Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive73

I'm requesting, at this point, an indefinite block, partly under the guidelines of Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Disruption, specifically, "excessive personal attacks", but also for the regular disruption of "...the normal functioning of Wikipedia." Citations (not including recent) are available on the users talk pages, & in-depth looking will see nearly all of this user's edits constantly reverted, the user repeatedly asked & then warned to desist, & other disruptive & Vandal behavior. I've tried to refrain from interacting with this user lately & leave it to some Admins what with some possibly valid sockpuppet tags, but it has gone too far for too long, especially after his "Vandal" & "insane user" comments, & slander towards Freemasons. Grye 11:25, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

After reading the diffs... and going through the users contributions... All I have seen are abusive comments, personal attacks, complete ignoring of

WP:CIVIL, edit warring, and vandalism. As this user is CLEARLY disruptive, I have blocked indefinately. Grye you also need to pay more attention to WP:CIVIL you came quite close to if not slightly over the edge in some of your responses.  ALKIVAR™

13:51, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou . & most importantly (about the rest), is yes, I recognize that I let myslef be "pushed over the edge" & /or otherwise show incorrigible behavior myself, & stand ready for consequences, but I have, & have often showed, a new restraint & thus that I'm learning & (I hope) applying at near the speed of light (OK, I admit, cable...) ;~D Grye 02:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[I've moved this from RfAr as, err, it's not an Arbitration case matter; he's already banned from such activities. James F. (talk) 11:44, 6 February 2006 (UTC)]

Onefortyone/Anon 80.141.et al

Involved parties

• Ted Wilkes ("party 1")
• Onefortyone/Anon 80.141.et al ("party 2")

Summary:

Previously the edits by Onefortyone/Anon 80.141.et al to the Nick Adams and other articles had been orchestrated through referencing and targeted linking to insinuate that Elvis Presley was gay. On the issue of repeated insertion of information that Elvis Presley (and other celebrities) were gay, Onefortyone/Anon 80.141.et al was found guilty by the Arbitration Committee here of fabricating information and inserting "fraudulently doctored text" into an article as seen here: [18]

As a result, the Arbitration Committee ruled as follows: "Onefortyone is placed on

User Onefortyone/Anon 80.141.et al has continued his exact same orchestrations and has inserted fabricated information into the article on Nick Adams. His actions have put Wikipedia at serious risk of a substantial

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request

• Ted Wilkes- is the initiating party and has notifed "party 2" here at User talk:Onefortyone.

Statement by party 1

In the

Further, Onefortyone/Anon 80.141.et al inserted here in the same Rumors and sexuality section that Nick Adams and Elvis Presley may have had a relationship in violation of the ArbCom probation order

In addition, here, Onefortyone/Anon 80.141.et al knowingly and deliberately doctored (in red) the writing by his

It seems as if User:Ted Wilkes, who is also placed on probation for frequently having removed my edits (see [19]), still tries to denigrate my contributions as he did in the past. To my mind, he made an unfounded request for arbitration falsely accusing me of having inserted fabricated information into the Nick Adams article and claiming that Adams and his wife were never divorced. Significantly, this request was immediately deleted by a Wikipedia administrator. Indeed it is not necessary to re-open the case. It should also be noted that Ted Wilkes more than once made such requests in order to denigrate other users including reputed members of the arbcom, such as Fred Bauder. See [20]

Nick Adams's divorce from his wife is mentioned on the following webpages:

• "... he had waged a long and tedious divorce and custody battle with his ex-wife, Carol Nugent... Nick won an expensive custody battle after proving that Carol was an unfit mother because she was having an affair with a fellow named Paul Rapp." See [21]
• "He had a troubled life, which included separating from his wife (but retaining custody of his 2 children)..." See [22] and [23]
• "His personal life was in turmoil as well, as he and wife Carol Nugent became increasingly estranged." See [24]
• "... unfortunately by the time he got back to the states it had already severed his marriage with actress Carol Nugent." See [25]
• "Married to actress Carol Nugent, and his divorce from her was expensive. However, he won the case, since it was proved Nugent had an affair, and he was given custody of their two children." See [26]

Here is the best account of Adams's divorce from his wife:

• "While appearing on 'The Les Crane Show' the following evening to plug Young Dillinger, Nick shocked audiences by announcing that he was leaving his wife. ... After that announcement, Nick's career and personal life went into a tragic free fall. Nick and Carol publicly announced a reconciliation a week later, on Jan. 19. ... Alienated from Carol, Nick fell in love with actress Kumi Mizuno and even proposed marriage to her later. ... Nick and Carol's reconciliation didn't survive Japan. At the end of July 1965, they decided on a legal separation. Carol filed for divorce in September. Nick was still in Japan when Carol was granted a divorce and custody of the children on Oct. 12. On Jan. 26, 1966, Nick and Carol announced another reconciliation on a local television show, 'Bill John's Hollywood Star Notebook.' It wouldn't last. ... On Nov. 26, 1966, Carol resumed divorce proceedings and obtained a restraining order against Nick. Carol alleged that Nick was 'prone to fits of temper' and in a special affidavit charged that Nick had 'choked her, struck her and threatened to kill her during the past few weeks.' 'I'm going to fight this thing all the way,' Nick said. 'I want to keep possession of my home and possession of my children.' It was the beginning of an acrimonious, contested divorce and child-custody battle. Nick became enraged after discovering that Carol's boyfriend was physically disciplining his children and telling them that Nick was 'a bad man' and a 'bad daddy.' Nick hired an attorney, former L.A.P.D. officer Ervin Roeder. Robert Conrad says, 'He (Roeder) was a very, very tough guy and he was a kind of man that was tough to like.' Nick got a restraining order prohibiting Carol's boyfriend from coming to the family home and being in the presence of the children. On Jan. 20, 1967, while waiting for a court hearing to begin, Nick was served with an $110,000 defamation suit by the boyfriend. Ervin Roeder's job was to wrest custody of Allyson and Jeb Adams from their mother. It was one he did well. On Jan. 31, Nick won temporary custody of his children. It was a hollow victory in his tug of war with his wife. Jeb Adams said, 'He saw it as a competition, basically, more than anything of getting custody of us. But, a matter of a week or two later, he gave us back to my mom.' She later regained legal custody of her children." See [27]

Now Ted Wilkes seems to have discovered a new document relating to the death of Nick Adams. I am not sure what this means. Could it be that Carol Nugent is mentioned as Adams's official widow because the divorce was not through at the time of his death? If so, this information may be added to the Nick Adams article. That's all. Onefortyone 01:02, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Response by Ted Wilkes:

• As stated above, Onefortyone does what he always does and uses massive text and blustery to obfuscate the facts. He provides "sources" that are personal websites in contradiction of official Wikipedia policy and others that simply quote from the them. However, the issue here is that in falsely asserting Adams and his wife were divorced, Onefortyone maliciously
  libeled Carol Nugent-Adams by stating: "He won this bitter court battle after proving that his wife was an unfit mother because she had an affair with another man." - Ted Wilkes
  13:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, Ted, the truth is that this information comes from journalist Bill Kelly: "Nick won an expensive custody battle after proving that Carol was an unfit mother because she was having an affair with a fellow named Paul Rapp." See [28] Further, would you please stop calling me a "convicted liar" (see [29]), as this is certainly a personal attack. Onefortyone 00:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey 141, I don't think it's helpful to call you a "convicted liar," since you may sincerely believe this codswallop and may have spun and manipulated all that text to fit what you in good faith believe to be true. I mean, maybe you're only gullible or whatever. That's an easy trap to fall into with celebrity bios. However, the old tabloid assertions that Adams and his wife were divorced are brought into serious question by his death certificate, which lists him as "married" and further names "Carol L. Adams" (his wife) as the informant.

Wyss

01:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

The arbcom says about sources for popular culture:

Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources do not specifically address the reliability required with respect to popular culture such as celebrity gossip, but it is unrealistic to expect peer reviewed studies. Therefore, when a substantial body of material is available — e.g., that shown by a google search for 'bisexual "James Dean"' [30] — the best material available is acceptable, especially when comments on its reliability are included.

Support:

1. Fred Bauder 14:03, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
2. ➥the Epopt 14:43, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
3. James F. (talk) 22:38, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
4. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 20:36, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
5. Jayjg ^(talk) 19:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
6. Raul654 19:49, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
7. Neutrality^talk 21:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Ted Wilkes and Wyss's view of the standard of editing

8) Ted Wilkes and Wyss have repeatedly insisted on an unrealistic standard with respect to negative information regarding celebrities that is current in popular culture, gossip and rumor

Support:

1. Fred Bauder 14:03, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
2. ➥the Epopt 14:43, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
3. James F. (talk) 22:38, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
4. Jayjg ^(talk) 19:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
5. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
6. Raul654 19:49, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
7. Neutrality^talk 21:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

This is a clear statement. Onefortyone 02:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Why does this need a case reopening? From the statement, it sounds like we just need some administrators to enforce the previous ruling.

t

07:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't. Moved.

James F. (talk) 11:44, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Not that I have a hope anyone will listen to me :) ...But I think this RfA should be re-opened.

Wyss

22:54, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

"...Nick Adams and Elvis Presley may have had a relationship in violation of the ArbCom probation order."

Ha! who knew the ArbCom had this kind of power? :D --Tabor 00:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

For some considerable time this user has been obsessively removing a list of universities from this article, as well as trying to turn its original British English into U.S. English, often with edit summaries like "rv vandalism". No amount of reasoning affects him (after ten or so editors had all explained on the Talk page and at Wikipedia talk:External links that the list wasn't linkspam, for example, he continued to insist that it was). One or two admins have tried to calm him down and get him to stop, but he accuses them of harassing him, and contiunues to insist that his behaviour is correct. Any help would be appreciated. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:26, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I've made a note on his talk page about the use of British English and American English as it pertains to the

style guide. --Deathphoenix

14:34, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I hope that it works. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:54, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Howard blanked his talk page but hasn't made any other edits as of the time of this posting. Hopefully it means he's gotten the point. --Deathphoenix 19:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

SOmeone deleted a set of links I had off my user page, non content was the reason, but geez I didn't even get a message on my talk page. Can someone please restore them? They were for an article. Deletion Log Entry Dominick ^(TALK) 17:11, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Undeleted. That was a rather silly deletion, but to avoid this in the future, you may want to put some sort of descriptive text on your user subpages. android79 17:13, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Incidently, they were at Dominick/links instead of User:Dominick/links. I moved them. Friday (talk) 17:15, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

(after EC) Ah, now I see why this happened. You put it at Dominick/links, not User:Dominick/links. Friday moved it into your userspace for you. android79 17:16, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks guys! Dominick ^(TALK) 20:11, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Yet another vandalism, this time to the Area 51 article. *sigh* Her Pegship 20:18, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Keeps deleting Afd and speedy tags and is talking about censorship. User has been warned several times and has been engaged in several edit wars over the removal of tags from his articles. Dr Debug (Talk) 21:37, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

This editor has consistently appended unencyclopedic and unnecessary information to the

Peruvianllama took care of this himself, for which I thank him. No need for any further admin action, then, I imagine. Joe 22:15, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

For future reference, you may wish to use

3RR. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?

