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86.130.92.170

As an anonymous unregistered user, you called my Misplaced Pages contributions 'nonsence'. Please imply which article you are referring to, as I have never added nonsence to Misplaced Pages. I am a good boy, and have never vandalized anything in my life. It may have been a bad edit but I did not read the manual on my first article, Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew. It may have been bad, but I have never purposefully vandalized Misplaced Pages.--Young XenoNeon (converse) 15:45, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Epstein

Feel free to put it back if you like. I just reverted everything the IP did, starting with the blanking of the talk page. Fuzheado | Talk 01:20, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

"Non-existent category" vandal

The vandal 202.152.162.215 (talk) and 202.152.162.216 (talk) is mostly misguided, but it refuses to take direction. It's back adding non-existent useless categories. It continues to be tiresome to those of us who constantly have to revert its "edits". When asked before, you gave it a short three hour block, reasoning that it might be better than a long block, and that the user might get the message. Well, it is incorrigible. Short blocks and warnings aren't sufficient at this point. Please block it for a more substantial period like a week. Thanks. Hu 04:37, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

User:Jake. Remington

I was looking threw the Block Log of this user and I found something odd. Android79 blocked him indefinitely, then you unblocked him, and then re-blocked him indefinitely. Why would you unblock him to indefinitely block him again 1 minute later? SWD316 05:37, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Multiple AFD nominations

Please don't move AFD nominations around unless you take the time to correct every link. In the case of Once Moore, you orphaned the original nomination and broke the link which had been in the renomination. I'll clean it up but frankly I'm curious why you bothered. The Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Foo (2nd nomination) format has always seemed to work fine in the past. Why mess with it? Rossami (talk) 07:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I was not the one who moved the original AfD (check the history!). I was just as upset as you are about the way it was done, which is why I replaced the redir on the Talk page with a proper link. Owen× ☎ 13:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

My apologies. I should have checked more carefully. Rossami (talk) 17:23, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Wow, that was quick! Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page :). Extraordinary Machine 23:09, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank You!

for reverting vandalism to my talk page!--ViolinGirl 23:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

again!--ViolinGirl 23:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

sorry for the nonsense

What is going on?

Why am I blocked? There are things I've seen in my history section that I know absolutely nothing about. Somebody is trying to frame me for something I didn't do.--Bumpusmills1 02:24, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Block on 195.92.168.175

Are you aware that this address is a webcache belonging to one of the UK's largest ISPs? You already blocked this last night, and I can't edit at all via that ISP when this happens. I don't know the exact mechanism for cache<-->user allocation, so I can't always get round it.

Is it not possible to block anonymous edits from that address, whilst allowing logged-in users to continue editing? Users are easier to block without collateral damage, and new accounts can be similarly blocked as soon as they appear (if they are obviously conduits for vandalism).

Fourohfour 12:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't see any block on User:195.92.168.175. I blocked seven different IPs last night, but none of them look similar to the one you mention. What is the exact message you get when you're blocked?

I don't know; it's gone from the cache now. Sorry. It definitely mentioned 'MogLAWL' as the reason it had been blocked, and had your name as the person responsible (and for contact). Fourohfour 16:05, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Regarding selective blocking—excellent idea. This has been requested over a year ago, and has an official feature request assigned to it, but curiously, nothing has been done about it. Owen× ☎ 14:53, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Strikes me as one of the most obvious features. I'm surprised it's not already possible. Fourohfour 16:05, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

MogLAWL – OK, I think I understand what happened. Let me know if you get that message again. Owen× ☎ 16:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Re-Block for 70.191.155.87

They have done it again after their block finished:Spam_(electronic) Fosnez 17:02, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

STOP

STOP EDITING MY PAGE 65.185.73.251 03:37, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Category:Semi-protected User talk: pages

Yeah, I don't mind what it's called, and I thought about that name. You get to touch each of the user talk's though...(and you can speedy the cat, too, once you've copied my blurble over). -Splash 16:11, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Incidentally, when you're just touching pages, it's 'enough' to do nothing at all other than press 'save'. MediaWiki is clever enough to not add anything to the history, but to update the relevant bits and pieces anyway. Easier than finding something to fiddle with in the page, usually. -Splash 16:27, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

You should probably add a note about this to WP:PP and a few other places. Good idea though. --GraemeL 16:29, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Re your comment at RfB

Please see my responses to both yourself and Locke Cole. I admit my action was the wrong one at the time, however I really don't care for the suggestion that I was taking part in a silly and embarrassing edit war that I was actually trying to stop. -- Francs2000 20:39, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

User page vandalism

Thanks for rescuing my user page! Cyberevil 04:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Me too! Jjjsixsix 01:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:VBlock

I strongly disagree. It is a long-standing policy that a user may do what they want with their own userspace (subject to using it for personal attacks/advertising), and ArbCom has confirmed this policy in a number of cases. Trying to force a message to stay in a user's userspace despite that user clearly demonstrating that they don't want it there is considered disruptive and abusive. This policy is so long-standing that it is inappropriate to seek to over-ride it via a discussion on one proposed template's talk page.

