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Power Rangers articles

Hello! I've noticed you have protected 3 Power Rangers related articles in June, so over 3 months back, and mentionned to be asked permission for unprotecting them. Since it's been protected long enough, maybe we should give the articles a shot now. --JForget 01:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, since the abuse report has been completed, if you link me the pages, I'll unprotect them (I just can't remember them off hand right now).—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 05:23, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Yes they are: Power Rangers: Ninja Storm, Power Rangers: S.P.D. and Power Rangers: Wild Force but later in my maintenance-type round yesterday in Category:Semi-protected I've also discovered Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad and Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. I've thought of unprotecting myself, but considering what was mentionned in the protection rationale line in each of those, I've thought that it may be better to let you do it to avoid any issues.

I'm doing regular patrols to check-up for articles that have been protecting long enough. As per the policy, permanent protected pages can be un-protected after a certain period and I had discovered that lots of articles which had only been protected once were semi'd for several months despite the first occurrence, in some cases closer to one year, so I've thought to help on easing-up a bit that backlog and also per the policy which also states that the first protection shouldn't be too long (except likely for BLP violations, intense edit waring and sock puppetry).

Thanks for that!--JForget 19:06, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

There were issues with sockpuppetry that I put an abuse report in for. According to the contact, the individual was dealt with. I've unprotected these five pages.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 19:17, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks again!--JForget 01:16, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

IP block affects Opera users

Hello... you may or may not already be aware of this, but the IP you blocked a few days back (195.189.142.166) actually blocks users editing through the opera Mini browser for mobile phones. (I found this out when, despite being logged in under my username, I was blocked from editing. This was not the case only a few days previously.) If you're not aware of this, there is/was an AN discussion here. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. --Ckatzchatspy 08:51, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I do know about that. I started that thread. Right now, we're waiting for XFF header installation to prevent abuse by the Opera Mini browsers (that one was accessible through the Opera Mini online demo).—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 00:22, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I found out about the blocking while using Opera mini on my Palm PDA, so it's not only the Opera mini online demo. Is it possible you could lower the blocking restrictions so that properly logged in users can edit? SanGatiche 02:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
We're trying to fix this by getting the actual location instead of the Opera proxy.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 02:53, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Why did you remove talk of Signpost article?

[1] - ??? What does "db-banned" mean? 19:16, 5 October 2007 (UTC)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.212.211.94 (talk • contribs)

It means that page was created by a banned editor, which means it is subject to immediate deletion. In this particular case it was just a run of the mill, proxy abusing troll with an axe to grind, who created that page.--Isotope23 talk 19:19, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Automatic Italic

On the List of Power Rangers article, for some reason, on the Black Rangers section, Black Bison Ranger is italicized, without it being italicized, if you know what I mean. So, I was wondering if maybe you'd know why that is.CrystallixRed 23:47, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Probably a mistake in editting. I'll check it out.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 00:22, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It's fixed now.CrystallixRed 00:32, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

RfD nomination of WP:RFAR/NC

I have nominated WP:RFAR/NC (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. After Midnight 0001 16:15, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Kamen Rider Agito Template

Hi, I just want to know why do you remove the Alpha/Omega letters in Agito's template but didn't remove similar characters in Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Hibiki and Den-O templates. If Agito's case isn't suitable for a encyclopedia, I can't see why the others are. --Black Condor 18:40, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

The Omega is only used in the English translated title in the opening card. Nearly every other usage in Japanese is not "AGITΩ" but "AGITO" or the like. Due to the common name of "Agito" being prevalent, using "AgitΩ" doesn't really look right.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 19:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
Oh, I see what you mean now. I've replaced them. I was only disagreeing with the use of "AgitΩ"—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 19:13, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I also disagree with the "AgitΩ" spelling, by the way. The idea of the Greek letters was only to illustrate the template, just like the kanji used in other Rider series. --Black Condor 19:45, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Gekiranger: Long and Genjuuken

Found this info that reveals more on the mysterious Long.

