User talk:Cactus.man/Archive 8

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our

I have come to the end of my tether. The campaign by User:Mallimak and his countless dynamic IP sockpuppets has now descended to pure stalking behaviour. The Wikipedia community cannot allow this behaviour to continue. I am asking you, and other Admins and Users who have had to deal with Mallimak in the past, to review the situation. Please see:

• User_talk:SFC9394#Firm_guidance_to_door_required

--Mais oui! 09:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi Mais

I've had a quick look at your situation. It certainly looks like a determined campaign of stalking which is, of course, completely unacceptable. You say these users are all sockpuppets of User:Mallimak. How many of them have been positively confirmed by checkuser? I note that User:Mallimak is not currently blocked, but also that he's not edited with that account since October 2006. Looking through the list on the suspected sockpuppet page, the majority of IP addresses (including the last post you highlighted) resolve to BT Broadband, assigned in the ranges:

81.129.0.0 - 81.129.255.255 - 65,536 addresses

81.153.0.0 - 81.158.255.255 - 393,216 addresses

86.142.0.0 - 86.147.255.255 - 393,216 addresses

217.42.0.0 - 217.44.255.255 - 196,608 addresses

Whoever this character is, he's likely on a dynamic IP, so individual IP blocks will be ineffective. Range blocks may be an option, but given the possible number of potential users involved, is highly risky. It's not an area I have any expertise in, so I won't be performing any range blocks, sorry. You need to track down a range block guru :) Perhaps a message to

WP:AN and / or the checkuser talk page

looking for an experienced range block admin might help.

You can try reporting to BT abuse, but I suspect you'd be pissing into the wind, and your complaints will disappear into the black hole of teh internets aether :) Sorry I can't be of more help right now. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 22:47, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

...for helping out with the Scotland portal. Some excellent choices :) Cheers, Daniel→♦ 02:31, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Daniel, thanks for the note. You did a great job on the portal overhaul. The automatic update capability is excellent, so I added material to take us well into 2008. I added back the DYK section which is still active and important (but dependant on relevant material obviously), tweaked the layout to suit and modified the title bar colour to reflect the saltire blue, giving a stronger national identity. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 12:45, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, it looks fantastic now. Thanks again for all your hard work populating the portal into 2008 :) Cheers, Daniel→♦ 02:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

The article for Recover Your Life was deleted recently, and I am wondering firstly why - none of the link-pages seem to offer any reason as to the cause for its' deletion - and secondly, is there any way that I can find the information, to re-post it in a more "wiki-friendly" manner?

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doodahdoo (talk • contribs) 23:46, August 7, 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your message about the above article. It was deleted twice by

Speedy Deletion Criteria. It would be best if you address your concerns with him. --Cactus.man ✍

17:03, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I thought from your past edits, you might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands - come on over and have a look. --MacRusgail 17:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, looks good. I'll sign up and try to do my bit. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 09:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to the project. I am sure it is all self-explanatory to an editor with your experience, but please let me know if you want anything. Ben MacDui (Talk) 13:57, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I see that the article on Carolyn Cole contains a low-resolution image of one of her LA Times photographs, with a fair-use rationale, all done by you. I would appreciate your assistance in doing this for one or two photographs by David Leeson, who won the Pulitzer the same year and whose article I recently created. There's a photo called "Surrender" that I might be able to find, that has won awards, and the Pulitzer site has a gallery of images (though some are by his co-worker and fellow winner). I want to make sure this is done right, because Leeson has been burned by naively supplying a CD to a military press officer for one-time use in a project for soldiers, only to see it copied and distributed widely and sometimes reproduced with someone else getting credited. Lawikitejana 19:05, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

David Leeson

Thanks for the message about images for this article (nice work BTW). Read all the guidance at Wikipedia:Non-free content. If you think use of the photo's qualifies as fair use then download them and adjust the resolution by resizing in Photoshop or whatever graphics editing program you use. The question of what is "low resolution" is always up for debate, but I seem to recall reading some recent guidelines suggesting that the longest side of an image should not exceed 350px, but I can't find it right now.

Fair use guidelines have tightened up a lot in the last year and some of my images are in excess of this, so I'll work my way through them to adjust. I'd suggest sticking to the 350px guideline.

Once you have resized the image, upload it adding the appropriate tags, most likely {{

Non-free fair use in}}. Make sure it provides details of the source, the author or copyright holder, and that it has a valid fair use rationale. You can either write one yourself or use the template {{Non-free use rationale}}, filling in the parameters to suit. Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline

gives useful guidance on this.

I hope that helps, but let me know if you need further input. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 07:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Please see also: [1]

Hi, after returning from my longest ever Wikibreak - my God was it good :) - I am seriously disappointed to see the frankly pathetic edit warring going on at the flagship Scotland article. We haven't seen this level of nonsense for many months now.

