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The Sparky Barnstar | ||
With your insane amount of work here with vandalism revisions, page protection, and blocking mixing with always helping out other users with problems, you make Wikipedia a great place to be. For that, I hereby award you The Sparky Barnstar. :) Congrats! :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:37, 21 November 2010 (UTC) |
I note that you blocked this editor as a sock of User:Elf021. When I tagged several articles in Indonesian by this editor for speedy deletion as content forks last week, after mechanically translating them into English, I also tagged a similar article by User:DewiDI, so it might be worth looking at this editor as well, if that hasn't been done already. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:07, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
(talk page stalker)Looks like I made an adoption offer to a banned editor. First, do you know who he/she is and second is can I take the stuff he said at face value and AGF?--intelatitalk 17:35, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
No need to apologize, MuZemike. I only created those no-hitter "lists" because there are lists for other teams now, as well as a navbox for the pages. Of course I knew that these two lists would probably be deleted; I just thought that if the Mets or Padres actually did throw no-hitters in the future, then it would save someone time because the pages would already be here. It is fine by me if they are deleted. - PM800 (talk) 19:47, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you found references for Ninja Gaiden III about the Nintendo Power Awards. Do you have references to other years as well? Maybe one that F-Zero was in? GamerPro64 (talk) 22:28, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
The description "|Description=A screenshot of 4chan's 2010 front page with new heading logo and footer and a Wikipedia Fundraiser banner. Images in the "Recent Images" section are blanked to meet Fair Use criteria." of the file needs to be modified. This modification is non-controversial, as it corrects the description to match the currently protected version. You may find a correct description for the current version at this diff's source as: "|Description=A screenshot of 4chan's 2009 front page with new heading logo and footer. Images in the "Recent Images" section are blanked to meet Fair Use criteria. " Such a change would be non-controversial, as this issue is not a part of the content debate which required the protection. Many thanks, Fifelfoo (talk) 13:02, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there MUZE, VASCO here,
Please have a look at Julio Álvarez and see what you can do, an anon "user" (don't know if it's his girlfriend or just one lunatic) has been inserting all kind of lies (POV/weasel, saying this player is a Spanish international when he's NOT, etc, etc).
If you check the article's edit history, on 12 June 2010, we already had to put up with this vandal's encyclopedia of mayhem in 16 "marvellous" volumes, which i rolledback. Now, i am sorry but i could not resist, and sent him a message. I did not use any vile language or anything, but i am afraid i might have "fed the troll" (it's very unlikely, though, that he will read anything, as i think he has a dynamic IP).
Sorry for any inconvenience, thank you very much in advance - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 02:01, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
On behalf of the Indian WikiProject, I'd like to request if MuZebot could be made available to perform the delivery of the project's newsletter to its participants. The newsletter is located here and the list of participants on whose talk pages it is to be delivered is here. Any help would be appreciated, since our regular bot is down for a while. Regards, SBC-YPR (talk) 19:56, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I was looking at recent blocks and noticed you'd blocked a giant swath of IPs:
I can't imagine any vandalism or disruption from one person in that range sufficient to justify such a gigantic rangeblock but I may be missing something. What's going on?
Thanks, --A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:19, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
OK, then I have nothing to stand on in the community's view, and hence I have no choice and have unblocked all the ranges. Keep in mind that we let the vandal win here. –MuZemike 00:08, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
YMs RfC doesn't address whether or not he should remain an administrator, the scope of the RfC was well detailed and that discussion is outside it's scope. Trying to force a discussion closed moments after it's been added to does nothing but encourage drama.--Crossmr (talk) 01:28, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to respond here with a bit more detail. Whenever I block a dynamic IP, I monitor the articles the dynamic has been vandalizing. If I see that the vandalism hops to a related IP, I unblock the original because it obviously is no longer associated with the vandal. With child vandals (like this one), they usually don't know how to change their IP.—Kww(talk) 19:58, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Neutralhomer wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving and hopes your day is full of good times, good food, good family, good football, a good parade and a good nap...then shopping tomorrow. :) Have a Great Day! :) Spread the joy of Thanksgiving by adding {{subst:User:Neutralhomer/HappyThanksgiving}} to their talk page with a friendly message. |
Hi there MIKE, VASCO here,
it seems your wiki-schedule has been pretty hectic...Could you please have a look at this, regarding my last message (see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MuZemike#Help.21.21)? In a nutshell, what did you mean in your reply about Julio Álvarez (i did not make anything of it), and what can be done to stop the vandalism (yes it is VANDALISM, the inserting of false info) in Sérgio Leite?
Thanks in advance, regards - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 21:37, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
I just google searched it and used cached and the article was full and done properly. Daniel Christensen (talk) 02:43, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Did you miss the fact that the article was fine. The other one, the tale of the faithful dove or whatever is not coming up in a google search, so could you restore it. I'm certain it was just as good. Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your prompt response, and blocking the IP range. I was wondering about the other account. One of the odd things about this editor is the way he reverts himself. Dougweller (talk) 18:59, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As an admin who has previously interacted with this banned user, you may be interested to participate in the discussion at WP:AN#Unban request by (part of?) The abominable Wiki troll. Regards, Sandstein 11:28, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
In case you never noticed my reply at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transformers#New AfDs, the transformers WikiProject does have a deletion sorting : Wikipedia:WikiProject Transformers/Deletion sorting. It's had one since September. The deletion sorting is even linked to in one of the boxes at the top of the project talk page. NotARealWord (talk) 16:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Phne65
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)Nvrp1128
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)A quick Grundle check on these please. The reason why should be obvious. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 20:13, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to respond here with a bit more detail. Whenever I block a dynamic IP, I monitor the articles the dynamic has been vandalizing. If I see that the vandalism hops to a related IP, I unblock the original because it obviously is no longer associated with the vandal. With child vandals (like this one), they usually don't know how to change their IP.—Kww(talk) 19:58, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there MIKE, VASCO here,
it seems your wiki-schedule has been pretty hectic...Could you please have a look at this, regarding my last message (see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MuZemike#Help.21.21)? In a nutshell, what did you mean in your reply about Julio Álvarez (i did not make anything of it), and what can be done to stop the vandalism (yes it is VANDALISM, the inserting of false info) in Sérgio Leite?
Thanks in advance, regards - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 21:37, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
I just google searched it and used cached and the article was full and done properly. Daniel Christensen (talk) 02:43, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Did you miss the fact that the article was fine. The other one, the tale of the faithful dove or whatever is not coming up in a google search, so could you restore it. I'm certain it was just as good. Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your prompt response, and blocking the IP range. I was wondering about the other account. One of the odd things about this editor is the way he reverts himself. Dougweller (talk) 18:59, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to respond here with a bit more detail. Whenever I block a dynamic IP, I monitor the articles the dynamic has been vandalizing. If I see that the vandalism hops to a related IP, I unblock the original because it obviously is no longer associated with the vandal. With child vandals (like this one), they usually don't know how to change their IP.—Kww(talk) 19:58, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there MIKE, VASCO here,
it seems your wiki-schedule has been pretty hectic...Could you please have a look at this, regarding my last message (see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MuZemike#Help.21.21)? In a nutshell, what did you mean in your reply about Julio Álvarez (i did not make anything of it), and what can be done to stop the vandalism (yes it is VANDALISM, the inserting of false info) in Sérgio Leite?
