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Contents 1 Question regarding removal of HPV Vaccine content on circumcision page 2 Klingon wikia 3 User:Bigegossmallminds block 4 My userpage 5 avoiding example.com 6 Hi! and thanks!! 7 hallo 8 How the hell did you do that!? 9 Anuban Muang Chiang Rai School 10 Chilean edits 11 Diocese Infobox 12 Bishopric thing 13 Vandalism on John Howard 14 Vandalism of Scott Mills 15 External links on your userpage 16 Thai ban on advertising alcoholic beverages 17 Thanks 18 Edit of F3 Euroseries talk page 19 Provinces of Thailand Map 20 Example.com -> example.org 21 Thai Booze Ad Ban 22 Thanks for undoing vandalism on Template:Buddhism 23 Coor tags in the infobox vs. coor title tags 24 Why did you edit out ... 25 image 26 129.11.77.197 (talk • contribs) 27 Input requested 28 Thanks 29 Nai Soi and Kayan 30 Songkhla Unis 31 Blocking a range of IPs 32 Blocking 33 It looks like you are a candidate of removing the following links: 34 Example JPG links 35 TfD nomination of Template:Linkimage 36 Hello I'm thai people i come to say hi 37 Rangeley, Maine 38 thanks for reverting my userpage 39 Can you speak (or understand) Thai? 40 Grand L. Bush 41 User page vandalism 42 User:216.178.91.34 continuing vandalism. 43 Stop the madness - Thailand 44 User talk:Dell970 45 Snap 46 vandal reverts

[edit] Question regarding removal of HPV Vaccine content on circumcision page

Hello,

I understand why my content would be removed regarding the recent HPV vaccine when I didn't source it properly. But I eventually got it right and sourced the proper research study.

My intent behind the HPV vaccine content was educational as the best prevention for HPV (aside from no sexual contact) currently is this vaccine. This has direct bearing on the information regarding circumcision as prophylaxis for HPV as there is a proven prophylaxis for the virus now.

Will you engage with me in discussing regarding your decision to remove this content?

Thank you for your time, Andre Bouchard Seattle WA US movementintimeandspace@gmail.com

I still don't see how it is related with circumcision, except that both have something to do with genitals. If that text would be put into the article on HPV, or in the article on sexual transmitted diseases it would be no problem. andy 21:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

It has to do with the studies regarding circumsision as a preventative measure for HPV. Either the HPV section of circumsision needs to be removed as the studies have been rendered moot or inclusion of the more recent preventative measures need to be included. The article right now gives old information. If prevention of HPV is too be outlined then complete, current information should be included.

[edit] Klingon wikia

Hallo! Ich wollte dich darüber informieren, dass der ehemalige Klingonische Teil von Wikipedia umgezogen ist, und nun wieder als Projekt aufgenommen wurde als Klingon Encyclopedia.
Es würde mich freuen, dort wieder von dir zu hören/lesen.

I would like to inform you that the former Klingon section of Wikipedia (tlh) has moved to wikicities and will now be continued as Klingon Encyclopedia.
I would be glad to hear/read from you there again.

Greetings, Lieven. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.177.10.16 (talk) 11:31, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] User:Bigegossmallminds block

Thanks for that. I have a deep suspicion that the account is a sockpuppet of User:Whoaskedyou (also editing as an anon as User:203.190.250.105 until that IP was blocked) and objects to my blocking them for persistent attack page creation, personal attacks and blanking of warnings. Sigh. Tonywalton  | Talk 17:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My userpage

Thanks for the revert of my userpage, see Tonywalton has filled you in on the story. Many thanks again RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or lets have banter} 17:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] avoiding example.com

