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What was with you?!

Why did you block the Showster as a "sockpuppet" in the first place? Is it reasonable to block whole communities over a few vandals? Thankfuly, my appeal to get him unblocked was a success but you could at least try to root out the vandals in a community first rather than blocking them all indefinitely? Bowsy 16:31, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Lostlover

Hey, i looked on Lostlovers contribs and i'm not so sure you should unblock him. cos' it looks like he has never made a positive contribution to the wikipedia itself. DO NOT unblock him. He should stay blocked.

Thankyou!

YO!

- Patelco 00:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

User: Wheezy19

Hello, Netsnipe me and my friend Pikminlover are having a little trouble with a guy named Wheezy19. Recently, Wheezy19 awarded Pikminlover with a shiny new medal (Haven't a clue why he did). Anyway, since I barely have no information on awards and stuff like that I always thought that to get an award you had to be an admin and the person giving you the award had to be an admin too. Since Pikminlover and Wheezy19 are not admins I think it would be impossible to give Pikminlover an award. So if you would please to do the favor of blocking Wheezy19 or at least giving him a friendly message much would be appreciated. Again I know nothing about awards and probably wouldn't know what to do so I will leave this in your hands. (I also left a friendly message but I don't know if that did anything) Have a wonderful day and a bright future.

YO!

- Patelco 00:46, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Problems with User 68.88.68.110

This guy keeps vandalising the Ramones page and template, by adding an unsourced member to the band. When a source proved said member was not part of the band, he deleted the source. I have asked him repeatedly to stop be he has added back this wrongful information countless times.

The person who he claims is in the band is Billy Rogers. You can look at the history of that page to see his vandalism. The history of the Ramones page will also identify this.Hoponpop69 22:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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User:Flameviper

Hi, I saw that you blocked this usert a while back, I would just like to note that they are a sock puppet of Willy on Wheels, Wiki Duct Tape, Shanel and Son of a Peach. I can't really do anything as I am not an admin. Thanks Somnabot 16:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I take great offense to that. First of all, I am not a sockpuppet of Willy on Wheels (a wildly inaccurate claim that you seemingly pulled out of nowhere). Secondly, I have no idea now you deduced I was a sockpuppet of Shanel. To the best of my knowledge, Shanel is an administrator, and there is little plausability that an administrator would create a sockpuppet account as colorfully varied as mine. And thirdly, the other accounts are sockpuppets of me. Somnabot, I suggest doing your homework before flagrantly accusing somebody of evildoing, based on little to no evidence whatsoever. ~ Flameviper 21:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Your assistance needed

Another edit-protected page, which needs the attention of a sysop...sigh... ~ Flameviper 20:58, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Deadspirit90 is vandalising my page!!!!

Deadspirit90(Eric, he is in myy class} messed up my user page. the blue lines that were part of "The 5 pillars of wikipedia" are now just code! please, help!!! (Cant you just boot him and his IP address of wikipedia though? i detest him so much!) Crawfordknights 02:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Unblock

I didn't do a vandalism on Jesus-- somebody in my school's public computers' portal did that because I forget to log out. So, please unblock me. Thanks. — The preceding comment was added by Quikkings711 (talk • contribs) 06:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC).

Retire...

Please see my userpage, ta. 1B6 13:48, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

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Review of unautoblock request for User:Ajo_Mama

Concerning this autoblock removal request, I looked over the requesting user account and made the unblock of the autoblock. I also left a "final warning" stating that if another such user account is created, the block will stand (maybe next time it should be AO) as it has been over a month and a half since the last block. I just felt like letting you know since you handled the request first. Zsinj^Talk 14:48, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Take a look at Ajo Mama's block log and contribs as well as questions on his own talk pages asking about how to insert server-side code into articles. In my honest opinion, Ajo isn't here to contribute to the encyclopedia -- he's just here to cause grief. --  Netsnipe   ►  18:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Those quotes are from... June? Zsinj^Talk 20:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Decline unblock

You declined my unblock request. Barrymcpeedmipants or wev his name is, is probably another student at my school, NOT me. (Removed personal attack) — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Darthdarko (talk • contribs) 14:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC).