) 22:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Someone arrived before me. However, reverting copyright violations will not count against 3RR. In this case, both the image and the added text are apparently not licensed in a way that is acceptable for Wikipedia. So I would say you can freely remove it. --Stephan Schulz 22:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Recently the user's activity has included blanking. Sigh.

v ^

22:45, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

This guy has been going around on a bunch of highway articles, changing the shields to deprecated (redundant), wrong, and nonexistent images. I know this guy from outside Wikipedia, and he has some mental/comprehension/whatever problems (possibly autism?). I have asked him multiple times what he is doing, with no response. I would appreciate if someone else would look at this and try to get through to him, and also to advise me on whether I will get blocked for 3RR if I continue to revert him (as it is not quite vandalism) - or more precisely, will someone unblock me if another admin does block me for such a reversion? --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 22:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Well he seems to have stopped for now. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 23:01, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I need a few administrators to keep a close eye on him. He's been editing since December, and appears to be adding a lot of sneaky vandalism. For example, he's changed birth dates to be a year out, has added false middle names, and has changed cities of birth. I don't want to block as some changes, such as adding Kurt Nilsen's middle name, are proper. I need a few experienced admins to keep a close eye - He's been warned, and he doesn't seem to answer queries, so if he does sneakily vandalise anything I think he should be blocked. Hedley 23:25, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Dante26 (talk · contribs) was previously blocked for a week for creating hoax articles and deleting the AfD tags when the articles were tagged as hoaxes. Has now come back and is recreating the hoaxes and even creating more. I have blocked him indefinitely, but apparently blocking him causes collateral damage to lots of AOL users. See his Talk page. He was also posting as User:Opy67. User:Zoe|^(talk) 23:54, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

• Deleting his account might be the only way, he seems intent on cycling thorugh every AOL range after he's sure of his block, seems like an intent driven denial of service attack--152.163.100.65 01:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

The user has openly given out his password on his talk page. I can see trouble ahead from him and those who access his account. Pat Payne 02:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Looks like this user was given an indefinite {{

UsernameBlock}}. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS

) 02:18, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

He's flooding his talk page now. — TheKMan^talk 02:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Protected. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 02:45, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Indef-blocked user's password also now changed to random string. -- Karada 02:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Could somebody semiprotect this, or something? The fark-flood are vandalising it. :(

I semi-protected it to ward off vandalism flood from fark. Babajobu 02:49, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

gracias, jobu.

v ^

02:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

For future reference, you may wish to

WP:RfPP to request protection or semi-protection of articles. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?

) 22:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

The nom has twice been reverted, the second time was by me and I speedy closed the nom.

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

---- 03:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

You and Netoholic could try discussing it instead. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 03:38, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I think it would be best to discuss

WP:RFC/USER without placing it on MfD. — TheKMan^talk

03:40, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It may be the only way to break the logjam. Is anyone happy with the current RFC process? The discussion on

WP:AAP was scathing, and few people who have been through it (on either end) are particularly pleased with it. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS

) 03:41, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

From a narrowly please-tell-me-again-how-wonderful-I-am, I am pleased enough with

WP:RFC. I'm with Crotty, please throw out this broken degenerate crappy bad-faith-encouraging system and start afresh. Bishonen | talk

04:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC).

I speedy closed the nom since it was a ridiculous first step when there are much better solutions (discussion being the first one that comes to mind) to fix it rather than putting it up for deletion and putting it up for MFD in itself is fairly out of line due to the fact that deleting the CFD page would mean taking out an eseential part of the dispute resolution process which I think most editors will agree is quote crucial.

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

----

It already has been discussed - see

WP:AAP. It's time to do something about it. What other method would you recommend that {A} respects community consensus, and {B} will actually break the logjam? Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS

) 03:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Like disruptively nominating a page for deletion just to generate discussion traffic?

Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point -- propose a replacement system and get people to use it. -- Netoholic @

03:48, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I have blocked for 3 hours

JtkieferT | C | @

---- 03:50, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I speedy closed the debate and despite being warned on his talk page by both Netoholic and I and being having his edits reverted and being warned again he persisted.

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

---- 03:52, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Due to the fact that he withdrew it and blocks are not punitive I am going to unblock him immediately.

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

---- 03:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Now, let's see if we can figure out where to start a discussion on the User RFC issue. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 03:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:MFD is a discussion (it just has a vote/poll along with it to decide if it's kept or deleted). Letting it continue would not be disruptive in the least if it resulted in serious discussion/debate. —Locke Cole • t • c

03:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Ummm... isn't it well within Crotalus horridus' right to nominate pages for MfD? Is someone failing to assume good faith here? Shouldn't they discussion have at least taken place before being speedily closed??? --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 03:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

That's my thoughts as well. —Locke Cole • t • c 03:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It is, but it is also my right duty to get rid of disruption and I felt that this was unecessarily disruptive and a possible

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

---- 03:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

On what grounds? By not assuming good faith? By closing the discussion without letting it ever start? By blocking an editor who was doing what he had every right to do? Also see my thoughts on Crotalus' talk page. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 04:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Nomination of certain pages for deletion is considered disruptive (unless of course it's the

Main page and it's April 1 :). There are better places to build consensus for reforming the user RFC process than MfD. Physchim62 (talk)

04:13, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

(Multiple edit conflicts later:) So,

WP:VP and be willing to work for consensus. Act like you're trying to get blocked, and you'll get blocked. -GTBacchus^(talk

) 03:58, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Rather than attempting to continue fighting an edit war, I've opened Wikipedia:User RFC reform. Do not vote there yet, as it is still under progress, but feel free to include poll questions if you have them. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 04:07, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

The poll is now open. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 04:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Mission BSS.Geni 04:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, quite clearly he is coming to represent Mumbai-style for the Dalit. That's fine. I was just saying the other day that the Dalit voice wasn't heard frequently enough around the wiki. Babajobu 05:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

IP 24.167.137.112 has been blanking/vandalizing the World War II and page for the last hour (5 edits) Bo-Lingua 04:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I blocked him for 24 hours. Thanks. Babajobu 04:58, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

How prompt! Thankee! Bo-Lingua 05:05, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

For future reference, you may wish to use

WP:RfPP to request protection or semi-protection of articles. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?

) 22:07, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

His arbitration case concluded today. He was placed on both probation and general probation.

Can someone give a second opinion on whether the recent edits by User:Quarl to change [[City, State]] to [[City, State|City]], [[State]] are as totally useless as they seem? --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 05:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Discussion moved: I've moved this discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Location Format —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-02-09 10:24Z

Based on this I have blocked this user indefinitely. Please review. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

IPs change, so an indefinite block doesn't seem like a good idea, but I'd favor at least a month-long block. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 07:06, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok if you think so but he sure is a cheery fellow now. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:19, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It's done, a month now for two death threats and an offer to blow up the Wikipedia offices. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:35, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes. If an IP is permablocked, and it is a dynamic IP, it is horrible. If the IP is static, it can get reassigned by some reason or another by the ISP to an unsuspecting user. That's the only reason an indef block isn't a good idea. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 07:39, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I realize that and I admit it was an overreaction and frustration from other things. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocking someone does not stop murders of wikipedia users or the plot to bomb the headquarters. We will get a lot of sympathy and publicity when this hits the press. Lapinmies 09:36, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It is hardly the first death threat recived by wikipedia.Geni 12:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It's not going to hit the press because it's not going to happen. Death threats are a dime a dozen on the Internet and generally do not deserve to be taken very seriously. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 17:16, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Following posted on AIV:

• VinnyCee (
  check user request
  . Today once again he is inserting the claim the US is a police state. Despite numerous requests to substantiate that claim, no proof is advanced but the claim is inserted still.

Furthermore, this person has been violating the 3 RR rule, inserting warnings on police state talk page[32][33][34] which were deleted from editors own talk page[35][36][37], and disrupting my talkpage[38][39][40]. -- Nomen Nescio 09:46, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocked VinnyCee for 24h for vandalism,

WP:3RR although I guess that doies not really apply on Talk pages - in any case, he was warned more than once re adding contentious tags to the article and continued after deleting the warnings from his talk page. In my view the user was well aware that they were in the wrong and continued anyway, but bringing here just in case someone feels that they should be given a little more rope. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C]

User:Rodw ahs just emailed me to say that 164.11.204.52 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is blocked as being recently used by Paulo_Fontaine (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Which is possible, but I can't see any block that I can undo, the IP does not give a block history. If I block and unblock will that fix it? - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 13:07, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

The easiest way is to look at the last 24 hours of the ipblocklist for the name of the blocked user. If there is an autoblock, it will show there. I couldn't find one, so it probably has already expired. --cesarb 13:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

The thing is, you won't ever see that IP, you'll see a special mask, i.e #456856. But, you can hand unblock the IP and it will have the same effect. Just go to the unblock page and enter the IP in the field; it will be unblocked even if the block was an autoblock. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 01:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

The question of using DSM IV TR criteria (as discussed here and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Narcissistic_personality_disorder ) is again arising on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Narcissistic_personality_disorder&action=history.

Chad Thompson of the apa ( [email protected] ) already refused permission in December, it was decided to play safe and go with a link before the APA got mad and started going over the whole of Wikipedia with a fine tooth comb and issuing writs.

If I owned Wikipedia I would take a stand against them on this, but I don't, and am having to revert edits I actually believe in to accord with concensus and the wishes of the APA who own the copyright. This next will be the second revert I make today.

Somebody please advise? --Zeraeph 13:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

This user is showing "contempt of court" for the recent ArbCom ruling regarding her behavior, and has deleted the ruling unread from her talk page, an annoying tactic she does to anybody she doesn't like. Perhaps a ban is in order? *Dan T.* 13:47, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if it is justified for those particular actions, but please pay attention to her and if she does engage in the kind of attacks she has made in the past, please enforce the personal attack parole she is on. Fred Bauder 13:50, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

She has, and I've blocked her for 48 hours accordingly ("Don't bore me with your simplistic/idiotic assumptions"[55], "Jayjg [is] an abrasive, notorious POV warrior"[56]). My personal view is that Deeceevoice should be made to acknowledge the ArbCom ruling if she wishes to continue editing here. We might as well ban her outright if she's just going to ignore it, and save ourselves the hassle. — Matt Crypto 18:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

To add further, Deeceevoice has stated: "I am no longer contributing new information to any articles on this website" and "an earlier post of someone notifying me of the ArbCom's "ruling" was deleted without having been read. They have no authority I am obliged to respect, IMO, none which merits respect"[57]. While I will follow the provisions given by ArbCom, I personally don't see why we should give this user any more chances, given the above. — Matt Crypto 18:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

If she violates the terms of it, block her. She doesn't have to respect ArbCom, but she does have to follow their rules- plain and simple. Ral315 (talk) 18:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Wreggles, perhaps in the Manchester area. Block please, trail of schoolboy vandalism. Midgley 14:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It's a shared IP address for loads of UK schools. Secretlondon 19:22, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I made a report to their abuse address, about the same time. Midgley 16:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

For future reference, you may wish to use

WP:AIV to request administrator attention against vandalizing. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?

