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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Shanes/2004-Nov-21 to 2005-Jun-30, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  --Flockmeal 03:15, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hey, thanks for the revert. I see your new here, let me know if theres any assistance I can provide. Cheers, (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 09:25, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I revert stuff all the time. But you're the first to thank me for it. I appreciate it.

Actually, thinking about it, there is one thing you can help me with. Find out if my 1090 edits in almost 3 months without anyone leaving any messages on my talk page (except the standard welcome template) is some kind of a record? ;-) Shanes 10:48, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, I think it’s a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand it’s a compliment, since you didn't annoy anyone enough to get them to comment about it. On the other hand, since most of your edits involve reverting vandalism and editing obscure bio's (from what I can tell from my cursory glance at your contributions history), you probably haven’t had the opportunity to get noticed by many users. If you'd like to interact more, I'd suggest having a look at some of the policy pages, and places like WP:RfC, Wikipedia:Current polls, Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week, Wikipedia:Help desk, Wikipedia:Village pump etc... I also highly recommend reading the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost, its a great way to learn more about what’s going on. If your really interested in what the movers and shakers are up to, have a look @ the Wikipedia:Mailing lists, especially Wiki-EN-l where Jimbo spends most of his time. Hope I've been a bit of service, (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 11:08, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

(I copied the above here from User_talk:Sam_Spade#Thanks_for_the_thanks for your convenience. Cheers, (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 11:10, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC))

Thanks for quickly reverting the vandalisms by dimwits from Portland Community College. mu5ti/talk 06:00, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 1740

Whoops, thanks for correcting my revert. I saw all of those IP addresses and didn't realize that the one in the middle was slightly different. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:14, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Vaoverland - administrator

Thank you for supporting my appointment as an administrator. I appreciate the pat on the back this represents. It felt nice to read the comments during the voting. Please let me know if you see something I should be doing as admin, as I intend to be fairly passive unless it is clear I should do otherwise. Thanks. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 20:06, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Togo

Thanks, but you're the one who rescued it. (See Template talk:Did you know :). And yes, the reason I picked up The Cruelest Miles is to make the serum run into it's own article (eventually). Unforunately, it won't cut down the main Iditarod article... there's only one paragraph, and it should stay as a summary. :) 68.81.231.127 00:39, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think that still qualifies as an excellent source... Salisbury's book has dozens and dozens of references, but at the top is "...particularly helpful were Kenneth A. Ungermann's The Race to Nome, which contained interviews with many of the drivers...". 68.81.231.127 01:13, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hey Norway, leave Colonel North alone. Nulla 05:27, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My adminship

Thank you for voting for me for adminship. I appreciate the confidence you showed in me. I make a point to try to always leave a good edit summary for article edits, and most of the time for talk page edits (if I can easily summarize my comment). Part of it's for transparency—so that others can easily see what I'm doing—an part of it's for my own benefit, so that I can see what I've done. — Knowledge Seeker দ 08:24, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Let me second that. Thank you, Shanes, for supporting my adminship nomination. — mark ✎ 21:51, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Shanes, I'm also writing to say thank you for your vote in my nomination. I appreciate your support very much, and if there's anything I can help you with in the future, please be sure to ask. Best, SlimVirgin 03:15, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You!

Hi Shanes,

I would like to thank you for your vote of support and confidence for my adminship, it has been much appreciated. If you need anything in future that requires my attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. :)

- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 18:34, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi Shanes, I would like to add my own thanks your support in my nomination. I look forward to helping out as an admin. - BanyanTree 04:15, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ayn Rand

I was a bit surprised to see that you'd reverted an anon's edit that brought the Rand article into line with most biographical articles; that is, after the first use of her full name, to use only the surname. I've reverted that, but if you have a reason that you didn't mention it can always be changed back again. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:39, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I think this must have been a case of 2 reverts hapening at the same time, with mine comming in last. The change I wanted to revert (and wich was in the diff when I checked the anon's contribution) was this. But I see that the same anon adding the (clearly inappropriate change) reverted it again afterwards and included the first-name removal (making my revert getting through, since they now were different). So I didn't mean to go against wikipedia-policy. Thanks for noticing. Shanes 20:53, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Doh! I should have checked the earlier edit. Sorry to have troubled you. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:01, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry about that...