Radu article/ questionmark824 vandalism

Sorry about that, I think I may have formatted the request wrong. I am questionmark824, I just am not signed in right now. I was referring to vandalsim of other users such as Manties and other unregistered users. Many of the vandals I know to be using shared computers, so I was hoping for a complete protection of the page. -thanks — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.238.252.15 (talk) 02:57, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

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Re: the anon IP blocked for making massive entries to articles with Jesuit alumni tags

Hello, this anon IP just sent me a message pointing out the link in Salma Hayek's article where she attended a Jesuit university. I have revoked my warning and apologized to this user. I apologize to you as well if I caused a problem. Ronbo76 07:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

137.164.143.112 Urgent attention required

This user has made numerous vandalous edits, and has now started racism, he needs to be blocked, this isn't the first warning he has recieved today, thanks. 1B6 16:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

User:205.222.248.234 Urgent attention required

You blocked this juvenile in December but looks like another block is in order as vandalism is underway as I write on Dept of Defense article as well as others HJ 15:05, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

del rev

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Assburger syndrome. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --Random832 16:56, January 25, 2007 (UTC)

Death threat

I doubt you care but you received a death threat here. Feel free to blank this particular message from me, I've already cleared Mawman's talk page. --Yamla 16:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Blocking

Thanks, I hadn't seen anonblock before - I was going to make one, or have standard way of inserting the message. The only problem with anonblock is that it says "currently" disabled - this will become out of date. Rich Farmbrough, 15:44 18 December 2006 (GMT).

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Jebus

Please see my rebuttal to your comment on AIAV. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 16:02, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Jebusmademedoit (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log)

I just blocked him as a failure of WP:USER. Although the name is a Simpson's parody, Jebus is used in that episode to closely parallel "Jesus". The username is similar to "Jesus made me do it." alphachimp 16:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

65.122.47.163

Just so you don't think I'm insane - the last three or four blocks on that talk page were spread out over the vandalism. There was a "hanging comment" tag, which when removed expanded the ~~~~ to my own signature and the current time stamp on all three warnings... :) Kuru ^talk 04:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Removing stale warnings

Hi Mdwyer, it's usually a good idea to leave at least one or two months worth of warnings instead of removing all of them as you did here, so as to justify to new editors why their shared IP has been blocked in the first place. Thanks. --  Netsnipe   ►  05:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

The WP:UW stuff says that the warnings should be removed in favor of only the block message. Did I understand that correctly? --Mdwyer 05:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

"Messages should be removed without archival after three months or less, depending on the number of warnings. In the case of registered vandals, archiving is up to them so long as recent warnings aren't removed." --  Netsnipe   ►  05:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

"Talk pages of indefinitely blocked users should be cleared of all content except the block notice. This block notice should explain the block reason, or link to the block log which does so." --Mdwyer 05:13, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

That said, it doesn't seem like the Right Thing to do... I'll mention it on the UW discussion... --Mdwyer 05:14, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Per Wikipedia:Blocking policy: "Indefinite blocks should not be used on IPs". schoolblocks are usually set to 6 months, not indefinite. --  Netsnipe   ►  05:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

OOoooh. My mistake. Thanks for the correction! --Mdwyer 05:20, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

My request

Well what would one do in a case like this [1], last time I know User:Molobo got banned for a year for repeated behaivour like that. There is blatant repeated violation of WP:SOAP and WP:POINT. I urge you to take a more vigilant stance. If not block than a stern warning...?--Kuban Cossack 12:57, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh well I raised it on AN/I here--Kuban Cossack 13:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: My Block

I said before that I do not yet have my own network. I am using my neighbors network...it is possible that it could have been them because the network is unsecured. If I were playing Dr Jeckle and Mr Hyde, why would I revert my own edits (see Kierra "Kiki" Sheard's history page)? I am using another network at the moment so I managed to get around this block. Is there any procedure I could go through to prove it wasnt me? Jgcarter 15:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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Spammer

Thanks for blocking the IP and reverting their contribs. I don't think I've ever seen a spammer dealt with that fast! Shadow1 (talk) 15:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:Welcome template

I fixed the template with web safe colors. If your still disatisfied, please leave me another note and I will be happy to fix it. Kamope · talk · contributions 21:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:

Hello Netsnipe! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. You may also push the signature button located above the edit window. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. Below are some pages to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! -- Kamope · talk · contributions 21:08, 6 February 2007 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial How to edit a page The five pillars of Wikipedia Manual of Style Be bold in editing How to write a great article WikiProjects Getting your info out there Cite your sources Neutral Point of View Point of View Verifiability Uploading images Image use policy Getting more Wikipedia rules Policy Library Getting Help New contributors' help page Where to ask a question Help Desk Frequently Asked Questions Getting along Wikiquette Civility Sign your posts Wikipedians Conflict resolution Getting technical Cleaning up vandalism Pages needing attention Peer review Utilities Village pump

Autoblock: Web Accellerator

Can this be explained in a nutshell ? While you're at it, list yourself in my Favorite Admin listings. Martial Law 22:48, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Also while you're at it, make a copy of my toolbox as well. Martial Law 22:51, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: My Block...THANK YOU!!!