) 22:06, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Midgley 16:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

The Mao Zedong article seems to have attracted the attention of a non-registered user who switches IP addresses (history looks like a group, but the edits come in series, and the style is pretty consistent), editing it to "clarify some ubiquitous rumors commonly used by antimaoists" and the "revert the CIA propaganda" Editing history. I can't call it outright vandalism, but to my non-expert eyes, it's pretty clearly political, not NPOV, not attributed, of poor quality, and should be reverted. I tried once, but since he's not giving up, and since I'm neither a Mao specialist, nor interested in getting into a revert war, I'm going to alert the admins here, and bow out. GRuban 14:48, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Any possibility you could put Mao Zedong under the same "As a result of recent vandalism, editing of this page by new or anonymous users is temporarily disabled. Changes can be discussed on the talk page, or you can request unprotection." protection as Jack Abramoff?

It's hardly been edited - a handful of times from IPs today - and we don't semi protect for edit disputes. Secretlondon 16:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Still going on, though not involving me. [58] It's clearly one guy with a "CIA is sensering the internet" bee in his bonnet. If he had an account, people could talk to him, and find a compromise, since he doesn't, it's kind of hard. GRuban 14:09, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I have found STC to be in violation of his probation with his editing on this page. Per my notice to him on his talk page:

I have banned you from editing this page for violating your probation with this edit, that change has been previously contested, you changed it without discussion and a misleading edit summary of "fix rdr" (implying something was broken when its merely contested). Previously contested changes to articles should be discussed and consensus achieved before you change them.

--

While I personally find this cat to be insipid, what is the policy on it? Is an edit which reverts its addition to be reverted?

I've reverted as he's clearly still alive. Secretlondon 16:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

For the policy on it, see Category:Living people. --Fastfission 17:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

FWIW, I see every reason to believe both serious and casual users can and will benefit from Category:Living people and its opposite, Category:Dead people. Entire websites are devoted to answering that age-old question, "hey, I wonder if (FitB) is dead or alive?" More to the question, I would try a dialogue with the reverter and ask if there was a specific reason therefor. :) RadioKirk talk to me 18:48, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

If we have a dead people category, are we getting rid of the death-by-year categories? Phil Sandifer 20:06, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I personally wouldn't see any reason; a research tool is a research tool :) RadioKirk talk to me 20:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Death-by-year cats should be subcategories of Dead people (rather, subcats of the decade, which is a subcat of the century, which is a subcat of deaths by year, which is a subcat of Dead people). Category:Dead people isn't on any actual articles. -- Jonel | Speak 21:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Yet, I presume. Whoever's been adding the living people cat may be doing one at a time ;) RadioKirk talk to me 21:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

209.175.47.158 has been vandalizing many articles, even though he/she has been warned. Sophy's Duckling 19:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

IP has been blocked several times. Per whois.illinois.net, external47-158.cps.k12.il.us is Chicago Public Schools, primary level. RadioKirk talk to me 19:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocked again -GTBacchus^(talk) 19:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

For future reference, you may wish to use

WP:AIV to request administrator attention against vandalizing. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?

) 22:02, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

This user is not me, and I have blocked him indefinitely because of that. Phil Sandifer 19:49, 7 February th2006 (UTC)

If he promises to be you in the future, can we unblock him? -GTBacchus^(talk) 19:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I feel like that would be wikistalking. Phil Sandifer 20:05, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Similarly, I just indef blocked User:Dustimagic is a Nazi!!!!!!!!!!!. Apparently there is a User:Dustimagic who's a RC patroller. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 20:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

For future reference, you may wish to use either the {{

usernameblock}} message to mark either imposters or inappropriate usernames. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?

) 22:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I might, but that requires keeping track of even more templates, and I refuse to do that. Phil Sandifer 22:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

LOL. -- Netoholic @ 21:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

There's good reason Snowspinner created WP:TFD ... - David Gerard 00:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[59] Admins holding an edit war over a userpage? Ouch! Who dares protect?

-- Kim Bruning 21:45, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Already protected by

^(talk)

21:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Let's hope that, at least, this doesn't lead to yet another episode in the wheel-warring novel... Phædriel ♥ ^{tell me} - 21:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I protected in the hope that it would encourage these admins not to do that, but it's been unprotected again. — Matt Crypto 22:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

WARNING: I am blocking anyone else who wants to revert war. This is not acceptable admin behavoir, even a newbie would get warned and possibly blocked for this.

21:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I certainly agree, but why did you unprotect? Just because admins can bypass protection doesn't make it right to do so, and I think edit warring on a protected page is a particularly egregious violation. -Greg Asche (talk) 22:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I've no idea what some people are playing at. Kindly go and do something productive people. Secretlondon 22:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Ugh, I initially removed this because it accused Igor Alexander, the founder of Wikipedia Review, as being the Nazi Alex Linder. When I was reverted (using admin rollback), I was not contacted in anyway, nor was an edit summary given. I then rolled back the revert due to the lack of information as to why it occured, and asked why the admin who reverted me did so. I've taken no further part in this other than to ask why people are using admin rollback on non-vandalism edits (I consider reverting non-vandalism edits without edit summaries to be vandalism itself). However, I am curious as to why people keep reinstating an statement calling someone a Nazi (especially without proof). I can only think of a few worse insults. Talrias (t | e | c) 22:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes...the rollbacks where highly inappropriate. Give reasons if you are reverted (or someone else making the same edit). Here is my idea on this: Wheel-warriors should be blocked, and if anyone unblocks a blocked wheel warrior, then NO ONE will re-block, but instead will report it to Jimbo.

T|@|ESP

22:23, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

For the record, immediately after my reversion, I left a note discussing the page on the person who rolled back my edits' talk page. Talrias (t | e | c) 22:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Talrias, please try to be more accurate with your use of terms. It would be more accurate to say that you find reverting non-vandalism edits sans summaries to be unacceptable, not that it is vandalism, I hope. --Improv 22:21, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It is unacceptable, yes. Talrias (t | e | c) 22:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

If you find the use of rollback unacceptable, you should not have used rollback to re-instate your edit. If you find it acceptable for you to modify other people's user pages (especially ones you have a history of conflict with) you should not have your user page protected. If you have a problem with people reverting before they talk, then you should have talked to me before you rolled back my reversion to your initial edit. To begin with, if you found El_C's page disturbing you should have asked him to change it - he's on a break, but who knows what that means. Guettarda 22:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Quite simply, if you think it wrong to user rollback in that case, then your actions were intentionally wrong. I did not think it wrong to use rollback on your edit to El_C's page, because, as a person who was in conflict with him recently, it looks like you meant to kick him when he's down. Which is unacceptable. Guettarda 22:40, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Guettarda, I don't find the use of rollback unacceptable - otherwise I would never have drafted a proposal such as

Wikipedia:Requests for rollback privileges. My user page is not protected. In fact, it was recently edited by an anonymous contributor. I can't respond to the rest of your comment, as it is based on incorrect information. Talrias (t | e | c

) 22:50, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Reversions and extra edits

I've come across a peculiar situation on this article page:

Apollo moon landing hoax accusations - it seems that 20 hours of reversions have been taking place on the article. When I protected the page, to my surprise, two other administrators came by and edited the page and changed a significant amount of content on it. Based on a comment on the talk page, I've reverted back to the original page which I protected in the interests of fairness. However, as a result, I would feel more comfortable if someone else were to look at this situation so I can step aside from it. Many thanks! --HappyCamper

21:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that was me, not paying attention. Sorry, won't happen again. Tom Harrison ^Talk 22:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Tom, you are one of the most professional Wikipedians I have met in recent memory. I'd like to mention in passing [60] and [61]. Well, it looks like someone else (Katefan0) might be helping out, so I guess all is well! :-) --HappyCamper 02:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Music of Nigeria

Page has been vandalized more than 25 times in the past hour and 15 minutes. Why doesn't an admin just protect it, and just

ignore the rule about not protecting pages linked from the main page. It is vandalized by the same vandal over and over, with a different username. Pepsidrinka

22:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Requests for page protection should go to

User:Raul654/protection. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?

) 22:30, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I semi-protected the page before I saw it was linked from the front page. I would suggest looking at the recent edit history before unblocking. (but feel free to do so). Eugene van der Pijll 22:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm sympathetic, but they shouldn't be semiprotected. Hoping you won't be offended, but I've lifted the protection. Rather, I added the article to my watchlist and will help revert and hand out blocks if needed. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 22:48, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Not offended, I was just going to unprotect it myself. There was a similar attack on

User:Raul654/protection the page should not be protected because Vandalism is cleaned up very quickly, often in only a couple of minutes, but in this case the page was vandalised litterally once a minute for over half an hour... Eugene van der Pijll

22:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, clearly a bot attack. Seems possibly GNAA-related? Could be wrong. Anyway, SP long enough to turn the bot off was a good call. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 22:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It has started at the Costa Rican page again. I've semi-protected that one; will unprotect in a few minutes. Eugene van der Pijll 23:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

When this keeps up, is there anything else we can do? Can we find out the IP range of the (presumed) bot? Reverting more than once a minute is not good, but having to semi-protect pages every 15 minutes is not a good solution either. Eugene van der Pijll 23:07, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, so much for that. It's obviously a bot attack. I was goign to re-SP but Splash beat me to it. I've left a message for David Gerard to see if he can checkuser and do something to foil the originating IP. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 23:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I protected the Costa Rica page at 23:04; the Nigeria page was vandalised at 23:05. Both are protected now, so I wonder how long it will take him now to start on another page. I'll keep an eye on the Main Page's "related changes". Sigh. Eugene van der Pijll 23:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Sino-German cooperation (1911-1941) apparently. I won't protect it; he will just move to another page anyway... Eugene van der Pijll

23:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

We've been watching this all afternoon (we've jokingly begun calling the vandal the "Rapture vandal" as much of the early vandalism involved the phrase "Wikipedia will meet it's maker"). I had a checkuser run earlier and placed a rangeblock; unfortunately, it's an AOL/Netscape range, and I've had to pull it. Simple blocks won't do, as the accounts are throwaways (one edit and they get a new one), and page protection is useless, as they just move on to another page. All we can do is continue to revert until they get tired. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 01:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

In that case, the bot should be pointed to Template:User its2 ;) RadioKirk talk to me 13:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Semiprotection of Wikify template

Due to some nasty vandalism, {{wikify}} has been semiprotected. Other admins should feel free to lift it when they feel the threat has passed as I'm off to bed now. David | Talk 00:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I've had enough

...of

Francs2000

02:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I've blocked for 24 hours for that friendly display of blatant personal attacks but I suggest that people keep an eye on this IP as well as the article and Franc2000's talk page just in case.