??? — Omegatron 13:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

There's a new feature which allows to find all pages linking to a specific webpage, in this case [1]. As the weblink to example.com is one of the buttons on the editing toolbar this link is often added by accident, so it makes sense to check this list to clean up editing experiments, same as looking for pages using the Example.jpg image. I have fixed quite a lot already, but there are still 400 pages with that link, but soon it will be a manageable tool. andy 17:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Aha. You should try to explain that in the edit summary. Wouldn't it be better to just change the toolbar, since people are going to be putting example.com in articles? — Omegatron 19:25, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, I don't know how to fit this explanation it into a editing summary... Changing to toolbar is not really helpful, because in most of the pages having that link it originates from the toolbar already, so what I am doing is cleaning up the backlog, same as what'd happen if noone cleans the pages using example.jpg for some month. andy 21:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I'd agree that you need to give a better edit summary; I just used example.com as an example link, and it was changed to example.org with no real explanation given. If you can't fit your explanation into the edit summery, then say something like "avoiding example.com; see rationale" (except linking to a page that works. :) ) Also, note that you activate the "You have new messages" tag when you make the change on a user talk page. Mike Peel 17:57, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Of course I am aware that changes on the user talk will create that tag, but luckily most user talks I cleaned (and I am through with those now I think) were of users who apparently just edited that page once and then never returned. Sorry if I irritated you with that edit on your talk page. But I will try to write up a good explanation like you suggested, also covering the other similar editing experiments I clean like the example.jpg, so I can use also that when I clean new occurances. andy 21:23, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Please stop changing these. If you want to be able to find instances of toolbar experiments, have the toolbar changed to example.org. — Omegatron 15:25, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

You want me stop cleaning up the toolbar remnants? There very few places where a link to example.com is really necessary, and if there's a need for an example link example.org will do the same. It is absolutely the same with the example.jpg - there a few places where one needs such an image, especially in the Help namespace or for examples of template usage - and if one uses a JPG or a PNG there makes absolutely no difference. The same applies to that link IMHO - actually the only pages I found so far which really needs that link are Image:Examplewebsite.PNG and Talk:Example.com. What other pages do you think should have that link? Why those aren't equally well served with a example.org? Changing the toolbar wouldn't fix any of the still existing toolbar remnants. andy 17:30, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I prefer example.org (or example.net) myself, to combat the ever-present "dot-com-itis" whereby people seem to think that all domain names are, or should be, ".com" (even for noncommercial sites). However, I think some people following your example are getting overzealous, and even "munging" non-linking references to example.com on pages where, for some reason, a specific mention of that address is necessary (e.g., the "Domain name" article). *Dan T.* 01:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea how many example.com links there were when you started this campaign, but there are only 20 now and they all look legitimate. You can stop now, the job is done. Please stop making unnecessary changes like you just did to Template talk:Cite web. Thanks. RossPatterson 22:32, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

It were 500! And IMHO there's really no need to prefer example.com over example.org in any talk, except if there's really referring to that exact website. So even now it's down to 20, IMHO at least 10 more could be changed without any harm. Why noone complained on removal of example.jpg, example.ogg, or link title links? andy 22:16, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi! and thanks!!

Hello there, and thank you for the edit on Homeowner association. I missed that when I was deleting the various commercial links left by (my guess is the developer and author of the DVD). Now I am curious - do you have creatures like homeowner associations in Germany? The most active and effective advocate in the state where I live is a man from Germany who had problems with his own homeowner association here. Anyway, thanks for the edit. Also, I voted for Kerry, but do not vandalize GWB pages. I can't stomach watching GWB on the news, let alone reading about him on Wikipedia. We have serious problems in our country, and I fear what is ahead.Jance 19:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

These things like the example.com can easily slip in by accidentally clicking on that editing toolbar, or of course also by more intentional editing experiments. I am cleaning these things from articles rather regularily. Regarding your question: it has clubs of home owners here, see de:Siedlergemeinschaft, however as those gated communities are not popular here these clubs are not really comparable - of those activities I know they mostly focus on creating a healthy neighborhood by organizing festivities or tours, as well as giving courses on gardening, but unlike the US ones not taking over tasks from the municipality nor having mandatory membership. andy 21:17, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