After the Kenma are defeated, Long takes over as the main villian. Furthermore, he's actually of the Genjuuken (幻獣拳 Genjūken?, Phantom Beast Fist), a extremely evil offshoot of the Rinjuuken Akugata. Fractyl 17:26, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually the pun comes for comparing to Byakko as well as the symbolic colors they each have.

Furthermore, there's to be two characters based on Suzaku and Genbu coming soon. Fractyl 02:42, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Meritwants

I see that you blocked this user. Yeah, I tried to warn him or her, but he or she just wouldn't listen. Either that, or they actually didn't read the messages left by a bot and by me. Flyer22 00:11, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

In these cases, it's not worth it to allow the user to continue editting because they obviously don't read their talk page.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 00:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I completely understand. I was soon going to report this user myself. I'm glad that you took care of this matter. Flyer22 01:07, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

speedy-deletions from the 10 October list

Good afternoon, Ryulong. Are you closing discussions from the 10 Oct RfD discussion page? If so, we may be having edits which are stepping on each other. I saw several deletions which did not mention the RfD discussion but for which good-faith RfD discussions were on-going. Thinking that the deletion was being made as a speedy-deletion in ignorance of the RfD, I restored the pages (with a note in the RfD that the deletion should probably be interpreted as a "delete" opinion).

If you in fact were closing discussions, please overturn my action and re-delete. But please at least reference the RfD discussion in the edit summary so that any future editor will be able to find the discussion if necessary. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 21:01, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I did not bother to make note of the RFDs because I used my own discretion and nuked them from orbit. The various redirects were useless, as far as I see, and could all be speedy deleted.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 21:28, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
You know, I've got to ask if you're just trying to push my buttons now. Being "useless" is not a speedy deletion criterion. In fact, it's not even a regular deletion criterion according to the terms listed at Wikipedia:Redirect#When should we delete a redirect?. On the contrary, the advice on the policy page explicitly tells us not to assume that we can predict how others use Wikipedia.
Closing an RfD with the comment "personal discretion" is about as far out-of-process as you can get for speedy-deletions. When the speedy-deletion process was approved, it was with the very firm understanding that its use would be strictly limited to the explicitly listed criteria and that those criteria would be narrowly interpreted to only situations where every reasonable admin would agree. In any case involving judgment, the process would be sent to what was then VfD, and now is XfD for discussion by the community. There is no "discretion" in the speedy-deletion criteria.
Had you closed the discussions properly, I would not have disagreed with any of the closure decisions that you made (at least, not enough to dispute it). However, I feel very strongly that the process used to reach that decision is important. "Nuking from orbit" when there is an on-going XfD discussion with good-faith arguments being presented on both sides is wrong. It is unhealthy for the project and will create division and dissent where none is needed. In the future, please let the XfD processes work. Rossami (talk) 03:10, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
There was consensus for them all to be deleted and I used my personal discretion to add my "vote" as you put it, and send the redirects back to where they should be, deleted. No one will come to the English Wikipedia and look up terms in hiragana or kanji, and won't automatically get those items in the search function. The rest were uncommon and impossible to utilize spellings or simply nonsense strings of words mildly related to the subject of the article they redirected to. If you feel that the items should not have been deleted, send it to DRV. If you think they should have been deleted, but simply disagree with the way I went about deleting them, that's what my talk page is for.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 03:13, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Zonerzofhaggers

Currently requesting unblocking. Username blocked, with a hard block to prevent them from choosing another name, no less. What'd I miss? – Luna Santin (talk) 23:43, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

There's the whole Grawp issue, where he uses "HAGGER" in his vandalism.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 01:49, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Will you consider disabling ACB? Mercury 11:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I think the link is strong enough to suggest that this is a sockpuppet. If not, the user can always create a new account in 24 hours. Mangojuicetalk 15:32, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

More Grawp pages...

