User talk:Pgk/Archive4

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[edit] Thank you

Thanks for reverting my userpage. DVD+ R/W 23:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Ditto my talkpage today. Not long before User:Mad Turkey is no more, I suspect... Best wishes, David Kernow 18:49, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AOL proxies vs. dynamically assigned

Thanks for the comment on my talk page about AOL IP ranges. Just to make sure that I understand it, are the 172... addresses typically kept by one user for multiple page loads and for as long as they are online, or for perhaps extended periods of time like days? --Ed (Edgar181) 19:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the timely reversion of that vandalism to my userpage. --Alf melmac 23:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Klaimers

Hi, no it's definitely not my bot. I've never heard of it, and I'm not brainy enough to operate a bot! Cheers. AnnH ♫ 20:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You get a Barnstar for that one....ewww

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For reverting a bit of Disgusting Vandalism (To say the least) on our featured article today. Good job. Æon Insane Ward 21:25, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


I really hope you were not to sick when you reverted. Æon Insane Ward 21:25, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks! : )

Thanks pgk for lifting my ban.

Much apppriciated!

=D

[edit] User:Pilotgoy

It's an impostor of User:Pilotguy... --Bigtop 20:19, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] But what????

How can I transfer all i have done to my new account?(userpage, talk page, archives, history, ect.ect.)

How can I transfer all i have done to my new account?(userpage, talk page, archives, history, ect.ect.)

Also once I have transferred all of my stuff I will Let you know and you Can obliterate that account.

snicker, snicker, I changed my password and totally forgot about it when you blocked me.OOPS!!!

Thanks for the protection,--Missingno 21:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No I cant

because they dont work. I will give you all the pass words I put down before changing my password. bionicle, horse, qwerty, and makuta. Can you hack Wikipedia and retrieve my pass word??HeHe I was thinking about billy bob when coming up with an account.

Thanks for the protection,--Missingno 21:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Who can

Then who can because I cannot remember no matter what. I had every thing written down from password A. Now none of those passwords work. Could someone have accessed my account by accidnt and changed the password? Any Ideas for my user page? It is quite irritating seeing the red there.

--Missingno 21:47, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for the help

thank you,--Missingno·(talk) (contribs) 22:21, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

--Missingno·(talk) (contribs) 19:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

smaller


[edit] and smaller

[edit] ophelia105

hi - thanks for your prompt reply - my user name has only recently turned red and struck out so I can't see why it has anything to do with my user page - I have never done anything on my user page - also if you check my contributions you will see that my user name is red and struck out - if you can't see it then it is probably my end - in fact a lot of the article i open have other, previously blue, links which are now the same - i am a bit worried about this - please could you have another look? many thanks Ophelia105 17:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

aaah no panic - it seemed to have righted itself - thanks anyway (but it did happen - honest!) Ophelia105 17:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] user:Yrymar

I thought I would bring it to your attention that the user Yrymar appears to exist solely to advertise Maxim magazine. It looks like it will be quite an undertaking at this point to revert all of that user's spamming unless administrators have some sort of tool that would be more effective. Chicken Wing 21:30, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Agent 11

On 28 July, you blocked Agent 11 indefinitely, as a Troll. When doing so, you disabled account creation from that IP. Somehow, this seems to have also prevented his brother, User:Chombawomba, from editing. Do you know why this is? --David Mestel(Talk) 11:26, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Just an autoblock, pgk. I've dealt with it and told the blocked user he should now be free. ➨ ЯEDVERS 21:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oh, jeez...

Looks like I accidentally welcomed a vandal (User:Railer 227). I didn't recognize the username as one similar to a vandal's.... Maybe I just forgot or missed it? Anyway, sorry for my mistake...I assure you I would never knowingly welcome or support a vandal. Srose (talk) 17:28, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] bot problems and human solutions

"The onl y solution to this problem is a human one, people should include accurate information when they upload files, people should only use fair use claims when absolutely necessary, people should attempt to find alternate images to make the use of fair use redundant, people shouldn't get annoyed with a bot which does a vital task in wikipedia attempting to keep it clean of images used without proper permission or justification." (source) <-- This strikes me as flirting with a double standard. Wikipedia should do everything possible to educate contributors and guide them towards adding proper information about images. Maybe the fact that so many people do a poor job of providing information is in part Wikipedia's fault. In my view, the image upload interface has problems and could be better. Also, we should do everything possible to make sure that honest contributors are not alienated by bots. I have lost track of all the times that bots have made stupid decisions about images I have uploaded, so I know from personal experience that these bots have caused problems (I'm personally not sure they do a worse job than humans, but that does not help people who feel that bots have done damage). Each complaint about bots should be discussed with sensitivity and addressed with care. I think that we do not want Wikipedians to experience this kind of double standard: "we need not think about how our poorly-automated file upload interface adds to the problem, human users of the interface just need to be more careful" and "we will ignore problems caused by our bots because they save us from doing so much work". --JWSchmidt 14:28, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

"An interface forcing entry of such data wouldn't help they'd enter something to keep it happy and we'd then no doubt have a harder job of tracking down those images." <-- Maybe all the bots are a false solution that avoids the real problem. The current file upload system does nothing to prevent people from uploading files with false information about source and licensing. File uploads could easily be restricted to registered users with confirmed email addresses. When a file is uploaded, source licensing information could be required to be selected from a set of menus. If at any future time the source or licensing information was found to be wrong, the file could be deleted and that user could be blocked from further uploads. This would be a real step towards a solution to the actual problem and along the way we could create a better file upload interface for honest Wikipedians. --JWSchmidt 15:34, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User: Evilowen2

So, I'm guessing you weren't bowled over by Nick's unblock request. Somehow I didn't think that was going to work. Fan-1967 16:33, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page

Thanks for reverting my talk page - that guy (YourCousin and his sockpuppets) has been after me since yesterday. --Mr. Lefty Talk to me! 16:43, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Per the above. I know you have good intent at heart, but please don't remove comments from my talk page before asking. Thanks. Attic Owl 20:52, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Alright...