The associations in Germany sound much better than those here. A sense of community? Imagine that! This afternoon I met with a beleaguered homeowner in his legal fight against an association. The problems here are epidemic, and often over such idiotic things. Several years ago I was designing radio telecom systems, and never would have believed I would now be an attorney representing homeowners (among others). Life is strange. Jance 03:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I just looked at the link you provided. Ich habe zu viele vergessen !! I can read only a part of it. It is very hard to read a language when there is no opportunity to practice it. One day I will go to Germany.Jance 06:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I showed the article to my friend Jan who said, "He is talking about social clubs, mostly in garden communities etc. Nothing in common with HOAs. Mandatory HOAs like here are illegal in Germany! " Wirklich! I think I want to move to Germany. The idea of a community that is not a gulag sounds very nice.Jance 06:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

As I said, not really comparable. To me the thought of living behind fences is quite strange, I can understand it in 3rd world countries where it really has security problems due to the extreme poverty, but not in a country like the US. But anyway, there are also enough things annoying about Germany or German culture, otherwise there wouldn't be many emigrants from Germany even nowadays. If you want to go the other way round - just before Christmas it had a hilarious TV documentary starring an American comedian showing all those things he wondered about while living in Germany [2], so be ready for a slight culture shock :-) andy 17:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hallo

Shpongled 19:47, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How the hell did you do that!?

How the hell can you be one step ahead of me with every vandalism revert! :) -Painezor ^TC 17:18, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, my internet is faster than yours :-) OK, I will make a break on recent changes now to give you a chance... andy 17:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anuban Muang Chiang Rai School

Hello Being new to Wikipedia I am not sure if this is the proper way to reply to you. I have been asked by my Thai government school in Chiang Rai to add their website to Wikipedia.

I have done so, maybe not with your finesse but effectivly anyway. You took the liberty of deleting it without consultation which in my book is extremely rude. I await your apologY as does my school. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Amecth (talk • contribs).

The reason why I removed it - Wikipedia is not a Web directory, especially not one to use to advertize a website. The long version is written down in Wikipedia:External links. Thus while the name of your school is fitting in that list in the article on Chiang Rai, the way you put it there it was like an advertisement. That entry in the list can then link to an detailed article about your school, which however should only give encyclopedic information about it, but not being a plain advertisement. andy 20:57, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chilean edits

Hello, Ahoerstemeier, since you have made several edits to articles about Chile, you may be interested in looking at the Wikipedia:Chile-related regional notice board to pick up on other topics that need attention, or to express needs which you perceive pertaining to Chile. JAXHERE | ^Talk 02:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diocese Infobox

Hi, thanks for your edits on Diocese of Aachen, I have made some edits to the infobox, and the dioces epage to also list number of priests and parishes, but I guess I shouldn`t have because I can`t get it to work, which I find very annoying.... if you would happen to be very good at infoboxes, could you tell me what I did wrong? --Isolani 08:50, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

It's a little bit of template magic I used in that infobox to make the fields optional, but you only added it in the section capsuled with a "noinclude" statement, the part used to illustrate the working. But the part which is used for the articles using the template is the one with includeonly around it. For the if statements there you can find the full technical help at meta:Help:Advanced templates. BTW: There's a second infobox proposal at User:SkierRMH/Diocese Infobox, which was created without knowledge of that infobox template I created before. IMHO that one has way to many information, I prefer to have an infobox with only the essential quick-look information and put the more special facts into the article text... andy 09:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bishopric thing

'Bishopric' is just so.... ugly... , also a lot of the articles on Dioceses are very inconsistent, would be a good thing to sort them out. Guess I have a wee project for myself... --Isolani 12:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism on John Howard

Thanks for your help in sorting out the vandalism on John Howard, I was drowning! :) --Cricketgirl 12:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

That's the advantage of having admin rights, I can stop those vandal IPs if the users doesn't listen to the warnings. andy 13:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism of Scott Mills

