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This user is taking a Wikibreak while he pursues a few other interests, as well as getting settled into his new job. He will pop in every now and then to check for messages.

I use WikiBiff to monitor my watched pages. If I leave a message on your talk page, I will watch the page. When you reply, WikiBiff will pop up an alert letting me know!

Can you do a run please?

I set all the Listas for biog articles (talk) with names like Xxxxx of Yyyyy (dealing with accented characters but probably with a lower-case "o") some considerable time ago. I am now running into these in main-space with broken DEFAULTSORT, seems a shame to waste the work. Rich Farmbrough, 19:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC).

Sure thing. Gimme some time, right now the bot isn't programmed to bring the listas into sync with the DEFAULTSORT (if the page already has a listas on it). Mikaey, Devil's advocate 23:57, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Your block of Logicist

What possessed you to do this? He has added a wealth of material to the History of logic article . The content he has added seems fine to me (except that the article now ends in mid-sentence, as a result of your block). The previous version of the article (which the damian account largely contributed) only went up to the early nineteenth century. Logicist has got as far as Russell's paradox. Who is going to complete it. You? I am lost for words. Logicist also seems to have made some good contributions to the article function (mathematics) Paulatim (talk) 06:00, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

He admitted to being a sockpuppet of Peter Damian, who is under a community ban. Enough said. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 12:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I also asked you, who is going to complete the section that is half-finished o/a your block? It strikes me as extremely irresponsible. Our main duty is to the project and to adding to the sum of human knowledge available online. You have damaged that objective, seriously. What do you have to say for yourself? Paulatim (talk) 18:50, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Our main duty is to protect the encyclopedia. Peter Damian has proven himself incompatible with that goal. As for his articles, it doesn't matter who is going to finish them; honestly, anyone is free to. I don't really feel the need to divulge any further into my reasons for this block; if you have an issue with it, feel free to take it to ANI. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 23:30, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

How do you know that the "Peter Damian" on Misplaced Pages Review was indeed operating the "Logicist" account on Misplaced Pages. Was a Checkuser run to confirm? Or, is it now within the power of any banned editor to get any similarly-interested editor in good standing blocked, merely by announcing it is "him" (or "her") self on Misplaced Pages Review? -- Thekohser 02:26, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Ahem...he admitted it on Misplaced Pages. See here. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 02:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I have to echo the sentiments of Paultim. I am the primary author on the mathematics history stuff, and Logicist has been supportive of my efforts, and a source of very useful information & critiquing. At this point Logicist's work on History of Logic is in Logicist's name-space, so as far as I'm concerned Logicist isn't much a threat to anyone.

By the way, what is Peter Damian's offense? I hunted for it but couldn't find it. Since everything associated with them is blocked, I can't find out what the hell the trouble is. Lemme know, Bill Wvbailey (talk) 22:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Careful, Mr, Bailey. You may open a can of worms here that ends up getting you yourself blocked for a bit of "corrective meditation" time. I just thought I'd add, though I've never had much more than a passing interest in logic, the User:Logicist was inspiring enough to me to create more free content for the encyclopedia. -- Thekohser 13:48, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Let's basically put it as "he pissed off the community enough to where the community voted to ban him". You can read more about it here. Thekohser, I don't see any need for a block here, nothing wrong with asking questions. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 23:10, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

"attack" subpages that are really meant to document abuse before submitting it

you used to have a subpage documenting what you perceived to be abuse by tothwolf. recently, I've run into a problem with an admin wikihounding/harassing me and I've decided to document it so that I can report it. the abuse goes back quite a while and it would take me a long time to track down the diffs, so i've created http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Theserialcomma/InappropriateAdmins. I was almost immediately then contacted by another admin who warned me that I might actually be attacking the admin in question by having a page like this. Would you please advise me as to whether I can continue to add diffs to this page, or if I should delete it?

