User talk:Tonywalton/Archive-Mar-2010

The Wikipedia Signpost: 1 March 2010
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User:76.229.175.95
Could you revoke his talk page privileges? Now he thinks he has a right to do what he wants with his talk page. Thanks,  Eagles   24/7  (C)  00:47, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  00:52, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I believe that banning me from using the talk page that Wikipedia has been so gracious to provide for the use of a humble individual such as myself was unjust, because I did not use vulgar language, insult other users directly, or do anything at all harmful for that matter. I simply said that I could blank my talk page if I wanted to. I did, however phrase it indirectly, and I apologize for that, but you should have at least looked into what I had said and what I had actually done on my talk page before banning me from using it simply because another user requested that it be done. I don't know what you're relationship with that user is, but when it comes to justice, one must take on a neutral point of view. I realize that the ban on my editing other Wikipedia pages was completely and utterly just, but to carry out just another harsh sentence soon afterward fro what may have been the wrong reasons is not a proper course of action.

As a side note, you said and I quote "Your access to this talkpage has now been revoked for the duration of your block. Please remember that this talkpage, like all pages on Wikipedia, is not your page, it is Wikipedia's page and is subject to the same rules as all pages." You said this and yet at the top of the talk page granted to you by Wikipedia is a box stating "This is Tonywalton's talk page, where you can send messages and comments to Tonywalton." The apostrophe followed by an "s," in the English language, indicates possession or a contraction. In this case a contraction would not make sense, so I'm going to assume that you are referring to this talk page as your possession. This would make your comment hypocritical. Thank you for your time. 76.229.175.95 (talk) 23:02, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * TLDR. This was a 24 hour block, now expired. The energy expended in whinging could have been expended in improving WP. Tonywalton Talk 00:42, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, so that's what you do. Well that's enlightening. Now I understand Wikipedia's very high standards when it comes to administrators. I'll sum up what I said for you. In short, I wasn't treated fairly when you banned me from editing my talk page because, on the talk page, I didn't say anything offensive. It appeared that you banned me simply because another editor asked you to. I understand that the ban on my editing other pages was just, but this was not. You should have at least tried to have read my complaint because I still feel the points that I brought up were legitimate. My faith in Wikipedia's inner workings has been damaged. I now see that Wikipedia administrators aren't qualified to deal with all issues that arise and seem to be people negative attitudes (i.e. "Whinging") who discriminate against editors based on past history. 76.229.175.95 (talk) 01:02, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 8 March 2010
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Socks vs. Not Socks
During the last 6 months or so, discussion with a few trusted admins has convinced me that sock-hunting often expends too much energy and in fact feeds the egoes of the sockmasters. So my philosophy now leans more toward "Identify disruption and block it, and be done with it." Minimal recognition for the sockmaster. WP:DENY. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:24, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * There are exceptions, though, especially when the sockmaster is hoist by his own petard, as with the case of the user "ItsLassieTime" from last spring/summer, which you may recall. There was some entertainment value in watching the sockmaster go off the deep end after he accidentally gave himself away. But very often it's not quite that easy. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:26, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Speaking of which... Sockpuppet investigations/ItsLassieTime ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:20, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't know the Andrew Rice story, but I'm assuming you're talking about suicide or homicide. Not to be too unfeeling, but if someone takes a life on account of wikipedia, they were pretty close to the edge already, and something else likely would have triggered them eventually, even if there was no such thing as wikipedia. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:40, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds very sad. Unfortunately there is no shortage of looneys out there whose warped minds would get a kick out of thinking they drove someone to kill.
 * So the vandal waited patiently for a month and then jumped right back into it? Oy. If we could only harness all that wasted energy, we could electrify a medium-sized third-world country. :( ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:16, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

More
The next sock, the extremely subtly named, is now ripe for laudnering, if you wish. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:44, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Oops, he gawn already. Even if I were an admin, others would be beating me to the draw. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:46, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Hungadunga
Here's more information about that prestigious law firm: ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:55, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

User talk:Piekcatcher
Thank you! Those twenty minutes were painful :). You might want to revoke talk page access... he's posting weird stuff. Thanks again, Airplaneman  talk 00:50, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Weird, and probably some sort of sock. Cheers, Tonywalton Talk 00:51, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 15 March 2010
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Not correct.
I did tell User:Str8cash that there was a discussion about the matter here, 3 minutes before you went there and said I "failed to do so". Niteshift36 (talk) 00:54, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * My sincere apologies. I was wrong, and admit it freely. Tonywalton Talk 00:55, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It's all good. Just felt like it needed to be pointed out since that particular editor is going about this the wrong way and having an admin tell him I failed to do what I was supposed to do might send him off on another tangent. Niteshift36 (talk) 01:04, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

FYI
I reset the block on to indef as this is a sockpuppet of. This editor posts blog entries and news articles into their talk pages and article talk pages for unknown reasons (probably spam, I guess). -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:02, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 22 March 2010
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Marriage
possibly another sock or POV-pusher. In any case, he ignored the commented instruction to not change the definition. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like he's been taught the straight and narrer (though he's deleted the discussion. Am keeping an eye. Cheers, Tonywalton Talk 23:44, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 29 March 2010
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