I cant help but feel this article should be semi-proteced. Your thoughts? -Coolmark18 18:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links on your userpage

The two New York Times linkouts should be re-examined. The first is 404, the second is subscribe-only. El Ingles 20:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

The second one is correct, while the first pointing to the mailing list archive should have worked. Maybe the archive was renumbered, but I was able to find the right target again and now there's no 404 anymore. Thanks for notifying me. andy 23:33, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thai ban on advertising alcoholic beverages

Tag, Andy. This semester I have one Thai student; she's working on the proposed ban of alcoholic beverages (which is being voluntarily observed). I'm asking for your suggestions for a title of the article, as well as the most efficacious links. I started a Mongkol Na Songkhla article that mentions the ban. That might be one link. Can you think of others? Thanks. By the way, the Thai student is studying marketing and advertising; any other juicy topics on which she might labor productively?Nhrenton 17:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for reverting that, this guy has been at it for over a day and won't quit and I don't know who he is. Darthgriz⁹⁸ 17:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit of F3 Euroseries talk page

Thanks for the explanation. I'm not sure that I follow it, but it's obviously valid in some way, so I'll take that onboard. However, if you had explained it in your first edit, or left me a message, I wouldn't have felt the need to change it back. Regards, Adrian M. H. 16:32, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Provinces of Thailand Map

Andy, in Provinces of Thailand I see that you contributed the image Thailand_provinces.png. I was thinking of using a map of Thai provinces to enhance the List of islands of Thailand. Still not sure if provincial grouping or simple alphabetical order is best, but the by-province layout still seems attractive. If I decide to pursue that, a province map would be needed. The Thailand_provinces.png is relatively small, do you have your original (perhaps larger) version, or maybe one without the numbers in the provinces? If not, I'd like to download and work with the one you've posted here, if that's okay. - (Thaimoss:talk) - Thaimoss 02:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Example.com -> example.org

I saw you changed a link on a talkpage from example.com to example.org that I just put there 15 minutes before to explain external links to someone, and I am wondering why you changed that. It is a such not a problem, but I really don't get why: these two links are exactly the same. Both should not appear in article mainspace, but they are OK in talkspace anyway. Cheers. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 23:15, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the links are the same, but there is one difference: example.com is also added with one button on the editing toolbar, thus it is common added by accident, by editing experiment, or by attempting to make an external link with the toolbar. Too be able to clean these instances it is best to avoid example.com for legitimate uses, otherwise it is impossible to find the articles which need fixing in [3]. andy 09:05, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah .. that indeed is true. But addition of example.com/example.org in main space should be caught by user:shadowbot anyway (shadowbot is often down lately due to maintenance). The change just looked plainly silly (sorry for that), but this makes sense (still, one would have to dig through all the example.org's as well, but that indeed should be less often). I'll forward this 'trick' to the spam-team, this is a bot-job! Thanks! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thai Booze Ad Ban

Thanks for the scrubbing u. Verbesserung of of the Mongkol Na Songkhla article; any ideas yet on a title and/or links for the article? Nhrenton 17:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry I haven't answered earlier, I'm quite busy with catching up with polishing the newly created Amphoe articles. How about Alcohol advertising in Thailand? However the title shouldn't be of much concern, as it's always possible to move it a new title. I'm not sure if it really is worth a separate article, or just a section within Alcohol advertising? It of course depends a lot on how much material your student will collect. Another place from where this article could be linked (or be placed as a small paragraph if it's just a few material) would be Censorship in Thailand. Another place to give a new article a minor boost would be listing it in Portal:Thailand/Did you know, which is to advertise newly created good articles on Thai topics. andy 23:18, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for undoing vandalism on Template:Buddhism

Howdy - just wanted to thank you for so quickly responding to and undoing the vandalism of Template:Buddhism. I appreciate your vigilence and just action! Cheers, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 12:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coor tags in the infobox vs. coor title tags

Andy, Just wondering what your take is on the preferred use of the coor tag. I note you've moved a couple coor title tags into the page info box. Purely from the readability, I can see that. I'm wondering about your thoughts on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Templates. I see there is no clear consensus. Have you tried Dschwen's WikiMiniAtlas JavaScript plugin? Really excellent.

