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IP Block of 209.174.67.204

I reported this address, you deleted my request [1] with no explanation or action. What's up? I'm sure you are aware that a lot of necessary but tedious grunt work goes into stopping this kind of vandal, one who continues on even after a "final" warning. I'd appreciate either some help or at least an explanation of why not. ~ Alcmaeonid (talk) 01:09, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Two reasons I declined the block and deleted the report:
  1. Insufficient recent activity to justify a block - The IP editor hasn't had any warnings today or even this week - we have no way of knowing they even saw the one that was issued last - which was 10 days ago. It's a middle school IP, so it's probably not the same person.
  2. I didn't see any blatant vandalism. Now I can't say this edit was solid, but I can't say it damaged the article. It seemed messed up already.
I guess it warranted a warning but the editor seems to have stopped on their own. Remember, blocks aren't for punishment, they're to protect Wikipedia. Your efforts on vandal patrol are really important, and please don't let this diminish your efforts. I hope this answers your question. Toddst1 (talk) 01:22, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Well I can't say as I agree. 15 warnings & 2 blocks in one month alone would seem to constitute a pattern of persistent vandalism in my book. And the edit in question converted a fact into fiction. Is there such a thing as a "post-final" warning? Anyway, I'd appreciate it if in the future when you delete a request, kindly leave a reason why. Thanks. ~ Alcmaeonid (talk) 01:43, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
If you look at the AIV history, you can see that I had previously labeled your report as "Insufficient recent activity to justify a block." You're free to disagree with my judgement, and I'll take it as a compliment that you think I'm being too soft on editors. Admins often get criticized for being too hard. Either way, no ill feelings meant towards you. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 03:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Zachary Jaydon

Thank you for helping me out. I am not sure what I need to say regarding the AfD, or where. I would like to have a chance to defend my article, and finish citing my magazine sources before it is assumed to be a bad article. I'd also like to add that I satisfied every request of all the admins involved in the first AfD by citing independent, verifiable sources regarding Mr. Jaydon. I had been working on the article with a couple of admins; one in particular, whom said she was happy with number of sources that I used, and even helped source the article, and help me to clean it up to meet Wiki standards. If you could give me any advice, I would be grateful. I am not the most experienced in some parts of Wiki formatting, but I am trying hard to learn, and feel like I can contribute well written, unbiased articles to this site. Thank you for your time. Skyler Morgan (talk) 01:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I'll add my voice -- thanks for helping out this editor. Taking the time to read into the article's history when you found it tagged for deletion was above and beyond the call of duty, and taking it to AfD was ... well, in my family we call that "gentlemanly", but you may not read the same qualities into that word as we do, so let me just say "praiseworthy", on the level of helping a little old lady to cross the street when nobody's looking. On behalf of this editor, I thank you. Thanks also for kindly informing me about the AfD; I believe I've already committed myself to neutrality, so will not comment, but I am grateful for the notification. If I can ever be of service to you, let me know. Accounting4Taste:talk 02:18, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I'll accept the complement. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 03:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

please block

If you can, please block User:Joe_Law. All he makes are bogus articles. Thanks. Me what do u want? Your Hancock Please

Re: Al Viro

Your reason for deletion seems nonsensical. How is it possible that "the most prolific recent contributor to the Linux kernel" doesn't indicate the person's significance, so little so that the entry merits deletion? This wiki is running on a kernel that this guy is fairly prominently responsible for. The fact that he's difficult to learn about doesn't make him insignificant. In fact, how is it possible that the archives of your talk pages merit more bytes on this server than a few words on Al Viro? Context, man, context. Please undelete the article and stub it if you must, but it should be available for future clarification and development. Niels Olson (talk) 19:18, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

If he were the most prolific recent contributor to Slurpee he wouldn't be WP:Notable either if that was his only claim to notability. That being said, I've restored the article to your userspace. See User:Niels Olson/Al Viro. Toddst1 (talk) 19:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Not vandalism

I was just looking for Harshing My Mellow (disambiguation). It was speedied using a rationale of vandalism? Please restore it and the other articles that redirect to it. At least let it go through an AFD. Its deletion harshes my mellow. --evrik (talk) 20:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

After looking at the history again, I've restored the article and reverted it back to the last good edit, yours. Sorry to HYM. 8-). Toddst1 (talk) 20:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Thank you. --evrik (talk) 20:57, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
See discussion below. Toddst1 (talk) 22:55, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Abuse report 194.83.177.252

I was trying to post an abuse report, following guidelines on [2], apparently it didn't work like I thought. It's an anonymous address from a university with repeated vandalism, so it should be banned for anonymous use and an abuse report should be sent to the relevant address. Thanks in advance, and sorry for the trouble. --AkselGerner (talk) 22:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I guess I figured out how to do it, it's not easy to do the right thing sometimes :p. BTW Is it ok to remove the warnings over this from my talk page, once it's resolved?--AkselGerner (talk) 22:30, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Harshing My Mellow (disambiguation)

Hi, you seem an active editor, indeed I see you are an admin ... can you explain what is going on at HMM? Why would you be trying to save a dab page with only one entry? It seems madness to me but ... :) Abtract (talk) 22:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

It appears to be a poorly formed dab page with two entries, per my read. Toddst1 (talk) 22:43, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
But one "entry" is a see also ... this is a one entry dab page and shouldn't exist ... at the most it deserves a hatnote on the target article. Abtract (talk) 22:47, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Good point. Upon further ivestigation, It seems like Harshing My Mellow (album) and Harshing My Mellow (disambiguation) are both redirects. Seems neither should exist. Toddst1 (talk) 22:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Well spotted ... I didn't get that far. Abtract (talk) 23:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Harshing My Mellow (disambiguation) exists because of wikt:harshing my mellow. I was going to make a soft redirect, but then found other things under the same title, so it became a disambig. Sometimes redirects are used as placeholders when an article does not exist (yet). If you're going to nominate the redirects for deletion, please take it here: Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion first. --evrik (talk) 23:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
That's why I thought it was vandalism at first. It seems really screwy. Let Afd run its course. Toddst1 (talk) 23:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

please block

If you can, please block User:Joe_law. All he makes are bogus articles. Thanks. Me what do u want? Your Hancock Please —Preceding comment was added at 23:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for asking again, but you said last warning to User:Protos44. I just nominated one of his articles for speedy deletion. And I just warned User:Bob McGregor for the last time. P. S. Sorry for writing this section twice. Me what do u want? Your Hancock Please —Preceding comment was added at 01:18, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion?

Hello. You just deleted my page under Christopher R Snyder while I was still working on it. Can you please give me some time to update it before you delete it?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skiwee10 (talk • contribs) 00:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

That looks an awful lot like a vanity autobiography to me. I can't imagine it passing WP:Bio. I'm not inclined to restore it. 00:20, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Reincarnation of User:Sixtynine69x69

You have blocked him right? And I suppose it is you who also you are also the one who deleted his page. You said that he vandalised. What kind of vandalism is this exactly? I am asking this because there seems to be a reincarnation of him at tl.wp. with the same user page as User_talk:Sixtynine69x69. -- Felipe Aira 04:52, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Firestorm (robot)‎

You closed this dicussion using the wrong template. Just wanted to let you know, and I corrected your mistake. Happy editing, Dustitalk to me 18:50, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Duh.. Toddst1 (talk) 13:43, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Eric William Wright

Thank you for moving this page. The speedy deletion tag appeared as soon as i had saved the page, so something strange happened there. Gaia Octavia Agrippa 22:25, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Re:April 2008

I know I shouldn't, but his edit didn't leave me any choice. Did well in blocking him and be sure it won't happen to me as well:). Ciao --62.1.235.229 (talk) 23:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

NATO article vandalism

Sorry about that (NATO) but I felt insulted. :) 84.208.79.120 (talk) 23:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: John O'Keefe

What made youthink you could remove a bio I placed on Wiki? Who are you to determine who is and is not "important enough?" John is a very important voice in the emerging conversation and have help many people find their voice - your removing him simply shows your bias to people of faith you disagree with - explain it to me - I find your actions personal. [morewormwood] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Morewormfood (talk • contribs) 17:09, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Tracy Price-Thompson article

You deleted that article even though it had the {{hangon}} template in it!

Like I said in the contesting talk comment, if articles on books themselves are not eligible for speedy deletion, how the heck is an article about the author of four books eligible? --❨Ṩtruthious ℬandersnatch❩ 18:25, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review, of course - you should have just clicked on the ISBN number links of the books in the article and seen how many libraries have them. --❨Ṩtruthious ℬandersnatch❩ 18:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Review for Tracy Price-Thompson

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Tracy Price-Thompson. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review.

I have restored the article because it was deleted within one minute of the {{hangon}} tag being placed on it. I've given the user some time to prove their statement, but appropriately warned that failure to add the required sources could result in a re-deletion. Cheers! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 19:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Duet Total Compatibility System

I just thought I'd mention that Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Duet Total Compatibility System seems to be snowballing! -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 08:54, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm glad there seems to be consensus. I'll err on the side of caution and seek consensus for issues I'm not sure of like this. I'll see if I have time to close the speedy this afternoon. Toddst1 (talk) 17:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

why do you keep deleting them/?

User:LisoOR

Could you please re-examine this user's behavior since you last blocked them? After his block expired, LisoOR (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) commenced to upload a photo of Keeley Hazell's breast and tried replacing her infobox photo with the breast photo. He reverted himself because he couldn't get it to work. --Laser brain (talk) 17:10, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Ravedactyl: Project Evolution

Hi. Does Ravedactyl: Project Evolution not qualify for deletion? Like Codename: Justice, it is a non-noteworthy short film by a non-noteworthy person that appears to be have been written in the same blatant advertisement style as Codename: Justice, but another admin removed that tag I placed on it because, according to them, it was "not G4". What do you think? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nightscream (talk • contribs) 21:02, 5 April 2008

My opinion only: I think it does not qualify for speedy deletion because it asserts notability, having won the film festival. However, I believe it would/should be deleted through AfD. Your mileage may vary. Toddst1 (talk) 00:39, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually not at all

I dont get it. What is with guys power deleting n Wikipedia? There are corporations all over wikipedia that have the exact same messaging. No consistency at all. What is the satisfaction with removing some corporations and not others. What company do you work for? Why are you weighing in on my request to personally speak with the person who deleted the submission? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesoweng (talk • contribs) 02:21, 6 April 2008 (UTC) Jamesoweng (talk) 02:33, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Curious, does one earn some sort of credentials or points for being the first to delete something?

