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What do you suggest we do to address User:Calton's tagging?

Calton continues, I randomly pulled user out of Calton's many spam warning contributions over the past day and got this one: User_talk:Billseidle - the user has never been blocked, let alone indef blocked. Should I start a separate WP:AN thread to address this issue? What are your recommendations? Calton never responded to your request for an explanation.--Doug. 23:12, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Have you ever left a note on his talk page, asking him why he does it? . . . (posted at User talk:Doug)

Most certainly, you will recall this recent post by me at Misplaced Pages:AN#Talk_pages_for_indef_users (which we agreed was slightly off topic) :

Well, no offense Calton, but I know you commonly tag userpages as spam and then add {{temporary userpage}} to their talk pages. Several admins have addressed this issue with you before, including me, but we apparently have a clear difference of opinion over the proper usage of {{temporary userpage}}. (See User_talk:Calton#Temporary_userpage.3F, User_talk:Calton#Template:temporary_userpage, User_talk:Calton#Tagging_user_pages_of_unblocked_users, User_talk:Calton#Template:temporary_userpage_2). If I notice these I review them. Some of these are in fact indef blocked and don't have an indef block tag, so the {{temporary userpage}} tag is valid. Others have never been blocked, let alone indef blocked. If you look at CAT:TEMP you'll probably find that many, if not most, usertalkpages are due to {{temporary userpage}} on the talk page - though I'm not saying they're all there due to Calton - I have no idea. Alternatively, will give a good starting place if you go through the ones tagged as spam in particular (Calton puts the template in the edit summary so this is pretty easy). --Doug. 23:25, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

There are four notices to Calton there, comprising the concerns of five separate admins, the last one is mine. When Calton replies, it sounds like "Don't complain to me, I just tag them, complain to the admins who are deleting" - that's a paraphrase not a quote. Of course, the complaining parties are the admins. In at least one case, the third one above, Calton appears to convince the admin that he doesn't understand policy and should be deleting these. There is at least one other notice on his page regarding inappropriate use of CSD against user talk pages too. Calton's attitude seems to be that these pages don't belong here so I won't stop tagging them. I'm a new admin and don't really know the best way to handle this, several very experienced admins seem to have given up already. Problem is, from that AN thread we have evidence that some admins have been just cleaning out the queue and maybe not always noticing whether the user was actually indef blocked (of all the tags that I'm aware of that feed CAT:TEMP, {{temporary userpage}} is the only one that is not clearly an indef blocked tag) --Doug. 23:48, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

So, any thoughts on this?--Doug. 15:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Look at this

When you thought fake BB articles were no more. → Big Brother Canada it has been tagged. Vandalism I say. Pure hoax. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 02:12, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I have no idea where these articles are coming from first BB Kids then BB Canada. At this point if CBS says they are having an CBB edition I wouldn't believe them. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 03:23, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Realist2

Another admin (not me) has unblocked Realist2 following this debate: . I'm really sorry if this has offended you, but I believe after our chat on IRC last night that you were open to the possibility of reassessing the situation in the light of more information being made available. I think that a simple error was made in good faith, actually several simple errors, including some by the user. I hope we can fix the issue and that I have not dumped you in the shit as a result. Sincere apologies if you are unhappy about this, I was only trying to help. Guy (Help!) 11:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:Lectures

#wikipedia-en-lectures @ 15:00 UTC today, yay. Xavexgoem (talk) 14:57, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Vonita

He canvassed once. I warned him to stop it. He blanked it.

He sent me an attacking message "You are a page blanking vandal. That is all you are and all you ever will be." But what disturbs me the most is that a user who has not made even 50 edits yet tells me to read WP:MOS. I find it futile to warn him again as he has blanked one. Ultra! 14:02, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry you have been dragged into this and I do not know why he has chosen to involve you since he went to WP:ANI and I replied there.

I copy my reply here as well:

First of all, it is she not he. Secondly, I am taking my time to read all Misplaced Pages policies before I make substantive edits. It's a pity he does not since he manages to annoy. It is deplorable that he comes running to WP:ANI. As for the comment about him being a Page Blanking Vandal, that is a true statement of fact. He has been blocked twice from Misplaced Pages for being a page blanking vandal. That all came out in his humilliating attempt to become a Misplaced Pages Admin. Read the RfA to see how united people were against his application. It was not canvassing to inform User:Maddyfan about this ]. Note the comments made by User:hbdragon88 about Vikrant Phadkay's outbursts of temper and acts of vandalism that led him twice to being blocked from Misplaced Pages. (he changed his screen name to Ultraviolet scissor flame).

Maddyfan at that point was in dispute with him and had warned him about being blocked again. Look here User talk:Ultraviolet scissor flame/Archive 3#Madonna.

I warned Vikrant Phadkay not to leave rude messages on my Talk Page again as did user:emerson 7, look here User talk:Ultraviolet scissor flame/Archive 4#i have been warned?.

He was the one who first left an attack message on my page. As for "blanking", he removed my message from his talk page and it was only afterwards that I removed his message from mine.

Look at his Talk Page User talk:Ultraviolet scissor flame/Archive 4 to see how many warnings he has received from other editors and how many photos, he uploaded, have been deleted from Misplaced Pages because of copyright violations.

He needs to learn that if he is nice to others then others will be nice to him and if he is rude to others then others will be rude to him. That is how life is.

Vonita (talk) 16:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure how I am involved in this either, and since it has went to AN/I, I am not going to comment. -

Rjd0060 (talk) 16:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Afghan Historian

Hey, Actually I only briefly came back to correct some absurd references in a "Middle East" article about Pakistan. I wasn't intending on coming back for good. That won't happen until real free time comes back again, lol. I finished my corrections and am leaving again. If it could be protected again, that would be great. Thanks! Afghan Historian (talk) 12:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Well I stopped editing since last night so consider my role on wikipedia over for now. I promise you will not see me again on wikipedia so I would still like my page to be protected and retired again, if that is still possible. ;) Afghan Historian (talk) 20:48, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Hagger

I noticed that you have been deleting articles with this title. According to what I have seen the user creating these articles is likely a sockpuppet of the banned user User:Grawp. See Special:Contributions/Grawp for more details. Vivio Testarossa 05:45, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

chandu v. the bad bot

Chandu thanks you for reverting the mistagging. Image:ChanduTheMagician.jpg. EraserGirl (talk) 16:28, 17 April 2008 (UTC)