Forget it, i'll just use Firefox. Thanks anyway for the help. Foster2008 21:45, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:WiC

Another user changed an image to Image:Commipedia.png which is not vandalism [1]. It is used on this template. I've reverted it back. -- ADNghiem501 22:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request to delete account

Thanks for your patience and advice, but I do not any longer desire to be part of the wikipedia community. If you are able to, and if you wish, you may delete the user pages of Raymond Luxury Yacht (pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove") and biggus dickus, or block them or whatever. I will put my energy somewhere else and practise the art of not being seen. May you have a long and prosperous life!Raymond Luxury Yacht 01:04, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Ferick

There is a RfC open on this user. As he has been blocked, I cannot see how is he going to be able to respond. Let me know what you think. Regards, E Asterion u talking to me? 09:25, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Personally, I do not think he is showing the attitude to deal with any criticism. I just think that the 3RR block will add on to his beliefs of being subjected to a witch hunt. Thanks, E Asterion u talking to me? 09:37, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
PS: I left a note on the Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Ferick page to let people know he is currently blocked. Regards, E Asterion u talking to me? 09:39, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fix for AOL/IP problems

This is the information I was given. It seemed to go into place, and I was given a number of block free days. It was wonderful. But now the autoblocks have emerged again. So -- I wondered what had happened to this fix. Perhaps it was a temporary step along the way to a better solution? Thanks for your help. WBardwin 19:05, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[2]

  • Allow blocks on anonymous users only (bug 550)
  • Allow or disallow account creation from blocked IP addressess on a per-block basis.
  • Prevent duplicate blocks.
  • Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting multiple blocks.
  • Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user attempts to create an account.
  • Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an indexed pager.

[edit] Thank you

I would just like to say thank you for the unblock. DavidJJJ 21:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


I understand. Actually, it appears I'm no longer blocked. Originally when I was trying to edit earlier, the msg said I was blocked from editing due to vandalism, hence my references to it. My thanks for your help though.

[edit] Thanks

I understand. Actually, it appears I'm no longer blocked. Originally when I was trying to edit earlier, the msg said I was blocked from editing due to vandalism, hence my references to it. My thanks for your help though.

[edit] Protecting Scary Movie 5

I know I'm nobody special but Regina Hall confirmed on 106 and Park at least two more sequels in the Scary Movie Franchise following the release of Scary Movie 4. So if you could please unprotect it and just let admins edit it. Thanks --IntheGhetto06User Talk:IntheGhetto06 03:06, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks a lot

I appreciate that and I hope that this will prevent further predicaments. Thanks again and happy editing! Wikipediarules2221 18:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BOT - Regarding your recent protection of Super sage:

You recently protected[3] this page but did not give a protection summary. If this is an actual (not deleted) article, talk, or project page, make sure that it is listed on WP:PP. VoABot will automatically list such protected pages only if there is a summary. Do not remove this notice until a day or so, otherwise it may get reposted. Thanks. VoABot 22:02, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question out of curiosity

Has anyone ever been arrested for excess vandalism of Wikipedia? Have IP addresses ever been tracked down by authorities?

--Harrison V 15:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:البجع

Notice you responded to this guys unblock request. Note his contribs are one of the popups using vandals who has reverted the articles to a very old version. --pgk(talk) 21:47, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello! What you say above is not clear to me. Do you mean that he is a vandal whose m.o. is to revert articles to very old versions, or that he is a person using popups to fight vandals who are reverting articles to old versions? Either way, the non-Latin characters in his username are just cause for a username block, WP:USERNAME refers.  (aeropagitica)   (talk)    21:52, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry it wasn't clear. I meant the former, it is a vandal who is using popups to revert articles to very old versions. I realise the username block was fine just wanted to make sure you knew about such vandals. --pgk(talk) 21:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

No, I didn't know that people did such things, although it doesn't surprise me at all. Thanks for the heads up!  (aeropagitica)   (talk)   

[edit] Request

Hi. I'm leaving you a message here because I noticed you were pretty active on the special page 'List of currently blocked users'. I was wondering if you could nominate a discussion regarding banning the user 193.189.66.42. If you look at their contribs, you'll notice that they all appear to involve spamming one particular website.

I'd be happy to nominate a discussion about banning this user if you are too busy, if you point me in the right direction. :) Thanks in advance. --Mal 17:45, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks for the unblock. CS46 14:51, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Welcomes

The welcome message I use is pretty generic, so even if it recieved by someone who isn't intended to recieve it there wouldn't be any problems.

Thank you for your concerns.

--PEAR 19:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Pgk, I have a question about this situation: everyone PEAR is welcoming is being added to a Category:Welcomed by PEAR category. Is this common/allowed/appropriate? I don't know if I've seen that on a welcome template before. Thanks, Metros232 19:42, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Back

I'm back. ForestH2 t/c 21:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] B&W Anime Fan

I just wanted to get someone's opinion on this, since I'm just a brand new admin, and I saw you'd been dealing with him too... at first I'd blocked him for 24h, since he had had real edits in the past. Then after he was spamming his userpage about WoW I changed it to indef. All things considered, it's pretty clear he isn't really WoW, and does seem to want to come back a lot. Should I change it back to another 24/48hours or something, and give him another chance before making it perminant? -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 21:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, today B&W is claiming he is still blocked, even though it should have expired about 14 hours ago. I tried re/un blocking him manually to fix it, but I have to leave now and won't be around to see if he's still saying it didn't. So if you're around, if you could check and see, that would be good. Thanks. -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 18:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Autoblock

Ah. Sorry, I didn't realize that you didn't have that info. Next time it happens, I'll be more careful about giving all the information I have.--SarekOfVulcan 02:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You're blocking my ability to edit certain article is ridiculous

pgk, you have blocked me from editing the articles on Victor Anderson and Max Freedom Long, claiming that I am Bobby Bigtime. I am not now, nor have I ever been Bobby Bigtime. I HAVE NEVER VANDALIZED ANY ARTICLES ON THE WIKI. LOOK AT MY CONTRIBUTIONS. They have been nothing but objective. Your refusal to allow me to edit the article on Max Freedom Long is foundationless and in poor taste. This article that I mentioned is full of holes: (1) there are no citations to back up any of the outlandish claims in the article (e.g. "The Hawaiian natives of that time, named Kahuna William, “Kahuna Ha`ole Nui” (Great White Priest)." The folk etymology of haole coming from a word ha`ole has already been completely discredited here - Haole ; (2) the article tries to present opinions as fact, such as the use of the word "genius" in the following example from the article (e.g. Kahuna Nui Max's books on Huna brought many geniuses of the religious or supernatural to assist him); (3)the article presents ficticous material as fact, as in the following example from the article (e.g. It is the Psychometric Analysis studies which found the Demonic Entities in charge of countries through voluntary possession of their political leaders, which proved our "Evolutionary Consciousness" and that all lives are evolving into new Angelic Beings, “Aumakuas”, which turned us into Warriors by measuring the speed of everyone's evolution towards Graduation into a new Aumakua, and studies were done of baby pictures and pictures of those people when they had just died, and the HRA saw the changes in these people's Biometric levels, and then looked at their life histories to see the commonalities between those who didn't evolve much, and those who did, explained to us what it meant, and all the rest). The article does a terrible job of distinguishing between fantasy and objectivity. It is claiming that (1) the Psychometric Analysis studies ACTUALLY FOUND DEMONS who control the political leaders of the earth, and that (2) these studies "PROVED" THAT ALL BEINGS ARE EVOLVING INTO THIS PERSON'S DEFINITION OF AN AUMAKUA. Your accusations are false. By god, if I ever go around vandalizing articles, then go ahead and ban me. However, if you take the time to look at my contributions, I have done no such thing. All I have ever done is keep articles objective. If you continue to refuse to allow me to edit these articles, I will take my protest to another mod ----Maxwell230 02:14, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AN/I