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

---- 02:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Dschor

Despite the fact that I have stayed out of the userbox debate so far and for the most part plan on continuing to do so I would just like to note that I removed two {count them 2) userboxes from Dschor's userpage. The first was a blatant attack against Interiot, the second one was against Kelly Martin. I couldn't give a damn about the other templates but I will not (and have stated as such on his talk page) stand by while other editors are attacked. I have warned him not to replace those attack userboxes and have told him that if it takes getting an injunction from Jimbo himself I will do everything in my power to make sure he does not attack other editors.

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

---- 02:52, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

He's about to be banned by the ArbCom (by a mixture of injunction and remedy), so hopefully the problem will go away. -Splash^talk 03:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

If he replaces them, I think removing them and protecting the page would be appropriate. I wouldn't do it myself since I previously blocked him for creating {{user oppose Kelly Martin}}, the substituted version of which you just removed. If possible, I'd like to avoid blocking him while his RfA is ongoing (unless he were to violate his injunction, of course). — Knowledge Seeker দ 03:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Since his injunction allows him to edit his user and talk pages it wouldn't be a direct violation of his injunction to put them back but I agree that if he does the best remedy probably is a revert/reprotect combo.

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

---- 03:09, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Note that if he insists on doing blockable things on the pages he is allowed to edit, he can still contact the AC by email if necessary - David Gerard 16:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I was under the impression that Dshor was under the prerequisites of an indefinite block. If that's so, It really shouldn't matter, as the only avalible page at his disposal is his talk page.-Zero^Talk 16:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

He is, he's only unblocked so that it's easier for him to contribute to the arbcom case. If he restores the attack templates though I think he should be indef. blocked and then he could still contribute via his talk page or via email.

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

---- 17:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I would prefer that Dschor's link to my homepage not be seen as a blatant attack. The link was added as the final edit in a string of back-and-forth edits [62] [63] [64] [65]. I added 100% of the text to his page, and Dschor only added the link. My edit (the third) was done in more of a joking mood, and I was pleased to see the fourth edit turn out to be something that didn't seem to escalate the situation. I don't particularly care whether the box is included or removed from Dschor's page, but I would prefer that its history not be involved in any future increase in tension. --

Interiot

18:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Donate to Wikipedia

I've just blocked Donate to Wikipedia (talk · contribs) for an inapropriate username, but I'm off to bed now (I'm on UTC), can someone keep an eye out for any autoblocks resulting from this. Cheers, Thryduulf 03:07, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Could this user be related to the Bank of Wikipedia (talk · contribs) sockpuppets created by Iasson (talk · contribs)? Ral315 (talk) 18:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I doubt it; look at his sole contribution. What Iasson wrote was often held to be nonsense, but not patent nonsense.Septentrionalis 19:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Hasty Pudding Theatricals

A user is having a serious edit war with User:140.247.155.84 and I gave unclear instructions on the Help desk. Dr Debug (Talk) 06:41, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I blocked all of the offending IPs for 24 hours. --Golbez 06:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Dhommo

Dhommo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), apparently a sockpuppet of blocked Wik (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), is causing disruption at Bat Ye'or. Previously, he used sockpuppets Dhimmi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Dhummy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), both blocked now. Pecher ^Talk 08:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Where do you get the connection to Wik from? Secretlondon 11:48, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Jayjg dealt with the issue yesterday [66]. Pecher ^Talk 11:52, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Without any evidence being given, with those two having LOTS of history, and with Jayjg having been a controversial editor on Jewish topics. Come on - someone else could have done it. People should recuse if they are involved, always. Secretlondon 12:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Not sure why this is a Jewish topic. Anyway, could you run an IP address check? Pecher ^Talk 12:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I really don't see that as being an issue here, and an address check is almost certainly a waste of time. I'm just switching {user} to {vandal} above, but I checked it this morning and it is very clear that the three (Dhommo, Dhimmi and Dhummy) are one and the same. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 12:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

They appear to be the same per checkuser (same dialup block), but IP matches are really secondary evidence - the editing style is the same - David Gerard 15:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok - thanks. Secretlondon 16:00, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Y'know, Wik could be such a fantastically productive and wonderful editor if he could just stop ... being a dick. If he stopped being a dick and told the AC he was going to stop being a dick and stuck to it, he'd be welcomed back as the prodigal son. Really - David Gerard 00:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Paulo Fontaine and Barbara Osgood

Could somebody please tell me WTF is going on with Paulo_Fontaine (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Barbara_Osgood (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? They keep interleaving edits to the same articles, sometimes Osgood revertes nonsense inserted by Fonatine, other times she adds to it, and the comment on her Talk page about Fontaine is downright confusing. Fontaine keeps popping up as different people (e.g. Paul_Fountain (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)) and his edit pattern is invariably to work through a series of minor edits through nonsense to creation of a hoax article. I am completely bemused. I strongly suspect it's or more students (Fontaine is operating out of the University of the West of England, as I found out yesterday) playing silly buggers. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 12:48, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

New Huaiwei Block

I have blocked Huaiwei for two weeks effective immediately, he just came off a one week block in the past few days. Per my notice on his talk page:

You are blocked for two weeks for violation of your parole effective immediately. Specifically, causing disruptions in articles, reverting without discussion on talk pages and continued edit warring. The following edits in question are the cause for this block, will be posted on AN/I, your block log and in your current arbitration case. You can still contribute to your arbitration case by using your talk page.

Disruption of Wikiproject Airports

[67] [68] [69]

Continued barbs in edit summary in lieu of discussion on talk page

[70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78]

I'm certain there is more for me to post here but this will do. Your continued edit warring, causing disturbances and methods of editing continue to violate your probation.

As always this has been noted in the block log on his probation page.

--

Wgfinley

13:19, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Donation trolling

On Talk:General Medical Council one editor editing under a few different usernames is making an enormous fuss, including threatening to influence others with regard to donation to Wikipedia. Is this in itself a blockable offense? JFW | T@lk 13:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I would be inclined to ignore the campaigning, inasmuch as there is nothing that the editor would like more than attention. Refactor comments not directly related to the article into their own section if they get to be too much of a nuisance, and consider archiving them. The personal attacks on Jfdwolff and others are over the line, however, and if they persist would warrant a block. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I think it's amusing how consistent POV pushers are: they are always the injured innocent, victims of a conspiracy by the establishment that prevents their voice being heard, champions of the emergent truth which will shortly - any day now! - bring the establishment to its knees in abject shame. And always it is Wikipedia's role to lead the charge against an obstinate and disbelieving world, and editors and yet the noble aim of the project is betrayed by editors and admins who oppose them by slavish insistence on precisely the kinds of evidence the establishment bias prevents them from producing and which Wikipedia is supposed to rectify. It's a remarkably consistent pattern, isn't it? - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 19:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

This comment should be added to some project page. It describes them perfectly. --cesarb 19:41, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

"

Wikipedia does not lead the charge against an obstinate and disbelieving world"? —Ilmari Karonen (talk

) 07:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I came here specifically to be obstinate and disbelieving! --

Aaron

08:00, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

JzG got it in a nutshell. I have indeed seen similar patterns on Talk:Cancer, Talk:Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, Talk:Simon Wessely etc etc.

I would be obliged if someone could do a brief civility block of 86.134.167.39 (talk · contribs). This user has insinuated mental illness in myself[79], been calling various names not worth repeating, and is a general nuisance. JFW | T@lk 21:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

The inexcusable behaviour has not resumed from that address after the anon received a warning on his talk page, so it may not be necessary. The address is from BT and probably rotated among a large pool of users; from a practical standpoint the block probably wouldn't hit the right person now. If he comes back and can't keep a civil tongue in his head, I'd support an immediate block. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 00:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Braaad

This individual is behind at least 2 blocked sock puppets, has now returned, and is harassing again. I also suspect he's added another sock puppet, for which I've put in a CheckUser request. At the very least, he is violating

WP:NPA and is vandalizing with his edit summaries. Again. McNeight

16:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Ryan Delaney

Ryan Delaney, one of the non-elected, non-ratified, self-appointed "clerks", has been maliciously deleting parts of people's statements at

WP:RFAR. This is excessively misleading and highly disruptive. By deleting the statements he is deleting, results in the case appearing to be quite something else, and I would like someone to put a stop to him doing so, if possible. Thanks, --Victim of signature fascism | help remove electoral corruption

18:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Could you provide some evidence of this, please? —bbatsell ¿? 18:52, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I suggest that nobody even bother dealing with this blatant trolling. Ril has been trying to scuttle the clerks idea since the beginning by any means possible and this is just another one of his little attempts to do so.