Thank you very much! I'll see to it that this mixup never happens again. Jgcarter 05:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for undoing all of 81.103.60.217 (talk • contribs)'s edits. That was a lot of work. Do you use a bot ? --Jackaranga 16:21, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Nope. Just Firefox and Wikipedia:Revert#Shortcut. --  Netsnipe   ►  16:24, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Soap

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soap&diff=106353161&oldid=99936297 More vandalism still left in the soap article. Requesting semi-protect for soap article. History of long term vandalism by anons.

Open Source Soapmaking Wiki - The extremely nascent, community-driven wiki resource for how-to guides, recipes, techniques, and tips regarding hand-crafting soaps. <-Strange external link 63.17.56.12 18:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

RE stalker

He's the person who created the turboface page. Please send me an email about it educationalreplies@yahoo.com , I can provide police references. They have been activley seeking this person for the last year for multiple warrants. Send me a talk page. He's using his wikipedia account to create search engine spidered links to improve his link popularity on google. This account he create4d is for personal attacks.I can provide MORE then enough evidence. His old username on here was CUMBERBUND , search that user's history alkso,, you'll see it was also an attack account 65.184.20.38 16:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

PS His ip address will be 68.155.45.99. It's a permanent ip belonging to the Greensborough library. Email me to talk to the officer in charge of his case. Thanks. 65.184.20.38 16:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to have to insist that you email me from your ISP based email address, otherwise I will refuse to even investigate this matter. I refuse to deal with anonymous editors whose only point of contact are anonymous and easily forged/impersonated web-based email addresses. --  Netsnipe   ►  16:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Please tell me how to email you or leave me an email address 65.184.20.38 16:13, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

If I publicaly leave my isp email address out in the open he will use it for spam like he has done before. Please give me a throwaway email address I can send the information to from my isp account. 65.184.20.38 16:19, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Editing closed discussions

Please stop editing closed RfAs — it's expressly forbidden. If there are mistakes in formatting, etc., they stay as part of the record. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

It's been pointed out to me that I was wrong on this. My apologies. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Tintoretto

Would you check the possibility that there is one user editing as several sockpuppets at Tintoretto? Thank you, JNW 16:44, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't think there's any suggestion of that. I am currently trying to get User:DavidLeslie to play by the rules, while User:VGoldoni appears to be an uninterested third party that seems to be making good edits. --Mdwyer 19:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

message on my talk page

I did not make a report on WP:AIV recently. I think that part of your message might have been intended for another user. The sharedip template helps anonymous users who might otherwise be confused by messages intended for other users. It is not a "report" to admins, and the "tagging" of a talk page with this template does not require or request any action by anybody. Jerry lavoie 03:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Please read the template discussion page here for discussion about intended use of the template. Jerry lavoie 03:27, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I saw your reply on my talk. Thanks. I do always use whois and review the contribs of the user before using the template. (Notice I always subst the ip owner, and location in it.) Thanks, Jerry lavoie 03:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Theonemaasterrr

Thanks for the speedy block. - TheMightyQuill 03:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks

I appreciate the lifting of that autoblock, it saved me a lot of trouble. --[|.K.Z|]] [|.Z.K|]] 06:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

gorilla orang utan -rachelle anne go

Thank you for your understanding... I suspect that the vandal is a sock puppet of a regular editor - as it all happens so quick - gnangarra and I tried to keep up with him a few days ago - a third time and I'll think i'll prepare a case for checkuser.... Satu Suro 09:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

request for a favor

Hello. i would like toi ask you for a favor. Could you lock to new users the Him band page becaus it has gotten vandlised by people. If you could do this we would be very apperactive of you and i personaly would owe you a favor. Thank you!Razor romance 18:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Sent you an email

I sent an email to your sourceforge.net address. Please read.