I'm concerned about external tools' (e.g. WikiMiniAtlas, Google, and NASAWorldWind) ability to properly note the geotag when there are multiple tags within an article body. This is happening with increasing frequency. Given that trend, it seems to me that explicitly tagging the article with coor title tag would allow discernment of the geotag of the article versus geotag references elsewhere within the article. Therefore, I think we should be using the coor title tags. Thoughts? - Thaimoss 13:53, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I prefer them to be in the infobox because there it is clear where this coordinate point - the district office, and not an arbitrary "center" of the district, which can also be supplemented with the central tambon. According to the Google Earth FAQ such tags in infobox template are picked up, provided they are using "coor" or "coordinates" as their variable name. There is no need to have a second coordinate template then, only if you want to point to any special place within the text. I am not sure how the other tools handle this, but if it's really a problems one could also use the {{coor at dms}} template. andy 17:09, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why did you edit out ...

Why did you edit out those things from my talk page? I found that script on the sandbox, and how did you know I had it in my talk page?

--

Samuel Pakalomattam

15 February 02007

O.K. Is that why you did it?--

Samuel Pakalomattam

15 February 02007

[edit] image

Hi,

on the dutch wiki we have a pic that seems to be originally uploaded by you. I can no longer find it on the english wiki. Was it a picture originally take by you? And is it correctly licensed under GFDL? The picture is nl:Image:Beeld Rama I.jpg.

thanks in advance,

TeunSpaans 06:26, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

There is a big photoburning going on on the nl.wikipedia. Even though you said the picture was taken by you and you licensed it under GFDL that is not enough anymore, you have to proof in threefold now it was you who made it. And swear before the emerald Buddha as well ;) Waerth 07:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Apparently when I say you uploaded it, I am not being believed. But when you say it, they believe you. I guess I'm a leper now. - Andre Engels 09:04, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

That image is now on Commons anyway, I have added the {{NowCommons}} accordingly. andy 09:14, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Andre, the question is not if Ahoerstemeier uploaded it - I posted the question here because I believe what you say. My question is: Is it a phot you made yourself?

Ahoestemeier, thank you for menstioning that it is on commons! I will look it up on commons. TeunSpaans 10:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

What keeps me wondering is why an image which had been in the article nl:Rama I for years had to be removed instantly without even waiting for the answer to clarify the copyright? Do a few days more really hurt? And that image was tagged correctly as being GFDL, it wasn't one which was uploaded by a new user who don't know about copyrights, nor one which looks like it was taken from a commercial website. andy 12:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

You are right - there is no hurry at all :-) This moorning I was working through the list of images listed for deletion, no one had complained, so I de-linked it from the article, then noticed that this was a nomination for deletion where the image could safely stay. I understood that the photo had been uploaded by you, so I decided to ask you directly. Anyone could, and someone should, have done so for a fortnight, but no one did. Thx for linking the commons photo in the article! TeunSpaans 16:31, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Many people on nl: are wondering the same. Teun is one of the few who hasn't given uo to stem the tide. But one mod seems hellbend on removing all pictures, He has even gone thru a desysop which he barely made and he sees that as a justification not to have to listen to complaints. Many longtime contributors have simply stopped uploading pictures. Because they get questions like is it really your picture etc Waerth 11:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 129.11.77.197 (talk • contribs)

Hi. 129.11.77.197 (talk • contribs), whom you blocked for section blanking at Persian language, has asked to be unblocked, saying that he/she was merely trying to rearrange the sections to conform with the standard layout. Obviously, that process needs to be done in one edit and involve edit summaries so that people don't wonder what the heck is going on. Would you review his/her request and consider unblocking if you believe that the action might have been in good faith? Thanks. --BigDT 16:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Never mind ... I see that you left a message there at exactly the same time I left this message. --BigDT 16:44, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