Jtkiefer^{T | C | @}

---- 19:10, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Ryan Delaney is deleting threaded unsectined replies to statements that amount to "coloring outside the lines". They are being deleted becuase they are misplaced and are therefore themselves misleading. Robert McClenon 19:45, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Ryan Delaney ("Tough luck") is incorrect in that. One does not delete comments. One moves them. If one feels that they are inappropriate, then move them to a user space or a separate page and leave a link. If I know that, then surely a Clerk will know that. If the clerk does know that, then one wouldn't be too far out in assuming intent. Geogre 00:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Note: I disagree thoroughly with clerks giving summaries. I'm sure that that will mean that I, too, "have been trying to scuttle the clerks idea." In a world without nuance, much less reading skills, anyone who disagrees with a part must be without credibility. Clerk away, but let's not impose summarizers. Geogre 00:51, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

You realise of course that skill with summaries was precisely why Snowspinner and Tony Sidaway were picked for the job ... in any case, anyone can provide a summary, 'clerk' or not - David Gerard 08:07, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

"Were picked?" I love that passive. They "were picked" by whom? Who is it who decided that their skills with summaries was what tipped the balance and that these two people could and should be imposed on litigants with whom they might have personal history? Also, in another great straw man, you say that "anyone can provide a summary," but, if that's so, why is there an official summary by the clerk? Why is the clerk writing a special summary on a page that the litigants can't write to? Why invent a special function for a special position, if it's something anyone can do? Like I said, it's a world without nuance or reading skills. Geogre 12:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

By the AC, fairly obviously. Tony Sidaway particularly impressed the 2005 AC in his summarising of the Baku Ibne case (the evidence was completely incoherent beforehand). In Snowspinner's case, also by Jimbo. Because then they have it as a specified job that they've volunteered to fulfil. Further questions welcome insofar as I can answer. If you could attempt to assume slightly better faith, that'd be nice too - David Gerard 13:04, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Assume better faith? That's somewhat hilarious. The first time I brought up the structural problems of clerks writing summaries, you attacked my judgment. Ryan Delaney (remember him) said that it was "tough luck." Jtkiefer said "tough luck." So, basically, if you demonstrated better faith, that would be very nice as well. What you are not saying is "by the old AC fairly obviously." What you are also not saying is "many members of which are now troubled by this function." What you are also not saying is, "And several users have objected to me, in particular, and how I have pretended to speak for the Board." What you are also not saying is "And these particular people have already been accused of bias." And what else you are not saying is "And I keep saying that there is no change while I say that there has to be a status to the summary." I'm glad that you are not presenting summaries, David, if your attempt at seizing the high rhetorical ground here is an example of your presentation of an issue. Keep the clerks. Have fun wearing tiaras and adding lines to your CV's, but don't impose summaries that are "official" on people who don't agree to them. I've offered a solution that satisfies all the needs and imposes none of the risks, but, unfortunately, it doesn't allow three or four greedy people to grab more power, so they oppose it. (For those who never saw it due to the every-10-minutes-archiving-the-page, the solution is quite, quite simple: have the present ArbCom select ten to twenty editors with good writing skills and temperament, and then allow the disputants to pick the person who summarizes his or her evidence. That way, we don't feed the trolls.) Geogre 14:46, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Even with the best of intentions summaries will always be colored by the perceptions of the person writing them. In the 'pedophile wheel war' case the summary described supporters of an action in a particular discussion as "many" and opponents as "some"... when the actual numbers were 6 supporters and 19 opponents, and a few of those supporters later reversed themselves. Now, is this evidence of 'malicious intent' by the clerks? No. Most of the supporters chimed in immediately and thus appeared in a group at the top of the discussion... the opponents grew as people looked into the situation and started pointing out details which had not been considered (thus causing some of the supporters to later switch). It would be easy for the summary writer to, at a quick glance, mistakenly assume the strong support at the top of the discussion to have been carried throughout... even without the possibility of assuming a particular view prevalent if it happened to match their own. This isn't a big deal if someone can just comment on the summary and note the discrepancy... but for that reason such summaries should not be placed on the main arbitration page or the 'proposed decision' page where edits by others are discouraged or prohibitted. Put them on 'evidence' or 'workshop' and allow everyone to comment. If the comments are clearly of little relevance then move them to the associated talk page. Summaries are good, but care must be taken for them to be as impartial as possible and objections to any characterizations therein must be given serious consideration. --CBD _☎ ^✉ 13:52, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, certainly. But also please remember the AC aren't stupid. The summaries will be noted, and if the clerk's summary isn't good then (this being a wiki) people will weigh in! And the AC (and clerks) will give that due consideration too. The clerks don't do direct opinion dumps into the AC's brains - David Gerard 15:44, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Adding their own summary is quite different from deleting someone else's. One is fairly acceptable, the other is not whatsoever. --Victim of signature fascism 23:21, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

There were some problems with the original summary. These were outlined by an editor in a discussion on User talk:Radiant! and (although I have recused myself from the case now because of a related action) I understand that the errors have now been fixed. --Tony Sidaway 18:03, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Violation of probation?

I think

Talk:Nick Adams page, Wilkes again goes as far as to call me a "convicted liar" which is certainly a personal attack and unacceptable. See [81]. On the Memphis Mafia

page, he has added a fabricated text to my direct quote from Peter Guralnick's book, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley. In the book, the original passage reads:

"Nick Adams and his gang came by the suite all the time, not to mention the eccentric actor Billy Murphy, longtime friend of John Wayne and Robert Mitchum..." See [82]

Ted Wilkes's version reads:

"Nick Adams and his gang (roommate Dennis Hopper, Russ Tamblyn, Red West) came by the suite all the time, not to mention the eccentric actor Billy Murphy, longtime friend of John Wayne and Robert Mitchum ..." See [83].

This is of much importance, as another source, namely Rona Barrett's autobiography, Miss Rona (1974), says that "Nick had become the companion to a group of salacious homosexuals." It seems as if Ted Wilkes, with such additions, tries to obscure the impression that the members of Adams's gang were homosexual. Wilkes has also repeatedly deleted two external links to websites concerning the Memphis Mafia, presumably because the content of these sites is not in line with his personal view. See [84]. He only accepts hyperlinks to external personal webpages he likes. This is POV and not O.K. Perhaps some administrators may have a look at the related pages. Thank you. Onefortyone 19:41, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

RESPONSE: Onefortyone's continued misrepresentations to deceive Wikipedia Administrators and fabrications and another violation of his probation:

Talk:Nick Adams page on 20:40, 6 December 2005 as seen here

I worked with FCYTravis to achieve a consensus and the last edit to the Nick Adams article by Wikipedia Mentor FCYTravis was on 02:01, 8 December 2005. However,

Wikipedia:Probation and reinserted it in this Revision as of 04:33, 8 December 2005 - Ted Wilkes

22:48, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Truth be told, Ted, you should have mentioned that, before he made his statement, administrator

FCYTravis had repeatedly reinserted the Rona Barrett quote together with some other quotes frequently deleted by you at that time (December 2005). See your own statement here. On 8 December, this administrator only said that he had removed the quote from Rona Barrett because he "didn't think it adds anything." About two hours later, I reinserted it together with an additional quote which now made more sense. FCYTravis was online at the time when I included the additional source. As there was no further discussion about the matter, there can be no doubt about the fact that he accepted my contribution. It should also be mentioned that my version is still included in the article. Onefortyone

00:38, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Another instance of Onefortyone violating his probation and defying his Wikipedia Mentor

In the article Elvis and Me, Onefortyone inserted text that was deliberately taken out of context from completely different parts of the book and on different subjects entirely. And, after deleting key words that would reveal his fabrication, Onefortyone merged them to create a completely false impression of what author Priscilla Presley had written.

On the

FCYTravis agreed, stating in his Revision as of 19:19, November 13, 2005 here

"I agree that inserting those out-of-context passages in that section is not helpful to the reader and potentially misleading."

Again, Onefortyone waited for time to pass then on 23:46, December 24, 2005 he defied his Wikipedia Mentor and reinserted and again did it in an out-of-context position to mislead and change the entire factual meaning to suit his agenda. - Ted Wilkes 15:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Truth be told, Ted, you are the person who has added fabricated passages to the text. You have repeatedly included the words "Pentecostal", "virginity" and "slut" in the Elvis and Me article, thereby deleting the direct quotes from the book I had inserted (see [85]). The fact is that these words nowhere appear in Priscilla Presley's book, as an Amazon search proves. See [86], [87] and [88]. Therefore, I rewrote the said paragraph which included the correct quotes for many weeks. Now you are continuing edit warring, Ted, as you have reinserted your fabricated version of the text and removed another paragraph including critical remarks by Suzanne Finstad about Prescilla Presley's book (see [89]) which certainly belong to the Elvis and Me article. It seems as if you are trying to suppress critical remarks about one of your favorite books. This is not acceptable and not NPOV. Onefortyone 23:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Nibby

Nibby (

chat

} 19:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, he hit me just after I put up my manifesto[91]

Guess he's opposed to it :-)

afist

20:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I will have to admit his vandalism was relatively innovative one :-D I protected his talk page because he has messed with it as well: "There is more to come!" --BorgQueen 20:09, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Zephram Stark sockpuppet

This one's pretty obvious: Mr. Stark (talk · contribs) --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 20:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh definitely. Good block. --Deathphoenix 21:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

User:HaleyBaley

HaleyBaley (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), also declared himself to be Willy on Wheels [92]. -- Ianblair23 (talk) 20:33, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocked indefinitely by Curps. --Deathphoenix 20:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Country under attack; semi-protected

I just semi-protected {{

semiprotected

}}, but feel free to add it if you think it's a good idea. Or maybe it could be added without being transcluded or something, but I don't know that wizardry.

I blocked

✎

21:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I added the semiprotected template, but marked it with <noinclude></noinclude>, so it won't appear in articles using {{Infobox Country}}. Canderson7 ^(talk) 21:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Upon reading this message by 129.71.62.4 at Curps's talk, I think one week is justified; and I'll gladly give one week to every other IP that displays that same pattern. —

✎

21:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

The risk of collatoral damage is very high with a 1 week block. Do we know it's a static IP? Secretlondon 21:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

{{User paedo}}

I have deleted this template. It was created by SPUI (talk • contribs) and is clearly nothing but trolling. I know it's a joke, but it is not funny in the current climate. It is, in fact, blatantly out of place. So shoot me. Sam Korn ^(smoddy) 21:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Clearly an act of blatent trolling. Please feel free to speedy delete any more infringements to the integrity of wikipedia. I also suggest a slap on the risk for this action (Although a block seems more warrented).-Zero^Talk 21:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

SPUI also went ahead and did this. — TheKMan^talk 22:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

*yawn* Secretlondon 22:15, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps SPUI should have a brief time out. User:Zoe|^(talk) 03:12, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

He was blocked for an hour over the template-trolling, and ArbCom are looking to include him the general Pedophilia case. Physchim62 (talk) 03:15, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

page-move vandalism - needs checking

Robin Williams (talk · contribs) moved some pages and was blocked. However, his page moves seemed somewhat confusing. I hope that I didn't break anything. --Ixfd64 23:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

GreatBarrington is harrassing other users

GreatBarrington (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is harrassing other users (see here), saying such things as "I know the Wikipedia rules like the back of my hand, so you should know that I'll never do anything that could allow me to get kicked off" and "You've earned a spot on my watchlist. ... Don't worry---we'll be in touch." (which sounds almost like a threat). I don't know exactly what this person's purpose on Wikipedia is but it certainly doesn't seem to be in good faith. He might be worth keeping an eye on. See the rest of his contribs ... it's pretty much just more of the same, telling people to "watch out". --Cyde Weys 00:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Also, another user has identified him as a very likely sockpuppet of Theblacklarl. I'd request a Check User, but it's been moving so slowly for awhile now it doesn't seem worth it. --Cyde Weys 00:42, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Apart from the continuing

(talk)

13:59, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:AN

help! we've been hacked! and they deleted our noticeboard to prevent us from organizing a resistance!--Helllo 00:54, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Wow, I nearly had a cow. Deletion log shows that Sean Black (IIRC) deleted temporarily to remove personal information. With over 16,000 revisions, it'll take him a while. Hermione1980 00:57, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. For future reference, please try to refrain from deleting pages with large page histories (such as this and George W. Bush); the deletion and restoration causes a huge strain on the servers. Instead, contact a developer directly, who can instead remove the edit from the database directly. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Either that, or we might need to stop using large pages that we can't maintain eh? Kim Bruning 01:11, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Quiet, you! =) -Lanoitarus _^(talk) .:. 07:14, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Also a good note: When the page has far too many revisions to easily undelete, the best move is to undelete the bad revisions first, move them elsewhere, and then delete. Then, you can just undelete all the remaining revisions in one fell swoop. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 22:15, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion for change to archiving

Rather than edit the page to archive it, the (bot?) archiver should move it to the archive name, though not move the talk page; then edit to put back the last week's entries. That way the page will be archived, but the history won't be ridiculously long - David Gerard 08:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

The problem is that the bot archives several days to the same archive page. I suggest, instead, that periodically (once every six months, perhaps), the page be moved to somewhere else (/Historyn) and recreated. --cesarb 15:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Imposter of me that's vandalizing

Tharealest316 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is an imposter of me vandalizing at the article NWo. He is an account created from the IP address 24.86.76.154 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Will someone look into this. — Moe ε 01:20, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocked. And I'll block the IP for vandalising temporarily. Sasquatch t|c 04:49, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

BCE/BC lame edit war alert

They're at it again, over at List of monarchs of Kush. I'm off to bed, but if they keep reverting could someone please protect the page (in m:The Wrong Version) and remind them not to do that? Thank you, and good night. -GTBacchus^(talk) 08:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Ugh, Chooserr involved.