Please see [4] where I have have enacted the proposed solution by emailing Taxman my new nick to distribute to who he wishes as he sees fit. Jtkiefer talk 08:30, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ~pgk/autoblock.php

Just wondering, but is there an upper limit on the number of hits this script can take? Considering that it's used in a dozen or so templates, such as {{indef}} and {{unblock}} and of course {{Userblocked}}. Is it capable of handling this much traffic? Or are these templates a server crash waiting to happen?--172.129.113.165 23:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Well I can't imagine it takes that many hits (I'll find out precisely), the resource usage for each request is fairly small, however even if it did disappear (it does sometimes for other reasons and no one has yet complained, the same information is available on wiki, just in a slightty less convenient form. --pgk(talk) 06:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I've taken a look at the stats for August so fair and it barely makes it into the top 50 in terms of number of page hits and data transfer is in the order of 25mb. So really it doesn't actually use that many resources, which I guess isn't suprising since it appears to a narrower audience than say edit counts. --pgk(talk) 06:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This mornings weird autoblock

Apparently lots of people had the same problem, see User_talk:Sango123#Weird autoblocks galore!.

I do have a dynamic IP, perhaps this 067970327 is also a DSL user in Mouuntian View, California?

Thank you for looking into it so quickly. -- ProveIt (talk) 15:11, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] block of JWilman

[5] I didn't know editing through a broken php proxy was grounds for indef'ing. Rationale? ~ c. tales \\tk// 17:09, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 130.216.191.184

Could you point me towards the death-threats the user has made. I had a quick flip through the contribs and couldn't find any. I will foward them on to the university network admins. Thanks.--Konstable 21:34, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I am trying to report this to administrators. But I can't find a single trace of these death threats and Woggly hasn't responded in 2 days. Do you know where I can find them, or where they were? All I see from this IP are just some childish blanking wars, hardly worth reporting. I've had a look through his other suspected accoutns and couldn't find any death threats either.--Konstable 03:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Now 3 Wikipedia admins that I have tried to ask this. Nobody wants to answer my questions. Do my questions even have answers? Most complete form of my concerns: [6]. With account creation enabled nobody is stopping any determined vandals like Loserdick who had an account in the first place. I see no point in this block, I see nothing but page blanking from this IP, nobody will give me any reason to believe why this has ever been used by Loserdick, or that this account has been used for death threats. In good faith I wanted to report this to my university administrators, but not you, not Redvers, not Woggly, want to give me that opportunity. Neither you nor Woggly obviously saw any seriousness in this user's vandalism, or these "death threats", to put it up for WP:ABUSE yourselves. It is obvious that this is not a serious matter to either one of you, so these supposed "death threats" must have been just just be some childing slurs. I don't care as much about this account as I do about this encyclopedia's admins not giving a damn about taking real action rather than putting "blocked" badges on vandals' talk pages that they can be proud of and brag to their friends.--Konstable 00:10, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My apologies

I Should have checked edit history. My comments were unjust and out of place. R. Watts

[edit] Cotton 221.134.47.35

Sorry for adding Private LINKS on your page.We wont do it in future.If you want to contact us:

mail@accpl.in

Accpl.in Developement Team

[edit] Purple star

The Purple Star given to Wikipedians who have been hurt by others, for example by having their user pages vandalised, being mistakenly blocked (for too long, or affected by range blocks), being personally attacked, etc.
The Purple Star given to Wikipedians who have been hurt by others, for example by having their user pages vandalised, being mistakenly blocked (for too long, or affected by range blocks), being personally attacked, etc.

I couldn't find the Queen of Pr0n barstar that I promised you the other day, but this one is classy enough and will go well with most outfits :p --Alf melmac 18:11, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 205.*******/**

You applied the longer block, without removing the shorter one, doesn't that mean the shorter will overide the longer?--152.163.100.10 21:57, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

No the shorter block of the 116 had expired before applying the longer --pgk(talk) 22:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Ah, I didn't look closely enough, it looked like the 15 minute block was still active--172.144.234.204 22:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Well I only instated the longer block once the vandalism had started up again from that range. --pgk(talk) 22:14, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the recent revert. I was over at speedy keep, noting that someone reverted my edit and then noticed that someone added a suggestion. I scrolled down and wondered where the other suggestion were. By then, I'm only noting how fast you are. :p SynergeticMaggot 18:07, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

Would you be interested in participating with regards to this issue since you've already given input into this earlier? [7] Thanks, --Palffy 01:17, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Green Lantern Vandalism

Thanks for catching that. Any idea about the vandal? Rsm99833 06:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your name

Not to bother you, but I was wondering what your name, pgk, meant. Thanks. —Jared Hunt August 26, 2006, 06:07 (UTC)

Interesting. I used to use non-name usernames until I came to Wikipedia, where I started use my real name. Nice to know. Thanks. —Jared Hunt August 26, 2006, 10:25 (UTC)

[edit] Revert war in Pluto

The matter is just would the rules in Wikipedia work or not. The case is clear and the violation of the rules also. And we see now that the admin sides with the party that violated the rules to protect them. The fact is that the side violated the rules winned because the admin sided with them. Note that the only right way to prevent conflicts is to be just and strictly follow the rules. If you do not want this user to be blocked, just revert his version and warn him not to revert back. I think this would be enough.--Nixer 11:31, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFA

Thank you for voting on my RFA, which closed successfully this morning with a result of (64/3/3). Any advice/guidance will be gratefully accepted. NawlinWiki 12:07, 26 August 2006 (UTC) talk contribs

[edit] Pnatt's socks

Hello. You might like to see Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Pnatt (2nd). Regards, Iolakana•T 13:50, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] please semi-protect

AFL Finals Series, McIntyre System, McIntyre Final Eight System as they seem to have been subjected to edits from sockpuppets.

[edit] Oh, thank you

Thanks for unblocking my account (stupid user:royal whore). This is the first edit I've made since the unblock. Pronoun 14:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For blocking pagemove vandals, offensive usernames, and doing your job well!! Oh, and keep the good work up!! TheM62Manchester 22:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another barnstar

The Working Man's Barnstar
Pgk, keep blocking those trolls, vandals, spammers, AOL IP addresses, you've done it tirelessly well so far, better than I could do! Anyway, enjoy your barnstar and some cookies!

--TheM62Manchester 23:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can you unblock my IP?

