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WP:ANI

I copied your vandalism report on WP:ANI to the appropriate noticeboard, WP:AIV, which generally has a quicker response. Cheers, Yuser31415 (Editor review two!) 20:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot and let's stop vandals.-- EnglishEfternamn _contribs 20:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

:) Yuser31415 (Editor review two!) 21:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, EnglishEfternamn! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand 15:55, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

WGee

Wgee is an editor who i have had problems with in the past while editing the British National Party page. I feel for you as this editor can often be beligerant in thier views on a topic and frequlently revets th a "concensous" version even after discussion has taken place to update concensous.--Lucy-marie 09:35, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm keeping a close eye on his edits and will report him to ANI if necessesary. Sorry you have experienced a run-in with this guy.-- EnglishEfternamn _contribs 18:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Your signature code

EE, I hope you don't mind my mentioning this. I've noticed your signature code has some redundant tags that make it unnecessarily long. Some users (not me though) are against excessively long signatures because it can make it hard for people to follow conversations on talk pages when in the editing window. I've taken the liberty of removing the redundant tags for you. Here is code that will give the same results but only takes up 4 lines (in my browser) instead of the previous 8, a 50% reduction of space. Just trying to help...feel free to ignore this if you wish. Cheers.

<b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="darkblue">]^]</font>_{<font face="Tahoma, helvetica" color="lightblue">]</font>}</i></b>

--William Thweatt | 19:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, that works. Do you mind telling me if any users in particular were complaining? Just curious is all.--EnglishEfternamn_contribs 20:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

None that I know of, yet. I just noticed an opportunity to offer help. I'd also like to take the opportunity to say that I hope we can put the past behind us, let bygones be bygones, and (insert your favorite cliché here). No hard feelings?--William Thweatt | 05:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Sure, why not? On that I do admit that I may have been a bit unreasonable. Sorry about that by the way, are we friends now?--EnglishEfternamn_contribs 00:23, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

The State of Sweden

Goddag, I am writing to let you know, I AM curious to hear what you have to say on the subject. It sounds to me like you don't think very well of the Swedish Social Democratic party, and I'm wondering why. I'm guessing you living in Sweden, so I find this interesting. Jag heter EnglishEfternamn, men jag kallas "Smith".-- EnglishEfternamn _contribs 23:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Hm. No, indeed I do not think very well of the social democrats - it should however be duly noted that I find the current government even worse! But, quite large parts of the swedish populace were in fact quite apathetic under most of 2006, and both the social democrats and the moderates received criticism for being, well, for being the same shit. Fredrik Reinfeldt orchestrated a facelift of the moderates, changing the party colors, calling it "the new workers' party", defending "the swedish model" (on collective wage agreements), talking about welfare, the poor, etcetera. Meanwhile, the social democrats kept on speaking about the exact same thing although still wanting to draw right-wing voters. The result was, it seemed to me and many others, that the social democrats were suddenlt the moderates and vice versa.

Now, my criticism against this parliamentarian mash-up is not entirely based on ordinary mistrust for politicians. I'm also part of the Swedish extra-parliamentary left, which, well, doesn't like parlamentarianism at all. I have no reason to explain all this to you though, after all, we're on Misplaced Pages! See Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation and related articles to satisfy those needs, if you have any of the sort.

I'd like to end with a quote, from Per Gahrton: The great bluff is that the Moderates and the Social Democrats are opposites. In reality, they are in all important matters identical trustees of a materialistic growth-society where the main task of the State is to defend the over-consumption of the rich world, now also with weapons in hand and EU-helmet on the head. Perhaps they could extend their already finished life period by joining forces as the "Social Moderates".

Quote (sloppily translated by me) comes from Yelah, a libertarian socialist internet news magazine. The short notice of course goes on to discuss his own involvement in the bombing of Afghanistan etcetera.

Now, I'm just babbling. I hope I said something that makes sense. I'm quite tired. Lev väl! Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 23:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Your entry at WP:AIV

Hi there, EnglishEfternamn. Thanks for taking the time to note User:64.80.89.62's vandalism of Stephen Colbert over at the AIV noticeboard. An important thing to do before listing at user at AIV is to have a look at that user's talk page. In the case of User:64.80.89.62, you'll note that prior to my warning, that user had not been warned since February 4th, four days ago. Because IP addresses can be dynamic or even shared on the same terminal by different users, we have to be very conservative with our blocks of IP users. In the future, make sure that you leave multiple levels of warnings before bringing a user's behavior to AIV. Ideally, a user will have received all of the warnings up to and including level 4 when they are listed at the noticeboard, so that the administrator can simply block them and remove them from AIV. Thanks a lot, keep up the good work, and drop me a line if you've got any questions. A Train 00:13, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Only tangentally related, but doesn't seem worth clogging your talk page up with another heading over this: just FYI, I've moved your username report from WP:AIV to WP:RFC/N (to allow for a little more discussion before action is taken). Feel free to contribute to that discussion if you so desire. Cheers! Luna Santin 03:55, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

"caps out of hdrs, fmt" is more of an "edit summary" than most editors leave, and "==External links" is MoS standard

How can you say "You did not provide an edit summary..."? Misplaced Pages editing would be too boring if I had to spell out 'capital letters out of section headers, format". And almost 30,000 edits over 3 years (noted at the top of my talk page) has taught me that caps generally should NOT be in headers. For example, all formatting bots have been trained to change ==See Also== and ==External Links== to ==See also== and ==External links==, for crissakes. 76.22.4.86 00:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I would take your word for it, but seeing as you are an anonymous contributor, I cannot say I've seen any degree of proof of your experience.--EnglishEfternamn_contribs 19:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

My experience, or lack thereof, is irrelevant, since you don't have to 'take my word for it', but just read the written guidelines from the Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style. 76.22.4.86 20:44, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Annotated article also discusses caps generally being unwanted in section headers. 76.22.4.86 22:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I think you're making too much of this. If you would like to be seen by other users in a less skeptical manner, I suggest starting a user account.--EnglishEfternamn_contribs 22:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry if I over-reacted--you just happened to be the person to push me over the edge in this area--you certainly weren't the first to question my edits solely because, after 2 years of editing logged in, the past year I've been editing anonymously; and as you point out, are unlikely to be the last. 76.22.4.86 02:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah, EnglishEfternman, you need to start assuming a bit more good faith, even of anonymous IPs. Particularly when they're applying the Manual of Style correctly. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 23:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I am, or at least trying harder to. Maybe I was a bit hasty in this judgement, but I do suggest that if he/she in fact has experience including 30,000+ edits, a user account would be the way to go in gaining a good editor reputation; I know I wouldn't want such efforts going un-noticed. I hope this user isn't too upset.--EnglishEfternamn_contribs 23:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)