Thanks in advance, regards - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 21:37, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
I just google searched it and used cached and the article was full and done properly. Daniel Christensen (talk) 02:43, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Did you miss the fact that the article was fine. The other one, the tale of the faithful dove or whatever is not coming up in a google search, so could you restore it. I'm certain it was just as good. Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your prompt response, and blocking the IP range. I was wondering about the other account. One of the odd things about this editor is the way he reverts himself. Dougweller (talk) 18:59, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As an admin who has previously interacted with this banned user, you may be interested to participate in the discussion at WP:AN#Unban request by (part of?) The abominable Wiki troll. Regards, Sandstein 11:28, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
In case you never noticed my reply at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transformers#New AfDs, the transformers WikiProject does have a deletion sorting : Wikipedia:WikiProject Transformers/Deletion sorting. It's had one since September. The deletion sorting is even linked to in one of the boxes at the top of the project talk page. NotARealWord (talk) 16:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Phne65
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)Nvrp1128
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)A quick Grundle check on these please. The reason why should be obvious. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 20:13, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Don't do anything I wouldn't do. And if you do, take pictures.
First Rlevse, now you....my list of admin friends is running short. Well, what is important is I hope you enjoy some WP:REALLIFE and are able to do offline things now with your WikiBreak. I wish you the best of luck on whatever you plan on doing offline and hope to see you back soon. :) Take Care Dude. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 06:02, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Fire, I say. 18:17, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike could you range block my school IPs? One of my friends has a twisted interpretation of what is fun, he believes that vandalising articles and adding in defamatory material about my fellow classmates and some prominent figures is absolutely hilarious. Special:Contributions/153.107.33.151 is one of my school IPs, I don't know much about range blocks, while this IP is currently blocked, others are either unblocked, or blocked with less restrictions such as talk page access. Regards, —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 1:51pm • 02:51, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Blacktown North Public School, Blacktown South Public School, Blacktown West Public School, Lynwood Park Public School, Marayong South Public School, Shelley Public School, and Walters Road Public School. Public high schools include: Blacktown Boys High, Blacktown Girls High, Evans High and Mitchell High. There is also the Coreen School, which caters to older children with learning difficulties.
These are recurring vandals I'm talking about, the Department of Education is the most useless ministry in New South Wales in terms of how they handle abuse of computer privileges. I had told my school's systems administrator about the vandalism but he said it's "too much work" for the Department since they already monitor people that attempt to hack school computers, bypass filters etc. In fact, they don't even care about the defamatory material students are posting on Wikipedia.
I found this one: Special:Contributions/153.107.33.155, to the best of my knowledge the IPs from 151-155 are used by my school. Thanks any Neutralhomer :) Regards, —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 5:05pm • 06:05, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
As someone who commented on the previous FAC, perhaps you'd be interested in taking a look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/.hack (video game series)/archive2? Thank you in advance, Axem Titanium (talk) 03:20, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Seen your updating of your Barnstars and I do believe you missed one: this one. No worries though, it really isn't considered a "star", more of an award. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:16, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for checking up on this user, too bad they were using sockpuppets to cause trouble. I noted three IPs on this thread which were also involved in what he was doing; I don't know if they were with him, or not though. 108.69.80.49 (talk) 04:47, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
I wonder if you would mind commenting on the puzzlement several of us have in this section of ANI: ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:11, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Regarding I feel it necessary to register my strong suspicions that this was the work of User:Benjiboi, a user who left under his own steam of substantial (and probably true) allegations of COI and paid editing. Almost all the pages edited by the socks were also edited by Benjiboi, the editing style is very similar and the socks seem to have been stalking the same users that Benjiboi did in his day. - Schrandit (talk) 09:09, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
I just opened up an SPI with Benjiboi as the potential sockmaster. –MuZemike 19:04, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for responding last night. Would you have the time an inclination take a look at Sigi Shcmid? It is over at FAN and an editor said that it would help if someone not familiar with it took a look. Rally appreciated if you do get the chance. Cptnono (talk) 04:33, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
I've reviewed the article here. I'll be watching both the article and the GAN review, so as items are fixed I'll around to update the status. --Teancum (talk) 10:10, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
On 4 December 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Car Town, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that online Facebook game Car Town features pace cars used in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 and the 2010 Brickyard 400? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Hi there,
I noticed some disturbing behavior from this user earlier today, so I came back to check on his edits and see what he has been up to, and sure enough he has been blocked as a suspected sockpuppet of someone who's used them before. Would it be possible for you to confirm if this really is a sock of that user, or is that even necessary? BOZ (talk) 02:58, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Just a reminder that I've reviewed Ninja Gaiden III and it's on hold (though I don't think that I set it as on hold). Just wanted to drop in again because I noticed a bot archived your talk page. --Teancum (talk) 01:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike, I noticed you've protected the page Al-Akhbar (Lebanon) twice before due to excessive vandalism. The vandalism just resumed after the protection expired. I've already submitted a request to WP:RPP. Just thought I'd let you know since you've dealt with this before. Thanks. --Fjmustak (talk) 02:44, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
I think this Koov sockpuppet has had enough fun; could you please block him? Thanks. - Biruitorul Talk 05:45, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Please take some moments of your precious time to consider and re-rate these articles:
Dream Chronicles 2: The Eternal Maze
Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
Dream Chronicles: The Book of Air
As the main contributing writer of these articles, I will very very appreciate your knowledge and rating.
Big thanks for your help!
– †hinhin_of_you / buzzworthy / βoy Ünder Ғlowers – 12:28, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please respond to User talk:Uncensored Kiwi#Admin block review? Thanks, Sandstein 10:13, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Take a look at the history of Female sperm storage, now on the DYK section of the front page. There appear to be a group of new editors who have all begun editing at once, and have concentrated the edits on that article. They all received credit for the DYK. Now, I can think of a number of harmless reasons why this might have happened, and it is rather obvious that they are either socks or meats, so I don't think it rises to an SPI. Still, I thought maybe it was or will turn out to be part of a larger pattern and worth mentioning to somebody. Abductive (reasoning) 11:09, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi there MIKE, VASCO from Portugal here,
for reasons that escape me, vandalism has been afoot at Simão Sabrosa and Manuel Fernandes (footballer born 1986), with English "user" inserting players play with one team when they DON'T (last time i checked it was vandalism). The past few days, some more "users" have been inserting stuff (at least in the latter article), which included obscenities.
Can you please offer the poor Fernandes and Sabrosa some wiki-solace? Thanks in advance, have a nice week, keep it up - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 17:12, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
P.S. Another "user" (could very well be the same, anon IP is also from England) has started the same rubbish, now in Hugo Almeida. Please don't doubt my judgements, it IS vandalism, inserting lies in articles is vandalism, even if the language is proper.
He admits his socking and wants to talk with you about it. Gigs (talk) 20:52, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
You semi-protected Ferdowsi millenary celebration in Berlin because of excessive vandalism. The same person is edit-warring in Rezā Shāh using different IPs. That page should be semi-protected too. Alefbe (talk) 01:45, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Says he agrees.--SPhilbrickT 21:56, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. Not being very technosavvy I new something was up but had no idea what. I appreciate the time you took in filling me in. Cheers again. MarnetteD | Talk 01:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike! Please view Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Edstat. Thanks! Sincerely, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 12:14, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I just have go an Email from Grundle2600 this morning though the "Email me" feature is there any reason we have not blocked his capabilities for that? The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 18:20, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I believe VanityFaresssss (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) maybe a sock-puppet of Kagome_85 (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) I just think someone should check it out just to make sure.
Thanks 142.163.146.217 (talk) 22:49, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
I just noticed on my Watchlist that you blocked User:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. I knew there was something suspicious about how he started doing CCI work the same day he registered. I was foolish not to challenge it further but he had the lingo down pat and was he ever audacious -- see my talkpage for example. He had several articles I created deleted and interfered with my CCI. Can you undo whatever he did (re Cyril Axelrod, John Creaney and Joan Refshauge)? Thanks so much. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 03:19, 14 December 2010 (UTC) P.S. -- what does this guy have against me?