I saw the vandalism on the Michael Jackson page and decided to do a revert... apparently it took effect one minute after your revert. I assumed that all of the anon. edits were vandalism so I reverted back to the edit by the last user that reverted due to vandalism. Apparently I was incorrect about one of the users. Sorry again... no offense meant! --Chanting Fox 21:52, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Skull and Bones

There is NO proof that Skull and Bones even exists. Why are you reverting me in that article?--207.200.116.204 23:04, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy delete question

I've put some speedy delete tags on articles before, and they have been speedily deleted. But, I don't see these when I click on "my contributions". Is the speedy delete supposed to work like this? HappyCamper 03:16, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Test message

It wasn't a test. 209.152.55.60 21:53, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] admin?

Would you be interested in being nominated for adminship? I see that you do a lot of RC patrol, and it's much easier with the admin rollback button. I can't guarantee how the vote would go, but I think you'd make a valuable addition to the janitorial staff. Joyous 00:55, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

Your RfA is up. Go forth and accept! Good luck. Joyous 01:42, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE Changes to Monobook.css

I just reverted myself, did that fix it? – ABCD 13:11, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 1896 Olympics Page

Someone keeps screwing with the [[]] page, and I'm not fast enough to stop them. Don't know what to do other than report it on the vandalism page, but W doesn't seem to be working well today. Thanks! Atrivedi

Yeah, I guess I'm not as patient with new users who are screwing around with other people's work. Besides, the person who did that has a ton of other contribs (mostly vandalism). If I could get to the vandalism in progress page, I would add him, but no luck with it so far. Thanks again! Atrivedi

[edit] Vandalism

You get better userpage vandalism than I do. Much more creative: I'm quite jealous. Joyous 19:16, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal

That user appears to be a static IP, who's made vandalisms before (such as to George W. Bush), so I figured he didn't really care to contribute to the encyclopedia. --brian0918™ 00:34, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 02:39, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome! FWIW, I wish the rollback allowed some comment, also. Unfortunately, if the reason for the rollback isn't shockingly obvious, we have to do it the tedious old-fashioned way (with the increased risk of edit conflict) so we can comment. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 02:54, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! You'll be a great admin. I love the comment on your userpage about how easy and streamlined it is to screw things up now. That's absolutely correct. My cat (who spends way too much time lounging around the keyboard) rolled back someone's edit when she stepped on the laptop's touchpad. Fortunately, it was an eminently rollback-able piece of vandalism, anyway. I no longer allow the cursor to sit parked on the "rollback" button while I peruse. OK, enough rambling. Congrats again! Joyous 10:57, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hallo Shane....

Why the phrase Ark of acquaintance is vandalism?...I'm italian my name is Kolkov...i think that definiction of wikipedia, were a good idea....but isn't possible....ok! Kolkov 05:31, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 212.108.232.206

212.108.232.206 (talk • contribs) is still vandalizing pages. --Viriditas | Talk 09:00, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] source/reference request for your ferbruary edit to the Adolf Hitler article

On February 16, you added (among many things) the following to the Adolf Hitler article regarding Hitlers blindness in World War 1:

Recent research however concluded the blindness could have been the result of a hysterical reaction to the military defeat.

(See the diff: here)

This statement has been questioned on Talk:Adolf Hitler and a source for it has been requested. Your comment on the matter there would be much appreciated. Thanks. Shanes 01:24, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Hey Shanes, thanks for posting me. See the talk page. Ben talk contr 07:37, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ==Macio==

Just to let you know that this has been created again. Cheers TigerShark 00:04, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Joe Page

Why did you put the advetisement on the "Joe" page back on?

It was a mistake and I reverted myself 5 seconds later, didn't I? Shanes 00:08, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hamilton, Ontario

Hi. Any chance you could block th euser that is continually vandalising this page. They are wasting a lot of people's time. Cheers TigerShark 00:51, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Noticed the block. Thanks. TigerShark 00:56, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism on the Bush article

Why do you fix vandalism for bush when you arent even American? Hes a douch and you should know that. Let the nation vent thier anger over this man on Wikipedia. This is so there is good information to give to the average American. 12.202.174.133 00:14, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] blockquote