Combatting vandalism is important - but that does not mean we should take measures that interfere with the normal operation of Misplaced Pages to do so. If someone's vandalising - block them. Put a message on their talk page and leave a clear edit summary for all to see.

My take on this is the opposite. I have seen too many very inexperienced admins come in and over-react to situations - labelling people as vandals who are not, misunderstanding fundamental policies, and all sorts of other mistakes. I really don't see it as appropriate to give those admins so powerful a hand that they can insist that their musings remain evermore on a user's talkpage.

Also, many, many people remove warnings of various sorts from their talkpages on a daily basis. Insisting on keeping those warnings on talkpages, when it has happened, has only exacerbated and increased the dispute. It would be foolish to go down the route of suggesting that anyone who removes a warning from their userpage should be blocked. I oppose the idea wholeheartedly, jguk 22:12, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the block on User:72.25.65.201

Thanks. That guy's edits have been bugging me for days. --StuffOfInterest 20:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Could you take a look at this?

this IP address seems to be obsessed with Igor Shleypak, whoever that is, and lately hunting down the word Palestine and changing it to Israel. It seems like vandalism to me, but I could be overreacting. I've done a little bit of reverting, but only when it is obvious. This case may be a bit to subtle for me. Thanks.--◀Puck▶ 20:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Grab yourself a Reversion barnstar from me, I'm too busy to go to the page Sceptre 22:28, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see

...you've noticed as well . Looks like the NC vandal is trying to do some non-vandalism ... wonder how long that will go on. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 23:22, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

monobook.js

Could you help me with my monobook.js file? I want to add a tab to send the test-n messages(or my personal vandal messages), but I can't get it to work. Thanks,

Prodego 00:11, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I checked some of your attempts to add vandal-handling tools to your monobook scripts. If you are not fluent in Javascript, I think your best bet is to simply copy all of my scripts, and then carefully remove the parts you don't need, making sure it still works after each change. I think my system of a separate button for each type of warning is more efficient than the template you are trying to create. Give it a try, and if you need help tweeking it, give me a shout. Owen× ☎ 00:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I copied yours, but I am not sure what to remove(I really have no idea what I'm doing), and I want to put the nav-pop-ups back(that I can do), so If you could tell me what to remove(or better yet remove it for me) I would appreciate it. Prodego 00:31, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Done re-adding popups, note that the pop-ups section is temporarily divided. Prodego 00:36, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Good, it all works, but two more things(sorry) some admin only things are still there(3 hour block....) and if possible could you write out some of the abbriviated warn levels? Thanks, Prodego 00:49, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, you even spelt out the warns for me thanks, but the contribs popup I don't need, and I don't need header either, I can probably remove header myself, but I am not sure about stoping the contribs popup. Prodego 00:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the best would be: The original(diff) page popped-up(im a non-admin, so no rollback), keep the header, sorry about repeatedly changing my mind.........Prodego 01:00, 8 January 2006 (UTC) (or vice versa, but I think that might be harder) but if not......

Possibly before I'm an admin, did you read this?

You're the second person to tell me that today(first person offered to nominate me), this is a good day! I want to wait a little longer though. Prodego 01:17, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

• Quick question on the monobook, what do the show/hide buttons do on articles for deletion pages? Prodego 22:40, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

It's me

• x

Sorry I forgot to sign in, rather have an "x" Thanks Scott fisher 01:08, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry if we broke the formatting of the AfD for Remagne. Thanks for fixing it however!!Onthost 02:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

Infinare

hi, this is Zarbon. I'm very annoyed at a member named Infinare. he keeps putting in wrongful and opinionated information. He keeps deleting all the real info i put in for zarbon in the dbz section. he constantly follows my edits and reverts them on purpose and vandalizes on a constant basis. he needs to be blocked permanently or i know for a fact he will continue to make moronic vandalisms. please reply OwenX.

12.30.22.36

12.30.22.36 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). You mind if I extend his block to a month? He has been blocked 6 times now and doesn't show any signs of stopping.

Neohorizon

Looking things over, it actually makes more sense as a separate AfD, I see. If it were an article on say, an individual like Ian Ricci with content that's mostly the same, I guess it would be alright to redirect and combine the AfDs. Since these are somewhat different entities, separate AfDs are appropriate. Next time, I'll put separate AfDs and reference the other in my nomination. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:58, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Edit of the day candidate

This is a hoot! The picture with the caption "A handfasting ceremony at Avebury in England, on Beltane, 2005." is priceless.--◀Puck▶ 00:41, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.

PS - I appreciated the grilling actually - I would be concerned of anyone who got through that process without a single question being asked!

That's fine

Thank you for taking care of it. Tom Harrison 00:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

169.244.143.115 (talk · contribs)

(cross-posting to User talk:Hall Monitor) Hello, OwenX. I noticed that you informed MaoJin that the IP address 169.244.143.115 (talk · contribs) was an open proxy. It's my understanding that that IP address is a public-use computer for Maine Department of Libraries - do you have any reason for indicating that as an open proxy IP address? Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:14, 14 January 2006 (UTC)