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Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello Konstable/Archive 1, welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed nobody had said hi yet... Hi!

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, -- Alf melmac 09:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)


dino images

Thankx for uploading several dinosaur images to wiki commons, but some of them were already uploaded. BTW the image Allosaurus2.jpg shows a Ceratosaurus individual (also already uploaded as "Ceratosaurus2"). ps thanx also for your editing of the "camarasaurus heads image" :) --Dudo2 21:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Claws of the Raptor

Hello, I m really sorry, that I can't make another more detailed photo. This figures were part of an exhibition and they are no longer available (exhibition is now in other countries). But I got some more photos of this exhibition and could send them to you, if you want (about 5 or 7). (pictures of eggs and Tyrannosaurus) Please give me your email adress. Greetings --Nfu-peng 13:29, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Orcsun

Don't worry about it. I'll be around all day, so if you spot any more pages like that created, I'll delete them and block the user indefinitely for abuse of sockpuppets. — FireFox • T [11:46, 6 April 2006]

Auckland meetup

Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. GeorgeStepanek\talk 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Joan Hudson

That change you referred to was not made by me.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.70.226.222 (talk • contribs).

Image:Banksia prionotes 4 gnangarra2.jpg

I like this edited version too Gnangarra

Dumfries and Galloway

Thanks so much for uploading such a great image. It gives some idea of the wonderful scenery up there (I was walking up and around Ettrick Pen last week). Maybe it will encourage more people to leave the overcrowded Lake District and visit. Robma 08:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Russia

Hi there. I see that you edit Russia-related topics. Come check Portal:Russia/New article announcements and Portal:Russia/Russia-related Wikipedia notice board. You may even want to add these boards to your watchlist. Cheers, Ghirla -трёп- 10:23, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Konstable! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. —Xyrael / 10:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC) 10:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks re. the SkySeer article

Thanks for posting that new article for me. I do have an account here...but I'm an ex-administrator who quit the project in good stead about four months ago and requested de-sysopping at the same time due to the actions of a very spiteful user and the egregious error of another administrator.

Wikipedia has just become too crazy and anarchaic for its own good, so I get my "wiki kicks" on other projects, some Wikia, some not. I was surprised not to see an article here since that UAV has been on the news quite a bit lately, but I didn't want to sign in to post it. No way. Simply put, I didn't want credit for the article and I didn't want others thinking I'd returned. I made that mistake about a month ago when I did sign in long enough to paste something I'd done at another wiki, searched the new pages at that time and even wound up fixing an article and commenting on its AFD page. No more for me, thanks. I'm gone for good and glad of it. Jimbo Wales is quite aware of my situation, expressed some concern, but nothing ever became of it.

There is a lot of good information to be had, a lot of good information yet to come and there are a vast number of good, dedicated users such as yourself. There is also a firestorm of idiotic edits by new (and established) users, personal attack pages, hatemongering and just plain bitter users screwing around here to the point where I figured I'd had enough. Apparently, many of Wikipedia's finest editors have felt the same way and have dropped out as well.

Take care and thanks again. Respectfully, 71.102.76.166 06:45, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Of course I have noticed the things that upset you. Way too much time here is wasted on the personal attacks and petty disputes rather than writing quality articles. But this is hard to avoid when there is a large community of people from a lot of differnet backgrounds I guess.--Konstable 13:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


Re : Dark Reign

Not vandalism. Stormer and Sparrow or FnS constantly used to make references to all things homosexual. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.10.231.146 (talk • contribs).

Ok, sorry for the mistake, I will not revert it now; but I suspect it still violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy as it sounds like more of a non-factual slang term (if it is, it should probably be presented more like one). Though because I am very tired and can't think at the moment and don't really know anything on the subject anyway, so I will leave it up to you and other editors of the articles to judge on that.--Konstable 15:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

The Portsmouth Grammar School

Nice work trying to keep an eye on that article. --Charlesknight 14:32, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Meh, it's nothing.--Konstable 14:34, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Aggressive pruning of NZ 2ndary school pages (MRGS in particular)

Hi Konstable

I'll explain what I did to the MRGS article first then the reasoning behind my recent edits in general.