Just curious to the motivation of deleting corporations written in an encyclopedia style being deleted within 60 seconds of being submitted. No one wants to answer my question. Or give me a way of getting a private company entered in properly. I have already read the wikipedia articles. Why is microsoft or amazon or expedia okay when lesser or unknown companies are not?

Jamesoweng (talk) 03:02, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Your questions (the legitimate ones about why your articles have been deleted) have been answered numerous times. As I said before, please read the answers. Additional information about creating articles on companies can be found at WP:Corp.
Regarding the quick deletion of articles. If an article has been speedily deleted once, recreating the article will likely lead to very speedy deletion. Mind you, the only article that you wrote that I deleted was there several months before another editor nominated it for speedy deletion. It should have been deleted long before that.
Toddst1 (talk) 19:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


Deletion of article Grid5000

Hello, the Grid5000 article that you just deleted looks very similar to these articles :

From the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing#National_Grid_Projects

So I was wondering why you deleted it.

Thanks


Tichadok (talk) 13:13, 22 March 2008 (UTC) Hi Todd, if you want to be consistent, I think you either have to delete the three articles above or undelete the Grid5000 article. Thanks

Thank you for your suggestion regarding GARUDA . When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). Same goes for D-Grid and VECC. Feel free to take them to AfD.Toddst1 (talk) 15:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Tichadok (talk) 14:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Could you please undelete the Grid5000 article, if the GARUDA exists for India, then the Grid5000 has to exist for France. The Grid5000 article is written as the same manner as the GARUDA article, that's why I see no reason why you deleted it. Thanks Tichadok (talk) 23:29, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

See WP:OSE. Toddst1 (talk) 12:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

George Sowden

Hi, you seem very determined to keep the an article about George Sowden off wikipedia. While I appreciate that the first time it was written, it was possibly not "encyclopedic" in style, the second attempt was a good stub. If you feel that there is no place for George Sowden on Wikipedia, may I ask why you don't remove all the other founding members of the Memphis Group also? It seems to be a very random choice of yours. We have dozens of newspaper and magazine references, as well as awards, recognitions and Museum Exhibits of George Sowden's work to add, and, given a little time, will be happy to add them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drkolos (talk • contribs) 09:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

You could also just do a google search for George Sowden and see four pages worth of independent listings on third party, design, related websites and publications. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drkolos (talk • contribs) 09:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

  1. No, you are wrong. I do not "seem very determined to keep the an article about George Sowden off wikipedia". I deleted it (once) after it was nominated for speedy deletion by another editor.
  2. You are free to nominate all the other founding members of the Memphis Group for speedy deletion if you think their articles fail minimum criteria.
  3. Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to).
Toddst1 (talk) 14:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Fooshy Deletion

Hi, you have marked Fooshy for deletion and warned me that I may be banned from editing again for self promotion. As my area of work is Website Development and Content Management, I feel I am in a good position to edit these pages and as such created the Fooshy page.

Although I do have a link to Fooshy, the article was not in any way self promoting - I used terms of the nature "Fooshy Claim" when describing features and I included a link to an external review by a leading authority on Content Management.

Can you tell me why there is still a problem with this article?

Thanks

Bigrbuk (talk) 08:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Responded on User_talk:Bigrbuk#Responding_to_your_question_hereToddst1 (talk) 16:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


According to WP:Corp - "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources." As mentioned above - does the review provided by a leading source in Content Management, not count as reliable and independent. It seems it is simply easier to delete an article that has already been deleted before, rather than give it a proper and fair evaluation.

Bigrbuk (talk) 08:25, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Do you understand the difference between WP:Notability and WP:Advert? 13:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, and I fail to see the difference between the Fooshy entry and that of many other CMS's already within Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigrbuk (talk • contribs) 13:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I haven't surveyed the other CMs on Wikipedia, but this article appeared to be WP:Advert. WP:OSE won't fix that. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 13:40, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

warning

Hey. Just letting you know that I had spoken to an admin about the deletion of the vote, as well as the comments before doing so. I feel like I posted a legitimate explanation on the page. It wasn't a vandalism act. Please assume good faith. I suppose next time, I will have the admin do it for me. Skyler Morgan (talk) 00:59, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Whomever who you talked to gave you bad advice: Removing others' comments is not OK. In fact, you shouldn't remove your comments if you wish to retract them on a page like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zachary Jaydon (2nd nomination). The custom is to strike through your comments Toddst1 (talk) 12:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)


Thank you for that. Do you by chance know how long an AfD takes to be completed? The one on my article has been going on a week, so I just wondered. Thank you. I am just trying to get an idea. I appreciate the advice, and the information. Skyler Morgan (talk) 16:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

It varies. If comments are still being made, things can be extended as in this case. Usually about 5 days unless consensus is reached sooner. Toddst1 (talk) 16:53, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Mariani Packing Company

Hi. Please don't take this the wrong way but, I think you may have gone a bit quick on deleting the page that the above talk page related to. I was in the middle of replacing the holdon tag that another user had removed "illegally" and trying to explain to the creator of the article why they needed to make changes for it to not be deleted. I'm asking that you undelete the article and allow it to go to AfD or undelete the article and PROD it instead. For information I have no connection to the article, its creator, or the user that removed the holdon tag. Thank you. Jasynnash2 (talk) 16:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it was too quick, but I've restored it per your request. Feel free to remove the speedy tag and take it from here. Toddst1 (talk) 16:13, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
    • The whole thing is beginning to look bad actually. I was trying to do a favour because of that user removing the holdon tag but, now the creator of the article is getting vandalism notices about it. Seems really weird. Either way thanks for not taking offense and stuff I guess I'll just wait and see what happens with the weirdness. Jasynnash2 (talk) 16:16, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
It appears Mariani Packing Company is a client of TMD Creative. Advert, username vio, etc. Toddst1 (talk) 16:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh. Pfft.

Sorry! 21655 ωhατ δo γoυ ωαητ? 16:36, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

My bad and not the only one today. Perhaps it's time for me to hang up the mop for the day. Toddst1 (talk) 18:04, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

RE: User:User: 24.128.42.57

The IP had made several unconstructive contributions before actually being warned. The edit that you're referring to, removing vandalism, is some kind of joke with User:Johnny 5 names, who is indefinitely blocked. The IP and Johnny appeared to be waging some kind of "mafia" war over several articles, see [3]. I thought it best to put an end to their games. GlassCobra 16:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, okay. Not a problem. GlassCobra 16:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

RE: This

I only learned a few months ago. :( - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 11:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Cathy Wilkes

Hi there, could you please explain me why you deleted this page? You put r1 code next to it but I checked links twice and all of them were fine. Copyright has not been infringed as my colegue who wrote MKG text is ok with me using it on Wikipedia on her behalf. Ups, right, you could not have known about it, but now when you know can you bring it back? What shall I do? Will you leave it as eg. a stab if I add a citation mark? There is no Cathy Wilkes Article on Wikipedia and it should be as she is a great artist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmvf (talk • contribs) 13:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC) thanks

The article was a blatant copyright infringement of http://www.mk-g.org/index.php?id=383. You copied the entire second paragraph (most of the article) verbatim. Since your colleague has not released copyright to Wikipedia, it must be removed quickly.
If you want use the material, you'll still have to deal with WP:Advert, but here is how you can grant wikipedia the copyright.  :We need to verify that you are the real copyright holder and understand the legal implications of putting your copyrighted work on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation has established specific licensing guidelines that we need to follow.
Follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission#For_text. It has all the info you need. Be sure you understand the rights to the text that you will be giving up. Then, you'll be granted what's called "an OTRS ticket" that shows Wikipedia has been granted the rights to the text and then you can post the material verbatim.
We don't accept copyrighted work outside of that process in order to protect the holders of copyright, both from others posting their words on Wikipedia, and from unknowingly signing away their rights.
I hope you understand that refusing all copyrighted work until we have real evidence that it's been released into the GDFL is the best way to make sure we aren't violating anyone's rights.
I encourage you to review WP:COI, WP:Advert, WP:Bio and WP:Reliable before proceeding.
I hope this helps. Toddst1 (talk) 13:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I will do.It helps very much. Sorry if I am messing about - I am beginner here :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmvf (talk • contribs) 14:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleted article about David Ellsworth

Hello. I'd like to know why exactly the mentioned article (Dr David Ellsworth) have been deleted. Ellsworth is the author of the book "Smith County Justice", which have recently being published on wikileaks. I also linked to the wikileaks article. I also told on Ellsworth' page, why the mentioned book is so important. It emphazises the corruptive judicial system in east texas in the late 70ies. Yes, the book and the author are not well known today, which is because the book have been supressed by texas state authorties (censored!). While many persons may not like what Ellsworth wrote about the texas justice system, it is a fact that these things really happened. So, could you please provide some further detail why you deleted the page? Scip (talk) 19:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I didn't think it asserted his notability per WP:Bio at all which is the reason it was deleted. (having written a book that people didn't like isn't notable) Beyond that, without citations seemed like a hoax. I've restored the article to your user space. You can find it at User:Scip/Dr David Ellsworth. If you can get some WP:Reliable references in it, it should pass WP:BIO. I recommend getting some references in there before you move it back to the mainspace, as it's likely to be re-deleted by someone else otherwise. Let me know if you need help with the move. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 19:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind response, Toddst1, and for restoring the article to my userspace. I'll rework it (it were not ready anyways) and add sources, if I can find some. One question remains: what if I cannot find reliable sources? Most of the informations I got so far came from the subject (Ellsworth) itself, which seems to violate the mentioned wikipedia policies. Shall I abandon the article in this case then? Scip (talk) 20:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
If you can't find sources, then the person truly is not WP:Notable and the article would be considered original research. You would then add the {{db-author}} tag to the article to have it deleted. Give it a shot and see what you can come up with. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 20:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Ahm - one (hopefully) last question: I took a look into the article of Wolfgang_Hohlbein my favourite author, who is well-known. However, there are no sources referenced in the article. Even the book list doesn't contain ISBN numbers. Ok, I am sure he is of course a notable person just because almost everyone (at least in EU) knows him, but it there seems to be no evidence for this on the article. I'm a little bit confused... Scip (talk) 22:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
No problem. You are right - that article is missing WP:Reliable sources and I've tagged it as such. However, having won awards, the article asserts notability so is not subject to speedy deletion for WP:Notability. It's kind of a technical distinction, I know, but that's how it works. I guess I could have just said WP:OSE. Hope this helps and don't hesitate to ask me or others further questions. You can always put the question on your talk page and add "{{helpme}}" right before your question if I'm not around. Good luck and happy editing. Toddst1 (talk) 23:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello Todd, so I now invested a lot of time trying to find sources either about the book or the author. I could not find anything about the latter, but something about the book. It is even mentioned in a wikipedia article (Kim Wozencraft) as well as the author. I am also in contact with a person at the University of Texas at Tyler Library (via mail). She told me the book were not supressed, in fact it is even available in the library. So you are very right, if I had not checked it I would have been sure the book were supressed, which seems not to be the case. However, I am not sure if I have enough sources (I think I don't), perhaps you can take a look at what I got so far. Currently I am trying to get some kind of access to the tyler library, they do indeed have informations both about the book and ellsworth, but on microfilm, which I cannot access from here (I'm located in germany, a trip to texas just for a wikipedia article would really exceed my limits).Scip (talk) 20:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, a couple of comments: I think you should focus on why the person or the book is WP:Notable. As you find that, you'll want to cite your source - preferably with a footnote or three. The book listed on Amazon will be considered a spam link.
Just for example, take a look at a similar article about a journalist that I wrote, Carol Leonnig. I think you'll get the idea. You want to find things like awards or where his work was cited. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 20:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes the page about Carol Leonnig indeed shows how to do it. However, meanwhile I got word that the author I'm trying to get informations about did use a false identity, and - once this fact were revealed - leaved the region. This might be the cause why I seem to be unable to find any references about him but the fact that he just wrote this (and another) book. So I think I'll abandon the idea to write an article about him, it would not be reliable. Thanks again for your efforts to assist me, I learned a lot! Scip (talk) 21:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

