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Please, accept that the pic has no good right to be inn the infobox, and it can be discuss, we don't have to keep it there if it is a violation, do we? Off2riorob (talk) 21:13, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Well what should i do? he(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Edokter) is presenting sources that are not reliable, i try to discuss with him but he doesn't understand !—Mehdioa (talk) 22:29, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Well, here I go for the 32495865347893420635th time (give or take), although I've grown tired of these energy-draining moments.
During my editing period here, I've encountered numerous editors who do nothing but "assign missions" to other editors, removing everything they can. I call them compulsive deletionists. They don't seem to care (I'm well past WP:AGF at this point, my apologies) about anything but "obeying rules" – only to feel good about themselves being valid Wikipedia members, but without realizing the very essence of those same rules and exceptions to such, hence the quotation marks. Sarujo could have easily found the sources himself, just as I just have. He could also listen to reason and understand that although WP:FILMPLOT is written about, well, film plots, it could apply in a different paragraph, provided a part of the plot is discussed, and in this case, Cartman calls it "the LeBron James technique" and proceeds to a perfect parody of the commercial, including verbatim quotes. The reason Sarujo is doing what he does is that he, like many other South Park/Family Guy etc. regular patrollers, thinks mentioning the numerous cultural references and parodies (from which these kinds of shows derive much of their humor and general content) is "trivial" and "unnecessary". This is where the exhaustion technique comes in handy: make other editors run for sources, dismiss as many as you can by questioning their reliability, thus making the editors run and find other sources, and eventually dismiss the whole section for being "unencyclopedic". THIS IS THE AIDS THAT IS KILLING WIKIPEDIA. You can call it a personal attack, but I'm just blowing off steam because I'm pissed off and I'd like to see some change around here. This is why I refused to be the one who gives up on his opinion and starts "begging" the others for permission on the discussion board. I knew that by posting the {{3RR}}
template on his talk page I'd encourage him to be the one who starts the discussion thread, to which I'm not generally opposed, but in such cases it's being extensively abused to drain energy out of editors that feel that cultural references and parodies constitute a valid and important part of an episode and should be listed as such, and when it's too obvious shouldn't be removed on sight, especially when such removals are the lion's share of a specific editor's contributions. At that point, instead of telling me that in your opinion I was wrong and would be blocked if continued to engage in such behavior (rest assured I'd reason with you instead of "bashing my head against the wall"), you abruptly blocked me. Please tell me why, hopefully after reading my entire reply. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 06:22, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
If you had contributed something substantial to wikipedia and had it deleted and had a very bad faith message left on your talk page telling you please do not add content you would not be best pleased either. I really don't care if you think blocking me will teach me a lesson. Because it won't. At times human beings get very angry its natural to be defensive when somebody "invades your turf". The way a lot of people act on here is also unacceptable but if it evades offending "wiki laws" they think they can operate however they like with little regard to people's feelings or outlook. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:08, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
How could I possibly punch somebody in the face through the computer? Its a very common hyperthetical expression as you'd gve somebody "a smack in the mouth" for being insolent, a momentary lapse of discipline. No it is not acceptable but I'm a red-blooded male who will naturally react if somebody steps out of line. 95% of the time I'm the complete opposite and am actually a pleasant person but if anybody oversteps the mark and talks to me or something I'm involved in like that when I'm dedicating my own time to trying to help it then it is literally a "kick in the teeth". The thing that concerns me is that you felt a need to leave that comment as if I wasn't already aware of it like over 6 hours after it happened as if it would make a difference. Why bother? I';'m more than aware that anything which isn't completely civil is unnacpetable on wikipedia but you won't change human nature. And blocking people because they feel disgusted by the way they've been treated is not going to actually help wikipedia either.. So please don't point the moral finger at me. I treat people the way they treat me. Only invented "wiki laws" mean that the cuffs must be slapped on any individual who expresses anger and the person who belittles the work and hard effort of others goes unaccounted for. Any situation where I've been "unacceptable" on wikipedia is only a direct response to the way I or my work has been treated. If you popped up on my talk page everynow and gain to thank me for an article I wrote or gave me some positive encouragement I might accept your warnings but you only turn up on my talk page when something bad happens. Why do you do that? Why do you only speak negatively of people such as myself? Does my work on wikipedia not overshadow the occasional loss of temper on a site that can be rather frustrating at times. And if you did happen to turn up on my talk page and give me some encouragement, give some advice on how to improve an article civilly or just for a funny chat I'd fully welcome you as I would to anybody else. I try to remain positive but there is far too much negativety going on on this site and people need to stop belitting the work of others and ticking eahc other off and instead help build this together.. Anyway I've said what I think and I apologise for being incivil but such is life, what goes around comes around... . ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:08, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
BTW if you would like the work together and get Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra for a DYK I mean it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
How is it constructive. Because I am telling you straight. I think you should quit playing sheriff, hand in your shiny badge and become an encyclopedian or librarian capable of writing articles which prove their worth to wikipedia the encyclopedia,, read my lips encyclopedia. Ther eis no part of an encyclopedia which involves playing a sheriff or ruling the roost as a law enforceman. If you spent more time focusing on content then making pointless comments on how I am crap at expressing my disaste the encyclopedia would be much better off. Now I really have more encyclopedic things to be getting on with. I've sure you have the next vagabond to arrest or a street pimp or drug dealer to send into the cell, or a weak old woman for waving her zimmer frame... Adios y buenos noches.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:53, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Sarek, My latest revision was, I believe, in accordance with your strictures. Mr. Garside, however, has changed it to something absurd and launched another edit war to negate any addition to this entry and keep the magazine link out of Wikipedia for an ven longer spell. As a publishing house staffer, I was wondering if there's anything you can do to remedy this and stop his crudely calculated attacks? TruthBTold212 (talk) 19:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC) TruthBTold212 (Bloomsbury USA)
Hi,
Why are u redacting my improvements? The articles clearly violate rules: No Original Research is one of our core policies, and the policy page has a nutshell definition, ": Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources." Please read our policy. If you want to use Means in this article, you must have a reliable source (see WP:RS that uses the term in discussing Means. If you disagree, we have a discussion board where you can raise the issue, see WP:NORN.