Hey pgk, can you plz unblock my ip, cos i have been blocked cos sum1 else was blocked using my AOL IP. Thanks,

Mil Falcon 11:07, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for blocking those trolls and removing their yammering from my talk page. I appreciate it. –NeoChaosX [talk | contribs] 19:50, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Block of User:207.195.254.141

I notice you just blocked this user for WP:3RR, they weren't the only person involved in the war and I guess at least one other has exceeded the limit. I've protected the article to stop the war and to try and get discussion going, so the block at this stage might be unwarranted. --pgk(talk) 20:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

The five difs that I used to justify the block are:

If others are involved in this revert war then they should also receive the appropriate discipline.  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  20:18, 27 August 2006 (UTC)


OK, fair comment. I've also put it up for review at the 3RR noticeboard for comment.  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  20:37, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Concerning the recent lock of the article Controversy over racial characteristics of Ancient Egyptians, by looking at the revisions that were being made, this user was, after one good initial edit, doing nothing more than blanking paragraphs, which is clearly vandalism. We are not entierly sure why full protection is still in place, as there is no edit war to speak of, just a vandal. As the vandal is both an unregestered user and blocked, is full protection necesarry? Thanatosimii 22:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA message

My RfA video message
Image:RfA message.ogg

Stephen B Streater 08:40, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AT-14_Kornet#References - helpme

First, thank you for your help, pgk.

The AT-14_Kornet page looks ok in general, but there are 12 references instead of 6 in the References section. Each reference appears twice for me. Any ideas? --Super.zhid 08:38, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

solved by WP:PURGE --Super.zhid 08:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks!

Thanks for calling my attention to the issue with Google Web Accelerator! --Grahamtalk/mail/e 06:44, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the unblock! Oyster Head 21:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blanket welcoming of IPs

Sorry, working on a welcome bot myself, won't welcome IPs that haven't posted in months. -- Bradcis 04:32, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Kitten Vandal

I have to agree with you on this one. Reading my comment back, I have no idea what I was thinking! The Kitten Vandal has been inactive for quite a while now. Probably just a passing vandal who wanted something fun to do for a few weeks. The LTA subpage has been deleted as well, probably a good thing. We don't want anyone picking up the reins again [see WP:BEANS], it was hard enough cleaning up the first batch! ><Richard0612 UW 09:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apro

Hola. Although we obviously thought that this was a sockpuppet, the RFCU has came back inconclusive that they are, so I've unblocked them. Thanks for taking care of their unblock request, though. Cheers, Iolakana•T 16:25, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for the quick fix

A grateful bow to you, Pgk. Thank you. KarateLadyKarateLady 21:33, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for ur help!

[edit] Sorry

My bad on those users I listed in WP:AIV...I forgot to check their block logs. I'll be more careful next time. Thistheman 17:40, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IP Warnings

Yeah, I realized that he hadn't vandalized in a while until after I posted on your user talk page. Well, I understand now. Thanks. --Nishkid64 18:16, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sunholm/M62Manchester have left

Sunholm & TheM62Manchester have left Wikipedia for good; in any case, they were role accounts shared by 3 people. Anyhow, glad ya blocked 'em!!!

BTW... they were a group of schoolkids using these accounts during summer holidays... it seems Wikipedia is the new hanging around street corners!

Glad they're blocked and never coming back again. --Dowingston 22:01, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reminder...

When using certain template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. ([8]) If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka Talk to me! 23:40, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

The link where you didn't subst: was given above in my message (placed again here). I do agree that some messages should not be subst:ed in certain situations, per WP:SUBST. The template in question is not mentioned in the WP:SUBST policy, so I guess you are correct. Sorry for any confusion that I may have caused. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka Talk to me! 19:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
No problem, don't worry about it. I'm a bit over the top when it comes to subst:ing :P. Thanks for your feedback, I probably should have examined WP:SUBST in further detail. Happy editing! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka Talk to me! 19:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thx for unblock

I'm assuming it's the local university that hooks me in, and I get blocks because of it. Marskell 21:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Polewood

Hey, I just noticed that you deleted Polewood's user page. Any reason in particular? Metros232 12:17, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah, nevermind, just saw the block log. Metros232 12:19, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ISBN

The book "Edison A Biography" by Matthew Jospehson is a McGraw Hill paperback, The page near the front with publishing info says Copyright 1959. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN 07-033046-8 First edition. 345678910 MUMU 76543210. Thus the publishers claim the number is indeed an ISBN, From the final numbers, I would guess it might be a third printing. Are we supposed to go to some online index and find a New Improved ISBN to replace the one the publisher put in the book? Thanks. Edison 21:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the help. SBNs by the way were only issued in the UK as far as I know. I suggested to Edison that perhaps the person who filed the 1 or 2 of the 12345678910 on the plates may have damaged the ISBN as well. More likely it's simply a typo, but I like that idea. Rich Farmbrough, 22:35 8 September 2006 (GMT).
Pgk/Edison, the 0-07-033046-8 number that pgk found is probably the correct one. Reasons:
  1. The layout is consistent with the book
  2. (Most importantly) 0-07- is McGraw Hill's publisher ID
  3. The checksum is correct
I suspect that somewhere someone added a number on the end (as I did), and the data got "borged" - after all the purpose of ISBN searches is to enable people to find a book, so it makes sense to allow as many possible variants.
Good detective work pgk! Rich Farmbrough, 08:40 9 September 2006 (GMT).

[edit] more

Thank you for the rapid response. I saw it on Anna Svidersky in the date of birth and death. I created a page today called Renee Vicary and she died in 2002. I wondered if I needed to use the same format for her info too? KarateLadyKarateLady 15:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] oops, one more thing

The article I created is Renee Lynn Vicary, but I can never do the redirects properly so I gave up trying to do it. Thank you, KarateLadyKarateLady 15:24, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

-Thank you!!!! :) KarateLadyKarateLady 15:29, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help me

I thought I had explained clearly on my talk page what happened. Some other user (User:Demiurge) sent me a message stating that I "may be" a sockpuppet of somedoy else. This is absurd as I only started using Wikipedia today!!

The other editor deleted all my edits from today. Thanks for your help Jerry Garcia was the greatest 15:26, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Dear Sir or Madame: I have done as you suggested and have contacted the other person directly and left a message on his userpage explaining that he is mistaken.

However, if he does not undelete my edits, what are my options? I believe I have the right to contact an administrator.

Jerry Garcia was the greatest 15:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Dear Sir/Madame:

You referred to my "apparent familiarity" with Wikipedia. Well I have friends who use it so I gleaned some knowledge of how to create and edit pages. But as far as reading through the voluminous instructions, I barely made headway. I have a short attention span.