Thanks for catching the bad code on Attack on Pearl Harbor. I was editing by section so it didn't show up in the preview. Cheers, -Willmcw 07:49, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Ironically, my first interest in the article came because I was looking for a good, short featured article to record for the Spoken Wikipedia project. As I've learned to do before recording, I pasted the article into a sandbox page and began what I expected to be a few small edits to improve readability. By the time I was done, I'd re-organized or re-written much of the article. (The article had good "bones", just arranged out of order, and so the rearrangement work was straightforward). And since then I've done some research and added facts that seem to be relevant, but which have lengthened the article. I think it's all pretty standard stuff - casualties, number of units involved, the disgrace of Kimmel and Short, etc. I guess the thing most surprising to me about the article is how little detail there is about the attack itself (even still). I thought that the article had obvious holes left and that I could stop editing the article and (after waiting a bit for other editors' revisions) I could start thinking again about recording it. Then I had the confounding thought of adding a Japanese perspective, and so now it may take a bit more editing (and waiting) before the article settles again. Of whatever length, Wikipedia articles should strive to be comprehensive. In the same vein, some consideration of both the contemporary and the modern Japanese views of the attack should be included to insure full and NPOV coverage of the topic. I am fully aware of how important it is to get "right" an article like this, and I regard as as an honor the opportunity to move the article in that direction. Please feel free to revise any of my edits - I'd be very happy to have another editor double-checking my work in this article. Cheers, -Willmcw 09:01, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for the tip

I went ahead and created an account per your advise. I didn't realize that having a registered account masked your IP. I've had problems with IP targetted denial of service attacks before, so I'm a bit of anal about having my IP tossed about. Just wanted to say a quick thanks for the heads-up.

[edit] Hello Shanes

Hello!

My links are not commercial...

thanks!

[edit] You know the anon whose edits you reverted on Wikipedia: Community Portal?

He's been at this for a LONG time. I've been reverting his edits for a very long time. --Chanting Fox 02:17, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed, and blocked him. Thanks. Shanes 02:19, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I wish I could say the same.... unfortunately it seemss that this guy might be using a dynamic IP... take his IP address and replaced the .09 with .10 and you've got another IP which was recently blocked for vandalism... which I might add was active at the same time this guy was... it's not even funny how many reverts I've done. --Chanting Fox 02:22, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Heres a list of my recent reverts... just so you know how long and how much I had to clean up after these two.
    • (snip long list of Chanting Fox contribs) --Shanes
  • Ok, I was wrong. There was another vandal who's IP address isn't anywhere close to the other two in there. He's the reason for a few of the early userpage and usertalk reverts. --Chanting Fox 02:34, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Just logged in for the last time tonight. I don't mind you deleting that list... I was just a bit annoyed... having to clean up after 3 or 4 persistant vandals does that to you. I probably would have ended up removing the list tommorrow anyway... but all that matters is that those vandals were blocked and/or have stopped... besides it could have been worse. We could have had to deal with another barrage of user accounts by the "Doppleganger". --Chanting Fox 03:55, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
    • No problem. I just removed the list since it made my talk-page abit long. Thats all. It's in the history, anyway. Shanes 03:59, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Links

Hi,
this links aren't Links of my own website. These are the only sites where I found usable information about these Persons, althought they are listed in the imdb! --217.247.67.83 07:25, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ABCRICH

Can you please do something about User:ABCRICH? He is adding superfluous copyrighted (his copyright) photos to articles for what appears to be advertising purposes, along with a link to his web site. Mirror Vax 20:36, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal user

205.188.117.9 (talk • contribs) has already been blocked this week, and you left a note on their talk page to stop vandalising, but they're it again]. Harro5 08:23, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking AOL ips

I noticed on the block list you're blocking AOL IPs for the default of 24 hours. The block page says do it for 15 minutes (though I usually go for 30), for a couple of reasons: 1) so good users don't get blocked on accident and 2) so you don't get a lot of email of said good users bitching at you :) Just something to keep in mind. Cheers. CryptoDerk 01:05, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Explanation of edit

Dunno if you got my post about the Asia Carrera/Real Name edit, but I am Asia Carrera, and I don't want my birth name posted on the site because I've had stalkers in the past, and it scares me to have my real name posted there (along with where I live lower down on the page) because it makes it very easy for people to harrass me by phone and at home. I have a new baby and worrying about things like this keeps me up at night.  : ( Thank you.

[edit] Thanks for the Canada revert

I guess we were both there at the same time, but you beat me to it. :P How exactly do you do a revert like that? Is there a function somewhere to achieve it easily?

... Mike.