Lawry 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Recent vandalism on your user page

The guy in question would Traferetr. I found about this when it appeared in my watchlist, and reverted it. He essentially replaced it with "You're an Arsehole!". Sorry for taking this matter into my own hands, but I didn't think you would like it. crazyviolinist 00:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I've seen worse - and Crazy bet me to it - was about to revert - and I dont apologise for reverting vandalism on user or user talk pages - so much for courtesy on my part! Satu Suro 00:46, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome note

That's it, just wanted to say thanks!Tt 225 10:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

81.182.0.0/16

The reason is continued editing by User:Kgeza67, and the fact that the "block anonymous editors only" feature didn't seem to be working. Let's hope it's fixed. Jayjg^(talk) 21:01, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

IP Address

Ok. So can I edit at Panera Bread again now, or what? I never had that problem before when editing there. Just H 01:36, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for lifting the autoblock on my IP, and I reinstalled popups as you asked. Cheers, -- The Hyb rid 04:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I did, but it is still faulty. Should I let Lupin know? -- The Hyb rid 04:50, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Yep. Might be a weird compatibility glitch with your browser. --  Netsnipe   ►  12:28, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for linking me to the solution. My popups work now. Yeah! 声 援 -- The Hyb rid 06:22, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Google web accelerator

Thanks for the info ... I was unaware of that. Is there any reason not to just do a range block on that range? [2] says that at least one of the ranges is 72.14.192.0 – 72.14.192.255. BigDT 12:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Alfredosolis

Just wanted to let you know that I believe that User:R.bobby is another sockpuppet of User:Alfredosolis. Same record of not licensing pictures right. Same history of multiple edits to Celebrity Death match and Johnny Depp. Gdo01 19:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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Live links on spammers Talk page

[3] This is common practice at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam, we put copies of the live spam links on talk pages when warning spammers, its apart of our tracking system. Spammers negotiate across a wide range of articles, shared IPs and sock accounts, this is how repeat offenders are found. Please do not remove these in the future. thanks--Hu12 06:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I think banning Jelly Jiggler for a wek was a bit harsh...12.210.112.51 00:00, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

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User:InvaderSora

I saw you unblocked IndoraSora (Toajaller3146 back then) [4]. Thing is... you forgot to block again :) — Deon555^talk_desk^{sign here!} 07:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I initially thought we were dealing with a case of sockpuppetry here, but then realised that Toajaller3146 had a username change. Seeing as the original block was going to expire with 2 hours anyway, I didn't think that there was much point to reblocking. --  Netsnipe   ►  11:43, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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Blocked

I am all for blocking annoying IP vandals, but as an FYI I wanted to make sure that you saw that 67.183.242.249 (talk • contribs • logs) actually didn't do anything since the final warning that I had given... — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 17:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

The battle of Carfax_(Company)

On Carfax_(company) information was added about a class action lawsuit settlement against carfax. Since then there have been around 200 edits over this information, first by IP addresses until I requested semi-protect, and more recently by dummy user accounts: User:Lleafyplant User:leavyplant User:Cornellrocky, Teafyplant, User:BoyRoy, User:Roybuoy, User:Wikiboyy and most recently User:SpuriousQu. As these user accounts were blocked, admin User:Yamla established with checkuser that User:BoyRoy was a Verdict sockpuppet and added the banner on his talk page. Hope this helps...Leafyplant 13:00, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppets at Carfax (company)

We've had a number of sockpuppets beavering away at this article - you blocked the last one, SpuriousQu (talk • contribs). If you have a chance, would you also block Wikiboyy (talk • contribs)? He seems clearly to be in the same camp - the probability of this user's first (and only) edit, a revert to a fought-over article, done with a sophisticated edit summary, being unrelated to the other accounts that have been blocked seems infinitely small. Thanks. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 16:34, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Most Sincere Wolf

Perhaps you didn't see the last version before someone tagged it for CSD G10: [5]. Maybe he's just screwing around but at the time I reported him to AIV it looked like an account created solely for personal attacks. — dgies^t_c 08:45, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I've now blocked that account pending an explanation. --  Netsnipe   ►  08:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Roitr

Yes, the accounts seem to be inactive. I've just copied them in a bulk with more recent entities and didn't actually check them up. I'd probably just remove any trace of them from the reports, or he might discover and use them :) --Dmitry _{(talk •contibs )} 13:15, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Patricknoddy

Hi - I'm not sure of the background to the blocking in full, but it seems (from an ANI post (somewhere)), that Patrick was misusing NPWatcher, by adding to CAT:CSD all sorts of articles. It should be noted that Patrick has been approved to use NPWatcher for a few months now, and it was actually the case that an admin removed him from the approvals list when he was blocked. As a further note, it is *impossible* to use NPWatcher if one is not approved - it was the case that Patrick did meet (and probably still does meet) the approval requirements, which themselves are fairly loose. It might be worth your getting in contact with the blocking admin about this issue, as there seems to have been some misunderstanding somewhere along the line. Martinp23 17:57, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Question re edit.

