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[edit] MK

Beat me to it. :P Orderinchaos 08:22, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Overreaction removed. Peter phelps (talk) 11:33, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey Mr Lankiveil, I've username blocked Peter Phelps pending confirmation of his identity. Just thought you'd like to know. :) Sarah 00:55, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

By the way, Lanki, there's a present for you here: [1]. Sarah 11:12, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
hehe no worries. :) Just make sure (if you decide to use it) that you only use it for reverting vandalism. I'm sure you know that anyway but I'm s'posed to tell you so that if you use it to launch some massive edit war, you can't say that you didn't know! ;D Anyway, I've heard from that other guy. He has no non-free email address but has given me a phone number to call. I personally don't feel comfortable verifying people's identities like that because someone once registered User:Austin St. John and went around claiming to be the actor Austin St. John and so I blocked the account as an obvious impersonator but gave them the chance to email me to verify and they tried to but could offer nothing as proof but a yahoo account. Then not long after, someone did the same thing with the Australian actor Jason Smith (actor) and registered User:Jason Smith and went about claiming they were the actor. When I username blocked Jason Smith and gave them the same opportunity to confirm their identity, they replied from a yahoo address that followed the same format as the Austin St. John one - as in name followed by three numbers @ yahoo. Just ridiculous and obviously bad impersonations and I found out later it was a guy who was banned a couple of years ago. But anyway, he gave me a phone number when he emailed me at OTRS to "confirm his identity" and invited me to phone him to chat with him so he could prove his identity (kind of funny really as the guy behind this knows that I'm Australian and he is a New Yorker and I kind of think I might be able to pick a guy with an Australian accent from a New Yorker with no local knowledge and an accent that's definitely not Australian. lol). So I feel really reluctant to accept phone identification but in this case he seems to be in the phonebook and so I think it's likely it is him but I'm going to ask Andrew to consider calling as I think he has the political knowledge to fish out a scam and he would probably tolerate the political rhetoric being thrown around better than me. :) Anyway, apologies for the long rant but just wanted to update you. Cheers, Sarah 04:08, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
G'day. I'm sorry I didn't get back here yesterday but I was only online for a short time. As you've noticed, Peter has been unblocked. He sent me a photo of himself holding his drivers license so I unblocked him but he has promised to behave himself and to stop POV pushing, he also apologised to me privately for being snarky (he used another word but I won't post that here:)) so we'll just have to see how things go now. I think he has the potential to be a very effective editor if he chooses to do so as he is obviously intelligent and very knowledgeable but the POV issues, COI and civility are a concern. Sorry for not letting you know yesterday, Lanki. Sarah 04:57, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Meetup

I don't have a problem with attending or anything at many times, but only if there's something interesting, like new people! The school holidays could be a chance to possibly meet younger Wikipedians in the area, if any. Hopefully there will be a higher attendance this time around. - Zero1328 Talk? 05:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Huh

I thought i was having senior moments in my tagging thins this am - then i see you put an oppose in a rfa amidst supports - trust you are ok - do you need any help ? :) SatuSuro 03:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah after that - not something that I feel happy about in any way - as for the foolery, well there is a smell that any rfa gives off now that as the late frank zappa attributed to jazz - it isnt dead it just smells that way :P SatuSuro 09:22, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brisbane meetup invitation

Riverside Precinct Brisbane Meetup
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Hey there, you're invited to the second Brisbane Meetup. Please see the page at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/2 for more details. Hope to see you there!

Automated message delivered by Giggabot (stop!) to Wikipedians in Queensland and known Brisbaneites, at 03:38, 7 June 2008 (UTC).

[edit] My Rfa

Thanks, Lankiveil, for participating in my recent RfA, which recently passed with 81 support and 1 neutral !votes. I appreciate all the support and constructive criticism offered in my RfA and I thank you for taking the time to !vote in my nomination. I feel so honoured to be trusted by so many of you and please, if you have any advice, comments or complaints about my actions as an administrator, leave a note on my talk page.

I would also like to thank Acalamari, Rlevse and Nishkid64, for their nomination statements.
Thank you again.
AngelOfSadness talk 23:28, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry about the warning

Sorry about that! It seems that I warned the wrong user (in fact, I think you may have been the one reverted vandalism to that page!). This may be a bug with huggle; normally it doesn't do that type of thing, or I may have managed to screw up badly somehow. Thanks for brining this to my attention - you didn't do anything wrong! CrazyChemGuy (talk) 01:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Just passing by

How's the whale-fur trade these days? :-) --tiny plastic Grey Knight ⊖ 14:50, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

Thank you for your comment at my RFA. Even though I withdrew, it still means a lot to me. Once again thanks, have a good day. :) <3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 18:48, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Misr International University

Please remember that rollback should only be used to revert edits that are 'blatantly nonproductive, such as vandalism and nonsense.' For undoing edits that violate simple WP:NPOV like this, undo should be used instead so an edit summary can be left issuing the user at fault with a reason as to why their edit was reverted. The warnings you left on the users' talk page are completely unjust. Regards, ——Ryan | t • c 12:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I do not see what was so controversial about my reverts. I was not using the "rollback" function at all, the IP editor in question had not made any recent constructive edits, but only made edits complaining about the administration of the school, the edits were blatantly NPOV, and I left a message on the IP talk page stating that the edit had been reverted due to POV concerns. I respect your opinion that they were "unjust", but I actually think that a couple of "Information" messages were on the pretty mild end of the scale. I'll take your comments under advisement in good faith, and if there's anything else you think I should have done I'll be happy to consider it for the future.
You were using Huggle which uses the Rollback feature to revert edits. You do not use rollback to revert NPOV violations. Secondly, the first warning you left on the users' talk page didn't mention anything to do with the NPOV policy. You left them a standard vandalism template (using Huggle). Unless Wikipedia polices have taken a completely radical re-write recently, I don't recall NPOV being classed as vandalism ——Ryan | t • c 12:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
WP:ROLLBACK itself states that "Rollback must only be used to undo edits that are blatantly nonproductive". I concede that on reflection the edits in question appear to be borderline, but given the edits in question, I still think it was justifiable. There was no content that could reasonably be salvaged from the fragment, and it was an unsourced and essentially anonymous criticism of a real-world entity that could conceivably have had their reputation damaged by the edit. Hence, I was of the opinion that the edit was "blatantly nonproductive", especially considering it was re-done after being reverted. I will also concede that I should have used the "NPOV" message first time around, and I will endeavour to be more careful on this point in the future. However, I still think that characterising it was "unjust" is a bit unnecessarily emotive - "unjust" would have been slapping a final warning template or reporting them straight to AIV. I like to think I'm not that heavy handed =) Lankiveil (speak to me) 12:48, 10 June 2008 (UTC).
I apologise for branding your actions as 'unjust.' That was harsh. Happy editing and well done on the RC patrol today, beat me many times to vandalism :P ——Ryan | t • c 13:06, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
No problems, and no hard feelings here. Happy editing! Lankiveil (speak to me) 13:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC).

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for raising your concerns on my RfA. I'm going to try and improve and make the changes you and other editors advised, so i'll hopefully see you again when i try again in 6 months or so. Ironholds 21:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)