You may also want to add HERMY??? and Talk:HERMY??? to the list of protected Grawp titles. TML 11:21, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Blacktro

Dear Ryolong,

I would like to post a article in english about a new musical genre. It's called Blacktro, I think you've heard of it since you already deleted one article about this before. I've made an article in Dutch, because it's an new music genre from Amsterdam. But I was wondering why this last page was deleted and what was on that page. Can I find this somewhere on wikipedia?


Thanks,

Wilm68 12:29, 17 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wilm68 (talk • contribs) 12:25, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Ranger Template

On the PR template (if that's the right name, I'm not sure), it has a link to the Quantum Ranger, which has since been merged with the Time Force Power Rangers. So I was wondering if that link is necessary, since both links take you to the same page.CrystallixRed 03:57, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

The dragon Half manga page got deleted

You deleted the dragon half manga page. I must have it back.Momomai 20:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

There was nothing there that could not be mentioned in the main Dragon Half article, which is on both the manga and the anime. You cannot have control over a page, and have several copyrighted images on them.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 21:07, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

ANI thread

WP:ANI#User:Ryulong_block_review if you're interested. Carbon Monoxide 02:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

ANI notice

(ec) Hi, Ryulong - I got an e-mail from a user you indef-blocked (apparently because I was involved in your Request for Comment), asking for a block review. I'm no expert on the subject matter or the history of the issue so I posted it at WP:ANI here. Videmus Omnia Talk 02:38, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

On Dr. Seaweed puppeteer

Hi, Ryulong, thanks for your intervention again. It looks like we can have serious discussions on the talk page again. However, it seems we forgot puppet User:Herbert Dingle himself. Up to now he always signed with parenteses around the "~~~~": here, here, here, here, here, here, here, but now suddenly (since you more or less gave away their signing behaviour), without parenteses. Also note the reason for his being here: "Hi! I'm an astronomer. My main interest is in pointing out the inconsistencies in Einstein's theories of relativity. Two clocks cannot possibly both run slower than each other, yet this is what Einstein's special theory of relativity implies. I intend to highlight this fact and also the fact that attempts to highlight it are suppressed." DVdm 09:04, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Whoops, that was quick, thanks. Now, let's wait and see with which kind of vengeance he will be back :-)
Cheers, DVdm 09:15, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

It seems we have another one that slipped through the maze:

No Gyulong, you are now getting carried away with yourself. Swanzsteve has got nothing to do with myself or the Brigadier. It's pretty pathetic of you to conclude that everybody who is supporting Dingle must be the same person. Do you make the same conclusion regarding the fact that EMS and Denveron argue identically? Have you bothered to check them out yet? Why not block them anyway as you did with all the pro-Dingle users until the checkuser results come back. I don't think you'd make a very good detective. Sir Jamset G Jeejeeboy 10:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

May I have an alternate account?

Yo,Ryu. I'm asking if I can have an alternate account:User:SASUKE.--Xterra1(talk)(Work)(Sign) 14:14, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Why would you want to use an alternate account?—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 20:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Confronting