Hi, I'm curious about your edit to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:76.172.163.54. Why would you note that this address is registered to www.campbell.pvt.k12.ca.us? When you tracert this address it routes to an adelphia network, and has nothing to do with this school. Arin notes this as owned by Road Runner. Thanks. Awr29886 17:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

I made a judgement call looking at the editing pattern and noticed that their school website describes themselves as independent and Episcopal. I've noticed that a lot of private schools in the US often do not have RIR allocations. Feel free to shorten the block and remove the tag, but I was counting on getting an email either directly or via unblock-en-l which I subscribe to if I had gotten it wrong. --  Netsnipe   ►  17:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I understand. I do think it is likely it is one of our students. I just didn't want the people at these other pages he's also vandalising to think he's doing it from our campus which he isn't. His ip 76.172.163.54 must be his home computer. I don't think I have any ability to adjust that top note though? Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place? Thank you very much for banning the ip though. His vandalism was becoming troublesome. Awr29886 17:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

No worries. On second thought, I've removed the school IP tag and shorten his/her block to 1 week in line with blocks on residential IPs, and yes you are allowed to add or correct tags whenever you feel necessary. See Template:SharedIPEDU and Template:SharedIP for further documentation. --  Netsnipe   ►  17:42, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for second chance

Thanks for allowing me a second chance. I will do my best to follow Wikipedia's guidelines and policies from now on. Ahlicks456 12:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

101 Reykjavík

Wondering why you just deleted my links on icelandic film 101 reyk? Maybe remove one or two but there are some useful links there to help imrpove the article♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 15:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I probably got too over eager weeding out non-professional (e.g. blog) reviews from that article among others. Our Wikipedia:External links policy currently only allows links to "professional reviews" (in line with Wikipedia:Attribution which discourages self-published sources) -- otherwise every movie page in the encyclopedia would be flooded with links to every person's and their dog's review. Feel free to revert my removal if you disagree. --  Netsnipe   ►  15:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Name

An editor has revealed a person's real name against their consent and right to privacy. This person knows the rules and had prior knowledge not to do this. This editor does not stop commenting at the Arbcam case involving Fyslee. This is blockworthy. This is a very serious matter. QuackGuru ^TALK 21:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

That Mcbob sock

I figured that if I left the sock's first edit you'd know who it was and then remove the rest later. Take care, Flyguy649^talk_contribs 06:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

82.109.66.146

If you would care to take a look at my talk page you will see that I was asked to block the IP by the IT administrator in question. If the users of that IP wish to edit then all they have to do is create an account - it's not difficult! But I fail to see why we should tolerate sustained vandalism. By refusing to indefinitely block anonymous IPs we merely send the message that vandalism is fine as long as you do it anonymously, and, personally, I do not believe that is a message we should wish to send. Do you really want to encourage the idiots to use Wikipedia as their own personal playground? Because that's exactly what you're doing by letting them get away with it. -- Necrothesp 01:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Problem with IP 74.109.244.5 and new account

I'm sure you remember vandalism trouble with this user, and it seems to have gotten much worse. They appear to hold a grudge against me because of my frequent reverts of their vandalism to Southwood Secondary School, and reporting them because of this vandalism. This user has indeed created an account in a parody of my own, with only one letter being different. You can compare my User Page with their own here. I realize that this may not be against the rules, but with this account that is so similar to my own they have continued to vandalize SSS, as seen in this edit, which I have since reverted.

I just want information on Wikipedia to be accurate, and since you were able to deal with this user last time, I thought it best to bring to your attention what has transpired. MelicansMatkin 03:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it's against the Wikipedia:Username policy for someone to register a username similar or parodying that of an established editor. In future, please report all impostors to WP:AIV and they will be blocked on sight. Thanks. --  Netsnipe   ►  03:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the help, and the clarification. :) I'll be sure to do that in future. MelicansMatkin 03:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Question from 218.186.9.5

Why u ban me! ********* — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.186.9.5 (talk • contribs) 04:19, March 16, 2007 (UTC)

First of all, whose ban are you referring to? I block dozens of accounts and IP addresses each day. Please be more specific if you want an answer. --  Netsnipe   ►  04:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Template:Welcomeg

I can see why you put quotes round "perfect" but it doesn't have these anywhere on Wikipedia:The perfect article, so I think it would be better to keep the template consistent with the guideline? Tyrenius 06:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

DON'T PANIC!