TomGreen 2

Unfortunately, your decision is a bad day for common sense. By reversing his block you have given him the green light to do as he wishes. Furthermore, you have also now made a personal attack against me. I was trying to help clear up what I saw - when I checked his edit history this afternoon - to be a long-standing problem which nobody appears to be willing to address. It seems whenever one tries to stand up to the bullies, one comes away with a bloody nose for one's troubles. Well, on your heads be it. It's unsurprising that Wikipedia is seen as such an unreliable source in the press when people such as this are given carte blanche to do what they want (I am a journalist so ought to know). I would request a third opinion, but see little point in it, and I feel I have no choice other than to leave Wikipedia. I cannot be involved with a project that appears to condone this behaviour. Congratulations must go to both yourself and Mr Green for this. Don't bother posting a reply on my talk page, because I won't be here to read it. Goodnight. 86.147.218.231 (talk) 22:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page.Toddst1 (talk) 23:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Paul20070 Toddst1 (talk) 16:35, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Edits by 86.147.218.231

Hi Todd. I am the user who reported TomGreen to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism yesterday afternoon, and in light of events that seem to have happened after that, I thought I should come here and explain my position. I realise I was a bit over-enthusiastic in reporting him for something quite small really, and you were right to unblock him. I'm pleased to say I'm not responsible for what happened later in the evening. That appears to be down to whoever inherited my IP address (I logged off after posting my report and my IP address changes every time I do that). I'm glad you've removed that attack piece from the talk page. It appears to be attacking all of us (TomGreen, yourself and me - me because I'm not a journalist and my name isn't Derek). I'd like to request the page be deleted and salted if that's possible. I'm also going to get myself a user ID so this sort of thing doesn't happen again. Thanks 86.147.219.12 (talk) 11:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for contacting me. I really bear you no malice. Unfortunately, IP talk pages cannot be salted. They would prevent future communication. As far as deleting them to hide history: I would feel better about that if the request came from that IP. I believe you when you say you are the same person, but I don't know that. As an admin, we have to be very careful.
You seem to be a very knowledgeable person about Wikipedia, and I'm sure you could contribute quite a bit. I thoroughly encourage you log in with a named account, but I hope you actively try to steer clear of the kind of conflict you found yesterday.
Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 13:49, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Paul20070 Toddst1 (talk) 16:37, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Detective work

Your post encouraged me to do a bit of detective work and has helped me to uncover some rather interesting facts. Seems I might have inadvertantly been harbouring a drawful of socks. Hopefully my reply will help to clear matters up and sort things out. Thanks Paul20070 (talk) 14:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Given the extent of the problem, I've decided to retire. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I shudder to think what may have happened had you not. Cheers Paul20070 (talk) 16:10, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

suggested deletion of Daniel Durnford Kemp page

This page is in no way defamatory as it has been written by the very person in question. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dkemp24 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply on User talk:Dkemp24Toddst1 (talk) 18:17, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

user:Lukeatomic

You've recently blocked him for 3RR, if I revert his edits now then I will be in violation of 3RR, if you take a look at his edits, they are clearly in violation of several policies that I pointed out, so could you revert his last two edits (if you agree with me about them being blatantly unconstructive of course) since I don't want to risk getting blocked too, thanks. The Dominator (talk) 23:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Which article? The editor has gone through quite a few. Toddst1 (talk) 00:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
The last two edits, on Bringing Up Buster but that one has already been reverted by a different user, so the only remaining one is Pilot (Arrested Development episode). The Dominator (talk) 00:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, these persistent trivia adders are sometimes difficult, because all you can really do is point out the policies that they are violating and hope they'll discuss. Question; is there a warning template I can add to a user's talk page in situations of addition of trivia? The Dominator (talk) 00:23, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
{{uw-trivia}} or {{uw-3rr}} will work, but note they have to be {{subst}}ed, so it would look like {{subst:uw-3rr}} as you type it. Check out Wikipedia:TUSER for the complete list and guidance on where/when to use what. cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 00:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
I am familiar with warning templates and have been using them regularly for months, but for some reason I've never seen {{uw-trivia}}, I've never really browsed through the single level ones before. Thanks. The Dominator (talk) 00:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
You should check out WP:TW. It helps with warnings and AIV reports. Toddst1 (talk)
Yeah I've got Twinkle, it's great, I'm still trying to learn to master it, well thanks for your help, happy editing! The Dominator (talk) 01:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! You made my day...

Sick and tired of telling these guys to stop their vandalism on wikipedia, and thanks for putting the block on this guy User talk:137.132.3.7.

Dave1185 (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

and you made mine. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 00:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Ruby James Deletion

Hi, I am really new to this and I am trying to navigate my way around. The article that I posted was deleted for blatant advertising. I am really not trying to advertise here, but wanted to post more or less a bio of the performer. People kept asking why she wasn't listed here and so I thought I would do that. If I have done it in an improper format, please let me know. I would be happy to redo the article. I copied and pasted the bio because it had a lot of information in it. I had planned on editing it and then was blocked and by the time I was unblocked and got through that process the page was deleted.

Here are the facts:

Performer with 2 E.P.'s "Loaded and Sweet as Sin" First Full-Length Album: Desert Rose Placements: Nu-Line Cinema "The Women"


Let me know if this is acceptable. Aquila Red (talk) 00:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

RFA

Thanks for the note, but the odds are slim that I'd get overwhelming support, both because of the enemies I've made who'd come out of the woodwork (User:Everyking has even posted on WR that I ought to be banned) and the schoolmarmish types who dislike my blunt approach. But thanks for the vote of confidence. --Calton | Talk 02:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

For a taste of the wackiness that wold result from my apply for adminship, check out the shenanigans here, where a few admins get a bug up their butts about my horrible and disruptive tagging of spammer talk pages. User:Doug User:Ryan Postlethwaite‎, and User:John Reaves seem particularly, well, obsessed -- check out the last one's comments in particular. --Calton | Talk 12:34, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Univ of Maryland IP troublemakers

Hi Todd- I see you blocked 136.160.138.51 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) - they seem to have moved to 136.160.150.110 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), now short-term blocked after doing more of the same. Just thought you might want to keep an eye on it. Thanks. Tvoz |talk 04:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

God, I hate vandals. -- 136.160.160.102 (talk) 23:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Reported at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#University_System_of_Maryland_IP_vandals Toddst1 (talk) 23:53, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

137.132.3.7 block

Please double-check your 1 month block on Singapore University's external Internet router. In my opinion, its seems a bit excessive to issue such a block for a single vandalism edit and call it a BLP violation. At the very least, change your block reason to schoolblock before I have to deal with dozens of irate and confused emails on unblock-en-l. Thanks. --  Netsnipe  ►  16:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Adjusted to 2 weeks for schoolblock. This is the third block for that IP and the previous one was for 1 weeks. That really doesn't seem excessive to me, but if you feel strongly about it, I will not be offended if you feel you need to adjust it further. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 17:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

It wasn't the length or the actual blocking that I found excessive. I meant to say calling a one-off bit of vandalism and then citing WP:BLP as overkill, not to mention potentially confusing to the thousand other students likely to be behind that router. = ) --  Netsnipe  ►  17:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Sdrtirs

User:Sdrtirs left 12 messages on my talk page with 12 separate headings, and I replied. User:Sdrtirs has continued leaving messages on my talk page, after I have already acknowledged receiving his deltion notices. If my actions are legitimately considered vandalism, while User:Sdrtirs's are not, then Wikipedia holds deletionists and bots to a far lower level of conduct than contributors. Dekkappai (talk) 18:53, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Note: He has since given me a warning to stop uploading these images, which were uploaded LAST YEAR-- back when Fair Use was considered Fair Use here, if you recall. I have long since ceased uploading images of living persons. Hence, I consider this "Warning" to be in intentional provocation. Dekkappai (talk) 18:57, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
<sarcasm> Annoy a deletionist with a bot? Heaven forbid! </sarcasm> ;) But seriously... Several of these images-- though I've long since given up defending images of living people-- have extenuating explanations, such as retired and jealously guarding privacy, etc. Also some of these images were to film posters, which to my knowledge are still allowed under Fair Use. Is mass-tagging these for speedy deletion really appropriate? Dekkappai (talk) 19:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
"Posters, programs, billboards, ads. For critical commentary." This means film posters are only Fair use for discussion of the poster itself, not the film? Then 99.9999999% of the film posters on Wikipedia do not belong here. And neither do I, I'm beginning to suspect. Dekkappai (talk) 19:19, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to be a pain in the posterior, Todd, but I think this edit says a lot... Cheers. Dekkappai (talk) 19:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Attacks

I have been editing the Chicago Cubs page for a while now, and a few days back, this guy User:Tool2Die4 comes around and starts screwing stuff up. He posted an insult on my page shortly after I tried to make nice with him. Dont believe me? go check it out. I then requested an admin's help in looking at this situation wherein I admitted that I made an angry response to his initial attack. I had tried to get him to work with me (see his talk page) and he ignored this and posted (see my talk page) a message saying "What do you expect from a car salesman who went to the college of dreams" which is a direct and unprovoked attack on both my livelyhood and my background. I tried to be the good guy, this guy is a troublemaker and I wont get involved in an edit war with him, which I think is his intention. I do not know if you are aware of the admin intervention I requested about an hour ago? Thanks.Wjmummert (talk) 20:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

This is pretty laughable. The situation was discussed at large on the Cubs talk page, and you chose not to participate. Keep peacock words and POV out of articles. And you've been called out on your talk page in the past for adding original research to articles. It really isn't that hard of a concept to grasp. Tool2Die4 (talk) 20:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

You two can solve your content dispute - I'm not getting ivolved in that. That personal attack that I mentioned to you is all I saw. I don't know where User talk:Tool2Die4 attacked you and haven't been able to find it. If what you say is true, we have at least two wrongs. I can't stand up for either of them and will warn and/or block as appropriate. I think this is too complicated for AIV. It's been there at least once today and got kicked out.Toddst1 (talk) 21:49, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Nomination for Speedy Deletion

I nominated that user talk page for speedy deletion because the user appears to be inactive, and the page has no substantial edits. Please assume good faith, I believe I followed policy.

