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[edit] C&P Move

Thanks for warning me about my recent cut and paste move. I am an IP address and therefore cannot move normally, so I resorted to CPMing. However, I still think Mccafe should be moved to McCafé. 69.255.170.118 (talk) 01:35, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello IP, the GFDL is the license we use here and all edits have to be compatible with it. Original authors have to be credited (4B), otherwise it is a copyright violation because it looks like you are the only author of the whole content, what isn't the case. As I already wrote on your talk page, if you can't move a page yourself, list it at requested moves. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:24, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For protecting Evolution from vandalism, I'd like to award you with this Phoenix-wiki 11:00, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:55, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Yikes!

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		You're too good at this. You've beaten me like five times today. Maybe more! 21655 τalk/ ʃign 20:01, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! You've beaten me also very often :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:09, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Multiple IP abuse

I took another couple down: [1] - I've followed your lead of 3 hour blocks for them. Rjd0060 suggests a range block if there are anymore beyond those 3. Scarian^{Call me Pat!} 20:06, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. The minimal range seems to be 122.162.128.0/18 (16384 IPs), but he seems to have stopped now. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		You have been one of pillars of wikipedia through your diligence, vigilance, and determination on cleaning up Wikipedia Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 20:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:49, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Block of 67.83.130.161

Thanks for blocking the IP address 67.83.130.161. Someone using this IP address was driving me crazy. NHRHS2010 |  Talk to me  01:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:39, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies - P Ramlee

Just wanting to apologise in case I accidently reverted a goodfaith revert by yourself on the above article. I think we were both reverting at the same time. Jasynnash2 (talk) 12:08, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, actually you didn't revert me, but the edits from 218.111.246.153 which don't look like vandalism, but you may know better. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:17, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why Did You Give Me a Warning!

It's My First Time On Wikipedia so I did not know that you could get Warnings, I am Very sorry To Martijn Hoekstra and I will never Do That Again, please could you Take away my Warning, if Possible.

Regards FederationKOSOVO —Preceding unsigned comment added by FederationKOSOVO (talk • contribs) 12:41, 8 Apr 2008

Better you apologize at User_talk:Martijn Hoekstra. Please don't vandalize Wikipedia again and take a look at the welcome page to learn how to edit constructively. You may remove the warnings from your talk page. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

How may I discontinue my account. The lack of respect for the great William "Willie" Shearer (praise be upon him) in this website, quite frankly, disgusts me and I have every wish to delete myself rather than give someone else the satisfaction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevieboi-2k7 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 9 Apr 2008

Accounts can't be deleted, but you can simply stop editing. --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] rc patrol

It occurred to me you might know the template - there used to be one, I think - for labeling "related IPs", as when an article is vandalized in exactly the same way two minutes after a vandal is blocked. (My last two or three blocks of vandals are an instance of this). I'm signing off for now, but if you know what the template is, can you let me know? Regards, Kaisershatner (talk) 17:58, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

There's a warning template ({{uw-multipleIPs}}), but I can't remember a post-block template for IPs without an sockmaster account, sorry. Probably you're asking due to VHS/Camera/DVD/...-IPs — these look like dynamic IPs and will probably never be used by that person again, so the only effect of labeling them would be that the next users who get these IPs assigned could feel offended. --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:14, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I will read up on dynamic IPs as well. Also, thanks for your vandal fighting and nice working with you. Kaisershatner (talk) 21:19, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:47, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:131.xxx. IP

OK, he's been unblocked. Seeing its only my fourth or fifth block in the few months as an admin, it wasn't the greatest. Oh well, thanks for mentioning that.^Mitch32^contribs 10:45, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Answer --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:58, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 24.0.21.173 is vandalizing again

Hello. Last month you blocked 24.0.21.173 for 104 hours. He has now repeated the same vandalism he did earlier at Edward Mendelson. Many thanks for looking into this. Macspaunday (talk) 01:27, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

He's now repeated the vandalism a couple of minutes after being reverted. Macspaunday (talk) 01:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

And another repeated vandalism at Plagiarism. Macspaunday (talk) 01:31, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Threat and general "un-niceness"

Hi. It looks like this anon that you blocked left you a pretty nasty message here. Thought you would like to know. --Ubardak (talk) 07:53, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, I've removed the it. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:38, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:

I hate the dates in my signatures :-/ So, I don't want to have it in a personal template. Exists {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}}/{{CURRENTMONTH}}/{{CURRENTYEAR}} (CEST) --> 07:20, 9/06/2008 (CEST). Bye, MOJSKA 666 - Leave a message here 16:42, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quick Block