I've responded to all your comments, are there anymore problems with the article? --TIAYN (talk) 14:48, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Thank you for volunteering to oversee the GAN of Cornell University. I want to provide some feedback on your review, since I felt it could have been handled better. Below are some reviewer guidelines from WP:RGA as they relate to this GAN.
"The GA process is intended to help editors with article improvement."
"The more specific information that the reviewer can provide to help editors meet all six Good article criteria, the more they will help the overall process of article improvement."
In summary, give solutions, not problems; and please provide clear expectations with regards to timeline. If you would like further assistance with the review process, reach out to me or someone at WP:GAN/M. Regards —Eustress talk 18:50, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
As the nominator, I want to thank you for taking the time to do an in-depth review of the article. I was guilty of sinking in unsigned responses to some of your comments in order to communicate progress. The article was renominated in September after three intensive days of full time effort to address all of the concerns from the prior GA review (which was summarily rejected without any interaction.) I thought that a recent featured article should certainly meet GA criteria and we designated the article as the August 2010 Wikiproject Universities collaboration of the month. The result was an improved article including many new footnotes, mostly to source the fact that the notable alumni actually attended Cornell. To give the collaboration a valid end point I nominated the article for GA, and renominated it after addressing the listed concerns, not aware of the defects that you uncovered. Because the GA queue is months long, there was a peer review between the second GA nomination and your review, although that review ended up mostly focusing on images. There was no intent to shop for "some 'yes man.'" Again, thank you for your time. Racepacket (talk) 21:01, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
What method do you recommend for zapping that funny but totally OR template? Seems like something someone might get away with posting in on their user space, but I can't see it becoming an article unless someone could find a valid source. And it doesn't even have Lake Titicaca... or Boring Oregon, for that matter. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:23, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey. A few days back over on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mikemikev/Archive, a CU returned that TisTRU was one of the confirmed socks. I just got a note on my talk page about that account, and in looking into their edits, it seems that it's not really Mikemikev's modus operandi. In particular, the account has over 1,000 edits and has been registered for a year. As such I've unblocked the account, though I'm still a little wary of it. Could you take a look at this again and see if it's a false positive, or if it's really him? Thanks. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 20:23, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Template:Expand has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. 134.253.26.6 (talk) 22:59, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Please revisit Talk:2009–10 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season/GA2.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:08, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've been adding to Beatrix Potter, having scrubbed up SusanneNYC's mess. A new user arrived today, removing and adding material. Would you mind having a look at the edit history - it seems a bit suspicious to me. I've put more than enough time into scrubbing up to fall into an endless loop here. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 04:04, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Confirmed as ItsLassieTime:
IP blocked –MuZemike 04:14, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
I have a proposal that I would like to make public somewhere, somehow, someday. I am unsure of where I should place this proposal idea. and to what degree you might expect a large enough group of people to review it. See this page: User:Uruiamme/Main Page proposal
Your opinion may be helpful, however, my main goal is to let a large group consider it or laugh at it or whatever they feel like doing. The Main Page is getting rather blah these days. As to where I should propose such an idea, I don't know how to choose a forum since most effort seems to be focused on editing the wikipedia, rules, and functions rather than brainstorm-ology.
Thanks, I like to saw logs! (talk) 21:48, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. In March, you blocked IP 69.203.119.66 for six months. The block log indicates that this was a checkuser block. However, there is nothing on the user talk page indicating the reason except for this unblock request by the IP , which he later deleted, indicating user was blocked as a sock of MBernal615. The user denies that, saying that he is actually User:KHamsun, which he I see from the user page was blocked a sock of Mbernal615, who was blocked as a sock of Nelsondenis248. (whew!) However, the archived SPI discussion makes no reference to the IP or KHamsun..
The reason I'm bringing this up is because there's a new SPI case involving that IP and various other accounts and IPs , basically a replay of the SPI last March. Do you think it might be possible to clarify on the archive page that Khamsun and 69.203.119.66 were blocked as socks of Nelsondenis248? Thanks, ScottyBerg (talk) 23:04, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I started making that last minor copyedit before the section was closed. I don't know why it went through if the section was closed 1-2min earlier. Again, I apologize. -PrBeacon (talk) 09:29, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
I noticed the edits by this user and it seems disruptive at best and without consensus at worst. Before I go on a mass rollback spree, what should be done? I have already issued one vandalism warning (Warn1) for the one on my watchlist. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 18:16, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
The anon blanked that section with the edit summary of "K, I wouldn't call it vandalism, but it was bold. Will discuss more frist in teh future." For the moment, it looks resolved, but I would keep an eye out just for editing the pages again. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:53, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
I have been re-populating this category. I currently has more members than Category:Cool jazz ensembles. I just recreated the page. I hope this is OK, there was a need for the category.BassHistory (talk) 18:23, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Howdy, shouldn't CFN & his socks be indef-blocked? GoodDay (talk) 19:23, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps you could comment at WP:ANI#Revdel re the Iamred socking issue. Looking at Iamred's contributions, the socking does seem a bit improbable. Rd232 talk 19:57, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
You blcked this user for sock puppetry, their page was tagged as a sockpuppet of Wiki brah (but not by you). Anyway, wasn't that a sock of User:Editor XXV? NotARealWord (talk) 05:51, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
I checked revision history of List of horror films: 2011 and it's seems that since November he is editing under IP range 79.213.xxx.xxx--Oleola (talk) 20:56, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
MuZemike, I've reverted vandalism on Zibran 1's page. I have gaven you a favor. Can you Semi-protect that page? (He is trying to take revenge on Wikipedia! BAAAD!) 74.12.126.46 (talk) 01:19, 21 December 2010 (UTC) (Thomas)
Abhisheksareen
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)Peacewithyou
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)Indiansworldwide
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)BullockCarts
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)Ekalvidyalaya
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)Sbhatt3
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)Mhl397
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)Virupatel
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)74.82.68.18
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)66.194.2.9
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)209.123.250.2
(talk · contribs · checkuser · block user · block log · edit count)Based upon the common editing style and accusations that it is everyone else that is biased, amongst other things, I have my suspicions about one side in this edit war. Any chance of a quick check? Uncle G (talk) 14:19, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
The only two I have found to be Confirmed to each other are Peacewithyou and BullockCarts. The others seem either Unrelated or Stale. –MuZemike 19:36, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Just to let you know, in case you haven't seen it, that you're being addressed personally at User talk:Garretgwozdz13 in respect of an unblock request. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 21:18, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
93.97.59.17 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) When I saw that "HELP!!!", I was expecting the following up to be, "I'm bein' repressed!" ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:37, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike. I've been trying to whittle down the list of suggestions from your GA review of Atari 2600 homebrew, and one of the things you had suggested was to move the free images to commons. I tried that with one image, uploading it to commons and tagging it with {{db-nowcommons}} here, but it's been about a month and the image is still in both places. Did I miss a step? 28bytes (talk) 02:49, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to disturb you, but the notorious Indonesian misinformation vandal has strike again for the second time today. He is using 114.79.1.20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and has just put his misinformation on Little League related articles. I've reported him WP:AIV, but as of this writing, there have been no action. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 09:18, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
The guy struck again, this time using 114.79.2.149 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Last edit was several minutes ago. Maybe it's time the 114.79.2.0/24 and 114.79.1.0/24 ranges (the 114.79.0.0/22 range is too big, I know) since I've already stated that he seems to use addresses from the 114.79.1.* and 114.79.2.* ranges. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 09:12, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
The guy has returned once again. This time, the address he is using is 114.57.12.227 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Active right now. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 07:02, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
If he cannot edit talk pages how come he can edit mine? --Tyw7 (☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one edit at a time! 02:51, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
One thing you could do, although your personal scruples probably don't allow it, is to have that unprotected talk page and then take it off your watch list. Then they could vandalize it until kingdom come and get no reaction from it, i.e. no "reward". :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:14, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
exactly identical to yesterday. *sighs* looks like we have a user in for the long hall... -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 [talk] 21:59, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello MuZemike. 70.118.245.190 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards, Ronhjones (Talk) 00:33, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
A well thought out unblock request, almost too well thought out... This shows "Road Runner residential customers" - not business ones. Ronhjones (Talk) 00:33, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Should my talk be protected beyond right now when (I think) it expires? CTJF83 chat 02:19, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
First off, happy holidays! Secondly, can you delete this? I don't think it was made correctly. GamerPro64 (talk) 03:25, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
This user might be worth watching considering the small party of clones that happened here today.