Thanks.

Ragnaranchorage (talk) 22:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Ahh, I see the attempts to archive now. Sorry, I was referring to posting history. Looked like the user hadn't posted in a long time, and that talk page was dormant for a year until today.

Ragnaranchorage (talk) 22:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply

I don't understand how I have been involved. I never use IP addresses. Can you clarify? Thanks.--RyRy5 Got something to say? 00:09, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Wait! Never mind. I understand. I thought I vandalized a page. Sure I'll have a look.--RyRy5 Got something to say? 00:17, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Coming Clean

Hello User:Toddst1. I am the vandal that has been trying to inject some humor into talk pages. Obviously, I've taken my antics a bit far. Please excuse my actions and try to forgive me. I started out yesterday in a quest to see what the particular responses were from admins in the face of varying degrees of vandalism and disruptive edits.

I began as the bellicose editor User talk:136.160.138.51 and tried to be as harsh and uncooperative as I could. I found that admins quickly came down on me harsh with the schoolblock template as a result of my personal attacks.

The next identity I "claimed" was that of User talk:136.160.150.110 as more of a neutral vandal. I was surprised to find the response from admins to be much softer and more tolerant.

The third time, I was User talk:136.160.154.150: the friendly vandal. I left messages that espoused "have a nice day". Still disruptive, of course, but not the seething personal attacks I started with. I found the admin response to be even softer. In fact, a few complimented me on my knowledge of Wikipedia and invited me to sign up.

The fourth facade I assumed was that of User talk:136.160.160.102: the "ignorant-yet-well-intentioned" editor. With your response to this one, however, I realized you had had enough. I tried leaving a "trail" to see if the admins could follow, yet I don't believe you were able to link them all (The 'Weir-beast', the Bitter Sweet Symphony comments). Anyways, as I said, they were an experiment in admin response and I feel regret that they have been taken as seriously and badly as they have. This has all been my fault. Please forgive my actions. I promise to continue being a constructive editor on Wikipedia. Thank you for your time. --136.160.144.22 (talk) 00:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it'd probably be better if I morphed into who I really am... -- 136.160.144.22 (talk) 00:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
... which is me. -- VegitaU (talk) 00:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
I've had such a hankering to see what being blocked is like, I couldn't resist it any more. Please feel free to block me for violations of WP:SOCK. But there's no reason to rangeblock all the IP addresses. -- VegitaU (talk) 00:56, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the fourth facade: I did connect the dots. It was fairly simple, because I have User:RyRy5's page watchlisted, and seeing different IPs replacing the page with the lyrics to Bittersweet Symphony (which as far as I'm concerned is the greatest song of all-time) kinda gave it away. Enigma message Review 05:22, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I disagree with the 15 minute block. I found that to be punitive and in violation of WP:POINT. Instead of a short block you should've given a full 24 hour block for vandalising Wikipedia. ScarianCall me Pat! 09:32, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I meant no sarcasm in my response to your block, but I have never considered being an admin, though I agree with your block of me. Please forgive my causing you any grief. Believe me, I have regretted my actions since yesterday. I can only ask that you forgive me once more and try to believe that I shall not be reverting to my childish behavior any more. Thanks. -- VegitaU (talk) 14:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Abuse report

Thanks, I'll check it out. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) (talk / cont) 00:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

The 10 People Who Suck

I beg your pardon? Please don't accuse me of vandalizing Wikipedia when I've done no such thing. I only pop into Wikipedia now and then to look things up and if I see a mistake I correct it. I most certainly didn't make a page called "The 10 People Who Suck." 82.31.37.95 (talk) 10:47, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Replied on User talk:82.31.37.95. Toddst1 (talk) 16:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

final warning

Please, tell me how that is uncivil? Riverpeopleinvasion (talk) 12:47, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Ask your Mom or your teacher. Toddst1 (talk) 13:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
How rude. Avoiding my question are we? Riverpeopleinvasion (talk) 22:55, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Second pair of eyes requested

Hi. I don't think we have met. I wanted to get a quick neutral admin review of my block of User:SamuelM555. I received a complaint that this user was adding ethnic/racial categories to articles on living people without any verifiable sources to back them up, and edit-warring when other editors removed them. I warned the user, and then blocked for two weeks when they continued. The length of block reflects the fact that this is now the user's third block. Please, if you have time, take a quick look and tell me what you think. Thanks in advance, --John (talk) 15:35, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it. I would rather err on the side of leniency when making such blocks, but I endorse the suggestion that a future block if required would be indefinite. Let me know if I can ever do anything in return for you, and thank you again. --John (talk) 15:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

That user

I'll say it's support. We both got more than enough cr*p off him that day. Pretty soft outcome at AN/I, but there you goes. Best wishes. Ref (chew)(do) 15:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for removing the vandalism from my user page. It is much appreciated! Alanraywiki (talk) 22:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

TomGreen

I notice you've unblocked TomGreen because of this edit, which was actually a response to this edit. This user has a long history of disruptive edits, which he hides amongst constructive edits. Whenever anyone has tried to take him to task in the past, he has accused them of harrassment (see this for example). If he's not to be blocked, I would like to request that someone keep an eye on him. Thanks 86.147.218.231 (talk) 17:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't know about what you said above, but I don't see any blatantly disruptive behavior after this final warning that you issued. This un-cited fact added to an article about a future album is the only thing that could come close. I feel I made a mistake by blocking him. I have unblocked him and apologized. Both were in order. Toddst1 (talk) 18:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I may owe you an apology myself, as I got the impression you'd unblocked him because of the comment he'd posted on my talk page. As I say, I apologise for getting the wrong impression. The thing that concerns me is that he will be making more disruptive edits, and some of these edits slip beneath the radar, and damage the integrity of this encyclopedia. His disruption can be traced back to at least February 2007, and I feel that he should be monitored in some way to prevent him from doing this. 86.147.218.231 (talk) 18:19, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I realise I sometimes go to the limit of what is permitted, but I am not actually trying to be disruptive at all. Many of my edits are attempts at combating what I see as people having biased personal interests in articles. Thanks for being reasonable. Tom Green (talk) 18:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
In fact, this is sometimes not the case. For examples of this user's disruptive edits, see [4] [5] [6] [7] [8])[9] [10] [11] [12]. 86.147.218.231 (talk) 18:56, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion: Perhaps both of you should chill out a bit. My opinion only. Toddst1 (talk) 18:58, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

That's a good suggestion. He seems to be behaving himself at the moment. I'm happy as long as he continues to do so. 86.147.218.231 (talk) 19:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Note to future readers: The ip here turned out to be a sock of User talk:Paul20070 who retired after I requested a checkuser Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Paul20070. The sock was confirmed along with many others. Toddst1 (talk) 16:14, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I found the socks after discovering the checkuser report. I later discovered they were the work of two (now former) friends who I had allowed to use my computer. I thought it best all round if I retired. I've now salted my password so am unable to log in to leave this message. Paul20070 81.152.149.124 (talk) 18:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Please undo deletion of the article Kosmopolis

Hi. I have been hired by the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in order to upload to Wikipedia all the information related to Kosmopolis. International Literature Fest. I have a permission letter (in Spanish) I will be very happy to provide if requested. I was in the midst of editing the article and you abruptly deleted it without previous notice. ? Olga Sala (talk) 16:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Baloney. You had plenty of notice and acknowledged it by adding a {{hangon}} tag to the article after it was tagged as a blatant copyright violation. It would have also been deleted as an WP:Advert. Please stop using Wikipedia for your commercial gain. See the warning on your talk page. Toddst1 (talk) 16:53, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
No commercial gain here (we are talking about a book festival!!). There are many literary festivals in Wikipedia already. This is a major event in Spain organized by the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), which finds it extremely important to make all the info. related to Kosmopolis available to anyone interested. I will be very glad to provide any info or copyright permission if requested. Also, I will be very glad if you can help me and will follow your proper instructions happily. It has taken me a while to write the article and edit it afterwards, right now I feel quite frustrated. Please help. Thanks in advance. Olga Sala (talk) 17:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replying on User talk:Olga Sala Toddst1 (talk) 17:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello Todd. Please tell us what to do and we will gladly follow your instructions. There are plenty of literary festivals in Wikipedia and we never thought it would be a problem. All the material and images provided come from the CCCB itself (so no copyright violation occurs) and in the following days we will send the text and images copyright permissions to Wikipedia. Besides that, the CCCB wanted to make a big contribution to Wikipedia introducing short bios of all the major writers and cultural actors that up to date have participated in the festival. Some writers have an entry already, some doesn't (in the deleted article they were linked already). Having said that, I would like to remark that Kosmopolis is a literary festival organized by a public institution. The entrance fee is absolutely symbolic and if some advertising goals are in play here are those in favor of culture and free knowledge. Please help us.Olga Sala (talk) 20:54, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't have a recipe for you. I think the answer is review WP:Advert and WP:Notable to start. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 22:52, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Suparna Bhattacharya

Hi. I established the page on Suparna Bhattacharya, a person who I consider to be an important Linux kernel developer, and a female at that, which I thought makes her unusual. She is certainly outstanding in the field of Linux kernel developers. Unfortunately, both for her and me, you thought otherwise, and deleted her page in Wikipedia.