Using sources without relying on a same source linking it with xenophobia or participatory demo is original research, it is your interpretation, and as editors that's not our role.
Cheers, Vasser24 (talk) 17:34, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (though that was arguably vandalism). Those are reverts in reverse chronological order (I also omitted a vandal revert and a revert of a bot) from last night and this afternoon (over about 21 hours). Strictly speaking, that's a 3RR violation, but you weren't reverting the same editor or the same content, so it's not what I would normally call edit warring. If I were feeling pedantic, I could have blocked you, but since you copped to it voluntarily at ANI, I don't see much point in that, but I thought it worth pointing out. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:49, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
The block log Barnstar | ||
I would like to use this opportunity to thank User:SarekOfVulcan for his fine contributions to wikipedia over the years and welcome him to the contributors that got a little heated club and allegedly made that caring extra revert. Many thanks, wear your record with pride, respect to you from Off2riorob (talk) 14:34, 18 September 2010 (UTC) |
Sarek, I'm afraid Robert Garside has once again started yet ANOTHER edit war on this entry with yet ANOTHER account name -- one that he has used numerous times in the past. As a publishing house staffer, I overse and monitor the entries of dozens of authors. This vendetta by Mr. Garside has gotten way out of hand though. I'm sure you are aware of his long history of attacks, edit wars and suspensions with Wikipedia -- if not, please read the diuscussions on his own page. I'm astonished that he is still allowed to run wild on this site. Can you restore your edits, delete his and put a stop to his lunancy once and for all? Thanks again. TruthBTold212 (talk) 14:44, 22 November 2010 (UTC) TruthBTold212 (BloomsburyUSA) Additionally: I had thought the entry was semi-protected by you, but Mr. Garside has subverted your edit by using another account name.TruthBTold212 (talk) 15:45, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I hope that you don't mind, but I'm going to boldy change the protection on Franz Lidz (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) from semi-protection to pending changes. What's being edit warred over is the whole Robert Garside (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) mess (see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive644#Legal threats, edit warring and username-violating sockpuppetry if you haven't encountered this already). Since that's using pending changes, it seems sensible to have the article where the fall-out is occurring also set to the same protection. It's some of the same people in the edit war, and they have autoconfirmed accounts. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 16:07, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Will you nominate yourself for Arbcom now? The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 22:24, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Any idea why the Eastside Sun article and its talk page have attracted such a large number of anons? I noticed your redacting all their comments from the article talk pagend can see that somebody is definitely venting. I can only suppose that since the article is protected, this anons are trying to give input (poorly) about how the article might be improved... How the simply act of registering themselves as users seems beyond them is a bit sad... and there are better ways for them to deal with their frustration. I gave the article some minor tweaks and added a source. It may be salvable... but how can we best instruct the IPs to leave it alone until they better understand editing policy? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 05:38, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
today after having my rollback removed, I have been reverting vandals and warning them, you may check the diffs to see im not in error, do i still have to wait a month still as i understand a day of good reverts is probably not enough, if so i shall wait a month before re applying by the usual place--Lerdthenerd (talk) 18:48, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Sarek. Since you commented about my edits to Autism Wikilinks, I thought you might like to know Colin has commented at Talk:Autism#Changing_Autism_links. Your thoughts would be welcome. Anthony (talk) 02:44, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Sarek, there is something strange going on at Peter Lawford. I filed a 3 rr report but I think I'm going to pull it back since I don't know if I am completely accurate with what I am saying now. Please see the history of the article. There are two of us reverting and asking for the editors to use the talk page which they are not doing but are instead going to our talk pages saying they are right, we are wrong and reverting. There are three accounts now, one is an IP, 89.215.148.48, than there is User:BHillbillies, which I thought was the IP until this named account arrived User:IGG8998. I have to be honest, I don't remember ever being in a situation like this before. I, and I'm sure Pinkadelica wouldn't mind, could use your help with this. Thanks in advance, oh yea, should I remove the 3 rr notice board complaint? --CrohnieGalTalk 16:23, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your support at my RfA last week. I'll do everything I can to live up to your expectations and trust. P.s. Your kitty is intimidating PanydThe muffin is not subtle 22:02, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