Hey. I would just like to say thanks loads for the speedy block on User:Wælgæst wæfre that you added earlier. I hope this thanks will make your day batter :). ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 09:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually I have to thank you for reporting, otherwise I had noticed it only later if at all. But I think 6 Minutes from the first malicious page move to the block is improvable ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:04, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Take that musical

Waste of time, if you look at the edit history, light defender is clearly employed or connected to the musical - his edits are a) to promote the musical and b) to remove any sourced material that demonstrates that take that are not connected to the musical. This has been explained to him by multiple editors on the COI board and his own page - he's just not interested. --87.112.25.245 (talk) 10:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh and there is no "potential" about it, he has breached 3rr on 3 articles and has been reported as such at the 3rr board. --87.112.25.245 (talk) 10:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

(ec) This is no reason to edit-war using multiple IPs. Please stop it. As you seem familiar with Wikipedia's conflict resolution possibilities, please use these instead. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:34dude9

Take a look at 34dude9, in particular this and Thebeansare who you just blocked. Rather than just block and have someone complain about me taking "revenge" I thought I would pass it on to you. It reminds me of someone but I can't think of who. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 11:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

And also the recent edits at ghost and toilet are interesting. Should file an IP-check? --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:10, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Probably it reminds you of this ANI thread, seems to be a Vodafone NZ IP then. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:00, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Could be but I'm not sure. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 12:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Just found out that Google says it is User:Random-5000 :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for protecting my talk page

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for reverting the vandalism to my user talk page before I could even figure out what happened, and for blocking the vandal-only account responsible before I could even find out who did it. CrazyChemGuy (talk) 21:16, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! But I don't want to adorn myself with borrowed plumes, User:Bobak beat me at the block. --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:22, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] sorry,User Page deleted

Hello

Sorry, I was aware of the information to take into mind before making the page. I will take care of the guidence in near future. Please send me the refernce links for the same.

thanks CCSvini —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccsvini (talk • contribs) 11:12, 18 Apr 2008

Hello Ccsvini, sorry, which reference links do you need? Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] quick this morning

My, you were quick off the ball this morning. Since you are about, something you might want to take a look at and quick put an end to this series of articles. Their are thousands of windows error messages, none of which are notable in our terms - also the provision of "solutions" is a clear breach of WP:NOT a how to guide. anyway, I'm off to my other ISP to do some editing. --87.115.11.40 (talk) 11:23, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suspected sockpuppets

Hi Oxymoron83, thanks for the note. I did report Runtshit to AIV once before, without success because I didn't know the name of the master puppetter at the time. When I do file there in the future, do I just write: suspected sockpuppet of User:Runtshit? thanks. Tiamut^talk 11:35, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I found only one report to AIV from you, which was successful? You can keep the comment as short as reasonable for these permanent vandals, it's unnecessary to gather the diffs, because it delays your report and lets the socks waste your time. So your proposal above is a good way of reporting. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:58, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

For this. The delete and move function must hate me. Or I mixed up my tabs. Or something. Thanks though. seresin ( ¡? ) 09:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

And here's one for you:

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		for dealing with that oh-so-much-fun Grawp vandalisms. seresin ( ¡? ) 09:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. Hopefully I won't have to use it soon :D seresin ( ¡? ) 09:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:45, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Armenian Genocide

Hi, Oxymoron83! As the April 24 is coming, maybe its better to protect the Armenian Genocide article for these days to not have more vandalism during this pariod. Best wishes and thanks for your work, Andranikpasha (talk) 12:44, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Andranikpasha, the page is already semi-protected; I've protected the page against moves by non-admins. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:53, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Andranikpasha (talk) 19:51, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppet

I noticed you blocked Maininputty for sock puppetry. Spotswhile and Beingrate46 may also be sock puppets of the same person. Identical recent edits are shown here and here. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 14:34, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Arx Fortis, after some consideration: Done and also the newest sock User:Kloot67. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:55, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Good show. FYI: Same edits by this unregistered user, although it seems quiet for now. I have reverted all the edits made my that user. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 04:43, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Willisis2

Thank you for letting me know about the guidelines for redirecting. Willisis2 (talk) 15:52, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello Willisis2, please leave your user + talk page at the place it is, there's no reason to move it. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:56, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] hiru txirlo

Thanks for deleting the page, I was going to ask how you do that! Akerbeltz (talk) 21:06, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

You can put {{db-self}} on a page when you are the only author of the whole content and want it deleted. But it's better to prepare a new page in your userspace, e. g. at User:Akerbeltz/Articlename to see if you're happy with the content before moving to the main space. Grüße --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah thanks, that's useful to know. I was happy with the content - it still exists - but I moved it back to the main page on Basque bowls to avoid too many short pages connected with that article. Akerbeltz (talk) 21:32, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Steve 1521

