User talk:Newguineafan

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[edit] A welcome from Sango123

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-- Sango 123 15:13, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you need help with anything or simply wish to say hello. :)

[edit] ITN

I have a rather high and possibly unique opinion of what goes on ITN - Stories of massive or quirky importance, and those news stories that are very encyclopedic. The space shuttle landing, finding an ancient temple in Jerusalem, and the largest bank robbery in history was. A couple of folks killing a cop doesn't really cut it IMO. That happens every day in dozens of countries, all that was notable in this case was that it also included a public jailbreak. It was big news in America for a few hours. Now, don't get me wrong - if another admin adds it, I won't revert it, out of deference for their choice, but I personally don't think it qualifies. --Golbez 20:42, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Isharon.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Quack_and_peep.gif

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:HyatteFront.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:HyatteProfile.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Budd Lake -15.jpg

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[edit] Autoblocks

When a username is blocked, the underlying IP address is also blocked temporarily. The block should expire after a day or so. -- Curps 03:26, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Can you give the exact message you get when you see a "blocked" message? You haven't given enough information for me to be able to do an unblock. -- Curps 02:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Neither your account name or the IP address you gave have been blocked as far as I can see, so it's probably an autoblock. An autoblock is usually a block on some other person's username, which causes the underlying IP address to get blocked. Can you let me know what that other username is? That's the only way to look up the autoblock to remove it. -- Curps 02:50, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AID

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Contact lens was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help…

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Venture.jpg

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[edit] Homer Simpson wins!

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This week Homer Simpson was selected to be improved to featured article status.
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Joyous | Talk 18:34, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Palindromic words

Your recent edit to Palindromic words was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // Tawkerbot2 01:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Beavis and Butthead Kids Edition: The Cool Kids. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. If this is an IP address, and it is shared by multiple users, ignore this warning if you did not make any unconstructive edits. Llort 01:11, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking

{{unblock|This is a test for my pro-Wikipedia website, ilovewikipedia. It is proving that Wikipedia has a superb counter-vandalism policy. My tests are complete now and if you can unblock me, that would be great. For proof of my test, go to [http://www.freewebs.com/ilovewikipedia]. I love Wikipedia and I would love to get back to editing now.}}

Hey there, your username isn't showing up in the block log. The block message you get should include your IP address. Can you please paste that here or email it to me? Thanks. .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 01:40, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Jareth,

Here is a copy of the warning I got. If you want to read it over, it is below:

User is blocked From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Sango123 for the following reason (see our blocking policy): vandalism

Your IP address is 69.115.8.27.

You are not blocked from reading pages, only from editing them. If you were only intending to read a page and are seeing this message, you probably followed a red link. These are links to pages that do not exist, so they take users to an editing screen. You should have no problem if you follow only blue links.

If you would like to know when the block will expire, please search for your name or IP on the block list.

If the reason given is "username", "user...", or "contact an administrator for verification purposes", then you or someone with whom you share an IP address has most likely been blocked for choosing an inappropriate or suspicious username. Please read our username policy for more information. If you do not feel that the name is inappropriate, or if the name was registered by somebody other than yourself, please contact the blocking administrator, as described below. Innocent?

Sometimes IP ranges or shared proxies are blocked from editing Wikipedia. This means that innocent people sometimes can't edit. If this is the case, it should be explained in the reason given above.

Also, some individual dynamic IP addresses may be blocked, usually for a 24 hour period. Occasionally, users with dynamic IPs will be blocked accidentally, due to that fact that their present IP was previously used by a blocked user.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If this problem affects you repeatedly, and you would like to help us resolve this issue, you will need to contact a Wikipedia administrator and your internet service provider (ISP). The administrator should be able to obtain the time, date, and IP address used for the inappropriate behaviour in question, and describe what the problem was. You can then pass this information on to your ISP, explaining that you are unable to edit Wikipedia due to the inappropriate actions of another person using this ISP, and ask them to remedy the problem. What to do next

You can either wait for the block to expire, or contact Sango123 to resolve the problem that led to the block.

If you wish to contact Sango123, you may do so via email Sango123, or by adding "{{unblock}}" to your user talk page (which you can edit even while blocked, unless it is protected) to request unblocking.

If after discussing the matter with Sango123 you believe the block is unfair, you may contact Wikipedia for assistance. You must include: Your IP address, which is 69.115.8.27 The name of the blocking admin, which is Sango123 The reason you were blocked, which is: vandalism Copies of your correspondence with Sango123

Note that you may not use the "email this user" feature unless you have a Wikipedia account and a valid email address registered in your user preferences.