Nonetheless, I have already contacted an administrator/mediator by e-mail and by his talk page regarding this situation and the disappointing response I received from you. Jerry Garcia was the greatest 16:15, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for having unblock me. Greetings IPork 18:40, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] .

Meaning? That normal users aren't able whatsoever to modify the appearance of Wikipedia other than the default themes? But I don't like those! There has to be a manual way to do this! There always is! Please tell me if you know of any or if you just know that these methods exist at all! Thanks! --Adriaan90 19:33, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thank you very much.
Please message me.
--Adriaan90 19:04, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3663 smart choice

thank you for edits on 3663 smart choice. As you can see it needs a dedicated editor to seriously improve it. if you're ever free would you like to expand it. Dean randall 21:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New IRC bot needed

Hello pgk. I do not know if you are following the discussion at WikiEN-I about WP:BLP. We are discussing the possibiity to have a similar bot as the one running at vandalism-en-wp, that monitors the newly created Recent Changes page for articles on living people, that can be used by the newly forming Wikipedia:BLP Patrol. Could you help? ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 01:36, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for replying. --Yves Revi 14:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] good news!

Pgk, no vandalism will ever happen from this IP address... I guarantee it! --82.42.145.243 21:21, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Promo Photo

I'm absoultely positve its a promo photo, i don't know what licence it should be Nationalboard 19:51, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Barnstar of Diligence
To Redvers and pgk for extraordinary perseverance in getting me unnblocked. Dave 20:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
That'd be yours, really, for getting the real solution in the end, methinks. Cool. I like having people smarter than me around. It covers so many of my own gaps... ;o) ➨ ЯEDVERS 20:45, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why did you indefinitely banned user:kokota?

User:kokota is a wikipedian since 24 June 2005. You are 4 months younger (30 September 2005). Isnt user kokota allowed to judge three or four persons as annoying persons, when you have already judge (and also ban!) at least a hundred ?Nniger 13:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roe v. Wade for Men

I'm not sure if you followed the rest of the discussion here, but is there any way you could change the redirect of Roe vs. Wade for Men (to Roe v. Wade for Men) to be a rename instead (and hence preserve the history of the original page)? The only change since the redirect was created was fixing one small typo.

Thank you, HalfDome 05:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My first range block

  • 2006-09-21T02:27:19 Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "222.166.160.0/24 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (persistent vandalism from this range to articles related to MTR - AO, AB)

Did I do the above block correctly? For the reason behind it, take a look at Special:Recentchangeslinked/List of Hong Kong MTR stations - all recent edits from this range are vandalism to MTR-related articles. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 18:31, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks for your help with the Carlo Goldoni translation!!! I'll get back to you when it's done, if I may... Seamus O'Halloran 09:32, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Your advice led me to the *perfect* tag I needed. Carterhawk

Gran Turismo (series)#Gran Turismo HD

[edit] Pgkbot

Hi Pgk,

just a question about pgkbot: is it able to watch more than 1 Wiki on one single chanel? E.g., can you say the bot that it shall report IP edits from 5 different WM wikis in one IRC channel? Thanks in advance, Pill- 15:56, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I'll think about that. Currently I've got another problem: If I want to run the bot an error message appears: can't open file 'CVUBot': [ERRNO 13] Permission denied Do you know how I can make it work? Thanks in advance Pill- 17:27, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted?

I'm sorry, it must've been a mistake. But I was trying to edit a page that had been a tad... wrong. But as I edited the page... I had realized it was already edited to what I was about to edit. I tried to get out of the page, and that might have been when I deleted some content. Again, I applogize for any problems I might've stirred up.


EDIT: I recieved a message... a year ago, in November. This is strange... You messaged me on November 14, 2005, and I had just recieved it. This might be a problem with my router, as my IP changes when I reset my router.


[edit] little mystery

Greetings, I stumbled about a little mysterie involving your name... I found on my watchlist, which I had not visited for months, several pages with derogatory nonsense titles including your account name. All of these have been deleted by June and August. Sure thing is I can't remember having put them on watch or even visited at any time. It looks as if somebody took over my account temporarily, but no editing seems to have taken place. any ideas what this could be about? -- 790 10:09, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{Imposter}}

What's wrong with having this redirect to Template:Impostor? It's a common alternate spelling, and I find template redirects very useful... Grandmasterka 19:24, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tor stuff

Hi again, and sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I have had to shelve the Tor bot away until some free time came up (although I have still been doing some CV sporadically).

The page you linked in your e-mail is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind. Thanks for putting that together for viewing. I've still got two outstanding questions, though: is the in-network routine your bot uses complete enough to be more reliable than the Harvard list Cronbot goes by in parallel with its brute force manual searches (which are random), and doesn't the possibility of people posting to the project page pretending to be an open proxy in order to get massively shared IPs (that are not Tor nodes) blocked necessitate some authentication system like PGP? (See User:Cronbot/sb for an example of how I am planning to implement PGP, or more specifically, OpenPGP.)

Feel free to take your time answering back; I sure did. I'll be sure to reply more promptly this time, though. Thanks -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 05:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Also thanks for your great points at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cronbot. I have posted a follow-up to them there. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 05:41, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Regarding your code which you spoke of up my talk page -- that would be great; I'll go ahead and admit up front that I'm not a superior programmer, and I haven't done much in Python before now (although it seems pretty easy to pick up on as you go). I wouldn't want to munch off your work, certainly, and any part you contribute to the bot will be prominently noted. (I guess you can consider this a "please send some code if you don't mind" request.)

Regarding the node discovery routines: excellent -- on that note, I may just scrap my methods of checking altogether. What would be left at this point is deciding if my "timetables" are well-chosen, to set up the previously linked project page to make it accessible/informative/attractive, and to implement the other interactive functions I had in mind (e-mailing source code, reporting Tor node unblock requests, and maybe implementing some more "recheck" functionality). While I know we're still in a stage of mini-moratorium at the BRFA page, if you have an opinion on how the project page should read (again, at User:Cronbot/sb currently), I'm open to more fine ideas. Obviously, I won't put the bot up in a dedicated capacity until we've decided the best way to use it.