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He's emailed unblock-en-l. He finds it "quite sickening and disgusting" that some names of singers and some songs don't have blue links so that he can find the genre and says he has suffered much pain and hurt because he had no replies to his threatening emails! Why is it referred to WMF? Merry Chistmas! Dougweller (talk) 06:39, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you so much for expanding my article! What a great Christmas present! ;D --BluWik (talk) 19:15, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm having a problem with an editor hopping IPs, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Range_block_request and the link in that section to an earlier thread. NewYorkBrad suggested I email the CU list, I did and me email was 'automatically rejected'. Any idea why? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 20:05, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Did I overlook something important when blocking 82.42.249.210? Tiderolls 07:22, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Regarding that article, I don't think that protection is necessary. There is no revert-warring going. It might look that way superficially, but a closer inspection would reveal that there are very few reverts if any. Were you notified about that article via IRC? Athenean (talk) 22:30, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi - I think SuzanneIAM (talk · contribs) is another one .... popped up in an article I watch today. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 19:12, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I've seen your comments at WP:TFD#Template:Sockblock. However, I don't really understand what you mean with this comment. To my knowledge, there is a template named {{Sockpuppetry}}, which can tag temporarily blocked sockmasters due to abuse of multiple accounts. As for notifying sockmasters that they've been blocked temporarily for that reason, IMO the {{uw-block}} template should be used. If you can, please clarify your "addendum" comment. Thanks in advance. HeyMid (contribs) 23:04, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lagoo sab - What's the Arabic word for "motherlode"? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:17, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey! Have you seen this by any chance? I just filed an SPI and this started happening with "Amiel0425". I'd appreciate any assistance you could give. Thanks :> Doc talk 05:29, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
"Evil" will always be in this little wiki-world: but so will "good". We stop them, when we can, with what we can. Of course they'll never stop: but neither will those trying to stop them. Otherwise we might as well throw in the towel and leave it to the creeps. We can't "stop" crime: we can only "fight" it. I'll continue to do so, as I know you will. It's not going to get any easier, but challenge is the way it always is. Cheers :> Doc talk 08:09, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I see you locked the page for Belhaven University. A relative of Paul Jennings Hill keeps on placing him in the notable alumni section and I keep removing it. There doesn't seem to be substantial evidence that he actually attended Belhaven Univeristy, but regardless, almost all university pages use this section to describe alumni with notable achievements. Being a murderer doesn't seem to count, regardless if he was trying to make a political statement or not. I'd like to ask that this change be removed since the block is in place. Also, since the person who keeps placing his name on the list is his daughter, she seems to obviously hold a strong bias to want him listed there even if he did attend this university. Looking over the other articles she has edited it seems she is interested in drumming up publicity for this person more than adding to the Belhaven University page itself. Please let me know what you think. Thanks. Nekrus (talk) 22:11, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
regarding this SPI. Can you please do a sleeper account check as well. This sockmaster usually creates multiple socks once the previous set is blocked. (If you had already done so please ignore this. I am posting this because the CU asked for a sleeper account check and your message didnt indicate if one was done and no others were found). Thanks--Sodabottle (talk) 03:01, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello.
I know it's too late now, but I noted that three IP addresses have been used by a single person to vandalize pages related to Hello Kitty, Onegai My Melody, and Ni Hao, Kai-lan as they seem to support each others' edits. The IPs in question are: 76.117.98.193 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), 71.58.37.146 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), and 69.242.55.122 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), which are addresses used by the vandal who was using the now blocked 68.44.142.99 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). They seem like they're used the same person to me due to the kinds of edits the former three dished out. Just discovered this after reverting edits at the Kai-lan article (first using an anonymous IP myself in my sister's laptop before logging in with my own laptop). Shall I report this to WP:AN/I or what? - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 07:06, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
PS: BTW, this has nothing to do with the Indonesian misinformation vandal as this one uses a different MO: connecting them with Jimmy Neutron. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 07:06, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Might try to request semi-protection on the Kai-lan article, but I doubt that would be granted because the said sock puppet vandal just did so about three hours ago, and the only other dubious edits there were some insertion of unconfirmed info, most from at least a day to several days ago. (I tried with Digimon: The Movie in relation to the Indonesian vandal, but the request was declined due to lack of recent vandalism.) - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 07:13, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
From looking at the edit history at Template:Portugal national under-21 football team Managers, you can see that this vandal continues, i guess he has gone over 60 socks now. Also there, even the anon addresses are his, except the one that starts with an "8". Please block both accounts, and delete the article if you see it fit, these "users" have to learn the hard way.
This chap has been here for roughly the same time as i (four years), and here's the only time he talked to anyone (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Satori_Son#Deleted_pages). Other than that, no talks, no summaries, no nothing! People, including admins, tell him to stop creating new accounts, delete articles he starts, nevermind! He creates them again and signs up again after his block, i see he will not get tired, well neither will i! P.S. In Agostinho Oliveira, i found this User:Asda09, only one contribution (here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Asda09), but strikingly similar to his other accounts (the numbers mainly), is there a possibility to find out if this IP also edits from England? Thanks in advance.