I did not see that there was an impending deletion, nor the discussion on the deletion. My 'bad'. Is there a way that I can look at the discussion, and perhaps repechage the decision? Can you tell me how I can ensure that I always see discussions about deletions of pages I established?

I only discovered the deletion when I mentioned Suparna Bhattacharya to my son who is studying computer programming at the Australian National University, said something of her achievements, and went to look her up here.

With thanks, - Peter Ellis - Talk 10:34, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

It was speedily deleted on March 17 after nomination by User: Croquemitaine42 under A7: An article about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. I see that User: Croquemitaine42 didn't leave the courtesy note on your talk page which is both unfortunate and a pet peeve of mine. In reviewing the article, I feel that the speedy deletion was a good one, that the article didn't assert notability. Yes she published a few articles, and yes she had jobs.
As a courtesy, I have restored the article to User:Peter_Ellis/Suparna Bhattacharya to allow you the opportunity to establish her WP:Notability under WP:Bio. Then we can move it back to article-space after that has been established. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 15:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for putting it back into my space, which I note that Google had detected before I saw the mention here. :-) The subject is, I believe, an important and notable person and I will endeavour to bring out those matters further. - Peter Ellis - Talk 23:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

User: Paul20070

Hello Todd. I am User:Paul20070 and would like to disappear. But unfortunately, I made the mistake of salting my password before deciding I wanted to make this request, so it is now impossible for me to request this in the preferred way. I am a little vexed by recent events. I would have preferred not to go, but felt I had no choice when I discovered the true extent of what was going on. I'd be grateful for some advice, but would prefer you didn't remove the requests yourself since you appear to be the main interested party in this matter. Thanks 81.152.223.85 (talk) 08:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

You have the right to disappear and I will facilitate that. That means deleting your user page and subpage - not your user talk. That may be needed for further administrative work. Toddst1 (talk) 12:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

It would be good if you could do that. I've also left notes for Jimbo Wales and Alison requesting their help and advice on this matter, and posted a request at the asministrators' noticeboard and at the the checkuser debate, so I hope this doesn't prevent you from being able to act. Thanks. Paul20070 81.152.149.124 (talk) 18:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Hyowon

Hyowon is my friend here at Shepard's Ranch and I told him that I would clean his page up a little.I didn't delete any words except the ones that didn't make sense.Jacob Green696 (talk) 14:59, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

"Metal"

Hey what if I change the Greeting to something else that has to do with Metal?I'm only asking you because you seem to have the most problems with it.Jacob Green696 (talk) 16:17, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

It's not my call at this point; it's on ANI. Toddst1 (talk) 16:05, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Alrighty then I'll just convince all of them.Jacob Green696 (talk) 16:17, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for advice

Hi! Thanks for the advice regarding editing pages User_talk:Hazmog. I'm very new to this and I'm not trying to advertise anything - just want to contribute, but its hard knowing where to draw the line! Anyway looks like i need to research editing more thoroughly. —Preceding comment was added at 11:44, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Attila the Goth

I just noticed this. Thank you. For all the vandalism I couldn't seem to do anything about, thank you. I'd love to know the names of the nitwits doing it, & what they'll have to face for getting the school locked out.... Trekphiler (talk) 14:00, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Glad its appreciated. Some folks are more reluctant to make calls like that, but I think this case warranted it. I doubt the school will be able track them down. Toddst1 (talk) 16:22, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Ping-Pong

E-mail you have! Hope it clarifies things for you. Best. Pedro :  Chat  14:05, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

All is well. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 16:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I fail to understand

I was merely bringing the case to the communities attention. Goodandhonestwhig (talk) 12:53, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

thank you

Thanks for your help. Jackmantas (talk) 13:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)


I'm in the process of merging the pages. StraightBanging (talk) 14:58, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Justice Kennedy

I'm not sure where to put this. But I made some changes to the abortion and "gay rights" sections of the Kennedy entry that further explained the dynamic post-Casey. They were "reverted" quickly after. I'm unsure why. The edits I made were to further elucidate the impact of the differences between O'Connor and Kennedy on the meaning of the Casey plurality (which was incorrectly called a "majority" opinion on the site before my edit). Furthermore, it seems important to note on the gay rights section that the boy scouts opinion was a unanimous opinion and that the decision did not rest on any "gay rights" arguments but rather on the rights of a private organization to define its membership. The article before my edits did not make that clear. And since the section discussed more than "gay rights" cases, it seemed the title of the section was misleading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.34.234.180 (talk) 15:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Replied User_talk:208.34.234.180#Anthony Kennedy (my bad) Toddst1 (talk) 15:56, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for responding and reinstating the edits. I will try to remember to log in before making changes so as not to arouse suspicion. Good day.

Thanks for Deletion

Thanks for deleting that Azeem ahmed article I tagged. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SimpsonsFan08 (talk • contribs) 16:56, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

David L Cook

I see that you have placed a warning on the users talk page in reference to the slanderous edit. However, I also see thatyou said in your edit summary that the remark was not aimed at Cook personally? The edit clearly says "Cook" claims to be a humanitarian. How can that not be aimed at Cook? We need to blank this from the eidt history so that no one else can see such rumor. This could end up hurting the subject of this article. Canyouhearmenow 17:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification! Now, can we delete the edit from the history so that it cannot be read by the genral public? Canyouhearmenow 17:27, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you! They have removed the edits from the history. This is the second time I have had to do this. I am wondering if I should ask for a page protection on this article. It seems that with the Christian articles, everyone wants to take pop shots at these people. Sometimes I can catch them and sometimes it kind of sneaks by. Do you think I should ask that this page be protected from unregistered users? Until they give up at least.. Canyouhearmenow 17:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Chamber Page

I am not sure why the chamber page(s) I created are considered advertising. I think they relate perfectly with the economic information associated with cites. 17:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

It's pretty clear you are trying to promote that organization. While all of the info may be true, it's certainly not encyclopedic. Those articles also fail WP:Corp. Toddst1 (talk) 18:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Gimme a break! I just re-read the article. The Chamber of Commerce is a client of yours and you're citing material on YOUR website! Toddst1 (talk) 18:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I still disagree. Our company has hundreds of clients and I haven't tried to advertise them. My opinion still is that information about chambers of commerce is as valid as much of the information I see on Wikipedia about businesses, organizations, cites, etc. Despite your perception, my only goal was to add valid and useful information from the Economic section of the Parma, Ohio page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Insivia (talk • contribs) 12:56, 16 April 2008

user:nouse4aname

Hi there; I accept that you have been here longer than I have. But are you sure that this user justifies a block? I was just following through on his WP:AIV report, and it seemed to me that he was reverting vandalism by user:booowooo. I could be wrong. He has posted a very aggrieved {{unblock}} message on his talk page. Could I ask you to re-check, just to reassure me? --Anthony.bradbury"talk" 19:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

post on my talk page

Were you talking to me? Just wondering... J.delanoygabsadds 00:41, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Help plz

Hi Todd,

You have recently deleted

21:08, 19 March 2008 Toddst1 (Talk | contribs) deleted "IP Triple Play" ‎ (A7 (group): Group/band/club/company/etc; doesn't indicate importance/significance)

It's a fact that "IP Triple Play" the trade name IPTP Networks is a quite big network organization that have a hundreds of peering partners, it forms 1% of AMS-IX. Also the company is the member of three largest internet exchanges AMS-IX, LINX, DE-CIX in the World List_of_Internet_Exchange_Points_by_size.

References:

[13] [14]


[15] [16]

I hope it's sufficient to restore page and I will take care to update it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RusMaxwell (talk • contribs) 22:32, 16 April 2008

RE: AdminToolbox

Glad you found it useful! How exactly did you configure Lupin to monitor AIV? whoops misread the message, but it would be great if the coding for that code be cracked.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 01:27, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

FYI: Avengah

User talk:JackLumber#FYI: 90.205.80.229 / 90.208.215.240 / Avengah

FWIW: When I posted my original message to JackLumber, I didn't know that Avengah would be unblocked; I just thought that Jack (who had dealt with Avengah both qua 90.205.80.229 and qua 90.208.215.240) should be informed. —SlamDiego←T 13:04, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Questionable warning

Your warning [17] ] to a new editor seems excessive for a new editor who has created one bio article. Edison (talk) 19:42, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

It was a bad BLP, that the subject objected to. That usually gets a 4im, but I gave a uw-3. Toddst1 (talk) 19:45, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I strongly object to your characterization of the talk page for the article as an "attack page" in your deletion of it. It should have been deleted as the talk page of a deleted article, since there weas no "attack" in it. It only contained quite proper comments I had made relative to sourcing. Please be careful when selecting a reason for deletion, so as not to cast other good-faith editors in a bad light. G10 was not the right label in this case for the talk page deletion. Edison (talk) 20:01, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Give me a couple of minutes to take a look at what I did. I will be back. Toddst1 (talk) 20:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
OK. I wonder how you know that "Gavinwims" who blanked it is in fact the subject of the article, and where did he describe it as an attack page? I note that you deleted the main article as an A7 rather than an attack page. I myself often cannot decide whether to deleted the usual junk attack bio as nonsense or non-notable initially and a reference to the 1911 Britannica was definitely hoaxish. Regards. Edison (talk) 20:08, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
You are correct. I should have deleted that talk page as an orphaned talk page of deleted page. I suspect I was thinking that I didn't use the right deletion tag on the main article and somehow managed to put it on that one. It was clearly an error.
I deleted the main page as an unreferenced BLP that someone seeming to be the person objected to. I'll restore the article now, as it is clear there was at least one error on my part. My apologies. I have noted this in the talk page. Toddst1 (talk) 20:12, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. I agree the article deserves deletion and should stay deleted at this point. I did not speedy it when it was created because it made a couple of claims of notability, which the I could not find refs to substantiate the claim to notability. There is no reason to leave an undocumented bio article up when no refs can be found, especially whe a new user claiming to be the subject says it is nonsense. Edison (talk) 23:01, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Admin

Well, I had an RFA at the end of February; at that time I had just over 5000 edits. I failed mainly on the grounds of too little experience outside of vandal-fighting. Around two weeks later someone asked me if they could nominate me for adminship. I asked a few experienced editors what they thougt about my chances of succeeding, and they all said it was way to early. Pedro said I should wait at least 8-10 weeks, which would be around 2 weeks from now. (May 1-May 15) J.delanoygabsadds 01:00, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I appreciate that. Just a quick question: Several people have already said they would like to co-nominate me if/when I go up for RFA again. Would it be considered canvassing if I notified them/you when I go up for RFA since they asked me? Or do you think I would keep getting people saying "Too many co-noms" á la Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pedro 2? J.delanoygabsadds 01:07, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Your call. At this point, you have more experience with RFA than me. Mine was pretty bland. Toddst1 (talk) 15:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

How do I put the "information box" on my wiki page?