Thanks so much -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 20:24, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

And to elaborate on the PGP setup, I realized right off the bat that it's not something that will not be used as much as I would like. I totally agree that people won't do it, although I've tried to make it an easy thing to do (User:Cronbot/PGP help). However, it does alleviate some of the risk that someone (i.e. me or whoever's behind the bot) is lying, and also does put more responsibility on the blocker. In addition to a double-checking system, it's also a disclaimer of sorts. PGP entries on the project page don't take up a whole lot of space (less than 1K), so I don't think the post size issue is a big concern. I'd be willing to do the checking myself, but I don't think the bot creator should be trusted with that sort of thing; this verification scheme also only seems trustworthy to me at post time -- if you asked me later for this verification, I could easily fabricate it. I guess in the end if the community says to nix the PGP scheme, I'll go along with it, though. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 20:37, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Unblock

Hi Pgk, thanks for unblocking it. Sorry for not specifying the reason i.e. forgetting to put the autoblock number. --Terence Ong (T | C) 17:17, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page Protection

May you protect this page: Template:Pokepisode, there is a edit war going on. Thank you (Yugigx60 16:13, 1 October 2006 (UTC))

[edit] re: block of user:Gold-Horn

Good evening. You recently blocked this user. He/she has requested unblocking, claiming to not be a sockpuppet. I have no evidence one way or the other but stumbled across the comment when looking into something else. Since the user left the comment on his/her own page, I thought you might not have seen it yet. I figured you should have the opportunity to evaluate the request and, if appropriate, to decline it. Rossami (talk) 22:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gold-Horn

He's no-one's sockpuppet, you're wrong. I can verify this. As for the checkuser on wikinews... well he was on a public terminal at the time, OK??

Please realize Gold-Horn is on the move a fair bit so that explains why he's on different IPs.

As for the WoW thing... well you can use it under the GFDL, cant ya?? 69.50.208.4 22:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I unblocked him because he left a message on my Wikinews talk page that the Wikipedia account "Gold-Horn" is indeed his. —this is messedrocker (talk) 19:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pgk, a message

Pgk, just got to tell ya that Gold-Horn (talk · contribs) isn't a sockpuppet. I know because I just emailed him. he's told me he's on the move a fair bit recently, only gets to edit wikipedia occasionally.

anyhow... he's here for the encyclopedia's benefit, not to harm. Becky 69.50.208.4 23:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 82.42.237.173

82.42.237.173 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) is requesting unblock. In your block summary [9], you said "if you are considering unblocking (even to anon only) please contact me first". The reason they quoted in the {{unblock}} is a bit flimsy, but I thought you should check it out. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 09:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Replied via email. --pgk 13:23, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Got the email - that clears it up nicely. I'll leave the job of explaining that to the IP for you :D Daniel.Bryant 14:07, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tor stuff 2

Hi -- just letting you know, I'm ceasing work on my Tor bot (not like I was really doing much lately anyway, right?) in light of this: WP:RFA#TawkerbotTorA. Not sure if you knew about that, but it looks like a cool bot (and one much more objectionable than the concept of my bot, incidentally). So anyway, thanks for all your help and consideration. I'm sure that project could use you if you're not already a member of it. Thanks again! -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 06:51, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sunfazer/Sunholm vandal.... gone forever!

Hi Pgk, some good news.... the Sunfazer/Sunholm/M62Manchester vandal have given up. I got an email off one of them today, they said they were a trolling group who found Wikipedia to be a joke. Quoted from an email I received off them:

Wikipedia is of no interest to us any more, it was just a fad, we're not interested any more. We decided to join
Wikipedia as a joke, and treated it as such, but now we've decided it's not worth coming back to any more.
We apologise for blocking people's IPs.... sorry!
We will not be coming back, Wikipedia is not funny any more...

I don't know if you think that's good news or not, but I do.

Anyway, I'm not a sockpuppet of anyone, I'm just here to edit articles relating to the Romans and Roman history. --Whitticus 17:35, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Also, can you archive the talk page of 82.42.237.173 (talk · contribs) for me please, it's locked from editing. Thanks! --Whitticus 17:39, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Torlist

Cool. Thanks. Thatcher131 18:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

  • It looks like you have some kind of bot? If I were to make an updated tor list could it strip out those already blocked? Once this first list is fully blocked it would be interesting to run a new list and see just how many new nodes there are. Thatcher131 18:42, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tor blocks

Hello, I am the operator of the Tor node "bsmntbombdood", at the IP address 69.3.48.245. You recently blocked my IP address from editing. In Wikipedia:Advice_to_Tor_users_in_China, It says that Tor exit nodes may be softblocked, to only allowed logged in users to edit. Can you please do this for my node? Thanks, Bsmntbombdood 23:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

FYI: I've reduced this block to anononly [10]. — xaosflux Talk 16:27, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Bsmntbombdood

Was wondering if you had any thoughts or input regarding this user's current unblock request? I haven't got much experience with Tor, beyond the most rudimentary knowledge of what it is, unfortunately. Luna Santin 08:15, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot request has been approved for trials, please see the page for details. Please follow up on cross linking that request to the other projects and noticeboards. — xaosflux Talk 16:29, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Durrus and District History

Ok. Thanks for good answer. Think I'll just let it go and maybe check it later. Doesn't hurt to have it there it might readable some day. Bit to complex to start editing for me though. - Kristod 11:37, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] pgkbot update and license

Hello pgk. You may recall that I'm hosting the public download of pgkbot 1.5, dated 18 June 2006. I'd like to update the download to the current version at your convenience. I'd also like to know if there are applicable licenses or terms; the download page states that "License information temporarily unknown." —[admin] Pathoschild 02:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hmmmm and ermmmm

why did you terminate my page of hmmmm and ermmmm I believe it had good reasons. and should not hath been deleted like scraping off a skidmark on some underpants.

[edit] Vatican DC

I appreciate that there was a notice for speedy delete on this article; but Vatican DC meet the WP:MUSIC criteria for inclusion, and I stated as such on the relevant talk page. Is it possible to revert the delete and/or come to a resolution on this matter. Cheers. Y control 16:00, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

The band has been in regular rotation (ie. Playlist) on Xfm which is a major national radio network in the UK and has also been on Virgin Radio Xtreme (debatable whether this is a major network); perhaps I didn't make this clear enough on the article's talk page. Y control 17:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
That seems quite harsh criteria for a radio station, but if them is the rules etc. Thanks for your help. Y control 17:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Pronoun/"the box" deletion

Hi, I was wondering if you could delete a test sandbox page I've created for my own personal use, since I no longer need it. Here it is: User:Pronoun/"the box". Thank you. Pronoun 17:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A humble request for your opinion

Hello! I hope you are feeling fine. Recently, you expressed an oppose opinion with regards to my RfA. I would like to thank your feedback on this but I need another critical feedback from you. If you could spare a few minutes to voice any concerns you may be having with regards to my contributions to this project since my last RfA on this page, I would be most grateful. Once again, thank you for your time! --Siva1979Talk to me 06:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Lmks

Nice quick block there, you beat me to it. I was debating the duration and had decided on indefinite, and was glad to see my choice confirmed. Best, Irongargoyle 20:06, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Why no Bring me the Horizon article? I spot corruption!