Attentively, happy new year - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 18:19, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Was it an WP:ILLEGIT sockpuppet trying to deceive other editors, disrupt discussions, distort consensus, avoid sanctions, or otherwise violate community standards? Or was it a WP:SOCK#LEGIT simply doing similar work? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 18:57, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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The penultimate day of the year. Thank you from the DYK project Victuallers (talk) 20:05, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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I had him down as a sock of Brucejenner because of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Same-sex marriage in the United States and the ... errm ... 'creative' usernames, but one thing for certain is that there's a whole bunch of Confirmed socks under there =) - Alison ❤ 02:45, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey MuZemike, I'm Hunter Kahn. Recently, over at the WikiProject Television talk page, an administrator was good enough to add the Television Episodes task force to the template, but did not finish up by adding the assessment information so that we could generate an assessment table for that task force. I see you are an admin who has edited that template in the past, and was hoping you could help me out and add that in for me? Thanks in advance! — Hunter Kahn 14:32, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
When you checked the user NotARealWord as a sock puppet of Wiki_brah,was a checkuser done? He continues the same behavior, now including quoting the WIki-brah sock puppets in attacks on me. I just wanted to check. Thanks. Mathewignash (talk) 20:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Any chance we can widen the rangeblock from 99.35.24.0/22 to 99.35.24.0/21? Elockid (Talk) 22:57, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hey. A bunch of other editors were mentioned in the other users comments section. Did you happen to check those, or are they unrelated? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 19:37, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
I suggest you block him a little longer than two weeks, his actions have been like this since September, being blocked for two weeks and still did not stop. Rusted AutoParts (talk) 19:48 6 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm requesting that this article be unfrozen until a sockpuppet investigation can be completed on User:Ofenian. I am in #wikipedia on freenode attempting to address this issue. I am also citing Ofenian's mis-understanding WP:Consensus and WP:ITR. I believe that both your, and Ofenian's actions are in violation of current consensus, and fail the ITR concept as these edits improve the quality of the article. Trelane (talk) 00:44, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
6 months (to the day) that your block on 24.161.44.59 expired, they're back adding unsourced descent and religion categories to biography articles against WP:EGRS and WP:BLPCAT. Would it be possible to reblock them to prevent further disruption? --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 03:22, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks!. I thought--well, you know what I thought. I appreciate the explanation. Drmies (talk) 03:24, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Could you take a look at 199.126.224.245 again? To me, it looks like the banned user has returned. HeyMid (contribs) 11:45, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
So a couple more Empty Trend accounts, specifically 14-19, popped up after you hardened one of your blocks. Could look into these accounts? Elockid (Talk) 05:24, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Reliable Deletionism | ||
Hey there, congrats on speedily cleaning up a certain userpage which was unfairly ...visited. Just wanted to let you know your efforts didn't go unnoticed! Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs) 23:13, 9 January 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks, I suppose (?!?) I didn't know such a barnstar existed, and I don't know what I deleted, either. –MuZemike 23:14, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
(diff | hist) . . User talk:Kleopatra; 16:52 . . (+360) . . Magistri Novi (talk | contribs | block) (edit summary removed)
(diff | hist) . . m User talk:Kleopatra; 16:56 . . (-360) . . MuZemike (talk | contribs | block) (Reverted edits by Magistri Novi (talk) to last version by Kleopatra) [rollback]
(Deletion log); 16:56 . . MuZemike (talk | contribs | block) changed revision visibility of User talk:Kleopatra: removed content, edit summary for 1 revision (RD3: Purely disruptive material)
Hi, could you revdel this revision? It seems to fall under citerion 2. Jarkeld (talk) 23:28, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Can someone shut this guy up? Slightsmile (talk) 03:34, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Geeze MuZe, once again you reviewed an article before I get a chance to do so. However, you may have to remove it due to step one, which says,
Raise issues at article Talk:
GamerPro64 (talk) 21:38, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike - There has been a recent (a couple of months ago) change to FAR instructions that requires that article talk page notification of problems be made before a FAR is initiated. Because of this, I have removed the review of Devil May Cry 2 from WP:FAR and placed it on hold. I have also made the notification to the article talk page. If a week or so goes by with no improvements to the article, the review can be replaced on the FAR page. You can do this yourself, or ping me and I will do it. Please let me know if you have any questions, Dana boomer (talk) 23:45, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Did I miss something? I had already uploaded it locally because it was not protected at Commons, and my understanding was that it did not need its own protection because it benefited from cascading protection. Regards, BencherliteTalk 01:44, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to range block my dear friend BJ? CTJF83 chat 01:32, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
How can I get/propose it for talk pages too. CTJF83 chat 02:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! Here's a puppy from the basket! Basket of Puppies 17:59, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Doesn't seem that he'd be allowed to make these edits even with a username change, per WP:COI and WP:FAQ/Organizations. Additionally, per the institute's employee page, it looks like he actually works there. Blueboy96 19:54, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Very first edit ever is to the talk page for WP:List of banned users, which is trademark JL . - Burpelson AFB ✈ 17:21, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Could he still be blockable just for disruptive editing even if not a proven sock? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 19:17, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey Muz,
Just curious whether you looked at User:JacobJosephFrank and User:MosesPorges in relation to User:96.231.31.238. If they are all tracing Los Angeles it strikes me that this should be a Likely. But perhaps you're not allowed to consider this for WP:OUTING concerns? NickCT (talk) 20:09, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey,
I'm messaging a few admins to see if I can get someone to look at this persistent sock issue. Think you could help? NickCT (talk) 20:55, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, MuZemike, would you protect George H. Moody Middle School to prevent the Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Indextookviewsgoals sockpuppets from their disruptive undoing of the redirect? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 00:14, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) IP 24.205.188.70 e-mailed the unblock mailing list to request an unblock with essentially the same information he has placed at User talk:24.205.188.70. Since he's a check-user block, I told him that I would alert you to his request and that he might watch the IP talk page in case you had any questions. Since I don't know the background, of course, I have no idea if an early release is feasible or advisable in this case, but I presume you do. :D --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:03, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Regarding WP:DENY deletions, I'd like to point you to this recent discussion. Cheers, HeyMid (contribs) 14:15, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi MuZemike,
I've had a go at a clean-up of the Erik Bethke article re. your COI tag in August 2009. I have removed anything that was weasely or trivial and left what might appear to be plain facts - all still uncited... but I think it has a more neutral feel to it. Make any changes or additions that you think fit. Best wishes, Acabashi (talk) 01:50, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
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Materialscientist (talk) 18:17, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
I missed that-- would you mind sending me an e-mail to let me know what it was? We've got a large sock farm operating. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:43, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Is this someone worth keeping an eye on? Slightsmile (talk) 02:47, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Thinking loud: we know him and block his proxies on the spot. After semiprotection, he sequentially moves to other main-page articles. Is it worth protecting? What do you think is the best solution? Materialscientist (talk) 03:38, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Yup considering editor in question has been trolling the page for weeks now blanking the section and then trying to tell us what he thinks is confirmed sources and what isn't. Yeah, with that kind of crappy attitude and no regards for coming up with a better way, I'd say so. Kelzorro (talk) 17:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. We've got a situation of some nasty nationalistic incivility with User:Shah 88. I blocked him for 24 hours in response to this ANI thread, whereupon he uploaded another nationalistic slur to Commons (now deleted, documented at that ANI thread) and evidently created sock account Indog (a play on the slur he was using) to harass the same contributor he'd insulted before. On the basis of that, I extended his block to indef. He declares that he was not Indog, however, and it is possible that somebody who does not like him spoofed the sock to result in precisely this outcome. There is no doubt at all that Indog is a sock of somebody, so I know it is not fishing to ask for a check of him. I know it is generally discouraged to do checks on named accounts to eliminate suspicion, but I am inclined in this case to think it worthwhile. Besides which, if it is Shah 88, it may be necessary to establish his range for future use. Would you be comfortable checking? I would be most appreciative, as no matter what led to this nasty bit of bigotry I would not wish to indef somebody under a faulty assumption. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:10, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Your name hasn't exactly come up yet, but a revdel done by you is presented as evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Clarification of RD3. At a glance I'm afraid I have to agree this looks like an overzealous use of revdel, I'm hoping you can provide some insight as to why you thought it was needed for such run-of-the-mill vandalism. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:08, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi there MIKE, VASCO from Portugal here,
An anonymous IP (see "contributions" here Special:Contributions/109.108.8.240) continues to vandalize Henok Goitom's article (keep in mind inflating statistics IS vandalism), what do you think is more appropriate, protecting the page or blocking the IP (it seems it's being always used by the same "user", with the same M.O.)?