Why'd you treat User:Ionas68224 with rude and unneccessafy comments? I mean, come on... he's had his own troubles in life. Why'd you make his life worse? And by the way, why aren't we allowed to use User:Ryulong/Clock on our own pages if we want to? 63.3.21.129 07:08, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Because he treated me rudely to begin with. And most of the other stuff is a way to prevent impersonation by others.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 07:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
This Ionas fellow (you, I presume) wrote to us on the mailing list and I reviewed his case extensively and even contacted one of the blocking admins. Personally, I support the block wholeheartedly. He was disruptive and wasted way too much time and some of his claims were found to be untrue. I am sorry if it is true that he has troubles in his life, but people need to understand that Wikipedia is a serious project and not a counseling venue or a place to find therapy. If people come here and are rude and disruptive, harass other editors, create lots of sockpuppets and cause lots of problems for good people to waste their own time cleaning up, then we will block them for the good of the project, regardless of their real life troubles. Sarah 12:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Are you saying he never made any constructive edits to Wikipedia while he was here? (By the way, I am not him. I'm a friend who's known him on Wikipedia for a long time. Good day to you all!) 63.3.21.129 21:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
And what is the problem with allowing him to vanish? It won't hurt naybody? 63.3.21.129 21:30, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Also, if I do use your clock (or copy it for myself), how is that impersonation? 63.3.21.129 21:30, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
The problem with "allowing him to vanish" was that he claimed priveleges that are not included in anyone else's conception of right to vanish. Having developers go through and delete all log entries concerning him would be very hard, and it would be completely against any spirit of openness to enforce a policy about not ever discussing his actions (if you aren't allowed to reference them, how do you even tell people what you're enforcing)? Those measures might be justified if someone is going to be physically harmed unless we take them, but they are inappropriate just to protect someone's feelings. -Amarkov moo! 21:49, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Also, most of the components of my userpage are set up in a way to prevent people from directly substituting it.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 22:07, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
What if a person subst it, then remove the code that keeps it on your page, then use it on his own userpage? Why would he get blocked just because he did that for his own userpage (with the claim of "impersonation")? If a person wants to use idea for his own userpage, why can't he? 63.3.21.1 02:46, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, in your case, IP users do not get control over what is on their user or user talk pages because IP usage is ephemeral (and also the clock is set to my own timezone).—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 02:53, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, what if a registered user used the clock thing (subst and removed restrictions), and set it to his own time zone? Would he be blocked then? 63.3.21.1 05:32, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
No.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 05:33, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Undeletion of 2008 New York Yankees season

As a courtesy to Wikiproject Baseball's 2008 season articles group, could you please undelete 2008 New York Yankees season? Thanks. --Michael Greiner 23:38, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

The issue right now is that a chunk of the templates and articles in the 2008 season were primarily created by the banned user Eddie Segoura. Per Wikipedia policy, any pages substantially editted by banned individuals are deleted, save for their user talk page. Very little of the content of that article was not created by the banned user in question, as such, it is deleted. Right now, I do not feel it should be restored, nor should Template:2008 New York Yankees season game log. If necessary, copy the code from similar articles and templates and recreate it such that it was done by a user in good standing, such as yourself.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 23:45, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I just recreated the article using the Google Cache of the article and 2007 New York Yankees season. Since the article had seemingly no content against Wikipedia policy (other than its creator), I really don't see why recreation could not be done. Also, Voltron was not the only editor to make edits to that page. (I am 98.8% sure I made an edit directing a link to the correct Yankee Stadium being referenced) The template shouldn't have been created in the first place as the Yankees have not released their 2008 schedule yet. --Michael Greiner 00:47, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
I know there was nothing wrong with the article; just its author. Even if other people editted the page, Voltron was still the primary contributor (I saw changes in bit size, and your additions were 3 and his were on the scale of hundreds).—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 01:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you Ryulang for fixing my talk page. Cheers! Culverin? —Preceding comment was added at 06:49, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Stale AOL block?

July 13, 2007 Ryulong (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "195.93.0.0/17 (Talk)" (anon. only) with an expiry time of indefinite {{AOLblock}}) (Unblock)

Is this still valid? 195.93.21.67 is currently tagged as forwarding XFF headers now. You might want to get that confirmed by a CheckUser. Thanks. --  Netsnipe  ►  03:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, it may have not been then. Feel free to undo.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 04:29, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
BTW, are we softblocking AOL IPs? I know we were doing something with them... can't for the life of me remember what it was.--Isotope23 talk 18:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Japanese romanization question

Hi, I just had a quick question about romanization standards. Is the standard to use ou for おう and oh for おお/おー? I know it's probably written somewhere, but I couldn't find anything specifically referencing that. --Egocentrism04 17:46, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

In the Hepburn romanization used on Wikipedia, おう, おお, and おー are all written as ō.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 21:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
However, in instances on Wikipedia for terms not translatable into English, I tend to go with ou for おう, oo for おお, and either ō for おー, unless otherwise stated by the preferred romanization of the subject.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 21:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