If you need to see the wiki text of an article, you may wish to use the Export pages feature or download the raw wikitext. Editing from China?

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Please read Wikipedia:Advice to AOL users.

Return to Wikipedia:Searching. Newguineafan 20:14, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Certainly unimpressed. Do not vandalise wikipedia, if you want to find out how good out counter vandalism is. Ask. --pgk^(talk) 08:48, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I got it for you. Looks like you got caught in an IP block. If you edit from school or work, you might want to have a talk with the network administrators, someone is doing a lot of vandalism anonymously from that IP address. If you're with an internet provider that funnels everyone so they look like they're from the same IP address, you may run into this problem again :( .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 09:01, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Papua New Guinea

Hi, and thanks for the barnstar. I'd be very happy to help you get the PNG portal organised, but for the next three weeks I'm sitting a series of exams, so do you mind if we leave it until after that?-gadfium 22:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I have some time now. The most pressing problem is to get a series of selected articles for the portal. It was set up to have a weekly selected article, but I think that is far too ambitious. A monthly rotation would be more sensible. Can you please make a list of a dozen or so possible articles that have a bit of meat to them and which include a picture. The articles don't have to be featured articles, but they need to be at least of reasonable quality. The aim is to showcase Wikipedia content about PNG. Ideally, the selected articles should be quite diverse, so some would be about cities or other locations, some biographies, some history, some cultural. Put the list on the Portal talk:Papua New Guinea page.

I'll set up an initial article now, using a previous selected article from Portal:Oceania.-gadfium 01:48, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, are you still interested in maintaining the PNG portal?-gadfium 09:01, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

That list looks very good. It's an excellent balance of geography, history, biography and other topics. Some of the articles don't have much in the way of suitable pictures, but you can use maps or coats of arms if you want. Really, you make the rules, I'm just giving advice. We could also get some satellite shots for the geographical articles if you want. Do you have NASA Worldwind? It's a similar program to Google Earth, but screenshots from Worldwind, unlike Google Earth, are free for use. If you don't want to download it (it's about 75 MB from memory and needs a broadband connection to run), I'll use it to upload shots of Gulf of Papua, Bougainville and New Britain.

The next step is to make writeups for each, similar to the one I made for Culture of Papua New Guinea at Portal:Papua New Guinea/Selected article/06, 2006. You can use Portal:Papua New Guinea/Selected article/07, 2006 for your first write up, and when it's ready we'll set up the portal to use it. I've set up the List of selected articles to include that second one. You might like to just copy the entire contents of the first selected article to the new one, and then adjust the picture and writeup; that way you've already got the basic layout.-gadfium 20:04, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I've moved your selected article list to Portal talk:Papua New Guinea, as I'd archived my talk page.-gadfium 02:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Please stop. If you continue to target users' pages for vandalism, as you did with User:Tim_Starling you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Pifactorial 23:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, sorry. I guess he was really encouraging vandalism. You may resume. :P --Pifactorial 00:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HeadOn commercial

Hey! Well, the new version of the commercial has appeared on both Fox News Channel and CNN from what I have seen, one version with a white woman with frizzy hair, another with a black man, both going a little crazy repeating the commercial and hating it, then ending it with "but man they make a good product" or something along those lines Chris (Talk) (Contribs) 22:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Atlantic Records

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[edit] Chain Hang Low

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Chain Hang Low. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Gdo01 00:43, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock request

We can't unblock you at this time, because you haven't given us the information we need to even look into your block. You yourself were not blocked; if you were prevented from editing, you must have been autoblocked or blocked because of your IP address. I'm removing your unblock request because there's nothing we can do without this information. If you are still autoblocked by the time you read this message:

Try and edit the Wikipedia:Sandbox by clicking here.
Copy the {{unblock-auto|...}} code generated for you under the "Autoblocked?" section.
Paste the code at the bottom of your user talk page and click save.

If you are not blocked from editing the sandbox then the autoblock on your IP address has already expired and need not do anything more. Luna Santin 22:47, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

<<unblock-auto>>

We cannot look into your block without more information, so please: what's the IP address? Who's the blocking admin? Who's the original blockee? What's the block summary? I'd love to help you, but I need something to work with, first. =\ Luna Santin 00:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry Luna, I forgot to put the info! My IP address is 69.115.8.27. The blocking admin was RyanGerbil10. The block summary was "Repeated vandalism", and the original block was issued to the IP 69.115.8.27. Hope this helps!

Newguineafan 00:08, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Got it. :) I've converted the block on the IP to anon-only, so you should be able to edit, now. Luna Santin 00:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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