Thank you very much in advance, keep up the good work - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 15:40, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
I do hope that you didn't feel the need to defend yourself at the RfC because of me. The edits I chose were simply the most convenient options, and I did try to note that you were well within policy to delete those items. I simply feel that's not what the policy should say, and so that's what I said. I totally believe your actions were proper. Regards, Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 02:41, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
We really just need formal confirmation of the obvious, here. The Anna O'Leary account which you already looked at in conjunction with someone else at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PhaedrusM, is clearly not a good faith account, even if checkuser shows that there's two people rather than just one. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 15:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Wukicevic and Ivaland are Unrelated, as they're on a completely separate continent. Also, IP blocked with regards to the vote-stacking socks' IP. No comment with regards to the above-reported IP. –MuZemike 01:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
This is another Suzanne / It's Lassie time page. Essentially it's either full of inaccuracies, potential copy-vios, and gives undue weight to Potter (this is a prestigious firm). My inclination is to delete the page, but because it's a prestigious firm should probably be stubbed down instead - at some point I'd get around to rebuilding. Is it okay for me to delete what's there, or do I need a justification? Also, some of the contributors in the history might bear looking at. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 01:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
There is a move being requested here and it isn't anything that needs a long drawn-out discussion, just a simple change in callsign. Only problem is there is a disambig page at WBZZ, so I don't know how you want to work around that. If you could take care of that, it would be much appreciated. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:43, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks very much for reviewing Dota 2 and giving it start status. I've expanded the article to having a decent intro paragraph, but there just is not enough legitimate information available. However, I will look to greatly expanding it in the future and it is my hope that the article that I originally created could become a featured article, with a decent amount of dedication from others. DarthBotto talk•cont 03:44, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that the childishness continues - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Naughtiestboy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Another_account - SatuSuro 09:21, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Recently on the List of The Angry Video Game Nerd episodes, User:Shakzor has been adding Youtube as a source. User:duffbeerforme has been removing the sources. Shakzor has intentionally reverted his edit several times. Now the page is protected for 3 weeks. But Shakzor is threatening to continue reverting once protection is lifted. IP's are now encouraging him to proceed on with his actions. Does this count as Trolling? Please reply, thanks. Rusted AutoParts (talk) 10:30 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the assessment of the Wario's Woods article! I have some comments, though:
Thanks! --ThomasO1989 (talk) 05:06, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Alright, I've added a lot more references to the article, removed the original research, and expanded the Reception section by three reviews, also changed a few other areas. The rumored Wii remake was indeed a hoax. Let me know what you think of the article! --ThomasO1989 (talk) 20:16, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
- Neutralhomer • Talk • 09:29, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I dont understand your closure as delete. Maybe a headcount supports that outcome, but quality of arguments do not. The nomination is terrible, coz it's not a dicdef. Mandsford's delete argument "What a waste of an article, as this could have been more than a dictionary definition" is logically incoherent, if not absurd, as he says there is article potential (i.e. it should be kept), though arguably unrealized at present - and again, it is not a dicdef. Jaque Hammer's delete argument "because the article starts out: 'The Burger Wars is a term ...'" is a severely myopic formalism. Milowent says "We ideally should have coverage of the actual wars somewhere". Uncle G objections relate to the title, which he claims is slang (I disagree) - and he laments current lack of coverage. Well, I (easily) found coverage, besides the Gscholar there is an entire chapter in the book Marketing Mistakes, (10th Ed.) on "burger wars" as I said in the AfD - evidently it's much more than a dicdef, and coverage exissts. Please add this reasoning to the now closed AfD for records. I would like you to overturn the outcome, or at least relist. MrCleanOut (talk) 10:36, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I can never remember if they are supposed to be substed or not. :/ Syrthiss (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Back in December you confirmed the link between User:Selma Simpson, User:68.70.27.96, and User:Josh Rumage in this SPI report and blocked the accounts. Also mentioned in the report was User: 66.194.51.34, however they remain unblocked. As of today the 66.194.51.34 address continues to add unsourced or poorly sourced information to Josh Rummage/Selma Simpson targeted articles. Can it be blocked as well? --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 18:16, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I think I found the issue with one of the threads not being archived – see here. In the timestamp, there is no comma after the digital time. That probably proves MiszaBot is very sensitive in regards to timestamping. HeyMid (contribs) 21:04, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
I think this diff may have gotten lost in the RevDels and may be legit. If so, can it be restored?
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 06:35, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Greetings! I see you blocked Wikipedian explorer (talk · contribs) yesterday for abuse of multiple accounts.
I blocked 190.234.1.221IP (talk · contribs) yesterday for a username violation, and he requested a username change today to Wikipedian explorer. I've already declined that request.
Is this a coincidental name choice, or do you think those two accounts are linked? There wasn't enough on the block log or contribution history of Wikipedian explorer for me to assess it further; that's why I'm asking you. —C.Fred (talk) 18:20, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
You just blocked Kaverijha23 (talk · contribs) for block evasion. I'm almost sure this is actually a new sock of Ppwrong (talk · contribs). See initial report here, where you concluded that he was a sock. Shahid • Talk2me 22:06, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Confirmed:
Some IPs and some ranges have been blocked. I don't really care about Ppwrong either, as long as the account is blocked and the current disruption stops. –MuZemike 22:18, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I would prefer the article regarding the next Bond game is not deleted as it is a article for the next game.
--Smokeyfire (talk) 01:31, 28 January 2011 (UTC)Smokeyfire--Smokeyfire (talk) 01:31, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Ok then thats fine --Smokeyfire (talk) 01:33, 28 January 2011 (UTC)Smokeyfire--Smokeyfire (talk) 01:33, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Do you know how I can go about checking/blocking a sock puppet? The users Markelmitchell, 4.227.58.62, and 4.227.61.15 both made the same exact unconstructive edit to Late Registration. I've posted a minor warning to the IP ones who first made the edit, but it seems like a waste of time warning the other. Dan56 (talk) 19:36, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, MuZemike! Please check your e-mail. Best, – OhioStandard (talk) 10:46, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Note the nature of the AfD (expired) and the tag at the top (closing). Could you please try to avoid commenting? It's in the formal close process, and I'm going to have to disregard any comments made after this anyway. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 02:09, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
This guy from North Dakota is back. The rangeblock ran up and he is back in true form tonight. Let's go 2 weeks this time. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 05:56, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
User_talk:CraigWilliamsPDX#Unblock.3F - he is caught in one of your rangeblocks. Ronhjones (Talk) 20:43, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. Signups are now closed, and we have 129 listed competitors, 64 of whom will make it to round two. Congratulations to The Bushranger (submissions), who, at the time of writing, has a comfortable lead with 228 points, followed by Hurricanehink (submissions), with 144 points. Four others have over 100 points. Congratulations also go to Yellow Evan (submissions), who scored the first points in the competition, claiming for Talk:Hurricane King/GA1, Miyagawa (submissions), who scored the first non-review points in the competition, claiming for Dognapping, and Jarry1250 (submissions) who was the first in the competition to use our new "multiplier" mechanic (explanation), claiming for Grigory Potemkin, a subject covered on numerous Wikipedias. Thanks must also go to Jarry1250 for dealing with all bot work- without you, the competition wouldn't be happening!
A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round two is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 22:39, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
That's hilarious! It won't pass though. It's all primary sources. --Teancum (talk) 23:12, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
In this GAN review you noted that only the first occurrence of a publisher in the references should be wikilinked. Is there a policy somewhere for that? It came up in another GAN review. --Teancum (talk) 01:30, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I took your suggestion and added to the Dota 2 article. There is now a full paragraph for the intro, along with literally all the material available for the gameplay and development included. Would you be able to bump it up to a C-class article now, as it has everything unveiled thus far included? It will include more material as more about the game is unveiled, but for now I think it is as good as it can get. DarthBotto talk•cont 18:57, 02 February 2011 (UTC)
The collaboration is underway. When you have time, I could really use scans/photos/etc. of the game's reviews in those magazines you mentioned. I'm handling Reception, and any such material would be a huge help. Thanks. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 23:06, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike, User:KFCGrapeSoda1 through to 10 are accounts created by a schoolmate of mine, who created nonsense pages or inserted vandalism into existing articles. This is the same user as User:BrackBoii. I'd request that the IP blocks already placed on my school IPs be strengthened to include account creation prevention. Regards, —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 12:45pm • 01:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Unfortunately, it looks like this one will have to go to AfD, my friend. There's a previous (contested) PROD in the history so, much as I would like to delete it, I had to decline your PROD. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike - It has been over two weeks since you initiated the work for the Devil May Cry 2 FAR. If you think that enough work has been completed, please let me know and I can delete the FAR page. If not enough work has been completed, please feel free to retransclude the review to WP:FAR, or let me know and I can do it. Thanks, Dana boomer (talk) 15:07, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but can you block Rya0211 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? He seems to be a sockpuppet of the now-blocked 72.186.125.165 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) as he seems to keep connecting PBS with the Nick Jr. show Ni Hao, Kai-Lan without any proof. I've reported him to WP:AIV, but it hasn't been given action so far. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 20:50, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
I am almost sure Kesinenimurthy (talk · contribs) is another sock of Padmalakshmisx (talk · contribs). Shahid • Talk2me 12:52, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there MIKE, VASCO here,
longtime no "see", and unfortunately the reason why i write is the same, the vandal continues, approaching his (at least!!) 60th sock (see "contributions" here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Poper09). It would be interesting to check for sleepers, this account has very little edits so far.