It looked like section blanking to me, quite popular amoung vandals, and given the fact that this IP was blocked several times before I did not check into details. Filling the "Edit Summary" would have helped a lot to avoid such a misunderstanding. andy 16:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry! In future I will add edit summaries —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.11.76.230 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Input requested

Hello, I noticed you make a lot of edits to articles related to Thailand and Southeast Asia so I would like to request your input on a current discussion/disagreement at the Cambodia page regarding Sex Tourism and the country's economy. The issue is being discussed on that article's talk page under the subsection "Sex tourism". Thanks.--William Thweatt ^Talk | ^Contribs 18:26, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your reverts at [4] and [5]. I must have upset someone. I seem to be in good company! Lozleader 09:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage also. --The Missing Hour 17:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nai Soi and Kayan

Andy--etwas interessantes: these Kayan women and their neck rings. (Or is it more Burmese?) Anyway, there's no Nai Soi geography article. I posted it on the Thai portal. And would panraya know the Thai name of the Kayan? The article could be cleaned up into something quite good.Nhrenton 13:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

The New York Times did a big travel story on these Nai Soi women. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9E0DEFDC173AF933A15756C0A9679C8B63 I'll try to get to article cleanup when I've time.Nhrenton 14:34, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, Nai Soi is such a small village it's not surprising that there's no article yet, we are currently trying to get at least the Amphoe (districts) covered. I usually don't pay much attention to these over-touristic things, and while that tradition of long-necked women is interesting, it is now so much over-touristical with the extremes mentioned in the Kayan article. andy 16:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Kein problem--machen wir die Amphoe, gell?

But I think the long-necked women both interesting and controversial--as a controversy I think particularly interesting; it's an fascinating case as to what exacly a global perspective means. I mean, who's to say that it's wrong: imposing our own moral standards, are we? Right now I'm swamped, but I'll try to get something together in mid-March. By the way, the Thai word is "Kaliang," (however you write that in Thai!) I'm told.

I wonder whether any Thais out there could let me know any recent developments re the government's attitude toward this practice. I was told it's been somewhat discouraged.Nhrenton 17:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Songkhla Unis

Hallo Andy, du kommst doch aus dem Süden Thailands (oder so ähnlich, 55). Ich bin auf der Suche nach der richtigen Nachfolge-Uni eines Campus' der Srinakharinwirot University, die ich gerade in de: verwurstele. Es wurde wohl ein Campus in Songkhla gegründet, aus dem eine Universität entstanden ist, aber welche? Weißt du weiter? --media_lib 14:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Google fand's sofort: Thaksin University. andy 14:53, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking a range of IPs

Thanks with your help on Alfred Wegener. Just curious, do Wikipedia admins have the ability to block a range of IP addresses? Thanks, JRHorse 18:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it has, but usually I am too lazy to calculate the right IP ranges :-) andy 18:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking

Thanks for blocking the vandals whose edits I was having to revert repeatedly. :) Quendus 12:30, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] It looks like you are a candidate of removing the following links:

B I jpg ogg Link Insert example.com

...why do you keep doing this? (it is possible to create a bot which removes example.jpg, etc.) Meteoroid » 14:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Because a bot cannot decide whether it is only the example.ogg which has to be removed, or if that example.ogg is just part of more editing experiments. Sometimes I can press the "rollback" button, sometimes I can simply remove the example.ogg itself. Or it may be a user talk which can be replaced with a welcome message, or it is a new page which can be deleted right away. I doubt one can do a real bot to catch all cases. andy 14:15, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Example JPG links

I hadn't noticed until now, but you fixed the links I use for common vandalism on my sandbox. Thank you. Bobo. 07:01, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Linkimage

Template:Linkimage has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 23:07, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello I'm thai people i come to say hi