User:Swanzsteve unblocked

Checkuser evidence suggests that it is highly unlikely that User:Swanzsteve is running any sockpuppets, so I have unblocked him accordingly. --Deskana (talk) 18:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Very well then.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 20:58, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Yes, as I said, that one came a bit as a suprise to me, but on the other hand, based on content and behaviour, it could have explained a lot.
Anyway, it still leaves us with the question: who is the real puppeteer behind the puppets?. It is clear that Swanzsteve is based in Swansea, UK, and that Electrodynamycist was a negative as well. We'll see how things evolve.
Thanks again, for having taken care of the puppets. Cheers, DVdm 21:12, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

>>Thank you gentlemen, for a speedy resolution, Ryolung, in particular for an apology. All I would ask is that >>you announce this error/unblock on the Herbert Dingle Talk Page, in the same way you announced the block.

>>I'm pleased to see that the wiki checking procedures work - Swanzsteve 22:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

>>Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Swanzsteve"

--Swanzsteve 14:53, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

As to the real sockpuppeteer(s): Cui Bono? - the only beneficiary(ies) of this saga have been the Dingle-bashers, in particular Denveron, someone with a lot of time on his hands. During this period the article has been turned into a tirade against Dingle. This may seem slightly Machiavellian but it is worth considering. I suggest a similar sockpuppeteering check on the anti-Dingle editors. ---Swanzsteve 15:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

If I were a betting man I would say there isn't a link between Brigadier & Dr. Seaweed either; I'd guess they are different individuals altogether. As far as a Machiavellian connection between a certain SPA and the blocked accounts... I don't see it. Occam's razor would certainly suggest there are just individuals on both sides of the debate who are only here to push a POV in the article... and that is nothing new. The longer I'm here, the less surprised I am by the crap people are willing to fight tooth and nail over.--Isotope23 talk 16:24, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

The only POV I am trying to push is a neutral POV. There was a consensus some time ago to avoid discussion within the article itself of "was Dingle right or wrong". Unfortunately this fell by the wayside with the appearance of Denveron and the Sockpuppets (sounds like band). Most of the main article is now little more than a list of people who thought Dingle was wrong and why. This result was always the intention of the anti-Dingle editors, some of whom, would prefer to include statements that he was suffering from dementia. So it is clear who has benefitted from this episode. I think it would do no harm to run sockpuppetry checks on them as well, then we would all know who was genuine and who was not. - Swanzsteve 19:44, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

You can always submit a request for checkuser or sock investigation request. I wasn't suggesting everyone who contributes at that article is a POV warrior, but it does certainly does appear there are some POV editors active there.--Isotope23 talk 19:48, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Ryulong - You may not have noticed in my entry above but I have requested that you announce this error/unblock on the Herbert Dingle Talk Page, in the same way you announced the block. - Swanzsteve 00:23, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Operation Overdrive page was vandalized

I had found the Operation Overdrive page had been vandalized by someone who changed the names of the rangers, allies and villians but I cleaned it up and restored the page back to its normal look before the page was vandalized. Louis Marinucci 23:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC) RedLifeguardRanger

I want to say thanks for helping me clean up the section I was not happy that someone changed the names of the Rangers, Allies and Villians if I see that happen again I'm going to clean it up and report it to you lets forget what happened between us in the past and join forces to protect the pages from vanadals. Louis Marinucci 18:16, 26 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by RedLifeguardRanger (talk • contribs)

More cleanup work

Just to give you the heads up, PilotBob has placed cleanup tags on Goranger and Ogre Tribe Org. I can help with the Org page at least since my expertise are on Sentai Series that were adapted for Power Rangers. -Adv193 06:36, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, Goranger will never be deleted, regardless of what PilotBob is attempting, as it is notable, but it just needs work.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 06:45, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Might have to revise the Org profiles abit unless if you need to because of the fact that Super Sentai.com during their site revisement had copied a lot of stuff from this site including things that both of us have wrote in the past and the pages which were copied could be accused of copyright. -Adv193 07:22, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
If the copyright issue comes up, then we make note of that. Put it up on the talk page and keep our text which we made first. It's their fault that they copied our content without attributing it, as they are violating copyright.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 07:32, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Pilotbob just put in more tags for the Ogre Tribe Org and Power Animals section so I would like to ask how would you like to go about handling these issues should those pages need to be re-written. -Adv193 19:13, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