Attentively, from Portugal - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 17:24, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. I just saw this when commenting on another incident, I have nothing to do with it. WikiManOne 19:33, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the scans. I'll read through them today and see what I can add. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 19:59, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike. Is there any sockpuppetry occurring at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 January 31#Jeremy_Soul? Cunard (talk) 02:16, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Kelzorro (talk · contribs) continues in the personal attacks despite numerous warnings and is mislabelling edits as "vandalism". Can you see if you talking to xim again may produce results in change of behavior or suggest some other steps to improve the editing atmosephere? Thanks. Active Banana (bananaphone 18:59, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Asssuming your watching this but User:Spindlewood Mines and many more are part of this guy ^ The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 03:17, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Was I wrong to G5 tag this article, given its previous history? E. Fokker (talk) 01:24, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Would you take a second look at this case? An IP editor has added some interesting information there. Even if it is not possible to CU PT or any of his previous socks, there may be a connection between SteveoJ and the user the IP has named. LadyofShalott 02:29, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm horrified to have even the mistaken block on my very clean record. Is there any way to have that block/unblock cleared? Thanks, Rostz (talk) 22:18, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Actually, another question - given that legal terms were invoked against me (as well as others) and the person who made them expressed an intention to pursue the matter, how would I be informed if I were involved in the future? (I guess I'm a little paranoid when it comes to the US legal system...) Thanks, Rostz (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:33, 13 February 2011 (UTC).
This is what I'm looking at right here (at Wikipedia:Revision deletion#Log redaction):
Log redaction (outside of the limited scope of RD#2 for the move and delete logs) is intended solely for grossly improper content, and is not permitted for ordinary matters; the community needs to be able to review users' block logs and other logs whether or not proper. Due to its potential, use of the RevisionDelete tool to redact block logs (whether the block log entry is justified or not) or to hide unfavorable actions, posts and/or criticisms, in a manner not covered by these criteria or without the required consensus or Arbcom agreement, will usually be treated as abuse of the tool. |
Someone might see that as trying to hide an unfavorable action on my part, which the community would see as some sort of impropriety and seriously question it. –MuZemike 22:49, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
User:MuZemike/info. Saw this on RCP. I smell sock. →♠Gƒoley↔Four♣← 03:02, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Mike, if you get a chance - could you doublecheck one of your rangeblocks? I have an IP complaining that you've blocked a significant number of wireless addresses, perhaps unnecessarily. Since they call you out by name, I thought I'd drop a note. The block is shown here, the IP complaining is doing so at User talk:64.134.191.39. No particular concern from me, given that I know little about the ins and outs of rangeblocks (and deliberately avoid them like the plague), but I thought you might want to have a look. Thanks, UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 15:38, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
I thought I'd mention that there's a (very) speculative discussion occurring on User talk:Jimbo Wales about whether there would ever be a practical purpose in some sort of legal action against especially problematic vandals. In particular, this sentence came up; "I don't think that any one vandal is so prolific that their removal would noticeably impact the level of vandalism." Although naming any one individual would obviously be a bad idea per WP:DENY, I thought I'd mention it in case you or any war room page stalkers had an opinion on the extent to which that quoted sentence is true. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 13:30, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I actually liked the tables. Since you are against tables, I am wondering how you feel about wire hangers. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 21:32, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm certain this is the same as one, two, three, four and five. Worth keeping an eye on? SlightSmile 02:32, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Why exactly did you remove the IP block exemption? I was never under a hard block, and several times now have suffered collateral damage from an autoblock placed on one of the many IPs my work computer rotates through. It's quite a headache to fix when it happens, which is why I was granted that user right in the first place. I should have expected some sort of request or notice before the rights were changed anyway. bahamut0013wordsdeeds 18:40, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Love Tester at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Cmprince (talk) 19:41, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey MuZemike. You mind checking to see if any of the IPs used at Nutmeg are OPs? Elockid (Talk) 19:43, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Please block this account. He/she is a sock puppet of the blocked account User:Achun1111y. -- ChongDae (talk) 01:55, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
This user has a Triple Crown. |
Is it correct to say that Laptopmaker (talk · contribs) is a sock of Loosemarkers (talk · contribs), or are they both socks of someone else? (or were they just IP hopping before? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:52, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
On 25 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Love Tester, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Love Tester, created in 1969, was the first product by Nintendo to use real electronic components? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
If the article is salted, is there any justification for a copy in userspace? Dougweller (talk) 09:44, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I'm not sure where to go with this, but I figured I'd start with you. You recently blocked CharmedBuffy12 (talk · contribs) as a sock of RoyalPains11 (talk · contribs). Since then, CharmedBuffy continues to be active on Commons, adding copyrighted images and claiming "own work", such as here {and others that have since been deleted) . An IP 118.209.184.32 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) then adds these to the appropriate pages. (These have already been deleted: , ) It seems suspicious to me that the IP is CharmedBuffy/RoyalPains, but I wasn't sure what to do about it. I was hoping you could help. --Logical Fuzz (talk) 12:25, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike, we just got an unblock request on the unblock list on this range you previously blocked. (it's not blocked by you atm, but by another admin, who I will also drop a note.) Seeing it has been unblocked and reblocked before, there is probably quite a deal of damage from this range. Also, it's insanely large. I'm looking if I can break it down in a few smaller blocks (currently looking at 218.186.9.0/28, 218.186.9.224/27, 18.186.8.224/27 and 218.186.8.8/29, just based on their number of edits. A few of those seem proxy adresses (9.1 and 9.2 are called cache.maxonline.com.sg, 218.186.8.224/27 are all called proxy.maxonline.com.sg), and seem prime suspects for a rangeblock. I'm hoping I can drastically decrease the collateral here. Do you have some more background on this block, so I might be able to tweak it a bit? Going through all adresses/ranges contribs to see how good/bad they are seems rather cumbersome, if you would be able to shed some light. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 19:08, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to The Bushranger (submissions) (first, with 487 points) and Hurricanehink (submissions) (second, with 459), who stormed the first round. Casliber (submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to Jarry1250 (submissions) for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to Stone (submissions) for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.
Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.
Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:47, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing my article, I've fixed the remaining issues, is the article ready to pass now? --TIAYN (talk) 21:47, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
02-March-11: Before taking this issue to WP:DRV, I am contacting you, as the prior AfD admin. A bio page is needed, now, as a notable murder suspect being re-tried on appeal, and she is also in title of new film "Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy". A BLP ruling is needed to re-allow the AfD-deleted page. Some prior bio articles were redirected about Amanda Knox (pageviews in Top 100 articles now): she is the 20-year-old (now 23) American exchange student held in Perugia, Italy, on multiple charges. The redirect was always to "Murder of Meredith Kercher" where the Knox bio was trimmed to avoid too much text, per WP:UNDUE. Opponents claim a bio page would be empty (trivial), compared to the murder-trials page; however, I feel the bio-page would balance NPOV coverage, as describing a hard-working, studious girl, with no criminal background, as a major element of her unusual notability. The bio should include the views as a guitar-playing, honors student ("straight-A") from a Jesuit prep school, who works 3 jobs to become a foreign exchange student in Italy, then after 5 weeks, meets a new boyfriend at a classical music concert, calls housemate Meredith about their trendy Halloween costumes, then is accused of plot to kill housemate 2 days later, with her new boyfriend of 7 days. I can understand some people would think a hard-working, "huggy bookworm" would be a boring bio page, but that seems to be a major part of the controversy in her notability: an honors student works 3 jobs to move to Italy and is accused of a murder plot with a computer-engineering student she knew for 7 days. Her ordinary life, as raised in a normal family, with 2 sisters, and many college friends, as a rock-climbing soccer player, with guitar, is just too much WP:UNDUE text in other articles about her; hence, a bio page is the only method to ensure NPOV coverage, with space to allow numerous sources. Wikipedia should not be seen as a place where only gun-toting psychos, who police kept releasing, get bio pages. We need to overturn the prior AfD's. Thank you for considering this. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey Mike, I was wondering if this image, from Army.mil, would be useable under our copyright rules. The picture is of a very young Frank Buckles, the last living US World War I veteran who, sadly, passed away Sunday Morning at the age of 110. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 21:53, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
If you can verify that both images are from the U.S. Government, then you can claim {{PD-USGov}}. –MuZemike 02:06, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure Bonvishhp (talk · contribs) is a new sock puppet of Shrik88music (talk · contribs), who was recently blocked by you. You may want to make a CU. Shahid • Talk2me 21:48, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
I've addressed your concerns. Gage (talk) 02:02, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello MuZemike, I live in China and sometimes have to use proxies to edit. It had taken Wikipedia bureaucrats more than a year to find some kind of solution for users in China. That solution had been working for me from May 2008 until yesterday, when you stripped me of the IP block exemption.
Why did you do that? I was blocked for a while and complained, and you’ve restored the exemption, but I would like to understand what you meant by writing that I was “no longer under a hardblock” and that the “IP block exemption [was] no longer necessary”. Please explain. I hope this won’t happen again and I would like to know how to avoid such problems in the future. --Babelfisch (talk) 02:36, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Please take a look at this project page and see if you can be a mentor to one of the many Areas of Study. If you can, please put your name in the "Online Mentor" area of the Area of Study of your choice and then contact the students you will be working with. As the Coordinating Online Ambassador for this project, please let me know if I can be of assistance. Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:10, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Latham10 - see edit 13 Feb - not blocked as yet as far as I can see Zanoni (talk) 22:43, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Kinda creepy, really, but who am I to judge? HalfShadow 01:28, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
I would appreciate your input on a matter I have raised at the Village Pumps concerning the size of cleanup templates (found here). As you will read, the idea has been on my mind for a long time, but I was drawn to finally posting about it after viewing your cleanup proposal templates, hence why I now am here. (For the record, I am not asking specifically for your support in the matter, merely your honest opinion and view. If the two happen to coincide, all the better.) — CobraWiki ( jabber | stuff ) 07:20, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for all your hard work. May you wear the crowns well, and may the gamepad crown motivate you to press on with more outstanding articles. – SMasters (talk) 09:08, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello MuZemike, I have proposed the corresponding article in the german edition of Wikipedia for deletion a few days ago. My rationale there is "relevance of subject either non-exisitant or not proven by article content" (crude ad-hoc translation, but I think you get the point ;-) Upon closer inspection of the english article, I have discovered, that hte article author, who is also the author of the german article, removed you proposal for deletion on quaestionanle grounds. I also see a possible conflict of intrerests on the side of the autjhor in this case. Since I am not accustomed to deletion policies in en.winkipedia, I would kindly ask you to file a new proposal for deletion. I will be happy to second it. Cheers -- Make (talk) 12:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi MuZemike! I've edited the article per your instructions and I encourage you to take a look and tell me what you think. Regards! Queenieacoustic (talk) 20:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. Flyer22 (talk) 05:10, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for semi-ing the page. On another note, why would anyone be so persistent in their vandalism of (of all thing) the mediterranean sea. I'll never understand what could someone find so objectionable about a sea! Anyway, thanks. Yazan (talk) 14:26, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the reviewing. I'll try to address any issue within the review. Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 03:03, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Note - I created a second AfD for the same article - can you delete this one while the first one continues - Thank you (I blanked the content of the second one)Zanoni (talk) 10:49, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey MuZamike, I turn to you because you are familiar with the subject. Remember this? Well, this user is back once again with his hysteric editing on three pages mainly: Filmfare Awards, National Film Award for Best Actor, and National Film Award for Best Actress. He keeps doing practically the same editing he used to do (despite the fact that he is a sock, I did cite the articles). He keeps edit warring with his trademark way of writing messages in edit summaries, reverting everything, being very rude, and just doing the same edits. All three of these pages were semi-protected because of him in the past, he's been blocked numerous times with all his socks. What do you suggest? Shahid • Talk2me 11:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Why do you believe that this is evidence that Wiki brah and Editor XXV are/were working together? I'm pretty sure that post was just Wiki brah trolling. XXV was an active member of TFWiki.net that apparently tried to reform and come back here but got discovered and banned because they had another account do some trolling. Wiki brah has pretty much been trolling with no "good hand" accounts a far as I can tell and they don't really seem connected. See how User:Divebomb (XXV's good hand sock) got trolled by Wiki brah socks, for instance... NotARealWord (talk) 18:23, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
During this current Backlog drive for GA nominations I have noticed a number of things.
I see the review as both, a way to improve the article and decide if it meets criteria for GA listing. As GA is not the top standard at Wikipedia I also feel it helps to prepare both the article and editors towards even further improvements towards Feature Article status.
Of the 5 failed articles 2 editors have questioned the fails. One going to GAR and another going onto that GAR in bad faith to complain about the number of failed reviews I have made and shop for sympathy of editors on that page to his cause.
Two other editors have been good enough to admit that the articles still need work and thank me for the added comments and took them seriously. The last "Fail" review was for an article by a member who just had an "indefinite ban" for copyright infringement lifted (with a mentor) and has not been cooperative on issues over MoS. On the last two reviews, I made sure to make very specific comments, list what I felt should be done and link to the relevant guideline. While some work has been done to address problems I simply don't see a review as being a place to debate policy and guidelines. Yes, if I make a mistake it should be pointed out and I will line out the statement, apologise and move forward. However when the review becomes a debate over what is or is not a part of GA criteria and the editor does not take into consideration such things as the Manual of Style guidelines for the article or images, etc. I see no further reason to continue the review. As a reviewer, I do this for Wikipedia, the article and the sake of furthering both knowledge and accurate information not for the "Barnstar" or the editors, many of which I see huge amounts of bias and COI. These things may not be troublesome for an article of a C rating but...I can't pass them to GA.
I refuse to backdown, as I see nothing I have done as being wrong or against the spirit or policy/guidelines of Wikipedia. However, my continued participation with the backlog is no longer fun. I also feel it could quickly become a distraction to the community and already see my username being bashed about by one and have been accused of "Quick Failing" for the sake of "listing". So I will step back from further backlog reviews this month. It looks to be accomplishing the needed work and that is the most important issue anyway. Thank You!
Mark--Amadscientist (talk) 06:37, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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