MRGS

Deletion of sections: Motto. For a start the motto was already in the infobox. However I admit I was a bit too aggressive eith the pruning (explained below). Facility for physically disabled students: Since it was an unusual feature of the school I kept a mention of it, however it was writen in an obviously POV way. My decision to delete most of the information on that was that it seemed to add no substance; specifically "The Centre is a integral part of the school providing quality education for physically disabled students" and "The MacLean Centre has continued to grow in size and reputation", which both have POV elements. Awards: I deleted the awards because to me it seemed that it was just a part of the school trophy-cabinetting that is endemic to school pages. The external link was deleted due to data redundancy (already in the infobox). Russell Crowe's mention was not lost.

My edits in general

I've sent messages to other users about this as well. My motivation behind the edits is because in most cases, the authors of the school pages are almost always ex-students, which implicitly adds bias (both kinds positive and negative). I maintain that articles on genuinely notable schools would already have been/would be written by outsiders. I apologise if my edits were taken by surprise. However, the pruning of articles will "encourage stronger growth".

I'll make sure to keep your comment in mind and will be less agressive when editing.

Cheers, Mr Bluefin 07:19, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it needs to be done I guess. And thanks for the work you're doing! Just be careful - if a statement is written in a POV manner doesn't always mean it needs deleting. And if too much information is removed, some of these schools may end up on AfD which won't be good for anyone (there are a lot of high schools going through there regularly).--Konstable 07:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


Pete Peters

He's back on my discussion page. I am trying to take your advice and be as civil as I can, but this guy registered last week and has done nothing but harrass me.Arthur Ellis 01:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps a Request for Mediation would be appropriate for you, if Pete agrees to participate that is. If he doesn't and this goes on then you can try an Request for Comment on the basis of harrassment, but I would strongly recommend to try to go into mediation instead.--Konstable 02:02, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll dig through the forms and try to figure out how to do it. Arthur Ellis 02:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

hey, got your message

which edit are you talking about? I haven't edited an article, only contributed to the reference desk, and have a unique IP address. which edit did you revert?

got your new message, no problem, it does belong there, but I don't know which edits you reverted, it would be nice if you could put them back in. (Esp since I don't have a roll back button). Or I guess if you link on my talk page to the edit(s) you reverted I can put them back; I don't know which ones you reverted.

hey, nevermind, I figured out how to get to Special:Contributions/Konstable. I see what the problem is now, there's another user you're dealing with 82. address, and my 82.131 is similiar also to 86.132 you're also dealing with. I'll revert just my edits. Thanks for keeping Wikipedia vandal-free.

got your new message ("Ok, I put it back. To revert a page you don't need a rollback button. You can just go into the article's history, click on the timestamp of the version you want to revert, then edit that old version and save dispite the warning. A rollback is just a convinience button that admins have - undos all the edits of a specific user without having to go through that procedure.--Konstable 09:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC)") as I was writing that. Thank you. Keep up the good work! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.131.187.36 (talk • contribs).

No problem.--Konstable 10:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Departure

We all have those kinds of events come up. I hope all is well and works out for the best. /Blaxthos 08:18, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Blaxthos, and I hope the dispute on QDB will get resolved.--Konstable 10:27, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


Vandal

'You are getting one determined attacker on your page here. Have you thought of filing a report on WP:AbRep to get his ISP contacted?'

I intend to do just that. :) QuizQuick 02:22, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

rv Sandbox?

Just curious as to why you're doing that. [1] --UlTiMuS - ( T | C ) 11:52, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes that was a mistake, I removed the warning and noted it on my poor victim's page.--Konstable 11:53, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Hah. Yeah, it's hapenned to me before. Cheers. --UlTiMuS - ( T | C ) 11:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Richhoncho

This is funny and no harm is done. I edited my user page, but wasn't logged in, so it appeared as vandalism, which you kindly amended, but I wouldn't mind the vandalism warning coming off my IP address user page - just to show I don't deliberately vandalise pages. --Richhoncho 13:20, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the amendment to user page and thanks for amendment, but if it looked "disgruntled" maybe it should have stayed off. I'll think about that. Thanks again, I thought the whole episode was humorous. --Richhoncho 13:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

My second mistake during this vandal patrol session. The previous was reverting the sandbox =P I need to slow down.--Konstable 13:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Dan Bischoff

Thanks for the vandal revert on my userpage. Yes, I can officially confirm you didn't make a mistake, as currently I'm not horny. :-) Femto 14:22, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

That's good to hear ;-) --Konstable 14:31, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Bots with AWB