I noted your blocking of Anon 81.100.64.222 re the AFD discussion of UltraStream. I have started a discussion at WP:SPI re another comment on that AFD which you may wish to add to. Best Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 00:05, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
The Mensch's Barnstar | ||
"Sourcing establishes notability." Your three little words at AfD are the most concise summary that I have seen of an instance of when an article should be kept. How simple; how logical. It is amazing how many people go through unwarranted mental gymnastics at AfD to determine whether a topic is important enough to be honored by Wikipedia with the award of a Wikipedia article dedicated to it. In my view, Wikipedia is not much more than a republishing summarization servant to reliable source material and it is incorrect to arrogantly put Wikipedia above judgments made by the collective of reliable sources in their publication decisions. "Sourcing establishes notability." Since you, SarekOfVulcan, are a person with the qualities one would hope for in a dear friend or trusted colleague, I hereby award you the Mensch's Barnstar. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 11:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC) |
Question: You responded to a few Edit semi-protected requests, and it looked like you "completed" the response (at Roblox and Rosa Parks). Aren't you supposed to untransclude those by adding "Tld" to the Edit request template? That's what I've been doing as I respond, so that the request leaves the category. Have I been doing that wrong? (i'm watching so you can respond here) Qwyrxian (talk) 13:58, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Sarek, As you're the admin I'm most familar with, can I draw your attention the activities of one editor here. Jasepl seems to be partaking in edit warring on the Tampere Airport page as well as many other Airport pages if you look at this contributions. You'll notice I haven't reacted to this myself, but not only does he irritate me by clogging up my watch list but he seems to be rielling other editors aswell. Many thanks --NorthernCounties (talk) 13:01, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
You've twice removed a "Disputed" tag from National Historic District. I object, because the accuracy of the article is disputed. You are fully aware of the discussion, at the RFD open on the topic. It is invalid for you to use reason "it's just one editor disputing", because it remains that there is a dispute. Which is being discussed civilly on the RFD page. Your removal of the disputed tag is heavy-handed IMO and seems to be a lot like edit warring. You don't need to assert my adding it back was edit warring; I have done the work of explaining my reasoning at the corresponding discussion already. Better to view it as a Bold step for you to remove it, as if all dispute had been cleared up; and then that i reverted your Bold move. Please discuss whether the Disputed tag is justified or not, at the corresponding Talk page (I suggest using the RFD, rather than Talk:National Historic District). --doncram (talk) 16:04, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
I am sorry to advise that I have reservations about your block of Tippx. Although there was some edit-warring by this relatively inexperienced user, I do not see an unreasonable number of reverts, the talkpage was used, and when the situation escalated the user appropriately brought the matter to ANI for review. This strikes me as a situation where a reminder or warning, rather than a block, would have been sufficient to address the issue. I am commenting in the related ANI thread and would appreciate your comments there as well. Newyorkbrad (talk) 12:09, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey. When you get a chance, I've sent you an email. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 15:26, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I am not sure what is your problem, continuously reverting the changes on the Prince Georg of Bavaria page. Maybe you have nothing better to do? The fact that Prince Georg had a son is well proven and your continuous changes are counterproductive. I added another reference. Have a look at it, it includes not only well documented information, but also scans of OFFICIAL documents issued by the German government (and a letter from the head of the royal house - Prince Ruprecht - to Franz). In addition, the German Wiki has the entry included. There are some deniers (like Mr. McFerran and others), but you can't change the history and the truth!! In addition, Franz was imprisoned at Dachau during the war and, if I recall correctly, he is officially named as one of the survivors!! I know that Franz' descendants are trying to keep themselves from the spotlight, but this is an encyclopedia - FOR LEARNING. This gentleman was born and lived - why are you trying to deny that? And statement such as "NOT RELIABLE SOURCE" are just plain stupid!!! Who are you to determine that!? I am not associated with original the web-page in any way, but to me this info seems well researched and definitely NOT made up!! So, pause and think before censoring history - behavior typical for dumb Americans!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.191.241.47 (talk) 08:53, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Sarek. I notice that you use the AWB bot. I admit I don't understand its function, but I have noticed a couple places where wikilinks are being removed, sometimes crucial ones which are specific and avoid linking to disambiguation pages. Here are a couple of them 1 and 2. I reverted number two as there were too many things reverted and I didn't see a significant improvement. Please help me to understand what's going on, because I'm sure there must be something good in these efforts, but there also seems to be some collateral damage, and that shouldn't happen. -- Brangifer (talk) 20:37, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello SarekOfVulcan,
