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Willy on Wheels deletion

Since you deleted the Willy on Wheels page after it was reposted. I was wondering if you could delete its shortcuts WP:WoW, WP:WOW and the orphaned subpages Wikipedia_talk:Long_term_abuse/Willy_on_Wheels/archive1 and Wikipedia_talk:Long_term_abuse/Willy_on_Wheels/archive2. 195.188.152.12 09:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I am not certain about the deletion of the talk archives, but have deleted the shortcuts. Kusma (討論) 09:57, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

The archive pages are orphaned pages since the main talk page has been deleted. CSD G8 states that archives can be deleted if the main page was deleted. Plus we should delete them to stop vandals looking at their history per WP:DENY. Also two more shortcuts Misplaced Pages:Willy on Wheels and WP:ViP/WoW. 195.188.152.12 10:15, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:DENY should not be used, I see those Long term abuse pages as the online equivalent of being placed in the stocks... humiliation rather than glorification of vandals. --86.134.56.248 10:53, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Consider the long term abuse pages the public pillory for Willy and vandals. --86.134.56.248 11:01, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, as "Willy on Wheels" is not a real identity. Please continue this discussion at WP:DENY. Kusma (討論) 11:03, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Shut Up!!

You are my enemy, and I'll grudge strongly you!! 12:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC) (Sheynhertz)

Please stop evading your ban, so I can stop blocking your IPS. Kusma (討論) 12:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Duplicates

Hey, we posted duplicate comments on both village pump and BN :) -- Lost 13:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Sheynhertz' IP

It doesn't look like the block is going to be overturned, thankfully, so I'll start on the cleanup tomorrow. I intended to start on Category:Articles in translation, which will mostly be a case of removing the tag, then moving onto Category:Misplaced Pages articles needing translation. I may not get through with much of it, as I have other stuff to do and I'm going on a canal trip starting Saturday, but I'll try to make a start. The fact that he's so easily able to evade his block by switching IPs is problematic, however. I'm unfamiliar with how range blocks work - if I notice him continuing to edit, can I block the same range you did, 61.112.0.0/16, to stop him? --Sam Blanning 22:53, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good. Apart from the tags, I typically also removed the "Works" and "References" sections to arrive at a clean one-sentence stub. I'll try to work on turning the onomastics pages into disambiguation pages - we'll see how much can be salvaged.

When you block the range, you block his whole ISP (65536 IPs) so you should keep the range blocks short (but I haven't heard of any other users on his ISP, so he might be the only one?). 3 hours is probably pretty long already, but we need to make it clear to him that he is not allowed to edit. Thank you for your help and the support at WP:AN! Kusma (討論) 06:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Samuel and Kusma. As Sheynhertz uses dial-up, as the hostnames tell, the IP address he uses may always vary when he tries to re-dial. So it is really easy for him to evade this block. We Japanese Misplaced Pages's admins have used to get hard to block him until the range block activated. We have a list of ranges of IP addresses he might use on nearly bottom of ja.wp's page ja:Misplaced Pages:投稿ブロック依頼/Vacsora関連. I wish this will help you. Thanks. Sylphie 00:57, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I will consider a long-time rangeblock of these IPs as a last resort. Don't you have problems with other users trying to edit from that range? Kusma (討論) 09:13, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

As far as I know, we have never received any requests for unblock those ranges, other than Sheynhertz. I think it is because that most Japanese Internet users use faster lines than dial-up modem, like optical lines, and there are few number of dial-up modem users. Sylphie 11:53, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello Kusma

Hello Kusma. How are you? I hope your transition back to Germany was smooth and not stressful. I also noted that someone vandalised your page and then seems to be a reincarnation of someone you have had problems in the past. Is there any way that I can help? Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 06:44, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm fine, thank you! I hope you are as well, haven't heard from you in quite some time. My move took a long time, but was not too bad in the end :-) The user who accused me of anti-Semitism is Sheynhertz-Unbayg, who has just been banned from Misplaced Pages on my suggestion. See WP:AN#Ban of Sheynhertz-Unbayg. If you want to help, keep an eye open for edits from the 61.112 range with an edit summary of "rvv" that revert me or Samuel Blanning or anybody else trying to clean up Sheynhertz-Unbaygs's messy "onomastics" pages. As he changes IPs often, it is then necessary to block a whole range - for lazy people, the range is 61.112.0.0/16, for less lazy people the ranges linked in the post above on jawiki might suffice. You might watchlist Mahler (disambiguation), where he apparently can't stand the current state of the article. If you ask why any of this is bad enough for banning him - the articles itself are not so much a problem, it is his unwillingness to talk about them. See the RfC linked from the AN post, and you will understand. If you have a better idea than blocking him until he finds something else to do, I'm listening. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 09:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Move Request Mention