Toddst1, I am new to wikipedia and have no experience whatsoever. Ive noticed on many articles that on the right side is a large box with an icon, and information about companies. For example, how many employees work for the company, whether it is public or private, when it was founded, etc. How do I create a box like that? (Dkozick (talk) 13:50, 15 April 2008 (UTC))

replied on User talk:Dkozick Toddst1 (talk) 15:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Hellekant

Use of the term "neo-nazi", NPOV violations in this, BLP1E, etc. Sceptre (talk) 15:56, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Go ahead. Sceptre (talk) 16:00, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Actually, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Björn Söderberg‎ might be a better venue. Sceptre (talk) 16:01, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

uploading picture

How do i upload a logo that has been officially service marked? What if I dont have the copyright information? help!! i dont want to get booted (Dkozick (talk) 21:00, 15 April 2008 (UTC))

Check out WP:Fair Use. Be sure to follow it carefully. Toddst1 (talk) 15:27, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Blocking

Can you get unblocked if you get blocked? Mr. Greenchat 15:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, for the right reasons. Let's work on not getting blocked in the first place. Toddst1 (talk) 15:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Well I haven't been blocked I was just wondering.Does the person who blocked someone have to unblock him to? Mr. Greenchat 16:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Final warning

I'm sorry? That was not a personal attack on anyone. It was simply a joke referring to the population as "retards". It's not meant to mean anything jees can't i make jokes around here? Riverpeopleinvasion (talk) 15:54, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

replied on User talk:Riverpeopleinvasion Toddst1 (talk) 16:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Heyy I don't think should count as a personal attack.He did not say anyone in particular.He just said that most people wouldn't know what Q3 means and that people who think that everyone does is retarded.He meant everyone who is like that user, not just that particular user. Mr. Greenchat 16:27, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

speedy deletion of Moses Schneider

hello, i don´t wanna disturb or something else. I was just a bit surprised about the tempo of deletion. Although i´m using computers daily, i´m a very slow writer on keyboard. For me it´s not exactly clear, why you deleted my entry, because bands he produced, already appear in (the american) wikipedia like beatsteaks and botanica. the beatsteaks are very succesful in europe (golden records some counties) and the become known in u.s. more and more. the Hansa Tonstudio is a legend of studio, where david bowie, iggi pop, u2 and more recorded their records. the transporterraum berlin is a kind of ancestor of transporterraum new york, where his friend gordon raphael produced the strokes. you might read the complete story in the following link: http://www.avalondesign.com/strokes-news.html and look for "The Transporterraum Setup".

I forgot to say that M.S. was nominated for some (german) awards.

I´m looking forward to get an answer. thanks. ah, yes I´m a wikipedia- beginner.

Bwikib (talk) 22:31, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Bwikib


  thanks for the response, yes it would be great to have the possiilty to improve the article in my privat sandbox.
  cheers. Bwikib  (Bwikib (talk) 23:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC))
I found this at Bwikib/sandbox and moved it to User:Bwikib/Sandbox - I hope that was the right thing to do. Please shout if it's not. --AndrewHowse (talk) 14:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

How do I request a block and lock?

This is concerning the Sviatoslav Richter page. User Steiner_redlich is deleting relevant, cited material. All attempts by myself and other administrators to move the discussion to the articles talk page have failed. Also, when he was previously blocked, the edits continued anonymously. According to his talk page, Steiner_redlich is an admitted sockpuppet of francorussie.THD3 (talk) 00:42, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Urbanisasi berlebih

Hi. :) I see that you've tagged this article for WP:CSD#A2. I can't find any sign that it exists in another wikimedia project in another language. A google search for "Urbanisasi berlebih" didn't turn up a wikimedia project that I saw, and a search for a sentence from the article only produced this wikipedia page. Would you mind pointing out its source so I can process the speedy? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:57, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

While I'm at it, I just thought I'd point out the template {{UE}}, in case you're unfamiliar with it. :) I presume you might be, given the custom notice you left this user. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:09, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Pope benidect the 16

Hello, just so you know, I replaced the g1 tag on this article because it seems to fail the g1 criteria and replaced with {{db-reason|duplicate article}}. There doesn't seem to be a specific speedy for this (but it seems like there should be):) Cheers!--Sallicio\color{Red} \oplus 20:10, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

The Innocent Mage

I deleted the copy righted material yesterday on April 16, 2008 right after I put it their. I was wondering why you deleted it all together? Kc007 (talk) 20:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)Kc007

Replied on User talk:Kc007 (my mistake)Toddst1 (talk) 20:40, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

The Innocent Mage

Its okay. Thanks for replying. Kc007 (talk) 20:48, 17 April 2008 (UTC)Kc007

Re: Mike Sherman

Just for the record, I didn't make any more than 3 reverts. Though the IP's contributions show four edits, another user reverted one of them. The IP refused to explain why they were removing the content, despite the warnings given. BlueAg09 (Talk) 22:09, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Winkymania

This user made this edit. This is obvious advertising and his Userpage is the same and could be seen as a personal attack. He hasn't had any useful contributors and has vandalised. Just thought i would let you know. Riverpeopleinvasion (talk) 00:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. What happened to him? Riverpeopleinvasion (talk) 00:09, 18 April 2008 (UTC)


AIV reports

Pardon the interruption, but since you're active there at the time I'm writing this, I have a question (or series of questions) regarding an AIV report I submitted almost an hour before I'm typing this note. It's a re-report of a vandal IP I reported earlier in the day (the earlier report was cleared due to staleness), with some additional examples. Since the creation of the second (current) report the IP address has been used for nine or ten additional vandal edits, while my report languishes, being skipped repeatedly by admins addressing reports submitted after mine. Is there something amiss with the report? It certainly seems that I've given the same or greater level of detail as several of the reports added and closed since my addition. Minimally, I'd like some feedback on this, though what I'd really like is for some action to be taken on the vandal - it's pretty clear this address is being used by a chronic vandal of TV network pages (the edits done a couple of days ago that prompted the warning on his user page are identical to edits made by serveral blocked IPs and at least one vandalism-only account). Majorclanger (talk) 00:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Good report - replied User talk:Majorclanger#AIV ReportToddst1 (talk) 00:37, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. Majorclanger (talk) 00:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning

Thanks for the friendly 3RR warning. I thought reversions of spam were excepted from the 3RR? Thanks for the clarification. Kindest regards, AlphaEta 02:23, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

correct. Response on [[User Talk:AlphaEta Toddst1 (talk) 03:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. I'll keep it in mind. Have you ever danced with the Devil by the pale moonlight? (talk) 03:44, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Self-Harm

Hi there, Regarding this I'm of a similar mind to yourself. I've raised a chkuser but it's almost 2am here now. I don't have access to the IRC channels would you mind pushing it a wee bit please? I'm not sure this is something we can ignore personally. Leave me a message. Cheers Khukri 23:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and appreciated. Khukri 23:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I haven't been confirmed but I can try to get on IRC. I will notify of my progress. Best, Malinaccier (talk) 00:07, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure how to gain access to the administrator channel, but I'm in the regular channel. I'll try to bring the situation to light. Malinaccier (talk) 00:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey bud, sorry I was not online at the moment. Me like Malinaccier, have no idea how to access the admin IRC channel (never found a use for it). Is there something I can do to help (eg. contact police...?) Tiptoety talk 00:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

If we knew the IP we would know what police to call. I think the first step is to get an Checkuser quickly and maybe contact someone from the foundation. Not sure how to proceed with either. Toddst1 (talk) 00:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Strike that, I thought it was an IP editing, guess we will have to wait to here back from the CU. Tiptoety talk 00:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
[18] We all had the same idea at once. :) I have never really had a need for it until now. Tiptoety talk 02:19, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Oh no - I unabashedly followed the directions on your talk page. I had your idea after you did. Toddst1 (talk) 03:02, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you
I would just like to say thank you for your efforts regarding the potential suicide thread on ANI last night. This may have been a poor taste message or hoax, but if it wasn't hopefully...... we may have made a real difference. So thank you and if ever there is anything I can do to help you in the future, please don't hesitate to ask. Khukri 07:58, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Quick Ban!

Thanks, Todd, for the quick IP ban on the Taft High School guy. I've been working my butt off on the California Schools and this guy comes in and messes up half the page. Thanks for getting him before he struck again. Manway (talk) 03:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply

I was talking about the source in question, not the user - that is the difference between the two comments. The other user, however, is attacking me personally. --07fan (talk) 04:29, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

That user's comment appeared to be in response to your racially motivated edit. Toddst1 (talk) 04:32, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
How is that "racially motivated"? Pan-Arabism is a political ideology (ie Saddam was a pan-Arabist), not a race. Many Arabs criticize Pan-Arabism as well. --07fan (talk) 04:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Your comment was interpreted by me as accusing Arabs across the region of historical revisionism. While your statement may have another interpretation, it certainly appears to more than one editor that you are making a statement about arabs, not arabs that follow a specific ideology. Toddst1 (talk) 04:48, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
With all due respect, your interpretation is wrong and probably the result of your unfamiliarity with what Pan-Arabisim is. I never said "Arabs", I said "Pan-Arabist", and that does not justify the personal attack by the other user basically calling me a racist. Even if the warning you gave me was justified, which is not, shouldn't you at least warn the other user as well? --07fan (talk) 04:54, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Warning already retracted on User talk:07fan. It's clear that it was possible to interpret User:07fan's edit as anti-arab, but there is another way to interpret it, likely the way it was intended. Toddst1 (talk) 04:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Blindmansbuff

Hi, can you block this account. This is very likely sock of User:Hkelkar. I have reported it in Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Hkelkar_strikes_back. Hkelkar socks are identified by similar tendentious editing and are generally blocked without any formal procedure like checkuser etc. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 05:54, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Well he/she doesn't seem to be active and I'm not sure how to identify a Hkelkar sock. Let me look some. Toddst1 (talk)
Hkelkar socks have pro-Hindutva POV-pushing, pro-Jews POV-pushing, anti-Muslim and anti-Christian POV-pushing, pro-India POV-pushing and anti-Pakistan and anti-Bangladesh POV-pushing. You can see the contributions of User:Hkelkar and his socks to familiarize yourself with his editing pattern. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 06:07, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

NOPV: if someone already made wrong artical, and its orchestrated by some govermant to do so, is erasing suchpropaganda a vandal act, or defendingthe truth. Vandalism is for instance to deny the right of name and indentity such some people reffering to themselvs as greeks are doing right now. They do taht to MAcedonians, but also to Kalash people. It seems that they have the right to erasye history and write what tehy consider and want to be truth. So stoping such propaganda is act of good will and not vandalism.