Vielen Dank. Ich bin ganz neu und weiß nicht, was ich noch tun.Steve 1521 (talk) 22:36, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello Steve, if you write in English rather than using automated translation, I would be able to understand you. --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] hi im new here

and dont know how to use it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.121.162.147 (talk • contribs) 23:42, 21 Apr 2008

Hello, please take a look at the welcome page and Getting started to learn some basics. If you have additional questions, I'm glad to help. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sock

No, go ahead, I didn't pick that up Jimfbleak (talk) 11:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! --Aleenf1 17:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] well done

on catching the vandal on refied beans. i mean, i'd only just een it in rc an by then you'd reverted it! r u god?--MPKellett (talk) 19:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

No, I only use VF and Twinkle. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Minima Moralia

If you have a moment, I would like your opinion on this matter. Reading through the Adorno article, I came across this dab page, the existence of which is nonsensical to me. There are currently no articles for either the "Romanian book" nor for the piece of musci---both of which entries connect to their respective articles---so, why do we need a dab page? Minima Moralia should go directly to the Adorno book, since this is the most widely-known usage. Given that there are no other relevant entries, the dab page should be removed altogether, methinks. What do you think? ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 20:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I also think that this page should redirect to the Adorno book, because this is the only article with this title and there are 50 times more GHits for this book than for the Andrei Pleşu book. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:41, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Did I make a mistake in the page move? I think I made it more complicated for myself than I needed to... Let me know if I did something wrong so that I can not make the same mistake again. Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 15:18, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

You carried out a cut&paste move there instead of moving the page, what removed the original authors who are required by the GFDL for attribution. If you aren't able to move the page yourself like in this case, you have several possibilities:

• tag the target article with {{db-move|Minima Moralia (Adorno book)|reason}} or
• list the articles at WP:RM or
• you could have asked me as I already knew what you wanted to do ;)

Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

I saw that you were taking part in this conversation about the HAGGER vandals and wondering whether you can help me what is it that those square boxes represent after the word. I posted a question on the help desk here and i got the response that your computer or browser doesn't have that character and so its represented by a square. Is that correct. Just want to make sure, i think you'll have the correct answer for me. Thanks 220.239.52.180 (talk) 13:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's correct. Some time ago, when I had no Chinese and Japanese fonts installed, all the interwiki links to pages in these languages were represented by squares on my PC. After installing the fonts, they show up correctly. The character which caused the "problem" on your browser is the En space (U+2002, more info). --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:58, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Project

Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight (talk) 06:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

Thanks for this. I was getting bored of reverting. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 08:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:40, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalismus

Nice work hanging those socks out to dry! WilliamH (talk) 21:25, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

This is a long term vandal at de:Wikipedia. If you want to report users to UAA that were not recently created, it is recommended to check their block log first to avoid reports of users that were blocked ages ago, like in this case. Keep up the good work. --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:20, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page

Thanks for the revert. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:20, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:15, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

And again. That guy must be bored. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 07:59, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Seems like he/she was bored with his/her own vandalism finally (at least for today...) ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Harald V vandal

Seems to me this is the same guy...Inge (talk) 08:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for spotting that. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal on French people.

Hi, there's a registered user who vandalized this article a couple of days ago[2] I recently checked his contributions, and he has vandalized a few other pages as well. Judged by the fact that he repeatedly writes a singal word over and over when he vandalizes, do you think he could be the IP who wrote "WEINER" all over that user's talk page a while back? (see above) Winnifred-Ian-Leonard-Harry-Ellen-Lucy-Marilyn-Ingrid-Nora-Amanda Walter-Ira-Lauren-Lalla (talk) 21:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't find the IP. Which one are you referring to? --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

This one: 67.83.130.161. Winnifred-Ian-Leonard-Harry-Ellen-Lucy-Marilyn-Ingrid-Nora-Amanda Walter-Ira-Lauren-Lalla (talk) 22:33, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

The only correlation between those two seems to be the repeated use of signal words. During RC patrol, I sometimes encounter IPs which show similar behavior, but are from different geographic locations. Moreover, as the edits from the two users mentioned are more than a month away from each other, I don't think that those two are the same. But 65.220.101.2 was probably the same person who made the edits from 67.83.130.161 (likely school and home IP). --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:03, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wives and wiki's

Tune in to the bottom of the IOOF thread on my talk...

• But don't know why this became or I left as a redink... too much text juggling in too little time is best guess. But please connect the dots after speedy undelete.

