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Protect

Are you sure you don't want to semi it for just a bit? pschemp | talk 03:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

When I log out I will. Until then I might as well let someone else test all the open proxies for me, that will save me a lot of time on WP:OP. ;-). Prodego talk 03:46, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
hehe. pschemp | talk 03:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

The Free Republic Bryan/Dean Brouhaha

Hey man, I'm sorry I keep stirring this pot, but I really, really do believe that something is very wrong here. And I really do believe that Dean Hinnen is here to make legal threats against us. And I really do believe that this is one of the most elaborate sockpuppetting ventures ever concocted here. I mean, how many close family members does this guy have? And why do they all share a computer?

Again, I am sorry this is making grief for everybody, I just want it to END. --BenBurch 04:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

helping on WP:OP

Hey,

I use a port scanner and a proxy scanner to check the IP's (in addition to using open proxy lists through the links you can click on at WP:OP like CBL). I'm not using particularly good scanners, just the first ones I've found (I hadn't used this stuff in a while before testing those 3 proxies yesterday) so if you have any tools to use that would be appreciated. That is, if you guys want me to help out. Yonatanh 06:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

TBH, I don't know too much about the specifics. I know they usually run on port 1080 and that there's socks4 and socks5. If there's more to know I'd be happy if you could direct me towards some information on the subject. Yonatan (contribs/talk) 14:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
As I said before, prior to offering to help out, I hadn't touched these sort of tools in quite a while. I remembered a port scanner I used to use called nscan which is what I'm using right now and as a proxy scanner I'm using some program I found through google called ProxyChecker. Yonatan (contribs/talk) 15:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Dear Prodego

My VP application said I don't know how it works. I do! Respond on my talk please! WikiMan53 T/C e@ edits 16:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

VandalProof

May I ask as to the reason you have declined my request for VP? I can't help but wonder if it is personal because you have in the past disagreed with my views. Is there anyone else I can contact about this? -- EnglishEfternamn talkcontribs 19:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I have been keeping an eye on this user at the request of another admin, and I think giving this user this tool at this time, given the history of somewhat tendentious editing and inability to take feedback gracefully, would not be prudent and I support this decision, not that it matters in the scheme of things. ++Lar: t/c 12:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Your template list on your vandalism page is out of date

Are you planing to update your vandalism page with the latest templates from WP:UWT? Will (Talk - contribs) 20:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok. I suspect thought that the old templates will be deleted. Personally, the new ones take longer to type, but have much better text and are more consistent in names and structure. Will (Talk - contribs) 21:27, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalproof

Hey, I am getting a "you are not on the user list" error while trying to use vandalproof. Am I doing anything wrong? --Dexter prog 22:17, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Images in MediaWiki space.

Regarding this change, please be sure we have a local copy with full protection of all images placed on MediaWiki pages, without that measure in place, one vandal could have serious affects. I've uploaded a local copy and fully protected Image:Information.svg. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 03:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

User talk:151.203.238.70

You can find some of the background here. My friend from Boston can't vandalize his preferred target, Prussian Blue (duo), so he takes out his frustration elsewhere. He's started posting random gibberish to my talk page. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 04:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Deletion decisions

You helped out with the John Gorenfeld article, and I want to ask a quesion of an experienced Wikipedia editor. I'm the self-described "sophomore" above (not a newcomer but inexperienced in most Wikipedia affairs). I'm not attached to the page in question - mostly I want to understand how Wikipedia works (or fails to). The AfD page states at the top, in bold: This is not a vote. In the only other AfD I've seen, the opinions were some deletes and mostly keeps, and the administrator said there was not consensus but in such cases we usually keep. I couldn't find any such rationale for John Gorenfeld. I'm guessing the administrator just added up the (non-)votes, which I counted after it ended but don't remember now (4 to 7? 4 to 9?). Anyway, there was no consensus. Also, the last two deletes said they would have (non-)voted to keep but because the subject of the article (non-)voted to delete, they (non-)voted to delete. But it was very clear that the subject of the article was a new user on Wikipedia who thought that Steve Dufour was using the article to attack him, when the edit history made it perfectly clear that the attack phrase was vandalism (which the subject subsequently admitted). Also, the copyvio issue, if it ever was a real concern, was no longer an issue by the middle of the AfD. So how can it be that (non-)votes are just counted up and a decision made in spite of the fact that there was not consensus - and without taking into account the mistake made by a key paarticipant and its impact on the (non-)votes? I wonder if the administrator even read the whole discussion and checked out the mistake. I don't see how the decision could be delete under the circumstances. When the (non-)vote is split, isn't there a tendency to make no major change, as was stated in the other AfD I saw? Is there any appeals process? -Exucmember 04:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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Cascading

Ah, I see what you mean. Thanks, I'm not too quick on technical stuff :) Teke (talk) 03:13, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Protected titles

If this actually comes into wide use as a deleted page system, it may not be a bad idea to add something to Mediawiki:Common.js, that would block out the list of pages protected at the bottom of these lists to anons (or perhaps non autoconfirmeds), so not to give ideas. It is possible to do it now, but it depends on how such a system is organized. One big page? Also, what does this system do in terms of server load? Prodego talk 02:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

1. What sort of WP:BEANS invocation do you see this as? In the absence of a unified theme, each list would contain individual explanations of why the pages have been salted (for the benefit of all users). As anonymous and non-autoconfirmed users cannot create non-talk pages, I don't see why they would pose a special threat.
2. The idea is to divide these pages by month (and occasionally by theme, as demonstrated in the Colbert example).
3. Given that the deleted pages are nonexistent (which offsets the addition of cascading protection), the amount of server load should be roughly the same as (or possibly less than) the amount generated by standard transclusions. (In other words, there should be no significant impact.) —David Levy 03:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
When organized by topic like this, it gives ideas for misspellings (perhaps to someone who didn't think of that). It also clutters the page, which the cascade message says to come for more information. But pretty much I just want to mess with the js files ;-). Prodego talk 03:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I sort of understand what you're saying, but how would anonymous and non-autoconfirmed editors use these ideas?
In any case, feel free to experiment with the JavaScript files; this falls outside my area of knowledge.  :-) —David Levy 03:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the help Prodego:)
Thank you for the help Prodego:)

Thanks for your help with my monobook, I greatly appreciate it. --D.H. • (A)•(E)•(I)•(O)•(U)•(Y) 23:15, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

SaltSeaJapanMS

I used Google and got something quite different. Disregard as troll.

"You have discontinued Japanese Wikipedia. The steward locked that. It verified ¶ ¶ Jimbo Wales, “it is taken Japanese Wikipedia, because of interest of history. That is locked permanently!"

– Chacor 01:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)