Can u read this สวัสดีคับ ผมเป็นคนไทยผมอ่านเจอในประวัติว่าคุณสนใจประเทศไทย ผมเลยมาถามว่าคุณอ่านภาษาไทยออกไหมคับ Thales.net 13:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Very slowly, but yes. But had to check เจอ and ถาม in http://dict.longdo.org, those word I didn't know yet. Though I can read Thai (except the rare characters), my main disadvantage is I have such a small vocabulary and thus it take ages and lots of dictionary lookups to read any real Thai text. andy 13:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rangeley, Maine

I asked this to the wrong person initially, but... what was your reason behind moving Rangeley, Maine to Rangeley (town), Maine? You did it in December 2004, so no worries if it's hazy in your memory now. - Dudesleeper · Talk 23:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually I never moved it, what I did was that I added a redirect at Rangeley, Maine, and a "see also" to Rangeley (plantation), Maine. It was RamBot who created the articles from the US census data, and as there were two census entities, one for the town and one for the plantation, that bot did not create the article at the simple name. I did some de-orphaning of such census articles at that time, so maybe I came across the plantation as an orphan, noticed that the simple name is still a red link and made it a redirect. There probably no problem in moving the town article to the simple name, I did not do at that time because I did not want to interfere with the US census project... andy 08:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for reverting my userpage

It took me a while to notice that anything had happened. =P Which is just the way it should be. Much appreciated! — coelacan — 05:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can you speak (or understand) Thai?

ยินดี Ahoerstemeier. zero » 00:17, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

ใช้ทักทายเพื่อนฝูง คนสนิท zero » 00:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grand L. Bush

Thank you for your assistance. I have uploaded a photo, but another un-related photo overrides it. Will you please help me? Thanks.

37Celcius 01:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User page vandalism

Thanks for catching that. The community may need to keep an eye on Graysonjarvis, or more than keep an eye on him, if you get my drift...Thanks again. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 17:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

That user account is blocked indefinitely, so that one don't need to take care off anymore. However he may return with a new user account... andy 17:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:216.178.91.34 continuing vandalism.

Hi,

You recently noted:

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. andy 12:52, 19 March 2007 on that user's discussion page (sorry, this is the first time I've ever written anything on Wikipedia so I'm not clear on how to directly link to that page but will figure it out in the future if it looks like I'll start participating).

Well, today that address essentially blanked Barracuda. Just wanted to bring it to your attention as you were the last person to comment on that user's talk page about their continued vandalism.

Thanks --72.141.223.105 22:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stop the madness - Thailand

Ahoerstemeier, where do I go to open for discussion, request, recommend, what-have-you a restriction on that Thailand article. You and a couple others are forever undoing vanadlism by ip addresses. What is the proper approach to pursue having edit of the Thailand article restricted to account-holding users? Seems like a never-ending battle, and every single case I've noted has been anonymous (ip). Or, am I making too much of it? - Thaimoss 00:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Thailand is a relatively popular target for stupid vandalism, but it's usually fixed very fast as well as there are a lot who monitor that article. I don't know if the amount of vandalism is high enough for a semi-protection, but you can always go to Wikipedia:Requests for protection and add it there. I normally only use my admin-rights to do semi-protection (or full protection) when an article is targeted several times within one hour, not for about one or two a day. andy 11:18, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Dell970

As far as I could tell, I'd agree it looked like the account got compromised. Things seem to be back under control, for now, and I didn't think you'd mind, so I granted their recent unblock request. Please do let me know if this is a problem. – Luna Santin (talk) 18:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Snap

Looks like we both warned User talk:Dowj at the same time. Efficient! Removed mine. Gekedo 16:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] vandal reverts

Thanks for being my unprotecting backup lately -- I've unprotected a few high-profile articles. We'll see what happens. I'm going to keep a close eye on them too, but do let me know if they need re-protection. --Fang Aili ^talk 16:26, 29 March 2007 (UTC)