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A request of CheckUser was deleted by his friend Admin

A request of CheckUser regarding him and Pernambuco was deleted by Khoikhoi in BAD FAITH (an admin friend with a meat and sockpuppet master Mauco):

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_checkuser/Pernambuco/Polaron/William_Mauco/MarkStreet

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Pernambuco/Polaron/William_Mauco/MarkStreet

Still, Mauco was a sockpuppeter that was found by Dcmevit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.160.43.14 (talk) 18:00, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

90.240.150.96

Not content with submitting this baseless 3RR report against me, 90.240.150.96 also found the time to leave this equally ridiculous accusation of vandalism on my talk page. Should I simply delete the notice? I would appreciate your advice as an administrator. Kanaye 23:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. Kanaye 23:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Socks

No problem, there's a whole load of similarities I could find if I had the time but it doesn't really achieve much as if the account did start getting used again a new checkuser would be possible anyway. Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 00:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, one thing you might be able to help me with, or possibly point me in the right direction. A couple of weeks ago the possibility of resurrecting the Patrick Kelly article was raised as there's possibility for expansion. It was merged per Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Patrick Kelly where three of the four delete !votes were from the same editor and socks, but according to this DRV log merges are an editorial decision anyway, so it wouldn't be necessary to take it to DRV to recreate the article. However the Patrick Kelly page has now been rightly changed to a disambiguation page, and I know there will be GFDL problems if I just copy and paste the old article into a new page. Would it be possible for you to do a history merge to say Patrick Kelly (Irish republican) please? One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 00:29, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Have done, thanks for the help. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 01:29, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Flatts and his "kick your butt" threats

Much of Flatts's edits are based on what SpongeBob SquarePants character Flatts Flounder said in the episode "The Bully." Squirepants101 02:44, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Admin status

I remember your try in December for Admin status --for not so nice reasons (i.e. guilty feelings about an edit ) Any case, nice to see that you've become an admin. :) Nephron  T|C 02:52, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Possible confusion

Hi, I noticed your "oppose" edit here that seems to say that I blocked you at some time in the past. Possibly I misunderstood what you were saying. Either that, or you have confused me with someone else, since I am not an administrator. FNMF 10:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Right. My mistake. Feel free to delete these two messages from your talk page. FNMF 10:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Places with City status in Scotland

The fourth revert by User:Kanaye was 24 hours and 24 minutes after the first. User:90.240.150.96 reverted two of these edits and I reverted another two, so why are both User:Kanaye and User:90.240.150.96 warned, rather than just User:Kanaye? 163.167.129.124 11:33, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Because all of you are involved in an edit war, and edit wars never solve anything. I've seen hundreds of them, and not once did they solve an issue. Dispute resolution, discussion, that solves problems. 3RR doesn't mean "edit-warring is an acceptable tactic as long as it's less than 3 times a day", and in the end, it's bad for everyone involved. Edit warring is time wasted on inflaming the dispute that could be spent solving it! (By the way, why don't you register an account? You're obviously interested in editing and know the place pretty well, I'm responding here since IPs are changeable sometimes. An account hides your IP too.) Seraphimblade 11:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Please also see the talk page and history at Template:Scottish_Cities. User:Kanaye has been involved in a long-standing edit war over this. I have not. The format of this template must however be consistent with Template:UK_cities, which appears at the foot of all articles for UK cities. Cheers anyway, 163.167.129.124 11:33, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

"ny bare votes probably won't be counted much anyway"

Others involved seem to think the vote-count is more significant. PS: Sorry for the sarky tone earlier; I was in need of WP:TEA. — SMcCandlish ツ 11:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Assist

Advertise it a lot, I guess. WP:GO, WP:VP, WP:CENT. Also, it may help to stick it in the help desk header, or the village pump header, or {{welcome}}. >Radiant< 12:57, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Editor assistance

Thanks for clarifying; it wasn't totally clear whether the project was active or not. Since the AMA survived its MfD, is this still meant to be a replacement for the AMA, or a co-existing alternative? And is there any prohibition against me being a member of both organisations concurrently? Walton 16:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Following up on our conversation earlier, I designed a new userbox for the project, as there didn't seem to be one. It's at Template:User Editor Assistance. Walton 17:23, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Should we also create a "Category:Editor Assistance Wikipedians", like there is for other Misplaced Pages projects? It might also be helpful to transclude the members' list on to the main project page. Walton 19:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I'd like to thank you for your moral support at the most recent RfAr regarding Billy Ego's fascism-related userspace content. Your comment was much appreciated. Sandstein 19:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

AMA case

This one was filed a while ago, and JzG weighed in with some observations based on what had happened and the editor seems reasonably happy and hasn't edited since. I've written a rebuttal on the talk page pointing out what a wholly incorrect version of events it is. I had the Robert I. Coulter page undeleted for the purposes of this which could do with deleting again really, is there any chance of you having a quick look at the case and seeing what needs doing if anything? Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 19:33, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Not sure really, I thought it might be slightly presumptious to recommend closing a case I'm involved it. If you're happy with my version of events you could delete the re-created page, as it doesn't really want to be hanging around indefintely. 20:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

The Robert I. Coulter was specifically undeleted for the AMA case, if you check the history you can see the older versions of the article. Without that article being undeleted I couldn't show that the politician was in fact there first, as this diff shows. If you're happy that's an accurate version of events that article can be deleted again now. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 20:38, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not really sure Guy was involved, except to the extent that he knew about the situation having moved the article back in March and deleted the redirects. I asked him to undelete the article for the AMA case, and having some knowledge of organ makers and suchlike he decided to post some comments. He's quite happy for the article to be deleted again as this diff shows, I just thought it best to see if anything should be done regarding the case, and at least make sure an AMA member had seen the actual version of what happened. Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 23:28, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Help

Hello Seraphim. I'm User:AlexCovarrubias. I have sent you an e-mail requesting your help. Please check your inbox or go to my talk page. Alex. (I told a friend to paste this msg in your usertalk because I'm blocked).