I just noticed that you idefinitely blocked 81.100.64.222. I think this is a little much to indef a mobile IP range. I do think that the No legal threats policy could be the deciding factor, but indef sounds excessive to me. Just wondering if you could comment a bit on the indef. Thanks! -- DQ (t) (e) 02:46, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
This user seems deadset on wanting to have a dialogue with you... —Jeremy (v^_^v Hyper Combo K.O.!) 04:02, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi SarekOfVulcan, The name of Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine was officially changed to Shriners International by leadership during the July, 2010 conference in Toronto. We will be happy to rewrite the paragraph. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roma lane (talk • contribs) 14:50, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Can you block User:25 To Life Homiez as a likely sockpuppet of User:Tony254trill, checkuser confirmed he's likely a sock and this is WP:DUCK here. Thanks Secret account 15:04, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/25 To Life Homiez Secret account 15:05, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Hint watchlist Usher (entertainer) and Kobe Bryant releated articles and if you see a new user using edit summarries fixing the lead, etc, that's him. This is as Duck as it could get. Secret account 15:21, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Okay, good catch on that whole alphabet thing. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:53, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
I've been keeping the Freemasonry WikiProject's AFD list somewhat up-to-date with AFD discussions, as and when time allows, but I don't know whether you and your lurkers keep abreast of that. I think that this one more than some others might interest you. Uncle G (talk) 23:14, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
I regret that I have offended with my edits to List of symphony orchestras in the United States. After addressing some self-interested editing at Music of Colorado, I looked into the related articles, and was alarmed to discover that Music of Tennessee didn't so much as mention the existence of classical music. I looked around to see what articles existed on the subject that could be used as resources (discovering, among other things, that the topic of classical music is absent from Category:Music of Tennessee) and found List of symphony orchestras in the United States, which listed a grand total of two orchestras in the state. Since that seemed to be the most comprehensive article on classical music in Tennessee, it looked to me like adding to that list would be a good quick way to start to document the existence of orchestras in the state (much easier than figuring out how to weave them into an article whose lead sentence says "The story of Tennessee's contribution to American music is essentially the story of three cities: Nashville, Memphis, and Bristol").
When I see a warning that says "When editing this list bear in mind that the same notability criteria apply here as elsewhere in Wikipedia: entries with no independent sources listed either here or in other Wikipedia articles may not be notable, and are likely to be removed", I interpret that to mean "cite independent sources," not DON"T LIST ANYTHING HERE UNTIL THE ARTICLE HAS BEEN CREATED. Accordingly, after having to leave my computer after adding several unsourced orchestras, I wasn't surprised to see that my unsourced additions were removed, so I calmly restored them, with my reference citations. I had no idea that my attempt to expand this topic would be so upsetting to others. I have no particular interest in the subject, but it looks to me like refusal to allow redlinks on lists (coupled with the youthfulness of most Wikipedia contributors) is stunting its growth. --Orlady (talk) 22:43, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Shortly after that protection you placed the moors article went off. User talk:SISPCM has mysteriously appeared to make the same edits that user talk:ITSENJOYABLE was making which caused you placed that protection on it in the 1st place. Something really needs to be done about this constant disruption of several articles by these "two" editors.Botsystem (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:41, 12 December 2010 (UTC).
Feel free to weigh in on this at Tutelary deity also. şṗøʀĸşṗøʀĸ: τᴀʟĸ 21:19, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
You can unblock my account now. My lawyer informed me that suing user:TheFarix will cost more in legal fees than I will win. I would have a net loss if I sued him so I will not be suing him currently--150.212.72.23 (talk) 18:43, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
this before you allege that I'm doing something other than enforcing actual consensus and the customs of wikipediaThoroughgoodness (talk) 03:51, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
23:24, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
On Wikipedia Review, Ottava writes,
“ | That is really, really shameful. … Do you have no shame? | ” |
Evidently, Ottava seems to think that shame is a motivating factor in regulating behavior. And perhaps it is. But probably your best response to him on W-R would be, "I'm embarrassed to say that I have no shame."