[edit] User:Bsnowball

thnx for yr help, thought wld have to undo by hand. now i just have to work out what went wrong...Bsnowball 10:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Web operating system encore

Hi, In an effort to satisfy the community in the neighborhood I've merged WebOS, Webtop and Web operating system into a one article. Previous articles in this location have never had a chance to be discussed and to evolve before they were prod'ed and deleted, so (naturally) I'm hoping that won't happen again. I wish there were a way to protect it from prod'ing for a while so as to avoid the instant reactions I've seen in the past week or so. cheers - JohnPritchard 03:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Dear Pgk, your comments are fairly harsh, presumably assuming the article is junk. It's far from junk. I'm trying to do the work of a wikipedian. Others have agreed to varying degrees, including apparently Sleepyhead. The article cleans up the neighborhood, which I first took to be separate projects, but not.. cheers - JohnPritchard 12:59, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Dear Pgk, thank you for discussing this. I've been going round about this for almost two weeks (at least it feels like it). I understand that some are eyeballing me much more than the articles. That's been a real problem in a big way. I'm very happy with the positive reactions the work has had since I posted it last night. I think the quality of the Web operating system article is much better than the (let's say average) quality of the WebOS + Webtop + Web operating system precedents. Even sleepyhead has made contributions to the article, and perhaps i've been able to explain to artw that this is just wiki work and not some (ego) campaign. After the flame I've gotten in the days since I started trying to make a contribution in the neighborhood, I guess it's relatively tranquil now. Thanks again for talking. Talk is good. - JohnPritchard 19:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help please

What are you looking for help with? --pgk 18:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I seem to be having trouble making edits. I was doing vandalism cleanup using either the popup or rollback tools. Then I tried to revert some vandalism on Maslow's hierarchy of needs using first rollback, then popups, then manually editing, and none of these methods worked. It seems like I have been blocked for some reason? But I haven't been notified if I have, and I can't find my username or IP address in the block list. My IP address is 206.180.172.24. Thank you. --KeithB 19:01, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, duh. That was it. Thank you for your help. --KeithB 19:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

WHY WOULD YOU DELETE A PAGE WITHIN 2 HOURS OF IT BEING POSTED!!!! THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO EVEN DEFEND MY PAGES BECAUSE I HAVE NO CHANCE TO, AND I WANT TO KNOW Bold textEXACTLYBold text WHY YOU DELETED IT SO QUICKLY!!!

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the help! so simple, yet so complex. brilliant! :-) thanks. see you. --Sm8900 19:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for blocking those Tor nodes

Thanks for blocking those Tor IPs, pgk; you're doing a great job with your vandal-fighting. It would be great if you had a vandal-reversion bot like some other admins. SunStar Net 17:30, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:DRV

I have decided that it's not worth the undeletion.... sorry SunStarNet; 20:30, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:ANI

Sorry, my mistake... maybe I shouldnt have posted it?? SunStar Net 13:33, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Devilmaycares RFC

Hi, I'm filing a RFC about the behavior of User:Devilmaycares. Since you have prior dealings with this user, I'd appreciate your input. Link: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Devilmaycares. ---J.S (t|c) 18:09, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Charismatic Episcopal Church Talk Page

Kenneth Tanner and I are trying to clean up our rather lenghty talk pages for the Charismatic Episcopal Church article. The page that you reverted was an outdated, detailed discussion about a current event that has passed. The information is now obsolete. The editors have reached a consensus concerning how to handle that section of the article. Thanks.

Cecfan 19:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deathrocker

Isee you're back online just as I'm late for bed.  :) I reviewed Deathrocker's contribs over the last week and found two other articles where he is doing reverts or partial reverts in excess of his parole, listed at the top of User:Thatcher/Temp. I'm probably going to drop 48 or 72 hours on him, but I wanted your opinion since you're at least somewhat aware of the first situation. Thatcher131 07:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:E

I just stumbled across this page after mistyping my username onto the search box. Could you please explain to me why a block template has been placed? The user has made no contributions at all, and if you intended to avoid the username being created, you could have used {{doppelganger}}--Ed Trick? or Treat? 03:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I must not have noticed the "2005" next to the date. When I saw October 22, I thought your action was recent. --Ed Trick? or Treat? 23:55, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Banned template

Apologies for posting it on the MilkMan userpage; I thought putting it on the page wouldn't violate WP:DENY. Sorry. --SunStar Net 20:28, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why was my page deleted?

Why was my article on the Povertyneck Hillbillies erased?

I read the standards for publishing and the artists I create the page for have the #2 song on the GAC Top 20. Is GAC a recognized music chart?

[edit] Sorry

Sorry, pgk. Apologies for that. I have been participating in many AFD's recently, so that isn't a pointless activity; I like taking part in AFD's. As for AIV reporting, I try and report any offensive usernames based on what is written in Wikipedia:Vandalism. I'm trying to do constructive edits, feel free to help me do better! --SunStar Net 20:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks for your advice, pgk. By the way, a lot of my AFD replies are not "keep or delete per nom" votes, but actually have some depth. Thanks for your help! --SunStar Net 21:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About Spam...

Could the article on Spam be deleted? Reason: Spamming. Ha Ha Ha

Two different computers in the same house have two different Ip#s. So I edit from 1 and speak from another. Say! Where can I go to make really good edits? Or can I help revert vandalizm?

[edit] pgkbot, come back to us!

Hey pgk, your bot's not reporting in vandalism-en-wp. Can you help? Thanks much, delldot | talk 14:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion summaries

Hi, I have noticed that you often provide only a very short abbreviated deletion summary when you delete pages (like "a7" "nn-bio" and similar). Please keep in mind that most users do not know all of Wikipedia's speedy deletion criteria by heart. Please consider providing a brief "plain English" explanation without relying exclusively on "CSD jargon". Additionally linking to the relevant criteria so people can read it in full can also be useful, for example [[WP:CSD#A7]]. This will help a "layperson" better understand why something was deleted when looking at the deletion log.

Most browsers have a autocomplete or other "form filling" features that allow pre-prepared boil plate texts to be inserted into web forms with just a few keystrokes. This is useful for inserting detailed deletion summaries without having to type out the same things over and over. Please consider looking into it. Thanks. --Sherool (talk) 15:28, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steven R. Boyett page deleted ?

WHy was this done ?

[edit] Deleting Airline stub - why?

Would you kindly let me know, why you delete Airline stubs ignoring hangon? Is Wikipedia not interested in small but valuable information better than none? At least, that was MY impression/understanding. Especially for defunct companies it is sometimes impossible for one individual to provide a full article, but stubs are meant to enable others to build on them (if possible). Not very motivating, I was about to transfer very much information I had in a local database into public domain at Wikipedia. Now I reconsider! --Jb-hamburg 17:44, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Airline Stub - deletion of Aaron Airlines

Hello pgk,

from the transfer of checkin.org into a Wiki, I expect to have some 200 airlines Wikipedia has no page but links to on, plus about 15.000 airports, Wikipedia to date does not even reference with a stub (but has "dead links" to many)!