T+C

) 08:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Unblocking Londoneye

I have unblocked Londoneye having consulted with David Gerard, the blocking admin. The evidence for sock-puppetry proved to be insufficient to justify continuing the block (and frankly I was unable to locate it in any case), so we're going to

AGF

. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 08:32, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I believe User:Zordrac/Poetlister is the page that contained the investigation about sockpuppetry. -- Netoholic @ 08:44, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. On the strength of that page (rampant paranoia on the talk-page notwithstanding), it doesn't look like I've done anything too dreadful, although time will always tell . HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 09:53, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Nrcprm2026

I am currently in an Image for Deletion discussion with

Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 February 9 regarding Image:Former BSA.jpg. On discussing copyright issue relating to commentary and parodies, he made an edit to Wikipedia:Logos here

, deceptively labeling it as "grammar," but, instead, completely changing the meaning of the sentence.

When I first nominated the image for deletion, he did not

assume good faith on my part. He came to my talk page to question my motives; before I could respond, he had removed all deletion tags and struck out my comments on the IfD board for February 9. Based on an edit here and a comment here

, he is obviously pushing a very POV agenda here. I hesitate to continue assuming good faith on his part, as I have for the past few hours, given these inflammatory POV edits and their relation to the BSA's stance on homosexuality.

With the combination of inflammatory POV edits and his questionable edit to a Wikipedia policy page, I was wondering if an editor knowledgeable of copyright law take a look at the Image for Deletion discussion. His deceptive editing of the text within a fair use policy page also makes me question his motives. I was also wondering if an administrator could take a look at User:Nrcprm2026's edits and recommend a course of action. I will probably not continue to participate in the IfD discussion tonight. Thanks! — Rebelguys2 ^talk 10:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I've tweaked the paragraph in question, and I think the grammar is now more nearly correct, although there's some complicated sentences in that article: please check that the new wording still says what it should. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 11:03, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you consider this edit to be evidence of "POV pushing". To me it looks like one of the most sensible things anyone has said during this whole fiasco. Maybe there's some context that I'm missing, but I'd urge you to calm down and assume good faith. It's usually a good idea in any case. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I assumed good faith for hours, even though his first response to my nomination was: "I am intrigued by the motivation behind your nomination of the image in Template:User former BSA for deletion. What is your opinion on the question of whether gays should be allowed to be scouts?" After his editing of a guideline, I am hesitant to continue doing so. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 15:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I've also stricken one of the diffs I provided; there's no doubt that the first example is that of POV-pushing, however. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 15:51, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree. The page in question was in a heated edit-war when I got there, with disgruntled students adding unsourced gossip about recent school controversies and experienced editors reverting there work with obtuse and sparse comments. I spent several hours on that article over the past few days, and I stand by the fact that was added to the infobox (as non-disputed and confirmed by secondary sources who were also editors.) It was quickly reverted, and I made no attempt to replace it. The article has been growing steadily, and seems somewhat more stable. As soon as the students find something to say about their faculty, get some better photos, and source their contorversial statments, I intend to remove it from my watchlist. --James S. 17:14, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

U.S. trademark law

The 1916 Act of congress did not create any copyright interests because the Constitution specifies that copyrights may only be granted for "limited times," and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) do not claim any copyrights, using the registered trademark (R) symbol alone in conjunction with their logo, and not the (C) symbol.

U.S. law protects the use of trademarks by nonowners for purposes of criticism and commentary. First Amendment considerations override any expressive, noncommercial use of trademarks. "The Constitution is not offended when the [Maine] antidilution statute is applied to prevent a defendant from using a trademark without permission in order to merchandise dissimilar products or services. ... The Constitution does not, however, permit the range of the antidilution statute to encompass the unauthorized use of a trademark in a noncommercial setting such as an editorial or artistic context." (emphasis added) L.L. Bean, Inc. v. Drake Pubs., Inc., 811 F.2d 26, 31, 33 (1st Cir. 1987).

Similarly, the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 does not apply to the "noncommercial use" of a famous mark. 15 U.S.C. 1125(c)(4)(B). The U.S. Supreme Court has defined "commercial speech" as "speech which ... propose[s] a commercial transaction." Virginia Pharmacy Ed. v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc., 425 U.S. 748, 762 (1976).

The only limit on that right is whether someone might think that the commentary was produced by the trademark owner, and this limit is explicity defined in reference to Boy Scouts. "[A]n author certainly would have a First Amendment right to write about the subject of the Boy Scouts and/or Girl Scouts. However, this right is diluted by trademark law insofar as that author cannot present her subject in a manner that confuses or misleads the public into believing, through the use of one or more trademarks, that those organizations have produced or sponsored the work in question." Girl Scouts of the United States v. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 808 F. Supp. 1112 at 1121, n. 12 (S.D.N.Y. 1992.) --James S. 15:26, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I think that this issue is resolved, per my talk page. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 17:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. --James S. 17:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

This will be short and sweet

I am upset because one user keeps on posting a message on my userpage which accuses me of being a sockpuppet. I am (relatively) new to Wikipedia and only recently found out what a sockpuppet is but I am certainly not one. I don't know what to do and don't know what to do to stop this individual. Quite frankly its becoming disturbing. This individual offers no proof but just accusations. Please let me know what to do via messsage through wikipidia preferably. You can see the history of these actions on my user page history. Thank you very much for your time and asisstance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GreatBarrington (talk • contribs)

You can also see why GreatBarrington is being accused by checking

(talk)

14:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd say that the evidence is strong enough to warrant blocking, myself, but I guess I am very jaded about sockpuppets. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 14:52, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Alexander 007

I've blocked Alexander_007 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for 24 hours for personal attacks against User:Theodore7. I'd appreciate review to make sure this was appropriate. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

seems appropriate to me. there appears to be a pattern of abuse on Alexander 007's talk page.--Alhutch 17:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandal's page moves

• Question: What is the proper procedure for rectifying a vandal's page move? I couldn't find any guidance except to take it to Wikipedia:Requested moves, which seems too slow.
• Request: The moves in this case, Kip Thorne → Kip Dent → Wohoo legend, need to be undone by an admin.
• Note: these moves, and another incident of vandalism were done by
  talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log), who, from the look of his history and talk page, has always been a solid citizen. Likely a third party is on his account. ×Meegs
  17:29, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I have reversed the page-move vandalism and blocked

talk · contribs) indefinitely pending an explanation; it really does seem as though his account has been compromised. android79

17:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

When you have a chain of moves such as that, it often works to reverse the chain (if the article was moved a → b → c, you do the moves c → b → a), due to the rules on when moving over a redirect is allowed by the software. I did that in the past, before becoming an admin. When you can't for some reason, asking for help here is probably the best option. --cesarb 19:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Interesting, I did not try it that way. ×Meegs 19:12, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I've unblocked James James; according to a post on his talk page, he was the victim of a prank. I'll be keeping an eye on his contribs in case this is a ruse by the prankster. android79 20:04, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

And according to an anon who claims to be the real James James, the apology was made by the person who was actually doing the vandalism. The account has been blocked again. User:Zoe|^(talk) 03:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Basil Rathbone

Pursuant to content disputes on Freemasonry, User:Basil Rathbone has seen fit to repost his uncited and unprovable edits on Freemasonry his userpage, thus violating the policy that userpages are to be about users, and not encyclopedic articles. I would request that the material be removed and a warning issued. MSJapan 18:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

It is looking highly likely that this is another sockpuppet of

User:Lightbringer, blocked from that article by order of Arbcom. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C]

22:51, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

It suuure is, per checkuser. Blocked - David Gerard 23:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Is the checkuser evidence available? I was going to add {{

(talk)

23:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser evidence is not made public; it involves IP information that is not publicly disclosed per the privacy policy. It is generally accepted that when a user entrusted with the checkuser function declares the two to be sockpuppets, the community trusts them. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 23:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Especially when stating something which is (a) pretty obvious anyway and (b) exactly what we wanted to hear :-) Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 12:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

User: Ewlyahoocom

Help! Lots of page moves, its getting tangled, someone more experienced take a look?

Special:Contributions/Ewlyahoocom

KillerChihuahua^?!? 19:56, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I blocked for 15 minutes to give someone time to look. KillerChihuahua^?!? 19:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

The rest of the user's recent changes look to be good faith. I am not sure exactly what they are trying to achieve but perhaps they should be unblocked and a request made for an explaination. Cheers TigerShark 20:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

The ones prior to 12:46, 7 February 2006 seem to be made in good faith, at which point they went on a move and merge spree, with 250 edits of which a large number are moves or merges, sometimes several layers deep. I want a second opinion. Some of these are very poor choices IMHO. And one move or merge per minute today? Some of the edits seem reasonable, but as I said I am concerned. KillerChihuahua^?!? 20:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, no explanation as yet, but apparently decided (after Reverting my revert) to revert themselves... I'm still not terribly happy but it does look like good faith, if non-communicative or consensus, edits. There have been a couple of complaints about the merges also. KillerChihuahua^?!? 20:41, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Correction: second revert of move was reverted by 8bitJake. KillerChihuahua^?!? 20:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Just to let you know that the user has now responded on their talk page Cheers TigerShark 21:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• It's been a few days and I've heard nothing back about this block. May I continue with my edits, or shall I suspend?
• At one point I see I was labeled "non-communicative". For the record I should like it noted that immediately upon being blocked I sent an email to the blocking admin. Their circumstances unfortunately limited their ability to read or respond to it until some 3 hours later ("...I cannot always access my email and it may be a day or two before you receive a reply.")
• Also, what I've been reading suggests that Blocks are usually used as a last resort. In this case a block was used as first or second resort. Was this a fair and proper block? Ewlyahoocom 15:34, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

More vandals against me

One of my real-life friends gone bad has threated to vandalize Wikipedia. He did previously came here to edit a page under the name User:WoWjUnKiE7290. I confronted him in real-life and he said he made several sock-puppet accounts. One of which is blocked indefinantly. Since my friend is only here to make trouble we should block him indefinantly.