With the cleanup of the Gaoranger sections can we also use Sentai Jetman and Beyond's Goranger page [2] to help with sourcing since it covers the areas of Gaoranger that Sentai Spoilers did not cover such as writing in the episodes that Sentai Spoilers did not cover. -Adv193 21:31, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Do it, then :P—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 21:38, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I just added the link on three different pages and so that should cover the series for future references I will tell you two things I discovered that you should know about:

1. TV.com has a Super Sentai section and has contained summaries of all of the episodes placed out by TV Nihon as well as a few other series such as Zyuranger, Dairanger, and Abaranger though I doubt that we could use their data for Wikipedia.

2. Super Sentai.com doesn't completely copy material for this site I saw a few pages that did not copyright anything. They also have some episode summaries such as one for some of the series such as Dairanger, Magiranger, Boukenger, and Gekiranger. However I also found out through their forums that they do not have anyone running that site at the moment. -Adv193 22:04, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Block review

Can you review and unblock? thanks -StC

List of cities by surface area: Auckland edit

Hi. Although I didn't make the edit removing Auckland from the List of cities by surface area page, I've reverted it back to the changes made after mine. The reason for this is that Auckland is not actually a city, per se. Check out the talk page for the list and you'll see that under the London heading I mention how Auckland isn't actually a city (it's a metropolitan area/conurbation). It seems that someone read that, realised Auckland was still on the list and removed it (which I should have done, I guess, but I didn't realise it was on there). kabl00ey 07:50, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Read WP:BAN to see why I put Auckland back. So long as you know why it should not be there is okay for your removal a second time.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 08:37, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Read it and understand now. Cheers. kabl00ey 12:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

thank you

Huh, I missed that AN/I round completely - just saw your edit to my User page. Thanks for taking care of all of it. Now he's hallucinating, on top of everything else. I never emailed him at all - he emailed me asking me to give him an award and I replied on his talk page. Tvoz |talk 09:16, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

  • Nice user page you got there. ^_^ JuJube 12:24, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Infobox Musical artist

Hi there. I was wondering why you made this and this change. They don't seem to have any visible effect. The reason I'm asking is that I have (since before your changes) an editprotected request in the sandbox which conflicts with those changes. As your changes don't seem to have any visible effect, I'm tempted to recommend the sandbox still be applied as is. --PEJL 07:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

The edits I made were to remove white space that I saw at the top of the Paul McCartney article. The changes I made to the template fixed that.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 07:47, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
I see. Only the second change should realistically affect that, so I'm going to merge that change into the editprotected request, which will in effect undo the other change. --PEJL 07:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Sun Microsystems block

Your IP block has caught Thumperward (talk · contribs) at 192.18.1.36 which resolves to gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com. Are you sure that:

  • 192.18.0.0/17
  • 192.18.128.0/18
  • 192.18.192.0/23
  • 192.18.194.0/24

does not include the internal employees network at Sun? Your range blocking seems quite extreme when you could have contacted Sun's IT department to deal with abuses. --  Netsnipe  ►  09:08, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thumperward's userpage also indicates that he is a Sun employee. --  Netsnipe  ►  10:38, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
192.18.1.36 does not seem to be a hosting server but rather a closed corporate proxy (a shared IP). Unless there has been serious vandalism problems from Sun or some can be proven to be actually open proxies, I would suggest unblocking them. Based on [3], those ranges are not just webhosting but possibly the entire Sun Corporation. Mr.Z-man 18:28, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Right, I'll unblock it then.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 21:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)