As of your approach, instead of creating stubs on Wikipedia to link to, I will now create these pages on my new Wiki and add links in Wikipedia, where Wikipedia misses the referenced pages. As many of the stub-information is about defunct airlines or airports, information is limited and I thought it might be better of in Wikipedia. The info in CheckIn.org is meant to focus on commercial information usable in the travel industry. Standard information I wanted to add and refer into Wikipedia.

I also understand that a "stub" is "minimum information". Expanded by some "minimum information" of someone else, and another one, and so on - a new article get's on it's way.
Instead from your reply it seems that I can only transfer the information over when there is "substantial" information... very sad!

Hmmm... Makes my new Wiki rather more valuable, as I do not plan to have such hurdles... It's information about airline or airport - it's welcome... And only from a "minimum-stub" other users get motivated to add the little information they may have. Which as I happen to remember was one of the core USPs Wikipedia used to promote its value in the "good old days"...

Sorry Jürgen


[edit] Talk:Yuvashakti

Just curious, why did you delete the talk page of the Yuvashakti article? I mean, yes, the article is undergoing AfD right now, but it's not concluded. Did you perhaps delete this when you meant to delete something else? --NovaSTL 01:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I need help, regarding Mina Khel

Hi,

Mina Khel article's redirection is protected by you. I would like to know that how can I get that redirection unprotected and after unprotection it remain itself an article? As you must know, that Mina Khel or Meena Khelis itself a very big nation and a very big clan of Marwat tribe that is consisted of almost hundred of thousand people throught out District Lakki Marwat, NWFP, Pakistan and living in different nations of the world. It is unfair and unsatisfactor that such a big nation or such a big clan is not having any article of itself. Kind;ly help me in knowing the above requested procedure.

It would be immense kind of you.


Regards

Your wiki mate, A M. Khan 17:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Feureau

Please explain to me what I have done wrong, other than the technical point you raise. I have been, at no point, rude. I raised a small point arising from the above person's huge number of descriptors. Perhaps teasing is not allowed. But I begin to wonder at the implied threats that I have received. Feureau took it upon himself to pronounce an article, that on St. Paul, as too long. He has not, so far as I know, participated in the discussions as to the content of the article. I told him that I was attending to it and mistakenly made a remark, expressing an opinion which is widely shared in the UK and I get accused of making personal offensive remarks and am now threatened with being blocked. Perhaps my sense of humour is misplaced; perhaps my skin is not as thin as that of some. I am however very concerned that what I thought was an open forum is now being policed by anonymous, unaccountable people. Is Feureau an administrator?I do not see him (or her) on the list. What authority has he or she? I would make use of the blocking facility against him or her but I don't approve of such measures.

Could you therefore explain your own position in all of this. I note that you too are anonymous. Are youanother 'oliceman'or are you attempting to be a helpful bystander? For the life of me, amongst the academic circle in which I move I have never come across such conduct.Roger Arguile 13:06, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. May I ask that some consideration be given to clarifying the structure of WP so that those who contribute to discussion on an article indicate on what basis they do so? When Feureau's comment on Paul of Tarsus came through I had no idea whether this was an administrator's notice of was merely from a punter. I expressed my willingness to act - I was not part of the original editorial group - and received no response. Does Feureau have an official role in checking stubs? If I may say so, the mischievous part of my character was exercised to the overbearing attitude (as I heard it) that accompanied the comment. It is very easy, in print, in our laconic times, to appear brusque and commanding (which was why I was stunned when Feureau began to threaten me). As long as WP is not made the exclusive province of the United States of America, the more measured, less abrupt style of some Europeans needs also to be taken into account. But if administrators indicated that they were such, and those who are not were encouraged to be less commanding, it might help. Perhaps you can comment. Roger Arguile 17:43, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deleted article question

On what basis did you delete the article about X64 terminals? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdxc64 (talk • contribs)

Referring to article X64_Lda --pgk 15:45, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image:Owenpuma.jpg

Failing our fair use critieria does not mean speedy there are various tags you can put on it that will kill it in a week. CAT:CSD is full enough as it is.Geni 16:06, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I7 is very limited in scope. I don't think it applies in this case. We deal with copyvios through production line methods rather than CSD. Stuff done 24 hours after warning the uploader should not be on speedy.Geni 17:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
that should have been "forty-eight hours after notification of the uploader". Can you prove the image was never part of a press kit of any type?Geni 17:48, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
CSD pretty much requires you to prove a negative. It's the other deletion routs that put the onus on the uploader.Geni 17:55, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Barnstar of Diligence

The Barnstar of Diligence
In recognition of a combination of extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service. Basically the amount of stuff you have to put up with - and the extraordinary way you deal with them. I hereby award you with The Barnstar of Diligence Feureau 04:48, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pr0xy

Why did you delete that article? It's rather important that people should be allowed to view information on an article (even with that idiotic Websense on). Proxy and articles whose names contain the word "proxy" are filtered by censorware, which is pretty damn annoying. I was trying to provide information. Anyway, get back to me on this, please. ~ Flameviper 17:16, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

Haha, again? Yeah, I can work on it. I know it's long. So, no problem... anything to make it easier on the admins. [Iridescence]  talk • contrib 20:14, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Better this time around? Iridescence talk • contrib 20:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In response

I see that you have construed Pr0xy as a "crusade" against censorship technology. It is not I that have misinterpreted your intentions, but you who have misinterpteted my intentions. I simply want to provide information (in this case, about proxy servers) to people who would otherwise be unable to access it. I'm not trying to make a statement against Websense, and if I was, I would do it elsewhere. First and foremost, this is an encyclopedia. And thus, its content should not be blocked by a censor; that would be nonsense. I'm sure that you, like many others, don't have to deal with mindless censorware. But others, like me, have this idiocy forced upon them by their job or school. Again, I believe that it would be sheer folly to block encyclopedia content. ~ Flameviper 20:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Again, you have misconstrued my point, albeit slightly.
I'm just trying to be utilitarian here. I'm not trying to be devious or sneaky, I'm just trying to provide information to people affected by censorship. Think about it; we provide spoken articles for the hearing-impaired and facilitate different browsers. Providing an alternate source of information to censored individuals is no different. ~ Flameviper 21:11, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2nd nomination for AFD

For the life of me, I can't get Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canine Performance Events (2nd nomination) to work, because by the second nomination you have to do it by hand. Do you know how? Patstuart(talk)(contribs) 20:52, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In response to "adding content"

Thanks, I can see how it would be abused :P ~ Flameviper 22:20, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OMG, archive

You really, really, really need to archive your talk page. It's ridiculous to scroll down over 140+ comments. ~ Flameviper 22:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)