—Gastrin Bombesin (talk) 16:08, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
You warned me for violating the three-revert rule regarding disruptive editing of Antonio Petrus Kalil. However, how do you defend yourself against disruptive editing from the same user with different IP accounts? Now I am warned for the violating the three-revert rule, while the user, using different IP accounts 77.228.100.153, 88.3.112.113, 62.82.34.51, 88.5.113.44, 88.5.125.107, 88.3.120.12, 77.228.100.153 can do whatever he likes. I asked for page protection, but feel quite defenseless against this well organized attack. The article has been targeted before. Any suggestions on how to go about with this? - DonCalo (talk) 22:26, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
That appears to be a general web search result and not GNews archives which still comes up with zero hits for me. Active Banana (bananaphone 17:54, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Could you please be so kind as to confirm that you consider Switzerland to be in either western or central Europe and thus not covered by my topic ban, meaning that I can edit articles which are about Switzerland. I am sorry to have to ask this but it does seem from your recent actions that you hold somewhat unusual views about which countries are not part of central or western Europe. Varsovian (talk) 13:40, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the other one. Can you look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islamic view of Cain and Abel. Thanks. Enter CBW, waits for audience applause, not a sausage. 22:05, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lynn Maury (talk • contribs) 02:35, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. Here are a list of urls from searching for "Nationwide Cleaners" in google.co.uk
As you can imagine, finding sources discussing a cleaning company is not very easy, as it is not a glamourous activity! I can obtain more testimonials from clients and forward them to you. Let me know if there is anything else at all I can do. Thanks. Peter
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterm1972 (talk • contribs) 17:57, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Ok. I will come back to you at a later date when I have better material available. Thanks for your prompt reply and have a good evening. Peter
Concerning this, it explicitly doesn't apply- "Removal of clear copyright violations or content that unquestionably violates the non-free content policy" is explicitly exempt from 3RR. These files lack a rationale, and so pretty clearly fail our NFCC. However, now you're here, some help would be nice... J Milburn (talk) 18:17, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
It has been a month, and i've reverted and warned vandals manually can I have rollback back now--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 18:35, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
He did post it himself, so it wouldn't be oversightable (or otherwise retractable) at this point. (I'm assuming that's what your email is about). Prodego talk 19:06, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
As soon as I realised it I tried to correct it but you beat me to the punch. I still have no idea how it happened but it did somehow. Thank you for correcting it and all the best of the season to you. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 02:35, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Sarek. Sorry if this seems inappropriate but, I feel BV's actions are now becoming disruptive to the discussion at WP:AN/I. See diff. Feel free to disagree. I just wanted to notify someone involved (quickly). Thanks for your support.--GnoworTC 18:27, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you've previously been involved in discussions concerning MickMacNee, I'm notifying you that a Request for Comment regarding MickMacNee has been filed at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/MickMacNee. Your comments there would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. HeyMid (contribs) 11:27, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Garett Fitzgerald,
I'm a new user who looking to get to know some other users, and possibly connect with more experienced users. I found you via User_talk:JohnCD and I see that you attended Brown University. You may be interested in the stub article I created Tricia Rose, Professor of Africana studies at Brown University. JohnCD replied to my question but feel free post a reply there as well if you have any more info User_talk:JohnCD#self-published_source.2Freliable_sources:_statements_of_opinion
Hey, this is Someone65. You blocked me last week under a sock thats not mine. I was also disproportionally blocked by you for disruptive editing for making ONE mistake. I think I am a overrall a constructive editor and would like you to read my unblock request please. Thanks 84.13.48.194 (talk) 18:29, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi.
I'm asking a favour in respect of your knowing more than me. I've just reverted soemthing at the ASDA page - nothing great - but it made me look at the references, and they're all out by one number - the first ref is numbered zero, yet in the reflist at the bottom of the page, it starts as a one. This means that clicking on reflinks will take a viewer to the wrong link.
Any idea why that should be?
I've not noticed it on other pages, but tbh, I've not looked for it on other pages.
Cheers.
a_man_alone (talk) 17:33, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
What if we state Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was both a Hindu and a Jain? There are several sources for this, , , , , , Someone65 (talk) 19:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
All of these articles need to be semi-protected for six months, as you have just done with one of them:
Brangifer (talk) 20:31, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | ||
For your fast and resolute actions to stop sockpuppetry and vandalism, especially the anti-fluoridation socks of User:Freedom5000 / User:Wikidrips. Long semi-protection of the relevant articles is a very effective tool. Thanks! -- Brangifer (talk) 00:33, 30 December 2010 (UTC) |
Yep, I was away for a while. Part of it was some health problems and part of it was that I just didn't feel like coming here for the longest time. I think it was mostly the admin work, 'cause it takes a good portion of the fun away. One day I was looking something up (can't remember what it was), and I decided to log in, and I looked at my talk page, then I blocked a couple of vandals, then I started catching up on AN and ANI, and so on. Then I started doing that every few weeks, then every few days, and before I knew it I had jumped back into the deep end of the pool, and I'm enjoying it again. It's interesting to see how things have and haven't changed. I think admins have more discretion now, which is nice. But many of the admins who were here with me aren't here anymore, or have cut way back.
And Wizardman nominated one of my articles for GA, which was a nice surprise, and we're working to get it to my first FA! So yeah, back in my sarong and feeling fine! :-) KrakatoaKatie 22:39, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm not terribly up to speed on the policies regarding usernames. Earlier, i saw an edit made by User:BlackBeltMagazineStaff. since Black Belt magazine is a relaible source, isn't giving the impression that an edit represents their magazine a little questionable? Niteshift36 (talk) 23:44, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Okay, no problem, sorry to waste time.--Kary247 (talk) 16:53, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
User:Aquib american muslim has been following me around for a month now. He should be cautioned for;
But most importantly he should be cautioned for removing ELEVEN reliable sources here; .