FFBot is AWB. It didn't require any editing or anything like that whatsoever, I just programmed AWB to do what I wanted it to, which is pretty easy when you're used to it. The bot is simply AWB running in automatic mode. Thanks, — FireFox 14:36, 08 July '06

Thanks. I guess haven't poked around the settings enough yet.--Konstable 14:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, the things that comes in handy most of all is find and replace. Without that, the bot is probably completely useless. Remember not everyone gets automatic editing mode, only approved or on-trial bots can edit automatically. — FireFox 15:23, 08 July '06

Thanks

Thank you for reverting vandalism on my talkpage from General Tojo. --PaulWicks 14:57, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem.--Konstable 14:58, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

fight the real vandalism

You are member of counter vandalism unit. We are member of the counter wikipedia unit, but we won´t fight against the whole enzy. But only on User:ThomasK sites. So fight the real vandalism. --Disclaimer1 13:34, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

If you don't like reading about User:ThomasK, then a good solution for you is not to visit his pages.--Konstable 13:38, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Removing my fur trade comments

Dear Konstable. You might feel that my comments about the fur trade were inappropriate but like it or not I was merely stating a fact. Animals are in some countries skinned alive for their fur. If you would prefer I back up my statements with references then that is not difficult because there is sufficient data available on the internet. If you persist in supressing my statements then you are the one who is guilty of deliberate misinformation.

Why is it that the article on Fur clothing can include a link to Fur producing websites that present a biased picture of the fur trade whereas my link to websites presenting the flip side of the coin has been deleted?

Shouldn't wikipedia be about freedom of information and not about presenting a one sided version of the facts? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chrisdickenson (talk • contribs).

Thanks for the feedback, but at Wikipedia everything needs to be presented in a balanced neutral point of view. Which I felt your edits weren't doing. If you verify these claims with citations of reliable sources, as I'm sure this is possible, feel free to reinsert the material. But please make sure that you do cite your sources, write it in a neutal-factual manner and don't just put it in as personal analysis. Also don't replace other material which is already in the article. Since it looks quite controversial, I would suggest you rule up some draft first and ask on the talk page of the article if the other editors find it acceptable to include.--Konstable 13:50, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Correction Actually I was thinking about something else. What you did is insert the same statement in a couple of places and an external link. External links should be at the bottom in the external link section, statements like yours should be with references and in appropriate sections (probably just the "Controversy" section on that article).--Konstable 13:54, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Good Faith.

The thing was, I was reverting the sme edit you reverted, you just reverted it first so I ended up reverting your edit back to the one that you tried to rid. I hope tht made sense :-) - Erebus555 14:22, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, yeah. I had that happen to me before. No probs.--Konstable 14:23, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Suburbs of Dunedin

Hi - I've reverted some of your recent change to Suburbs of Dunedin, New Zealand. Although the people and language are Māori, the Dunedin suburb is only ever written "Maori Hill". Grutness...wha? 05:55, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for that. I will flip through my similar edits to make sure I did not repeat this mistake.--Konstable 05:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
The Dunedin article looks fine. As to why it's just Maori Hill, I think it's one of those "It looks nicer and is easier to write" things that the NZ Lands and Survey people decided on, like missing out the apostrophes in things like Hawkes Bay. What's grammatically/linguistically correct doesn't often enter into their thinking :( Grutness...wha? 23:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Please revert this

On the Ao (mythology) article you made this edit:

  • E.R. Tregear, Māori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891, 14.

the book is actually

  • E.R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891, 14.

Please revert this! Kahuroa 12:15, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for that. I was watching for these things and correcting them, apparently missed one. I corrected it now. If you find any more mistakes like these feel free to point them out to me and/or to revert them yourself if you want.--Konstable 12:18, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

BurningZeppelin Warning

I wasn't targetting a user page, it had never existed before I created it. BurningZeppelin 13:29, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Ballarat Grammar School

This was an appropriate edit. Please return. If not please provide a detailed answer as your revert seems out of place and without knowledge. --Kearney6 14:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC) Bold text

I'm sorry, which edit are you referring too exactly. I reverted two there, one claimed that Batman and Robin went to your school. I am guessing it's the second?--Konstable 14:14, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Dear Konstable,

I created an archive page as you suggested. Thank you for helping me use Wikipedia. Please don't leave a message on my page, I will be checking your talkpage.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.18.12.231 (talk • contribs).