• Alternative, is to take the main article to singular tense, automatically creating the redirect... but affecting a lot of articles. IMHO, the wrong thing here...
       (Contrary indicator: Category now matches the main article title... a good thing — which brings back restoring your speedy delete with proper fix.)
• Bottom line, lucky the wife didn't smack me as she brought me a hot plate of food whilst I was trying to close out the repair on IOOF... so I didn't catch it. As you can also infer from my talk, I'm not really happy with wikisociety these days anyway. Especially speedy D...
  • so why didn't you just fix it? Good editors fix, not rack up edit counts breaking things. Why didn't you check what links here?

Links: :connect this to Fraternal and service organizations. // FrankB 17:08, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

P.S. -- This place is out of control... "right thing" and "wrong thing" now missing... sheesh! Too many kids lacking the prospective of experience blindly following arbitrary rules and applying them too strictly... so deleting useful things and confusing it with progress. Activity and action are not equivalent to progress and better! And then people wonder why so many admins and good editors stop contributing. Hah!

The page was a redirect to itself, what doesn't make sense. The deletion doesn't prevent anyone from creating a redirect to a proper target. --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hmm...

So in 2025, are you going to be around to reissue the block? =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 23:54, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

He also made 1 good edit, so I thought indef would be a bit excessive. ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:58, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

For the protection of the Leona Lewis article. Very much appreciated. Acalamari 01:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Smb could be to blame for it ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pagemove vandalism

Heya, I've move protected your user and user talk :) -- lucasbfr ^talk 14:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

For reverting the vandalism on my page, looks like that IP just doesn't like me, looks like im doing something right then:) And also may i thank you for dealing with the page moves in ultra quick time. I dont know how you do it so fast and i really dont want to know, its great that at all hours of the day everything is mostly under control. You would know that Persian Poet Gal was dealing with it until the wee small hours of the night her time and now you. Thank You so much for well, doing what you do best. Roadrunnerz45 ^{(talk 2 me)} 11:18, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Somebody hates you right now

Right now, some nobody just made an article, claiming that you and fellow users East718, Lucasbfr, MBisanz and Thatcher do very nasty stuff (especially with remarks equating to homosexuality). If I was in your place right now, I'd probably blocked him/her indef (including IP Addresses). Nobody messes around with people like you. For this, give them this. No sockpuppet nor IP can get in the way of the hard work done by millions of (responsible) Wikipedians. -iaNLOPEZ1115 · TaLKBaCK · Vandalize it 10:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] And I you

Thanks for your timely revert and block of that vandal. As always it is much appreciated. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 22:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

As always, you're very welcome :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:48, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:HAU has a new format

Due to popular demand, HAU has a new look. Since the changes are so dramatic, I may have made some mistakes when translating the data. Please take a look at WP:HAU/EU and make sure your checkmarks are in the right place and feel free to add or remove some. There is a new feature, SoxBot V, a recently approved bot, automatically updates your online/offline status based on the length of time since your last edit. To allow SoxBot V to do this, you'll need to copy [[Category:Wikipedians who use StatusBot]] to your userpage. Obviously you are not required to add this to your userpage, however, without this, your status will always be "offline" at HAU. Thanks. Useight (talk) 17:19, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for protecting Shahbag. It's a wonder to find how even low-interest articles can fall victim to vandalism. :( Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 02:39, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem. --Oxymoron⁸³ 05:09, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Warning

I recently got a warning from you "== October 2007 ==

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Critical path method, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:39, 15 October 2007 (UTC)"

However this is not my IP nor am I on a public network. And this warning is 7 months old on a subject i have no interset in let alone expertise to contribute with.

What is going on here. Is there some IP conflict or an IP compromise? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.107.184 (talk • contribs) 15:28, 19 May 2008

Hello, you're using dynamic IP addresses, even the IP you used to write this message is different from the IP that edited the article. You may create an account to avoid future confusion. --Oxymoron⁸³ 03:58, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] It's WikiWorm202

You deleted a whole page and you block people for vandalism. Shame on you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiWorm202 (talk • contribs) 12:15, 24 May 2008

[edit] User:75.47.158.106

Hi, Oxymoron83; I think here we may have a disruptive user. Several days back, I created a redirect which an IP had suggested in AFC. Granted, they did not provide a source, but I didn't think that a redirect needs to be sourced (maybe I'm wrong on that). However, this user came onto my talk page, and warned me about "creating hoaxes" on Wikipedia, and even said I need to learn how to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. They then reverted themselves, and when I restored the message, they tried to remove it again. They appear to have bothered at least one other user, judged by their contributions. I don't know enough about the policies regarding IPs to know what this constitutes, but do you think the admins should keep their eyes peeled for this one or not? The ''Gorgeous Girl''!!! (talk) 23:30, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Already blocked by someone in the meantime. Looks like a long-term problematic user. --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 1957 Dallas Tornado Outbreak