You should block him indefinitely for deleting cited material just as you did to me.
Alternatively, I would appreciate a notice banning him from interacting with me. Thanks for reading. Someone65 (talk) 21:28, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Please don't rev delete those, they are both useful to see and, so far as I interpret it, outside the rev delete criteria. Prodego talk 21:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion on this episode at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#TenPoundHammer_unlinking_spree. So far as I can see, the edit summaries were not the major problem here. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:25, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello there
The editor over at the talk page appears to be involved with an advocacy website for Schapelle Corby. And she is active on facebook in this role (as evidenced by the links she herself provided, etc). She's ranting about wikipedia on facebook and her website, including commenting on certain editors (you and I). I didn't read it all, but it does include the following excerpts:
A lot of bluster from a conspiracy theorist - IMO. But it has taken up a fair bit of editors' time. Any suggestions on how to handle from here? Or indeed if it needs any more attention? I had a go at trying to get through to her, but I don't hold high hope of her "getting" wikipedia. Ignore? Reason with her? WP:ANI? Other? Personally, I am happy to work with her if she brings stuff to wikipedia that is within our guidelines (incl WP:RS) but I don't want to waste anymore time if she can't stick to our policies. cheers --Merbabu (talk) 02:03, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
She's a bona fide crack pot. I had a look thru a couple of her web pages (we're the subject of her latest). Classic conspiracy theory stuff: any disagreement with her thesis is more evidence in support of the conspiracy. This one was particularly entertaining, but not in the way I suspects she intends. She has written/phoned Rudd, the AFP, the Attorney General, the GG (wtf??), and Anna Bligh - and I only read two pages of many. However, I must say that her insistence on us all divulging our identities, employees, and "affliations" to prove our objectivity is getting annoying. And, her attempts to intimidate show she is nasty of heart. --Merbabu (talk) 14:38, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
CVU Anti-Vandalism Award | ||
Thank Goodness we have You watching Our backs! DocOfSoc (talk) 03:19, 1 January 2011 (UTC) |
Hi, SarekOfVulcan,
I see you have recently had occasion to comment on apparent puppetry by a user whom you blocked quite a few months ago for gross incivility and personal attacks. That block came just before the August 2010 decision in the Race and Intelligence ArbCom case, in which that user was a party. It has been dismaying to observe how little enforcement of the ArbCom decision in that case has taken place on the related articles since the decision was announced. You and all administrators are volunteers, and all of you are extremely busy and have my sympathy. By and by some contentious editors and their sock drawers and meat puppets have been shooed away from those articles, but still the articles are visited by new I.P. editors who are apparently recruited off-wiki, and much work needs to be done to fix the articles. I have hoped to help the project improve by keeping source lists that all wikipedians can use to improve articles. As I resume article editing after updating those lists again, I would appreciate you keeping an eye on my edits to make sure that I am working collaboratively with conscientious editors here. I will take care to consider carefully any advice you have for me about editing on contentious topics. Wishing you all the best in a happy new year. -- P.S. I beg your pardon, I see from the time stamp on my contribs list that I forgot to sign this message on New Year Day, when I was multitasking (preparing New Year dinner at home) while posting. Thanks for all that you are doing for the project. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 00:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Seriously, Sarek – you're supposed to be an admin, don't piss about like that. ╟─TreasuryTag►Woolsack─╢ 09:02, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
Last month, you commented on the section I started on TRB's talk page concerning a change from Sparks, Nevada, USA, to Sparks, USA in the infobox in the Jim Gibbons article. I have waited for a reply without receiving one. Today, I noticed that TRB had changed it back to his version in what appears to be an edit using a script. At first, I thought that he may have simply missed the section on his talk page, but none of the sections since then have been replied to. There may be some guideline/policy that exists (I am not well-versed in Wikipedia policy) that endorses this type of edit, and I do not wish to be in violation of such policy. As an administrator, perhaps you could advise me on a next step? Regards, Spalds (talk) 23:49, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
I've left a couple of comments on Kikodawgzzz's talk page. If you have a chance, would glance at them? I got a bit strong at the end because of his style and some comments, just want a double-check. Thanks! Ravensfire (talk) 01:46, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I've been asked to return this page to the last "uncontested" version, which I'm told is the one of 6 December 2010. Do you have a view on this? Deb (talk) 18:34, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
(sigh) Thanks for removing the block. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Time Will Say Nothing (talk • contribs) 16:08, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Notability was established in a discussion with TP some hours ago (it feels like days). The reference was the source which i had placed there, which was then removed for some unexplained reason, and which I have just restored. What other source would you suggest is appropriate? Time Will Say Nothing (talk) 16:20, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Have you ever noticed that General Schwartz, Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, looks a lot like Sarek? I'm thinking Vulcans have invaded Earth already.--v/r - TP 19:32, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
I created the Lupin monobook page but i'm a bit unsure what to do next. Once instruction says
Which is it?Someone65 (talk) 07:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not an administrator but myself and other non-admins are wondering about this article which looks like there's only one or two contributors with WP:OR, unencyclopedic content, and I don't know what to do. Do you have any advice? I posted problems at the WP:Content noticeboard#Tahash.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 16:44, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
So... you might remember my little escapade last year (RE: "WP:FUCKYOU") — at what point does repeatedly throwing around the word "vandalism" constitute a similar offense? I'm getting ticked off. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 05:31, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Could you review this please? Jamile Samuel. Thank you Someone65 (talk) 09:09, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
You did well when you deleted the "Jones' proof" section of the article Proof that π is irrational. Recently, I requested protection for this page, without success. It's quite sure that who wrote that section will make further attempts. JCSantos (talk) 10:24, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Sarek, this idiot is one of the reasons I'm retiring from the site. The last thing I wish to do is to continue to match wits with some stupid kid in Singapore and since I'm leaving (or trying to), I just want this little brat's comments stricken from the record so as not to give him any satisfaction. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 16:54, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to let you know I've reverted/undone all changes I've made since you fully protected Giffords' article. I don't agree with full protection but I respect your decision and I didn't mean to undermine anything by trying to improve the article (which will no doubt be receiving thousands of page views and is in a mediocre state). In any case, hopefully "not-much-harm done". The Rambling Man (talk) 20:26, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
You have blocked the Tucson article.