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for reverting my user page. It is much appreciated. — Knowledge Seeker দ 21:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] bitten newbie on village pump (technical)

Hi - I just wanted to let you I know thought your responses in the recent exchange on wikipedia:village pump (technical) were close to perfect. It's not clear the situation was recoverable, but I thought you were actually helping. -- Rick Block 13:38, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism

As I mentioned on WP:VPM, I've created Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Thanks for your support, and I'd be most grateful if you could add it to your watchlist to keep an eye on it. (The depressing thing is I'll probably have to RC-patrol 24/7 for the next week to keep it even marginally in-use before the large mass of RC-patrollers gets used to it, to prevent all the admins from forgetting about it). --W(t) 06:12, 2005 May 28 (UTC)

Heya, I notice there's an Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism entry that's been there since friday, which kind of spoils the point. Could you have a go at clearing it? --W(t) 05:37, 2005 Jun 5 (UTC)
It works! It works! *cackles with glee*. --W(t) 06:48, 2005 Jun 5 (UTC)

[edit] regarding removal of material

You have sent me a few emails regarding the removal of material. The material that was removed was ALSO material that was placed into the article in the first place by a guest in my home. I feel that since the material was uploaded from my computer, and since it was not well referanced, it wouldbe ethical & responsible to UNDO the anti-papist grafetti. 152.163.101.14(User talk:152.163.101.14) 07:27, 2005 May 30 (UTC)

Hmm, could you please tell me what material or article this is about? I have no way to know otherwise... Shanes 11:40, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your vote in support of my admin nomination. Paul August ☎ 13:11, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Looks like simultaneous blocking! Let's fight them vandals... smoddy 22:44, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:152.163.100.197 is at it again...

Hi Shanes, I noticed that you blocked User:152.163.100.197 about 2 weeks ago. Well, he's back, and he's vandalizing again. He and his (probable) sockpuppets have cast several votes on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Chris labosky. In addition he's had some other malicious edits since May 15 when you blocked him. I've reported these users on Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress. I don't have the authority to block them since I'm not an admin, but you might want to block them again anyway, since it looks like they haven't learned anything from being blocked the first time. --Idont Havaname 19:42, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User page vandalization

Just wanted to drop you a line to tell you that 60.229.181.19 blanked then vandalized your entire page, I took the liberty of reverting it but you may want to stay on the lookout for this guy. Jtkiefer 02:45, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks...

... for reverting my talk page so fast that I ended up reverting your edit by mistake. :) Kelly Martin 03:53, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Here's a link you might find useful for dealing with those vandals from "Amsterdam"

[[1]]

This helped me find out that the vandal you're currently dealing with is using a dynamic IP supplied by Bulldog Communications in London. --Chanting Fox 22:35, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User page

Thanks for your help reverting the vandalism of my user page. Nohat 22:36, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you also for your help with the Bulldog vandal. I've just protected my user page - you might like to think about the same. DJ Clayworth 20:48, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anon vandal

User repeatedly deleted huge sections, replacing with short, contrary information, and had been reverted multiple times over the past 2 days. See for example [2]. For repeated vandals like this, I just block them for N days, where N is the number of such edits they've made. --brian0918™ 01:43, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"At least you have to warn him on his talkpage first. He would most likely have stopped if you had, he is a new user."
Because all users have static IPs.
"And he has btw only been reverted twice."
2 is a multiple of 1 and is 2 more times than a vandal needs to be reverted.
"And actually blocking someone for a whole 7 days for a first time offence without any warnings? Come on... I am unblocking him now."
Another job well done. --brian0918™ 01:57, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AIV

(83.220.64.49 (talk • contribs))'s still at it, he's just slow. --W(t) 07:04, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)

Thanks! I have blocked the spammer now. Shanes 07:10, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Ta. And in an uncharacteristic stab at cooperativeness, (68.170.0.238 (talk • contribs)) is back too now. A slightly less obvious block, but blocking him does appear to be the popular option recently, and I do think this falls under disruption of wikipedia. --W(t) 07:14, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)

[edit] Swedish! Norwegian!