Userspace

Hi, you mentioned here that userspace edits are extempt from 3RR and the users are allowed to remove comments from their own talkpages. I have no connection to this particular case but since an editor removed my comments from his talkpage I was wondering what the policies/guidelines are on this. Any link to official rules would be much appreciated (I tried googling but didn't find anything specific). Thank you Mackan 19:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

ProhibitOnions

I have undone your 3RR block of ProhibitOnions, as he neither had 3 reverts nor was edit warring. He was in a dispute, proposed a compromise wording, then reverted some edits mostly unrelated to the dispute. I don't get why it helps to block him in this case when a warning would have probably had a better effect. Kusma (talk) 20:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, should probably have consulted you first; I thought you were away but I forgot that I'm two hours away from UTC now that we're back in daylight saving and so I should have not taken the shortcut... anyway, back to the count: the first "revert" was not a reversion to PO's version, but apparently he noticed something he thought was wrong and changed it. The second "revert" is immediately followed up by a compromise wording that reintroduces the contentious term. Reverts three and four are indeed simple reverts. Which leaves us with two reverts. Together with talk page discussion happening that doesn't look like a simple edit war that needs to be stopped by a block to me. Kusma (talk) 21:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Checkuser case closed

Hi, your request for checkuser was completed. You can find it in the archives for 7 days at Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_checkuser/IP_check/Archive#Ararat_arev. -- lucasbfr 22:42, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into this by the way (above), I think that the situation at both Turkey and Armenia is dire, particularly for the former - it is the third time the article had to be fully protected in ten days. I have four sources (trivial stuff like latest economic figures) and two images that I will use to update Turkey, but every single time I login to Misplaced Pages, there seems to be a horrible revert-war going on if the article is not full protected. Do you have any idea on what can be done? Cheers! Baristarim 01:16, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I just checked checkuser, if it returns I will let you know. Sorry for taking your time.. Baristarim 01:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Baristarim 01:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea how he did it, but he is already back at Armenia with the same old!! At the least maybe a semi-protect would be a good idea since he seems to be using IPs (for the moment).. His perseverance is amazing. As for the earlier AN/I post, no problems - many users had had enough and felt that something had to be done because work was seriously being disrupted - the least being the time wasted on reverts.. cheers! Baristarim 02:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

RFCN closing

Thanks for stepping up and taking care of it - I know it wasn't easy. RJASE1 01:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeh from me too, no-one else was prepared to do it Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 07:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Your recent actions at RFCN

Hi! I saw that you recently closed Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/User names/Fenian Swine. You didn't seem to mention how you arrived at your decision and I feel one is warranted given the lengthy discussion that took place. What factors did you take into account, which comments did you disregard, how did you apply the username policy, and are you aware of the term and its meaning? gaillimh 02:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Also, I noticed that you took only six minutes between edits when you closed this discussion. Did it only take you six minutes to read through the entire discussion, it's talk page, and then determine the proper course of action? gaillimh 02:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Please explain why you feel as though there's no consensus on the page itself. It's quite clear that the username violates Misplaced Pages policy, and since you're a new admin, it's expected that you'll make early mistakes. I just wish you didn't make this one, hehe. Cheers and good luck with your new buttons! gaillimh 02:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, no, the username is most definitely a slur. I provided not only a detailed description, but also external references to support this notion. In fact, one only needs to check out Fenian and use one's own commonsense regarding the word "swine" to realise this, mate gaillimh 02:38, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

• • • • Wow. That's all. Just wow.TortureIsWrong 03:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Measuring consensus

May I ask how you measured consensus in the "Fenian Swine" case?

From my point of view, the "disallow" position held up the words Fenian and Swine to WP:USERNAME#Slurs and found them in clear violation of policy, while the "allow" position used non-policy arguments (such as a good editing history means we should allow the username). As I understand "consensus" on Misplaced Pages, policy arguments outweigh non-policy arguments, and "vote count" is irrelevant. So I simply do not understand a "no consensus" closing here. Please, lead me through the reasoning here. Thank you. -- Ben /_HIST 02:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind reply on my talk page. -- Ben /_HIST 02:34, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Chambersburg

Sorry about the delay in reply. I was at a hotel and it used a proxy which was blocked on Misplaced Pages to access the internet. It wasn't worth it to as for a auto-unblocked because I was only there a few days. Anyways, I was wondering if you could help pull the article up to the WP:CITY standard for a city. I would like to get the article to a FA rating eventually, but for now GA will work. Thank you! Wǐkǐɧérṃǐť(Talk) (Contributions) 03:01, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ararat arev

I heard he was a programmer or something, but we'll have to see. BTW, you're aware that he hacks into old accounts because their passwords are the same as the usernames, right? See :

You got it now?/??? Its me , go check 100 the password is 100

go check k9 its k9 etc etc

Go check those have the same passwords for those in the Armenia edit history

Khoikhoi 03:09, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I also heard he's a regular contributor to Stormfront, but someone will have to verify that one. Khoikhoi 03:15, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Check your email. :-) Khoikhoi 03:24, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks by the way, your help is appreciated. Baristarim 05:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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