You speedy-deleted this article some time ago, I was just wondering what the page contained. I seem to remember it being a useful page, but I may be mistaken (I may re-create it with sources soon if you don't mind). Thanks in advance -RunningOnBrains 04:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

There was only one edit that created the page with 'it was alot of bullshit you know'. Probably Dallas tornado outbreak of April 1957 is the article you remembered. --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking of 193.120.116.180

hi, I'm User:Dalta, the above IP, my own, was blocked, the reason given was 'Vandalism'. I have never engaged in any vandalism on a Wikipedia or Wikimedia website. Not only that but I have barely edited any pages in the last few years. I would like to know what the specific reasons for this were, what vandalism did i engage in and when. Also, according to the Wikipedia:Appealing blocks page, there should be information given on the block template informing me how to unblock it, this was not provided. I will also be informing another administrator of these events. - User:Dalta —Preceding comment added by 83.70.239.21 (talk • contribs) 13:08, 31 May 2008

wow, you've just admitted to socking and vandalism as [[3]] and other shows show vandalism by that IP. I'll let Oxy decide what to do here. — Rlevse • Talk • 13:12, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I just looked at the talk page of the IP, previously I was looking at the Dalta talk page. I can see now the vandalism, however, this is not me, I can assure you. I don't know the reasons, maybe it's a shared IP or something. Can anyone help me with this problem. If you look at the history of edits by 'Dalta', you'll see no malicious or vandalous edits. - User:Dalta —Preceding comment added by 83.70.239.21 (talk • contribs) 13:17, 31 May 2008

Looks like 193.120.116.128/25 is used by Hutchison 3G for their (mobile?) customers to access the internet using proxy servers, whereas 193.120.116.177 block log, 193.120.116.178 block log, 193.120.116.179 block log and193.120.116.180 block log are the only IPs used to access Wikipedia. As you can see, there is frequent vandalism from these IPs, what results in equally frequent blocks. Since you have an account, you can log in to edit and should not be affected by the IP block.

--Oxymoron⁸³ 09:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] moin

frage: ich suche für das portal wirtschaft öfter nach ergänzungen. mein monobook funktioniert hier nicht, kann ich deins übernehmen? danke und gruß --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 17:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Ja klar, allerdings solltest du User:Oxymoron83/monobook-noadmin.js nehmen, weil sonst z. B. die Reverts nicht funktionieren. Grüße --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:28, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

bedankt :), gruß --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 17:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Gerne. --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the semi-prot on California Gold Rush

Thanks for the one month semi-prot on California Gold Rush. NorCalHistory (talk) 17:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem. --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] buddhism vandalism fixes

thank you for cleaning up vandalism on the Buddhism page.  :-) I have to ask though, how do you catch those so fast? you fixed two bad edits in 60 seconds, which impresses the hell out of me. --Ludwigs2 (talk) 20:18, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

There are some tools available, such as vandal fighter which I use, where you can see the edits at the second they are made. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for reverting vandalism on my user page. All best wishes, --Wloveral (talk) 11:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Black hat

There must have been some kind of mistake, causa I didn't edit Black hat. []s —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.51.71.228 (talk • contribs) 15:36, 3 Jun 2008

Hello, please see the message at the bottom of your talk page. You're probably using dynamic IP addresses, my message from November 2007 was sent to the user who got this IP address assigned at that time. You may create an account to avoid future confusion. --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:HAU

Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 22:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Are You Obtuse?

How do you plan on warning one specific 5th grader out of over 15,000 students + hundreds of staffers and teachers? I know for a fact that these warnings end up not reaching the vandal in question because, GUESS WHAT!!! I get them instead, as a heavy wikipedia user, I see the new message alerts and thus receive the warnings. The shared IP should be blocked from editing *because* of the continued and most certainly never ending vandalism that comes from it. Unless you know some secret to making sure every last person in the district never edits wikipedia unconstructively, the warnings will continue to go unheeded and ignored forever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carterhawk (talk • contribs) 19:25, 7 Jun 2008

Believe me, I've some experience with different types of IPs, and those you tagged aren't used by 15,000+ students at the same time. There's a realistic chance that the warning reaches the user who vandalized. And again, the IPs will not be blocked unless they vandalize, there are some students who want to edit constructively. Your edits would only discourage them. Please sign your talk page edits using ~~~~. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My Rfa

Thanks, Oxymoron83, 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 23:16, 8 June 2008 (UTC)