The only known accounts I know he made include:

• WoWjUnKiE7290 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Fiodinn (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Does anyone else think they should be blocked permanently? — Moe ε 22:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

No, his threat to vandalize is just a threat. I don't think it's a good idea to do pre-emptive banning. If he decides to follow through, that's a different story.

chat

} 07:23, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Sockpuppet whining about being found out by William M. Connolley

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ABasil_Rathbone&diff=38743585&oldid=38731436] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Basil Rathbone (talk • contribs)

DMr. Connolley has posted a template about suspected sockpuppetry on that account, with a link to some evidence. I did not examine the evidence, but it seems over the top to label this vandalism.

Martinp

16:07, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

As the edit comment sez: I reverted an edit by SeraphimXI; because I couldn't see on what grounds S was editing that page. Note, FWIW, that Basil and S have managed to get Freemasonry protected (oops sorry, mostly BR not S; note BTW that BR is lightbringer, see DG at the other end of this page... why is this section out of order?). William M. Connolley 23:27, 9 February 2006 (UTC).

David blocked Rathbone as a sock of Lightbringer, so alls well. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 23:46, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Excellent, that was short and sweet. Can I change the title of this section to "Sockpuppet makes false accusations against William M. Connolley? KillerChihuahua^?!? 23:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Perfect, Guy - yours was better than my idea. KillerChihuahua^?!? 00:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Anon user page attacking other editors

I'm peripherally involved in some of the content disputes related to 86.10.231.219 (talk · contribs), so I'd like some outside opinions on how best to handle this. User:86.10.231.219 contains a number of borderline attacks on a number of editors, particularly targeting Midgley (talk · contribs).

In response to my requests, the anon has toned down a few of his remarks, but I still think it falls short of the standards of WP:NPA, WP:CIV, and WP:AGF. I don't think that attacks on the integrity of other editors are appropriate for any user page, and I generally believe that IP address user pages belong on a very short leash. Anyway, thoughts? TenOfAllTrades(talk) 01:46, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Kill it with fire. Anons don't get userpages; they only get talk pages for our convenience. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 01:54, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm encouraged that he's toned down his remarks, and must note that the page's first edit was an unconscionable personal attack from Midgley (talk · contribs). fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 02:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

That was wrong, but understandable. As Midgley and I commented elsewhere [100], I don't think the attacks have toned down, merely shifted into a more sophisticated form: a kind of filibustering and bombastic needling that's highly disruptive. Here's an example:

At least do me the good grace of finding something that approaches a good criticism and worthy of the attention of my highly attuned and intelligent mind than this attempt at allegations of filibustering. Is that clear enough and specific enough (like all the rest I write)? This is an online encyclopedia. It contains words. If you do not want to read words, there are plenty of other pastimes to choose from. The Invisible Anon 17:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC) [101]

Tearlach 12:36, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

While we're on this topic, could someone have another glance at User:Whaleto, where there's an even more explicit 'hitlist'? This is another user in the same territory, whose virtually every edit now contains some kind of insult or presumption of bias. It continues despite requests to stop [102] [103] on grounds of the personal attack and good faith guidelines. Obvious the long tedious answer is an RfC, but is he doing anything blatant enough to merit admin attention? Tearlach 03:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

The bias here is breathtaking. The medical editors can get away with anything it seems, so I think I am being remarkably restrained considering they delete at will any external links I put in, also any text, along with attempting to delete most of the pages I create. My "hitlist" is just the log of their activities, as shaming them is the only way to curtail their activity, it seems, as no other editor will do anything. To cap it all they deleted a page I created called

Anti-vaccinationists, which is taking the mickey I would have thought. To accuse me of being rude to Midgley when he is making a perjorative page to me is bias, I would have thought. You only have to read his page to see he thinks anti-vax are psychotic (his term), which I am sure he believes. You can't be "arsed" (your term) to look into my complaints, as you know you can't do anything anyway, but it doesn't give me much confidence in your bias. john

16:57, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

The posting above is persistently untrue:-

• The allegation that
  anti-vaccinationists is a hijacked page called vaccine_critics has been made repeatedly, and I have pointed out that although there was a previous page called vaccine critics this was deleted. Nothing to do with me. I started the page, [Initial state of anti-vaccinationists
  ].
• and expanded it. adding specificlaly that "a subset of the material shades into the appearance of psychosis" [state of page]. John made an edit to it shortly thereafter [diff], identifying himself by what I've taken as a humourous and even good-natured "Your local psychotic here" which I've made no comment on, nor generally would having not met the patient. There is an example reffered to
  here
  with a link on to the New Reformation website (which is actually great fun, and does give an appearance similar to some cardinal signs of psychosis, I write as someone who treats a small number of psychotic patients, and therefore might come from someone psychotic or a group simulating psychosis for their own amusement. (John's writing is not very closely similar, one may have an idée fixée without being mad even in a lay sense)).
• Deleting "his" page and then creating a page on a different topic was not part of a coordinated plan by a coherent group aimed at John. I'm just going to assert that, I can't see how to back it up, other than remarking that the medical editors involved live in different towns, counties, countries and continents, and AFAIK with one exception I don't think I have ever even shared a room with any of the other editors. Technically, vacine critics was not merged into anti-vaccinationists, it was I understand deleted after the usual WP procedure - John often says "delete" when most people would say "edit" or "merge" or "move" or nothing - it is irritating but I assume it is from lack of familiarity with the technology.
• this set of assertions have been repeated by the anonymous IP user referred to above, and by Ombudsman from time to time, despite being demonstrably untrue and that demonstration being provided - they are simply lies, and I object to them. Midgley 11:56, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

This seems a completely inappropriate use of a user page, particularly one for an anonymous non-password user. I have deleted it and protected against recreation. Physchim62 (talk) 14:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. The associated Talk: page persists, and currently has very similar contents. Midgley 19:52, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Please read carefully and do not block me for trying to have a dialogue

(Just posted to Physchim62 (talk))

The remarks which Midgley posted to the Admins Noticeboard [[104]] to persuade you to delete my User page

• were not on my User page
• and they are not even by me
• I have just seen the Admins Noticeboard [[105]]
• a wholly independent editor just posted this regarding Midgley

"Added NPOV Template - this is the most biased entry on wikipedia I have ever seen" [[106]]

• you were tricked into deleting my User page.
• Please therefore do not block me. I am not doing any disrupting.

I am obliged to try and engage you in dialogue before instituting formal procedure regarding the deletion and Midgley's behaviour The Invisible Anon 21:48, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

The Invisible Anon 22:07, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

User User:137.92.44.214 on John Howard

User:137.92.44.214 repeatedly inserting unsourced info and personal communications with other editors into the article John Howard, despite multiple messages asking him to stop.

See [107], [108], [109], [110] abakharev 03:57, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocked (for) now. Shanes 04:50, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

This guy hopped on IRC and chatted with me a bit about this. He claimed to be unaware of the existence of talk pages; I asked him to read

WP:V before doing any more editing. He may have been editing in good faith, but based on the edits made, I'm rather skeptical. android79

05:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Lets AGF, perhaps he is a newbie abakharev 11:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Ban Wimbo_Jales (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

k, thx

Hee hee I beat Curps--Shanel 05:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Gundam Seed Destiny

A user, Danny Lilithborne, has been deleting a large chunk off of the Gundam Seed Destiny section -- mainly, the criticisms section -- presumably due to his favoring the show, as can be seen in his user profile. This threatens the intergrity of the site, as Wikipedia should offer a well-rounded viewpoint on topics and not quash unpopular opinions.Leyviur 06:46, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy and User:Ezeu

User:Ezeu has been verbally abusing other users at Talk:Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. Here is evidence of his behavior:

• [111] - Translation "Damn Danes"
• [112] - Translation "Danish Devils"
• [113] - Removing warning about behavior.

This user is violation

WP:NPA. In addition the attitude is disrupting the process of finding NPOV in the article's talk page. OrangeMan

06:58, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

He apologized, and he didn't actually remove a warning, he just removed the stop-hand image that went with the warning. Please go a little lighter on the hysterics--Alhutch 07:03, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

He apologized only after I dropped this into

WP:ANI, and there are no hysterics above, just some notes about a conflict I am not involved in, but was made aware of. OrangeMan

07:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

let's all just calm down. Ezeu has stricken his comments on the Talk:Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy page, and admitted he was out of line.--Alhutch 07:11, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Good to see this spurred him to do so, which was my intent. As for "cooling down" I don't see anyone getting hysterical but User:Alhutch... OrangeMan 07:13, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I couldn't be any calmer if I tried :-) Alhutch 07:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Glad to hear it with all your calls for "calm down" and "hysterics" I was beginning to worry you were going to blow out your O-Ring on us!! :-) OrangeMan 07:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad that everything appears to be resolved in a satisfactory manner. I suppose the comment about hysterics was sort of hysterical itself, and for that I apologize :-). With all the userbox wars and such these days, I hope we can all stay calm and focus more on writing the encyclopedia. I hope no one's feelings were hurt in this little dispute and I'm glad it was nipped in the bud.--Alhutch 07:22, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes? OrangeMan 07:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

forget that I said anything about userboxes. You don't want to know!--Alhutch 17:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Image talk:Gaiaonline.png

I've protected and added {{

22 January it's been hit 5 times by a spam bot attempting to add links to other sites (using typical forum syntax markup). Other than this spam bot, the talk page has never been used. What do people recommend doing? Talrias (t | e | c

) 10:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

It's hilarious, since apparently the spammer is retarded or something along those lines, given the sheer inability to formal url's. (Pardon the crudeness; I'm aware robots can't help being inflexible, but I've always wanted to say that.) Perhaps +sprotect'ing it will do.

Be eudaimonic!

