link to your userpage in it - the actual code matches it against this regex:

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 * Bit of an arse, yeah, but hey. I'm gonna pull together a page which shows signatures rendered on the tool, as WelcomerBot should render them on-wiki.  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  23:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

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#96743
Greetings, could you tell me what to do with such requests (IP routes)? --Tito Dutta (contact) 09:59, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey! Basically, look to see if the first "untrusted" one is an open proxy which the user has a choice of using or not. Some networks force all users through a specific machine, which is what this looks like, but you could easily get one which is on a completely different network and forwards traffic for anyone. It all depends on what the data shows. In this case, it looks like a singe IP is acting as a "gateway" to the internet for web traffic, and that one IP is blocked with a single-ip anonblock. The second IP has no contribs/logs, reinforcing this theory. I'm not gonna go into more detail here, if you want more help email me :)  &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  11:28, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay! Thank you! --Tito Dutta (contact) 15:02, 30 March 2013 (UTC)