However, that is not why I am here at your Talk. What is seriously pissing me off is what would appear to be a blatant abuse of Admin powers. The Scotland article was protected on the 9th: [2], but then on the 10th a new Admin (appointed in May) managed to edit the article!! How on earth is that possible? He did not unprotect it, so do admins have the power to override full-protection? If so, surely that should only be used to implement WP:BLP and other official policy, not to dick around removing links in a highly contentious area, which has frequently been the target of trolls and ip warriors.

I consider this to be a very serious issue. Can you enlighten me as to how this was allowed to happen? --Mais oui! 08:37, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Could you please aid me as my article was recently deleted and i wish ti have a copy of my article. Your contact was supplied as a "Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles" ,y email is [email protected] Thanks in advance for your assistance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Markdavidshaw (talk • contribs) 03:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I think you were planning on writing about Arnold Bronckorst. I've bodged up a miserable stub and uploaded a couple of thumbnail portraits onto Wikimedia Commons. I'll leave it to you to expand it (how nice of me!) :-) Hope you're well, Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Angus, sorry for the late reply but I've been totally inactive for a while due to that strange phenomenon known as the "real world" :) I hope to get back to productivity in the next few weeks or so. Nice start on the Arnold article though. I've had a quick look on the web and there doesn't seen to be much information there so I'll check the library next, but I'll try to add a bit more if possible. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 13:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, your bot tagged

Lucien Freud

article and neither image is orphaned so I've removed the tags. Strangely though, "What links here" doesn't flag the Freud article up, but the article is listed on the "File links" section at the bottom of the image pages. Possibly some sort of technical glitch in the Mediawiki software?

I'm assuming your bot is programmed to check only "What links here". If so, could I suggest you modify it to also check "File links" to avoid such false positives in the future. Thanks. --Cactus.man ✍ 14:12, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

if you look at the timestamps BCBot saw this revision of the article which due to vandalism removed those images. So for a short time those images were in fact orphaned.

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14:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with my signature? I've been having a bit of trouble getting it to work. Thanks <c=#002FA7><b>Dracion</b></c> (Level 84 Rs Player) 13:15, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I think this is what you're trying to achieve ... ?

--Dracion (Level 84 Rs Player)

[[User:Dracion|<span style="color:#002FA7;">'''Dracion''' (Level 84 Rs Player)</span>]]

Copy the code above and enter it into your preferences using the menu at the top of the page. Let me know if you need further help. --Cactus.man ✍ 17:30, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, as one of the people with a picture on

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Again, this image was NOT orphaned. Please sort out the bugs in your bot. --Cactus.man ✍ 09:01, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Cactus.man,

I was wondering whether you could assist me?

I was looking to get access back to a page I began in 2005, that was recently deleted without my having a chance to contest its deletion..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Political & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/First_Political

The comments above are very astute, and were roughly the case in 2005. With only 300 people as registered members last time, it was not enough to contest the general election. however, 2008 is another general election, and we look to be hitting the 500 required members, and would like to review the page's text, for the upcoming event.

Further information can be found at:

http://www.geocities.com/nzpolitical/action.html

As you can see, it is true that we are not a slick multi million dollar campaign, but I would appreciate your assistance none the less.

Thanks in advance.

Best wishes,

Robert Bell

(best way to contact me is via email at [email protected] - as I am not yet used to these wiki things.) Thanks a million. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.234.125.222 (talk) 09:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, Cactus.man/Archive 8! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Best regards from myself! Post this merry message on any other user talk page you can find. -- S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s (Merry Christmas!)

Hello,

I have removed something that infringed US Copyright Law as I interpret it. I thought I should bring this to the attention of a Wikipedia System Operator so I am here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ocean%27s_Eleven_%282001_film%29&diff=182656265&oldid=182655580 The above is the comparison link. If I was in error please accept my apologies and I will personally revert the change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeffreh172 (talk • contribs) 02:49, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry to bother you again, but my account was compromised by two idiots today at school. Because we use a proxy they managed to log in on a separate computer, and do the following [[3]] (Everything between 14:06 and 14:07). If you could lend a hand cleaning up some of the random pages he created, then I would be grateful. Thanks ۩ Dracion (Level 85 Rs Player) ۩ 18:20, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I think I've cleaned everything you asked for, but let me know if I missed any. --Cactus.man ✍ 20:07, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much :D The vandal also created User:Flamingtorch372/Hidden page. I left a message on the guys page, but he hasn't responded yet. If you could delete that as well, that would be great. Many thanks ۩ Dracion (Level 85 Rs Player) ۩ 17:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading or contributing to

.

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Hi Cactus.man,

thank you very much for publishing the La Coquille picture by Redon, it's my favourite one! :) finding this image made me a little happier today :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.199.128.156 (talk) 11:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Forgot Wikipedia Password and I have [apparently] not enabled email

Hello,

Sorry to have bothered you but I could not find any other resolution to my problem than contacting an administrator. My username for Wikipedia is 'rahulnc' and I seem to have forgotten my password. I tried 'Email new password' option but it says that there is not email address registered for username 'rahulnc'.

Can you please help by assigning me a temp password, or by any other way that you think appropriate?