I suppose you're not the most unbiased person to ask, since you gave your opinion in the Talk:Prime Minister move request, but I'd like to know your opinion on this comment. I have no problem with Jt mentioning an open move request to the Irish Wikipedians notice board as it could potentially be of interest to them, but I'm curious whether the insertion of the statement (half upper-case, half lower-case!) is okay. To me, it sounded like unnecessary editorialization, as he's essentially saying that's preposterous! and mischaracterizing the situation (note SigPig's comment on the move request), and I fear it may have influenced the !votes of Irish users Mal, Djegan, and Bastun. I didn't want to bring this up on Talk:Prime Minister if Jt's comment is normally considered okay. -- tariqabjotu 12:13, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't want to wikilawyer on this. This kind of things is common and very often, posts on notice boards are a good thing. I don't see how a capitalization fix is interesting to Irish users, though. Thank you for staying cool when you were accused of being stupid, by the way. As the Times seems to agree with you, you're not the one who's looking stupid after all. Kusma (討論) 12:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Alright; I'll leave it be. It probably won't have an affect on the outcome of the move request anyway and I would hate to fan the flames. -- tariqabjotu 12:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Userfying

My apologies! A question: when moving for userfying, is it best to do it to the main user's page (assuming it's a red link), or to a subpage? Thanks Akradecki 16:48, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Lebedev

I was looking through the Mikhail Lebedev page and it seems to be vanity and non-notable to me. First of all, there is hardly any information about him on Google. Then, none of the publications seem to be news-worthy and notable. Finally, the scientist does not have many 1st author publications and seems to be non-important in his field. If you agree with me, can you please help me nominate Mikhail Lebedev for deletion? --GoOdCoNtEnT 08:49, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

You're probably right, but I have no idea of neuroscience, so I am not certain how notable his research is. Certainly the list includes lots of publications that don't need to be here. Do we have any good Wikipedian neuroscientists that you can ask for an evaluation? Kusma (討論) 09:10, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Sheynhertz

Sheynhertz-Unbayg appears to be using 61.112.85.140 to edit, as evidenced by Basch and User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg. Mo-Al 18:46, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

61.112.84.108 is probably him too (looking at the Hitzig article). Mo-Al 00:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

DELAG

I'm usually a stickler for references, but the idea of Zeppelins comprising the first airline was too cool. The German wikipedia article looked reasonable, and I found some reasonable web citations. Would be great if the author could pull out some refs. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 20:28, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! That's why I nominated it, I also thought it was really cool when I found out. Featured article Zeppelin doesn't hve inline refs either, or I would have tried to copy some of these. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 11:40, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Long-Overdue RfA Thanks from Alphachimp

You were my last support. Thanks! alphaChimp 01:36, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

You must have had quite some work thanking everybody. Congratulations and good luck with the new buttons! Kusma (討論) 11:41, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

He's back...

61.112.95.245 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), fyi. Ryūlóng 09:29, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm busy in real life right now (a conference), but I'll consider a large-scale long-term rangeblock like on the Japanese Misplaced Pages later this week so we don't have to block his individual socks all the time. Kusma (討論) 11:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Translation

Hi Kusma. Just here to tell you that Magyar Cserkészlány Szövetség has been translated. However, WP:PNT is not saying how a page can be delisted. If you are as familiar with this topic as you seem, could you do that for me? It would also help if you added a quick description of how to do it to the lead section of that page. Thanks & happy editing (and/or conferencing...:)), KissL 10:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Their section can just be removed. I have done that and added that to the description on the page. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 11:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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