Thanks Theserialcomma (talk) 06:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't know what the official stance on it is, but my personal feeling on it is that what's in your userspace is yours, and as long as you're not calling attention to it (outside of the appropriate forums), it shouldn't be an issue. However, once it's discovered, I could easily see how it would be a source of annoyance for the person you're documenting. I guess my suggestion would be to keep it documented on a file on your computer, instead of on-wiki. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 06:13, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

the subpage you created that i'm referencing has been deleted. even though i cannot see it, could you give me the diff so i could add it to my evidence? i was accused of being involved in the situation somehow but i wasn't, so it'd be useful. thanks. Theserialcomma (talk) 06:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Theserialcomma, I've had no interaction with you regarding your current problems with other editors and I suggest you leave me out of it. Based on what I've been observing from my watchlist you seem to have brought it on yourself. --Tothwolf (talk) 08:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

this isn't about you, tothwolf, so you can back off now. User: Mikaey created a subpage that documented some perceived abuse by you. none of the evidence that he gathered had anything to do with my interactions with you. except, then Jeske Couriano randomly came here to tell Mikaey that there is "an agent provocateur".

Jeske's exact words are "you might want to address Theserialcomma, who's been harassing and stalking (the alleged abusive user), at the same time. Whatever behavioral problems are there are aggravated specifically by TSC. Remove him from the equation and see if (the alleged user) is as evil as you would believe.".

User: Mikaey responds: "I barely even looked at that. Most of the stuff I documented predates their interactions. ". Actually, I was literally uninvolved in any of the evidence that Mikaey gathered. Jeske Couriano attacked and blamed me without examining the evidence in any way.

So yes, you are right, Tothwolf, this should have nothing to do with you. You and I have had no recent interactions until you came to this page. This is about Jeske Couriano hounding me. You don't need to respond to this any further because we have nothing else to discuss. I am currently gathering diffs of Jeske's abuse (e.g. ], but if any of them involve you, I'll make sure to say "a user" instead of your name. I have no intention of further communicating with you. Thanks. Theserialcomma (talk) 20:10, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Let me be blunt, chummer: Were it not for your interesting contributions history, accusations of bias against one of THE most neutral administrators I know, and your harassment of Tothwolf and SarekOfVulcan, I wouldn't have interposed myself. However, I was here when H got chased off and JVM attempted to escalate his harassment. I don't want to see any more legit editors leaving the project because someone took undue interest in them, as you have.

It is because you have such a history that I'm even bothering to call you out. All I see in that contribs history, in between category removals, is pestering other users, including taking an unhealthy interest in Toth and SOV, accusing GWH of not being neutral, and, recently, butting into my business with an unrelated user. You are not innocent by a long shot, TSC; if you keep denying it asking for diffs you will regret asking for them. -Jeremy 20:25, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Time For Yet Another Run

On Monday, 7 September, our esteemed colleague, User:Magioladitis put WPBiography banners on approximately 10,000 talk pages according to his note on Category talk:Biography articles without listas parameter. As a result, the category grew by over 13,000. I have taken care of "Q", "X" and everything after "Z". I am working on "Z" as it has fewer article that does "V" which was empty before the weekend. Many of the ones I have done have had a sort value on the article page.

Thank you.

JimCubb (talk) 20:42, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

It's on my to-do list. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 17:13, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Histmerge list

Hi! What should be done with the entries where a copy-paste move was made, but both articles have since been deleted? Just remove them from the list? Or should they be merged regardless? I think the GFDL only concerns content that is actually used in the project. What do you think?

By the way, typing "Misplaced Pages:New histmerge list" every time is a pain, so I took the liberty of creating a shortcut at WP:NHML. Is that convenient or what? :P Jafeluv (talk) 10:54, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Works for me. As far as deleted articles, yeah, it happens...I think we can pretty safely ignore those, since they're technically no longer part of the project. Might not hurt to watchlist them, just in case they get undeleted as part of DRV or some other undeletion process. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 12:33, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

a user you previously interacted with

you once had a subpage about tothwolf's failure to agf and other potential transgressions. please see http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Continued_wikistalking.2Fwikihounding_and_harassment_from_User:Miami33139 also see ].

i feel that he has this long pattern of this type of behavior. perhaps you have access to the subpage still to see. Theserialcomma (talk) 08:50, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm not going to get involved in it. I can't seem to win on that front, and I don't have the energy to deal with it. However, if you can find an uninvolved admin that thinks it would be helpful to have that available, then they have my permission to undelete it for you. It's still stored in the database (at User:Mikaey/Tothwolf), it just needs to be undeleted. Thanks, Mikaey, Devil's advocate 03:48, 29 September 2009 (UTC)