The tussle you had with your userpage a few hours ago, and the associated edit summaries, gave me the best Wiki-related laugh I've had in a while. Joyous 04:01, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Heh, yeah. And I'm glad when a bit of humour works instead of talk-page threats and blockings. Though it always makes me curious what it was I did that made someone react out on my userpage in the first place. I wish they would tell me. Shanes 05:15, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I just had one hit my page (mildly), and then come back and update my vandalism count for me. Quite polite, actually. Joyous 05:18, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, polite of him. I think maybe I'll get me a counter myself one day. Maybe when I reach 3 digits. Shanes 05:29, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
looks at your user history So that'll be next week sometime? Joyous 05:47, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
Maybe, though the vandal(s) who had vandalising of my userpage as a daily routine recently (for a reason I'll never know) seem to have stopped now, so it has slowed down. Or maybe if I hadn't protected it then, I would have been there allready... Nah, I prefere them to leave it alone. Especially when they aren't capable of doing anything funny with it. Shanes 05:59, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your support

Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 15:13, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal Block

Thank you for blocking 198.74.20.77 for his vandalism and edits to my talk page. As you can see from my talk page history, I have been dealing with this user for a long time (he has made over 100 edits to my talk page, mostly personal attacks and vandalism). I'm messaging you, however, because I wonder if you would be willing to impose a block on 198.74.20.75 as well? I mistyped in my original notice, as .75 was supposed to be the second IP of the two. It is most certainly the same user. - Jersyko talk 19:34, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

I see. Ok, I gave him the same block as 198.74.20.77. Shanes 19:43, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 65.37.136.107 linkspammer

I've warned this user twice now, and he has continued to add links to a book-buying site. As I'm not an admin, I can't really give an effective "stop it or I'm blocking you" warning. —chris.lawson (talk) 19:52, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. He has posted at least two more links since you gave him spam3.—chris.lawson (talk) 20:05, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I blocked him now. Thanks. Shanes 20:06, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Oops

Ah sorry, it was me going on autopilot there. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:47, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander and pederasty

That anonymous IP we keep reverting is at it again on Alexander and Pederasty. I'm reverting the latter. Lectiodifficilior 22:54, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Shoot, I see you're an admin. How do I go about requesting a block, or are you on that already? Lectiodifficilior 22:55, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for link for future reference. I saw what you said to him; I didn't know it was a three revert rule (I thought it was higher). That's useful to know, as this article gets a lot of such stress. Lectiodifficilior 23:09, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism

Some day I am going to succeed in getting to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism before you have cleared the list :). Thue | talk 22:29, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Haha, not likely, he's damn fast. Thanks, Shanes! (and thanks for doing backup, Thue) --W(t) 22:36, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)
 :-). Good. I've been checking it very often to give the page a good start so people see it works. And works quickly, as it's meant to. But, maybe I can slow down soon as more admins now seem to be watching it. Shanes 22:42, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Doriandixon deleting my work

Thanks for undoing the deletions by user Doriandixon. I guess I ticked this user off when I pointed out that he was violating copyright by posting pictures of porn stars on Wiki entries about the porn stars. Is there some way to stop the user from deleting all of my work? --Alabamaboy 13:20, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Raftostiftelsen

Hei!

Dette er en test. Er det denne måten jeg kan få tak i deg på? Jeg jobber for Raftostiftelsen og lurer på hvordan jeg kan legge ut materiale om våre tidligere vinnere uten at det blir slettet.. Vet ikke om du får denne beskjeden, så jeg holder den kort =)

Med vennlig hilsen Hege

Thanks a lot Shanes!

I thought I was going paranoid there for a minute. I was absolutely positive that I had put stuff out there, but couldn't find it the next day =)

I'll create an account like you suggested.

Cheers, Hege

[edit] Sandbox

Okay.

1) I really like this button when people leave way too much old junk messages in their talk page. It is weird though becaue I have to hit two enters or else it combines the text (sandbox anyway). Maybe though when it's sent this will change completely and my edit will look too spaced out.

2) You praised the sandbox on your user page. Well I've worked in the sandbox for a long time and then I go and send my edits in and wikipedia is all another user did the edits while you were editing and submitted them. Then poof! All my changes lost! Microsoft Internet Destroyer (MSIE) always loses text box info when I hit the back button. And I tried saving it in notepad but something wrong happened and it didn't save it. So that's reason not to like the box -- Especially if I want to edit something that gets edited a lot all the time.