I added good references, important information, such as the exact location, and other great information. Please allow me to edit and don't block me from the article. Thank you. Nesteoil (talk) 21:13, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
That is very bureaucratic and very awkward. Why don't you do the same thing? Of course, you won't because it is too awkward. OK, you win. I will not edit at all. Nesteoil (talk) 21:17, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Sorry about that, I'm just trying to appease a person who is repeatedly creating the unsourced article for the shooter. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 21:55, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for protecting this. Bearian (talk) 22:03, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
HI Ya! Hope all is well. Would you please replace the protection on my talk page? The last thing I need is right now is you-know-what from You-know-whom. Slakr removed it with no explanation :( Another request please, The Article Compton, is quite regularly vandalized. Would you take a look and perhaps consider it for protection? Thanks again for all you do. Namaste...DocOfSoc (talk) 12:43, 9 January 2011 (UTC) Thank you so very much! Namaste...DocOfSoc (talk) 22:30, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
That's fine and all, but if the user is going to involve himself in edit wars, I'm not entirely certain that indefinite semiprotection of his talk page is conducive to WP:DR. Is there any evidence that the indefinite semi-protection is still warranted? Did whatever attacks that prompted it ~4 months ago return when it was unprotected? Also, I wasn't trying to wheel or anything; I just have always understood the protection policy to suggest that indefinite semiprotection of user talk pages was so rare that it's unprotecting them was fairly uncontroversial. --slakr\ talk / 00:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
You are currently on top of the edit history of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names). Can you have a look at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(geographic_names)#Administrative_subdivisions-.3ECountry_subdivisions? It think this change is straightforward, but I may be wrong. TopoChecker (talk) 17:49, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your even handed approach to the recent issue with Hill Street Blues. I've decided to step away from the whole issue, in no small part because of the conduct of the other editor, at least until the dust settles and cooler heads prevail. I do appreciate the clarification on 3RR, which I honestly didn't know. It's gratifying that there are admins here who can see the big picture and act accordingly. Drmargi (talk) 18:12, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to interpret this edit comment; so WP:DENY implies the previous edit constituted vandalism? KimChee (talk) 15:59, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Not the Garrett Fitzgerald -ex Taoiseach ?