Call me crazy, but I don't remember giving you that suggestion. Unless you had a different IP when I gave it to you. I recommend you create an account and then everything will be nice and clear, among other benefits.--Konstable 15:02, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Oh yes, I get it. I did indeed.--Konstable 15:04, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Oh, I doubt I have anything substantial to add to Wikipedia. Btw, kak ti dobralsya v Noviu Zealandiu?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.18.12.231 (talk • contribs).
Na samolete priletel :P--Konstable 06:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

AWB 'read me' link broken

Thanks! I found the problem in the AWB settings XML file and think I've fixed it. I'll double check the next time I run AWB. Brian 13:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)btball

Re: Subst:'ing

Yeah, feel free to go ahead, but you won't have much to do I'm afraid. I cleared everything out on my first run, so from now on it's mainly stuff appearing overnight. I find the odd templates which haven't all been subst:'d yet but there aren't many of them anymore. But as I said, go ahead and see if you can find anything new :) — FireFox 14:09, 13 July '06

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the recent vandalism on my userpage :). Fabricationary 04:37, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem ;-)--Konstable 04:39, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
And thanks again. The page's vandalism count has been shooting up lately. Fabricationary 05:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Is there anyway that the user page history for the profile can be deleted? Thanks.

Re: Thanks

Re: your message: No problem! Thank you for reverting a bunch of vandalism before I could even get to it! See you around. - Tapir Terrific 05:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your RfA support!

Thanks for contributing to my successful RfA!
To the people who have supported my request: I appreciate the show of confidence in me and I hope I live up to your expectations!
To the people who opposed the request: I'm certainly not ignoring the constructive criticism and advice you've offered. I thank you as well!
♥! ~Kylu (u|t) 06:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments on my RfA, I appreciate it! ~Kylu (u|t) 06:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Thx

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 12:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I screwed up

I was trying to rename the "Qdb.us" page to "QDB.us". Since I couldn't do that directly, I first moved it to "QDB.us temp", with the intention of moving it back to "QDB.us". Oops -- the original page has been auto-created by Wikipedia, and now I can't overwrite it. I guess an admin has to delete it and then move the temp page back? Since you're admin I know best (from the QDB discussion) I am summoning you. Thanks! Peaceduck 18:42, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

AWB screw-up

Sorry about running AWB without first filtering out non-mainspace pages. Normally I do filter them out but unfortunately forgot this time :-( Thanks for letting me know. Brian 03:08, 22 July 2006 (UTC)btball

Plagiarism

Thanks for your welcome note on my talk page.

I read the Perun aricle and found the contributions to a great extent plagiarised. I do not want to be involved into an edit war - which might be imminent due to the fact that some people are trying to deny the obvious findings.

I wonder - might you be of some help in protecting a minimum level of editorial credibility and integrity there?--Matt Parlow 03:12, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I think there is no need to get it protected, there haven't been too many edits to it recently. The last edit before you was 16th of July, protection is meant for articles in the middle of edit wars, which is not happening on this page right now. Instead you should try to reach an agreement on the article on the talk page (which is actually what protection is used for - to stop edit wars until discussions are concluded). I will have a closer look at the nature of your dispute to see if I can help out. --Konstable 04:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Kind Request

Since you have contributed to Pericles and you seem interested in ancient Greece, I would be grateful if you could go through Demosthenes and express me your opinion about the article. I have rewritten it and I think that it could have a chance to become FA. Hence, if you have the time and the interest, I would like to have your opinion about its present form.--Yannismarou 08:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I will have a look, but it might take a couple days, I'm finding less and less time for Wikipedia these days. I should warn you thought that I'm not really an expert on Ancient Greece, I just happen to be interested in it.--Konstable 10:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm neither an expert! My expertise is law. My hobby is history. so, don't worry!--Yannismarou 15:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Pericles

I citated the two "is considered to be". For both of them my source was The Encyclopaedic Dictionary The Helios. Today I bought a very interesting book: "Thucydides on Strategy" in English, written by two Greek scholars. Through this book I also found additional, very interesting information concerning the military strategy of Pericles.

Thereby, I rewrote the section "Military Achievements". I also read in a Greek newspaper that the European institute of studies based in Delphi issued a collective work about Pericles (it is the anniversary of the 2.500 years from his birth). I hope that I'll soon be able to possess it. My only concern is that the article is getting bigger and bigger (78 Kb now)!

I saw that, beyond the automated suggestions, no other suggestions are added in the peer review. Nonetheless, I donot think that we should be discouraged. Have a nice weekend!--Yannismarou 17:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Why is the list of charismatic leaders POV?