Thodin 04:14, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support

Hi! thank you for your support for my admin candidacy. I hope that you will always feel that I am a responsible administrator. JeremyA 05:23, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request

I once wrote an article with a name like "warez community" and I think another called "warez scene". This was before I had an account. I didn't watch the article for more than a week and well now it's been deleted and it's content was not merged. Could you possibly find this article in wikipedia's delete buffer and send me the information that was in it. Thanks. This was in May, I believe. If it's not there, then maybe I made a mistake and put it elsewhere. Thodin 07:57, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't know where I put it then. Thodin 08:14, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support

Hi Shanes! Tusen takk for supporting my adminship nomination! Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:20, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dalkowski

I didn't enter that strangely-worded Dalkowski reference, but I have seen elsewhere that Nuke LaLoosh was based somewhat on Dalkowski. I think that's what the author of that left-field comment might have been trying to say. Wahkeenah 05:49, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I went ahead and slipped in a comment referring back to the Dalkowski article. One thing I don't understand is why the owners of this website allow "anonymous" (IP address only) users to update the database. I wonder how many hundreds of hours have been wasted trying to un-vandalize things? Why don't they require registration and a valid logon before allowing updates? Wahkeenah 06:12, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You raise a good point. Now that I think of it, my initial tinkering was done anonymously. Most of what I write has to do with trivial stuff, like sports and pop culture. I wouldn't go near the more important topics. Unless they needed correcting, of course. 0:) Wahkeenah 06:46, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] edit summary with rollback

Hi - Have you written up a bugzilla request for adding the ability to provide an edit summary with rollback? This seems like an obvious thing, in fact I'd think the rollback interface should insist on an edit summary being provided. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:27, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The admin's noticeboard has been vandalized...

I can't find a way to revert it... looks like Enviroknot, etc... it's a all caps rant about the arbitration... thought you'd like to know. --Chanting Fox 18:55, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • Link to the admin's noticeboard directly from the list of links in the category "Wikipedia administrators." It's just the plain noticeboard, not the 3RR or Incidents noticeboard. I've also left a message on Joy Stovall's talkpage, so it might be taken care of already, but then it might not. --Chanting Fox 19:04, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • You can't use the shortcut... the vandalism won't show up if you do.--Chanting Fox 19:06, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • If you can't see it then there's a BIG problem... when I click on the link you posted, I ended up at the noticeboard, and the vandalism was quite apparent. I've cleared my cache and looked again... I'm afraid that the board may have to be examined by someone with a higher level of access than you do if you really can't see it. However, if you're using the shortcut... you can't do that. Like I said, it won't show up if you do. You have to go directly to the Wikipedia administrators category and click on the link for the Administrators noticeboard. It's there all right... I'm not making this up! --Chanting Fox 19:17, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Where else should we mention this? I'm not seeing it, but I've experienced something similar several months ago at VfD. Joyous 19:27, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

It's a section on "REGARDING THE KAINTHESCION BULLSHIT SHAM RFAR", right? I can see it when using opera and not loging in. I'll try to figure it out, but am abit occupied on the homefront right now. Shanes 19:31, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It's being caused by a single line of text. TOC preceded and followed by two _ marks.

[edit] belated thanks

Tusen takk from me too for supporting my RFA nearly a month ago. A sad family event that happened at that time has taken up a lot of my time and energy, but I hope to get back to being an active contributor soon. Long live edit summaries! :-) FreplySpang (talk) 23:41, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking of AOL-ip's

Hi!

We don't "tolerate" AOL vandalism, but the way the AOL-proxies work, there is a considerable danger of blocking wrong users if we extend any block on an AOL-IP for more than 15 minutes. So we try not to do it.

Regarding the Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism: The way we try to keep that page small and handable is to remove listings that has been handled by an admin, so I'm removing your listing again now. Shanes 28 June 2005 21:37 (UTC)

  • Is it a written and agreed upon policy to block AOL-IP's for 15 minutes, and if so, can you please supply a link? The user at IP address 205.188.116.7 has been vandalising Wikipedia for over 48 hours [3] so a 15 minute block would obviously be insufficent. Hall Monitor 28 June 2005 21:41 (UTC)

[edit] Mawson Peak

Wikipedia never ceases to astonish me. Such a wonderful co-operative venture! I reworded a sentence in the Australia article dealing with the highest mountains, noticed that Mawson Peak was a red link and decided to kick off the article, by cutting and pasting a stb from a Californian mountain. I whacked in a few numbers, found an external link or two, and in a matter of minutes knew more about Mawson Peak than ever before. And then you come along and apply a bit of polish a few minutes after! Thanks! Pete 30 June 2005 05:11 (UTC)

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