) 10:20, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiTerrorist

WikiTerrorist (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) indef-blocked by Tony, WikiTerrorist2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) popped up this morning and immediately vandalised so Tony indef-blocked that as well. Further reincarnations seem likely. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 12:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Looking at their contributions, they've had a unrelenting obsession with the articles I seem involved in, paticulary the Mega Man Zero article. It's very plausible they have a personal vendetta on me, as I researched, and I found they oringinate from my school's IP. I've no doubt they'll return. However, the Socksniffers will be here when that happens. -Zero^Talk 18:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Chocolate fountain

Please keep an eye on

Kappa

13:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Consistent vandalism

I suggest that user:65.70.128.137 be blocked, perhaps even permanently. That IP has been blocked before, but since the block was lifted has continually tended to vandalise various pages. Almost none of that IP's edits have been non-vandalism. Check out his edits. Thanks! Wikophile 15:11, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

• That IP points to Pembroke-Hill School. High schools, in general, have an above average noise-to-signal ratio, but that's not reason enough for a permamant block. – ClockworkSoul 15:19, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Anittas

anittas (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is fanning the flames of strife again: [114] FeloniousMonk 16:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Why are you calling me a vandal and why are you threatening me on my talkpage? I told you before that I have the right to say that I think that you abuse your tools. Don't you understand that? It is my opinion that I think that you should not be an admin. Recently, you blocked a user for 48-hours for the 3RR; however, that user did not violate that rule and someone else advised you to learn how to count. I think you should apologize for calling me a vandal, or, prove to the community what I have vandalized. --Candide, or Optimism 17:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Ever since the stink you made on the WikiEN-l mailing list over my blocking of you [115] you've campaigned around the project attacking me. [116] [117] Jimbo's warnings to you have made no difference [118] [119] and you've continued to raise the issue in this campaign of yours. A campaign which crossed the line separating the legitimate expression of opinion from harassment long ago [120] and attempts to interfer with my performing my duties. FeloniousMonk 18:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

--{.{vandal|anittas}.}-- What is this supposed to mean? I would like to know why an admin accuses me of being a vandal when I have contributed with articles and other improvements of articles. --Candide, or Optimism 17:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

The {{vandal}} template just generates a set of links that are useful to other admins in assessing the history of a dispute. It does not imply that the user in question is a vandal; it's just the historical name for the template. You can see for yourself what's actually displayed when the template is transcluded. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah, okay, thanks for the explanation. :) --Candide, or Optimism 18:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Fake block notices

This anon 130.113.226.6 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is placing notices of non-existent blocks on at least one user talk page [121]. I haven't gone through the entire "contribution" list; one should be enough for a response, given the editor's other conduct [122] [123].

User has been blocked for 31 hours -- he has a history of vandalism anyhow. Johnleemk | Talk 18:33, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

User:24.186.222.194

User:24.186.222.194 has been linkspamming the Power Tool, Bedding and Shoe articles despite being reverted a number of times. See Special:Contributions/24.186.222.194. He has been warned by User:Kuru. Time to block him. I don't want to violate the 3RR rule. thanks. Luigizanasi 18:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Dealt with. Thanks. --Golbez 19:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Lightbringer sockpuppeting

He came back to be a major POV-pushing PITA on Freemasonry as Basil_Rathbone (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). I just blocked him again as PM_GL_PA (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and have blocked his IP as well to try to stem the flood of socks. Watch out for this one, he acts like he's on a mission - David Gerard 19:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Sunday_Service (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Hipocrite - «Talk» 21:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Braaad

Multiple

civility. McNeight

20:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I've blocked this user indefinitely. —Guanaco 21:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Johan Elisson

There was a personal attack on me at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Article improvement drive by. All I did was made a simple suggstion in a category then User:Johan Elisson said "Why not just use the common sense you must have hidden somewhere?". Kingjeff 22:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Just as a side note, I also had a small problem with him. I think his intentions are good though, but I grant you that his "bedside manner" might need some polishing. In any event, I don't think the attack was serious enough to warrant a block, and after reading the whole exchange it looks like if you both take a step back and remember

WP:AGF, everything will be fine. Let me know if you need help. Sebastian Kessel ^Talk

22:58, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Kingjeff has been repeatedly disrupting that project for some time now and I've blocked him. He has tried to wind Elisson up a few times recently and Elisson has been impressively restrained throughout. CTOAGN (talk) 10:51, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

User:81.76.90.255

Could somebody please have a look at what this IP is doing to the

Brentwood School (Brentwood, England) article. Seems to be a combination of vanity and vandalism, but I don't want to keep reverting myself as the distinction isn't clear. Cheers TigerShark

00:09, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Somebody needs to be blocked: 67.109.139.68

This anon's contributions [124] consist almost entirely of changing words to FAGGOT or COCK, etc. Here is one of many examples: [125] He has been formally warned [126] at least once. He needs to be blocked. --AStanhope 00:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

The IP address has not edited in a few hours, so a block is not necessary now. In the future, you may wish to bring requests for administrator intervention to the

WP:AIV. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?

) 00:23, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Harassment by Cunado19

This guy keeps harassing me. Says I can't delete "negative comments" off my user talk. The rules say I can archive whenever I want to, that's what I did. He just keeps trying to find some new admin to report me to because he doesn't like the way I edit his precious Baha'i pages. Wjhonson 02:56, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Alright, here's some ideas. First things first, take a few deep breaths and calm down. This little spat will resolve itself far quicker if heads keep calm and people think straight. I'd advocate looking at what it is about your edits the user has an issue with - be bold and ask - and then see if you can't reach a compromise as to what should be done. You are entitled to archive your discussion page whenever you think it appropriate, but there is also an unwritten rule (not much help, I know) which states that it's considered bad form to wipe things too often.

In any case, you should now consider taking steps to prevent the disagreement from escalating, and try to resolve it calmly and effectively. If you continue to have problems, I'd recommend the Mediation Cabal or one of the other alternative paths to dispute resolution. 86.133.53.58 00:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

m:Right to vanish?

What's up with m:Right to vanish? I thought previous discussion here indicated that user talk pages should not be deleted. It appears User:Achille has left the project. He requested speedy deletions of his user and talk pages, both of which were granted. I undeleted the talk page, but carelessly forgot to remove the speedy deletion tag and leave a comment, and the page was deleted again. Shouldn't this be undeleted, even if it is moved to a different account name? Apparently his account has been renamed to User:This user has left wikipedia (which is not an appropriate user name, in my opinion, but that's a different matter). What do others think?

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Knowledge Seeker (talk • contribs) 2006-02-10 21:55:06

While the m:Privacy_policy doesn't clearly support this action, it does leave deletion in the hands of the individual project. Since User:Achille's request was initially granted, it seems appropriate to allow the decision to stand unless the project clearly needs this information for administrative purposes, rather than back-and-forth on it. I don't see an immediate or compelling reason to undelete -- the deleted pages are available to any administrator who needs to review them.

Adrian~enwiki (talk) 06:56, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I see you are using a transcluded signature. After the Achille situation with a bot used to modify his formerly transcluded signature two times, isn't this another good reason not to be using transclusion for signatures? NoSeptember ^talk 07:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

One of these things is not like the other one :) Adrian~enwiki (talk) 07:19, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I strongly encourage others to let this situation go; there were very, very tense moments in the past few days over it that went to the level of involving several individuals who work for the Foundation, as well as the Foundation's legal counsel. This is an issue that needs to be put to rest for the good of all involved. There really isn't anything on the talk page that is important enough to have a rehashing of a very, very difficult situation. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 07:15, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Now I'm curious - what is "this situation", why did Achille leave? --Golbez 07:26, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Essjay made the right call on this one. It's not something that needs to be worried about here :)

Adrian~enwiki (talk) 08:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

You should realize that saying "it's nothing to worry yourself about" is not the surest way to get someone to not ask a question. So, do we get anything? I see nothing in Achille's (under his new name) history to suggest what's up. --Golbez 08:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

The only thing I can really do on this one is to refer you to Brad Patrick, Wikimedia's legal counsel; if Brad says it's okay to discuss, then I'll go with that. Until then, I'm not releasing any details other than to say that the situation has been handled at the highest level and that as I understand it, there is no need for further action within the community. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 18:12, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Greetings, sirs. As the legal guardian of the bot involved in this process, I had a vague feeling I would soon be summoned into this discussion. Thus I shall come forth right now and clarify that I am completely oblivious as to the motives of our recently departed contributor, and I really don't care to know either. However, I did receive communication from him requesting that I change all the links to point to the alias "This user has left wikipedia" and complied only because I had previously mass-subst'ed his signature template, contrary to his wishes, unaware of the pending name-change, and having believed he had already left the site for good. I might recommend blocking the latter username indefinitely, as it does seem inappropriate to edit from, and I would assume that if he ever does return as an editor it would be under a different name anyway. In any case, let's not mention his name any further, unless he gives us a reason to, i.e. comes back, which seems unlikely. —

FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK

) 08:51, Feb. 11, 2006

Helpdesk spam bot

The Wikipedia:Help desk seems to be spammed every day with commercial spam. Today it was hit by User:206.75.170.20 who had a long history of spamming. There are other IPs as well. Somehow I doubt very much whether those are real IPs, because the links point to genuine spamming sites, so it is more likely to be open proxies. Dr Debug (Talk) 13:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I've blocked the IP for 48 hours. Doesn't look like an open proxy to me, though. Maybe someone more experienced at proxy checking can take a look at it. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 19:19, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, it is an open proxy, just on an unusual port. Blocked indefinitely. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 19:45, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

IanDavies = Irate

IanDavies (talk · contribs) appears to be Irate (talk · contribs). The provider has changed but the editing pattern and behaviour are identical. I've blocked. He's on a dynamic DSL pool out of Bulldog Manchester, if you suddenly see pissed-off IPs at work - David Gerard 15:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

(For a light-duty example, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Traditional counties of England and Wales by highest point - note style of personal attacks and typing so fast he leaves out words. When he's really pissed off he leaves out letters - David Gerard 15:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC))

Here he explains a change from "general geographic" name to "traditinal" name with a particularly unusual edit summary. [127]

And here he marks a template for speedy because it is "No existan pov pushing by Owain". [128]

Looking back at his contribs, he started on October 22, shortly after another alter-ego User:Son of Paddy's Ego was blocked on October 17. Looking at his early edits indicates he is no newbie, and he exhibited signs of the pattern right from the start. Apart from a similar pattern of conflict, he also has had a similar editing pattern - see [129] for example. Morwen - Talk 15:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree. The attacks linked to in this edit are a giveaway, too: [130]. — Matt Crypto 16:20, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

More fun on Freemasonry

In the wake of two Lightbringer socks being detected and blocked, I've blocked Sunday Service (talk · contribs) as an obvious sockpuppet or troll. I don't know who of, but you look at that contributions list (it's not long) and imagine any newbie of good will starting their Wikipedia career with that edit summary. I don't bloody think so. Listing here for review/sanity checking - David Gerard 16:42, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

User12.72.25.181, User:Amplat

This person or persons made a big fat legal threat at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Kim Deanda which may cause other Wikipedians to not vote. Ruby 17:19, 11 February 2006 (UTC)