The term charismatic authority is a neutral sociological concept and each person on the list is well sourced. Thanks for informing me of the Afd. I am learning Russian by the way. Andries 23:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, even if charisma can be a neutral concept, it seems that the criteria of inclusion on this list centres around a single definition, which feels POV to me. Also I don't quite see any usefulness of such a list. Good luck with your Russian!--Konstable 11:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Faked signatures!

Imitation and stalking are the sincerest form of flattery. I could never understand why that pretty girl put a restraining order on me. If I were her, I'd consider being stalked a compliment. Ghosts&empties 15:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

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University of Auckland

The block was necessitated by a very particular obnoxious vandal who has been abusing University of Auckland computers, and more or less doing his best to make sure they get blocked. This is why I blocked the address for anonymous edits only. A registered user can still use the same computers to edit. There have been cases in the past in which a student at a particular university has become such an odious vandal, that the university was "collectively punished" with a block; sometimes this is exactly what the vandal was trying to achieve (see, for example, user:woggly/Bar-Ilan vandal). I am not the only administrator who holds that requiring editors from a certain IP to register is a fair price to pay for a massive reduction in vandalism (see [2]). In the case of Auckland University, the bad apple is a vandal who has nicknamed himself "Loserdick", you can read about him here: Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Loserdick. He alone brought on the block of two U of Auckland IPs. If you yourself are affiliated with Auckland University, you can help by bringing the matter to the attention of University officials; there have been precedents for universities taking disciplinary action against students who repeatedly used university computers to vandalise Wikipedia. Also, if you can explain to me how you or any other legitimate registered user is being prevented from contributing to Wikipedia by the block, I will undo it. I have no intention of tolerating the death threats, impersonation, foul language and disruption for disruption's sake that has issued from the "Loserdick" vandal, for the benefit of hypothetical unregistered users. --woggly 21:53, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I see woggly already got back to you with the details. --pgk(talk) 07:04, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Pericles

Hello! I need your support in the FAC. I see a user, Robth, raised a series of issues. I'll try to address them, but, please, help as mush as you can. If you have time to go through Demosthenes, I would be grateful.--Yannismarou 07:26, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your new contributions to Pericles. I know very well that the way I answered to Septentrionalis was not the right one, but I get furious, when I see an "object" based on a reasoning that I regard as something more than ridiculous!--Yannismarou 08:11, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

A user in Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Pericles pointed out: "My one quibble is with the timeline at the end of the article. I'm not sure if it's customary to list events on timelines in the present tense; all those present participles are throwing me off." What do you think of that?--Yannismarou 09:33, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure. I couldn't find any guidelines regarding this. I would probably prefer past tense myself, but I don't see that it matters too much.--Konstable 11:28, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the nice words! But your advice and contributions were also very useful! You helped me understand what was initially going on wrong with the article. By the way, we now have 18 supports and an absolute consensus, which I think is a record number! In the past I've also got furious with some administrators (this is one of the reasons I donot want to become one!). But I'm sure you'll work everything out. See you again around. Cheers!--Yannismarou 06:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

WoW templates

I think those need to go, too. this sums it up of what I said, elsewhere. The only thing is if those go, there will need a massive renaming and I don't have any automated scripts to do that. Maybe these should wait for nonmination until after the WoW pages are gone as deleting them before WoW's pages are gone would be too soon. Anomo 01:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I think you may be misunderstanding what I nominated. It was not a template, but rather an article on WoW's "Appearances outside of the English Wikipedia".--Konstable 01:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Auckland

Sorry if it seems I'm ignoring you. You may notice I've not had much time for Wikipedia recently, for (very good) personal reasons. The Loserdick situation is hard to follow chronologically because he keeps skipping IPs. I'm afraid I don't have the time to invest to show you how obvious it is that all the vandalism was issuing from the same individual. Edits like this one: [3] are typical, using a new IP to vandalise userpage of an admin who blocked a previous IP. As you feel so strongly on this, I will unblock the U of Auckland IP. Like you said, the block is not an effective way of stopping this vandal anyway. But please keep an eye out for further vandalism from the IP, and undo it if it happens. I won't be able to. As for the idea that I "boast to my friends" about making blocks, that's one of the funniest things I've ever read. Yeah, right. Way to impress my friends. Not. Try to keep in mind that most admins here are usually acting in good faith.--woggly 21:04, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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