If thats not true, than wikipedia at whole is not encyclopedia but is a politicaly biased bunch of articles

KolevTome (talk) 10:31, 20 April 2008 (UTC) KolevTome

About a "vandalism" warning I got from you

I wanted to report that it is false but it said "If you didn't edit this page, you don't need to report it." With all due respect, the hell I don't. Because I have 2 vandalism warnings now and it says I have only a final one left. So I'm just going to post my report here. I don't know if I'm making a mistake by doing so, but I don't know where else to write it:

Only my brother also uses this IP because we share the same modem but different computers we use. 1. He doesn't even use english wikipedia, let alone editing a page. 2. I myself did not edit those 2 pages. 3. When I want to edit, I log into my user account, don't do it anonymously. So this was probably a mistake by your bot. Nobody uses my computer. And I want my 2 warning rights back. Not that I think I'll vandalize in the future, but because I'd like to keep all 3 of them in case I make a mistake while editing. Thank you for your understanding, in advance. Mike Cr. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.62.138.72 (talk • contribs) 10:54, 20 April 2008

wikipedia-en-admins

Please also register your nickname before adding a request (type in /msg nickserv register password, replacing password with one of your choice). Then leave a note on my talk page, please. Cbrown1023 talk 16:11, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Aggrivated

This user is requesting an autoblock removal from a block you made, but the account has no edits and looks suspiciously like a sleeper account to me. Mind taking a look when you get the chance? Thanks. Hersfold (t/a/c) 17:05, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Block of User:Carl.bunderson

Hello, you blocked this user for 3RR today. Now, it seems he was actually right in his conviction that his opponent was a banned sock (User:Beh-nam). Would you mind unblocking? Defending the Afghanistan articles from socks has been a huge problem, and we don't want to lose our last remaining legitimate editors in that field. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:54, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the heads up. Toddst1 (talk) 20:57, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the reconsideration, Todd. In the future, do you think there's a better way for me to deal with the vandals and socks than my admittedly ruthlesss reversion of their edits? It's just that I hate the thought of becoming the type of user who goes and tattles on others at the admin noticeboards. Thanks again, and have a good day. Carl.bunderson (talk) 00:15, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
My recommendation is to stop editing at 3. If it's vandalism, warn with each revert. Someone else will revert after your third, then file an AIV report. Toddst1 (talk) 17:38, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I will warn with each revert, I assume the tpv is the best one to use. I kind of don't believe that someone will revert after my third though; it took rather awhile for admins to respond to the situation well. Not to be offensive, but I feel like you guys don't always look at the context as fully as you could before doling out blocks. It seems obvious to me that the anon, and then the other user you blocked were in the wrong, and the only person that responded consistently on the noticeboard was not an admin, and sided with the anon. It's just frustrating that I go through so much trying to fend them off, and the admins don't seem to notice for quite awhile. I have nearly 8k edits, have been here for awhile, and have a barnstar for reverting spam; my other block was also on a 3rr violation, but I should have contested that as well; the other editor was in clear violation of "links to be avoided". Shouldn't admins notice these things, and give well-established editors the benefit of the doubt (as well as going through the whole context rather than blocking all involved)?
So how do I avoid this? Will my going to AIV before the anons/socks do actually help in these cases? I'm sorry if I'm being a pain, but I really do wonder about these things, and I really do appreciate you unblocking me. Carl.bunderson (talk) 19:49, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Block of Flukes1

I was wondering if I may extend his block to indefinite; his vandalism of J.delanoy's userpage, along with statements such as this, lead me to believe it's just a SPA vandalism account. Cheers, Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :) 01:09, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Not at all a problem. I appears to have already been done. Toddst1 (talk) 17:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

FOAD

Could I ask you to please reverse your deletion of the FOAD article. It was a valid and IMHO useful soft redirect to Wiktionary. It was deleted a week ago as a G6 Housekeeping deletion, but no actual work has been done there in the week since. I have asked the original G6 tagger for an explanation of the need for the G6 deletion, but they have been inactive in the last several days. In the absence of any progress towards whatever housekeeping was intended, I would request that it be restored. If the tagger returns with a valid explanation for needing a housekeeping deletion, then I can re-delete it myself for them. But until that point, I think the project is better served by the restoration of the soft redirect. - 14:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

done. Toddst1 (talk) 17:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Hyowon1

Why did you give Hyowon1 an additional warning about chatting?He's already gotten one and he stopped ater that. Mr. Greenchat 18:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Because he/she didn't stop. The edits speak for themselves. Toddst1 (talk) 18:04, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Did you read my response to his last comment on my page?He has stopped since then. Mr. Greenchat 18:09, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

spam blocking

Hi Todd, You've recently removed all of the edits I have made about Santa Barbara Business College. It was not my intention to create spam. How would I edit the page to provide users with more information, without it coming across as spam?

And also, what is the 'stub' level, and how would I raise the level of a page?

206.169.19.202 (talk) 19:14, 21 April 2008 (UTC)mr

Syken

This was the thing to do, sadly, more so with the unsourced, negative content now gone from the article. Gwen Gale (talk) 21:33, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

The user had 8 warnings on that article. I don't see it as silly.Toddst1 (talk) 21:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Silly? I don't understand... Gwen Gale (talk) 21:38, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I should read more carefully. Yes , this was unfortunate. They had exactly the content they wanted on the page. Toddst1 (talk) 21:41, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

Can you chime in with your opinion on this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 04:34, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Honduran72

Why did you remove the report from AIV without so much as a comment?Kww (talk) 01:22, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Especially fun since once he stopped editing under his account, he hopped over to 69.118.13.10 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)Kww (talk) 02:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Bad edit on my part. The Honduran72 edit was stale - about an hour and not vandalous and my intent was to remove that one only. I apparently clipped 193.180.104.200 as well. Sorry. Toddst1 (talk) 14:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Actually, it was Honduran72 that I was complaining about ... a blatant vandal that has been attacking a group of articles about the Honduras since December, 2007. That's why I posted links to the ANI discussion. Finally got him blocked last night, along with a sockpuppet account this morning, but it would have gone much faster if you had acted on the report instead of deleting it. Reports of vandalism from named accounts never go stale. You may choose to take a different action if it is obvious that the account has renounced his vandalistic path, but being an hour old doesn't make any difference at all.Kww (talk) 15:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Inactive?

What makes this one "inactive"? The last incident was today. - Mdsummermsw (talk) 17:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

That user, RolandR, kept removing my comments from talk pages. When I politely asked him to stop doing it, he removed that comment as well. Seemed strange. Thanks for your note. Amoruso (talk) 01:42, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again. Your advice is sound. Amoruso (talk) 02:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Personal info and reverting one's own talk page

Thanks for your offer of help. However, my identity has been posted by abusive vandals so often on Wikipedia that removing references seems to be a losing battle. See the edits made by Runtshit (some of them to pages hidden by adnmins or removed through oversight). Some of these edits were abuse posted on Tanya Reinhart the day after she died; it was the content of these that Amoruso was posting again on Steven Plaut. Indeed, he seems to have posted it on the Reinhart article again, for the third time this morning. I'll leave it for now, in the hope that another editor with a sense of decency will remove it. The same gleefully abusive comments were also posted on the articles about Shimon Tzabar and Baruch Kimmerling after they died. I realise that you cannot libel the dead, but this relentless vicious smearing really angers me.

Please tell me where you think I "appear to be in violation of 3RR". RolandR (talk) 02:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

What on earth is the Infield Fly Rule? I'm a sport-hating Brit, and don't even understand LBW. RolandR (talk) 02:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

nosing in

Excuse me for nosing it, but RolandR's talkpage is on my watchlist. Roland gets nothing short of persecuted on Wikipedia for standing his ground in difficult places where the truth can be very quickly bullied away. I'm sure your diplomatic note to both he and Amoruso would have been a difficult for him to read. It's important for editors to see Admins as neutral and impartial when times are tough. Why effectively take sides by calling them both competent editors? This 'levelling effect' often lessens the validity of one editor by seeming to justify the other. Wikibreaks are sometimes sound advice (though 'Wikipedia', imo, could perhaps better appreciate how it benefits on some occasions from people not taking that luxury), but I've had experience of both editors here, and I found the 'double praise' insensitive to Roland in particular. Admins should always keep out of personal judgements! I'm sensitive to admins at the moment - they often only seem to slip up when they let their guard down and start thinking in personal terms: the advice to let go should surely suffice. --Matt Lewis (talk) 02:49, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


Possible sockpuppet

I have reasons to believe that user On the edge of my mind is a sockpuppet of user 74.130.43.138. Not too long after you blocked 74.130.43.138 (about two mintues after), the other account was formed and was personally attacking me. I noticed the similarities between these two accounts. I figured you are the person who I let know about this since you were the one placed the block on 74.130.43.138. Thanks KeltieMartinFan (talk) 04:33, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice

Thanks for responding to my request at WP:ANI about blocking User:Spadge47.This is the first time i requested a block against a user. Next time i'll report vandalism at WP:AIV....Thanks for the advice again...Gprince007 (talk) 11:36, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem. Thanks for the heads-up on that. Toddst1 (talk) 11:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the block, but more help needed

Almost immediately after you blocked User_talk:86.129.31.62, a new editor User_talk:Argus-Bot immediate showed up and started making the same changes [19] AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 15:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for posting the warning. I'm weary of continually reverting these edits even though they are vandalism, I don't want to run a fowl with the 3RR. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 15:48, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I've never posted to AN/I before, I'm concerned I may not have done it properly. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 17:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

3RR

Thanks for the heads up. Have put the page up for protection from non-registered users and alerted the wikiproject:football community. Will pay closer attention to the 3rr rule in future.Londo06 18:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism?