The Phelps quote is so insane and so silly that I consider it harmless in itself though hurtful to the bereaved perhaps. I wonder if a similar case can be made for the benefits of putting it about ? I suspect hate speech is forbidden elsewhere on site but in an article in context I imagine it can be appropriate. There is a photo of an Apache attack helicopter on one editor's user page with the jolly caption "In Israel, the AH-64 is the second leading cause of terrorist deaths, after suicide." Some might see this as a harmless piece of wry undergraduate humour while non-Jewish editors or readers from surrounding regions and countries (or within 1947 Israel) might see the caption as grossly offensive in the light of land grabbing and civilian deaths perpetrated using it. Any thoughts ?--Tumadoireacht (talk) 23:18, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
I put in the "no kids no marriage" partly as a coat trailing exercise to see if anyone was reading the article rather than to hint at orientation. For someone who has led a very full life there is a surprising dearth of information on Lelia Doolan. So many wiki articles about individuals include marriages and offspring and more often for women subjects than for men. I am curious Sarek about whether if the entry had truthfully said "married twice three kids" it might have stayed ? or is it just that it was unverified ? Is there a policy/guideline on it ? I skimmed the living persons page without seeing anything on it ?--Tumadoireacht (talk) 23:49, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Does this dab page really seem necessary to you? We have only two uses with the article "A": the book (arguably the prime usage) and the film; we have one page with no opening article (this is the page about the supposed plot, which could arguably be deleted as unsourced and speculative); and we have two nicknames for which there are no pages. Remove the blacklinks, which are unlikely ever to be used as search terms, make the article on the book the primary article (without the "book" qualifier) with dablinks at the top, and delete the dab page as unnecessary. At least, that is how I see it. Do you have any thoughts? ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 16:08, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Your input at User talk:Hu12#Help sought for outing and stalking would be appreciated. — Brianhe (talk) 00:38, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you also left a message about a questionable vandalism wring left by User:Peter McGinley. I found at least 2 other cases where he has issued warnings for edits that were clearly not vandalism. It's actually forced me to pop my head up from out of retirement. Unfortunately I can't see the edit you questioned him for but I think someone needs to keep an eye on him. He is clearly not well versed in policy and far to quick to revert. Ridernyc (talk) 04:27, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Just a note to say thanks for your quick work. -danjel (talk to me) 12:50, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Given your recent interaction with Tumadoireacht, I am requesting you take a look at his user page. I had hoped that a day or two would result in a bit of reflection and removal of his minimally veiled attack on me, but it has not; moreover, he continues to make subtle digs at me and other editors in his comments on the HSB talk page. I had hoped that one of the two admins who have dealt with him recently might have noticed his user page and taken action so that the rancor that will follow my having to ask you to do so publicly could be avoided. It now seems clear that won't happen, so I am taking the least aggressive action needed to address the problem out of sheer self preservation. I have no wish to engage the editor in any fashion, but the attack on his user page cannot be allowed to stand. Thank you. Drmargi (talk) 19:41, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
My apologies for the edits. I think that I am still in the process of growing in knowing how to contribute to Wikipedia and strengthening my edit habits. Again, I sincerely apologize. user:SoAuthentic 01:40, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
fixing errors doesn't count.
the other person's edit summary said that he didn't want the supermarket reopened mentioned as it wasn't news. but he removed huge chunks of other stuff, probably by error. i fixed that error but left out the part that he wanted out (supermarket store closure).
i am not trying to be tricky but this is what happened. or is any edit considered a revert?
maybe there should be a strict 3 edits per day only, doesn't matter if new content or revert.
note that I am not just undoing others stuff. you should warn others who do that, that this is not good editing. Madrid 2020 (talk) 19:40, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
person A: edit summary: removing actor's list of pre-acting jobs, like McDonald's.
person A's actual edit: remove minor, short term non-activing jobs but also removed large chunks of early life history, like high school and also removed person's fundraising history.
To me, this indicates either trickiness or sloppiness. With AGF, we assume sloppiness. Is sloppiness correction part of 3RR? Should we strictly have 3RR in that only 3 edits of any kind are allowed?
As an administrator, you are the face of Wikipedia. Don't disappoint me by being rude or otherwise nasty.
Madrid 2020 (talk) 20:33, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Sarek, what do you think of this new idea? Wikipedia is not news. Therefore all news events, like this, should be simply a stub for the first 48 hours. Then editing can be done. just an idea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madrid 2020 (talk • contribs) 19:42, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Why are you blocking the link to my website at www.falkirk-wheel.com?
This is a legitimate information site which contains material not found elsewhere.
Please explain — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roxnrubble (talk • contribs) 21:35, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
So far in the last three days my addition of this weblink has been removed for different reasons:
1. revert - rm promotional link per WP:ELNO; formatting: whitespace (using Advisor.js) 2. rm fansite 3. rm unofficial site
Now you are telling me because my name isn't on the site you cannot use the link.
Just exactly what reason of the three listed is the cause of removal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roxnrubble (talk • contribs) 21:49, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Its not a fansite - it contains material that is unique in the construction of the Falkirk Wheel because I alone undertook to do this during the construction phase in 1999. This site has material that exists no where else on the Internet and I am the sole authority on it.
Regardless - I will take you rejection as final and will not attempt to post the link again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roxnrubble (talk • contribs) 22:06, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
ok, you want to take off the afd for political reactions. if so, you have to take off your comment disputing the closure otherwise it is biased and POV. i have fixed it for you to make it neutral. the fix is that the afd is for political reactions and the naming argument is removed. please leave it at that. the way it is now, the afd title reflects the article title and there is no distracting comments about the title. please be logic, sarek, and leave it. live long and proper. Madrid 2020 (talk) 22:52, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I disagree with your rationale for this[] revert of my essay on dodgy edit label citations, an anonymous 2 editor illustrative dialogue transcript, and a comment from 5 months ago. I feel that your revert was in error in interpreting WP policy and that my proffered rationale for retention (and the changes made to take account of comments about naming the editor involved) went unconsidered and unanswered by you and the other administrator who had begun to discuss it. What are my options now for seeking arbitration on your action ?--— Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 02:22, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Not seeing why that warning was needed. Flyer22 (talk) 22:54, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
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