Would you mind making a category of people who want Wikipedia to be Earth's version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (albeit in a more acceptable manner)? Or else, a category of wikipedians who are fans of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Zuracech lordum 11:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Admin

Can I be an administrator? So I can delete articles, block users, protect/unprotect pages and all that? --BlakeCS 23:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Netsnipe. Thanks for taking care of the User talk:Cremepuff222 situation. I'll surely have a stern talk with him. Xiner (talk, email) 12:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm just going by what I see.

I've seen people with slightly shorter names get banned for their name. If an admin says it's okay, that's all that matters; I'm just following what I consider procedure. You have to admit, it is fairly long. And I admit, I only took a cursory look at his history, so that's my fault. HalfShadow 17:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Spammy usernames

Moving the conversation here for your convenience (I imagine your watchlist is longer than mine) - I have no intention to be contentious, I was just hoping (for my edification) to find out which of my WP:AIV reports you felt were disruptive, besides the User:BlueMoonCandles report you objected to.

I should say I've been spending most of my Wikitime lately with WP:WPSPAM, and the spamming problem seems to get larger each day; it's probably become larger now than the number of editors dedicated to fighting it can deal with - even with the use of monobook scripts (which lead to complaints of bot-like edits) and use of actual bots (which leads to other complaints.

I decided to try patrolling new usernames for obvious business and product names, because, in my experience so far, the vast majority of these are spammers. The idea is to get to them before they spam, and prevent having to expend resources on cleaning up after them later. WP:U is pretty clear that company and product names are strongly discouraged, and a user creating an account is informed of that policy right from the beginning. In my defense, I should point out that a very high percentage (on the order of 90-95%) of these usernames I reported to WP:AIV were blocked on site by a variety of admins. Some were referred to WP:RFCN, where, in turn, a large majority were disallowed by consensus. (See the archive for the past few days.) So I hope you see where I arrived at the assumption (right or wrong) that there is broad admin and community consensus to block obviously promotional usernames on sight.

No rush on the reply...I don't have any hard feelings but it smarts to be called disruptive when you spend a lot of effort trying to be one of the good guys. RJASE1 ^Talk 19:52, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Ockenbock's back

I reported Mister Tuba Face (talk • contribs • logs) to AIV for this edit [6], purporting to be a sock of Ockenbok (or however it's spelled). Though you'd want to know. Flyguy649^talk_contribs 03:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually he got blocked before I got there, but the point's the same... Flyguy649^talk_contribs 03:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

66.167.214.211

Actually I don't think he is revert warring at all. It doesn't look much of a war. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 18:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

My bad. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I just looked at his/her first and last diffs and noted that the "Controversy" section had been blanked in both cases and assumed it was a 3RR violation in progress. --  Netsnipe   ►  18:36, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for unblocking my account. Regards, H.T. Chien (Discuss|Contributions) 04:41, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Man

thanks for fixing my auto block makaveli 4 life Supreme euphanasia 17:22, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

hey i thought i added them? cause i did it? didnt i? Supreme euphanasia 17:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

haha yeah man its all good -- Supreme euphanasia 17:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

is it a link now? :) -- Supreme euphanasia 17:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

haha yeah and probably the bad weather to -- Supreme euphanasia 17:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

WHOIS vs RDNS

Hi Selket. Is there any chance SelketBot can give preference to Reverse DNS lookup queries over WHOIS or at least try to fill in the host= switch to SharedIPEDU when possible. I find that there's a lot of primary/secondary school networks that are listed under University RIRs. Thanks. --  Netsnipe  ►  04:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Probably. Can you give an example of a school where this is the case please? -- Selket ^Talk 04:38, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Another unblock thank-you

Thanks much for relieving my six months of waiting! I will show my appreciation by holding to my initial promise. Thank you for believing me!Jean Girard 05:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC) —The preceding comment was added by Jean Girard (talk • contribs) 05:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC).

AIV

Hi there! Apologies for the late reply but them reports to AIV did seem to be vioaltions and other administrators blocked my other reports. Anyway - under no circumsances did I mean to offend you and I hope we can remain civil and put this behind us. Regards - Tellyaddict 18:12, 20 March 2007 (UTC)