I Dont understand? i was trying to make a page and oh no it gets deleted straight away. Whats with that. why cant i make a page about myself? whats so bad about that. it says you should not make thm about real people but there are millions about real people. i would just like to hav one about me and my cousin. thought it would be a nice idea. dont undestand why you wont let me? Can you find it in your heart to let me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Josephhhhhhhhhh (talk • contribs) 20:43, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

thank spam

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral.

Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations.

Thank you again, VanTucky
Glad to be of help. Now get that mop out! (kidding). Toddst1 (talk) 23:18, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Re:ANI

Thanks for the notice. I didn't really understand the whole problem. I mean, I understand some like me closing Afd's, but I can do that now. You close one that should be an obvious WP:SNOW keep (I'm not touching any ones that have been decided to be deleted, merged, ect.). You then rm the template off the article, then you add a different template to the talk page.

Anyway, I also stopped adopting since users have told me I should be the adoptee.

Comments?--RyRy5 (talk) 00:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Just for context, I'm sure you know I spoke up in opposition to the discussion. Standatoms1985 didn't say you violated any specific policy other than appearing to him to be a bit of an annoyance. (my words not his). I used to see your reports on AIV pretty frequently, but haven't come across too many lately, so I really don't know much about what you've been up to. I just didn't think the conversation on ANI was appropriate and certainly not without you knowing about it.
If I were you, I'd just focus on making constructive (not over-enthusiastic) contributions. Use TW with care and be sure not to bite newcomers and you should be fine. Your heart seems to be in the right direction. Try working on a few articles from scratch and bringing them along to at least start-class if not B or beyond. It puts all the vandal work in context.
Good luck and let me know if I can be of assistance. Toddst1 (talk) 00:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, I can't use TW (I use IE and it doesn't work there). The reason why I don't report on the WP:AIV is becuase I don't see many users that need to be blocked since most of them are on their first warning. I've been busy creating and editing articles. I'm currently put Jackie Robinson for WP:GAN but nothing has happened for two weeks.
I'm having some problems here at wikipedia of my editing. It probably started with the deletion of my adoption program. I then stopped adopting and became an adoptee myself, just today. I just don't like it much when many people are talking negative about me when I've matured here almost. Some have stopped though which is good. I read up on wikipedia policies the past week but would like to come clean, but I can't really do that now. Comments?--RyRy5 (talk) 00:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Not meaning to be rude here by not replying. I'm not sure I have a whole lot of value to add. Let me think about this...
I had a run in with a guy that was pretty critical (and downright rude) to me. He was a retired academic (now banned for personal, sexist, ageist attacks and sockpuppet abuse) and was infuriated when I tagged an article about a aircraft parts manaufacturer that he wrote for speedy deletion. What I did is side-step the drama and started writing an in-depth article about something really obscure, in this case, Belair Mansion. I spent a lot of time pulling the article together and ended up contributing to at least a dozen or so articles related to it in the proceess. By doing this, I had some [good credentials] behind me for vandal patrol and eventually, my RFA (but that wasn't my goal - I just wanted to put that episode behind me).
I hope this is remotely helpful. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 15:38, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply?

Please reply at the section on your talk page "Re:ANI". Thanks.--RyRy5 (talk) 01:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

not meaning to be rude.. see above. Toddst1 (talk) 15:38, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Gabriella Miller

You deleted Gabriella Miller for being an advertisement. I saw the article before it was deleted and tried to find additional references for it, but I didn't have much luck.

After I left a note about Wikipedia's notability criteria to Iprcom (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), the author of the Gabriella Miller article, he or she replied:

Please find link below which shows coverage in some of the UKs leading newspapers and magazines about gabriella miller
http://www.gabriellamilleroriginals.com/content/default/press.asp

That page is a collection of clippings showing the designer's products pictured in editorial photographs in various magazines that don't seem to be indexed by Google. For purposes of verifiability, I would have preferred links to the magazine sites, but I am inclined to think that the collection of clippings is a strong argument in favor of notability.

If the collection of clippings seems to indicate notability to you, please consider restoring the article, adding the press clippings page as an external link or reference, and trimming the article so that it doesn't read like an advertisement. --Eastmain (talk) 03:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't have time to do all that today, but I have gladly restored it to User:Eastmain/Gabriella Miller if you want to have a crack at it. I'll try to take a look later this week. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 15:43, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

IP User: 64.80.225.13 and WP:AGF

I am more than familiar with the meaning of good faith. I originally removed |this edit and assumed good faith. Until I researched the user's talk page and saw this edit that was also made today. The user has recieved two "final warnings" in the past two months, one as recently as a week ago. Looking at the "contributions" that come from this IP, I see very little evidence of "good faith" with this IP. Not to mention there's no additional warning that can be posted to a talk page after the final warning. It's not only AIV, but I'd argue it's most certainly WP:ABUSE on top of that. -- TRTX T / C 23:12, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

  • You are incorrect: this edit was not made today at all - rather it was made 5 days ago.
  • Your statement is not true with shared IPs - especially schools. They are typically not blocked unless they edit past final warnings given the same day. With schools, you can assume that edits made 5 days apart are probably not the same person.
  • The edit made today is not vandalism.
  • The editor made no edits past that edit, so clearly no block would have been necessary, even if that was interpreted as vandalism.
Toddst1 (talk) 23:21, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
More on this at Wikipedia:Abuse reports/64.80.225.13 Toddst1 (talk) 15:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, sir.

Hi,

You have recently deleted my page Freakytorrent. I really don't get wy? It was marked with Advertising but i just wanted to add an article about my site so i don't get what i did wrong. Could you please explain wy because i really wanted the page and i would like to have a page about my site on wikipedia. Regards, Fyver Fyver (talk) 16:19, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Please see the notes I left on your talk page. Toddst1 (talk) 16:21, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I have read the notice But do i really need to wait for someone to write an article over my site? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fyver (talk • contribs) 17:08, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Bro, I do not like you, you deleted scoutmatt. Jack Tokarz is an important, historical figure and should be allowed to have a page. He was the 3rd president of the Bora Bora golf club and has many friends. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.55.4.185 (talk) 19:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Oakhill College

Many thanks for your assistance and advice. Thanks alot. Five Years 06:14, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Jugs for Juke

Hi Todd,

I'm new to submitting a new article to Wikipedia and my recent page was speed deleted with the reference of A7 as the reason for deletion. I read up on it but I'm unsure as to how I can make Breast Cancer Awareness seem more important . Can you please advise?

Thanks so much

(Shazzy McShazzalot (talk) 07:11, 28 April 2008 (UTC))Sharon

Max Lazer Band

I see you deleted my article on the Max Lazer Band .The reason given is that they were not important. I also notice that you are Canadian. The Max Lazer Band was an LA based glam punk group. I wouldn't imagine they were known in Canada; although they did play London. I shall not revert the deletion but I will enlist the aid of American editors; especially those familiar with the California punk scene. No hard feelings but I am sorry to see my article gone. jeanne (talk) 07:49, 28 April 2008 (UTC)Max Lazer was brilliant.

Todd, I just found a live link to Max Lazer.It's cdbabycom/cd/godfatherspunk.Type in Max Lazer and see for yourself how much stuff comes up on him.jeanne (talk) 12:24, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk page warning

I just wanted to let you know that your personal attack warning on my talk page was the most polite warning I've ever received. Thanks for keeping it bare bones and to the point; I appreciate that. Viriditas (talk) 09:10, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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I'm still laughing

Obviously you can't review the unblock request of a user you just blocked, but "I AM A FRIEND OF JIMBO WALES AND HE GIVED ME PERMISSION TO VANDALIZE". Hahahaha. Enigma message 19:10, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

love it. I protected the page. Toddst1 (talk) 19:12, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleting Reach Out To Asia page

Hello,

Reach Out To Asia is a charity that is working towards narrowing the gap between those with and those without access to education. Could you explain, without citing Wikipedia pre-fabricated request for deletion examples, why Reach Out To Asia isn't important, but say Save the Children have a page?

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DQ2005 (talk • contribs) 10:05, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Max Lazer Band

Todd, I've added a bit more info and a live link.Is it ok now?jeanne (talk) 11:57, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleted article

I note you have recently deleted From Buddha to Bono quoting "Blatant advertising" as per log entry below. Why didn't you contact me first about this? Surely it is better to address content issues rather than just deleting an article created in good faith? Peter Campbell 10:13, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Peter,
I'm sorry that User: Qworty didn't notify you that he/she tagged your article for speedy deletion as spam. I'll leave him/her a note about that. I was the admin who came along and cleared out the backlog of spam pages tagged for speedy deletion. When we do that, we usually just verify that the article meets the criteria and don't check to see if the creator has been notified. Frankly it would take forever to clear the backlog if we did. We generally have to rely on the courtesy of the nominators.
I see you're in the process of re-creating the article, so I guess that my restoring it to your userspace wouldn't help much. Toddst1 (talk) 14:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Toddst1. I was able to salvage the article content from Google's cache so there is no need to restore it to my userspace. I will recreate it when I have pruned out content some may regard as advertising. Peter Campbell 01:34, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

AIV blocks?

Question about IP blocks. I don't like to be block happy, but I'm confused and hoping you might be able to help me. I reported an IP address who had been blocked fifteen days ago and has a history of vandalism. So far, they vandalized twice today.

You mentioned they aren't yet worthy of a block but to keep an eye on them. So my question is this: in the past with their history they received a temp. block with two reports in the same month and not even on the same day...so what is the rule on when to request a block? I don't want to clog up the AIV page.

DizFreak talk Contributions 17:21, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, there isn't really a rule but there's a custom of assuming (under AGF) that an IP editor - especially school IPs like this one - is not the same editor from day-to-day, unless you see the user going to the same articles or there is widespread vandalism. So in most cases, we usually look at it to see if there was a final given today that they edited past. In this case, it doesn't appear that the vandalism has persisted since your warning - which is good. Blocks are preventative - not punitive. Since the editor stopped vandalizing (at least for today), no block was necessary.
That being said, if there is a culture of vandalism at a school, then longer blocks are in order and the more blocks a school has had, the longer any block is likely to be. It's pretty fuzzy but that's the gist of it. Frankly, it can be frustrating, but that's how things tend to work.
Please keep up the great work on Vandal Patrol, and I hope this helps. Toddst1 (talk) 17:42, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the explanation. It makes sense what you are saying. I appreciate the help and will keep it in mind. DizFreak talk Contributions 17:44, 30 April 2008 (UTC)