My email address is [email protected]

Regards, Rahul. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.118.28.135 (talk) 19:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

Sorry to bother you again, but I've been having problems with User:Frog_on_a_log, who has vandalized one of my sub pages and c&p'd the entire contents of my user page onto his own page. Is there anything that can be done regarding this, as it's annoying. Thanks ۩ Dracion (Level 87 Rs Player) ۩ 16:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dracion, sorry for the slow reply, but I'm pretty inactive at the moment. I'll drop a line to this user, he seems to be fairly inactive but recent edits are problematic. Best to just revert and ignore these guys, but I understand how it can be annoying. Best wishes. --Cactus.man ✍ 22:19, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

WPSI Collaboration

WikiProject Scottish Islands: Collaboration of the Month Ben MacDui^Talk/Walk 16:16, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

File:Larry david.JPG		My RFA
		Thank you muchly for your support in my recent request for adminship, which was successfully closed on 76%, finishing at 73 supports, 23 opposes and 1 neutral. The supports were wonderful, and I will keep in mind the points made in the useful opposes and try to suppress the Larry David in me! Now I'm off to issue some cool down blocks, just to get my money's worth! Kidding btw. All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 11:31, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

My congratulations too on your successful result. You made it in the end, although it was a bit tight. I have to say that some of the opposition voices were a bit harsh, particularly around the dreaded "question 8", but the the RfA regulars can be an odd bunch. What any policy page says at any particular month or time of day often seems to depend on the wind direction and phase of the moon. Like most things in life it's a matter of common sense and balance, cool down blocks do have some limited use but rarely for established editors (IMHO). Anyway, good luck with the new tools.

Best wishes --Cactus.man ✍ 22:06, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Indeedie! Thanks for the congrats. I won't comment too much on the opposes, but a significant proportion were users pursuing "disagreement" into the RfA, while the question 8 stuff was just ... well ... the mandarin type sometimes have problems "seeing beyond the ink" as they say! Ne'ertheless there were many useful comments about my diplomacy, and I'll be trying to be nicer and soften my "rough edges". Thanks for the scotch. Will enjoy you can be sure! All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 11:11, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Fanpop

Howdy. I got your name from a list of people who can give the code for deleted pages. Can you please post the code on my talk page for the article Fanpop? Thanks for your time--J-- (talk) 23:29, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I have the e-mail there yes. Please do e-mail it to me when you have some time. Thanks again. --J-- (talk) 09:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Hockney, A Bigger Grand Canyon.jpg)

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Fixed. --Cactus.man ✍ 15:07, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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Uploaded images

Good grief (Cactus) man, you've uploaded so many photographs by John Thomson but not one to Commons! Please at least ensure you don't upload anymore here, and if you could move some of your past uploads to Commons (a category for his photos would be good) please consider doing so. Richard001 (talk) 00:54, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

err ... thanks for your (rather confusing) message Richard (001). I'm not sure if it was pitched as a general castigation of my contributions, or a back-handed compliment thereof, or even somewhere in between. Anyway, I'm rather busy IRL and don't have too much time to shift those images to Commons right now, but feel free to do so yourself. After all, this is a wiki, and if you perceive a problem, then you're welcome to fix it. --Cactus.man ✍ 23:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I have created a category there myself now (it just has a photo of a biologist he took), but I don't really have time to move these ones there for you as well. I still don't know why they even have to be moved manually, but there are thousands of people who upload images here like you so it's not really something I can make a dent on except by informing people where they should be uploaded. Richard001 (talk) 06:03, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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You are now the proud owner of a TUSC account!

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COULD YOU EMAIL ME A COPY OF MY ARITCLE TO [email protected]

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Thanks

Accelmarketing (Accelmarketing (talk) 04:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC))

Can you please email me a deleted article?

Hi,

An article I recently created was just deleted. Can you please email me the article for Galaxy_Computer_Corporation? Also, do you have any idea why it was deleted, and what can be done to improve the article so it doesn't get deleted when reposted?

Thanks

Pugglewuggle (talk) 09:49, 21 June 2008 (UTC) Jared

I've emailed this to you. Sorry for the delay, I'm a bit inactive at the moment. --Cactus.man ✍ 18:57, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Deleted: Eric W Jepson

Hi. I *am* Eric W Jepson and I recently noticed that my website was getting hits from a Wikipedia article in my name. (This was a few months ago--I noticed well after the fact.) I'm really not notable and am not asking the article be reinstated, but if you could send me the article, I'ld love to read it. Thanks. Thmazing (talk) 02:48, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi

I've searched the deletion logs and can't find any reference to a deleted article for any of the following variants:

Eric W Jepson

Eric W. Jepson

Eric Jepson

E Jepson

E W Jepson

E. Jepson

E. W. Jepson

If you could check your server logs to see the exact name of the article, it may be different. Let me know if you find anything. Otherwise you could try Google Cached entries. Sorry I couldn't turn anything up for you. --Cactus.man ✍ 07:37, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll double check my stats and get back to you if it wasn't one of those variations. 76.88.194.195 (talk) 20:08, 29 June 2008 (UTC)